Outrageous! 10 Stars.
Perhaps the BEST entry in the series, and the longest running at 77 minutes. Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake (often been described as a lost brother of the Three Stooges!) made a heck of a team and played well off each other for years. Both were extremely talented, especially Singleton, who gets to sing in this episode, and has a marvelous voice. She sang in BLONDIE GOES LATIN, also produced in 1941.
The episode is just plain hilarious. Dagwood brings home a gigantic GREAT DANE, called Champion Chin Up, in exchange to pay off a debt, as usual. Dagwood tries to reassure exasperated Blondie, claiming they actually have an extremely valuable dog, and dog nappers may be watching? To which Blondie exclaims, "You don't happen to know any, do YOU!" In the meantime, frustrated Mr. Dithers is about to wring Dagwood's neck for messing up another deal with a client --or could Chin Up save the day?
Jonathan Hale is a hoot as Dithers, about as crafty as Dagwood was dumb, and both getting into some kind of a mess and blaming the other. William Frawley (before I LOVE LUCY) has a good part as a crafty client of Dithers who wants to win a local dog show. Thrown in for good measure is slow burn king Edgar Kennedy, playing Dr Glenn, the outraged vet ready to call the cops on everybody, because his bill hasn't been paid and the Great Dane has wrecked his office. "He's a great big, hulking BEAST, who eats, and eats and EATS!" he screams.
To note, Kennedy was starring with Arthut Lake's sister, Florence, at the time in a popular series of short film comedies at RKO Studios. That series was one of the longest running in movie history, next to the THREE STOOGES.
Watch for many other familiar faces in this episode, fun to spot the veteran actor. Don't miss Mr. Dither's beautiful Woody Ford station wagon, a collector's item today if there ever was one.
Historically, the famous Bumstead house was torn down in 2023, along with other iconic structures to make way for office buildings and new sound stages at Warner Brothers in Burbank, CA. Gone, but never forgotten. The street the house was located on was later known as Blondie Drive.
About as good as it gets for the series, written with a lot of creativity and love, and has gone on to inspire tv sitcoms. BLONDIE has been released in box sets over the years, the most popular contain the early episodes, and unedited.
Thanks to MOVIES Network for rerunning the series on Saturday mornings, like the good old days.
Perhaps the BEST entry in the series, and the longest running at 77 minutes. Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake (often been described as a lost brother of the Three Stooges!) made a heck of a team and played well off each other for years. Both were extremely talented, especially Singleton, who gets to sing in this episode, and has a marvelous voice. She sang in BLONDIE GOES LATIN, also produced in 1941.
The episode is just plain hilarious. Dagwood brings home a gigantic GREAT DANE, called Champion Chin Up, in exchange to pay off a debt, as usual. Dagwood tries to reassure exasperated Blondie, claiming they actually have an extremely valuable dog, and dog nappers may be watching? To which Blondie exclaims, "You don't happen to know any, do YOU!" In the meantime, frustrated Mr. Dithers is about to wring Dagwood's neck for messing up another deal with a client --or could Chin Up save the day?
Jonathan Hale is a hoot as Dithers, about as crafty as Dagwood was dumb, and both getting into some kind of a mess and blaming the other. William Frawley (before I LOVE LUCY) has a good part as a crafty client of Dithers who wants to win a local dog show. Thrown in for good measure is slow burn king Edgar Kennedy, playing Dr Glenn, the outraged vet ready to call the cops on everybody, because his bill hasn't been paid and the Great Dane has wrecked his office. "He's a great big, hulking BEAST, who eats, and eats and EATS!" he screams.
To note, Kennedy was starring with Arthut Lake's sister, Florence, at the time in a popular series of short film comedies at RKO Studios. That series was one of the longest running in movie history, next to the THREE STOOGES.
Watch for many other familiar faces in this episode, fun to spot the veteran actor. Don't miss Mr. Dither's beautiful Woody Ford station wagon, a collector's item today if there ever was one.
Historically, the famous Bumstead house was torn down in 2023, along with other iconic structures to make way for office buildings and new sound stages at Warner Brothers in Burbank, CA. Gone, but never forgotten. The street the house was located on was later known as Blondie Drive.
About as good as it gets for the series, written with a lot of creativity and love, and has gone on to inspire tv sitcoms. BLONDIE has been released in box sets over the years, the most popular contain the early episodes, and unedited.
Thanks to MOVIES Network for rerunning the series on Saturday mornings, like the good old days.