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• 1 trumpysmagicsnout on Jul 8, 2008 at 11:08 am

  I like how Crankcase (or Rapeseed, they look so alike) appears to put down a line of sand, as if that makes it authentic or something!

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  Reply from Neb on July 8, 2008:

  That, dear Trumpy, is how one does “the ole’ softshoe”.

• 2 MST3Kelly on Jul 8, 2008 at 11:46 am

  we’ve got to bring back vaudeville, somehow. it was cheap, it was SILLY, and it celebrated an entirely different kind of talent than what is lauded today. my mother was taken by her mother to see the Marx Brothers when they played San Francisco on the vaudeville circuit.
  vaudeville had a little to offer for everyone.
  and it was of the moment.
  but mostly, it was cheap and silly!

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• 3 Tv Miller on Jul 8, 2008 at 11:48 am

  Little known Vaudevillian info, Crankcase and Rapeseed was the only time a young Moe Howard and a young Groucho Marx teamed up, only to be broken up mere days later by a gender confusion incident when the sand was a little too slippery.

  And Max Wall, that pre-dates Neoplatonism and nearly the dapper John Cleese. I almost needed a John Edwards sayance to dig that out of the old memory banks. I didn’t realize you were so elderly Mr. Nelson. Though senior discount tickets to Beverly Hills Chihuahua can make up for a lot of things.

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• 4 Shawn on Jul 8, 2008 at 11:52 am

  M… m-Mike? What are those two men doing?

  And why are they doing it in front of a lot of people?

  Ehhhh-heh-heh-heeeeeehhhhhhh *sob*

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  Reply from Mr. Slick on July 8, 2008:

  They’re doing it because Mike touches himself @ night.

• 5 Mr. Slick on Jul 8, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  I died a little inside

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• 6 Ben on Jul 8, 2008 at 1:06 pm

  Man, the torture under Saddam’s regime knew no bounds, did it?

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• 7 DoughyGuy on Jul 8, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  That is so weird it makes Klaus Nomi look like Pat Boone

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• 8 Onil on Jul 8, 2008 at 1:42 pm

  They’ve all obviously taken lessons from Corky St. Clair.

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• 9 Glyn on Jul 8, 2008 at 2:50 pm

  Ah, the ancient and humiliating Egyptian ‘Pre-Op’ dance in which the participants must prove their femininity by dancing in front of a room full of doctors.
  I’m so glad they outlawed that.

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• 10 RemmieBarrow on Jul 8, 2008 at 3:08 pm

  At least those two clips made me forget all about that hidious “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” trailer.

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  Reply from Neb on July 8, 2008:

  Perhaps that was Mr. Nelson’s magnanimous intent. Still, I don’t know which is worse, the chihuahua thing, or those two (albeit talented) dancers hoofing around in those short “chitons” and little pants.

• 11 Marty (Gromit) on Jul 8, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  What is it with English guys and funny walks?

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• 12 James Shearhart on Jul 8, 2008 at 8:04 pm

  I came back to teh internets fer this?!

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• 13 Dan Noutko-Kennedy on Jul 8, 2008 at 8:12 pm

  Crankcase & Rapeseed, originators of the Pas de Doofus

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• 14 Smuttynose on Jul 9, 2008 at 6:19 am

  Whatever happened to the other brother, Neatsfoot?

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• 15 Brian O. on Jul 9, 2008 at 7:15 am

  I wish I could have snagged his performance on Spike Jones & the City Slickers, but this Wilbur Hall performance will have to do:
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=meuNWgl2ko8

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  Reply from Brian O. on July 9, 2008:

  I take that back, here ya goes!
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=18LA4TN9jqM

• 16 Yoggie on Jul 9, 2008 at 8:23 am

  Word it that they had to include that dance in the movie because Crankcase and Rapeseed were the twin sons of the director’s brother’s uncle’s wife’s sister’s cousin’s nephew.

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• 17 Amanda on Jul 9, 2008 at 8:28 am

  Don’t make me respect people like Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider.

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• 18 Doktorsleepless on Jul 9, 2008 at 10:01 am

  Rapeseed huh? The good ole days of Hollywood where people didn’t need to change their name. Like good ole Rapist Mcgee, star of both the silver screen and golf.

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• 19 Tammy on Jul 9, 2008 at 10:08 am

  AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH! MY EYES!!

  Mike how do you FIND this stuff??

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• 20 Michaela on Jul 10, 2008 at 11:59 am

  Is it just me or do Crankcase and Rapeseed look a tad emaciated?

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