Good enough–they broke his barber pole!“It was a nice pole…it had…stripes…oooh…”
Dunno why I missed this question the first time around… I’ll blame it on a lack of coffee…
Tex and Edna’s souvenir shop - Tex and Edna Boyle’s Praire Warehouse and Curio Emporium.
OK, fine, but let’s address this Python “pole of Africa” business.
It’s “Boil”–but you’re right!Here’s what’s left: [ul]
[li]1.Libby Wolfson’s one-woman stage show (looong title)[/li][li]2. “Hi-Q” contestant who always rang in early (was on both high school and night-school versions)[/li][li]5. Jackie Rogers Jr.'s tell-all book (about his father)[/li][li]9b. Skip Bittman’s real first name? “She still calls him Herschel and she still calls me (blank)”[/li][li]10. Program SCTV was showing the first time CCCP1 broke in (SCTV version of a classic)[/li][/ul]
I don’t know the title, but it was the one where they spent the whole episode on one movie being filmed – originally about Antarctic explorers (it was filmed on a beach with the sand painted white), but then they figure out there are no lions in the Antarctic for the hero to fight, so they shift it to Africa – and in the final product we see the intrepid explorers marching across the sand (wearing heavy fur coats) and the voiceover tells us about the story of four (or whatever) brave souls “who set out to find the legendary Pole of Africa, and found – themselves!”
It was, as you may guess, a sendup of Hollywood.
The hero gets to fight both and lion and a giant penguin with long green tentacles.
Although that sketch does go on for an awfully long time, it doesn’t fill the entire episode. Maybe the middle third or so.
“A giant 10-foot electric penguin! And you could stab its wing and the blood’ll go ‘PSSSSHHHHHH’!!”
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I’m Taking My Own Head, Screwing It On Right, And No Guy’s Gonna Tell Me It Ain’t!
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Wasn’t it their version of Julius Caesar with Bobby Bitman as Caesar?
I still sometimes will find myself thinking – "I want to especially thank my friends in the Caesarian section. "