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Wishbone: Fleabitten Bargain (1995)
One of my favorite "Wishbone" episodes
This has always been one of my favorite episodes in the "Wishbone" series; I love how the "good" characters pleasantly/positively interact with each other. The story also teaches a vitally-important lesson to the youngsters watching it --- namely, that one should cherish and value the genuine and real things the most, and not be excessively wowed or captivated by flashy showy fake things that merely play with the senses and ultimately give nothing of true value, and in fact may actually cause you to feel let down afterwards when you discover that any joy or satisfaction you'd felt while experiencing the virtual-reality presentation was merely "all in your own head", and thus you are not really much if any better off afterwards than before. I also especially enjoyed the thrilling "strong chords" organ-tones at the tear-jerkingly triumphant "eleventh-hour snatching of victory from the jaws of defeat" climax of Faust's part of the episode, where the gentle angel Care enables Faust to escape the shamefully-advantage-taking Mephisto's unfair contract and come away to Heaven, after all, despite everything he's already done. A first-class "kiddie movie" production!
Unsolved Mysteries: Episode #9.5 (1996)
My favorite episode
The super-heartwarming segment about the angel-faced woman's saving the new father's life is my favorite tale from all of the "Unsolved Mysteries" episodes, and that's saying a LOT, since I really liked parts from quite a few of the other episodes, as well. I love the warmly-relaxed and "human" way that the stories are presented --- so unlike the fake arrogant jaded high-stung way that so many TV show serieses are formatted, supposedly to make their material seem more exciting or "important", I guess. Why can't all documentary/reality-TV shows be presented in this wholesome and unaffected way?
MacGyver: Silent World (1986)
One of my favorite MacGyver episodes!
I really enjoyed this episode --- a very imaginative plot, and with so much excitement and human-interest warmth all the way through! I especially loved the ethereal "dream images" of the "car on the water" with its comically creepy-sounding horn reminiscent of "The Car" (and later "Duel"), and of the enthusiastic uninhibited performance and wild whooping of the "Moorish warrior". I also thought that it was such an admirable idea for the episode to focus on helping physically challenged and underprivileged people, especially young students who still had their whole lives ahead of them. Mac's heartwarming friendship with Carrie and her pre-teen students shows first-hand how these infirm humans can be just as friendly and likable as "normal" folks, and it reminds me of another MacGyver episode "Second Chance", where Mac helps another pleasant-natured young girl who relies on a portable dialysis machine to stay alive.
Hand in Hand (1961)
Lovely movie, great family values taught!
I thought this was a great, warm-hearted movie, full of deep feeling and positive values and ideas. A wonderfully wholesome movie of innocent childhood friendship that the whole family can enjoy. I was just a bit surprised, however, that the movie would show the two youngsters hitch-hiking and taking a ride in the car with Lady Caroline (who in this case, of course, turned out to be a totally honorable compassionate matron who merely wanted to treat the charming young friends to tea and an enjoyable afternoon at her estate, but this was just good fortune for the children --- she could just as easily have been a seemingly "kindly harmless little old lady" figure in a kidnapping crime-ring, like the infamous Georgia Tann)
ever since vehicles of any kind were invented, parents have been warning their children to never accept a ride with a stranger. I just hope this film hasn't influenced any young viewers to naively do the same as these two children do, and that no children have gotten hurt as a result of their imitating these overly-trusting youngsters' behavior.
Brats (1930)
Great movie... I just wanted to point out a couple things
I loved this movie... it was really funny and clever. Mostly I am writing this because I had noticed a couple of possible errors in others' comments here, and so I wanted to respectfully point them out: In reply to the comment from "planktonrules" about the tub faucet's turning itself off: I don't think the water was supposed to look/sound as if it actually shut off --- I think it merely stopped making its rushing noise of coming out of the spout because the water level had become as high as the spout. In reply to the comment from "Theo Robertson" about the grownup men and their boys only once appearing in the same shot together: actually, there was a scene in the very beginning of all four people in the same room, but they are far enough away that you can't see their faces all that well. Maybe in that shot, the two children were just young actors made up to look enough like Stan and Ollie to pass as their kids for just that one brief sequence?
Smile Pretty, Say Pink (1966)
Pinky thought the flashbulbs were EGGS
In reply to the previous commenter who wondered why the Pink Panther swallowed the photographer's flashbulbs... no, Pinky didn't think the flashbulbs were marshmallows --- he thought they were EGGS, because the flashbulbs were round and white, and they were sitting neatly in their compartmented box, just like eggs in an egg-carton. If you go back and look at that scene carefully, you'll see that Pinky thinks of an egg (a bird's nest with an egg in it and the words "GRADE 'A'" momentarily appear in a "thought bubble" in front of him) as he's happily looking at the tray of flashbulbs that is sitting right there on the photographer's picnic blanket among the other eating utensils and the salt and pepper shakers, all of which are right next to a picnic basket. And so (even though the tray that the flashbulbs were in only had ten compartments instead of the usual twelve that a regular egg-carton would have) Pinky assumed that the flashbulbs were edible eggs, since they were situated with other food-related items.
P.S. One mistake I noticed about the revolving bridge scene --- the last time that Pinky rotates the bridge, he only turns it around halfway, and stops the bridge so that it's pointing parallel to the stream, causing the photographer's car to plunge off the end of the bridge and into the water. But the car comes out of the wrong end of the bridge that time --- since Pinky rotated the bridge clockwise, the car should have come out of the RIGHT end of the bridge, not the left end.
Pink Pistons (1966)
It seems that somebody in the film's art department momentarily forgot that Pinky had re-painted the car!
I enjoyed this movie very much... an obvious comical parody of the famous "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" movie. However, I noticed an error in the color of the car in one scene --- after Pinky meets Granny and they race the first time, she turns on the "supersonic rockets" and roars off, leaving Pinky and his car covered with soot. A few seconds later, Pinky and his car zoom away after Granny, shaking off the soot and leaving it in a pile on the road. But then the car is next shown in its original BLUE color as it whizzes off down the windy road and disappears around the bend --- evidently somebody in the art department momentarily forgot that Pinky had re-painted the car pink.
Pink Panzer (1965)
I LOVED that "little devil's voice", hee hee hee!!!
LOL... I thought that Paul Frees did an absolutely spectacular and inimitable job of speaking in a sneaky seductive manner (gloatingly-inflammatory remarks such as, "Let's see, now... how long has it been since Harry borrowed your mower? **Last summer**, wasn't it?", and "Then YOU cut it off...") to create steadily building resentment and get both neighbors more and more incensed with each other... it sounded EXACTLY the way I'd have expected the little orange "devil" to speak who was constantly needling both neighbors and whom we finally see at the end of the movie ("You know... it might be a good idea to return that lawn mower YOU borrowed... hahahahahahahahahaha!!!")... it sounded to me as if Mr. Frees was actually enjoying his role here as the "devil's advocate"... it appeared that he was actually having FUN doing it.