Post by niecie on Jan 15, 2016 14:56:49 GMT -5
I know precious little about horses and the tack you put on them (no, really?), so I have no idea what those things are on Jim's horse - he doesn't always use them - but he has them here. They cover his feet in the stirrups and make his legs look longer. Not sure if that's the whole idea, to make his legs look longer, but they do. If anyone who does know what they are would like to tell me more about them, feel free!
Y'know, I'm wondering now if this is the same set as the one in Poisonous Posey. It has a similar, sound stage look to it.
Jim arrives leading a wagon with lots of soldiers and no Artie.
The fellow that's locking up who tells Jim where to look for Ben Victor looks mighty familiar to me. I'm pretty sure he was in at least one other WWW, but I don't know where. (Ah! Checking the cast list, I find the name Pitt Herbert, and checking the cast members of all episodes, I find the same actor in Deadly Blossom as the man who lectures Jim & Artie about the Hawaiian Islands. Bingo!)
I get the feeling 'Glory Hole' is some sort of pun, but not one I understand.
The bouncer/bartender pitching the drunken bum out the saloon door just before Jim enters is Bob Herron, Ross' usual stunt double.
Ben Victor is played by William Windom, one of my favorites. I love the writing here, the banter between Victor and Jim, the description of 'the federal jut of the jaw' - this is priceless stuff! And the way Victor offers Jim a chair by shoving it out from the table a bit using his foot - I eat up details like this! Great stuff!
(Also I believe Jim is standing at parade rest?)
I am a wee bit surprised that Victor just leaves the solitaire game spread out over the table; my impulse would have been to scrape the cards together, square 'em, and stick the deck in my pocket.
And in through the door comes one of the stock characters of WWW: a street preacher who turns out to be a villainous mastermind! Not Ford Rainey's only appearance on Our Favorite Show; he was also Pa Garrison in Iron Fist, as well as Admiral Hammond in Kraken (which, curiously enough, features another street preacher/villainous mastermind - that one played by Ted Knight). Rainey's version is very broadly played, with long drawn-out vowels in all his pronouncements.
I love the chorus of groans that greets Hellfire's entrance!
(Considering what comes later, Hellfire's preaching against the 'foul waters of the river Styx' aka booze is rather hypocritical.)
Ok, I can understand the barkeep and the others taking action once Hellfire starts breaking things. But I'm still glad that Jim comes to his rescue.
Now, everyone but that one dude had the good sense to abandon the table and move their chairs and themselves out of the way of the barfight. What's his excuse?
What a fine little barfight it was! And just as Jim finishes off the last man standing, that's when the weird stuff begins, with a whrrrrrr.
That clears the saloon when the fighting didn't.
I snicker on the 'Great Balls of Fire' line - because of course the UFO is in fact supposed to be a great ball of fire. Not that the special effect really looks it. (I suppose they projected the pink blob onto the stage backdrop?)
Well, Hellfire is Johnny-on-the-spot to take advantage of the UFO to spout more hellfire preaching!
I get a kick out of the title Flying Pie Plate - because of course the more usual term is 'flying saucer.' The one here is pretty and pink and steampunkish. If it had landed with such a huge explosion though, shouldn't it be a bit scorched? Maybe even broken to pieces?
(I'm wondering how the lighting effects were supposed to be done. I know how they were actually done, but how were they supposed to happen in the story?)
How come when the voice tells Jim to halt, Victor and everyone else inches up behind Jim? If the voice told him not to get closer, wouldn't everyone else assume that applied to them too?
Oh, here comes Hellfire - along with one of the cheesiest special effects ever! (At least this one fits though, as we learn later on.) Um - but before the painfully visible rubber strings pull Hellfire backwards, he turns in a complete circle while denouncing the crowd. Should have tangled up his strings!
By the way, the voice repeats to Hellfire the same thing it said to Jim, with the exact same tone of voice and same pauses between words. So it's evidently supposed to be a recording.
(And as soon as the strings are no longer necessary, they're no longer there.)
Oh, speaking of strings, look above the corners of the door as it opens. Yep, more strings!
'Flamin' fishes!' Ok, that's a new one on me!
I kind of wonder why the green-skinned girl has red blush on her cheeks and pink lipstick. Shouldn't those areas be greenish too? And then there's the clothes, which look mighty 60's to me (I mean, that's almost a turtleneck), but would have been horribly shocking in the actual 1870's when women did NOT wear pants.
