“Hello, Emily. This is Gladys Murphy up the street. Fine, thanks. … Say, Emily, could you go to your window and describe what’s in my front yard?”

Executioner understudies

“Look. If you’re so self-conscious about it, get yourself a gorilla mask.”

Another photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope

“Well, here he comes … Mr. Never-Makes-a-Dud.”

Mike Wallace interviews the devil.

“Excuse me, but must you smoke that foul thing around here?”

“Man, this is ugly—sheep and cattle never do mix well.”

“Well, yes, that is the downside, Fluffy. … Once we kill her, the pampering will end.”

Professor Glickman, the lab practical joker, deftly places a single drop of hydrochloric acid on the back of Professor Bingham’s neck.

Long before his show business career, he was known as Mr. Liberace, the wood-shop teacher.

“Well, I just feel like I’m living under a microscope.”

Innovative concepts in exposing city kids to nature

Early clock-watchers

“Oo! Icky icky! … Something just went down that surrrrrrre wasn’t plankton!”

“Hey, Jim—go out for a short one!”

Washington crossing the street

“Notice all the computations, theoretical scribblings, and lab equipment, Norm. … Yes, curiosity killed these cats.”

Snake dreams