MERRIE MELODIES / "Drip-Along Daffy" - 1951

So, I can't think of anything better than some laffs... Today I gots one of my favorite cartoons from the amazing Chuck Jones and my favorite toon writer, Michael Maltese. Him and Chuck made the best cartoons for years, what a great team they made!!

The story begins in the old west, Daffy and Porky are riding through countryside and eventually come upon the lawless town of Snake-Bite Center. Hey, just a few miles down the road from The Dungeon is a small place called Pumpkin Center! For reals!!

Daffy and Porky check out the town's population statistics...

It's time for a new Sheriff, and it has Daffy's name written all over it!

First thing he does is go to the saloon to order a sarsaparilla...

Daffy knows the place is full of law breakers so he draws his guns to show them all that he's not fooling around!

I love this wanted poster, a five million dollar reward (DEAD)!

Of course, Nasty arrives and freakin' Daffy gets in his face!! Nasty sez.. Let's have a drink!

He tells the bartender.. The usual.

Nasty gets his drink and downs it, all that happens is, his hat does a flip and lands back on his head, that's it. Okay, now it's Daffy's turn!

Daffy does some quick thinking and offers the drink to Porky, who downs it and says it's good.

Daffy then demands his drink and chugs it down...

After reciting 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' in unison, Daffy and Porky walk around like crazy wound up toys. Then, out of nowhere, Daffy's guns go off, perforating the floor of which he naturally falls through. Funny as Hell...

So, there's going to be a shootout between Daffy and Nasty. As Nasty passes by, Porky winds up a toy he whittled and puts it on the ground...

Nasty sees it and picks it up. While laughing at the tiny toy rifle, it goes off in his face and he's down for the count. And the townspeople pronounce Porky the new Sheriff!

So, Daffy said that he was going to clean up this one-horse town!

And Porky says... He's lucky it's a one-horse town!.. See you tomorrow when Eegah!! spreads the insanity, here at The Dungeon!!..

THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER - Season 01, Episode 02 - "The Playground" (1985)

Tonight's Weird Wednesday feature is just that! It's from season one, episode two of "The Ray Bradbury Theater," a show that was on for six seasons from 1985 to 1992!

I've been a big Ray Bradbury fan ever since I read "Something Wicked This Way Comes" in high school, but honestly, I didn't really get this story called "The Playground."

This one just might be better off to read instead of watch!

The show opens with Ray in his office that is just a big mess of everything, and that pretty much describes this whole show as far as I'm concerned, just a big mess!

Of course the real reason I chose this particular episode to watch was because William Shatner is in it!

I don't remember ever seeing The Shat in the role of a Father before! Here he is Charles Underhill. His son Steve is played by Keith Dutson in one of his only three credits!

The super small cast includes Kate (Murder In Space, Alligator Pie) Trotter as the live-in sister.

The Shat shares a pensive moment!

The Playground is just down the street from their home, and is also a place where Charles Underhill was harassed and bullied as a child, so Charles doesn't really want his son Steve to go there to play!

The whole place just freaks Charles Underhill out!

After much begging from Steve, and badgering from his sister, Charles finally agrees to take Steve to the Playground.

They don't get a very good reception from the local kids!

Then somewhere along the line, everything goes to Hell! You don't really know if Charles is just having flashbacks, or hallucinating for some reason, or if this is the new reality!

You don't know if the kids are really monsters.....................

.............................Or are they just monsters in Charles's mind?

What you do know is that something ain't right!

Pretty cool that they had to have a "DANGER Electrical Equipment" sign in the Playground! That's always fun!

Charles is confronted by Ralph, the specter bully from his past!

I thought maybe I was just stupid because after it was all over, I had no idea what happened, so I went online to see what other people thought the ending meant, and I was surprised to see that a lot of people were just as confused as me. I'm a little short on time right now, so you're just gonna have to go figure it out for yourself! Have fun!

THE DEMON / The Screams You Hear May Be Your Own! - 1979

Welcome back to the ether, today we have a movie that's just a series of bizarre murders with the unexplained stalking of the main characters by an unidentified person with no apparent motive. And, if you're looking for a real demon, forget it, it ain't happenin' here!.. This very weird movie was shot in South Africa, alternate title is MIDNIGHT CALLER. Hey, great tagline!

We did this one in 2008 but for reasons beyond our control, I did it again today. That can happen when we've done more that 3000 posts!

This one stars Jennifer (MISFITS OF SCIENCE) Holmes, Cameron (241 acting credits!) Mitchell and Craig (SHORT CIRCUIT 2) Gardner, with lots of beautiful women being terrorized!

Fourteen year-old Emily Parker has gone missing and a search for her ensues...

Cameron plays Col. Bill Carson, he's a psychic and claims he can find the the Parker's daughter because, quote... "I'd like to make a few things clear. Whatever you've heard about me, I'd like to straighten you out. You see, I'm not a kind of medicine man. I'm not a mystic. I'm just someone who has been gifted with ESP- extra sensory perception. I ask the same questions the others ask. The only difference, sometimes, I get the answer."

"Sometimes I get these... feelings. Vibes, as the kids would say."

Who, me? Nothing!

So, half way through the movie, Mrs. Parker critiques Col. Carson's performance so far...

After the Colonel explains his position on the matter, well, Mrs. Parker shoots him in head!! Seriously though, that's exactly what he deserved, dude was worthless!!

This is our main character, Mary. She's ready to take a bath, when, she hears something that frightens her. She discovers that there's a psycho in the house, and she has to flee wearing only her baggy granny panties!

Here are two nice shots with shadows, the top one shows the intruder tearing the crap out of Mary's bath robe after he finds it on the floor.

Mary makes it back to the bathroom where she puts the shower curtain on for clothes, and sets a slippery trap for the maniac...

A big guy comes through the door only to get a face full of water spray from a sink fixture.

Mary also finds a large pair of scissors and she doesn't hesitate to quickly stab the pursuant in the throat with them!

You can see it's a big guy when he falls into the bathtub. Yet, after a few moments, his face turns into THIS!!.. It's one of those 'what the Hell just happened?' movies, check it out when you can! So, here we go with another week of wild reviews, here at The Dungeon!!..