Thankful for Cartoons and Comedy

Got a quick start this morning with breakfast and heading out the door. At least the weather was better for heading out the door. The wind finally blew itself out, leaving soft blue skies and much warmer temperatures, probably in the lower 50's. I pulled into work just in time.

Wish things went as well for the rest of the day. We didn't start out crazy. In fact, we were steady for most of the morning and early afternoon. It didn't get busy until people started pulling out of work and wanting to stop and pick up anything they needed for Thanksgiving. We were short on help, too, thanks to a call-out. Not to mention, this is the day we have a 5% discount for those over 65, which tends to be popular with a senior home two blocks away. It picked up enough by 4 PM for the lines to be down the aisles. It had only just started slowing down when a teen came in so I could go home.

When I got in, I went straight into dinner and Match Game '79. No one was more thrilled when Carolyn Reisner added another huge chunk of change to her account than the man who gave her the match, Bill Daily. He got so excited, he pulled up his sweater and looked like he wanted to take off his clothes for a few minutes!

Threw on Rhythm Romance after a shower. Originally titled Some Like It Hot (and changed after the unrelated 1959 movie came out), I go further into this 1939 vehicle for Bob Hope and drummer Gene Krupa at my Musical Dreams Movie Review blog. 

Some Like It Hot (Rhythm Romance) (1939)

Finished the night with animated Thanksgiving specials at YouTube. The Bernstein Bears Meet Big Paw when a frantic hedgehog passes on the legend of a monster who'll attack anyone who is "greedy, and not good to the needy." Papa and the other citizens of Bear Country are ready to attack this creature. Mama, however, reminds them that they should be kind to strangers, and then their cubs end up on Big Paw's mountain, trying to find him.

The early video game Q-Bert is probably the last thing you'd associate with Thanksgiving, but the "Q-Bert" segment of the 80's animated series Saturday Supercade did do a very peculiar episode devoted to the holiday. Q-Bert's teacher says it's "Thanksgiving for the Memories" when she tells the story of how the Q-Pilgrims came to the New World. The oldest pilgrim promises a new wagon and horse to the settler who does the most work. Q-Bert wants the wagon, but Coiley the snake tries to trip him up wherever he can. When Q-Bert's little brother Q-Bit runs away, it takes help from all the settlers and their new Native friends to bring them back.