Perfect ending to this little episode (including another classic character, the Race Track Tout)! Never saw the previous day’s strip (at least 2 panels of it) repeated on a Sunday – Unique! for Gasoline Alley!
Maube Jim is getting ready to use the same format as Alley Oop. Personally I prefer a Sunday strip and a daily using different groups of characters, Recently Joel and Ruffus appeared in both the daily and the Sinday strips simultaneous for a very short time in different stories and locations which could cause confusion if you were reading both as they came out. Sure, the stories may have followed one after the other chronologically. Thing of the list of characters we have running almost separate strips now: Walt’s story, Skeezix and Nina, Slim and Gloria (and Slim’s Mama), Joel and Rufus (and Mayor Melba), The Kids, Corky’s Dinner. Material for six separate series. Lots of angles with room for crossovers. Iv’e been clippng for myself for years and I’m considering layng them out as individual series.
Boy , give me the floor and I don’t know when to stop. Guess it it should be now. Good night o good morning as the case may be in your time zone – it’s still the third in Hawaii, but it’s the fourth in California.
Sheldon Leonard played the race track tout on the Jack Benny radio show, beginning every encounter with “Hey, bud… c’mere a minute.” The joke was that he turned everything into a racing tip, no matter how unlike horse racing it was.
Sheldon Leonard also starred in a short lived sitcom called Big Eddie. It’s probably no coincidence that two of the main characters in Big Bang Theory are named Sheldon and Leonard.
If they don’t pay a sales tax on electric cars in Norway or to run on toll roads, I bet their hog n’ cow paths are in pathetic shape. I’m no advocate of taxes but, somebody has to pay for the roads and repair to keep them in reasonable shape.
cpalmeresq over 9 years ago
Perfect ending to this little episode (including another classic character, the Race Track Tout)! Never saw the previous day’s strip (at least 2 panels of it) repeated on a Sunday – Unique! for Gasoline Alley!
Tars Tarkas over 9 years ago
Maube Jim is getting ready to use the same format as Alley Oop. Personally I prefer a Sunday strip and a daily using different groups of characters, Recently Joel and Ruffus appeared in both the daily and the Sinday strips simultaneous for a very short time in different stories and locations which could cause confusion if you were reading both as they came out. Sure, the stories may have followed one after the other chronologically. Thing of the list of characters we have running almost separate strips now: Walt’s story, Skeezix and Nina, Slim and Gloria (and Slim’s Mama), Joel and Rufus (and Mayor Melba), The Kids, Corky’s Dinner. Material for six separate series. Lots of angles with room for crossovers. Iv’e been clippng for myself for years and I’m considering layng them out as individual series.
Boy , give me the floor and I don’t know when to stop. Guess it it should be now. Good night o good morning as the case may be in your time zone – it’s still the third in Hawaii, but it’s the fourth in California.
paul brians over 9 years ago
Sheldon Leonard played the race track tout on the Jack Benny radio show, beginning every encounter with “Hey, bud… c’mere a minute.” The joke was that he turned everything into a racing tip, no matter how unlike horse racing it was.
junemmoffatt over 9 years ago
I’m afraid Scancarelli doesn’t quite have the “music” on the Sheldon Leonard bit.
3pibgorn9 over 9 years ago
Benny’s race track tout. Sheldon Leonard.
nerdhoof over 9 years ago
Sheldon Leonard also starred in a short lived sitcom called Big Eddie. It’s probably no coincidence that two of the main characters in Big Bang Theory are named Sheldon and Leonard.
ldmffkw over 9 years ago
If they don’t pay a sales tax on electric cars in Norway or to run on toll roads, I bet their hog n’ cow paths are in pathetic shape. I’m no advocate of taxes but, somebody has to pay for the roads and repair to keep them in reasonable shape.