[Sca-cooks] Everyone gone already?

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius said:
> Hey, Olwen! Let's mess with Stefan! We can talk about the old
> tradition of the herring in the slipper! You know, the very ancient
> tradition among... um... Laplander immigrants in New Jersey? Yeah,
> that's it!
>
> Actually, I can't think of a twelfth night cake without thinking of
> the cake in whichever (WARNING: GRATUITOUS EARLY CINEMA/POP-CULTURE
> REFERENCE!) of Hal Roach's Our Gang short subjects (mid-1930's) it
> was, the one with Dickie Moore and the cake with the prizes in it.
> The one which contained, among other things, a rat-trap and a
> hot-water-bottle, which, as it was baking, caused the cake to
> exclaim, "wheeeeep...WHOMMMMMP!!!", and breathe like a living thing
> as it was being coated with frosting... I actually have a sound file
> of that eerie cake sound/voice, acquired somehow or other.

Surprizingly, that is one episode that I do remember seeing.

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