I really wonder if the voice saying the Kelly's tie line is Whitey. He's there in the crowd somewhere; I keep spotting him.
Now, why does that one guy tell Victor to ask the girl where she hails from? Everyone heard him say it, so why didn't he just address Morn directly? But I do like how Victor just points with his hat to pass the question on to the, ah, visitor.
Jim asks my question for me. (About how Morn knows English so well.)
And the eerie music interrupts her, telling her enough with the exposition; get on with the question about the mildum!
Apparently thought projection works by squinting the eyes...
They ran out of fuel, but oh wait! Here's an example to show everyone! (Hey, their mildum prop could be used as a prop in my Greek Tragedy fanfic!)
Yep, there's Whitey in the crowd, standing next to the bargirl.
Four hundred pounds of gold!
Convenient that Victor asks about the jewels on the girls' clothing.
And a whooshy sound effect as the door closes again (and watch for the strings to close it).
Now, that is a glory wagon!
Gotta love Jim's simple test on the jewels. Notice the shape he cuts into the mirror using 'em (a dollar sign).
Oh, and look who is lurking just down the bar, and with a jeweler's loupe in his eye to boot! Cute how he puts the one jewel between his eye and the magnifying glass, then smoothly switches when he realizes his mistake.
Love the lampshading! Jim: Quite a coincidence, you being here, Mr de John.
Artie: Yes, is it not, eh?
And then he delivers his 'bad news' about the jewels! (I should get bad news like that!)
Victor is quite an orator! Don't you think William Windom has marvelous fun with this role?
And then there's Hellfire with his preposterous speech about green being the color of evil, and his almost wooden expression when he sits back down.
Artie, you are going to pay for those apples, aren't you?
Jim seems to be enjoying watching the fleecing game.
Yep, there's Whitey again!
So they plan to get rid of the government agent and make it look like the pie plate was responsible - two birds with one stone. I wonder who came up with Whitey's line about Jim's hard head? Oh, and is this why Jim has those big things on the stirrups of his saddle, to hide that sharp blade within it?
That's a fine little fight, Jim taking on two guys with his feet still tied together. Smart how he outwits Whitey. (Bet Jim knows how to tie a proper knot...) (Oh, but when Jim pats the horse on the rear to make it run off with the unconscious guy tied on its back, the unconscious guy braces himself with an elbow and even looks up just before he's out of frame.)
I wonder is that a clock inside the space ship. Well, I wonder why an alien clock would still have twelve markings on it, and two hands.
Oo, Jim, sneaky way to try to get inside the pie plate to look around! Pity it doesn't work.
That's our Jim though, kissing all the girls.
I like the 'Morn, if that's your name,' showing that Jim doesn't buy the alien act.
How come Artie thinks the dudes are dead when they ain't? And for that matter, just how long did it take Jim to ride back from the pie plate?
William Windom writes lefthanded.
So Artie supplies the question about the government gold specifically so Jim can supply the answer of 'Hands off.'
The Morning Glory town paper is the Glory Trumpet. Oh, and the restaurant is the Busy Bee. I get a kick out of reading the signs in the background!
That's gotta be Artie hiding behind that newspaper.
The way Our Heroes delineate the plan to rob the gold is very nice. But that's not how the story actually plays out.
Artie smirks over Jim's picnic plans.
The soldier marching back and forth in front of the assayer's office - I wonder why he doesn't look around the corner until after he hears the woman groaning? Seems like it would be common sense for a guard to check around the side of the building as well as guarding the front!
So one by one the men come out of the assayer's office to look at the women, not really keeping good watch over the open front door in the process. At least we have Artie as himself now! Kind of a typical ploy of the time, to distract the men by presenting them with pretty girls in distress. (Although from Artie's smile, I think he figures this is the bad guys' big move. So yeah, he'll play along.) Still, the front door was left open and unguarded while Artie watched the two soldiers collect the alien girls.
Victor said this was 'Old Arizona,' so why is the map on the wall Texas?
Oh, he had to ask about their weapons, he just had to!
Artie falls in the corner and puts on the gasmask he just happens to have on him, then fakes unconsciousness.
And here's Victor, with a gasmask of his own.
Those two yahoos who shanghaied Jim earlier are helping carry off the gold. But what I wonder is: how come no one in town notices the rather loud sound of the wagon being driven right down the main street in the middle of the night? And did Victor see Artie come running out of the office to watch them?
