. . . it's hard to think of any worthwhile alternative to simply bellying up to a urinal as did Ian McKellen while delivering that line in 1995 as RICHARD III. Just think about it. Our deplorable Pretender is not even a Hunchback (despite preternaturally-small hands), and still we're under the tiny thumb of a self-confessed serial finger rapist, court-documented marital sexual assaulter, Buffoonish draft-dodger, obvious MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, infamous tax-dodger, unparalleled contract-breaker, pathological liar, braggart for barging into female changing rooms full of nude teenage bogus beauty pageant hopefuls, 8-time Emmy loser, five-time casino Bankrupter (which happens to be the World Record), notorious Racist, Misogynist, Xenophobe, and General Clown not considered sane by ANY impartial expert. Warner Bros.' always prophetic Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, the Looney Tuners) manages to endow the Dark Knight kidnapping Honey (and apparently having his way with her on his bed) with a spot-on prognostication of ALL these sorry attributes belonging to America's Game-Show-Host-in-Chief during the second half of BOSKO'S KNIGHT-MARE. Let's just hope another generation of Americans survives to enjoy this unheeded Warner Bros. warning cry!
2 Reviews
As America languishes in this, "the Winter of our Discontent" . . .
oscaralbert23 January 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The parts are better than the sum, but there are some nice bits here
llltdesq8 October 2006
This short is worth watching for some nice parts, though the cartoon as a whole is just okay, for reasons I will go into below. Consider this a spoiler warning:
The beginning basically makes it fairly clear that much of what follows is a dream sequence, as Bosko is in a rocking chair reading tales of yore about when knighthood was in flower and then falls asleep to a song on the radio and we see him in armor (armor which turns out to have more personality and energy than Bosko himself does) coming up to King Arthur's castle. There's a nice bit that may or may not be an allusion to Joe E. Brown (big mouth and all) and Bosko does a riff on Cab Calloway when greeting the Knights of the Round Table, who include, interestingly enough, caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers! There's a song, of course, and Bosko tap dances (along with several suits of armor) and this allows for some very good bits.
The short may have been better had they stuck to this "plot", but they chose instead to have the requisite bad guy fancy Honey and make off with her (why so many bad guys try to do this is a mystery, as Honey's "appeal" is on a par with Olive Oyl's) which sets up the chase and action sequences, the best part of which is Bosko's armor, with two wonderful gags I won't spoil here.
The fight to rescue Honey doesn't go well for Bosko, who is fortunate that it's all been a dream. The real ending has Bosko destroy a suit of armor, sing a few lines of a song, jump into bed, pull the sheets up and the bed lifts back up into the wall, where the audience sees a chamberpot which was under the bed.
I hope this makes it onto a future Looney Tunes Golden Collection, as there aren't too many shorts which feature caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers. Well worth watching.
The beginning basically makes it fairly clear that much of what follows is a dream sequence, as Bosko is in a rocking chair reading tales of yore about when knighthood was in flower and then falls asleep to a song on the radio and we see him in armor (armor which turns out to have more personality and energy than Bosko himself does) coming up to King Arthur's castle. There's a nice bit that may or may not be an allusion to Joe E. Brown (big mouth and all) and Bosko does a riff on Cab Calloway when greeting the Knights of the Round Table, who include, interestingly enough, caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers! There's a song, of course, and Bosko tap dances (along with several suits of armor) and this allows for some very good bits.
The short may have been better had they stuck to this "plot", but they chose instead to have the requisite bad guy fancy Honey and make off with her (why so many bad guys try to do this is a mystery, as Honey's "appeal" is on a par with Olive Oyl's) which sets up the chase and action sequences, the best part of which is Bosko's armor, with two wonderful gags I won't spoil here.
The fight to rescue Honey doesn't go well for Bosko, who is fortunate that it's all been a dream. The real ending has Bosko destroy a suit of armor, sing a few lines of a song, jump into bed, pull the sheets up and the bed lifts back up into the wall, where the audience sees a chamberpot which was under the bed.
I hope this makes it onto a future Looney Tunes Golden Collection, as there aren't too many shorts which feature caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers. Well worth watching.
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