Friday, August 31, 2012

Customers Wanted

The concept of reusing footage from old shows in a "flashback" episode is not new, as demonstrated by this Popeye cartoon from 1939.  Popeye and Bluto own competing penny arcades on the boardwalk, and in their attempts to woo Wimpy as a customer, they give him free access to their nickelodeons featuring clips from their previous cartoons.  From the Internet Archive, here is Customers Wanted

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