Four hundred pounds, my eye! They made off with the entire 2500 pounds!
Jim's picnic keeps Morn from taking part in the robbery.
Cute how Morn covers up for the green on the napkin.
So Artie watched them load all the gold into the pie plate. Who was that peeking out the spy hole though? And I wonder what Artie was planning to do under the pie plate?
I love the 'I'd recognize that groan anywhere' - and the way Morn's voice changes when she tries to keep Jim from coming inside.
Ah, and the big reveal - with the pulling aside of a curtain even!
He doesn't exactly quote the Biblical 'a time to' lines in correct order.
Hellfire wraps up all the thorny questions, including how the force field trick worked.
Wonder how come Victor goes back into the pie plate? Jim knocks him out, and I never see him emerge again, not before the explosion. (Yet in the tag when Jim speaks of the sentences the conspirators received, he mentions Victor as if he's still alive.)
Hellfire hears the commotion inside the pie plate from Jim tripping Victor and knocking him out, and orders the minions to go while he finishes closing the wagon gate. Jim rushes from the pie plate and charges for the minions, knocking 'em both off the wagon seat. Then Artie absolutely barrels out of the pie plate and tackles Hellfire - and I am positive that the two men involved in that whirling take-down are neither Ross Martin nor Ford Rainey! What a fight they have! While Jim is dealing with Whitey and the other dude, Artie is beating the snot out of Hellfire. There's one shot where it is in fact Ross punching Ford (fake-punching, I'm sure) - and then Artie jumps on top of Hellfire and there's an obvious break as they switch to the two stuntmen mixing it up.
It's a bit disconcerting that Artie's and Hellfire's suits are practically the same.
Now, I keep running it back and watching the doorway of the pie plate all through the concurrent fights, looking to see if there's any sign of Victor getting out - and I never see him.
Finally Artie socks Hellfire, knocking him into the pie plate, and the door closes, trapping him inside. Artie then turns to jump into the back of the wagon with the lovely green Venusians, and they push him out again. He jumps inside anyway, leading to that excellent exchange where Jim asks if the girls are there, and Artie replies that they are - all thirteen of them!
As Jim drives them away from the boobytrapped pie plate, the girls keep fighting Artie. At one point you can see he has one of the girls' anesthesia guns in his hand; I'm a bit surprised he doesn't use it on them, though he might have been afraid it would knock out him and Jim as well.
Cut to Hellfire hammering on the inside of the pie plate door, trying to break out before the dynamite goes off to blow it up. Since no sign of Victor, but he was last seen on the other side of the inner wall.
Cut to the outside of the pie plate, with the banging still going on inside - and BOOM!
Jim pulls up the wagon, and Morn pops out to kiss him. And Jim? He asks her real name, then informs her that she and her sisters are under arrest.
Ok, so J&A rescued the gold, captured the girls, and turned the tables on Hellfire, leaving him locked inside the pie plate to be hoist by his own petard. Cut to the tag on the train: Jim translates the telegraphic message and reports that Maggie/Morn got a year, her sisters five-to-ten, and Victor ten-to-twenty. But I still say that Victor is dead, blown up inside the pie plate along with Hellfire!
Anyway, Artie's still green and angry, wanting the conspirators to get lengthier sentences for turning him green, at which point Jim assures him that Maggie/Morn said the green would fade off in three days. Excuse me, three days? The gold thieves were tried, convicted, and sentenced in less than three days? Because Artie's still green!
(And maybe it's not his best idea to be wearing that green smoking jacket of his, nor to be sitting at a table with a green tablecloth, since both only heighten the strange color of his face.)
So then we get the cute bit of the whrrrrrr sound happening again, along with a much better looking effect of a blue light falling through the sky. Jim twits Artie about flying pie plates... flying saucers... while Artie does a fairly good imitation of Sgt Schultz seeing nothing, knowing nothing!
A good laugh is shared by Our Heroes, The End.
Yeah, it's goofy - probably one of the goofiest episodes they ever came up with. Some of it is pretty good, some silly, some makes me facepalm. Oh, and some of the film quality is kinda weird, such as in the scene when Victor is toting up how much gold they have on hand and Artie's Dirk de John character asks Jim what the government would do if the miners *ahem* borrowed the gold. I'm not sure what happened there, but the quality is pretty bad. I'm wondering if they switched from film to videotape or something like that?
