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Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
Almost perfect (minus the racially volatile content, of course)
I have only one gripe about this cartoon (which has nothing to do with the racial stereotyping). It seems to run very quickly -- even more so than most Avery/Clampett cartoons of the era -- and tends to become disjoint at points. This is probably due to the fact that Bob Clampett wanted to make this a two-reeler (~13 minutes), but producer Leon Schlesinger was totally against the idea of an animated film going beyond one reel (possibly some anti-Disney sentiment?) Yes, this cartoon should not be shown on regular TV, because it is shocking and too many people are uptight about political correctness -- not to mention that many of the war references would go over the public's head. However, I firmly believe that this cartoon should be made readily available to art historians, war historians, sociologists, musicians, and aspiring animators. It still holds great value to all of those fields to this day.
David Frost Presents: How to Irritate People (1969)
A bit flat, but hidden gems inside
The show as a whole fell kind of flat. The acting seems a bit uninspired at times, and there isn't that Python-ish chemistry that later appeared.
However, two sketches do stand out; the "Airline Pilots" sketch, where Chapman, Cleese, and Palin take turns abusing their passengers; the other being the "Management Training Course Interview" where Cleese gets Brooke-Taylor to perform some humiliating stunts.