Spring is in the air, and everyone is talking about the Robin Hood since Grumbletarian’s article about his visit to his first renaissance faire. UnCivil went and bought all the Robin Hood films, for example. Everyone is sharing their impressions of ren faires. I felt like I should get in on this party! So let’s start this party off right with two classic Warner Brothers cartoons about Robin Hood. Just like any respectable film festival would do!* It’s a little mind-blowing that Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood was so famous that more than ten years later, Warner Brothers was making cartoon spoofs of it. These cartoons are squeezed into blocks of three cartoons per episode, so if you just want to watch the Robin Hood cartoons exclusively, I noted the time to fast forward:
Rabbit Hood (1949): Starts at 13:30, it is the last cartoon. This is one of my favorites. “Arise, Sir Loin of Beef!” Truly a classic, often over shadowed by the Daffy Duck Cartoon below:
Robin Hood Daffy (1958): Starts at 0:00, it is the first cartoon. “Ho! Ha ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!!”
Bonus! Robin Hood Makes Good: A real oldie! From 1939, the year after the release of The Adventures of Robin Hood. Starts at 7:30. Let’s see who remembers this one!
The Adventures of Robin Hood: With Errol Flynn! This is still one of my favorites, and it is directly referenced in Rabbit Hood at the end, when Errol Flynn swings onto a tree and says “Welcome to Sherwood!”
I am going to digress a little, since all of these should be well known. Search tools for finding streaming films online have been changing a lot, and sites cut off their nose to spite their face and stopped tracking films on a bunch of streaming platforms. I switched over to Reelgood and have had excellent luck, it finds most of what I am looking for. What are you using?
Also I want to give a shout out to Insertnamehere51, who went through all the time and trouble to separate all of the Warner Brothers Cartoons on Tubi by year and alpha. Amazing work. That work made it possible for me to find the missing Bugs Bunny Robin Hood cartoons, it was buried at the end of a string of three cartoons. Also note that when you have those kinds of combined episodes, nobody’s search engine does a good job of finding the individual cartoons.
Some trivia! In Rabbit Hood, Little John was a caricature of Chuck Jones, who apparently needed to lose some weight at the time (courtesy IMDB). Below are two good bits from The Adventures of Robin Hood which you may enjoy. Both are courtesy IMDB. There are about 50 trivia bits on IMDB about this famous film:
- James Cagney was the studio’s original choice for Robin Hood. However, when Cagney walked off set, the film’s producer Hal B. Wallis made the decision to cast Errol Flynn, against the studio’s wishes. It was also Wallis’s decision to keep Maid Marian, when the original scriptwriter wanted to dump her character. Wallis felt Marian was an indispensable fixture of a Robin Hood adventure.
- The production used all 11 of the Technicolor cameras in existence in 1938 and they were all returned to Technicolor at the end of each day’s filming.
Well, this is it from me. No more babbling. Enjoy your cartoons and feature film!
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! If you hate Robin Hood and think he is a secret commie, you can always talk about your garden. Next week, I shall find something to play. And it shall be… a film.
*Don’t get me wrong, I am not respectable.
I’m not even sure what a ren faire is?
As a potato you wouldn’t.
You didn’t exist in the old world.
Renaissance Faire
I’ve never been to one or anything.
“Wallis felt Marian was an indispensable fixture of a Robin Hood adventure.”
Also keeps it from being a total sausage party.
Olivia, a definite would.
This one also has the comic relief romance of Una O’Connor and Herbert Mundin (who died tragically young about a year after Robin Hood).
I could see Cagney maybe. He was good as Bottom. But obviously it would have been a much different interpretation.
Rabbit Hood and Robin Hood Daffy were both directed by Chuck Jones, arguably one of the best of the WB directors.
Very true. And he put up with workplace harassment very well.
Time to watch some cartoons.
Tubi doesn’t let me FF. That’s… annoying.
FF?
Fast forward
fast-forward
I’m not seeing any FF or RW buttons, but I can click anywhere on the time bar and it goes there.
Didn’t work for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s my wife’s birthday tonight, so I will be in and out. Other things to focus on, and all that. I just assembled a turntable cabinet a moment ago.
HBD 🙂
What kind of turntable?
A basic Audio Technica, with auto start and a pair of matching Audio Technica bookshelf speakers. It was much better than I expected.
All her friends bought her records by her favorite bands.
Awww 🙂
🥂 🎂 Hippo birdie to the missus.
Say no more!
/ wink, wink, nudge, nudge
Assault venison!
Also, that door is fucking ridiculous.
“Arise, Sir Loin of Beef!”
And Baron of Munchhausen.
I watched the whole bit not just the Rabbit Hood short. I miss the old cartoons. I liked in the first one that vagrancy is illegal but you can walk around without pants. Cigars, drinks, and no background checks for guns.
