Jack Me. NOW!- Page 204

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 11:50am

I was close. The correct translation, courtesy of my dear sweet beautiful German friend is:

opportunity: to meet people that drink so much that they can't remember your name.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 11:56am

so now how many more of these shirts do I have to order ?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:08pm

Sorry to neglect your thread, brd. But when forced to choose between Laura Bush and a Jake Gyllenhall/Zak Spears WOOF party, well, it's HARD...

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:11pm

I accept the discrimination against me.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:16pm

It's Tuesday, a day that started out with me posting a string of half-naked Jake pictures--don't expect subtlety.

I'm subtle on Wednesdays.

Everybody--go look at brd's Laura Bush thread and post something pithy and political.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:19pm

jacking the thread for a minute:

Look Who Might Be Talking in 2006:
Will & Grace star Megan Mullally is in final negotiations with NBC Universal to host a syndicated daytime talk show aimed for 2006. Will & Grace, which was recently renewed for an eighth season, is expected to conclude next spring.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:20pm

TV TRIVIA:

What happened on the final episode of Mister Ed?

a) Ed runs away after Wilbur tells him he and Carol are moving away.
b) Ed decides to go to college to become a doctor.
c) Gladys Kravitz from Bewitched stops by for a visit and thinks she sees Ed talking.
d) Ed falls in love with a young filly.
e) Carol becomes jealous when Wilbur starts spending to much time with Ed.

Updated On: 5/3/05 at 12:20 PM

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:22pm

PJ - that was funny, and I will look for that pic of me as Joe and post it if I find it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:24pm

I don't remember, but I'll never forget these lyrics:

A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And no one can talk to a horse, of course,
That is, of course, unless the horse
Is the famous Mister Ed!

Go right to the source and ask the horse...

(From distant memory, not Google!)

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:25pm

Addy..I believe it's "C"..unless he ran away with that stud who lived next door.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:26pm

Undi - I will call you during lunch.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:27pm

guys?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:27pm

Enjoy lunch Undi...I'll give you a call...oh wait..I can't..Oh well..I better run to the bank and get out money to order those shirts.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:28pm

PalJoey, I will never forget those lyrics, either...

Nope. The answer isn't C.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:31pm

Any more guesses?

The answer is: b) Ed decides to go to college to become a doctor. No one ever said comedies in the 1960s were exactly sophisticated! All together now…

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.

Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.
He's always on a steady course.
Talk to Mr. Ed.

People yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day
But Mister Ed will never speak unless he has something to say.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse.
You never heard of a talking horse?

Well listen to this.

I am Mister Ed.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:34pm

Mr. Ed?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:37pm

Did you know that Mr. Ed was really a Zebra?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:38pm

I wonder if it's now Dr. Ed?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:41pm

Although
the Mister Ed television show enjoyed a five-year run on CBS in the early 1960s, it was actually one of the very first series to start out in syndication and then be picked up by a network. (Mister Ed premiered as a syndicated show in January 1961, and CBS added it to their prime time schedule the following October.) Without network backing in the beginning, however, the show's budget was extremely tight. During the filming of the pilot episode, production costs mounted as the recalcitrant horse cast as Mister Ed refused to perform on cue (if it performed at all), resulting in large expenditures to cover the costs of additional training fees and wasted footage.

The producers of the show were ready to throw in the towel and write off the venture when one of the putative Mister Ed's trainers came up with a solution: the nearby Jungleland animal park in Thousand Oaks, California, had a trained Grevy's zebra that was being used in live shows for the park's daily tour visitors. The zebra (a female, called "Amelia" by its Jungleland handlers) was trained to perform many of the same actions (e.g., opening and closing its mouth, stamping its feet on cue) required in the Mr. Ed role, and Jungleland consented to lend her out for a few days' filming.

