Held on my forty-second birthday, February 7, 2010.

Here’s the line-up (I think) in chronological order:

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1981 BBC Series (from start through Vogon announcement) – In honor of my new age.

Zip -A-Dee-Doo-Dah segment from Song of the South (1946).  I remember seeing it in the theatre as a little kid and finding it sad.

Web Soup episode airing November 10, 2009.  I was mistaken in thinking this was the episode featuring the Slow Loris and “I’m Fat and Nobody Likes Me” but it wasn’t.  Nobody minded!  I heart Chris Hardwicke.

Match Game ‘77 – I don’t have episode info, but it’s the one where the stupid contestant doesn’t get why the Indian fakir said, “my snake is not moving, but my blank is rising!”  Even though Gene and Betty White tried to act it out for her.  Oh Dickie Dawson, how I adored you on Match Game, Hogan’s Heroes, and Family Feud.  I don’t care if you were drunk and fresh.

MGM cartoon: The Blue Danube (1939).  Delightful.  I watched it twice before realizing the blue fairy (presumably not the same one who chided little rabbit foo-foo) is naked.

Cartoon Planet episode (1995?) from More Extras on The Brak Show DVD.  Ree ree ree ree ree!  Damn, I wish I could do Brak’s voice.

Two segments from Love American Style Season Two, Episode 19, original air date January 30, 1970: Love and the Nervous Executive, featuring my favorite Paul Lynde playing a guy so distracted by his (female) secretary’s beauty that, despite her super-efficiency, he can’t get any work done.  And Love and the Hitchhiker, in which Bob Denver plays the mainstream character for a change.

From Cartune Xprez 2006, #1 Slow Dance Recyttal (sic) by Peter Burr, Christopher Doulgeris and Cassandra Jones.  Trrrrripy!

Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon (1950).  One of my all-time favorites.  Mooooon!

From Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle:  The Order (2002).  Riveting, although the molten vaseline was pretty gross.

Psychomania (1973).  This was one of those movies I watched on tv as a kid when I was too young to fully get it, but its creepiness stayed with me.  Now, it’s no so much creepy as hilariously bad.  I love that the guys in the gang’s names are Hinky, Gash, Chopped Meat, Hatchet, and Bertram.

Did I forget anything?

Thanks, everybody who came and celebrated with me!

Next time (probably next month) will include an episode of The Richard Pryor Show, segments from Electric Edwardians, and  Shaun the Sheep.

In Bell, Book & Candle (1958), the gentleman “from the Paris Chapter” who sings in French at The Zodiac Club is played by Phillippe Clay.  Surprisingly, he also appears in another of my favorite movies, Tuvalu (1999).  The song in BB&C is called “The Bored Assassin.”  Anyone know the lyrics?

Not surprisingly, Monsieur Clay had a history in mime.  There was an article in The Columbus Dispatch a few months ago about the decline of mime as an art form.  I don’t think of myself as a mime fan, but Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon (1950) is one of my all-time favorite films.

I love when BB&C shows Pyewacket’s pov!  And Gillian’s red velvet dress.  Too bad they slapped the make up on Jimmy Stewart with a trowel.  He was only fifty!