April Showers

Got a quick start on a rainy morning with breakfast and the Disney short "Bath Day." Figaro isn't too happy when Minnie gives him a bath and a ribbon and squirts him with perfume. The local tom cats are more likely to make fun of him, until he manages to knock out the leader and show them he's tougher than they think.

Since the weather was still pretty nasty, I called Uber. The driver in the morning arrived in 7 minutes and got me to work just on time. Surprisingly, the one going home didn't even take a minute to arrive, despite it being well into rush hour on a Saturday evening.

Work was a pain in the rear end. It wasn't that bad when I first arrived, but it picked up around noon and never slowed after that. They kept calling me to put away carts of cold items, and I had  to mop up a mess in the pharmacy that put me behind with the sweeping and pushing carts. The carts just kept disappearing, no matter how quickly I brought them up again. I had no help, either. The head bagger was in a register the entire afternoon.

The weather didn't help. It showered lightly pretty much the entire day, from the time I arrived at work until the Uber driver going home came, and remains cold, damp, and blah for this time of year. It's also the first day of Passover, and many people were shopping for their Passover dinners.

I was more than happy to spend the rest of the night watching today's Match Game marathon after dinner and a shower. Orson Bean ran pretty much the gamut on the original show, starting early in 1974 (on the same week as Marcia Wallace) and ending on the second-to-last week of the original run in 1979. His laid-back wit made him a favorite with panelists and viewers alike. He was the one who gave that "nymphomaniac" answer early in 1974 and ran down and kissed everyone on the panel during a 1975 PM episode. He was also on the second-to-last week of the show with Brianne Leary, Bill Daily, and Carolyn, the biggest-winning contestant they ever had. Carolyn kept right on going, ultimately going home with over $30,000.

Orson went so far back with Match Game, he started on the original 60's show when he was still an up-and-coming Broadway star in New York. He features in one of three surviving 60's episodes floating around on YouTube. His partner for that week was none other than 50's-60's bombshell Jayne Mansfield. I think you can guess he spends that episode making jokes about Mansfield's considerable assets. 

Honor one of New England's great raconteurs in this hilarious and heartfelt marathon!

Match Game Saturday Replay - Remembering Orson Bean

And here's my Musical Dreams Movie blog review for the Australian animated film The Magic Pudding, which I watched yesterday.

Animation Celebration Saturday - The Magic Pudding