Amelia worked out fantastically well, exceeding everyone's expectations, and the pilot was quickly wrapped up and sold to the syndication market. The producers made a generous donation to Jungleland in exchange for continued use of Amelia, and she appeared in all the syndicated episodes as well as all the shows comprising the series' entire five-year run on CBS. Amelia retired to Jungleland when Mr. Ed was cancelled after the 1965-66 season, where she lived for three years before being sold at auction when Jungleland closed in 1969.

The show's premise, of course, called for a talking horse, not a zebra. The producers felt the concept was already absurd enough without stretching credulity by having to explain why someone would have left a zebra (let alone a talking one) at a country house, so they chose not to explain it at all. They stuck with the original premise instead: Mister Ed was always referred to as a "horse," and since the series was filmed in black and white, the viewing audience couldn't tell the difference.

(The difficulty in resolving closely integrated black and white images on non-color television receivers was one of the primary reasons NFL games were not regularly televised until the mid-1960s, when sales of color TV sets started to outstrip those of black-and-white models. When black-and-white television predominated in the nation's living rooms, football games were too often disrupted when players ran into the referees, whose black-and-white striped uniform tops made them nearly invisible to onlookers. Likewise, Johnny Cash's famous televised live concert performance at California's Folsom Prison in January 1968 proved disastrous when several inmates wearing the traditional black and white prisoner's garb slipped unnoticed past guards, who had been provided only black and white monitors with which to view the proceedings.)


Zebras are noticeably smaller than horses, so the set used for Mister Ed's stable was constructed using forced perspective (the same technique employed on Disneyland's Main Street) to make it appear larger than it really was (and thus make Mister Ed appear larger than he really was as well). This gimmick also helped to mask the fact that Alan Young, the series' star, was only a diminutive 5'4" tall. Since a zebra's gait is distinctively different than a horse's, the rare episodes that called for scenes of Mister Ed running were filmed in long shots using real horses, a practice which has lead to the mistaken claim (cited in several fan-related publications and web sites) that a zebra was occasionally used on the show as a "stunt double." (In later years a Palamino horse named Bamboo Harvester would often be erroneously identified as having been the Mister Ed, but this horse was in fact only used for promotional appearances and publicity stills; it never actually appeared in the TV series.)

The substitution was an open secret around the industry, however, and continual sly references to zebras were worked into the show. The two most blatant examples were the episode of 21 March 1963, "Ed the Zebra," and the episode of 17 October 1965, "Anybody Got a Zebra?" The former episode was a joke-within-a-joke wherein a disgruntled Ed ran away to the zoo, leaned up against a newly-painted black fence, and started a new life as a zebra. (Ironically, the photography crew actually had to shoot Ed's "zebra" scenes for that episode in color and then convert them back to black-and-white in order to make Mister Ed appear as a zebra to the audience!)

When CBS switched to a primarily color prime time line-up for the 1965-66 season, both they and the series' producers were faced with a dilemma: keeping the show as a black and white entry would have presented a jarring contrast with the network's other shows, but switching to color would have given away the ruse. Eventually, a CBS executive came up with a clever solution: the show was moved out of prime time into the 5:30-6:00 PM slot on Sunday evenings for the series' final year, thus avoiding the necessity of its conversion to color.

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:43pm

Boobs! You have waaay too much time on your hands. What's up with the Mr. Ed history lesson.?

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:44pm

Nevermind. I briefly skimmed through the thread. How's everyone doing today by the way?

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:44pm

Marquise,
What diet are you getting on dear? We need to get your butt out of the chair and into the gym. I have seen it dear. It is not pretty. And at your age...

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:45pm

Marquise..how are you doing with my sexuality today?

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:48pm

How come there are such things as sleepless nights? I didn't sleep a wink last night...






Speaking of sexuality, I have to have lunch today with the lesbian girl who has a complete crush on me. What do I do?

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:50pm

Just fine. LOL.

Sheila, you crack me the fvck up. Ever thought of getting your own sit-com?