I remember these shows fondly from when I was kid and Saturday mornings were filled with cowboy shows until the Sealtest Big Top Circus aired at noon.
When I found The Cisco Kid online, I watched every episode, then started over. Many of the secondary characters are played by the same actors. In one episode an actor is a sheriff, in others a minister, victim, or outlaw.
In my childhood, I'm sure I missed a lot of the humor. Pancho, played by Leo Carillo who was a very intelligent man, was always mixing up a metaphor, simile, or adage, or using a wrong word for comic effect. I started to write them down. There are more of these in every episode:
When Cisco asks, How can you get so mixed up? Pancho responds: Well, it takes lots of practice.
Pancho: I'm so cold, I'm freezing. I'm gonna get ammonia.
Pancho: This fellow here will steal the pants right off your back.
Pancho: Never count your chickens before they cross the bridge.
Pancho: That's the best plan I never think of.
Pancho: What happened to those bandits? Jimmy: What bandits? Pancho: The ones who kidsnapped you.
Pancho: I will keep my eye on him like a peeping Tomcat.
Pancho: I didn't do nothing. I swear on a stack of tortillas.
Pancho: Don't sit there like a log on a bump.
Pancho: Maybe you got that sleeping sickness they call magnesia.
When I found The Cisco Kid online, I watched every episode, then started over. Many of the secondary characters are played by the same actors. In one episode an actor is a sheriff, in others a minister, victim, or outlaw.
In my childhood, I'm sure I missed a lot of the humor. Pancho, played by Leo Carillo who was a very intelligent man, was always mixing up a metaphor, simile, or adage, or using a wrong word for comic effect. I started to write them down. There are more of these in every episode:
When Cisco asks, How can you get so mixed up? Pancho responds: Well, it takes lots of practice.
Pancho: I'm so cold, I'm freezing. I'm gonna get ammonia.
Pancho: This fellow here will steal the pants right off your back.
Pancho: Never count your chickens before they cross the bridge.
Pancho: That's the best plan I never think of.
Pancho: What happened to those bandits? Jimmy: What bandits? Pancho: The ones who kidsnapped you.
Pancho: I will keep my eye on him like a peeping Tomcat.
Pancho: I didn't do nothing. I swear on a stack of tortillas.
Pancho: Don't sit there like a log on a bump.
Pancho: Maybe you got that sleeping sickness they call magnesia.