K.A.C. 2024 - T - 11 Days ...

      1989 -  Christmas, you say? Hold your horses, kid. Better yet, hop in to this car while I tell you about a superstar from this year: Toonces the Driving Cat. One of the funniest and stupidest skits Saturday Night Live ever came up with premieres this year, with Robert Smigel 'obsessed' with it, crediting Toonces with his own goofball follow-up, Triumph The Insult Comic Dog. Read the article and re-live Toonces's driving skills below:

     https://latenighter.com/news/robert-smigel-obsessed-snl-toonces-the-cat-sketch/ 

     

     '89 also brings us, fresh from silly shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, the Simpsons in their own long-running series on Fox, beginning with the December 17th episode 'Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire'. The Simpsons Wiki below gives you a breakdown of the plot and while the whole episode isn't online, a truncated highlights version can be found there, too:

     https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Simpsons_Roasting_on_an_Open_Fire

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0ZA1QyuQk&t=395s  

    

     We'll close out today with a classic piece of animation gone WAY wrong: 1937's Gifts From The Air, a Columbia cartoon in the style of another K.A.C. psyche-scarrer, 'The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives'. Make sure you have the volume for this one W A Y up as the Naughty Elves from RIFFTRAX provide their OWN narration to the action!

     

 

 

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NhqdqHmYnI&list=PLL_S- sMSTL3Ys3wiIh336Fv0WeN3rJr9m&index=13 

      Back tomorrow as we begin our last ten days!