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The Real McCoys: The Rainmaker (1959)
Very Good Episode
I recently bought the first two seasons of The Real McCoys, and while this series can have some heart at times, it really did its best here.
I really sort of fell in love with the Indian they have in this episode, a forgotten former chief, because I think I have always loved the way Indians are at least portrayed with their speech in Hollywood, often talking of time passing in terms of "how many moons", etc. It's nice to see such color coming out of their culture.
I did know a full-blooded Apache in the fifth grade, but unfortunately his language was just as dull as mine, so he never spoke of how many moons would pass. His father and mother ran a cafe drive-in just outside of that small town, and he was so proud to be an Indian. He definitely was a cool guy.
There's more to this episode than beautiful Indian language (his language is almost entirely english, but he speaks in that special way) and the entire plot hangs on one authentic true Indian word, which I will leave for viewers to see (it's on youtube and worth your while). The episode is called The Rainmaker s2e21. IMO, with maybe a dozen episodes to go with what I have bought of the series, this was the best episode to date for the series.
BrainDead (2016)
Forget Your Brain!
The title I used here is something of a tribute to an old high school acquaintance, as he used to say that phrase a great deal. When we first heard it, we thought he was saying something obscene, as he said it with some speed. Well I think when the ants of this show get to your brain, his advice is well worth taking. Obviously I didn't forget my brain, or I wouldn't had wrote that....or maybe I did. Maybe the space ants made me do it?
I have the dvd set and just started watching and just finished episode three, This show is absolutely brilliANT (see what I did there?). Hmm, maybe I have forgotten my brain?
I think this show loses a little bit of steam for those whom absolutely can't stand politics, The show is ran in a very continual manner, such as we commonly see with soap operas.
One facet of this show, perhaps it's most brilliANT (Are you tiring of me doing that? I am tiring of doing it, but it's the sort of thing that fits right into this show, but I'll stop anyway), is the way it builds up. The politics are all very fast, but just like the ants are slow, new things that come along, also slowly enter in, such as the inclusion of Gustav in this episode. He looks like an absolute center comedy addition, and I love the guy.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, what can I say about her? She's very pretty, in fact I lost a girl a long time ago, whom loved me very much and besides the eye color, she looks just like that girl, even down to the hairstyle and height. But Mary has such beautiful eyes!!!
One of the main things going on, is a certain point you realize EVERYTHING in this series is up for grabs. My goodness, it looks like the ants just got into Gustav's cat! The exchange between the brother and sister get funny at times, and well, there's just so many twists and turns you don't know what will happen next.
One subtle thing I saw most of you might not had caught though. There was a very trivial part with a character called Bob Bob. At first I thought he was Gustav, but Bob Bob isn't listed in IMDB credits. His sole contribution it seems, was to come in as one of Laurel's (MEW) constituents. I understand the joke, that he waits for a long time to see her, and just says the shortest, pointless, basic thing anybody could possibly say. The only thing worse would had been if he came in and just said hello. Paraphrasing now, but he said "I want you to shrink the size of the government.", and leaves. While it was a slightly good joke, it's actually a statement about what will happen in the show. The government will shrink, because some of their heads are exploding. And for the ones controlled by the ants, wouldn't you say the government was shrinking by that means as well (slowly, ever so slowly, becoming something else)?
BTW, the use of the Cars song "You Might think" is quite the pick for the ants song. Watch the music video for that song, and see how much of BrainDead you see in it. And one little hint, This show achieves looking back at retro with a retro song. The Cars video is partly about a number of references about going back into retro. There are other things which I'll leave to you. "You Might Think" or you might forget your brain.
So yes, forget your brain and watch this series. I've never seen anything like this show, and I'm already sad to know it runs only nine more episodes. What, did Gunsmoke force this cancellation too (retro joke)?
The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Gunslinger (1966)
She's No Lady, She's My Wife
Folks, I just saw this episode for the first time, and my mouth is hanging open. Why?
First of all, I pretty much hate this tv series, and before this episode I would give the series a four. I have the whole series on Blu-ray, and I am seeing them all in order (one per day). This series was really torturing me time after time, but it does have bright spots at times, but I think the jokes are often quite dumb, and it's not about comparing it to modern humor. I saw this show as a child, and again in later years, and I never really liked it. Dick Van Dyke campaigning like a commie against the Vietnam War didn't help things any.
