But First These Messages: Cars Cars Trucks and Vans (probably not that last one )

But First These Messages 

       Cars are probably the most advertised things besides insurance... (which you will need for your car....oh)   and yet we really haven't featured the things here because well that's how we roll. (boo)

   But First these messages...

         Lee Iacocca  became the head of Chrysler right went Chrysler needed a hero , but just make you knew he was there he showed up in commercials.



 I do wanna say he randomly started with Ford and it's not because he used to work there but, maybe.

The Town and Country? Where have I heard that name before , Chrysler? 

He also  says at the the end  if you find a better car, buy it!  Not saying Chrysler is the best or if you find a better car than that convertible  we will give you a discount or something no , just if you find a better car buy it.   Also better is subjective. 

        

This was his idea at Ford.... /image:  Wikipedia 

         That commercial was fine an everything , but  it doesn't look 80's we need some eighties in our eighties commercials. 

          
                                         Oh  well that's more 80's than I thought

On the next episode of "Knight Rider".... 

         For like the first  51 seconds there's no car in this car ad, or even a mention of a car.  Then... 

 I think Dodge took over the world and became a dictator somehow... darn self driving cars. 

  I forgot is this a Dodge commercial or is a remake of "Christine"?   He was also inside the car the whole time.... what the heck? 

      Ok Chrysler ... we don't want to look so Chrysler biased so how about some  Ford? 

               
 
           

It's refreshing to see an not have the words saying "Don't Try this" because well duh.  

       I wonder if the truck did it's own stunts though.  

   More trucks ...  after the jump 

The Lookback : Yogi the Easter Bear

Easter  The  Flashback 


    Easter is a holiday but doesn't really get alot of specials or songs so I've mostly not tired to look for a special , though I could have written about the Easter Beagle Peanuts special. I was under the assumption that there really wouldn't be much to do , but then I found this special that is only 22 years old.   Remember Yogi Bear ?  Yeah , bears have to do with Easter ,I guess. (Easter  the season of bearing it all?)     "Yogi the Easter Bear" was a Hanna and Barbera special by Turner Entertainment  for syndication. (Probably aired on Cartoon Network at some point too) It premiered in April of 1995. This special notes the last time that  voice over artist Don Messick did the voice of Boo boo and the park ranger-he died 2 years later.
 

         The special starts with narration and apparently Jellystone Camp is getting ready for the Easter Jamboree which is the start of the camping season. (What if Easter is in March?)  Ranger Smith (the Ranger) is getting ready for the event.  This year he's a little stressed out because the supreme commissioner is coming . (Apparently, he put out a forest fire with his bear hands (only you can stop forest fires don't mean that literally) )  He wants everything to fine  so they don't close the park or something.     Meanwhile, our hero (?) Yogi Bear  finds the candy in the back of the truck and tricks the ranger guarding it  to leave his post and tries to take the candy but Ranger Smith catches him.  Smith tells him that it's an important day and to leave the candy alone , stay in his cave or he's going to the Siberian circus.

     Yogi finds an Easter Bunny outfit and disguises himself  to obtain the candy.  He tells the guarding ranger (who was a bad plan) that he is the Easter Bunny and tricks him and eats the candy from the  truck.  The ranger tells Smith that he saw the Easter Bunny  and Smith figures out that it was Yogi, who ate all the candy.  Smith plans to send Yogi to the Siberian Circus. (oops )  Boo Boo suggests  that maybe he and Yogi could go find the real Easter Bunny , but Ranger Smith tells them there is no Easter Bunny. (Well that's our Easter Special it's over now)  Boo Boo asks why he doesn't believe in the Easter Bunny and the Ranger explains that he wanted Double Decker raspberry egg but never got one.

Interesting they hire rangers at a young age/copyright Turner 

         

            Yogi and Boo Boo decide to go look for the real Easter Bunny  after all , so of course their plan is to ask the Grand Grizzly. (What am I watching?)  You know what this special is missing (explosions?)  yes, villains. Apparently a bad guy and his stupid sidekick want to do something about the Easter Bunny. What? You may ask, we don't know yet... like 12 minutes in to our 46 minute special.  Back the bears. They go the  Grand Grizzly's cave to ask him if he knows the Easter Bunny. (Yahoo search would be easier ) He says the Easter Bunny is in the sky or something. (He wasn't very helpful) 

Seems sane to me /Copyright Turner 

         The Supreme ranger and his two grand kids have made it to Jellystone. Also he hates problems. Ranger Smith couldn't tell him that there was one so, back to the bears.  They find a giant rabbit shaped mountain where the Easter Bunny's house is. (At least I hope it's his house)  They make it to Easter Bunny's house  but it's all a mess and there's a message that says Help Me. (Gee , I wonder who stole  him)  Yogi and Boo Boo follow a trail of jelly beans to the factor where the bad guys have the Easter Bunny tied up.  Their plan  is to kidnap him and steal eggs to make people buy their plastic eggs.  

