Will our hero survive the deadly high-kicking chorus line known as The Zildjian Follies? Will the contortionists bend him in half? Can he possibly survive a confrontation with The Vaudevillain? Find out!
The Vaudevillain, episode
This episode is also available on Youtube, and in audio formats other than mp3 on archive.org.
Show Notes:
1. This episode was inspired by listening to an episode of Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, a roundtable discussion about Abbot & Costello from November 23rd, 2020. https://megaphone.link/STA4581019929
2. The “Stranger with a Kind Face” is one of the names of a comedy routine credited to several performers. The most widely known versions today might be the Three Stooges’ “Slowly I Turn/Niagara Falls” routine or Abbott & Costello’s “Susquehanna Hat Company.”
Slowly I turn - Niagara Falls - Three Stooges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJBhzMWJCc
Susquehanna Hat Co./Bagel Street - Abbott & Costello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZV5g1CNZM
Niagara Falls - Abbott & Costello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMpcSTlB70
Who’s on First - Abbott & Costello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
3. The Vaudevillain mistakenly announced that the insurance commercial sketch began with Froggy onstage. Due to a last minute switch of roles, it was actually Peetie playing the man on phone and Froggy playing Mr. Christian. The Vaudevillain doesn’t pay enough attention to his performers to notice that they had switched.
4. I don’t vouch for the authenticity of the description of a 1789 Royal Navy Lieutenant’s uniform. What Mr. Christian describes in the sketch was taken from an auction for Brando’s costume from the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty. It sounded convincing enough.
Music and Sound Effects Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Title: Final Can Can section from the overture to Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld (1858)
License: Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Offenbach_-_Orpheus_in_the_Underworld_-_Overture,_Can_Can_section.ogg
Title: Cloth Flaps
By Sauron974
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Sauron974/sounds/188733/
Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/
Cracking, splintering wood sound
Title: falling gumtree.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/ianoboe/sounds/150203/
Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Title: DANCING-STEPS-FEET-WOODEN-FLOOR.wav
By Maurice_J_K
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Maurice_J_K/sounds/343724/
Title: Fanfarenzug Ottheinrich (9). “Bläser, Trommler und Fahnenschwinger des Fanfarenzuges Ottheinrich beim Mittelalterfest in Eggenburg (11. Sept. 2011).”
By Dancona11 (Youtube uploader), Fanfarenzug Ottheinrich (Musicians)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXwjCa-smmA
Music to contort by:
Title: Follies.wav
By daveincamas
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/44074/
Title: Vintage Camera Flash Powder and Shutter
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Werra/sounds/232130/
Title: Hitting in a Face
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/460509/
Title: Punch in the face
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Huminaatio/sounds/390462/
Title: punch.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Ekokubza123/sounds/104183/
The image associated with this episode is a modified cover image from Dime Detective Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Feb 1951). Public domain. Artist unknown, maybe Norman Saunders.
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