Announcer (Clark Cable): You are nearing the end of our Channel 85 broadcast cycle. At this time, we are proudly required to present our community spokesman for the religion of your choice. And now, Rear-Reverend Sport Trendleberg will give up this day.
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Rev. Trendleberg: Good morning, or good evening, or good afternoon. How difficult to know what time it is when you’re locked in a tiny room with artificial light.
Let me scare you with a little story:
A fruit underwent a Danish operation and became a nun. Well, every day, she went for a quick dip in the same canal outside the monastery. One day, unable to kick her habit, she dove in, and dragged down by the heavy black garments, drowned, and was found by a fisherman of a different face…eh, f-faith, who happened by. He was a common man; and when he asked his god, or devil, why this had not happened to him, he got no reply. And so, he took her shoes and walked away, preferring not to get involved.
So then, what are we afraid of? Fear, like pain, may just be god’s way of hurting us.
Good bless you, and god-night…and please don’t touch that dial.
~ “TV or Not TV” (1973)—Proctor & Bergman (Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman of Firesign Theatre fame.)
👉Take a trip into the surreal world with Fred Flamm, director of washed and un-watched programing, co-owner and co-partner with his co-operator Clark Cable, re-producer at Channel 85.
Based on this sketch, and on the idea of the Casablanca cast getting transported/isekai’d to a fantasy realm, and me wanting an excuse to draw 17th century inspired clothing - voilà
From left to right: Ugarte dressed up nicely with the assasin’s guild emblem next to him, Rick and Sam in their 17th century tuxedos and the emblem of Sam’s café/tavern in between them, Captain Renault as flashy as he deserves to be with the guardsman’s emblem, and Ilsa Lund with her coat of arms. It was a fun drawing this!