               

Sorry you are all tied up  / copyright Turner 

                   

               The Easter Bunny tells the short villain about the Easter Chicken who makes the eggs but won't tell him where he is so, he tries to dip the Bunny into a plastic melting vat, when Yogi and Boo Boo come in disguised as health inspectors.  Also I got both  their names now : Paulie and Ernest. They almost get out but Yogi wants some cake accidentally gets his mustache off and they figure it out.   Yogi ends up getting Boo Boo and the Easter Bunny out.  Meanwhile the Jamboree isn't going so well, I think.  Yogi and Boo Boo have to visit the Easter Chicken to get more eggs ,but the security dog won't let them in. (There's an easy solution to their problem but I won't stay it.)  Paulie and Ernest have their own plan to get in and get the Easter Chicken.  Yogi and Boo Boo finally make it into the hen house.   

The chicken has an effective system/copyright Turner 

           Yogi gets the hen out before Ernest (in an Easter bunny outfit) made it in.  He was supposed to drop a dynamite laced Easter basket to blow up the hen house. But guess what? The dog brings it back to Ernest and it blows up.(Classic) The dog figures out that Ernest wasn't the Easter Bunny.  The bunny, hen , Yogi , Boo Boo make their trek to Jellystone  but Ernest and Paulie chase after them, so Yogi shoots eggs at them causes them to destroy their truck and fall off a cliff into a bee farm. (Stingy)   Eventually , they make it to Jellystone Park. (Yay Saint Patrick's day is saved!)    Ranger Smith finally gets what he wanted for Easter (thank goodness) and he gets a promotion. (Easter miracle!)   Yogi gets to stay as well. 

     That's the special. 

   

 Our quick review:  It felt like a classic Yogi Bear cartoon just with a smoother 90's animation style. It has some of the classic H&B  humor style and the voice acting is great. Charlie Adler provides the voice to Paulie  he's the same guy that did the voice to Buster Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures.  The Man who voiced the Easter Bunny was also the man who voiced Yakko Warner and Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Rob Paulsen.  It's a silly but fun Easter special. 

 You can get it on DVD now as well. 

            

                  

The Lookback : Arthur 20.5 : April 9th

Arthur20.5  

     Back in September of 2016 we did an event of posts (that's a thing right?)  that was focused on Arthur as the series turned 20 we looked at one (or one half) episode of each of the seasons (at the time 19, season 20 hadn't come out yet).  With all that there was a lot of interest in Arthur and we got emails asking about more Arthur and even episode requests. so what better way than to try and do some more Arthur?  (If you have your own requests or ideas for this blog you can email them to our email address  mychiller@gmx.com   or tell us on our google plus page : +mychiller )

   This episode was requested a few times , and thought this would be a good time to get on it. The season finale of Season 7 episode 105 in total, April 9th.

  April 9th premiered in October of 2002 and is a two part episode.

     If you missed our format of this ,when we did this September  I broke up the posts with a look at the monologue , the thing Arthur does at the start of episodes ,then a summary of the episode. then finish with my thoughts.

           Monologue :  Sue Ellen takes  the reigns this episode as she writes in her journal and starts telling us about a beautiful early spring day that changed the lives of so many people.  It's April 9th (don't look at me like that)  and it seems like a normal  day when at school when the fire alarm goes out and everyone is rushed out of the school.

     Episode:  The firefighters take care of the situation and Mr.Morris , the janitor  is taken away in an ambulance.   Arthur worries about his father who didn't come out  until the firefighters got him out, while Sue Ellen's journal was destroyed , Buster came in late for school and didn't experience what happened, and Binky  seems to be affected by the fire after seeing some of the flames.    The kids have to spend their time at another school, the famous in the series : Mighty Mountain.

hmmmm did you do something to your..ears?/copyright  WGBH

      Muffy tires to replace Sue Ellen's journal but Sue Ellen doesn't accept. Buster wonders why he doesn't feel as upset about the fire as the other kids and wishes that he felt something. Arthur worries about his father and has a dream that when his father is catering at an aquarium that a giant squid  grabs his father. (What?)   Buster visits Mr.Morris at the hospital and they start to connect.  (What a nice friendship)   Muffy tries again with a journal and even a pen! Sue Ellen accepts this one . (The Pen was the deal maker)  Then the fire alarm goes off what happens next? more after the jump,