What a train-wreck. I’ll just re-watch the 80s episodes.

Best season ever. Got past the wokey woke crap and onto Star Trek. just sad it was too late. BEST SEASON EVER!!

Given that it has a 7/10 on IMDb, 84% on RT, 86% on Google and 7.3/10 on TVMaze coupled with, as I already stated, top 10 ranking for the last 3 weeks among streaming shows, the only thing illogical is that it has a lower rating here. I’m sure that has a lot to do with the demographics of users here, as evidenced by how many cry about how woke a Star Trek show is even though it has always been the case. Was it the most successful or best Star Trek show, no, but I didn’t make that claim.

BTW, episode count is irrelevant as no shows on streaming sites get 20+ episodes a season like shows used to.

Its no award winning Season unless its in the rainbow category.

This is my second time commenting on this, Dude has been thru war there and back and he is something i would strive my children to be like. Got to love it.

All they do is argue and run shit missions. Lame.

Some of the best toons don’t have much dialogue at all. That doesn’t provide much work for a master of voices like Mel Blanc, but it really shows just how great writer Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones’ Termite Terrace animation unit really are, coupled with great selective musical synchronicity by Milt Franklyn. The timing of everything was worked out on musical bar graph sheets down to the precise mathematical moment. The scripting, animation, musical punctuation, sound effects & editing had to come come together perfectly, or the toons just wouldn’t have anything to deliver.

The premise of the Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog toons is simple enough. These two are blue collar buddies that punch a clock in the morning to be adversaries throughout the day as Sam guards sheep & Ralph tries to steal them. Sam’s job is pretty easy going, but Ralph expends a lot of effort & failed ingenuity just to find out that Sam really can see through that face full of hair covering his eyes. When Sam gets Ralph, the outcome isn’t pretty, but it’s all in a days work.

Music orchestrator Milt Franklyn takes cues from his mentor Carl Stalling & uses the Big Band Swing tune The Five O’Clock Whistle as well as the classical Spring Song by Mendelsohn. Since Ralph & Sam arrive to work in their own cars in this one, he also uses In My Merry Oldsmobile, haha.

Studio boss Ed Selzer retired, so the producer for a short time at Termite Terrace was John Burton. Chucks’s animation unit is Ken Harris, Rick Thompson & Ben Washam. Maurice Noble did the layouts in his own easily recognizable style & Philip DeGuard did the backgrounds in his own equally distinctive style. Treg Brown always did sound & editing in his own award winning style regardless of the different animation units at Termite Terrace.

Chuck Jones created Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog as a great vehicle for delivering sight gags as well as a good delivery system for Milt Franklyn’s musical gags to accompany & punctuate all the highly well-timed animated comedy that Jones & writer Michael Maltese put into the stories.

There were just 7 Ralph & Sam toons, but they’re really great & highly underrated. Ralph & Sam aren’t at odds with each other in flat-out starvation survival the way Wile E. Coyote & The Roadrunner are. Nope, this comedic pair as work buddies.

They work a shift in a pasture with other wolf-dog co-workers whom they relieve & who also relieve them. Frequently this would be Fred & George. The sheepdog’s job in the pasture is to guard the sheep. He’s pretty lazy & sleeps a lot. The wolf’s job is to get the sheep. This guy works hard all day scheming, plotting & planning. Much of his effort is thwarted by the dog. All that time, effort & energy usually gets Ralph a punch in the face from Sam. But at least they’re buddies, have lovely lunch breaks together & always go home as friends - even if the damn dog can see through his face covering fur, the laws of cartoon physics have a mind of their own & Ralph seems to be a contemporary Sisyphus.

This is the 7th and final Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog toon ever done. Chuck Jones created the comedic pair of working class blue collar time-clock punching buddies who dutifully get up every day to do their respective jobs being a sheep guarding sheepdog & a sheep stealing wolf. The day is long, so of course they put everything on hold & have breaks with friendly chit-chat over snacks. Of course, there’s work to be done, so they must get back to pastoral scene where Ralph employs every sneaky trick he can to abscond with a sheep without getting punched in the face. However, Warner got mad at Chuck yet again, so they fired him & he didn’t get to do the story that he wrote, so his animators Phil Monroe & Rick Thompson have the job of fulfilling Chuck’s clever visual comedy as Ralph’s scheming tries to outwit Sam’s fist & fur covered face.

Music orchestrator Milt Franklyn unexpectedly died, so his job was passed on to a nitwit that eventually got fired for his incompetence.

