Frank and Sadie Doyle of Beyond Belief from the amazing Thrilling Adventure Hour…Clink!
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Some Christmas tree paget until I can post the videos
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Tim Minear, I got a fucking bone to pick with you.
How the fuck did Nick and Nora, made during the infamous Hays Code era by the way, make out more times than Bobby and Athena? Like I’m not counting (I am and it is zero) but how is that exactly possible?
The film’s characters, supposedly married, weren’t even allowed for sleep in one bed because of those ridiculous rules and yet they seemed to convey more affection and sexual tension.
Meanwhile, you have no such restrictions with these actors today. We’re not even asking them to have movie magic sex, sir. We were just hoping for some actual fun sleuthing adventures with our favorite chaotic couple.
—because that was the expectation you set when you said they were going to be like The Thin Man.
(This should have been a red flag honestly because—in my opinion—apart from “The Thrilling Adventure Hour’s Beyond Belief” with Frank and Sadie Doyle, there has never been a truly good adaptation or inspired piece of The Thin Man which actually has led me to think it’s some kind of curse on its own, like a mini-Macbeth)
How do you reference The Thin Man regarding the episode you wrote? Like sir, Nick and Nora were a rich, chaotic, drunk honeymooning, sleuthing couple with a funny little dog who just happened to solve crimes for funsies because the wise-cracking wife and her cute little nose would not let her husband stay out of trouble.
They made sleuthing look fun and marriage seem sexy which was already a revolutionary idea in the silver screens of the 1930s…like that is the complete opposite of what you wrote in “Abandon ‘Ships”, Mr. Minear. Did you even watch the movies or did someone just say, ‘hey, you know those black and white movies…?’
I don’t mind what you did in the episode. I mind that you uttered complete bullshit about it saying it’s like The Thin Man movies because, no, hell no. Not even close. I really don’t get how you pulled that comment from your ass, sir. Respectfully.
So did you lie or did you just choose to reference the film series because this is another jab at the Oscars? Because as it happens, they also presented the actress who played Nora, Myrna Loy (sidenote: everyone knew she should have won for the 1946 film “The Best Years of Our Lives”) an Honorary Oscar.
So what I’m actually saying is, you kinda suck for lying through your stupid teeth, Tim Minear. So like go kick rocks or something. And maybe don’t ever speak of The Thin Man again if you’re just gonna lie about it.
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Archie #143: The Lecture
by Frank Doyle and Harry Lucey
Archie
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Foot in Mouth
Oh No he didn't! Defend Betty's virtue. It is a curious line. By moving from the suggestive "turn (guys) on" they land on the insulting "boring", stumbling onto the implication that there is no fun to be had without the " turn on all the time" stimulation.
And, take note: when they decide that they don't want a character showing cleavage, they draw a a white shirt.
Oh no she didn't! Again, "turn on" is now a no-go. And we move from an implication to an implication of an implication.
I can not tell if the era reference was removed for problems of topical dated concerns or that they could not work out the political jujitsu in the joke.
Oh no she didn't! Go there. Whether "there" has broader societal implications or not.
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Midnight Pals: Escape Antics
Lovecraft: s-so my editor at weird tales wants me to ghost write a story
Lovecraft: for harry houdini
King: harry houdini? the famous escape artist?
King: wow, howard, what an opportunity!
Lovecraft: i guess
King: whats the matter howard
Lovecraft: i just
Lovecraft:
Lovecraft: what kind of name is houdini
Harry Houdini: pick a card! pick any card!
Lovecraft: ok
Houdini: is it
Houdini: the ace of spades??????
Lovecraft: wow! what the
Lovecraft: it is!
Lovecraft: that's incredible!
Lovecraft: they should call you "harry how'd he do that"
Lovecraft: cuz people are gonna be wondering "how'd he do that"
Houdini: "harry how'd he do that"
Houdini: hmm that's good
Houdini: damnit i should have thought of that
Lovecraft: ya know harry
Lovecraft: you're alright
Lovecraft: for an italian
Houdini: oh houdini's just a stage name
Lovecraft: oh good!
Houdini: my real name is weisz
Lovecraft:
Houdini: so there i was
Houdini: trapped in the bowels of the pyramid
Houdini: mummies to the left of me
Houdini: mummies to the right of me
Houdini: and that's when
Houdini: i started to get mad
Houdini: and that's the story of my egyptian vacation
Lovecraft: wait a minute
Lovecraft: did any of that really happen?
Houdini: no, not really
Lovecraft:
Lovecraft: do you take constructive criticism?
Lovecraft: what if
Lovecraft: instead of mummies
Lovecraft: you met some eldritch abominations?
Houdini: but still in the pyramid, right?
Lovecraft: oh yeah yeah the pyramid is great
Lovecraft: people love a good pyramid
Houdini: so there i was
Houdini: trapped in the bowels of the pyramid
Houdini: eldritch horrors from beyond infinity to the left of me
Houdini: eldritch horrors from beyond infinity to the right of me
Houdini: and that's when
Houdini: i started to get mad
Arthur Conan Doyle: wow!
Doyle: i can't believe that's a real story that really happened!
Doyle: to think! proof that eldritch space monsters are real!
Doyle: proof in our time!
Doyle: harry, how did you escape from the pyramid
Houdini: [tapping nose conspiratorially]
Doyle: aw c'mon!
Doyle: c'mon!
Doyle:
Doyle: C'MON!
Houdini: so there i was
Houdini: the world's greatest escape artist
Houdini: trapped in a mind-boggling pyramid trap
Houdini: by an eldritch horror
Frank Belknap Long: what if the eldritch horror was a giant hot sexy wolf with six arms and big boobs
Houdini: i
Houdini: what
Long: like in bend your knees to the brain tease
Houdini:
Houdini: what
Long: god i wish that was me
Long: lost in her pyramid
Edward Lee: whats this about boobs
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"Veronica's had some mighty queer looking boy friends in the past..."
"A Long Tail!" in Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #14, August 1954, written by Frank Doyle, art by Samm Schwartz
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Archie #143: The Kisser Strikes!
by Frank Doyle; Harry Lucey and Terry Szenics
Archie Comics
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