Mr Harris: "All Spanish women look alike." LOL! Can you imagine the uproar if something like that was said in a TV series these days? And rightfully so.
Wonder why no one has tried to clean this piece up after all these years. 90 years and only one small glimpse of the Greatest Blues Singer Ever. USC or UCLA film programs, where are you?
Mel Blanc's stuttering routine, where he tries but fails to say a complete thought about something, and then says a complete thought about the VERY opposite, is EXACTLY the trademark of the character Shorty the barber of Amos and Andy. I don't know who came first.
Big Joe did two versions of this song , on one version he says step into my Roadmaster baby, the other one , step into my Cadillac! Seen him live several times in the early 80s with the Blasters backing him up. 🎷🎺🎸
I love seeing Jim so young again. I still remember seeing that first Gunsmoke in 55. I watched it sitting in my grandmothers house in Chicago. I was 10 years old those many years ago. RIP - Jim and Johnny
Moved to Calgary some months prior to this tune's release and first-time hearing it immediately reminded me of a girl in school I once knew (Shelly Gill), back in southern California
There will never be another Johnny Carson or James Arness. This was Johnny’s first crack at network TV after subbing for Red Skelton when Red injured himself.
Most of the commenters here who remember watching this largely forgotten series, have to be like me, in their late 60s-mid 70s...nice to know seniors are using youtube to stroll down memory lane...
These are good episodes- this illustrates the real nursing profession as a Vocation through Miss Dean, RN and not disregarding the physician as well. Thanks for sharing! :)
Private Sad Sack also appeared in a Seaman Hook cartoon called "Tokyo Woes". Mr. Hook was a character created for the U.S. Navy that was used to help promote war bond allotments. The character was designed by Hank Ketchum, who would go on to create that popular comic strip mischief maker, Dennis Mitchell , aka Dennis the Menace. The cartoon, "Tokyo Woes", parodied Japanese radio host "Tokyo Rose", a moniker given to any and all English-speaking female Japanese radio program hosts. The programs on the Japanese radio stations, aimed at the Allies, were propaganda meant to demoralize the Allies. Probably the most infamous of the "Tokyo Roses" was Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who was a Japenese-American woman who went to Japan to tend to a sick aunt right before the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the attack and war was declared, she was unable to leave Japan, and her parents back home in California had been rounded up and sent to an internment camp in Arizona. After the war she was detained, put on trial, and convicted of one count out of eight for treason. She was pardoned by President Gerald Ford in 1977. In the cartoon, Sad Sack is a POW and talks about how well he's being treated, including being fed "nothing but p-p-p-peaches and c-c-c-pie a la mode" and drinking nothing but "ruh-ruh-ruh-rum and Coca-Cah-cah-Cola" before being shunted away.
shame it didn't continue, but please do not try and do a modern day version, more cgi, even more rubbish scripts, more killing and blasting and destruction there is enough of that crap already
