Rhubarb (1969 film) Rhubarb (1969 film) Rhubarb was a 1969 British short film written and directed by Eric Sykes, starring Sykes and Harry Secombe. The dialogue consisted entirely of repetitions of the word ""rhubarb"", all the characters last names were "Rhubarb", and even the number plates on vehicles were "RHU BAR B". A baby "spoke" by holding a sign with the word ""Rhubarb"" written on it. "Rhubarb" is a radio idiom for unintelligible background speech. Typically extras would mutter the word over and over to provide ambience for a crowd or party scene. In "The Goon Show" the cast was usually only the
Bugged by a Bee Bugged by a Bee Bugged by a Bee is a 1969 animated cartoon, released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. It starred Cool Cat, and was the final cartoon from the 1930-1969 era to bear the "Looney Tunes" name, and the last from that era to be widely released. One more cartoon, "Injun Trouble" would follow "Bugged by a Bee", but it was in the "Merrie Melodies" series. This cartoon was the last Looney Tunes short until 1987's "The Duxorcist". Cool Cat is a student at Disco Tech, and sings an opening song about how he's "workin' through college, to gain a