The Lockhorns by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner for February 08, 2025

“Lockhorns, meet the Lockhorns

their marrage is a travesty…"

THE FLINTSTONES was just a ripoff of THE HONEYMOONERS.

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones

The Post-Apocalyptic family

War burnt big cities down to bedrock

It was a most terrible tragedy

.

Somehow human beings saw the light

They made peace and ceased to fight

Old inventions reappeared then

Run by creature power, then men

.

Like the new Flintstones

Had a yabba-dabba-doo time

A dabba-doo time

They had a don’t-say-gay old time.

Finally, someone else who compares themselves to the Flintstones.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH … SINGER, NICOLA PAONE (1959)

my wife and I have “My life would suck without you”

Ask for advice to Al “weird” Yankovick.

“Highway to Hell”?

First you come up with a signature saying, then the theme song naturally follows. Yabba-dabba-do!!

You’re a PRINT medium.

But you do have a theme song………

Well, I lay my head on the railroad track

Waiting on the double E

But the train don’t run by here no more

Poor, poor pitiful me

Poor, poor pitiful me

Poor, poor pitiful me

Oh, these boys won’t let me be

Lord, have mercy on me

Woe, woe is me

Well, I met a man out in Hollywood

Now I ain’t naming names

Well, he really worked me over good

Just like Jesse James

Yes, he really worked me over good

He was a credit to his gender

Put me through some changes, Lord

Sort of like a waring blender

Poor, poor pitiful me

Poor, poor pitiful me

Oh, these boys won’t let me be

Lord, have mercy on me

Woe, woe is me

Well, I met a boy in the Vieux Carres

Down in Yokohama

He picked me up and he threw me down

He said, “Please don’t hurt me, mama”

Poor, poor pitiful me

Poor, poor pitiful me

Oh, these boys won’t let me be

Lord, have mercy on me

Woe, woe is me

Poor, poor, poor me

Poor, poor pitiful me

Poor, poor, poor me

Poor, poor pitiful me

Poor, poor, poor me

Poor, poor pitiful me

Yabba dabba don’t.

I think the Ride of the Valkyries is perfect.

I loved the Flintstones.

Sure why not, I believer the Bickersons had one too.

The perfect one for Leroy and Loretta would be “Love and Marriage”. just as it was for the Bundys on “Married…With Children.”

Lockhorns, meet the LockhornsThey’re a modern annoying familyFrom the town of LockridgeThey’re a page out of Modern HousewivesLet’s ride with the family down the streetBecause we got our car towedDue to Loretta wrecking itWhen you’re with the LockhornsYou’ll have a nagging timeA nagging timeYou’ll have a wretching nagging timeLeroy!!!!

How about “My Funny Valentine?”

Story time.

I got my start in the newspaper industry at the very bottom, doing overnight residential deliveries to pay for grad school.

At one point in time, the newspapers would typically arrive at the office some time around 1 – 2 AM. The ETA was never entirely exact, so it would usually be me and a few of the couriers hanging around the small office, which was a part of a retail strip sandwiched in between the main highway and a major through road that linked several neighborhoods and retail facilities to that highway.

One night, it was just myself and another courier. We were randomly talking about something or other when we suddenly heard random guitar music playing.

Me: “When did we get a soundtrack?”

After some investigating, we discovered that someone had walked over from a nearby apartment building and was randomly practicing his guitar on the bench that was in front of the office.

Did “Hee Haw” have any musical intro to the “Laverne and Ida Lee” sketches?

I’d watch The Lockhorns show.

How about a laugh track?

“Lockhorns, meet the lockhorns” " they’re the ????

Love the flintstones