Post by niecie on Jul 19, 2013 17:15:31 GMT -5
Carson City! All this time, I thought it was Denver.
Someone (I can't remember who) once made the point that there are handholds in the brick wall for the acrobat to use. I wonder did they have that building built for the episode, or if it was an existing building on the backlot, or if that was an actual building somewhere else?
In the printing room, the small machine toward the left that one guy is turning a screw on top of looks like a cutting machine. They seem to have a lot of type-setting tables around too, and at least two actual printing presses.
Jim seriously doesn't see that guy in black lurking in the corner of the ceiling?
While that's a pretty intense fight scene with the guy locking his legs around Jim like that, it's also kind of funny, the guy hanging off Jim's back as Jim staggers around the room trying to slam him into things and knock him off.
Stephen Foster music alert: Beautiful Dreamer.
What are all those trapeze things hanging from in the open air anyway?
Man, the chain on that little baby elephant is really short, and where are its food and water? Poor baby!
Does anyone else think that umbrella girl is totally annoying? Especially the way she laughs after she leads Jim into the trap that throws him into the water with the gator (croc?). Idiot woman! That is absolutely not funny!
And why did the circus even have a couple of gators out there anyway? It was supposed to be a reproduction of the African veldt -- wow, they built it fast if the circus parade just took place! All those mature palm trees and banana trees in Carson City?
So Jim crawls out of the water from battling the deadly rubber gator, and the tiger takes a swipe at him. To me, it looks like the tiger took a real swipe at Robert Conrad, and Bob doesn't look too happy about it!
What an interrogation technique Jim has! And in the midst of all the nuzzling, the woman is still calling him Mr West!
How do the circus people not notice that there's a brand new clown in their midst?
The skin thing is so weird and one of my favorite things in the episode. But how is it Mr Animal-Lover happened to have fresh exotic animal skins lying around anyway?
Janet wants to stay, but then she only looks at Jim for a few seconds, then takes the tiger and leaves.
Artie just has to make a pun.
That stunt of Jim wiggling off the side is really something. How could he be sure he wouldn't whack his head on the ground? And then how did he get his feet undone?
Ok, one thing about the plates. There are three of them. Artie takes them from the press and hands them over to Jim. But there must be other plates as well, because money is printed front and back. It couldn't be one front and two backs or one back and two fronts, because then they'd have one bill per page printed with either a back on each side or a front on each side. So it either doesn't make sense, or there are three more plates somewhere for printing the other side.
Also, when Our Heroes first enter the tent and the minions are printing the paper, the guy putting a fresh sheet in does so very sloppily -- that sheet is going to be hard to match up for printing the other side.
Overthinking -- one of my specialties.
That big meanie! He shot the pretty tiger!
Ok, Jim learned from the first fight and figured out how to break the guy's hold around him. The guy with the arrows, for all he's this big game hunter, is not very good at anticipating what will be in the path of his arrow once it reaches the target.
Exciting fight between Jim and the Big Bad, even though (so I've been told) kicks while in midair really aren't effective. And the Big Bad meets his end by means of the other gator.
And then Jim and Corinne return to the circus to find everyone has decamped. How did they know to flee? Only the two prisoners in the cage are left -- well, and the animals. There's that poor baby elephant still short-chained to the ground without food and water!
Frankly, I find this instance of Artie's style of flirting cringe-worthy in the extreme. Why would he think those lines would ever ever work?? And does anyone agree with me that the main reason the woman wants Jim to let her out of the cage is so she can get away from Artie's lame talk???
I love Artie's reaction shot when Jim says he came back for his clothes -- what, Artie didn't notice Jim wasn't wearing his usual outfit?
Oh, and how did Artie know those names of the African food dishes, and why did he start spouting them off?
Yeah, basically I think this tag has some really silly writing, one non-sequitur after another. It's also a favorite, even though I usually am sitting here telling Artie "Shut up, shut up, shut up!"
Jim locks Artie in! And his smirk when he replies to Artie's "Jim, you've locked me in!" with, "That's right, Artemus." Funny, but makes me wants to give Jim a smack. (And yes, I wanted to give Artie a smack for his lame pick-up lines moments earlier too.)
But now comes the reason this tag is my favorite. Artie snitches a hair pin from the tiger lady and tells a silly story as he picks the lock. And when the tiger lady asks him in outrage why he didn't think of that two hours ago (really? they've been in the cage that long while the Big Bad was hunting Jim?), Artie just grins and says, "I did!"
And then he offers an arm to each of the two ladies and strolls off with them, for the one and only time making off with both girls and leaving Jim with none. *snerk* (That's my Uncle Artie!)
