Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 16, 2016
June 10, 2016
June 17, 2016
Transcript:
Enjoy this classic Tom the dancing bug Vintage 1996 Coming soon to USA network: The show you fondly remember… Hopsital 1973! Good Lord its hideous. Poor kid. Its worse than we feared This boy is totally devoid of any sideburns whatsoever! To go through life like that! Doctors? The boys mother is waiting. I'll talk to her! run tests! Lots of them! Mom: Is timmy alright?! when I saw That he ate a handful of "flintstones" vitamins, I rushed him right over! Thats not Timmy's problem Mrs, Philips. Brace yourself --- timmys cheeks and jawline are utterly hairless! Now, he doesnt seem to be in any pain and there are treatments, experimental in nature… Mom: So I don undertsnd… Mrs. phillips, If I may interrupt I don't want to alarm you, bu…. You've got sideburns! stretcher! stat! Next: sideburn definicency syndrome epidemic
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On the other hand, back in ‘73 you could spend a week or more in the hospital and come home to find that your insurance (whose premiums were 100% paid by your employer) had covered the entire bill. All considered, I’d put up with the sideburns and polyester leisure suits and Frye boots and bell-bottoms to get that back.