Mistah Magloo returns

Last year I posted an unauthorized YouTube copy of Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, the first of the classic 60’s animated Christmas specials. That copy has been pulled, but this year Hulu has it.

I wanted to watch Magoo on regular TV, and thanks to my friend tastewar, who had an Amazon video-on-demand $5 promotional credit to spare, I got it for free. However, mere minutes later, the same program was available for purchase for only three dollars.

I know there’s a lot of dynamic pricing based on cookie scanning, but I’ve never seen it happen so abruptly. I wonder if I’d not purchased it on first viewing, and gone back to the listing a second time to buy it, would I have seen the lower price, leaving me with a couple of extra bucks to rent something else?

The Colbert-Trudeau Report

Garry Trudeau was on the The Colbert Report Monday night, talking about the 40th anniversary of Doonesbury. Which makes me remember the 40th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, when I was in my first year of employment at the same place I am now, still working for the same people.

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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Trudeau says he hasn’t recycled any strips, and I guess that’s correct, but he has repeated many strips, of course. For most of the strip’s run the finished art has been rendered by Don Carlton.

http://www.thebesttimes.org/people/cover_stories/1210_don_carlton.shtml

They’re just trying to be friendly

BoingBoing’s Mean Monkey Mondays series ends today. I think the “Man’s Life” covers are the best, although this one doesn’t have any monkeys.

Denro asks, “Hey, is the brave guy trying to save the girl from the crazed turtles (snappers I assume!) or are the brave turtles trying to save the girl from the crazed guy with a knife?!?!?!?” What I’m wondering is if San Antonio is still the Texas home of love-happy girls. And if the woman on this other cover was torn apart by monkeys, how did she live to tell the tale? Maybe the parent who didn’t want her marrying the American with the knife had the monkeys attack her.

You’ll find some more “Man’s Life” covers, equally tasteful and informative, at this link. Some of the covers were painted by Norman Saunders, whose work I first saw in the 1966 Batman bubblegum card series that he did with Bob Powell.

Previously, Saunders and Powell were responsible for the infamous “Mars Attacks!” series, which was based on work by Wally Wood.