He may or may not be fictitious but I can assure you that he is no Johnny Whitaker. Not even close.
Can you now? If you know that I suppose you can tell me my cousin’s name, at least. How about it?
I think I may know. Is he in need of some restraint?
My cousin auditioned for the role of Victor Stifuentez on LA Law. He told me thst incorrectly suggesting that a relative doesnt exist is a criminal matter. You should call the cops. If you need help, my other cousin auditioned for the role of Ponch.
That depends. If you said things like that to me in person, you might wish I were restrained, for your sake…
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I think it’s:
It’s the New Zoo Revue
Comin’ right to you
Where three (adjective: amazing? magical? nightmare?) animals
Tell you what to do.
Delicate and feminine is Henrietta Hippo.
(some name) Owl is wise and he’s smart
And that’s all I can remember. Which, given that I couldn’t have heard it since like 1975 tells you the horror the show has burned into my mind.
Also, the Bugaloos were part of the Krofft family of shows and were psychotic and brilliant: Martha Raye was Benita Bizare who wanted to capture the Bugaloos who were what would happen if Herman’s Hermits married “Up With People” and produced bee-children so she could manage their singing careers. This…THIS is entertainment, people* (and to tie it all together, the ever mediocre but rarely terrible Johnny Whitaker was in Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, which was another Krofft show. See how it all fits together people :eek: )
*As opposed to New Zoo Revue where an apparently 50-ish Henrietta Hippo needs to learn lessons appropriate to a 4 year old like “Sharing is…good”
This got weird.
I thought he was kidding 
I liked that show. 
Of course, I was like, 3 at the time.
ETA: a show I hated as a child was Perry Mason: I could NOT stay awake when it was on and I didn’t understand it
As Uncle Bilge said to Mr. Stench (in the Mad satire, “Familiar Affair”), “Don’t leave me alone with these kids! They’ll ‘cute’ me to death!”
This sounded vaguely familiar, so I did a quick search and had a huge rush of repressed memories. I know this show down to my bones. I had just forgotten that I had forgotten it.
Very. Must be the first banning triggered by a Café Society thread about a 60s tv show casting issue …
“I Love Lucy”. Hated her shrill voice and facial gestures. That was back in the days when we could only get one channel. Take it or leave it.
I remember Green Acres making me very uncomfortable. Oliver grew so frustrated with everyone around him, and I seemed to share his frustration and anger. It actually made me very uneasy to watch it as a kid.
When I grew older, I watched it it reruns and thought it could be pretty funny. I have no idea why it affected me like that as a kid.
That was scary but “The Doll” based on the Algernon Blackwood short story scared the crap out of me. When [VERY DATED SPOILER FOLLOWS] the doll of the old British officer grins revealing sharp teeth at the end, they had to peel me off the ceiling.
I also remember really disliking Jerry Lewis for no other reason than his Labor Day Telethon being the last event of summer.
I actually enjoyed watching the show, because it was on for 24 hours (which was a rarity in those days when most stations signed off at midnight or shortly afterwards), and I loved the idea of staying up around the clock for some reason. I loved watching the schmoozy old show business pros show up on stage in Vegas at 3 in the morning.(Red Buttons! Sandler and Young! Joey Bishop!) But you knew that school would start the Tuesday after it was over and the summer vacation was coming crashing to an end, and I hated that. Jerry got the blame from me.
I have no idea how I know this, but IIRC, it’s “three delightful animals…”
“Gilligan’s Island”
And yet we watched it every fucking summer afternoon. I still don’t know why.