Disney-comics digest #657.

[M. Mitchell Marmel]

>>SAMPO!!!
>>"I got yer Sampo right here!" - Crow T. Robot, _Mystery Science Theater
>>3000,_ Comedy Central cable network.
>
>        Yes, Sampo. Is there something particularily hilarious in it? Is there
>a joke here I'm supposed to understand?

Ah.  Yes, I suppose if you don't get the programme, you wouldn't
understand.  Mystery Science Theater 3000 (abbreviated to MST3K) is a cable
televison programme here in the US dedicated to bad movies; basically, a
man and two robots heckle them.  One of the movies in question was called,
in English, "The Day the Earth Froze" which tells a story about some witch
trying to capture the Sampo.  Now, since the word Sampo, to Americans,
suggests some sort of 1950's household product, well...

Anyhow, this is outside the purview of the Disney list, so I'll be still.

Mitch
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