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The Lucy Show: Lucy Is a Kangaroo for a Day (1962)
Lucy fixes a wardrobe malfunction in time to save a business meeting.
This is one of the few episodes I remember, having been under age 10 at the time it was in syndication. So bear this in mind when you read what follows.
Lucy is wearing a knit dress that she may have made herself and it has a seemingly minor flaw. She gets off an elevator in and a thread from her dress catches on the door as she steps into the lobby. The elevator goes up and Lucy's dress unravels. She spins like a top. A dizzy Lucy, now clad in a slip, eyes a mannequin clad in a big fuzzy kangaroo suit and holding a sign in the lobby. She dons the suit to preserve her modesty and hops off to the restaurant to meet a client or prospective employer.
While the kangaroo suit has a convenient pouch for carrying her purse, the attached mitten hands prove to be quite a challenge. An attempt is made to pick up a spoon and partake of a bowl of soup. She has to pick up the soup bowl with the cumbersome paws to drink it. We can be thankful that the attached headpiece lacked a long muzzle, which would've rendered poor Mrs. Carmichael with more difficulty and embarrassment.
Loonatics Unleashed (2005)
Season Two Makes Good
The second season of Loonatics Unleashed is all I've been exposed to and it's great to see the time-honored gags given a high-tech futuristic twist. So far the WB channel on Saturday has shown just three episodes, and they seem quite fun to watch.
Slam eating robot parts, and wrestling with the Hugo/Gossamer creature. Duck's speech pattern, flustered demeanor, and getting his feathers scorched. Ace's Bugs-like aphorisms and yet wields a sword with a hilt resembling a carrot. He sounds very much like the singing voice of Bugs from the music tapes and CDs of The Looney Tunes sing Elvis, or The Beatles, or Country & Western. Rev Runner's rambling pentameter sometimes rhymes like the Road Runner comic books of the 1960s. In the classic Looney Tunes, Wile E. Coyote spoke if his antagonist did, so Tech E. can explain the gadgets as much as he likes. Lexi shows that a girl has skills too.
The neon quality of the characters shows their mutated power potential. I expect to see translucent pose-able action figures on store shelves soon.