That's a great clip! I stumbled across it a couple of weeks ago.
Jim C. | 03.07.07 - 2:25 am | #

and thanks for the "no drinking" alert
uncle jim | 03.07.07 - 7:12 am | #

You think those squares are hip? Check this one!
Robert N G | Homepage | 03.07.07 - 9:50 am | #

i can just imagine all the hours and evenings you spent with your grandparents watching these on the television ... what a delight
uncle jim | 03.07.07 - 11:32 am | #

I guess I never considered Karloff square. By my youth, he was an icon, and we wouldn't have a symbol of Halloween or the Grinch without him.
Dave G. | 03.07.07 - 2:11 pm | #

And without Boris Karloff there would be no one to inspire Monster Mash!
NeilC | 03.07.07 - 3:42 pm | #

now THAT is entertainment.
Mister Snitch! | Homepage | 03.07.07 - 6:30 pm | #

You're missing an "h" in "href" in the link to your story about the Diamonds.
TeeEll | 03.07.07 - 7:14 pm | #

What? I dont get it. Why is this funny?
mike | 03.07.07 - 9:24 pm | #

mike, in order to understand the humor, you have to understand that in the 1950's the character of Karloff stood as a metaphor for the great angst ripping the generation of the Great Depression and World War II. The inevitable intergenerational conflicts, not to mention the social disparity represented by Art Carney who was, of course, the downtrodden sub-surface lackey of the powerful sewer interests, contrasted sharply with the Chevrolet, the very symbol of post-war decadence. Dialectically, this is as brilliant an evisceration of that lost generation as anything from the pen of the beats. It had me ROTFLMAO.

And then I cried.
Robert N G | Homepage | 03.07.07 - 9:43 pm | #

Robert N G, YOU have me ROFLM[deleted]O.

Fixed the link, TeeEll -- thanks.
Dawn Eden | Homepage | 03.07.07 - 11:06 pm | #

Too much fun! But was one of those "ghouls" Ruth Buzzi?
Terry Pair | 03.08.07 - 5:32 am | #

Too much fun! But was one of those "ghouls" Ruth Buzzi?
Terry Pair

Nope. The late great Betty Hutton.
Ridcully | 03.19.07 - 3:40 am | #