I say that it is art, in its own way, like a movie is a form of art. With humor. “Arise, Earl of Cloves. Arise, Milk of Magnesia.”
Robin Hood Makes Good is another Chuck Jones directed short.
Turner, when he bought shorts for his stupid channel, cut the credits off, if I remember correctly. Stupid Turner.
Turner. Hrm. He was kinda a genius. Lotsa Braves fans, out there. Big reason they were my #2 team growing up. They were on! (And the 90s Braves were, uh, damn good. They did win once!)
You should watch it on the link above and see if they are back.
They’re not. You can find them with a little gOOgle-fu. Stupid Turner.
Weren’t the credits already being cut off when network TV showed the shorts in the 80s?
I fondly, fondly remember Robin Hood Daffy. Daffy’s the best. As I’ve said, he’s cartoon Costanza.
“But for that moment, J̵e̵r̵r̵y̵ ̵Bugs! I *was* a̵ ̵m̵a̵r̵i̵n̵e̵ ̵b̵i̵o̵l̵o̵g̵i̵s̵t̵ Robin Hood.”
Grey goose shaft is also the name for his penis.
Robin Hood Daffy – seems legit when the monk stops the spinning with just a stick.
I watched the whole thing. I liked the Foghorn Leghorn short.
The Tubi library is massive, if you are looking for any specific cartoon use the link I provided to the organized list.
I was not able to locate Rabbit Hood until I searched that list.
I bookmarked that link for later reference. Thanks!
TUBI didnt like my VPN for that.
Robin Hood Makes Good – that fox is yellow.
If I have time tomorrow, I’ll watch the Errol Flynn Robin Hood.
I’m out for the night.
Thanks RJ!
For a few minutes I was 10 years old again, at the Leola Theater near Lake Nokomis in Mpls. Saturday matinee, 20 cents, 6 cartoons, a short (maybe 3 Stooges) a preview of Coming Attractions and the main feature. Get there early ’cause the line may be long. 2 hours of bliss pre-TV. If it was a cowboy movie we’ have to fight Indians or rustlers all the way home, about a mile and a half.
Thanks R.J.
You are welcome sir!
Sounds familiar! Did the manager come out on stage before the feature, read off a lucky ticket number, and hand something like a bike light or a cheap doll to the winner?
No, maybe someone came out and told us to behave ourselves or else we’d get booted out, that was a given warning from home anyway.
Anyone remember the housewives hurling gravy boats at the screen in In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash? (unless it was Wanda Hickey)
+ Carrie Nation
Memories
https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/29923
Four score. That’s great.
+ Sir Osis of Liver
“Milk of Magnesia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCX66ZAWuA
Reused in “Knighty Knight Bugs” — the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Oscar, apparently. 🤨
Sir O of K: Surrender, varlet. Thou art the prisoner of me lance.
Bugs Bunny: I art? And whomsoever art thou, in thy cast-iron tuxedo?
Sir O of K: I, knave, am Sir O of K, Earl of Watercress, Sir Osis of the Liver, Knight of the Garter, and Baron of Wooster-cester-shister-shyster-schuster-shuster-shister-shire… shire.
Bugs Bunny: My, he’s a big one! Hey, look, pressure cooker. I bet you know a lot of my friends. Ooh! Like, uh, Duke of Ellington, Count of Basie, Earl of Hines, Cab of Calloway, Satchmo of Armstrong.
Sir O of K: Upstarts and rogues. Never heard of them.
Bugs Bunny: Rogues, eh? Upstarts, eh? Look, Sir Rup of Figs, don’t go around insulting my friends, or I shall get me a can opener and open thee up like a can of solid pack tomatoes.
Sir O of K: What? Wouldst tilt with me?
Bugs Bunny: Tilt with thee I will, and I won’t wilt. Just lend me a weapon, that’s all. That’s all.
Sir O of K: Very well, thou stupid scoundrel. Prepare to meet thy fate.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048263/quotes
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Thursday introduced a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship, ahead of an expected Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s executive order to that effect.
“I am introducing a Constitutional Amendment to end Birthright Citizenship. Under current interpretations of American law, anyone born on American soil automatically becomes a U.S. citizen, regardless of whether the parent was here legally or not,” he posted on X. “This is wrong and not at all the intent of those who wrote the 14th Amendment. We are a country filled with immigrants, and legal immigration is valuable and should be protected.”
“But we are also a country whose borders have been too open and our generosity exploited too often. President Trump has moved to seal our border from illegal immigrants more than any other president,” he added. “But we will have more to do. We need to make sure that only children born to legal residents of the U.S. are automatically citizens.”
Good to get it on the record, I s’pose. Interesting week at SCOTUS. I’ve been following but no deep dive into anything, being pretty ignorant about it all. I found it fun the ‘surprisingly’ unanimous decision. I wonder if someone got to Justice Action Jackson, kinda reminding her not to be too much of a bitch on it.
