Playful Little Scamp

[unknownfate]

My very favorite episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog ever! With Freaky Fred, the mad barber! It goes like this:

Hello new friend,
My name is Fred
The words you hear are in my head
I say, I said my name is Fred,
and I've been very NAUGHTY

The story I'm about to tell
I tell you I will tell it well
is of my dear aunt Muriel
and just how I've been NAUGHTY

Viola! The Farm
My aunt lives here,
with precious pup and husband dear.
My heart beat fast as I drew near
I felt so nice and NAUGHTY

I thought just how excited they
must be that I could come today.
They'd shout, "Come Fred! Huzzah! Hooray!
Dear boy who looks so NAUGHTY."

That's when my tired eyes beheld
a doggie dog, like dog he smelled.
D-o-g is what he spelled,
and that's how I spell NAUGHTY

Alone was I with tender Courage
and all his fur, his furry fur-age
which I say did encourage
me to be quite NAUGHTY

*Courage..... Your HAIRRRRR. It reminds me of the first time I knew just how... I felt... about HAIRRRR.

It was a day I'd not forget,
the day that I first met my pet.
Oh, what a lovely gift to get!
I'd never felt so NAUGHTY

My fuzzy friend is what he was,
a darling little ball of fuzz,
and oh such fuzz, such fuzz it does
demand that I be NAUGHTY

He looked at me, his fetching eyes
and fetching fur did hypnotize.
I filled with joy, I filled with sighs
and that's when I got NAUGHTY

This dripping hair, this drooping curl
unfurls sweet memories of a girl
with tresses, oh they'd twist and twirl
and tempt me to be NAUGHTY

Barbara, my love was named
and her fair hair, a mane untamed
until one evening... I'm ashamed
I got a little NAUGHTY

The look upon my young love's face
was sweet as lace, but in this case
I realized she.... needed space
I nevermore was naughty.

Well.... maybe not never...

Dear cur! Your fur! Its fleece remind
of nothing found in humankind
but for one fellow who did find
me to be... in a certain mood....

Into my shop he walked one day
with bush above and beard bouquet.
That's no toupee, I pray. No way
I could help but be.... you know....

I'd never seen such hair before...
His bangs, they sang. His neck, it beckoned.
Eyebrows, armpits, all were reckoned.
Soon I figured what the heck and
guess how I was NAUGHTY

So my landlords did presume
to free me from that porcelain tomb
and ferried to a private room,
your hero ever doughty

Goodbye, dear aunt, I'll miss your farm
and Eustace's ebullient charm
and farewell Courage, what's the harm?
If I was slightly NAUGHTY

With love, Fred


For the full,glorious impact and all the eerie, maniacal grins, and the strangely appealing voice, you can see it here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for posting this. The clip entertained me while I was sick with the flu (and up only briefly before collapsing back into bed).

This episode is strangely disturbing... but somehow, you have to keep watching. And yes, the voice is odd but mesmerizing.