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Showing posts with label detective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label detective. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2022

Love and the Private Eye

There was one special episode of the old tv show Love, American Style. Special to a cartoon-geek like myself, anyway. Love and the Private Eye premiered on Jan. 28, 1972 as part of Season 3 of the series. An obvious pilot for an animated series that never materialized, this Hanna-Barbera cartoon features the voice of Richard Dawson as Melvin Danger, a bumbling private eye who manages to solve the case in spite of his best efforts.

I always wished it would become a regular series with more adventures of Danger, but it was not to be. You can't even get it on DVD, since season 3 of Love, American Style has yet to be released. But you can view it, at least temporarily, on YouTube in its entirety.

YouTube videos have a tendency to disappear without warning, so watch this one while you can.

Monday, October 22, 2018

Great Mouse Detective Glitches

Even the greatest films have mistakes in them. Here are some from Disney's The Great Mouse Detective. Can you spot them all?

Ratigan's jewel-headed stick changes to a plain stick instantaneously.

Olivia's bow switches to the wrong ear.

Basil puts on his Inverness which was hanging on the suit of armor, although it wasn't there a moment before.

The piano in the Rat Trap is suddenly several feet from the wall, probably so that tough mouse can knock it back.

When Olivia steps on Fidget's foot, his peg leg is the wrong leg.

Basil is certainly a quick-change artist: he exchanges his sailor disguise for his ordinary clothes in a few seconds, except for his trousers; those he somehow changes in the instant the camera's flash goes off, and all while holding Olivia in one arm and supporting Dawson with the other. More...

Monday, November 16, 2015

Monday, July 20, 2015

Sam Egg: Private Eye -- A Short Comedy Skit

A tribute to film noir finds Sam Egg on the case. Here is an excerpt:

Lola:(in a breathless voice) Are you Sam Egg, Pie?

Sam: That's "P.I." As in "Private Eye."

Lola: So, you're a detective?

Sam: Depends on who's askin'.

Lola: My name is...(coughs and clears throat, then speaks in a normal voice) My name is Lola.

Sam: Her name was Lola.

Lola: I just said that. I need help.

Sam: There's a psychiatrist's office on the next floor.

Lola: Not that kind of help.

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