The Most Awesome Things We Saw Last Week (Oct 28-Nov 3)
And the third segment brings us “It’s the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse”, which is, of course, a send-up of Peanuts. Once again, they mimic the opening of Great Pumpkin and then use some classic Peanuts motifs throughout. Milhouse and Bart wear Linus and Charlie Brown’s traditions outfits, respectively. Santa’s Little Helper is redesigned to look like a brown Snoopy. Marge practices playing trombone throughout the episode, so she makes the “wah wah” sound Charles Schulz’ adults are known for. There’s even a party scene replicating the famous “one move per character” dance from A Charlie Brown Christmas. For a long time Peanuts devotee like myself, this was all sorts of fun. Sure, the Grand Pumpkin comes to life to exact his vengeance upon humanity, and we learn that all pumpkins are racists (“I’m just honest about it!”), but all of that pales next to the sheer joy of seeing Ralph Wiggum as Pig Pen. Awesome.
In second place, and I can’t be responsible for the part where this blows your minds, is this video of a theater group recreating a vintage Space Ghost episode with puppets. Once you watch it, you may find yourself asking whether it is, in fact, the best thing you’ve ever seen. Yes. Yes it is.
The recreation…
The original…
Myndi The Most Awesome Thing is saw (besides those listed above, which are pretty awesome, and SNL which had an awesome cold open with John McCain) was the finest hour of comedy on television. That, of course, would be NBC’s combination of The Office and 30 Rock, which returned to bigger laughs and bigger ratings this past week!
