can't... resist...

[kip_w]

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Today, I have something for everyone! Do you like Peter Cook? Check! Do you like Dudley Moore? Gotcha! Do you like Gerry Anderson productions like Thunderbirds and Stingray? Yo! Do you dislike Gerry Anderson productions like Thunderbirds and Stingray? F.A.B.!

Here are Peter and Dudley demolishing the franchise:
SUPERTHUNDERSTINGCAR IS GO!!

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Thanks to Jerry Beck at Cartoon Brew.
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Comments

[ellarien]

Thanks, that was fun!

(Icon in honour of corny old TV shows.)

[meggins.livejournal.com]

My favorite Peter Cook/Dudley Moore schtick is embedded in "Bedazzled" (the original), and I don't remember anything like this from "Beyond the Fringe," but it's pretty funny. I especially admire their skill in imitating puppets. (No, that is a compliment.)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

My favorite bits of Bedazzled (the real one!) are the "Frooney Green Eyewash" scene and the rock videos, but all the bits showing Cook "at work" are priceless. "Pathetic!" "I know, Stanley, but what can I do?"

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. As you say, what's not to like?

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Pretty funny, although those shows are self-parodies already. I'm not sure if dd_b was there at the time, but I remember about 25 years ago the Uptown showed "Thunderbird 6." An important plot element is a gigantic airship on its maiden voyage with a full crew and a load of dignitaries, and due to sabotage it goes off course and gets caught in the tension lines at an equally gigantic power plant. Much concern ensues.

We then get several minutes of cutting back and forth between International Rescue and shots of the airship, teetering more dangerously. This seems to run endlessly, and after a while I just lost it and shouted, "Oh, the puppetry!"

I managed to escape the theater with my life.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

You understand that that was a particularly delicate rescue. Imagine what would have happened if any of the puppets' strings had become entangled in the high-tension power lines....

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

"You guys are good, but you have your limitations, so we've brought in a specialist for this job...

"Pi-NO-cchi-ooooh!"

[rtred.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was pretty dead-on, if a bit overlong.

Of course, the point for some of us as kids was that it looked like a show that was done with toys and action figures, which was what we did every day!

Of course, on each of Gerry Anderson's series the puppetry got more and more sophisticated and they looked more realistic. By the time that he got to Space: 1999 they looked pretty darned real, although the acting was still wooden.

(Props to Geck for that one)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

They only missed two things that I was hoping I'd see in it.

* Gigantic, stubby looking cigarettes.

* A sudden insert shot of a real human hand doing something intricate.

But the facial expressions and movements were perfection. Great eyebrow work.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I just watched the whole thing, watching to see if they blink. About the only one who ever does is Lady Dorothy, and that's done in character. Awesome.