(Of course, WWW at its silliest is far more watchable in my opinion than 98% of the shows on tv nowadays!)
Y'know, I'm wondering now if this is the same set as the one in Poisonous Posey. It has a similar, sound stage look to it.
Jim arrives leading a wagon with lots of soldiers and no Artie.
The fellow that's locking up who tells Jim where to look for Ben Victor looks mighty familiar to me. I'm pretty sure he was in at least one other WWW, but I don't know where. (Ah! Checking the cast list, I find the name Pitt Herbert, and checking the cast members of all episodes, I find the same actor in Deadly Blossom as the man who lectures Jim & Artie about the Hawaiian Islands. Bingo!)
I get the feeling 'Glory Hole' is some sort of pun, but not one I understand.
The bouncer/bartender pitching the drunken bum out the saloon door just before Jim enters is Bob Herron, Ross' usual stunt double.
Ben Victor is played by William Windom, one of my favorites. I love the writing here, the banter between Victor and Jim, the description of 'the federal jut of the jaw' - this is priceless stuff! And the way Victor offers Jim a chair by shoving it out from the table a bit using his foot - I eat up details like this! Great stuff!
(Also I believe Jim is standing at parade rest?)
I am a wee bit surprised that Victor just leaves the solitaire game spread out over the table; my impulse would have been to scrape the cards together, square 'em, and stick the deck in my pocket.
And in through the door comes one of the stock characters of WWW: a street preacher who turns out to be a villainous mastermind! Not Ford Rainey's only appearance on Our Favorite Show; he was also Pa Garrison in Iron Fist, as well as Admiral Hammond in Kraken (which, curiously enough, features another street preacher/villainous mastermind - that one played by Ted Knight). Rainey's version is very broadly played, with long drawn-out vowels in all his pronouncements.
I love the chorus of groans that greets Hellfire's entrance!
(Considering what comes later, Hellfire's preaching against the 'foul waters of the river Styx' aka booze is rather hypocritical.)
Ok, I can understand the barkeep and the others taking action once Hellfire starts breaking things. But I'm still glad that Jim comes to his rescue.
Now, everyone but that one dude had the good sense to abandon the table and move their chairs and themselves out of the way of the barfight. What's his excuse?
What a fine little barfight it was! And just as Jim finishes off the last man standing, that's when the weird stuff begins, with a whrrrrrr.
That clears the saloon when the fighting didn't.
I snicker on the 'Great Balls of Fire' line - because of course the UFO is in fact supposed to be a great ball of fire. Not that the special effect really looks it. (I suppose they projected the pink blob onto the stage backdrop?)
Well, Hellfire is Johnny-on-the-spot to take advantage of the UFO to spout more hellfire preaching!
I get a kick out of the title Flying Pie Plate - because of course the more usual term is 'flying saucer.' The one here is pretty and pink and steampunkish. If it had landed with such a huge explosion though, shouldn't it be a bit scorched? Maybe even broken to pieces?
(I'm wondering how the lighting effects were supposed to be done. I know how they were actually done, but how were they supposed to happen in the story?)
How come when the voice tells Jim to halt, Victor and everyone else inches up behind Jim? If the voice told him not to get closer, wouldn't everyone else assume that applied to them too?
Oh, here comes Hellfire - along with one of the cheesiest special effects ever! (At least this one fits though, as we learn later on.) Um - but before the painfully visible rubber strings pull Hellfire backwards, he turns in a complete circle while denouncing the crowd. Should have tangled up his strings!
By the way, the voice repeats to Hellfire the same thing it said to Jim, with the exact same tone of voice and same pauses between words. So it's evidently supposed to be a recording.
(And as soon as the strings are no longer necessary, they're no longer there.)
Oh, speaking of strings, look above the corners of the door as it opens. Yep, more strings!
'Flamin' fishes!' Ok, that's a new one on me!
I kind of wonder why the green-skinned girl has red blush on her cheeks and pink lipstick. Shouldn't those areas be greenish too? And then there's the clothes, which look mighty 60's to me (I mean, that's almost a turtleneck), but would have been horribly shocking in the actual 1870's when women did NOT wear pants.
I really wonder if the voice saying the Kelly's tie line is Whitey. He's there in the crowd somewhere; I keep spotting him.
