Just because

[aadler]

On a post from pattrose (here at Dreamwidth), I made the following reply, which tickled me enough that I’m duplicating it here.

I loved the Dexter Riley movies (“the Computer Wore Tennis Shoes”, “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t”, and “the Strongest Man in the World”), not least because they were the as-far-as-I-know final installment in a Disney film tradition. Dexter Riley kept operating in, and sometimes saving, Medfield College … which had previously benefitted from the contributions of Merlin Jones (played by Tommy Kirk, in whose movies — “the Misadventures of Merlin Jones” and “the Monkey’s Uncle” the place was called ‘Midvale College’, but come on, WE know), and before that was sponsored by Professor Ned Brainard (Fred McMurray, “The Absent-Minded Professor” and “Son of Flubber”). Let’s face it: without the weird science contributions of three generations of teachers/students, Mefield College would have gone under long ago!

Yes, we find our pleasures where we can.