After all the attention that the lisping sci-fi 'holiday' received-
"May the 4th be with you." -and the very next day after with
Cinco de Mayo- remember reading an old
MAD magazine where their did their usual TV satire with, what else,
"TVarzan", spoofing the
Ron Ely series where
darkest Africa was actually
Mexico with a graphic representation of a map of
Mexico with the word
Mexico crossed out and
Africa in its place instead; in one scene
TVarzan and the nubile
Polynesian-looking female were in danger from a mongrel bunch of bandoleros, wearing the cliche sombreros and the leader looking and sounding like the
Frito Bandito, and telling
TVarzan and island girl that at the count of five he's going to waste 'em; so since their at the edge of a cliff overlooking either the
Pacific or
Atlantic Oceans,
Ron Ely has a plan: on the count of three he and the babe will leap over the baddies into the waiting water below; so when the
Mexicali villain started the countdown, in
Spanish, as planned the hero/heroine jump over and as thwey make their descent he cries,
"Into the drink-o, before that fink-o, can say "cinco", and we're stink-o"; at the time I was a 10 years old so didn't know whether he was trying to yell all this as
Johnny Weissmuller, or
Harry Belafonte- I still don't know.
No sir, none of that faux jokey
Lucasfilm inspired comedic holiday for me, or a
Mexican beer celebration- after all isn't every day a
Mexican beer day anyway?
I instead will enjoy the mashup version of
"Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy", with breakbeats and scratching, with real scratches as it's probably from the same ol'
78 r.p.m. that
Bob Clampett used in his
"Beany & Cecil" 'toons, and later
John. K. continued the tradition on the early
'90s "Ren & Stimpy", and sip from a mug some spiced-tea from
Celestial Seasonings,
Tchai, and listen to to an
Isao Tomita '70s synth of the rest of the works of
Chaikovsky.
"Take tea and see!"
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