Was there an old western that had this characther ? I remember when was very young I saw this western on tv
about a coyboy who would go to a bar
and only ordered sarsaparilla(no liqur) and they called him the sarsaprilla kid. What was the name of this western? It was a 50’s show I think.I looked for Sarsapilla Kid at tvtome but there’s no show listed. I 'm 41, I saw the show in the 60’s.
Look up “Sugarfoot” at TV Tome and let me know if that’s it.
No Sugarfoot is not it. Sugarfoot
meant one step below a tendefoot
and he did not drink pop.
Maybe Sarsaparilla Kid was a recuring role on some other western or old serial.
On The Tonight Show , Johnny Carson and John Ritter once did a sketch like the scene you described. However, they might have been doing a parody of a real show.
IIRC, in Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman orders a Sasparilla and Wild Bill Hickock laughs and calls him the Sasparilla Kid.
I remember seeing the show/movie that you are talking about when I was young. As a sidenote…in the Cohn brothers’ movie “The Big Lebowski”, the narrator is an old cowboy who also drinks saspirilla. When I was watching the movie with some friends, someone mentioned that the old cowboy narrator had actually been a star in a bunch of old westerns. This reminded me of the “Sasparilla Kid” show/movie that I had seen as a child, and I wonder if the narrator in “The Big Lebowski” is the same man who played in the said show.
Nope. However, I wonder if the film character was somehow inspired by the TV show. Anyone know the Coens?
I remember that as well when I was a small child, it was the tv show called “Sugarfoot” (original title) and Tenderfoot in the UK. It starred Will Hutchins as Tom ‘Sugarfoot’ Brewster 68 episodes, 1957-1961.
Sioux City Sarsaparilla?
Sure, that’s a good one.
Semi-highjack: I’ve tried it – the real stuff! – and it’s pretty good. A bit challenging at first. It can be strong! Modern root beer is only a pallid shadow of it!
(I haven’t yet drunk dandelion wine. Eventually!)
That’s what I thought of. “Are you laughing at me, mister?” “No, as a matter of fact, I admire the style of it.”
No, he was the Soda (Sody) Pop Kid.
Yeah, I know it’s an 11 year old thread, but it’s never too late for the truth.
My personal rule of netiquette: it’s alright to correct or address anything in a zombie so long as you didn’t rescuscitate the zombie yourself, so you’re clear.
There’s a scene in Shane where he orders a sody at the bar, and they give him shit over it.
Low down Yankee liars!
We made some, decades ago. All I remember is that it was wholly unremarkable, but we had to try.
I remember a western in which a character who’d been a longtime heavy drinker repents and says “from now on you can call me the Sarsaparilla Kid!”
He stays sober long enough to get shot in the next reel. I’m sorry I can’t recall more detail right now.
Of course, we all know the story of famous Russian pugilist Vodka Drunkenski, who turned his life around and became Soda Popinski.
The point is that the favorite tipple of the title character and hero of the TV Western series Sugarfoot (aka Tenderfoot, in the UK) was a “sarsaparillia with a dash of sherry”. This was a recurring joke on the show (probably mentioned in every episode). IIRC he was also fond of buttermilk.
The premise of the show, as I recall, was that the hero acted like a young and naïve milksop (one of the symptoms being his love for children’s and women’s drinks, rather than manly beer or whiskey), but in fact was both smarter, tougher, and a better gunman than anybody else, and always beat the tough seeming bad guys, and was more effective than more macho seeming good guys.
I don’t recall him ever being explicitly called The Sarsaparilla Kid, but he was a very young man, and was strongly associated with sarsaparilla.