Schools and Matches

Got a quick start this morning with breakfast and one of my Classic Disney collection CDs. I had a cassette version of this in the early 2000's. There's a lot of songs here that you certainly wouldn't expect to turn up in a Disney music collection today, like the comic numbers "One Last Hope" from Hercules and "A Guy Like You" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, "Femininity" and "Enjoy It!" from the live-action Haley Mills vehicles Summer Magic and In Search of the Castaways, and even the 30's Depression cheer-up ditty parody "Although I Dropped a $100,000 In the Market" from the half-hour special A Symposium On Popular Songs. I love the hilarious chorus number "On the Open Road" from A Goofy Movie and three lovely ballads from animal-themed films, "Love" from Robin Hood, "Looking for Romance (I Bring You a Song)" from Bambi, and "Baby Mine" from Dumbo. 

Hurried off to work before the CD even ended. I just barely made it in time. That was the worst thing that happened all day. I did have to sweep once around 1 when the morning bagger left and before the afternoon bagger arrived. Other than that, I was outside all day, pushing carts. We weren't really that busy for a Sunday, either. The weather wasn't great, but it wasn't bad, either, windy, humid, warmer, and a bit cloudy. Most people are probably at the Shore or waiting for next weekend to go shopping.

After I got home, I took a shower, grabbed dinner, and spent the rest of the night watching the Match Game marathon on YouTube. Teachers turned up fairly frequently as contestants on Match Game. Ron Valenti, the handsome fellow who turned Fannie Flagg's head, was a phys-ed teacher. So was Greg, the poor guy whose innocent "school" answer sparked the infamous School Riot in 1977. Jimmie Walker eyed a pretty, round school teacher during his debut in 1974. 

Other times, "school" came up as part of an Audience Match or an answer. The School Riot was the most infamous instance of this. "School ___" was on an Audience Match at least once. Other times, there would be references to schools, students, or resources. Charles Nelson Reilly, himself a noted acting teacher, frequently mentioned teachers and once defended how underpaid they were. (Two of his former students, Gary Burghoff and Robert Walden, were even semi-regulars.)

Go back to school with Match Game in this marathon that's a riot of hilarity!

Match Game Sunday Classics - Back to School Marathon