Actor
Fred Pearson is having a bad day...
No, that call
isn't to his agent, wondering why he can't get a better gig than walking around in a monkey suit.
Well, it turn's out that Fred's problems are all caused by
Grodd (this story was Grodd's
debut!). The gorilla creep has been messing with Pearson's mind, and taking his place on stage:
Now, it's hard to review a show from just one panel...but I will
anyway! This looks like the "
show" is just a guy walking around the stage in a gorilla costume!
That's not so bad, is it? Well...
This show has been held over for
3 years in
Central City!!
THREE. YEARS. And it's still selling out as Centralians flock to see...a man dressed in a gorilla suit cavorting about the stage. Did they not have TV yet?
No interesting movies to go see? No touring companies of real shows coming to Central City? No movies?
So, basically, Central City-ites are
a couple of notches below Springfield in their love of legitimate the-ater...
From Flash #106 (1959)
I assume they don't have zoos in Central City. This is the closest thing they have to being able to watch something that looks a little bit human fling its own feces and get away with it.
ReplyDeleteSally--actually, the story makes quite clear that Central City does have a zoo...Barry even takes iris there!
ReplyDeleteAlways remember the SIZE of Central City. Some many people live there, that, simply statistically there are always enough people going to see it for the first time that it --or any other show -- could run for decades.
ReplyDeleteWell, when you consider that one of the longest-running shows on Broadway was just a bunch of people cavorting around the stage in cat costumes, it's not that implausible...
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