This is the end of The Golden Age Of Cartoons. In less than a year, Warner will gut the studio & that will be that. The remnants of Chuck’s animation team who finished this toon are Rick Thompson, Bob Bransford, Tom Ray & Ken Harris. Layouts are done by Maurice Noble & Alex Ignatiev. Backgrounds are done by Philip DeGuard. Sound & editing from 1936 until the bitter end was done by the man that hired Mel Blanc & gave him his big break, Treg Brown.

Out of seven Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog toons, this is the 6th & last one done by Chuck Jones. Most Looney Tunes are named after something else & this one is named after the song Asleep In The Deep. By this time, Chuck had been laid-off, fired & rehired enough by Warner that he was pretty much tired of their policies, so he had one foot out the door already & had formed his own animation company called Sib Tower 7 that did lots of other things such as feature films, Dr. Seuss stuff & just on the horizon Tom & Jerry toons for MGM.

For this reason, Chuck’s layout artist Maurice Noble had been groomed for directing & he co-directed this with Chuck, who also wrote the story. Chuck’s ace writer Michael Maltese had also soured on Warner Brothers & already left for Hanna Barbera. Chuck however is a very good writer & the sight gags in this toon are classic. Ralph’s rube-goldberg way of getting around in the morning itself is highly creative & classic Chuck Jones visual humor all the way with a strong emphasis on motion & timing all the way from the morning routine right up through the daily shift as it ends with typical Jonesian surprise disguises.

There are 2 versions of this toon. The original and the censored one.

Milt Franklyn is the music orchestrator & supplies plenty of toony musical flare to underline all the motion & punctuate every punchline using such classics as Raymond Scott’s Powerhouse for when Ralph’s get up & go gizmo is working, Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Brahms Lullaby, A Cup Of Coffe A Sandwich And You, Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone, and (of course) You’re A Horse’s Ass. Yep. Milt went there.

In this period, Warner Brothers was a very unstable place. Studio boss John Burton was on his way out & the final Termite Terrace producer David DePatie was coming in to oversee what would be the end of The Golden Age Of Cartoons before Warner would commit the crime of dismantling the animation department & shutting down the studio forever.

1994 film adaptation of the 1899 novella of the same name, written by Joseph Conrad. A fairly decent “compressed” version of the telling of the story that would eventually be rewritten by, and become the basis for director Francis Ford Copplala’s epic film, “Apocalypse Now”. Another of literatures great mind’s, Conrad is so eloquent in his writing, that you may think that you’re actually with him, as you both watch the descent of the raindrops through the jungle canopy he’d just spent half a page describing.
IMO, read the novella first, follow up by watching this film, then, move on to “Apocalypse Now”.

Chuck Jones really was a master of animated motion as well as the unscripted visual sight gags. He did this to great effect with Wile E. Coyote & The Roadrunner, but he also had the fun pairing of Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog.

The Coyote & Wolf each look mostly alike with scraggly fur, super long ears & knobby joints, but Ralph has a big red nose & white eyes instead of a black nose & yellow eyes. He’s also not an uppity self-important narcissist like Wile E. is. He’s really not even driven by anger or one-upsmanship the way Wile E. is. He’s hunger driven, but Sam Sheepdog isn’t his enemy. They’re co-workers. Each has to punch a clock at 8am and work a shift until 5 or 6pm when the new shift arrives - usually Fred & George. Nope, Ralph & Sam are just doing their jobs. Like Wile E. Coyote, Ralph Wolf leans heavily on Acme’s poorly applied products. However, unlike Wile E. Coyote, Ralph Wolf sometimes might have to dress up as Little Bo Peep in this 3rd toon of the working class pair written by Michael Maltese.

Music orchestrator Milt Franklyn uses all the fun musical punctuations he learned from his mentor Carl Stalling. He even includes quotes from Mary Had A Little Lamb & Little Bo Peep.

Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog were created in 1953 by Chuck Jones. There’s a total of 7 classic Golden Age cartoons with them as an adversarial comedic pair & sometimes their names get switched around. Their day begins at 8am & ends at 5 to 6pm. They’re co-workers. Sam guards sheep & Ralph steals sheep. That’s the bit.

