ivylass
February 7, 2003, 6:15pm
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I like the Pinky and the Brain one, where Brain implants a subliminal device in teddy bears in Santa’s workshop.
Of course, he doesn’t succeed, but Pinky gives him the world as a gift…a globe on a keychain.
NDP
February 7, 2003, 8:47pm
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In the skit, Foxx plays a poor old man who runs off carolers and generally behaves like Ebenezer Scrooge to a multitude of people. At the end, though, he puts a wooden costumer in the middle of his dingy house/apartment, drapes a sheet over it, and puts bowties on it for decoration, then sits back and looks at it wistfully. It was incredibly poignant and sad, and I can remember tearing up when I saw it.
So can anybody tell me if this happened on his variety show, or am I mis-remembering an old ‘Sanford and Son’ episode?
It was his short-lived variety show from around 1977 and what made the sketch even more sad was that at the beginning his landlord came by on Christmas Eve and tell him he’d been evicted.