Radio Bugs

Painful beyond description. It probably would have been more fun watching Blake kill his wife.

This M-G-M comedy short, Radio Bugs, is the two hundred nineteenth entry in the "Our Gang" series and the one hundred thirty-first talkie. After listening to Red Skelton on the radio and hearing his father saying that comedians make a lot of money, Froggy convinces the gang to form a comedy act as they audition for a sponsor in a dentist's waiting room. Nobody laughs, so they're thrown out. When they go back to the bookstore, a Shakespearean actor does Hamlet in front of them which gets the gang to try drama. They audition in front of funeral directors, eventually getting laughs. I'll stop there and just say how painfully unfunny the whole thing was. It also didn't make much sense as there's no sense of preparation in either acts. The only interesting thing was hearing Skelton's voice. So on that note, Radio Bugs gets a raspberry. P.S. This was one of three films in the series directed by Cyril Enfield. I think this may be the worst of them... Oh, and Mickey Rooney's father, Joe Yule Sr. who was previously in Mighty Lak a Goat, reappears here as one of the dental patients.