{"id":4165,"date":"2003-06-19T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2003-06-19T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T20:23:10","slug":"all-evening-ive-been-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/06\/19\/all-evening-ive-been-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"All evening, I&#8217;ve been trying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All evening, I&#8217;ve been trying to find reference to a Tex Avery cartoon that featured the &quot;Figaro, Figaro, Figaro&quot; song from Puccini&#8217;s Barber of Seville. And I wasn&#8217;t thinking of the Bugs Bunny cartoon &quot;Rabbit of Seville&quot; or even the Woody Woodpecker classic that featured that song. Nope, I knew it was definitely an MGM cartoon directed by Tex Avery.<br \/>\nIt was, of course, Magical Maestro (details can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcdb.com\/bcdb\/detailed.cgi?film=2929\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Big Cartoon Database\">here<\/a>), which featured a &quot;leet-ul maaag-ic wand!&quot;, and is, almost without doubt, one of the funniest cartoons ever made. It was also one of the last that Tex Avery made for MGM. If ever you get a chance to see it uncut (a scene where Poochini is transmogrified into a Chinaman and then a black man is now often cut, even though there is absolutely nothing racist or offensive about it), be sure to empty your bladder before you watch it.<br \/>\nFor more on Tex Avery, get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0306802481\/grayblog-21\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Amazon\">this book<\/a>, which happens to be in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/wishlist\/TMQUMSF9FYT6\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Amazon wishlist\">wishlist<\/a> [hint].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All evening, I&#8217;ve been trying to find reference to a Tex Avery cartoon that featured the &quot;Figaro, Figaro, Figaro&quot; song from Puccini&#8217;s Barber of Seville. And I wasn&#8217;t thinking of the Bugs Bunny cartoon &quot;Rabbit of Seville&quot; or even the Woody Woodpecker classic that featured that song. Nope, I knew it was definitely an MGM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}