Apropos of nothing, I knew a man who’s family emigrated from France in the late 19th century and Ellis Island people changed the spelling of the family name from “La Croix” to “LeCraw.”
Nitpick: It’s H.R. Pufnstuf.
It wasn’t until I read a OP posted here a few years back that I realized that the original McDonaldland concept was a ripoff of H. R. Pufnstuf.
Remember that episode of C.H.I.P.S. where Jon and Ponch pulled over H.R. Pufnstuf? I can believe drugs were involved in that.
See post #1735.
A bit of an H.R. Pufnstuf side-track: I’m not American, and have never seen the cartoon; but have long had the impression from things heard / read, that the character concerned was ostensibly a friendly dragon, but that in fact – going with the name’s possible connotations – there were hidden subversive pro-drugs messages.
Another (US-based) board on which I participate, had for while as one of its chief administrators, a gentleman who posted under the name of H.R. Pufnstuf. It amused me, that this guy was extremely conservative and severely “moral” in his views. I always wondered whether he was a pure-minded innocent whom the possible drugs-related associations had completely passed by; or whether his posting name was a rueful nod toward his “wicked youth”, when he had perhaps done various stuff which he later renounced.
The Kroffts actually sued McDonalds for that and won.
Nitpick: It wasn’t a cartoon. It was live action with puppets.
I love this topic!
Yep.
Strother Martin says it first.
And it’s Cool Hand Luke’s last line…
I just realized that when Butters fakes his death and pretends to be a girl, “her” name is Marge-a-reen.
Margarine.
Butters.
:smack:
I just saw the Simpsons “Whacking Day” for about the tenth time. It just occured to me that “whacking snakes” is an extremely obvious reference to male masturbation.
It took me a while to realize the same about Eddie Valiant’s line in “Roger Rabbit,” “I had to shake the weasels.”
Thanks. I’ve no doubt that – given sufficient interest – I could find HRP excerpts at least, on YouTube…
Eh. They would have grown up hearing “Puff, the Magic Dragon” - puff being the kid version of breathing flames. Only their dragon was a guy in a padded costume - which is stuffed. You can get to H. R. Pufnstuf with silly as easily as with drugs. And Witchipoo is all the evidence you need that they were knee deep in the silly.
Are you a pothead, Focker?
Two more…
I came across an interesting one in this vein…
I’ve always enjoyed the 80s film Young Sherlock Holmes. I’ve probably watched it at least in part maybe 30x. Introducing it to TheMrs., I went into IMDB to look up one of the actors.
(spoiler alert ahoy, I suppose… I never really feel guilty about spoiling things 30 years old)
The main baddie is listed in the credits as being Professor Moriarty. They never mention this once during the movie… until a post-credits scene. I didn’t even know there WAS a scene after the credits. That didn’t used to be a thing.
I looked it up, and it turns out it was one of the first major movies to include a scene after the credits (or so says Wikipedia).
Second one, and I just got this because I pulled up a clip for a completely unrelated reason.
In Back to School, Ned Beatty’s character at the University is Dean Martin. That joke was completely lost on me all this time.
Actually, Dolores said that, and it made sense in context: Before she could come to the theater where Eddie and Roger were hiding out, she had to make sure the Weasel Gang couldn’t follow her.
This brings a smile to my face now that I think about it. Dolores surely didn’t have a crazy talking taxi doing the driving, and the weasels were maniacal drivers. Somehow, she out-crazied the weasels with her driving-- or perhaps used stealth.
The Howling beat it by four years, although its after-credits scene was taken from another movie.
Yep… The Howling is on the Wikipedia list. Only a couple of others… and you could argue that with the other predecessors being things like Airplane! and Buckaroo Bonzai, Young Sherlock Holmes was the first “played straight” mainstream film to have a post-credits scene.