what was your favorate tv show when you were small?

A soft drink company did a commercial a few years ago that was a spoof on Kung Fu. David Carradine was sent out to the wild west to learn his lesson. He gets into this squabble with three bad guys and you think there will be a Kung Fu fight. Instead, it turns into a face-slapping, eye-poking match like the Three Stooges.

Then, he returns to his bald-headed master and tells him what he learned. His master then says, 'Coitenly! Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk! (like Curly of the Three Stooges). That was a real cornball commercial.

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I definitely preferred him as host of Death Valley Days over President of the United States!

 

Shaggy;
There was also CCCP TV-a spoof on Soviet Television featuring Giorgi the good natured Soviet village idiot (John Candy of course!) and diatribes against "the Uzbeks" as "the weak link in the Socialist chain." Hilarious stuff! Then there was Muley the Railroadman (Harold Ramis) in a "Grapes of Wrath" spoof? I bought the 81-82 disc set and will have to get the rest. I guess my favorite was Candy as the WWII fighter pilot spewing all kinds of WWII cliches while in the cockpit-it's pure Hollywood that anyone said much of ANYTHING in cockpits and SCTV was just letting us know...SCTV was something of a light in what was a very dark period of my life (the eighties? YUCK!!!) At any rate Ronald Reagan... this was the same guy that was encouraging the national guard to mow down students during the Berkely troubles. The encouragement was ignored but the Righties took this hardass right to heart. This is the same president that let the half trillion dollar S & L thefts go unremarked and unprosecuted (I guess the Righties have rewritten the commandments so that one reads "Thou shalt not steal Unless thou art rich"). Some might argue that it was Reagan that "won" the Cold War but the Beatles should also get credit. I think Reagan was a domestic disaster for this country and the start of the mass repudiation of the sixties that continues unto this day.
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If you like polical spoofs from the 80s, you may recall HBO's 'Not Necessarily the News'. They did some great sketches poking fun at all the politicians in DC and the news stories of the day.

They did a sketch where they showed Ronald Reagan going to the McDonalds with the big line of black limosines. He was trying to win the hearts of the working class for his re-election. They played this loud lively concert music in the background all during the footage just to portray how stupid the whole thing looked.

I remember another one when they showed stock footage of Casper Weinberger and were playing the cartoon theme song 'Casper The Friendly Ghost' in the background. At the end they dubbed in a stock clip of Walter Mondale from the 1984 campaign yelling and pointing, "You can see right through him!"

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Tales from the Crypt.

 

twilight zone

 

baby hughey cartoons
what happened to to them?

 

I had Baby Huey comic books. Also Archie. I remember the big question was Betty or Veronica?
Shaggy I remember all the controversy with Smother's Brother's I had several of their Albums they made after the show was yanked off the air.
And oh yes grasshopper, I remember the soft drink commercial with David carradine. Classic.

 

Taz,
Heckle n' Jeckle and the Hanna Barbara cartoonists-did you ever catch that Wagnerian take off with ELmer Fudd as the singing protagonist going to "Kill da Wabbitt"?
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PS. I do not believe Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married very long.

 

remember when jethro was smoking crawdads

 

Gate,
Yup-"the Beverly Hillbillies" had some real great moments. Like when Ellie May wanted a gorilla and Mr Driesdale hired an actor in a gorilla suit to fit the bill? Well the actor and another guy were sitting down by "the Ce-ment pond" eating lobster and the rubes thought they were eating bugs? "Zorro" had a pretty funny schtick when Don Diego was singing a balad about how Sargeant Garcia goes for a walk and the senoritas are fainting over him. The song gets accompanied by a dream video sequence and here is this Latino Oliver Hardy in a goofy uniform walking down the street like with the ladies fawning over him like he was Elvis or something. At any rate it got SGT Garcia off Don Diego's back.
haha,
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Anyone remember Spike Jones? He was the Weird Al of the 40s and 50s. He would make appearances on TV and put out records. My favorite record of his is "Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry" on the old Verve label. He was the best at spoofing popular music.

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Never saw that one T4. I still crack up over the frog in the top hat and cane singing "hello my baby, hello my darlin, hello my ragtime gal". And whimpy's, "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." Yogi and Booboo. And Chilly Willy.
I also liked Lost in space and The Land of the Little People.

 

Tun,
funny how one can get into a serious discussion with someone and then come back and laugh about the Beverly hillbillies and Zorro.I respect that.
Zorro?Loved those westerns.How bout Wagons West with a young Kurt Russel or Sky King.Then there was a movie with John Wayne as a singing cowboy.Seen him driving a caddie downtown.He was a big man.
Red Skeletin used to live close by.He bought some cowbells off of my brother once.He'd put them on the grill of his rolls every christmas.He was a kind gentle man.Great show.You'd see Lucy around once in a while too.My sister met her once but she was star struck and couldn't say a word.Saw Nixon,reagen,mimi eisenhower,and bob hope when they opened our hospital here.Pops bragged once about digging up eisenhowers back yard.He also met one of the marx brothers fishing.We were the Palm Springs hillbillies.I was given a fac machine once.I accessed the memory and came up with phone numbers for hatcher,sinatra,reagen and a few others i don't recall.Anyway i'm rambling this has nothing to do with t.v. shows.How about some early fox shows?Homeboys in Outer space was short lived but extremly funny.


"she had Spike Jones on T.V."
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The Boomerang network has all the classic cartoons, especially from the 60s, including Warner Brothers, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye. They are on the satellite networks and some cable networks.

Check out the schedule:

http://schedule.cartoonnetwork.com/servlet/BoomerangServlet?action=selectBMDay

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Hahahahahahaha. I can't stop laughing!!!!! Oh shaggy, that's priceless! Thank you. I saved it and am going to use it as my wallpaper. I don't know why but that whole skit just cracked me up.
I remember my brother used to roll laughing at Road Runner. It lost my interest after about the 100th time a boulder smashed the ceyote. I thought it very mundane. But I never got bored with the Hanna-Barbra cartoons.
Thanx again.

 

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