Someone (I can't remember who) once made the point that there are handholds in the brick wall for the acrobat to use. I wonder did they have that building built for the episode, or if it was an existing building on the backlot, or if that was an actual building somewhere else?
In the printing room, the small machine toward the left that one guy is turning a screw on top of looks like a cutting machine. They seem to have a lot of type-setting tables around too, and at least two actual printing presses.
Jim seriously doesn't see that guy in black lurking in the corner of the ceiling?
While that's a pretty intense fight scene with the guy locking his legs around Jim like that, it's also kind of funny, the guy hanging off Jim's back as Jim staggers around the room trying to slam him into things and knock him off.
Stephen Foster music alert: Beautiful Dreamer.
What are all those trapeze things hanging from in the open air anyway?
Man, the chain on that little baby elephant is really short, and where are its food and water? Poor baby!
Does anyone else think that umbrella girl is totally annoying? Especially the way she laughs after she leads Jim into the trap that throws him into the water with the gator (croc?). Idiot woman! That is absolutely not funny!
And why did the circus even have a couple of gators out there anyway? It was supposed to be a reproduction of the African veldt -- wow, they built it fast if the circus parade just took place! All those mature palm trees and banana trees in Carson City?
So Jim crawls out of the water from battling the deadly rubber gator, and the tiger takes a swipe at him. To me, it looks like the tiger took a real swipe at Robert Conrad, and Bob doesn't look too happy about it!
What an interrogation technique Jim has! And in the midst of all the nuzzling, the woman is still calling him Mr West!
How do the circus people not notice that there's a brand new clown in their midst?
The skin thing is so weird and one of my favorite things in the episode. But how is it Mr Animal-Lover happened to have fresh exotic animal skins lying around anyway?
Janet wants to stay, but then she only looks at Jim for a few seconds, then takes the tiger and leaves.
Artie just has to make a pun.
That stunt of Jim wiggling off the side is really something. How could he be sure he wouldn't whack his head on the ground? And then how did he get his feet undone?
Ok, one thing about the plates. There are three of them. Artie takes them from the press and hands them over to Jim. But there must be other plates as well, because money is printed front and back. It couldn't be one front and two backs or one back and two fronts, because then they'd have one bill per page printed with either a back on each side or a front on each side. So it either doesn't make sense, or there are three more plates somewhere for printing the other side.
Also, when Our Heroes first enter the tent and the minions are printing the paper, the guy putting a fresh sheet in does so very sloppily -- that sheet is going to be hard to match up for printing the other side.
Overthinking -- one of my specialties.
That big meanie! He shot the pretty tiger!
Ok, Jim learned from the first fight and figured out how to break the guy's hold around him. The guy with the arrows, for all he's this big game hunter, is not very good at anticipating what will be in the path of his arrow once it reaches the target.
Exciting fight between Jim and the Big Bad, even though (so I've been told) kicks while in midair really aren't effective. And the Big Bad meets his end by means of the other gator.
And then Jim and Corinne return to the circus to find everyone has decamped. How did they know to flee? Only the two prisoners in the cage are left -- well, and the animals. There's that poor baby elephant still short-chained to the ground without food and water!
Frankly, I find this instance of Artie's style of flirting cringe-worthy in the extreme. Why would he think those lines would ever ever work?? And does anyone agree with me that the main reason the woman wants Jim to let her out of the cage is so she can get away from Artie's lame talk???
I love Artie's reaction shot when Jim says he came back for his clothes -- what, Artie didn't notice Jim wasn't wearing his usual outfit?
Oh, and how did Artie know those names of the African food dishes, and why did he start spouting them off?
Yeah, basically I think this tag has some really silly writing, one non-sequitur after another. It's also a favorite, even though I usually am sitting here telling Artie "Shut up, shut up, shut up!"
Jim locks Artie in! And his smirk when he replies to Artie's "Jim, you've locked me in!" with, "That's right, Artemus." Funny, but makes me wants to give Jim a smack. (And yes, I wanted to give Artie a smack for his lame pick-up lines moments earlier too.)
But now comes the reason this tag is my favorite. Artie snitches a hair pin from the tiger lady and tells a silly story as he picks the lock. And when the tiger lady asks him in outrage why he didn't think of that two hours ago (really? they've been in the cage that long while the Big Bad was hunting Jim?), Artie just grins and says, "I did!"
And then he offers an arm to each of the two ladies and strolls off with them, for the one and only time making off with both girls and leaving Jim with none. *snerk* (That's my Uncle Artie!)