POPEYE THE SAILOR In "Ghosks Is The Bunk" / Fleischer Studios - 1939

Time for a Popeye cartoon, here's a great little episode that goes like this... Olive reads a ghost story to Popeye and Bluto, Popeye gets scared so Bluto leaves Olive's house and rigs a haunted hotel. Bluto lures them there with a phone call and has a bunch of creepy surprises set up and ready to go.

Olive, Popeye and Bluto are having a quiet evening at home, Olive reads ghost stories to the boys and at one scary part, Popeye ducks under the couch! Olive and Bluto can't stop laughing at the silly sailor, so, Bluto comes up with a wild idea.

He grabs his box of tricks and heads off to a haunted hotel!..

After Bluto gets everything set up, he calls Olive's house and leaves a dire message and tells them to hurry over to the haunted place.

After Popeye fails to push the door open, he gets a running start, and of course, the door opens and he crashes into a desk and gets his head stuck! Then, Olive comes in, the door slams shut and she tries to open it to no avail.

Bluto has an invisible bell hop rigged up, he puts a rock in the glove and whacks Popeye a goodern after he takes a swing at the thing!!

There's the old escalator stairs that flatten out, so, Popeye and Olive slide down to the bottom after trying like Hell to get to the top!

Popeye and Olive hear some laughing and discover Bluto behind the stairs, pulling his tricks. Then, Popeye pulls the same trick on Bluto, who then gets creeped out himself!

Popeye spots a bucket of invisible paint and gets a swell idea!...

Bluto thinks a ghost is after him, he grabs the invisible fighter and slams him to the ground.

Popeye pulls out his trusty can of spinach and sends Bluto home with his tail between his legs!

Popeye grabs some paint remover and douses himself, becoming visible. Olive plays a trick by hitting him while she's still invisible, but, Popeye smacks her good and after he uses the paint remover on her, she chases him home! Tomorrow is Saturday, look for something special, over!

FAR OUT SPACE NUTS - Sid & Marty Krofft (1975)

I toyed with the idea of doing the second segment of the new "Twin Peaks" tonight, but then I remembered I had this, which is so much better! I will say something good about the new "Twin Peaks" though, and that's that the band that played at the end of the last episode I watched was excellent, and I had never heard of them before, so thanx for that anyway David! You restored my faith a little bit! Their name is The Cactus Blossoms, and they're the closest thing you're going to find to The Everly Brothers today!

Even though it was originally a Saturday morning kid's show, I think "Far Out Space Nuts" also qualifies as a pretty good candidate for a Dungeon Wacky Wednesday!

It's all in your mind, and the reality is that everything else is a figment of your imagination!

So, if you don't like something, then that's tough, because it's all your fault anyway!
Actually, now that I think about it, the new "Twin Peaks" might be wickedly disguised, but actually based on "Far Out Space Nuts!" Yeah, it's all starting to make sense now!

The stars of the show are two losers played by Chuck McCann and Bob Denver! Chuck McCann was also a co-writer on the show! Chuck is still working today, and has a long, long history of doing cartoon voices for decades now. Some of his voices are of main characters like Ben Grimm, The Thing, but a vast amount of Chuck's career was doing all the other voices of incidental characters you might hear! Wind him up, and let him go! I think Bob Denver was getting tired after doing 144 episodes of "Dobie Gillis" and another 99 episodes of "Gilligan's Island" at this point!

One inch shy of being four feet tall, Patty Maloney kept busy for years, not only acting, but doing voice over for stuff like the voice of Darla in the 1982 "Little Rascals" cartoon series!

(Seriously though, the Honk character is extremely annoying!)

This was the pilot episode of "Far Out Space Nuts!" It starts off with two dim witted maintenance workers getting launched into space instead of going to lunch like they expected!

Here's where they ended up! You have to admit, some of this stuff looks pretty good!

Mr. Clean Green Screen!

I love the spray painted tumbleweed alien plant life!

Pretty rough for Saturday morning! The boys are put into solitary confinement!

For being a Saturday morning kid's TV show, the sexual implications of G.A.L. are not too subtle!!

What the Hell kind of krazy Muppet monster is this?

Be gone Earth men, and be safe and diligent as you traverse the universe!

I'm totally convinced now that this was David Lynch's favourite TV show!
And do check out The Cactus Blossoms!
If you like good music, you will not be disappointed!

GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING GHIDORAH: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack / Toho Company - 2001

I'll finish off my month with this great Godzilla flick. The story goes something like this... Strange incidents occur when an American submarine has been destroyed by a mysterious force at sea and only Admiral Tachibana is certain that Godzilla's behind the disaster! To further prove Tachibana's claim, his daughter Yuri, who works for the TV news program, Digital Q, investigates strange phenomena in three separate areas in Japan and meets a mysterious old man who proclaims that aside from his infamous nuclear origins, Godzilla is also an accumulation of vengeful souls!

After the submarine incident, a giant Mothra worm breaks up the swim party at a lake!

Then, Godzilla is reborn and makes his way to a city, and, as usual, looking for trouble.

japan sends out their guardian monsters to attack Godzilla and protect the population from the destruction the big guy's capable of! But, he disposes of his lesser opponents post haste.

Big G is roaming the countryside, looking for more trouble, when a group of jet fighters show up and fire their missiles into the lumbering hulk!

Mothra appears in the sky and is ready to rumble with Godzilla, the battle leaves Mothra defeated and the big lizard just keeps rolling along.

Then, King Ghidorah joins in on the fun and the fur flies!..

Big G deep sixes The King, but, the three headed monster reassembles its molecules and gives us a fantastic light show! This is one of the very best modern Godzilla flicks, no G flop!

It's the battle of the century as the two monsters go back and forth, but in the end, our atomic big guy defeats King Ghidorah yet again...

Godzilla goes back to the sea where a small sub is ready to put some special boring missiles into him. Unfortunately, the monster swallows the submarine and it's stuck inside his stomach! So, why not just bore your way out of the thing!!

The day is saved and Godzilla goes down for the count, goodnight sweet prince!! We're back Wednesday with our last post in May...