Shaggy Dog Stories
I was reading a film review this morning in Time Out New York and the reviewer likened the movie to a "Shaggy Dog story". I had never heard of this expression, so I looked it up this morning when I got into work. A Shaggy Dog story is a long-winded tale leading up to a really bad pun.
Supposedly, Disney's Shaggy Dog and the Shaggy D.A. are shaggy dog stories of sorts and if anyone knows bad puns, it's Disney! A boy who becomes a dog and then grows up to become a D.A. Classic!
We had to watch these wretched movies in Catholic school. They were considered holiday treats for us. So every Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day we would go to the auditorium after lunch and watch the films and then go back to class. There was "That Darn Cat", "Escape From Witch Mountain", "The Shaggy D.A." and a few others that I've apparently blocked from memory.
posted by megan at 10:56 AM
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No, but when I went to public school for Jr. High they showed a fire safety film where a kid ran out of his burning house in his underwear and we all cracked up. The teachers immediately flipped on the lights, stopped the film and yelled at us because one of the kids in our class had just lost his house in a fire.
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