Now, why does that one guy tell Victor to ask the girl where she hails from? Everyone heard him say it, so why didn't he just address Morn directly? But I do like how Victor just points with his hat to pass the question on to the, ah, visitor.
Jim asks my question for me. (About how Morn knows English so well.)
And the eerie music interrupts her, telling her enough with the exposition; get on with the question about the mildum!
Apparently thought projection works by squinting the eyes...
They ran out of fuel, but oh wait! Here's an example to show everyone! (Hey, their mildum prop could be used as a prop in my Greek Tragedy fanfic!)
Yep, there's Whitey in the crowd, standing next to the bargirl.
Four hundred pounds of gold!
Convenient that Victor asks about the jewels on the girls' clothing.
And a whooshy sound effect as the door closes again (and watch for the strings to close it).
Now, that is a glory wagon!
Gotta love Jim's simple test on the jewels. Notice the shape he cuts into the mirror using 'em (a dollar sign).
Oh, and look who is lurking just down the bar, and with a jeweler's loupe in his eye to boot! Cute how he puts the one jewel between his eye and the magnifying glass, then smoothly switches when he realizes his mistake.
Love the lampshading! Jim: Quite a coincidence, you being here, Mr de John.
Artie: Yes, is it not, eh?
And then he delivers his 'bad news' about the jewels! (I should get bad news like that!)
Victor is quite an orator! Don't you think William Windom has marvelous fun with this role?
And then there's Hellfire with his preposterous speech about green being the color of evil, and his almost wooden expression when he sits back down.
Artie, you are going to pay for those apples, aren't you?
Jim seems to be enjoying watching the fleecing game.
Yep, there's Whitey again!
So they plan to get rid of the government agent and make it look like the pie plate was responsible - two birds with one stone. I wonder who came up with Whitey's line about Jim's hard head? Oh, and is this why Jim has those big things on the stirrups of his saddle, to hide that sharp blade within it?
That's a fine little fight, Jim taking on two guys with his feet still tied together. Smart how he outwits Whitey. (Bet Jim knows how to tie a proper knot...) (Oh, but when Jim pats the horse on the rear to make it run off with the unconscious guy tied on its back, the unconscious guy braces himself with an elbow and even looks up just before he's out of frame.)
I wonder is that a clock inside the space ship. Well, I wonder why an alien clock would still have twelve markings on it, and two hands.
Oo, Jim, sneaky way to try to get inside the pie plate to look around! Pity it doesn't work.
That's our Jim though, kissing all the girls.
I like the 'Morn, if that's your name,' showing that Jim doesn't buy the alien act.
How come Artie thinks the dudes are dead when they ain't? And for that matter, just how long did it take Jim to ride back from the pie plate?
William Windom writes lefthanded.
So Artie supplies the question about the government gold specifically so Jim can supply the answer of 'Hands off.'
The Morning Glory town paper is the Glory Trumpet. Oh, and the restaurant is the Busy Bee. I get a kick out of reading the signs in the background!
That's gotta be Artie hiding behind that newspaper.
The way Our Heroes delineate the plan to rob the gold is very nice. But that's not how the story actually plays out.
Artie smirks over Jim's picnic plans.
The soldier marching back and forth in front of the assayer's office - I wonder why he doesn't look around the corner until after he hears the woman groaning? Seems like it would be common sense for a guard to check around the side of the building as well as guarding the front!
So one by one the men come out of the assayer's office to look at the women, not really keeping good watch over the open front door in the process. At least we have Artie as himself now! Kind of a typical ploy of the time, to distract the men by presenting them with pretty girls in distress. (Although from Artie's smile, I think he figures this is the bad guys' big move. So yeah, he'll play along.) Still, the front door was left open and unguarded while Artie watched the two soldiers collect the alien girls.
Victor said this was 'Old Arizona,' so why is the map on the wall Texas?
Oh, he had to ask about their weapons, he just had to!
Artie falls in the corner and puts on the gasmask he just happens to have on him, then fakes unconsciousness.
And here's Victor, with a gasmask of his own.
Those two yahoos who shanghaied Jim earlier are helping carry off the gold. But what I wonder is: how come no one in town notices the rather loud sound of the wagon being driven right down the main street in the middle of the night? And did Victor see Artie come running out of the office to watch them?
Four hundred pounds, my eye! They made off with the entire 2500 pounds!
