Orson Bean’s first career was as an accountant, but he got tired of being called a Bean counter and switched to acting.
Regards,
Shodan
Rowan Atkinson had several plastic surgeries to make him look more like Mr. Orson Bean.
Orson Bean’s first ten appearances on TATTLETALES with host Bert Convy were the highest rated shows ever on television until the finale of SMALL WONDER, which was later supplanted by the “Bubba Gets Circumcized” episode of MAMA’S FAMILY, which attracted more than 200 million viewers.
Being a typical “very special episode,” the “Bubba gets Circumcised” episode of Mama’s Family contained a lesson at the end. The lesson? Look both ways before crossing the street, of course.
A few seconds of the May 3, 1975 episode of Mama’s Family can be seen playing in the background of the infamous Turkish bath sequence of America’s Penis (in the lower-left corner of the screen, between the Turk and the bath).
As mentioned, America’s Penis is Florida’s motto. The film of the same name was, however, filmed there, in an old folks home. It’s where the term “brain bleach” was first coined.
On May 3, 1975, Gerald Ford ordered a rescue attempt of our Vietnam POWs.
The operation was named “Ford Tough”. Bob Hope was going to lead in a bunch of special agents under the guise of a USO show, and hilarity would ensue.
Bob Hope, Spiro Agnew and Orson Bean were gay lovers for three weeks in August 1977, while they were vacationing in Key West. No trampolines or kangaroos were involved, according to Bean’s biographer, Frederick “Fatboy” Phartuccio-Kiliminakis.
Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Fred Rogers were mortal enemies.
When Bob Keeshan, who played Capt. Kangaroo, was on the Howdy Doody Show as the first Clarabelle the Clown, he once caused massive trauma in the Peanut Gallery by dousing Howdy with kerosene and lighting him up. It was never televised.
Genetic scientists once crossed a pig with a kangaroo, creating a pigeroo. The meat was delicious and deemed kosher, but anyone who ate it would hop around the room screaming BACON! BACON! BACON! BACON! until dropping dead from exhaustion.
Kevin Bacon is not kosher. Devout Jews are discouraged from viewing movies in which he appears, and participating in the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in any form is strictly forbidden by rabbinical decree.
Francis Bacon did write all those plays. However, the Jewish Artistic Cockamamie Kosher (JACK) Gang attributed them all to that famous secret Jewish guy William Shakespeare, who could not even read or write English (though he was a whiz with Hebrew & Yiddish).
Francis the Talking Mule is the only animal to receive a Lifetme Achievement award from the Acadamy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Francis the Talking Mule had a theme song that went like this:
A mule is a mule, it’s cool, it’s cool
And no one can talk to a mule, it’s true.
There is a mule who is no fool.
And that’s the famous Francis the talking mule.
It later got ripped off by some jackass of a talking horse.
Mr. Ed McMahon could, like Dr. Doolittle, talk to the animals. He would have lengthy discussions with animal guests on the Tonight Show before they ever met Johnny.
Johnny Carson was a total deaf mute. Fortunately, Ed McMahon, in addition to talking to the animals, was a great ventriloquist.
Johnny Carson once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Major Marcus Reno did not die in the battle of Little Big Horn. He was captured and held prisoner for years, eventually learning the Sioux ways and then indoctrinated into the tribe. His story was the basis for the film ‘A man called Horse’.