But as much pain as going through this series gave me, this one episode made up for it all. This episode is so blasted magnificent, I'm at a loss for words. I'm going to see it again tomorrow, to make sure I caught all the jokes. Laura coming across as a dancehall tramp was just hilarious, plus Richie mistaking his father for his mother, because Rob is wearing a dress, and then continually calling him a sissy. Total, total classic. This is probably the best dream sequence I have ever seen, even more so if you dislike this series as I do. BTW, this series was MUCH better that last half of the last season. They destroyed a lot of things I didn't like (like Buddy non-stop insulting Mel) and the increased inclusion of Carl Reiner made all the difference. Carl saved that show, and it's too bad they didn't discover the humor he could provide until the bitter end like that.
So the first four and one half years, I would give it a four. The last half, not including this episode, I would give a seven, but including it, maybe an eight or nine. But this one episode was easily a twenty by itself. What happened with that writing staff that they pulled off a precious gem like this? I'm awestruck.
The Herculoids (1967)
Once a 10, Now a 5.
I saw this when it was originally broadcast, and until recent weeks, I hadn't seen it again. I loved it as a child, but I almost HATE it now. Why?
I recently bought the whole series on dvd, and watch one show every Saturday, to sort of recreate the environment of long ago. Back then, as I said, I loved this series, but I have come about face on a number of things. First of all, I hated the mindless dolts otherwise known as the NEA types who got this show cancelled, along with the likes of The Fantastic Four, because, everybody, sing along with me now, it was "too violent". Well, the puny bloodless violence that there was, I loved it, but I had no idea back then the absolute monstrosity that beat within this beast.
I started off thinking how terrible it must had been doing the voices to those animal characters, particularly Iggo, and then, rare inspiration that it was, I tried to copy it vocally myself, and did the perfect job, so ridiculous doing that voice must had been. If only that noise wouldn't damage my throat over time, I would walk around grocery stores all the time like that, just to see if anybody would recognize it. But as annoying as hearing mindless screaming from the animals might had been, as we're used to such things from animals after all, there is a ton of it nonetheless. If all those constant different animal calls aren't enough to drive you insane, what else you hear most certainly will.
What really drives you insane is the institution of Mr. Obvious and it comes not surprisingly from the humans. Yes, our little family engages in the art of ridiculously over-stating the obvious at virtually every turn. When Xandro isn't issuing a command, there's a very high percentage of this occurring. For example, a ship will start coming at them, and they will say "It's coming at us", or when the ship disappears, it's soon followed by "it disappeared". Seriously folks, I thought this show was wrote for ten-year-olds, but it's wrote for two-year-olds instead.
As much as I hate the NEA for what they did (I would presume The Fantastic Four wasn't this mind-numbingly stupid) they unintentionally saved America from yet more stupidity by having this show cancelled. I still have like three more shows to go, and I don't know if I can take it. It's obvious, while the show has some good fights, and about zero plot, you will be brought down about triple digits in intelligence watching it; it's just that bad. Your only hope for enjoying this show, is to turn the sound off as you watch it, even though you will miss out on some pretty cool music at times.
And what's with that stupid "house" the human Herculoids always seem to live in? No walls and nothing but a roof and floor (at least it's height offers some protection). Incidentally, it gets destroyed in one episode, but of course it doesn't affect any other episodes. BTW, about five years back, I bought the Jony Quest original series, and wasn't disappointed in the least, as it was everything I remembered it being, and, amazingly, it didn't harbor Mr Obvious very much. It just seemed like ordinary cartoon chatter. So yes, this bad; it's real bad.
Comanche blanco (1968)
So Bad, It's Good
I'm not joking about this friends, but a very weird thing just happened to me in relation to this movie. I was watching a small bit of this on youtube, when I bumped into the segment where our boy Kirk (taking on the comanche persona here) starts chasing a girl in a yellow dress. They tussle quite a bit, and he finally gets her down on the ground on her back and he starts slapping her. And then I said to myself "This is where he gets those three scratches down his cheek". And he didn't. And then I realized, that in Star Trek HAD got himself scratched like that, when then again he played an evil twin Jim Kirk. Hard to believe, that this scene in a totally different movie, would make you think you were seeing another great struggle between Shatner and a girl, and think he would get scratches out of it.
