# Doodles Weaver? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093 "2012-03-18T00:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/1 "2012-03-18T00:28:27Z")
So me and Hubby are watching TV and a commercial for The Three Stooges movie comes on. Hubby: That’s just dumb. Me: Really? I thought all guys liked The Three Stooges. Hubby: Yeah, when I was 7. I liked Doodles Weaver too. Don’t hold it against me. Me: Huh? Granted, Hubby is a little bit older than I am and if he liked it at 7, I would have had to liked it in reruns. My husband’s description leaves a lot to be desired. “He built shitty things and it was hilarious when his house fell down on him.” Does anyone besides my husband remember Doodles Weaver? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/2 "2012-03-18T00:38:33Z")
Doodles is Sigourney’s uncle I believe. He played a bit part in one of my oddly favorite movies, A Pocketful of Miracles. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/3 "2012-03-18T00:43:31Z")
The only familiarity I have with Doodles Weaver is from his appearances on [Spike Jones’s old radio shows](http://www.archive.org/details/SpikeJones), which are kind of fun. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/4 "2012-03-18T00:43:32Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Doodles is Sigourney’s uncle I believe. Yes. Was also a vocalist with Spike Jones and his City Slickers. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/5 "2012-03-18T00:59:22Z")
He appeared twice I think on the Andy Griffith Show later in his life. Once as a mailman who has a scene in the courthouse, and the other time I believe is the Gold Shipment episode, where he plays a beat nick protester. I have also seen him on a few game show episodes from the 1950s. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/6 "2012-03-18T01:00:17Z")
Doodles did a little more than just build shitty things and watch them fall down. He did a lot of verbal humor, and was sort of like Spike Jones with wordplay – a lot of puns and malaprops but you’d still recognize what he started out to say. He also built an entire TV show – not just an episode, but the entire series – around using props and scenery from other TV shows. Your husband sounds like he’s around the same age as I am, so yeah, what we remember is the most slapstick of his slapstick. But it’s sort of like remembering Ernie Kovacs for the Nairobi Trio and nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/7 "2012-03-18T01:04:49Z")
He’s probably best known as the narrator in Spike Jones & the City Slickers’ version of [The William Tell Overture](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BavRrRNvz8g). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/8 "2012-03-18T02:00:56Z")
Or [The Man on the Flying Trapeze](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tImcl22t-Yc). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/9 "2012-03-18T02:21:31Z")
Ah! By the time Hubby saw him on TV, Doodles was at the very end of his career it would seem. Where would hubby have seen Doodles on TV in the mid 60’s? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/10 "2012-03-18T04:06:56Z")
…Beetlebaum… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/11 "2012-03-18T04:56:51Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Ah! By the time Hubby saw him on TV, Doodles was at the very end of his career it would seem. Where would hubby have seen Doodles on TV in the mid 60’s? [1964](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzpF2PXgoOA) according to IMDb. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/12 "2012-03-18T05:23:46Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [1964](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzpF2PXgoOA) according to IMDb. Hey, that looks vaguely familiar. And I was born in '64. But he definitely falls into boy humor. Like the Stooges. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/13 "2012-03-18T05:54:12Z")
I remember The Doodles Weaver Show. Not sure if I watched it live or in reruns. Weird guy, not that funny. The examples given in this thread (though not from his show) are Doodles gold. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/14 "2012-03-18T06:26:45Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Doodles is Sigourney’s uncle I believe. I hadn’t known that. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/15 "2012-03-18T08:44:18Z")
[QUOTE=TriPolar] Doodles is Sigourney’s uncle I believe [/QUOTE] > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I hadn’t known that. Even more unbelievable is the fact his brother, Pat Weaver, was an early TV innovator who was responsible for, among other things, developing the Today Show and the Tonight Show. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodles-weaver/616093/16 "2012-03-18T23:37:55Z")
Yes, a very funny man who managed to perform many a cameo. On a rerun of “Batman,” I saw him play a Friar Tuck-type character against Art Carney’s Robin Hood-type The Archer. I collect recordings of old TV game shows and he is playing it straight as the plaintiff on “The Verdict is Yours.”