Combining
Tom Lehrer with
Spike Jones (would that make Tom Jones?) and
Nichols and May with Joe Friday (a May weekend perhaps?), musical comedian
Stan Freberg skewers everyone from Walt Disney to
Cole Porter. Mumbling through "Sh-Boom,"
Freberg drags "The Great Pretender" snarling to "The Heartbreak Hotel," snares "The Yellow Rose of Texas," and takes
Harry Belafonte's famous "Banana Boat" sniffling down Lonnie Donnegan's "Rock Island Line." Along the way, he reveals Little Red Riding Hood's true colors, turns Chicken Little over to a shrink, arrests a dragon for overacting (a "dragonet" -- get it?! Duuumb da-dumb dumb!), and puts Ebeneezer Scrooge in the modern-day business world (not a far stretch!). Musical? Maybe. Funny? Definitely!