Monster of the Day #1179

Updated on July 13, 2015 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

OK, my Internet is actually working now (I know…) so I’m going to try to schedule all of this week’s MotD to post. We’ll see if it works.

I couldn’t find five posts for my chosen theme, so this introduces things sideways.

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  • Flangepart

    Frankie…and maybe the rest of the classic monsters…or is it toon monsters? Only the Ken knows for sure!

  • Gamera977

    Is the Monster holding a Pez dispenser of himself?

    I’ll keep my fingers crossed you connection holds up Ken.

  • bgbear_rnh

    I see soap bubbles so, I assume a Mr. Bubbles type products. You know, for kids.

  • CaptNemo

    Since Mr. Magoo was the only audience member to declare Terminator Genisys a success, Arnold Schwarzenegger himself came over to sell him some of the film’s merchandise. And even Magoo thought he aged badly.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Bubbles also imply another condition, so I’m assuming a cocktail shaker.

  • Gamera977

    Lol, ok I’ll go with Mr. Bubbles too!

  • bgbear_rnh

    Hope I don’t give away the theme but, Soaky bubble bath is the brand that had Mr. Magoo.

  • Rock Baker

    Cool!

  • Eric Hinkle

    Given his unique eyesight problems, Magoo would have made a perfect neighbor for the Munsters.

    And does anyone else remember that rather odd series in which Magoo portrayed characters from various classic works of literature? I remember he was Dr. Frankenstein in one, and Gunga Din among other characters in others. Really shocked me at the time as a little kid, given that Magoo’s characters actually died in more than one of those cartoons! You didn’t see a lot of on-screen death in 60’s and 70’s TV cartoons.

  • Rodford Smith

    The first was the one-shot _Mr. Magoo’s A Christmas Carol_ (the first animated holiday special). That was so successful there was a series of such TV movies. He did _Frankenstein_ and several others. There were also some regular animated movies, like the Magoo _Aladdin_ (in which he played Aladdin’s uncle, IIRC).

    Lots of potential monsters in those; even _A Christmas Carol_ had ghosts.

    The presumption was that these were done as plays before a live audience. Magoo would “meet” the viewers in his dressing room to talk about the story and tell a few jokes, then they’d have the play, then there would be a closing scene back with Magoo in his dressing room.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thanks, Mister Smith. I remember _Magoo’s Christmas Carol_ , especially the song by the maid, laundress, and the undertaker; it was the first time I’d ever seen that story, and it inspired me to track down the original tale and read it.

    And I still loved the well-done tragedy of the stories/’plays’ about Cyrano de Bergerac, Frankenstein, and Gunga Din. The latter in particular did a better job of displaying the wrongness of racism while keeping said racists _human_ than almost any other film on the subject I’ve ever seen.