tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post5696922887706412434..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Before He Talked to Mr. EdYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-23134215379969668842016-05-22T11:14:52.571-07:002016-05-22T11:14:52.571-07:00Well, that and the Francis movies were big success...Well, that and the Francis movies were big successes. I'm sure by 1960 Young wouldn't have minded a chance at a similar success.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-40130810822299463452016-05-22T08:16:18.746-07:002016-05-22T08:16:18.746-07:00He came back with a situation comedy TV series, bu...<i>He came back with a situation comedy TV series, but it went awry. The reason: He allowed himself to be made a "schnook." This is a Yiddish term for a harmless dope.<br />"You can't win an audience that way," he commented. "You can play a poor fellow who is plagued by circumstances, but you can't be ineffectual. You have to show some manliness. The greatness of Chaplin was that he'd threaten to kick the villain. He might not do it, but the threat was there." </i><br /><br />That could explain Young's initial reluctance to do "Mr. Ed" since a lot of the basis of the comedy comes from Wilbur Post's life being controlled by the actions of his horse. Not very manly, though on the other hand, having Connie Hines are your wife on the show kind of made up for that.....<br /><br />J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-46065126250737224622016-05-21T15:15:39.194-07:002016-05-21T15:15:39.194-07:00Though in my opinion, DuckTales wasn't funny o...Though in my opinion, DuckTales wasn't funny outside Scrooge (Huey, Dewey and Louie got tamed down for 80s TV a la another triple threat, Alvin and the Chipmunks). So I'll be the type that remembers Mr.Ed more fondly and I'm familiar with reading of the l;ate 1930s when Alan Young (who would REALLY have been young, in his very early 20s) and Jim Backus, about 5 yrs.older,, were on Alan Young's radio show..):)Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-22422110014609710172016-05-21T05:29:45.164-07:002016-05-21T05:29:45.164-07:00RIP, Alan... "that Young man who is Young tod...RIP, Alan... "that Young man who is Young today and Young forever..."<br /><br />Sherwood Schwartz and his brother Al were writers on Young's radio show... and George Wyle was its musical director later on. (Sherwood would tap Wyle to help him compose the "Gilligan's Island" theme song.)<br /><br />Young would later give voice to Carl Barks' great creation Uncle Scrooge McDuck, in Disney's "DuckTales" TV series.rnigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01370724366178429029noreply@blogger.com