And I'm Hungry like a Wolf

Yesterday was Halloween, in case you hadn't noticed. Thankfully, Cartoon Network did not run a Scooby-Doo marathon.

You read that right. I was glad Scoob wasn't on all day. That gave me time to watch The Munsters all day. (I had my choice of WGN or the Hallmark Channel.) I should've been painting my kitchen, but I had run out of painter's tape on Saturday, and there was no sense going to the store for more until today, because I can pick up leftover Halloween candy on sale at the same time. :)

Naturally, watching The Munsters made me think of the first time I saw a pin-up photo of Yvonne DeCarlo.

You read that right. Before she was Lily, Yvonne DeCarlo was a "serious" actress and a pin-up girl. Here's proof.



(More images are easily obtained by a web search.)

In fact, in this interview, she recalls worrying that her fans would be disappointed by her taking the role of Lily.



Okay, but how good is aging being to you? She looks like she would've been a really nice grandma, though. And those stories! Whose grandma could tell you about all those movie stars she once dated?

Anyhoo, some time during my web search yesterday (and I don't even recall how I got there), I found a site called Hulu, which lets me watch episodes of some TV shows and movies for free. Plus, there were ten Wallace & Gromit shorts. Here's my favorite. It made me laugh so loud, the new Nougats' dog across the street barked at me. (My windows were open; that's how it heard me. I wasn't that loud.) I won't tell you yet why I laughed. I want you to watch and see first.



In the meantime, I'll add that I attended the school's fall play on Friday night: You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw. I'm not going to review the play nor the acting here, but I do have a few comments. First off, since it was set in England, the cast each attempted an English accent. They were passable, some better than others, but a few of them wavered between dialects. (Have I really watched so much British television that I'm starting to distinguish between regional accents?) Second, while a "black box theater" might be the appropriate size for the meager audience that attended (mostly parents of the cast), it plays heck with acoustics. We were seated against either the north or south walls, while parts of the set were on the east and west sides. That meant, when the actors were facing each other, speaking, the speaker's back was to half of the audience. Combine that with unskilled accents, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one who missed some of the jokes.

Finally, as I promised, I'll tell what made me laugh so hard at the Wallace & Gromit cartoon: knickers. It was the word, the timing, and the tone. And if you don't think "knickers" is funny, either you haven't watched enough Are You Being Served?, or I've been watching too much.