Anyway, this simply has to be Shatner's proudest film credit, so surely it deserved a 10 out of that. lol. This movie is a little bit vague to me for the moment, but I can't help but wonder if Shat ended up with one of his famous flying drop-kicks out of it, because if so, surely you too would rate this movie as a 10, or, at least, Shat's performance was. As well, the music for this film was absolutely perfect (perfectly awful) and as such just makes it just about the so-bad-it's-good aspect so much more noteworthy. Dig that funky music. Simply put, somebody needs to can this music and use it somewhere else, so that it's greatness can be truly realized.
The Twilight Zone: Mute (1963)
A Glimpse into the Handicapped
First of all, the very beginning is bogus from my standpoint, as the pact that is formed, makes the totally unfounded presumption that people originally communicated by telepathy. If those Germans depicted, had any religious background whatsoever, I think they would had remembered the Garden of Eden, and even with very dusty memories of it, know for a fact that the communication going on then was all SPOKEN (even a serpent talking).
In any event, I think it's pretty clear that people were not meant to read minds so to speak, and even with all the superior abilities even demons have in contrast to ordinary human beings, they cannot read minds. Is telepathy still possible though? Perhaps. But if it's actually possible, I think if this episode were anything linked to it's actual execution, it's plain why it's inferior in many respects, simply due to the fact that the mind can be overrun with things it meant not to take in (such as Ilse being overrun with the thoughts of a group of children). To be fair, one can be overcome with too many spoken voices as well, but one can always nullify, if not eliminate too much audible noise. As Hollywood has depicted telepathy, I don't recall there being a way to switch it off, or reduce it, but alas, that's only fantasy.
One thing I found a little silly here, and for people not having to deal with people whom cannot hear, in particular, this aspect for the early going of the episode is a slight bit of plot hole, or call it lack of knowing how to deal with such a subject. That is, they have a very difficult time making themselves understood to her (yet she castes her thoughts to herself perfectly in English, so we can understand her telepathy I suppose, but it does sabotage the notion she doesn't understand English, so some license is used so to speak) yet they never think at any point of WRITING to her. Now if what they think is true, that she was nothing more than a medium, and was otherwise completely unschooled, then it is entirely likely she doesn't understand writing at all, but they didn't even try. I believe the first family that accepts her, and in the end keeps her, had no knowledge of how she was usedl, and only her teacher had a sense Ilse was used as she was - completely uneducated beyond telepathy.
We understand full well, though the German Town residents are ignorant of it, that the original pact was pro-telepathy, and anti-speech, but there wasn't a pact against writing. Naturally, as the original pact members saw things, it's likely they also had hangups, against all forms of communication but telepathy, but it's certainly not stated. They really wanted to focus on telepathy in any case, and you only have to wonder why Ilse's parents would not had also instructed her in writing, if speech is such an awful thing as the pact made rather clear.
It's also clear, as written, that the original pact members had no regard for the future generations aside from anything but telepathy, because, after all, the members already had the ability to read and write, and speak, so why waste time instructing Ilse on such things? Yes, I think this was the intention of the writer, to show how those people were fanatical to the point of not even bothering in the slightest with instructing the young on what they regarded as the inferior ways of communication. This is definitely abuse, because at least how the episode defines it, it seems they cannot contact strangers to telepathy, with being able to hear telepathy, and if so, only to a spotty degree. So you leave a junior high girl completely unable to speak to the outside world, and possibly unable to understand reading and writing? We all need a backup system to communicate, do we not?
Aside from all of that, I thought it was a good episode as it sort of reminds you what a week in the life of Helen Keller might had been like (aside from Isle being sighted, but it scarcely aided her in communication. Yes, I think Ilse could hear, but again, it scarcely seemed to help her very much. If it were possible, you might assume telepathy isn't done in English, but the audience just hears it that way). This episode featured one scene when Ilse was running away, very reminiscent of the previous late season's episode featuring Veronica Cartwright running away on the very same studio lot (even shot from the exact same direction). Definitely one of the more heady episodes anyway.
Generally, any episode that gets you to thinking, is a good episode, even if it doesn't turn out to be one of the very best.
Petrocelli: The Pay Off (1976)
The Same Ol Thing
First of all, let me say this show is pretty bad. You get the same plot points over, and over, and over. Now it's a decent plot, but when it happens virtually every episode, you want to take the advice of this episode and shoot yourself.
