Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales: Difference between revisions

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Total Television created this [[Animated Series]] for [[CBS]] in 1963 as a response to the famous "vast wasteland" speech given two years earlier by Newton Minow, who was then head of the FCC.

 

* [[The Ace]]/[[Parody Sue]]: Commander McBragg

''Or so says the brag of McBragg!'' }}

* [[All Just a Dream]]: Tennessee's [[American Civil War]] dream in "Tell-Tale Telegraph".

* [[Rain Dance]]: Chumley attempts one (indoors!) in the episode ''The Rainmakers'', and it does nothing. This is, of course, the lead-in to Professor Whoopee's explanation of what really makes rain.

* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: As recited by Mr. Lizard the Wizard every time Tooter got himself into a jam.

''Time for dis vun to come home''. }}

* [[Shout-Out]]: In 1998 when the Houston Oilers moved to Nashville, Tennessee, ESPN's Chris Berman referred to the team as the Tennessee Tuxedos.