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Johnny LaRue: Yellowbelly

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The setup

Johnny LaRue revisits a television Western whose hero has an especially ugly way of avoiding a fair fight.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

At SCTV’s anniversary special, Lin Ye Tang and Johnny LaRue reminisce about violent Westerns that disappeared from television. Their clip of LaRue’s Yellowbelly reveals a supposed frontier hero whose cowardice goes well beyond running from a fight.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 4

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I'm not gay either.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Its theme song borrows the melody of The Ballad of Davy Crockett.

ScriptEnglish · 20 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:00

    We now return to the 30th Anniversary Show with Johnny LaRue and Lin-Yi Tang.

  2. 00:09

    Johnny LaRue ?

    Hi, I'm Johnny LaRue.

  3. 00:10

    Lin Ye Tang ?

    Howdy, partners. Folks around these parts call me Lin-Yi Tang, but you can just call me Bronco.

  4. 00:17

    Johnny LaRue ?

    All right, Bronco. Throughout the years, SCTV has come up with some fine westerns. Classics like The Rattlesnake Kid, How Big Was My Valley, and The Headless Sheriff.

  5. 00:27

    Lin Ye Tang ?

    The Headless Sheriff, I remember that. It was great.

  6. 00:29

    Johnny LaRue ?

    It sure was. But three of these stand above the others in my mind because they were cancelled by the FCC Something to do with violence and kids.

  7. 00:37

    Lin Ye Tang ?

    Yeah, those FCC vomits are real poor cats

  8. 00:41

    Johnny LaRue ?

    Everybody knows you're Chinese. You're not from the old west.

  9. 00:44

    Lin Ye Tang ?

    Oh, yeah. Okay. I'll show you a fast draw Try to slap your hands together. Come on

  10. 00:49

    Johnny LaRue ?

    Well, give me another chance

  11. 00:50

    Lin Ye Tang ?

    I'm not giving you any other chance roll the film

  12. 00:52

    Johnny LaRue ?

    he was reading from a script

  13. 00:54

    Lin Ye Tang ?

    you're drunk

  14. 00:55

    Johnny LaRue ?

    I'm not gay either Get that camera off me roll the film

  15. 01:00

    Lin Ye Tang ?

    Yeah, roll the film. I'll deal with you later. You drunken bum. Get out. I should shoot you now. You're fired. Get out.

  16. 01:05

    I'll fire you. I'll fire you up for a hot drink. Get out.

  17. 01:11

    Stripped of his rank for desertion under fire, ostracized by the North and South during the Civil War for his double-dealing treachery, he's the biggest coward in the West. He's Yellowbelly.

  18. 01:30

    Speaker 1 ?

    Hey, Moira, it's Yellow Belly!

  19. 01:39

    Mother ?

    You shot my child! You Yellow Belly! Help! Help!

  20. 01:47

    The Yellow Belly! I like that. you gonna run to now?

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