I have the two season dvd set sadly, and this was the last episode according to it. And it seems like one, because they took a LOT of notable guest stars for it.
Let me elaborate a bit of the repetition within this series. If you're dumb enough to buy this as I was (it was cheap at least), this is what you can look forward to virtually every episode: 1. The accused murderer will stumble into the murdered in a dark place, and pick up the murder weapon. 2. Somebody else will come along and spot them with the murder weapon in their hand over the body. 3. The accused, which Petro always defends, will lie to Petro, or not tell him everything, and Petro will lecture them about this. 4. Petro will most likely get roughed up, or his wife, or his partner detective. There's always somebody waiting to rough up one of them. 5. Petro will very frequently clarify that his name isn't pronounced p-e-t-r-o-s-e-l-l-i. 6. There are always fantasy scenes in which different people try to describe the same scene from their POV, and this actually is a positive for the series, since you get to see a little actor versatility that way. 7. The prosecution does virtually nothing in court, and I don't think they ever confound Petro in the least, though there are numerous times when Pete the investigator brings in key evidence late. 8. Petro is a reckless driver, or maybe careless is a better word. In the opening theme, he goes a good deal into the opposite lane on a curve around a hill! He also does a great deal of meter dodging in the city, to get around paying tolls. He's such an honest lawyer, don't you know?
The only positives I found in this series were the great performance by otherwise fluffy Elizabeth MacRae, as she's very much out of her usual character here, and her death scene, as imagined by one person, was just roll on the floor variety hilarious. If you haven't known Elizabeth from Gomer Pyle, etc, this probably won't have any impact. The other positive I can find was the imagined scenes people had, as I said earlier, the very thing that brought out a different side of Elizabeth - truly priceless.
It's actually a pretty good series if you happen to see a choice one or two episodes, but you never want to see more than that because you will see the inevitable patterns that show so clearly how they phoned it in real quick.
The Avengers: Epic (1967)
A Man Out of Control
While many may think this is something of a peak for Diana Rigg in this episode, Kenneth J. Warren outshines her.
As the film builds, so does the madness of Schnerk, Warren's character. There are a number of quite witty and weird things going on throughout the episode.
My attention, however, was drawn to the madness of Schnerk at his climax. Watching an episode like this, it's really easy to miss this point. and it wasn't till I saw it twice that I probably picked up on it, and what a gem to miss! Schnerk decides that his Mrs Peel death scene needs music, and boy does he supply it! I suppose this was all acting but if this guy were really playing the piece we were shown, it was brilliant.
The piece for which I speak harkens back to the silent film era, and is something of your classic damsel-in-distress music. To see this guy play the piano, or pretend to play it, is quite amazing to me. Nowhere else will you see such intense vigor go into playing an instrument, as it seems to drive him forward in madness. He is very rough playing it, and even has sweat going down his face it's so intense.
And then as Schnerk is suffering the fatal bullet having hit him, he proclaims "Cut!!!.......Print!" His performance was worthy of the Phantom of the Opera sort of madness. I don't think I'll ever forget that scene, with so much attack in playing the piano. It may had all been fake, but it was great nonetheless.
The Twilight Zone: The Man in the Bottle (1960)
Serling Needed More Work Here
I know Rod Serling may not have much time for many of the episodes, but he definitely needed more here, because there are so many problems with the wishes and their results in this episode.
Mistake Number One: The man granted four wishes, first wish, is to get his display's cracked glass fixed. Man, talk about a small change wish! But I suppose you could say he was just testing the waters and didn't really believe the genie, and therefore he picked the most annoying defect in the shop. Fair enough.
Mistake Number Two: Second wish is to ask for $1,000,000 right on the floor of the shop. Okay, the guy is excited, so this wish is badly considered, but not for the reason we end up getting. The reason it's badly considered, is because of the inevitable problem later, that people will come in trying to kiss backside trying to take it off the chump. But, also, when the neighborhood inevitably hears about it, do you think his place won't be a main target for burglars? To add to that, they speak of immediately going off on a trip.
