• Drahken
    • 3 years 8 days ago
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    		 This has been bugging me for ages....
    Back around the mid-80s, there was a segment during morning cartoons (I'm reasonably certain it was saturdays, but it may have been sundays, since at least one station had some sunday morning toons & shows). I think it was on ABC. It was an interstitial kind of thing, like schoolhouse rock or one to grow on. It had a guy saying "the time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. [something something] sealing wax, and other fancy things", with a dark colored animation. IIRC, the animation was just sort of objects floating across the screen. The segment was not directly related to alice in wonderland/through the looking glass, aside from a few lines from the poem (and maybe some images, I don't recall for certain), and it didn't recite the whole poem, just those few lines.

    Does anyone remember this & know the title, what it was about, or anything else that might be helpful?
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    • yhaz
      • 3 years 8 days ago
      • Posts: 131
      		 The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things ff shoesand shipsand sealing wax of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings.

      - Lewis Carroll
      "What" ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What?
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      • yhaz
        • 3 years 8 days ago
        • Posts: 131
        		 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
        Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
        All mimsy were the borogoves,
        And the mome raths outgrabe.

        "Beware the Jabberwock, my son
        The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
        Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
        The frumious Bandersnatch!"

        He took his vorpal sword in hand;
        Long time the manxome foe he sought'
        So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
        And stood awhile in thought.

        And, as in uffish thought he stood,
        The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
        Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
        And burbled as it came!

        One, two! One, two! And through and through
        The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
        He left it dead, and with its head
        He went galumphing back.

        "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
        Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
        O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
        He chortled in his joy.

        'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
        Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
        All mimsy were the borogoves,
        And the mome raths outgrabe.

        - Lewis Carroll
        "What" ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What?
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        • yhaz
          • 3 years 8 days ago
          • Posts: 131
          		 Through the Looking Glass / Alice in Wonderland
          "What" ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What?
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          • Drahken
            • 3 years 8 days ago
            • Posts: 1237
            		 *facepalm*
            Congrats on completely missing the point. *rolleyes*
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            • OoklaTheMok
              • 8 months 2 days ago
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              		 I know this question is 2 years old, but I am in the same boat as Drahken, so I thought I'd give this a bump. As I recall, the objects floating around the screen during the intro to the segment were animated wood-cuts, but I don't remember anything else.

              To restate the original question - does anyone remember the title, what this show was about, what network it was on, or anything else?
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