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“Mornin’ Sam”… “Mornin’ Ralph”

by Walt Posted on May 04, 2007 under General |

Stealing the concept from Jon Stewart…

Your moment of Zen for the week references a moment in this week’s LOST.

For those of you who have quit following or have never watched the show, you don’t have to know much to get this.

John Locke is in the bowels of an old wooden slaving ship called The Black Rock, and the ship has long ago been marooned high and dry someplace on the island where our show takes place. The Black Rock is where some of our “Losties” have come to pick up some sticks of very old and extremely unstable dynamite, but aside from that, the viewers don’t know much of anything.

Locke has imprisoned Sawyer in the ship’s brig, and Sawyer is not too thrilled about it. Locke, however is waiting. Waiting for the imprisoned Sawyer to kill the other person in the brig, Locke’s father. Yeah, go fig. Lots of emotions here. Lots of violence happens shortly after the scene I’m going to show you.

But just for a moment, we get a sublime little sequence that doesn’t mean anything.

And it reminds me of this

Image of Ralph Wolf (aka Wiley Coyote with a different colored nose) and Sam Sheepdog, copyrighted characters from Warner Brothers. For those of you who don’t know their schtick, these two would have violent opposition for almost the entire cartoon, but when it came quittin’ time, they’d pass each other at the time clock like they were great friends. And when they went to work in the morning… same situation.

And so comes the verbal exchange,
Mornin’ Sam
Mornin’ Ralph

And while Locke and Rousseau aren’t mortal enemies on the show, they do have the exact same kind of moment while Locke sits in front of the locked Brig with a very angry Sawyer inside:

(This is visually dark and hard to see sequence)

Have a good weekend, Sam

Have a good weekend Ralph