And now for the stupidity of the consequence of mistake number two. The big fat lie that the IRS steps in and takes 94% of it. Never, never, in a million years does that make any sense, and Serling completely blew credibility in this episode with that. I guess it's supposed to be a joke, right? Well it makes a joke of the episode. They end up finding out they gave out $59,995 dollars to the beggars that wanted probably nothing to do with them before the windfall. So if this were for some looney reason possible at all, wouldn't it make sense to burn all the IRS money rather than give it all to such tyrants? The conclusion is obvious, the couple needs to go back out to all those beggars and at least try to get $20,000 of it back. Serling could have saved the episode by finding the TRUE IRS taxation rate for them, then have it's collection not necessary TILL TAX TIME, and have the couple give MUCH more away than they did, and still come out with the same effect, but he couldn't resist this tired old joke (and yes, it was VERY tired even way back in 1960)?
Mistake Number Three: It starts off with the stupidity of the prior wish, in that the IRS takes a laughable amount of money from them. So many have the impression that money itself is EVIL, so suddenly they think that wishing for money ALLOWING for IRS thievery would be the way to go (plus not be stupid enough to give it away to passerbys the minute you get it), but rabidly decline. Sheesh, back in those days, they might had been able to give out a decent sum to those same people, if only they invested in putting all of it into a bank, and yes, it would accrue interest for some time, and NOT have to be given straight away to the IRS. And at least that way they would be in control of the money, even if they lost 94% come tax time. Imagine the dividend payout on $1,000,000 at 5% annual interest.
Mistake Number Four: This mistake is too obvious, but it again shows the stupidity of the wisher. Come now, it's 1960, would you really want to be ruler of a country, and the other assurances, if it meant going back in time and being stuck there WITHOUT YOUR WIFE? I thought the wishes were supposed to include her in them. But in any event, it doesn't change the dilemma he put himself in, and therefore the wife would had changed into Eva Braun and gone back too, to get around the lameness of him going alone. Now while I'll admit going back in time permanently could find some advantage, it's a deliberate twist on the genie's part to put every single power seeker there, as he probably would, assuming, like the wisher here, you don't put lots of conditions on it. Well at least the wife thought that ruling a country isn't so hot if you can be ousted, etc.
Overall, I think the moral of the story is, to be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Serling did a fairly poor job here as can be seen, but it was entertaining anyway. The immediate IRS taxation, and the amount of it, were just unforgivable though.
Thriller: K Is for Killing (1974)
We're Needed Mrs Gale
I am surprised nobody seems to have noticed this for reviewing this episode, but allow me. I bought the Complete Thriller Collection recently, and should they have the episodes in order, that is how I've been watching them. Also, this is the very first time I have seen this series, and after seeing quite a lot of episodes in this set, I bumped into this one, and frankly it is a delight.
Brain Clemons enjoyed the most writing credits for the tv show The Avengers, and it's obvious, overly so, that Brain was having another go at that series with this episode. I can only wonder if he did this sort of trick with any further episodes from the rest of this series.
Look at the parallels. You have a very witty husband/wife team of detectives, with quite a lot of wit from guest players as well, and, as is typical in The Avengers series, clever, all so very clever. This team of Avengers, if you will, I find quite pleasing, though it doesn't quite have the edge of the avengers series, and it does lose something of that edge in being live action.
Yes, the episode even has a character named "Mrs. Gale", the name of the first Avengers girl. Knowing how quickly in this episode I had come to recognizing what Clemons was doing here, I am a bit surprised he didn't use the names of the other avengers girls somewhere else in it, but Gale is sufficient enough to get the point across.
I'm not sure if the female lead here was supposed to be Mrs Peel or Mrs Gale, but she gets stranded with the burrowed Jaguar when the Mr Steed equivalent ends up taking a motor scooter help from a passer-by. Perhaps it's best we think of the wife of this sort of Mr Steed figure (not the least bit like him BTW) as a Mrs Steed? But as he tells her that surely somebody else will be by pretty soon she is left to her own devices. I found it quite funny that for the first motorist whom happens by, Mrs Steed raises her skirt and shows some leg, which is very, very avenger-esque. I definitely enjoy a bit of avenger's flavor to a Clemons story, especially since I had no idea it was coming.
This episode was between the Avengers and The New Avengers. I do not know if The New Avengers followed the sort of scheme to it's series or not, as I haven't seen it, but it does show Brain Clemons, and others, certainly didn't give up on the basic scheme of The Avengers series even during the long absence between the two series. I never would had thought I could see a completely different set of actors doing the avengers role and it come off quite so well. They were quite playful and every much as believable as Steed and Peel, or Steed and King (Steed and Gale were really more into being serious).
