My Little Fucking Pony

We probably have a detail wrong, but as we recall it, we were at the babysitter’s after school one afternoon, when her teenage daughter suddenly jumped from the couch:

“Did you hear that?! They just bleeped Merv Griffin!”

At this late date, we should explain that Merv Griffin had an afternoon talk show, featuring trumpeter Jack Sheldon, whose popular claim to fame is singing “I’m just a bill.” We should also explain that in the 1960s, bleeping was extremely rare — this was only a few years after Jack Paar walked off the Tonight Show because NBC censored a “water closet” joke.

So that’s our historical baseline: Bleeping is naughty. Bleeping is so naughty, it’s good for shits & giggles by its very nature. And to our arcane taste, the Daily Show and South Park are more amusing when they’re bleeped — and more interesting on those special occasions when they’re not.

As proof of concept, we present scenes from an execrable cartoon that’s suddenly hilarious when just a smidgen of audio spice is added.

[via Know Your Meme]

nojo
7:00 am • Saturday • September 3, 2011
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9 Comments

Dave H

9:45 am • Saturday • September 3, 2011

Sorry, not even bleeping My Little Pony cartoons makes them watchable for a whole minute. Wasn’t this from about the time the toy companies decided that instead of inserting commercials into unrelated cartoons they could televise extremely cheap half hour animated infomercials for their products every Saturday morning?

We’re enjoying our third consecutive September day of 100 degree temperatures. That happened here exactly one time during the entire 20’th century. We hadn’t experienced a single day of 100 degree temperatures in September for over 50 years. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Dodgerblue

10:05 am • Saturday • September 3, 2011

Don’t think of Jack Sheldon as a clown — the man could play. Merv’s band had a lot of great musicians in it, including Joe Pass , Jake Hannah, Bill Watrous and Benny Powell.

ManchuCandidate

1:01 pm • Saturday • September 3, 2011

Arrested Development. That is all.

JNOV

1:37 pm • Saturday • September 3, 2011

My kid and his friends love this ::bleep::.

nojo

2:26 pm • Saturday • September 3, 2011

@Dodgerblue: Sheldon’s featured in the band for Benny Goodman’s 1978 anniversary Carnegie Hall concert. Very much a laid-back West Coast player and singer.

2:56 pm • Saturday • September 3, 2011

@nojo: I saw him front a big band a year or so before he died. Lots of jokes, then he blew the room away when he took his solos.

FlyingChainSaw

3:07 pm • Saturday • September 3, 2011

And let’s not forget the class *Run, Buddy, Run*

3:54 pm • Saturday • September 3, 2011

Bruins down 7-0 after the first Houston drive. Hey Coach Rick, time to polish your resume, dude.

Benedick

6:29 pm • Saturday • September 3, 2011

Merv Griffin = Mike Lee

Trashtastic unicorns of doom.