Grim And Funny...
"The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" is a great cartoon, featured on The Cartoon Network. The show is about two crazy kids (Billy and Mandy) who befriend Death itself, and by befriend, I mean basically enslave "him". The two accomplished this by winning a limbo contest against the dark messenger and have been getting into a great deal of trouble with "him" ever since. (Just the usual shenanigans, I suppose...) Anyway, the Cartoon Network has some great games featuring Grim, Billy and Mandy which can be checked out here: Grimmy
"The Fright Before Christmas" is quite the seasonal good old "clean fun" type of thing... know what I mean? So, do check it out...
That is... if you've got time... to kill?
Or better yet... if you're dying to kill some time? ;)
Bwah-ha-ha - morbid pun alert!
But anyway...
Verily, the current trend on TV -since 9/11, is it- has TV shows experiencing a morbid fascination with death - and it has evidently not spared kids' fare either! Such shows as Dead Like Me, Six Feet Under and Terminal City are but the tip of the iceberg... References to the afterlife abound - ghosts are recurring characters on many a show - and the starting point of many series -such as Weeds for example- is the death of a pivotal character (a surprise plot twist that has lost its novelty for quite some time now... but is still being used. Look at the CSI franchise going... hmm?). Such a fascination with passing away now... sheesh! Still... Why not indeed - hmm? Death is an integral part of life, after all... We all know that! It's like the opposite sex - we can't live with it - but we can't live without it either! ;)
posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ @ 3:59 AM
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The first such show that I recall, of course, was The Ghost And Mrs. Muir - with wonderful lady Hope Lange and... hmm... momentary memory lapse here when it comes to the name of the actor who portrayed the Ghost... aka the Captain! As a kid, the imaginative little one that I was had not a doubt in his mind that this ghostly Captain and Captain High Liner were indeed one and the same...!
But I digress...
I was saddened to learn that Hope Lange was no more... on this earth, anyways.
I was shocked to learn that she had passed away and moved on YEARS AGO... meaning that I was completely oblivious to it when it happened.
She was such a classy lady.
Judi Dench and Laura Bush rolled into one...
She is a classy lady... in a better place now!
The Captain was played by Edward Mulhare - of course (I knew that the last name was something close to Muir... and that the first name was surely Edward).
He was an essential part of Knight Rider also...
And hosted shows focusing on the paranormal as well...
All in all, his career followed a similar pattern to those of Patrick MacNee (The Avengers), David McCallum (Man From U.N.C.L.E.) and Diana Rigg (the REAL Emma Peel of The Avengers - and the only one... ever!) ~~~ all of whom I have always liked, of course!
All of whom still live... I am pretty sure...!
Alas, Mr. Mulhare also is no longer with us...
He died back in 1997 - and was working to the last. Appearing on TV fare AND in what was to be the last film for the legendary duo of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon - Out To Sea
"Often compared to Rex Harrison, Mulhare had his two greatest US successes inheriting roles that Harrison created. On Broadway, Mulhare succeeded Harrison as Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" when the latter joined the London company, playing the part for most of the play's remaining Broadway run. On television, Mulhare played the role of the ghost of Captain Daniel Gregg in the TV version of "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", a role Harrison had created two decades earlier in the film version."
No one has nor can replace these giants...
No one.
Our loss - and the afterlife's gain!
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