| Re: Scooby Doo Meets the Marx Bros. |
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Group: alt.comedy.marx-bros · Group Profile
Author: PaigePaige Date: Jan 4, 2007 10:48
Captain Ozone wrote:
> MIne eyes have seen the glory of these words from *Paige*:
>
>> bob wrote:
>>> Hi all Marx fans!
>>> Happy New Year Paige!
>>> The Marx cartoon thing got me thinking. Remember back in the early
>>> 1970's when Scooby Doo was meeting everyone that was "hip" & popular in
>>> films and TV at the moment (even if they were dead it didn't matter)
>>> like Laurel & Hardy, the 3 Stooges, Dick Van Dyke, Mama Cass, etc. Well
>>> the Marx Bros. were super popular in the early 1970's after the counter
>>> culture of the late 1960's had tuned in and turned on to them as Timothy
>>> Leary would have put it. So why didn't Scooby Doo end up meeting the Marxes?
>>> That would have been kinda funny if it had been done right. Groucho
>>> wouldn't have cared about any ghost hunt but rather would have been
>>> hitting on Daffney every other second. Harpo would have stolen Scooby's
>>> snack before they ever reached his mouth. Chico would have been trying
>>> to sell Scooby out from under the kids to some carnival owner claiming
>>> he's the world's only talking dog.
>>> Well, I'll let you all add some of your thoughts to this one!
>>> Doug E. Dug
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>> Happy New Year to you, too, Doug!
>> Har...I'm thinking of a haunted house (the kind the kids always manage
>> to find their way into). They discover that Groucho, a mad scientist,
>> is in the laboratory in the basement and Chico is his dim-witted
>> assistant. They have strapped Scooby and Harpo onto tables with wires
>> and gadgets everywhere. Groucho pulls a lever that switches their
>> brains so that Scooby behaves like Harpo and vice versa. Scooby starts
>> chasing Daphne and honking his horn, while Harpo begs Shaggy for a
>> Scooby snack. Of course in the end, the kids rip off Groucho's mask and
>> discover that he's actually Maurice Chevalier.
>>
>> Paige
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> Dearest Paige - who serves to further endear herself to me with her wit (so much
> so, I want to marry her and bear her children) - thank you for the LOL
>
> Would you at least come away with me and lodge with my fleas in the hills, er,
> uh, flee to my lodge in the hills?
>
> --
> The *Original* Captain Ozone
>
> ...and I approved this message.
Oh, Professor! You're full of whimsy!
Thank you, Captain. I'm very flattered; you've made my day.
Paige
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