Reading more about the redistricting one. That right there is rather interesting. Folk don’t hear much about shit like:
“California has the potential to flip five seats to Democrats for a 48-4 representation for the [Democratic] party…”
I didn’t know it was *that* bad, though I prolly shoulda. I saw a ballgame in San Diego. Huh. Can’t readily find when that was. 2018, maybe.
Did you take a crap here too? 😉
Not at the ballpark!! One doth not befoul American cathedrals with such noxious and schmoxious, foul bowel depositry. (I’ve taken many a shite in Kentucky, however.)
And Florida is flipping some seats to the other Team.
The founding fathers kind of let the ball drop on this stuff if you ask me. Perhaps they didn’t count on their followers being a bunch of power grubbing assholes.
They didn’t anticipate gay race communism.
To be fair to ’em, I don’t think anyone predicted the exponential increase in population, particularly the voting kind.
Folk give the FF’s prescience way too little credit. They wrote the damn rules to change the game right into the system. That ain’t ignorance nor kicking the can down the road, that’s a defined, legislative way to defer to modern ‘sensibilities.’
Damn. *standing ovation* That’s how I try and sell the Constitution to folk, adding the Whoopsies(!) with Prohibition. And also the key reason I’m vehemently against any idea of any new type of governance. No way in fuckballs ‘our’ generation has the morals or chops to pull off anything remotely similar.
The US Constitution: The paramount peak of the secular Enlightenment.
I don’t think they anticipated the progressive era and the wave of cults that came with it and the atheism that followed it.
I’m not sure I want to know what that is. 🥴
I probably don’t subscribe to it?
Perhaps the key point.
I suspect they did not want to give the vote to layabouts and leeches.
Maybe not the eastern cults but more than one FF was a freethinker/atheist. And that was after the Great Awakening and cycles of religious fervor and apostasy in Europe.
Cycles of apostasy and heresy.
@rhy: Nor slaves.
I believe they said the govt required a ‘moral’ populace and culture.
*Shrugs*
I am glad we don’t have slaves anymore.
I am still not sure that net leeches deserve the vote. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sometimes, I need to give myself a good Firsting. Just to feel something.
You need Thorazine
Or VCR head cleaner.
Take the dog*, leave the housemate.
*if feasible
I dont play.
I can’t read music.
But I want this.
Talk me into or out of it.
https://lewiston.craigslist.org/msg/d/uniontown-gibson-earl-scruggs/7927746598.html
Do you have $1,900 to light on fire?
I’ve bought dumber things for more.
So yeah.
Now that I’m not on FB I don’t spend near as much on stuff on marketplace because I can’t.
Well, knock yourself out I guess.
But… I wouldn’t do it unless I was wanting to (learn to) play it.
Don’t buy a Gibson. They suck as a company.
But do they make nice things?
Ugh tomorrow is Commie Day which means all the consultants are off and my main ‘Merican colleague had a family emergency so it’s just me. TGIF.
I’ll snark with you.
We can make fun of commies all day.
Every day is make fun of commies day.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/1t08m3y/imagine_explaining_to_the_founding_fathers_that/
Lol
Happy Commie day, Glibs!
Go forth and be good capitalists.
💵💳😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud4HuAzHEUc
🎶🎶
I took a day off work today.
Slacker.
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., Teh Hype, and GL! (Sorry about your disrupted sleep!)
Back to work today for me – month-end reports to be done.
Good morning Glibbernam! 3am and still awake thanks to a night club blasting music across the street from this hotel. Pissed as hell.
Keystone Kops:
https://youtu.be/NIOLu6G0t8Q
Apparently the SS is trained at a boat house in Hereford.
Polish firing squad, holy shit.
Guy didn’t even get shot right? Must’ve had a +3 Cloak of Invincibility on under his clothes.
I have been informed by Amazon that the Thermos I bought almost 10 years ago is a serious threat to me, but the recall form at Themos.com doesn’t recognize the photo I attach and wont accept my submission for a replacement. I guess Ill just have to risk it, if you don’t here from me again the Thermos got me.
Oh-oh.
I sent my guaranteed for life Cabela’s waders that leaked in the crotch after 10 years or so back to the seller. The waders were returned with an explanation that said something like “Sorry ’bout that”.
OTOH a plastic switch on a counter top oven broke. I tried to order the switch, Nope, cut off the plug, take a picture. The company sent a new oven. I replaced the plug, superglued the switch on and kept on keeping on.
Good morning! My replacement acceptable-size Glibs coffee mug arrived yesterday, so I’ve been able to cut the number of cups of coffee I have in the morning in half.
Excellent news.
Over here the trash is taken out, and it is time for work.
Nice.
16 ounces like a mug should be?
Mornin’