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Mack Sennett, not Cecil B. DeMIlle.

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Nah, Sennett was too slapstick. This piece has some serious angst and pathos.

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Beat me to it.

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I, for one, was rooting for them the whole time. Did anyone else want them to figure out they could run at it from the other direction and mount it like a pommel horse? Just me, eh?

If DeMille had shot this it'd be three hours long and filled with thousands of costumed extras.

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"You can lead a drunk to a horse, but you can't make him think."

--- Dale of Green Gables

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The only good clips my home security cameras catch are of wild turkeys and hawks. I should get a horse statue. And invite drunks.

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Are you volunteering to host a Gene Pool get-together?

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You bringing the horse statue?

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Reminds me of the old ('63) slapstick British TV sketch "Dinner for One," the viewing of which has unaccountably become a German New Year's Eve tradition since the early '70s. It also now regularly shows up then on TV elsewhere in Europe and is available on streaming platforms. Understandable, I suppose, since no translation is necessary. Here's a link to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7VI0rC8ZA

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Even though Freddie Frinton’s performance is nearly identical (with _almost_ all of the same gags), that link was _not_ the same version that is normally shown on German TV on New Year’s Eve. The camera angles were not as good in this version, but I still liked it better, because the studio audience behaved better. In the version that was reshot for NDR, there were a couple of people in the studio audience who shrieked so often and loudly that it becomes really annoying.

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One of my all-time favorites.

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ok, that was worth the price of admission

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Too long. In a movie, this would have reached the conclusion about 20 seconds earlier.

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This was ridiculous and I initially thought it was staged. But it went on far too long for that. There is a directorial rule I have observed that when building tension, things ALMOST happen twice, and then they do happen the third time. There’s a rhythm to it that this lacks, and so I think it would have played out differently if planned.

But thank you. I’m glad I didn’t live my whole life and then die without having seen it.

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We replaced our television some weeks ago and have been using its links to watch older shows, including a run of Gunsmoke (which we also listen to every Sunday night with Murray) and I have been watching how they get on a horse in one move. Dillon uses his arms for the last bit, in my opinion. The drunks did not have a chance. No arm coordination.

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Johnny Dollar

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" ... and $1.50 for cab fare."

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"Remarks: Life is a coin with tragedy on one side and comedy on the other. If it comes up heads more than tails, consider yourself lucky."

"Yours truly, Johnny Dollar."

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Shows the danger of smoking.

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All I can think of is how much they will hurt tomorrow.

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I get the stupidity; I don’t get the humor. My bad.

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Agree, the act itself is stupid, but the determination --- and the calculation that goes into each failed attempt --- is what's funny.

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Pretty good, but the next video I got from YouTube had a better title: " Glitter Dust 4k Sparkling Particles Overlay Free Footage Dust Video"

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Dumb is dumb and I don’t mean just the drunk. I mean the video too.

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Break a leg!

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Are you addressing the drunks or the unfortunate horse?

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Happy New Year!

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