The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for September 01, 2022

Looks like the Cha-cha-chase is over!

She’ll be Carmen Miranda Mountain when she comes…

I thought it was that you have the right to either stand on the corner of 42nd St and 5th Ave with the fruit basket on your head OR spend time in jail.

Anything you sing will be held against you on YouTube forever.

“You want to sing, you want to dance, you want to ha-cha-cha your life away.”

If anyone here doesn’t know who Carmen Miranda was, take the trouble to look her up on YouTube. She was a delight.

Several Warner Bros cartoons featured imitations of Carmen Miranda. That’s the only way I knew of her act. And I think Chiquita Banana on the fruit commercial was an imitation, too.

Daffy Duck imitation:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZOhsVdFA2Y

Bugs Bunny imitation:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sjeveGthEYk

Chiquita Banana

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ZXt0db5OI

Is that a banana in your hat or are just glad to see me?

…if you cannot afford a fruit basket, one will be provided for you.

However, it is strongly recommended that you don’t dance if asked to walk a straight line. (Dance in your head all you want.)

before i speak english you americans treat me like i was a great foreign star. now you act like i am slightly half-wit baby.

I dunno. Lots of mafia bosses sang when caught.

is anybody but us geezers going to get this?

Having to wear a fruit basket on their heads would probably lower the recidivism rate.

The surprising thing about this cartoon is that it’s taken over fifty years for anyone to come up with this joke.

Is that how Opus got his hat ?

Great one, Scott!

Doubt there will be any protesting over that arrest.

This arrest is just all for show, :)

What happens if you give up these rights?

A filk song about her – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbs4Ei—Gk4&list=PLGZbuWTzf2mJRhrSLMS7Pm2pF8FDZkSXh

However, your rights end at the Sarong. Heavy Lipstick, maybe. We’re only Woke to a point.

Just a matter of time until the U.S. Supreme Court strikes this down too.

If you are convicted the banana in the fruit basket has the right to a peel.

Actually, the “right” to sing on Broadway could be valuable. Especially if you can sell it to the highest bidder.

Are they sending him to Sing-Sing?

All he needs to do to make it purrfect is to add Meow to it.

But do I have the right to sing the blues?

Ah, thanks, one for us old-timers.

Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande