To the “Alley Oop” “haters”: Did you see Ooola earlier this week?; BTW, she reminded me a little of Disney’s Pocahontas (whose 25th anniversary is later this year).
In an Oddball Couple episode, Spiffy and Fleabag wound up in Ancient Rome (it ended up being a dream in the end), and Spiffy cooked a spaghetti dish for Caesar, but Fleabag meddled by “improving” it with extremely hot spices, and when Caesar had Fleabag taste it to make sure it wasn’t poisoned and Fleabag tasted it with a very(?) complimentary answer, Caesar ate it but the spice did “a number” on him and he threw the titular duo to the lions.
When that Icelandic volcano stallled air traffic more than 10 years ago today, the North Atlantic world (at least) was more the world of George CARson than the world of George Jetson.
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