Watching JHH at the Museum of TV and Radio

[Joggy]

Originally posted by Cantus Rock

Huntley and Brinkley has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I nearly fell out of my chair! SO funny!

I KNOW!! Using those soundtracks of Huntley and Brinkley was soooo brilliant! My favorite quote:

Kermit: "So who's your favorite character from our show? Sam, Harry, Yorick, me..."
Huntley: "York."
Kermit: "Yorick's your favorite? He'll like that. I'll pass it on to him."

And the Punsmoke skit, with "The showdown will take place when the first stage coach arrives!" "Hi! Did someone call me? I coach actors!" "So that makes you a... STAGE COACH!"

My favorite commercial was the one with the dancing cow! You've seen that? That was such cool puppetry! And the jazzy "shave and a haircut" one with Kermit and Harry: "*bumm bumm ba-dumm bumm* Hot-Shots! *bumm bumm ba-dumm bumm* Yum-Yum! *bumm bumm ba-dumm bumm* Es-Kay!" Makes me wanna record a song like that!

 

[Chilly Down]

Chef/Beaker Fan: Sure, we could possibly meet there the next time I plan to go. I'll let you know what my plans are. Anyone else want to get in on this?

As for viewing for free, I was able to watch for free for two hours without being a member. I think I could have watched even longer than that, but the museum was closing, and I didn't want to run over my two-hours-free parking either.

Matt: I'm almost positive the "Poison to Poison" bit is from a Stan Freberg record. Freberg was the Weird Al of his day, doing skits and funny songs. Daws Butler (voice of Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, among many others) and June Foray (Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Nathasa; nearly all of the female WB characters) were frequent performers on his albums. The voice of the announcer sounds like one of the other actors from "Rocky and Bullwinkle" (can't remember his name right now), who also performed on Freberg's records, which is why I think it's a Freberg bit. I read and/or heard somewhere that Jim was a big fan of Stan Freberg (maybe at MuppetFest).

Regarding cellphones: yes, the one annoying thing about the museum is that people have complete disregard for the people sitting at other booths. People were laughing loudly and carrying on conversations with each other. Laughter will (should) occasionally happen when you're watching something funny, but this was so loud and so often as to be distracting. As for carrying on conversation, people seemed to think they were watching TV at home, not in a library/museum!