There’s only one way to open a Halloween post: TRICK OR TREAT! Metaphorically speaking, of course. Although if you come to my house I’ll give you a chocolate peanut butter pumpkin. Offer good while supplies last! For those of us who can only grasp hands through the magic of the internet, however, I offer you an alternative. Behold: a...
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Hello and welcome back to Thoughts While Watching, where we watch vintage Disney media and react to it in real time! Today we will be tackling a curious hybrid: The Reluctant Dragon, a Disney feature film that premiered in 1941. WHAT’S SO CURIOUS ABOUT THE RELUCTANT DRAGON? The Reluctant Dragon is ostensibly a Walt Disney Studios feature film… but...
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Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Thoughts While Watching. Today we will be plumbing the depths of my Disney lore. Journey back with me two decades in the past as we uncover… MY WALT DISNEY WORLD ORIGIN STORY. WE ARE NOT A DISNEY FAMILY I do not come from a Disney family. I don’t mean this...
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A couple weeks ago I dropped a post about Davy Crockett in honor of my dad, who is a big Fess Parker fan. Seeing as how last Sunday was Father’s Day, I thought it might be fun to revisit ol’ Fess in my latest Thoughts While Watching post. (Bonus: it works for Juneteenth tomorrow too!) Turns out, in addition...
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It’s taken forever, but we’re finally doing it! Let’s complete the loop with a look at the Epcot opening television special. After a whirlwind couple of months recapping my Dopey Challenge and Fairytale Challenge runDisney weekends, we’re settling back into our regularly scheduled blog programming. And you know I can’t resist starting with another installment of my Thoughts While...
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Hello and welcome once again to my inescapable series Thoughts While Watching, where we watch old Disney media with new eyes. And can you think of any more appropriate entry for December than the Wonderful World of Disney episode “Disneyland Around the Seasons”? This 1966 time capsule captures exactly what you’re craving this time of year: vintage footage of...
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Hello and welcome back to my Thoughts While Watching series, where we dig up very-to-kinda old Disney media and react to it in real time. Culture then, meet culture now. FIGHT! (Kidding, kidding. Mostly. 😜) This week we’re going back to what I once called the ugliest decade, and I stand by it: the ’80s! Not that nothing positive...
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Hello and welcome back to my continuing series Thoughts While Watching, where we watch vintage-to-vintage-ish Disney media with modern eyes and wonder accordingly. Today we’re setting the time machine to waywayback – let’s visit Disneyland with Uncle Walt again! I’ve pulled another episode of The Wonderful World of Disney (Color?), this one called “Disneyland After Dark.” I went in...
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Welcome back to Thoughts While Watching, my long running series where I watch vintage-to-vintage-ish Disney parks media and react to it in real time. Sometimes it’s the values that take us aback, sometimes just the fashion, but it’s always a good time! Last time I queued up the then-called MGM-Studios opening TV special, after which I polled my Instagram...
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Welcome back to my long running series Thoughts While Watching, where I react to vintage Disney and Disney parks media in real time. Vintage video + modern sensibilities = comedy, I guess? Almost two years ago exactly, I gave the TWW treatment to the Magic Kingdom grand opening television special. I must be slow on the uptake, because it...
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