thb@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie) (04/19/85)
Since were talking about obscure cartoons... I remember, back in the early 70's, we used to get up around 7 or 7:30 AM to watch a very strange cartoon. I don't remember much, except that: 1) It was in the form of a comedy/variety show, with canned laughter. 2) Two of the characters I remember were a fat man and a snake, both of which wore bowler hats. 3) A segment where, every time someone told a bad joke, they would switch to a guy slapping his knee, saying "HA HA HA! That's a kneeslapper!" After this, they would zoom in on his knee, which had a little face on it, and the face would say, each time, "If he does that once more, I'm going to get ANGRY!" Eventually, after the last bad joke of the show was told, the knee would say "That's it!" and they would show pictures of all kinds of disasters, with the disaster-type written underneath, and the announcer saying it dramatically (i.e. "TIDAL WAVE! FIRE! EARTHQUAKE!"... etc.). Anybody remember a wierd cartoon like this before? - Tim Bessie