Sooner or later, every comedy team is going to do one of several formulas: a western spoof, a horror spoof, and a comedy where they turn the world of journalism upside down. The Bowery Boys touched on each of these themes several times, and in the case of "News Hounds", they combine it with an organized crime/sports theme as well. Slip is a copy boy out to get the scoop so he can begin his own career in "joynalism" and after a fighter takes a fall in a boxing match he's at, he's convinced he's got the story that will move him past barks of "Copy Boy! Copy Boy!". Photographer Sach has pictures of some big wig businessmen involved in the scam, but if the bad guys have their way, the pictures will never surface. A little street imp also stands in Sach's way, basically bullying him into falling down stairs and losing the evidence.
The Bowery Boys movies were a series that you had to take with a grain of salt and not look at with the intention of learning something new about life on the lower East Side. They are pretty much cartoon characters, with Slip and Sach the equivalent of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Sach is dumb like no other character in movies, piling up tables one on top of each other just so he can get the perfect camera shot. Of course, you know that they are going to start wobbling, and in Sach's case, when weebles wobble, they do fall down. He's both cowardly and child-like, so ridiculously out there and off the wall that you have to wonder if Bob Denver's "Gilligan" and "Scooby Doo's" Shaggy were based on his characters. Slip continues his move from career to career, always pathetically incompetent but amusing with his destruction of the English language. Still enjoyable, these are with few exceptions fun to watch burlesques of a fantasy life, like the Little Rascals never grew up and just moved downtown to live between Delancey and Canal Streets.
The Bowery Boys movies were a series that you had to take with a grain of salt and not look at with the intention of learning something new about life on the lower East Side. They are pretty much cartoon characters, with Slip and Sach the equivalent of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Sach is dumb like no other character in movies, piling up tables one on top of each other just so he can get the perfect camera shot. Of course, you know that they are going to start wobbling, and in Sach's case, when weebles wobble, they do fall down. He's both cowardly and child-like, so ridiculously out there and off the wall that you have to wonder if Bob Denver's "Gilligan" and "Scooby Doo's" Shaggy were based on his characters. Slip continues his move from career to career, always pathetically incompetent but amusing with his destruction of the English language. Still enjoyable, these are with few exceptions fun to watch burlesques of a fantasy life, like the Little Rascals never grew up and just moved downtown to live between Delancey and Canal Streets.