Lots of helpful comments from everyone! First, thanks to
Phil for providing the original version by
Paula Meadows for this week's Doctor Cylon episode. I have already added it to the page. Phil also commented on the new Stiles piece:
"your comment about the strange position of the spankee in the Stiles "island spanking" got me to wondering. he does indeed show her plump bottom and legs very well in this one. what do you think the chances are that he used this strange position just so he could show her from more from the rear rather than the side? "
I think the chances are very good that Stiles
did want to feature her bottom by choosing this position. Stiles probably varied his spanking positions more than any other of the Humorama "Big Five" artists, perhaps mainly for variety's sake, and he occasionally chose a camera angle that did show off the spankee's behind, although I can only think of one or two that were like this one. I strongly suspect his personal interests were more directed toward the female bosom than behind, and when I finally get around to my "Big Five" article I will adduce some non-spanking examples of his art as evidence of this. (Even in his "spankers", you'll notice that the spankee's top is often precariously close to falling off, which would have been considered rather suggestive back in the 50's).
Butch also had something to say about this cartoon:
butch wrote:Wonder why he didn't want her to signal any passing ships maybe she a spoil heiress he kidnap and the two ended up on this Island where he decided to use this chance to teach her some manners and tame her
I like your idea of kidnapping a spoiled heiress and confining her on a desert island so that she can be spanked repeatedly,
Butch, but all those old Tropical Island cartoons (even this spanking one) were based around another gag: that the woman can't escape the sexual advances of the man. (Come to think of it, they were on mighty shaky ground, but we'll forgive them). In this case, our spanker wants more sex so he isn't ready to leave the island just yet, and that's why he spanks her.
Dan contributed much information on the Bonanza spanking episodes - thanks for all that detailed info, Dan! He also mentioned
"Susan Silo, who DID receive a real spanking herself, a year earlier, in the 1964 episode of McHale's Navy entitled Babette, Go Home."
Like Phil, I knew about the
McHale's Navy spanking scene but I didn't even recognize her! You can see a still image of that spanking right here on
CSR in Michael Gray's article
Spanked Daughters of the Slapstick which I posted about a year ago.
I liked the
Bonanza spankings myself, and my only hesitation about posting them was that everyone had probably seen them before. I think it's fair to say that my next spanking video will be new to almost everyone, since its subject is a real-life disciplinary paddling. It's actually already out there because I forgot to "hide" the code on the Video Page, which is mostly how I keep future updates already coded from appearing too soon. Anyway, we'll have a link to it in a week or two.
Finally,
Tanner rose to defend
Bonanza:
"I loved the show, and the theme music."
You know, I wondered when I wrote that about the theme if I should have specified that it was only the rarely-heard lyrics that were truly awful, and I guess I should have. Here is a sample of them:
We're not a one to saddle up and run--Bonanza! Bonanza!
Anyone of us who starts a little fuss
Knows he can count on me
One for four, four for all
This we guarantee
We got a right to pick a little fight--Bonanza! Bonanza!
If anyone fights any one of us
He's gotta fight with me!
Cole Porter it ain't! The music wasn't that bad, although it wasn't the equal of the themes from
Mission: Impossible,
I,Spy, or
Name of the Game, to name three shows that were contemporary with
Bonanza.