Someone get those Beaumonts some anger management!
Above is a scene from
Education Era, one of the oldest
Richard Beaumont episodes (this one dates back to something 1996). In it, Richard is horrified by the lack of intelligence of younger children, and he steals Percival Pig, the popular children's cartoon character, to use in a microcomputer prodecure designed to teach his classmates all about the wonders of arithmetic and grammar.
The cartoon begins with Baby Orson spazzing out in front of the television. Richard hears the noise and comes to investigate, and sees that Orson is watching Percival Pig careening around the farmyard and singing grammatically incorrect songs.
"I say!" remarks Richard. "It appears that this dang cartoon has made Baby Orson zany in the brainy!"
He's having none of it. He marches over and switches off the television. Orson is, of course, extremely distressed, and immediately bursts into tears. Abraham and Hilda come rushing to see what could be causing such a disturbance, and they have stern words with Richard, who is unrepentant.
"What the devil's got into you, Richard?" demands Abraham. "Cartoons improve the mind and the body!"
"I hate that bloody pig!!" screams Richard, and defaces a poster of Percival Pig that happens to be hanging on the wall. Abraham puts Richard over his knee and gives him a spanking to knock some sense into him.
But this only hardens Richard's resolve to do something about Percival Pig - the world will go to pot with children watching his show every day - and the next day, at school, he is horrified to discover that all his classmates have done very badly in their most recent test...
Especially David, who got an F.
"Poor David!" wails Richard, as he walks home from school that day. "Teacher just does not understand that the work is too hard for him. What can I do to help?"
Suddenly, he looks up and sees the visage of the hated Percival Pig staring down at him from a billboard. He feels as if the porker who has caused this plague of ignorance is mocking him. Then, suddenly, he has a brainwave! He will take the pig's image and transform him into a tool of education, hitting back at the perverters of humand minds with the very weapon they created...
Stay tuned for more!
2 Comments:
What I really want to know is - what is that hat, and where did young Richard get it from?
By Baron Scarpia, at 23:21
It's his top hat. He probably picked it up at the flea market. I drew it on him because I thought it was funny - a bit like the bow-ties he and Abraham wear.
By Whiggles, at 23:25
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