Harvests and Matches

Started off the morning with breakfast and Alice's Wonderland Bakery. "Alice's Wonderful Baking School" emerges from a mushroom when she wants to teach Rosa and one of the Card Guards how to make the Rose Crisps snacks the Queen of Hearts loves. It even has a solarium with many kinds of herbs and vegetables, some of which can't be found elsewhere in Wonderland. Cookie makes use of the solarium to make "Ze Cookie Pizza" with toppings representing her memories. She thinks she's failed to teach the kids when their pizzas are all different, until they tell her they made the pizzas based after their own memories.

Hurried off to the Collingswood Farm Market after Alice ended. Though the farm market continues for another week after this, I'll work too early next week to get to the final day. Pears are gone, but winter fruit and vegetables - apples, cranberries, Brussels sprouts, winter squash, collard greens, peppers - still abound. I ended up with tiny fuji apples, tangerines with the leaves and stems from the Hispanic fruit and vegetable booth, cranberries, an orange-key lime muffin, and more of those pretzel buns. The lady who sold the pretzel buns even threw in a cranberry-nut oat cake for free.

When I got home, I had lunch while watching the 1996 Golden Films version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I go further into this ridiculous Disney imitation at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.

Animation Celebration Saturday - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Went to work before the movie even ended. The carts were a mess when I arrived. It had apparently been busy earlier, and it was still pretty crazy for most of the afternoon. Thankfully, it had slowed down considerably by the time I left at 6. The weather may have scared some people off. It's still cloudy, windy, and chilly, not the kind of day anyone wants to be running around. I had no trouble whatsoever and was in and out.

Had dinner, then finished things up with tonight's Match Game marathon. Match Game Productions celebrated Thanksgiving with episodes that were either filmed around Thanksgiving or mentioned food in some way. Richard ate the apple an audience member gave Brett. Mary Wickes brought cookies that Gene joked about. Audience Matches mentioned mashed potatoes and Thanksgiving turkey. 

Some of the episodes filmed in late November were pretty interesting, too. Thanksgiving 1973 coincided with the insane week featuring McLean Stevenson and Nancy Dussault. In November 1976, we were introduced to Lyle, a real go-getting contestant from Las Vegas with the worst toupee this side of Howard Cossell. Orson Bean discussed his voice work in the animated version of The Hobbit during Thanksgiving 1977. 

Give thanks for food and matches with this very tasty marathon!

Match Game Saturday Classics - Give Thanks Marathon