Sorry, but I don’t think the Captain woulda thought that littering is cool.
He buried it. He didn’t shred it over the mountain top. :rolleyes:
Later, Lee Marvin’s grandson climbed Everest and dumped a bucket of ping-pong balls on the photo.
Now THAT would be littering.
Nah, he took them with him afterward. You know the old outdoorsman’s saying: “Take only ping-pong balls; leave only footprints.”
ETA: This is by far the least horrible thing that’s been done to that photo. Desecrating Captain Kangaroo’s shrine has become a ritual among mountaineers. You don’t even want to know what Mr. Green Jeans’ grandson Dweezil did with it.
Wait a minute here, back to the OP. Is is a muzzle or not?
Sampiro, I had a dancing Raggedy Ann doll that had the elastic straps on her feet, so I could strap them to mine and dance around. I hadn’t thought of her in ages. I think her size cut down on visibility, and I wasn’t too coordinated either, so I didn’t dance with her much. She didn’t change sizes.
I didn’t remember Dancing Bear either until this thread, but I remember wondering about his nose back then. I think I thought he had a horrible accident or had a birth defect or somthing like that. It always just looked wrong to me.
Twickster, I loved Mr. Greenjeans too.
About the ping pong balls.
Wasn’t there a secret word that made the ping pong balls fall? Dang, my memories are vague. It seems like Mr. Moose rigged the balls and was always tricking the Captain into saying the trigger word.
Now I’m going to have to think about this. Grumble.
It was supposed to be his nose, but it was a piece of black screen so the poor bastard inside (Dennis?) could see and breathe.
A few years later, Cookie Bear appeared on Andy Williams’ variety show and made a bigger hit with me than Dancing Bear ever could: Cookie Bear looked like a real bear (like the Molson Beer bear), and what made him funny was that, as a shameless mooch, he acted like a real bear would too, if a real bear could talk.
The original costume included a badge (sometimes a police badge, as pictured here, sometimes a firefighter badge) and a false mustache. The Captain was intended to be a grandfatherly figure but Bob Keeshan was only 28 in 1955.
That’s right. Although UI thought it was Bunny Rabbit who rigged the ping pong balls (although he didn’t talk).
They repeated this gag on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, with Joel being deluged by ping pong balls.
Of course, nowadays I think of that scene from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, where the Southeast Asian bridge finds the box of ping pong balls and they rain down on her head, and the innocence of the scene is gone.
“Say, where’s Timothy Treadwell at?”
Not really. Mr. Moose would get the Captian to participate in a knock-knock joke, which would invariably have a punchline that somehow related to falling ping pong balls. For example:
“Alaska to duck, 'cause here they come!”
“Reddy or not here they come!”
“Candy ping-pong balls be held back this time?”
“Lotta ping-pong balls!”
Was the falling water/green slime on You Can’t Do That On Television related in any way to this ping pong ball business?
Who also provided the body for “Rita Repulsa” in the Power Rangers movie.
My grandfather wasn’t a firefighter or police officer, and was a lot older than 28 when I was born.
Second question: What was the connection with “kangaroo”? Did they have kangaroos on the show, or were they people in Costumes, like the dancing bear?
I don’t know.
Thank you. You saved my poor head.
That made a lot of sense when I was young enough.
I don’t recall any kangaroos, but Mr. Greenjeans may have exhibited one.
“Take only ping-pong balls; leave only carrots.”