Kukla, Fran and Ollie/"The New Yorker" Article

"The New Yorker" Article
Season 3, Episode 160
Airdate	March 17, 1950
Written by	Burr Tillstrom
Directed by	Lewis Gomavitz
Produced by	Beulah Zachary
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Kukla, Fran and Ollie — Season Three

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"The New Yorker" Article is the one hundred and sixtieth episode of the third season of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

Starring: Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Oliver J. Dragon, Cecil Bill, Fletcher Rabbit) and Fran Allison.

Plot Overview

From the YouTube description: "Kukla and Ollie read articles about themselves in Radio Album Magazine and The New Yorker, but Kukla gets upset over disparaging remarks in the New Yorker calling their conversations “obscure”. In order to seem less so, they stage a wrestling match between Cecil Bill and Fletcher, with Fran as referee. Musical Numbers include "Children Have Quizzical Ways" (traditional)."

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

The review that set this chain of events into motion was Philip Hamburger's laudatory write-up of CBS's Mister I. Magination in the March 18th New Yorker, during which he took side-swipes at KFO and the "blood and thunder" elements of Captain Video.

On March 19th, reader Nina Bourne wrote a letter in defense of fellow subscriber Kukla: "My dear sirs, I could not be more shocked if someone had called (magazine mascot) Mr. Tilley a 'pinhead.' [...] I am sure Mr. Hamburger meant no harm. Had he known what a thoroughly nice and sensitive character Kukla is, I'm sure he would have bitten off his typewriter before making such a faux pas." Although the New Yorker didn't have a letters column at the time, they eventually printed it several decades later.

Music critic Deems Taylor was more to the point, sending Tillstrom a telegram which read, "HAMBURGER DOESN'T KNOW HIS ONIONS."

Quotes

• Ollie (reading from the magazine): "If anybody is under the impression that passages of T.S. Eliot's 'The Cocktail Party' are obscure, I suggest he listen to the conversations between that dragon and that..."

Kukla (quietly): Pinhead.

Ollie: Kukla, what's a cocktail?

Kukla: Shrimp