The birth of time. Should we be upset? What if we could go back in time and stop it? Would you want to? How about if it meant that you’d never age, Hmmmm?
What can you say about “I Love Cleo”, that hasn’t been said 1,000 times before?
Most watched show in basset television history.
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Because Cleo more or less invented the move from fragile kinescopes of early live broadcasts, to using a live audience, but shooting each episode on actual 35mm film, her production company amassed a huge library of filmed episodes… something that had never been done before.
She then invented syndication, and could have made a fortune out of selling the rights to rebroadcasting them.
But she’s a basset hound, so she accepted payment in kibble and old soup bones.
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Today she has a garage full of dried up, smelly bones. But you never know when you’ll need one right? To say nothing of all the kibble.
I mean, it’s said that all the way through the 1990s, there was never a moment that one episode or another was not being shown somewhere in the world.
That’s a LOTTA kibble!
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Early on, Cleo sort of fell in love with Dogsie Arfnez, a Cuban Havanese dog, who led a band in his beautiful fur coat, and howled romantic tunes in Basset Spanish.
She wanted to mate with him and have him act as the husband on her show.
But the network said audiences would not like to see a pedigreed basset hound involved with another breed… So she said “OK”, and that was the end of that.
Hey, dogs are different from humans, and she had things to do!
When’s the next batch of manna coming in?
i love this strip’s title …. ‘divine comedy’ !!
Somebody please take me home.
MY puppy!!
ears!
NOSE!
The birth of time. Should we be upset? What if we could go back in time and stop it? Would you want to? How about if it meant that you’d never age, Hmmmm?
Too late!
I wouldn’t be able to kill off all those cute little baby times (time puppies?)
I’d have to find homes for them, just like someone (or something) did, long ago, at the time of this picture.
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You see, even in talking about it, I automatically know it was a certain time, so time was already growing and multiplying.
I think there was lots of it, when that started to happen.
Now, of course, there are so many people, and interactions, and so much to do, we never have enough time.
But they had more time then. One more hour in the day, to be precise.
Beverly Hills c. 1920
They probably had enough water then, even without restrictions.
Wish I could go back and buy a few empty acres.
They sold out for almost nothing.
that’s the ‘valley’ in the way back, so that must be ‘laurel canyon’ in the center back crossing the hill.
electric sidewalk car in Venice, CA–c.1920
Shave and a haircut. Six bits.
She considered herself to be a Clown, above everything else.
And she approached it like a professional.
I still love Lucy.
Those cuts are the classics, but I like all the shows.
Looks like Cleo missed out on a lead role
I hope that pup is not shlopping up plutanium contaminated water.
NOSES!!
The young Lucille Ball glamour shot shows a path she decided not to take, and that is why we all remember her so fondly.
She tried to take it for a while, but it wasn’t her nature, especially being a dumb blonde.
A nice collection of Cleo’s more entrepreneurial moments.
love it icy cold!
With a sprinkle of salt.
never tried it that way… b/p medication..
What can you say about “I Love Cleo”, that hasn’t been said 1,000 times before?
Most watched show in basset television history.
…
Because Cleo more or less invented the move from fragile kinescopes of early live broadcasts, to using a live audience, but shooting each episode on actual 35mm film, her production company amassed a huge library of filmed episodes… something that had never been done before.
She then invented syndication, and could have made a fortune out of selling the rights to rebroadcasting them.
But she’s a basset hound, so she accepted payment in kibble and old soup bones.
…
Today she has a garage full of dried up, smelly bones. But you never know when you’ll need one right? To say nothing of all the kibble.
I mean, it’s said that all the way through the 1990s, there was never a moment that one episode or another was not being shown somewhere in the world.
That’s a LOTTA kibble!
….
Early on, Cleo sort of fell in love with Dogsie Arfnez, a Cuban Havanese dog, who led a band in his beautiful fur coat, and howled romantic tunes in Basset Spanish.
She wanted to mate with him and have him act as the husband on her show.
But the network said audiences would not like to see a pedigreed basset hound involved with another breed… So she said “OK”, and that was the end of that.
Hey, dogs are different from humans, and she had things to do!
….
We ALL still love Cleo!
Even earlier Lucille Ball, the human Cleo wannabe… but famous in her own right, to a degree.
My mother always thought of her as beautiful and glamorous, even playing Lucy on TV.
We kids, who grew up watching her mugging, in overdone red hair and exaggerated makeup, couldn’t see her beauty, and mom couldn’t understand that.
From Roman Scandals, 1933
we have a brand new poster today! ‘i love cleo!’ and all kinds of classic videos to go along with it! thanks!
aka Daleandkristen
The GRAPE STOMPING episode. Oh, my poor bladder must be emptied BEFORE watching.