The job is a 24 hour one, so there are other wolves & sheepdog pairs before & after Ralph & Sam’s shift. While on the clock, Sam sleeps much of the day in a pastoral setting guarding a flock of sheep. While he sleeps or otherwise lays about, Ralph is hard at work trying to steal the sheep, frequently with Acme products. However, for all of Ralph’s efforts, the Acme products often fail him & his own ineptitude gets him in trouble with Sam, who is always very brutal to Ralph once caught, providing a lot of great visual gags that Chuck Jones & writer Michael Maltese are known for. The toons are low on the scripted gags, but the “Mornin’ Ralph” - “Mornin’ Sam” lines have been widely copied over half a century in other cartoons & tv shows from My Little Pony to News Radio & even Veronica Mars.

There are two versions of this toon. The original & a censored one. This toon is followed by 1954 Sheep Ahoy, 1955 Double Or Mutton, 1957 Steal Wool, 1960 Ready Woolen And Able, 1962 A Sheep In The Deep, and then 1963 Woolen Under Where. There’s even a cool 2001 PlayStation game called Sheep Raider that’s spot on. Get an emulator. It’s a fun game. Play it with Bugs Bunny Lost In Time. Big fun. If you’re lucky, you can also find them on 2003 Behind The Tunes- Blanc Expressions.

Music maestro Carl Stalling uses less Big Band Swing and more classical quotations in these toons, including Rossini’s William Tell Overture & Mendelsohn’s Spring Song. He also uses nursery rhymes like Baa Baa Black Sheep, of course. The notable Big Band Swing tune is (naturally) The Five O’Clock Whistle.

Bob McKimson’s own take on the Einstein-Rosen bridge pre-dates Dark Matter by about 7 decades.

The Ralph & Sam toons are 1953 Don’t Give Up the Sheep, 1954 Sheep Ahoy, 1955 Double Or Mutton, 1957 Steal Wool, 1960 Ready Woolen And Able, 1962 A Sheep In The Deep, and 1963 Woolen Under Where. In 2001 the PlayStation video game called Sheep Raider was released It’s fun to play & accurately recreates scenes from the Ralph & Sam toons. There’s also a rare 2003 documentary called Behind The Tunes- Blanc Expressions that features Ralph & Sam.

So sad. She said he’d get away with it & he did.

This episode was typical of this writer’s fluffy story-line with very little substance. One whole season of build-up resolved in a few minutes. Same as last season. Spend some time on Moll and the Progenitor tech ffs.

As a whole series it really suffered in the writing department. They replaced the show-runners a bunch of times but with every new turn new bizarre choices came along. So many.

At least we got Strange New Worlds out of this.

My new favorite Laurence Fishburne performance. A really fun watch.

Trolling ozempic, I know a lot of people that should watch this

I think this is the series repackaged in a movie. I just remember I saw that….

If anyone digs the Stargate family of actors, this was done by David Hewlett of SGA, featuring his sister Kate, as well as Chris Judge from SG-1 and Rachel Lutrell from SGA. It’s left of center & comedy fits them well.

Gatchaman again. Sequel to Battle Of The Planets.

Gatcha. Man.

Not bad at all. 7/10

Alternate universe evil Dr. Nami.

I put in a request at TVMaze to have the series added, I’m much too lazy to do all that work, so if it does happen I’ll add links here.

Aboot 200 episodes of the series.

That was so groovy.

G-Force: Guardians of Space was a much better, and more accurate, adaptation.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302109
Apparently, there is no TVMaze listing for it, so there is no page for it here, but if you are interested message me I can give you an Archive dot org link that has most of the series.

G-Force: Guardians of Space was a much better, and more accurate, adaptation.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302109
Apparently, there is no TVMaze listing for it, so there is no page for it here, but if you are interested message me I can give you an Archive dot org link that has most of the series.

Man, I remember this from way back when I was just a wee little sprite, and also the InHumanoids…talk about bringing back memories!

Seriously, this is indeed dandy. You’re a little rascal, you are! A tabula rascal! (musses up hair).

(sound of heart breaking)

there is literally nothing more old school than this

Excellent flick. Well worth the watch.

㋡㋡Right On㋡㋡ Now if they would cast Randi Oakes in something.

This guy needs to stop making movies.

wooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww

Holy Toledo! What a twist!

Thanks to Winnie The Pooh Blood And Honey we now have films like this.

New spin on The Wicker Man. Engaging until the end. Look forward to more.

I’ve been on a Daniel-Day Lewis run for a couple of days now. I’m embarrassed to say I’m quite sure I have not watched this movie yet. I can’t wait to be dazzled!

Athena needs to seriously apologize to dude, after accusing him pulling a gun on him etc.

Wow this was horrible… who told this chic Sweeney she could act? smh