RFI: Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

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Watched a bit of the C4 Top 100 Cartoons thing last night and this popped up at #98. I remember it being on kids' TV in the early '70s but only recalled it as a fairly innocuous sitcom-type thing about a beleaguered dad with the voice supplied by Tom Bosley. I remembered the unconvincing hippie son but had completely forgotten about the fascist, Nixon-lookalike next-door neighbour ranting about Jews and gays and blacks taking over the neighbourhood.

Question is: was this series the Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup to the Simpsons' Elvis, or merely the Dick Haymes?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

having to dig up 100 cartoons did throw up some very lost and forgotten stuff

they even found a funny clip from "family guy"!!

(boy there are a LOT of tenth-rate stand-ups these days)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it was the tenth-rate stand-ups which provoked me to switch over!

That having been said, I'd never even heard of Queer Duck before. Extraordinary business!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

is there really a character in he-man called "fisto"?

also: why was phyllida law a talkin head? (does she have a cartoons connection?)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Well her hubby was responsible for anglicising/doping up The Magic Roundabout...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm presuming that the Simpsons vote exceeded the collective vote for nos 2-100?

I also had no idea that Halas and Batchelor's Animal Farm was part funded by the CIA, which clearly explains its crap alternative ending.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

why don't they show tom&jerry on TV any more?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably long since exiled to satellite channel limbo.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Fisto:
http://store1.yimg.com/I/theearthtoys_1826_35419301

(ouch!)

where was the 'Worker and Parasite'-esque eastern european stuff? pah.

and ivor the engine they dismissed as full of boring everyday things. b-but he had dragons in his firebox.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yes also noggin the nog wz way below ivor :(

oh lovely nooka be mine *sigh*

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

But in Wales dragons are everyday things.

xpost

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Also were the Moomins in there? Although the books are a million times better.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I would much have preferred a proper doc on Firmin & Postgate actually. Were the Clangers anywhere in there?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't spot them but i was dipping in and out

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

C4 seems to have found a rich seam of own brand value style chepa knock-off of well known commedians, at least two ricky gervais knock-offs and one simon pegg.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The worst by far was that guy who seemed to fancy himself as the poor-man's Bill Bailey.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mexican Bill Bailey?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

ay ay ay

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Top 100 Cartoons:

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/cartoons/results.html

(courtesy johnny b on this thread's plumper little sister: is stand-up over?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure how these lists work, but there's 105 'nominations' on the C4 website of which eight didn't make the top 100 (Mary, Mungo and Midge, Yellow Submarine, Monkey Dust, Captain Kremmen, Heavy Metal, Jackson 5ive, Polar Express, ReBoot) which I guess means there were three 'write-in' suggestions amongst the re-ordered list. Queer Duck being one, I imagine.

The Clangers and Rocky & Bullwinkle were not on the C4 list. Nor was Duckman.

I liked WTYFGH - chiefly for the pinko-obsessed neighbour. Perhaps more of a hit here than at home - Pam didn't remember it at all.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Carr's agent presumably imagines that his employer could suffer a career-threatening injury at any moment, so has him hoovering up the cash while it's available. Carr knocks off a quick semi-smutty barb either side of the ad break and ends up looking like Oscar Wilde next to the dross he bookends. Nice work, etc.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, wrong thread!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

So I have seen a lot of this cartoon, which my brother used to watch, and yet I don't really remember anything about it at all.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, same here. It existed...and that was about it, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to like it! Especially the mad neighbour. I'd like to see it again.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The militant neighbor was the best part of the show ... (voiced by Jack Burns, of Mayberry fame..)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember the cartoon, but I remember the theme song and the really abrasive female voice sneering/singing "Wait til ya fathah gets.. wait til ya fathah gets.. wait til your father gets home..."

It's in the same part of my brain as Davey & Goliath, the New Zoo Revue, Romper Room, and Captain Kangaroo.. i.e. memorable but not memorable.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

This cartoon reminded me of "Roman Holidays" with Lucy from Brady Bunch & Lassie .. Turns out she was also in New Zoo Review and about every other show in the 60s & 70s:

http://imdb.com/name/nm0272244/
http://re2.mm-b.yimg.com/image/188381895

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hold on, The Clangers isn't a cartoon

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

nor's nightmare before christmas or creature comforts

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i think this show was supposed to be hanna-barbera's answer to "all in the family," a la flintstones/honeymooners.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

Actually now that I have spent a few days subconsciously trying to fish out memories, I remember complaining to my brother how the over-the-top conservatism of the neighbor made the father come off as "reasonable" when in fact he was no such thing, and I tried to show my brother how this sort of relational positioning worked.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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