Jim's picnic keeps Morn from taking part in the robbery.
Cute how Morn covers up for the green on the napkin.
So Artie watched them load all the gold into the pie plate. Who was that peeking out the spy hole though? And I wonder what Artie was planning to do under the pie plate?
I love the 'I'd recognize that groan anywhere' - and the way Morn's voice changes when she tries to keep Jim from coming inside.
Ah, and the big reveal - with the pulling aside of a curtain even!
He doesn't exactly quote the Biblical 'a time to' lines in correct order.
Hellfire wraps up all the thorny questions, including how the force field trick worked.
Wonder how come Victor goes back into the pie plate? Jim knocks him out, and I never see him emerge again, not before the explosion. (Yet in the tag when Jim speaks of the sentences the conspirators received, he mentions Victor as if he's still alive.)
Hellfire hears the commotion inside the pie plate from Jim tripping Victor and knocking him out, and orders the minions to go while he finishes closing the wagon gate. Jim rushes from the pie plate and charges for the minions, knocking 'em both off the wagon seat. Then Artie absolutely barrels out of the pie plate and tackles Hellfire - and I am positive that the two men involved in that whirling take-down are neither Ross Martin nor Ford Rainey! What a fight they have! While Jim is dealing with Whitey and the other dude, Artie is beating the snot out of Hellfire. There's one shot where it is in fact Ross punching Ford (fake-punching, I'm sure) - and then Artie jumps on top of Hellfire and there's an obvious break as they switch to the two stuntmen mixing it up.
It's a bit disconcerting that Artie's and Hellfire's suits are practically the same.
Now, I keep running it back and watching the doorway of the pie plate all through the concurrent fights, looking to see if there's any sign of Victor getting out - and I never see him.
Finally Artie socks Hellfire, knocking him into the pie plate, and the door closes, trapping him inside. Artie then turns to jump into the back of the wagon with the lovely green Venusians, and they push him out again. He jumps inside anyway, leading to that excellent exchange where Jim asks if the girls are there, and Artie replies that they are - all thirteen of them!
As Jim drives them away from the boobytrapped pie plate, the girls keep fighting Artie. At one point you can see he has one of the girls' anesthesia guns in his hand; I'm a bit surprised he doesn't use it on them, though he might have been afraid it would knock out him and Jim as well.
Cut to Hellfire hammering on the inside of the pie plate door, trying to break out before the dynamite goes off to blow it up. Since no sign of Victor, but he was last seen on the other side of the inner wall.
Cut to the outside of the pie plate, with the banging still going on inside - and BOOM!
Jim pulls up the wagon, and Morn pops out to kiss him. And Jim? He asks her real name, then informs her that she and her sisters are under arrest.
Ok, so J&A rescued the gold, captured the girls, and turned the tables on Hellfire, leaving him locked inside the pie plate to be hoist by his own petard. Cut to the tag on the train: Jim translates the telegraphic message and reports that Maggie/Morn got a year, her sisters five-to-ten, and Victor ten-to-twenty. But I still say that Victor is dead, blown up inside the pie plate along with Hellfire!
Anyway, Artie's still green and angry, wanting the conspirators to get lengthier sentences for turning him green, at which point Jim assures him that Maggie/Morn said the green would fade off in three days. Excuse me, three days? The gold thieves were tried, convicted, and sentenced in less than three days? Because Artie's still green!
(And maybe it's not his best idea to be wearing that green smoking jacket of his, nor to be sitting at a table with a green tablecloth, since both only heighten the strange color of his face.)
So then we get the cute bit of the whrrrrrr sound happening again, along with a much better looking effect of a blue light falling through the sky. Jim twits Artie about flying pie plates... flying saucers... while Artie does a fairly good imitation of Sgt Schultz seeing nothing, knowing nothing!
A good laugh is shared by Our Heroes, The End.
Yeah, it's goofy - probably one of the goofiest episodes they ever came up with. Some of it is pretty good, some silly, some makes me facepalm. Oh, and some of the film quality is kinda weird, such as in the scene when Victor is toting up how much gold they have on hand and Artie's Dirk de John character asks Jim what the government would do if the miners *ahem* borrowed the gold. I'm not sure what happened there, but the quality is pretty bad. I'm wondering if they switched from film to videotape or something like that?
(Of course, WWW at its silliest is far more watchable in my opinion than 98% of the shows on tv nowadays!)