Stoner Vision has returned. Let’s get jacked and see what magically appears… man, my hands are HUGE!
Mr. Hornet is based heavily on the ’60s TV show “The Green Hornet” logo. Al Hirt did a phenomenal job on the “Flight of the Bumble Bee” for the theme and of course I fell instantly in love with the Black Beauty. The show wasn’t nearly as campy as “Batman” and featured an up and coming Bruce Lee who showed us Americans how to kick ass. Don’t even get me started on that damned film they made a couple years back. Another example of taking something and having Hollywood totally f**k with it. I refused to see it based on the actor chosen to play the lead. Ugh. Though the car looked bad-assed.
So enjoy Mr. Hirt’s rendition of “Bumble Bee” even though the show was about a Green Hornet. Ah, well, you know us TV type never give much thought to logic…
httpvh://youtu.be/3zXx0ReqOOI
Hey Doc, did you see the size of that chicken.
Your G+ comment gave me the reference for that as at first I had no idea where it was from! Nice line…
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Stop smoking that stuff. 🙂
By the way, the Green Hornet theme is one of the bests in TV’s history. Great version here. 🙂
Don’t whatever became of Al Hirt, but man, he could play that trumpet like no one I can remember. I’ve seen Maynard Ferguson in concert in college and was duly impressed too.
Oh, and the gang’s not gonna stop smoking any time soon, so expect more of this.
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Dude, you should have used The Brown Hornet from Fat Albert. That was totally 70s…
Fat Albert was *not* a cartoon I watched. By the ’70s, I was… erm, distracted by other activities on the weekends, so I missed most of the Saturday Morning cartoon stuff.
I shall Google that and see what it’s all about!
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netflix instant view has Fat Albert and each episode has a brown hornet clip in it.
Hornets totally love spleen. True fact. Just wait ’til the gang finds the MotherShip. Spleen juice. Everywhere. I sure wouldn’t want to be them … 😀
Yah, and totally … the Brown Hornet. If you’re ever running short on ideas to wallpaper the kids & cast up, you could always re-interpret Fat Albert and the gang, maybe sort of a race-reversal/ other-side-of-the-mirror kinda thing. Not sure how that would work. More of a concept in progress.
Hmmmmm … one of the girls as Weird Harold. OKay. Bad Idea. Time for some brain bleach and shake the Etch-A-Sketch a bit to clear that vision. 😯
i see them as more the Speed Buggy crowd.
If I -EVER- saw a bee that big, I kid you not, I’d shit my pants! #TrueStory
I shit my pants at the site of some spiders, so a bug THAT big would give me instant heart failure… then I’d shit my pants.
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Hahaha! I recall the first time I ate shrooms in college, I spent the night watching a hornet fight a spider. It was quite interesting. 😀
Oh, do share these stories! Great fodder for future 1977 stories!
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The timing of this comic is perfect with the movie release of “Hunger Games”. No doubt you saw the movie and were inspired by the hornet’s nest scene within.
Hmmm… no. I have not seen the “Hunger Games” and more than likely will not see it either. I’m not a big fan of Hollywood films and I do my best to avoid them these days. I see no reason to give them money when they give us the trash they do. Once Adam Sandler and Will Ferrel stop making films, then I may be encouraged to see more films… until then… no.
This is from an old fart, so take it with a grain of salt.. I rant easily.
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“Al Hirt did a phenomenal job on the “Flight of the Bumble Bee” for the theme(…)”
Um…no. The Green Hornet theme is, vaguely, structurally similar to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumble Bee”, but that’s about all.
Compare: Green Hornet theme – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuoNLnrPlFM
Flight of the Bumble Bee – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE (Note: This is a longer version than what I usually hear. Most versions last about 1:30 or so.)
I think that confusion arises because “Flight of the Bumble Bee” *was* used as the introductory music for the 1939 serial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH73nAKogXM
“(…)of course I fell instantly in love with the Black Beauty.”
*NOT* gonna argue with you on this one! Black Beauty was *AWESOME!!!* (Mainly because it looked like a *car* rather than a freak of Nature…)
I speak too loosely for some folks, and indeed your are correct… but for the average numbskull (me) out there, it’s essentially the Flight of the Bumble Bee. I bow to your expertise on this one.
And yes, the car was even more cool because it was just that… a modified car. I was way more into NASCAR when they actually raced *stock* cars, not these manufactured racing machines of the day.
In 1969, you could buy and drive the same God-damn car that Richard Petty drove. Now, that was “race on Sunday, sell on Monday” for sure.
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Boy, I’m in rant-mode today. Sorry if I’m on my soap box…
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Once, whilst fripping my trains out, I befriended the most colorful bug in the universe. I awoke the next day naked on the kitchen floor with a dead grey moth on my stomach.
LOL! You made me spit out my sweet-tea and that story will make into the comic someday (or at least a desktop).
Nice!
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Lol! Little hornet my ass! This guy must be too wasted to realize how huge that thing is xD! Well, this is he 70s’ and all, so…Everyone and their mothers used to get high off theirrrr asses!
Yes, we did…
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Hmm. As usual, I’m the dissenting vote here. Knowing almost nothing of 1960s telly apart from Star Trek, The Prisoner, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Doctor Who, and Corrie, I went to see the Seth Rogen-Jay Chou film last year and thought it was terrific fun (as did the rest of the party). I’ve less than zero interest in seeing the original telly series as it sounds to be as awful as the Batman ones was – I’ve finally been subjected to a couple of clips of *that*, and, like, eww eww EWW.
But let’s not argue 😀
Well, to be honest, I refused to see the film as I’m not a Rogen fan, and that’s just me being an old fart. I have no love for the original TV series, but I do remember it being more fun than Batman. I’ve only seen bits and pieces in the past 40 years and it was better than the Batman TV show by a long shot. Today, Batman is just… awful. I didn’t really like it back then, just the car (a theme in my life, can you tell?)
I should have been a custom car builder it seems…
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I was born in the 90’s, and personally, Iliked Tim Burton’s Aninmated series…it not only gave it more of a detective feel, but the Voice-acting and 40’s feel to Gotham both made me appreciate the past and the wonderful things I’ve missed out on (LIke the original Star Wars in cinema) And shaped my interest in science while mmaintaining my morals. The Shows may have sucked, but the legacy lives!!
That said, The cars back then make the ones nowadays feel like a letdown….
Ah well, my only previous experience of Seth Rogen was Pineapple Express, a fairly amusing stoner film I saw on a random pick with some friends a few years ago. I do have to admit that otherwise he appears to make the kinds of films I wouldn’t see on a bet o_0
One, loved the Green Hornet/ Batman Crossover episodes, but otherwise, never watched the entire series. Which I regret. Still, good chouice for today’s comic..
In relation to hornets, the fact that Bud hasn’t been stabbed by it’s stinger shows just how lucky he is, and I happen to have the same luck. Entymology is my thing, and Hornets of most species are not friendly in the least. With that Red and White combo on, he’s lucky it isn’t morethan one, since they’re agressive alone. Still, if it tralked, I’d be going for a Pool net and a Giant 12-Gallon Tupperware container. Cha-Ching!
I watched both as a kid, I liked batman better however. I was a fan of Bruce Lee, however. Found out a little while ago that he was supposed to get the Kung Fu role, instead of Carradine. Would have been a better series, in my opinion.