Whipped Cream Difficulties

The penultimate entry seems like a good time for some randomness.

Let’s start with a final entry from the AT&T Archives: “Telezonia”.

It’s also plainly one of the most psychedelic in the AT&T catalog. How to grab kid’s attentions in the middle of the 1970s? If you thought you could learn about dialing and using the phone book from talking foam letters, numbers, and a guy in a skirt, you came to the right place. It starts off like a typical short film cautionary tale, but once they take a trip inside the telephone, things go terribly weird. This film is a cult classic.

Lawrence, this is for you:

Robert Towers, who plays the halfway-creepy guide “Telly”, has had an illustrious — if bizarre — career, including being inside the Snorky costume on the Banana Splits, as one of the Benjamin Buttons in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the singing voice of Snoopy in the TV version of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. Though for much of his career he did voices for animation, in the 2000s, he has done more acting in television comedies.

The weird starts about two minutes in.

Bonus #1: As long as we’re talking about “psychedelic”: “Narcotics: Pit of Despair”.

This 1967 color film dramatizes the dangers of casual drug use by telling the story of a young student who tries marijuana at a party and later becomes addicted to heroin.

Bonus #2: Couldn’t get away without one more bit of random gun crankery. This is part of an episode of “Wild West Tech” (an old History Channel show) talking about holsters.

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