Peter Gunn: Than a Serpent's Tooth (1961)
Pamela Excels
Pamela Britton perhaps did her best acting on this episode. Not to give anything away, but there is something of a shock ending which makes this episode a bit profound, especially considering the toil Pamela's character goes through to avoid this shock occurring. Great singing by Pam, and also a believable crying scene by her. Pam, at times, did show equal versatility even within the My Favorite Martian series, particularly where her character takes on the task of having Uncle Martin inside her brain. I really enjoy this episode.
Death Valley Days: There Was Another Dalton Brother (1964)
Doing Your Duty
This is a fairly predictable episode, but it has a good feel to it. It's slow as well, and there's not even a single shot fired. In other words, this is a story which is probably a lot more like life in the Old West was like, rather than guns blazing all the time, with Indians around every corner, etc.
In the end, the hero doesn't get the girl, because to be a hero, he couldn't get the girl, since she wanted nothing to do with her father getting blamed for the murder he committed. So the hero rides off, transferred to another location at his request, and waves goodbye to a couple of people, while the girl loses her father to the justice system. The hero was wise enough to know that he had lost his girl, and as she tended to interfere with his job before, you can only imagine how she would had got worse with her father blamed.
The emphasis on this episode was on this new deputy sheriff using his brain, and he did that in both the method to catch the murderer and also in leaving the girl forever.
I rather liked the episode though it was fairly dull, and really, as odd as it sounds, that's all the more reason I found it appealing. At least it was one Old West episode that wasn't looking for sensation with everyone solving their problems with gunplay, as interesting as shoot 'em ups can be at times.
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Invasion of Charcoal?
This movie has MONSTER in the title, yet there is no such thing. If you consider charcoal that grows, gives up and falls down, which brings more charcoal, which does the same thing, a monster, then you find watching grass grow as pretty monstrous.
Since there's so much charcoal about, people end up touching it and just like when there's too much garbage around, the inevitable is that some people will get sick and die. The movie is no more exciting than that. Well, at least growing grass can't kill you. Bar-B-Que anyone? BTW, just like with real charcoal, you kill it by depriving it of water. My, my, my. I at least expect a stupid rubber suit with these B-movies which have the word MONSTERS in them, but not here. The charcoal don't raise their arms and walk slowly towards you (they fall slowly in all directions), they don't let out blood curdling yells (they don't even whisper), they don't have blood on the face (if they had a face), and you will never see them in a Monster Mash movie.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
Entering Into a Time Warp
While I loved the Charlie Brown Christmas, I must say I always liked the Great Pumpkin one more. Where else could you get Snoopy really fighting hard in his Sopwith Camel? I also enjoyed the Santa Claus/Great Pumpkin/God angle to Linus, being the character which once more displays his devotion to a superior being, though misguided in this case. He knows there's something greater out there and he reaches for it.
I also enjoy all the Halloween artwork within the episode, and as I saw this for the first times, parts of it actually scared me a bit in the old days.
The thing I enjoy the most about it though, is a spin I have put on it and this is where my time warp heading comes in. There are a few references not only to Linus having done this in years past, but also Linus is promising to do it again, as the Great Pumpkin devotee. So to me, this is the most poignant example I can think of as a Flying Dutchman episode, without it being made to put such a point across. I like to see it as Linus and company having to relive this day every year. The rest of the year some of the other Charlie Brown specials would apply to their lives of course, but between all of those, they live ordinary lives as kids, with something different always going on. They never age, but this special they must always relive in particular, because Linus keeps making the yearly fool of himself.
BTW, the idea that at least three houses carried rocks in their house and had it available to any kids they didn't like is pretty lame. As well, the Charlie Brown kicking Lucy's football is always kind of weird, because despite how much Chuck isn't liked, you would think he could at least get Linus to hold a ball for him, and yet Lucy and him behave as though he will never be able to kick a ball because she will always yank it away. In a sense, the football antics could be another thing that are caught in The Flying Dutchman aspect to Peanuts, as Chuck never gets anybody else to hold it and he never learns much from it.
So next year, I will once more watch The Great Pumpkin episode, fully expecting them to be still fully caught in their time warp.