# The "Am I Old?" Test
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 17, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373 "2022-06-17T14:54:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/101 "2022-06-18T05:31:50Z")
Every one of 'em.
I’m 76.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/102 "2022-06-18T05:45:37Z")
Most of them. My mother liked to take me to interpetive dance performances like Mummenschanz and Joffrey when they were in town, so that name is well known to me.
Before my last birthday, dirt was older’n me, and it is amazing that I recognized so many names, having forgotten more’n I ever knew.
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### Author:  [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/103 "2022-06-18T05:51:39Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Juliet Prowse
I only knew her from the L’Eggs commercial which was on all the fucking time.
20 out of 24, I’m 64.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/104 "2022-06-18T07:36:28Z")
> [@glee](#):
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> Charles Aznavour
> _French singer ‘thank heavens for little girls’_
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> Wouldn’t that be Maurice Chevalier?
Sacre Bleu! Mon Dieu!
My only excuse is that they were both French and highly regarded singers. 😳
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/105 "2022-06-18T08:28:52Z")
I’m 52. I got four names into the list and already knew where it came from. _Huge_ fan.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/106 "2022-06-18T13:34:25Z")
I’ll be 66 in August and I know 19.
I never watched the muppet’s..
I think Kaye Ballard might be an Opera Singer, but I’m not confident enough to count her.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/107 "2022-06-18T13:37:02Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> I think Kaye Ballard might be an Opera Singer, but I’m not confident enough to count her.
I knew her as one of those annoying Mother-In-Laws.
> **[The Mothers-in-Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothers-in-Law)**
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> The Mothers-in-Law is an American situation comedy featuring Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard as two women who were friends and next-door neighbors until their children's elopement made them in-laws. The show aired on NBC television from September 1967 to April 1969. Executive produced by Desi Arnaz, the series was created by Bob Carroll, Jr., and Madelyn Davis.
> Eve (Eve Arden) and Herb Hubbard (Herbert Rudley) have lived next door to Kaye (Kaye Ballard) and Roger Buell (played first by Roger C. Carme...
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/108 "2022-06-18T15:35:59Z")
> [@glee](#):
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> Florence Henderson
> _athlete?_
You’re thinking Florence Griffith-Joiner. Florence Henderson played Mrs. Brady.
Paul Williams wrote [The Rainbow Connection](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3Lkc6Gzlk), amongst a great many other songs. I’m particularly fond of [The Hell of It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYFTbzREY7M).
Harvey Korman was a comic. He was a regular on [The Carol Burnett Show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIqofVwYi4I) (he’s the tall one) and was a main character in Blazing Saddles.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/109 "2022-06-18T15:49:48Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> I knew her as one of those annoying Mother-In-Laws.
Same here. Looking at her Wikipedia entry, I see that she was also a singer (which I didn’t know previously); I’d mostly known her as a comic actress from the '60s.
(Also, my sister-in-law looks more than a little like her.)
> **[Kaye Ballard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaye_Ballard)**
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> Kaye Ballard (November 20, 1925 – January 21, 2019) was an American actress, comedian, and singer.
> Ballard was born Catherine Gloria Balotta in Cleveland, Ohio, one of four children born to Italian immigrant parents, Lena (née Nacarato) and Vincenzo (later Vincent James) Balotta. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Calabria, a region of southern Italy.
> Ballard established herself as a musical comedian in the 1940s, joining the Spike Jones touring revue of entertainers. Capable of p...
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/110 "2022-06-18T16:00:00Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> I never watched the muppet’s..
I mentioned earlier that I never watched the show. As I think more about it, I don’t think I knew they had an existence outside of Sesame Street But they did a movie too, right? It must have been a thing when I was in college and law school and didn’t have a TV. Was it a Saturday morning cartoon thing, or a prime time show?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/111 "2022-06-18T16:01:33Z")
It was a just before Prime Time show. 7:30pm in EST. I believe it was the last major Variety Show (not counting SNL type shows)
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/112 "2022-06-18T16:03:00Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> As I think more about it, I don’t think I knew they had an existence outside of Sesame Street
With one exception (Kermit, who was Jim Henson’s signature Muppet, and who long predated Sesame Street), all of the Muppets on that show are created specifically for that show, and didn’t generally appear on shows or movies that aren’t directly associated with it.
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> But they did a movie too, right? It must have been a thing when I was in college and law school and didn’t have a TV. Was it a Saturday morning cartoon thing, or a prime time show?
Multiple movies, in fact.
The show itself ran from 1976 through 1981, and it was syndicated in the U.S., meaning that each station that bought it in syndication chose the time slot in which to run it. It wasn’t necessarily a Saturday morning show, nor was it necessarily a kids’ show, though some local stations may have chosen to run it then. In Green Bay, where I watched the show originally, it ran in the “pre-prime-time” slot (6:30pm Central) that @What_Exit mentions, which typically is a half-hour slot in between the local newscast and the start of the network’s prime-time programming; it wouldn’t surprise me if that was primarily when it was run.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/113 "2022-06-18T16:17:01Z")
22 of 24, don’t know the same two as everyone else with the same score. I’m almost 60.
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### Author:  [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/114 "2022-06-18T18:37:56Z")
> [@elfkin477](#):
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> I’m 45. I recognize 8 of them well enough to name something they’ve been in or have been famous for (Twiggy was a model and Ethel Merman swam) and I’m sure I’ve heard of 2 more though I’m not sure what Connie Stevens or Phyllis Diller are famous for.
Ethel Merman was a Broadway singer, who acted in the occasional movie.
Esther Williams was the swimmer.
~VOW
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/115 "2022-06-18T18:42:26Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> I have the first three seasons on DVD, and I’m really annoyed they never released the last two.
Me too. I heard it was a rights issue, but I thought that once they got bought by the Mouse that would get resolved.
“In the Navy” done with Viking pigs was a classic.
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### Author:  [@Yogeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yogeekgirl)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/116 "2022-06-18T19:12:35Z")
I’m 51 and recognized every name, though I couldn’t say what I know Bruce Forsythe or Kaye Ballard were notable for. I don’t recall ever missing TMS when I was young, though. : ) Did the Late Show’s spoof of the hearings bring this about?
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/117 "2022-06-18T19:37:11Z")
Connie Stevens
Joel Grey
Ruth Buzzi
Rita Moreno
Paul Williams
Sandy Duncan
Candice Bergen
Ben Vereen
Twiggy
Mummenschanz
What do these names have in common?
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### Author:  [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/118 "2022-06-18T20:14:10Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> What do these names have in common?
Can i just say, I’m impressed you got all the way to the end of the thread without clicking a spoiler? [Grover would be proud!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JVK0-4HQTY)
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/119 "2022-06-18T20:24:20Z")
> [@Horatius](#):
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> Can i just say, I’m impressed you got all the way to the end of the thread without clicking a spoiler?
nope, that ain’t it
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/120 "2022-06-18T20:38:18Z")
I think I did see at least one of the movies, but all of these people were known to me through the other work they did.
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