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Soupy Sales – Green Pieces of Paper

Sunday, 10 February 2019, 10:44 BFH Uncategorized 33

I was checking out a web searching app for the tee vee and they recommended Archive.org as a good source for classic television. For no good reason I clicked on the Jonathan Winters show, a 15 minute broadcast from 1957, where Winters does a bit that Soupy Sales would copy 8 years later.

Sales got in trouble for it. Winters seems to have flown under the radar.

Jonathan Winters- 11:50

33 Comments on Soupy Sales – Green Pieces of Paper

  5. Sales was fired because he was encouraging children to steal, and on a kid’s show, no less. Winters was not, plus there probably weren’t any kids in his audience, anyway. That’s the difference.

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  7. VIETVET
    When I was an undergrad Soup was fired for telling a joke “not suitable for kids”. Early 60’s “mini skirts”. Joke- “if skirts get any shoter girls will be parting their hair in 2 places.”! Fired next day!
    I think skirts got shorter for the next 2 years; but I was not in America so dont know.

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  10. I remember a MAD magazine ‘Reader Questionnaire’ in one issue in the 60’s or 70’s.

    It started out with the usual items, Name, Address, Phone, Family Income, Times the house is usually empty, Where valuables are kept in the home…

    Then there was a 1×3 inch box for you to trace the outline of the key to your house. 🤣🤣🤣

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  11. @an ol exJarhead: That sounds a lot like the joke I heard back in high school (years before miniskirts and Soupy Sales’ TV show) that went, “If hemlines get any higher, women will have more hair to comb and more cheeks to powder”. It was supposedly told by Bob Hope, but I didn’t believe it for a minute. Hope ran a clean act.

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  14. Man those old shows were great. WPIX in NY used to have Chuck McCann, Officer Joe Bolton and the 3 Stooges, and Soupy Sales of course. McCann was great though for dressing up in character and reading the funny papers, Dondi, Lil Orphan Annie etc. Good times.

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  16. By chance I saw Soupy at the Huntington Tri-state airport years ago while I was waiting to pickup a repair part coming in on ‘next flight out’ class. The encounter was completely unexpected, though I had heard he was from the area. Soupy was walking with a cane, if I recall correctly, and some other people. Clearly he had added a few years, but pretty much looked the same as when I watched him on tv when a child, same mischievous smile.

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  17. any you ‘kids’ from the D.C. area, back in the 50’s/60’s era remember ‘Ranger Hal’ w/ Oswald the Rabbit or Pick Temple (Shoot the Gopher!) in the morning w/ Captain Tugg & the Channel Queen w/ Fantail the Parrot in the afternoon? Bill Gormley’s Countdown Carnival? & when UHF came out, Count GorDeVal on Channel 20?

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  18. I remember Soupy from his early Detroit days. He had three characters on the show: White Fang, Blacktooth, and Willie the Worm. The former two appeared only as hairy paws from either the left or the right side of the screen. Willie the Worm inhabited a box on Soupy’s windowsill. Only Willie spoke. Blacktooth and White Fang grunted.

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  24. Soupy trivia – White Fang’s first appearance was on the USS Randall in the S. Pacific during WW2.

    ” He enlisted in the United States Navy and served on the USS Randall (APA-224) in the South Pacific during the latter part of World War II. He sometimes entertained his shipmates by telling jokes and playing crazy characters over the ship’s public address system.

    One of the characters he created was “White Fang”, a large dog that played outrageous practical jokes on the seamen. The sounds for “White Fang” came from a recording of The Hound of the Baskervilles.”

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  28. Ranger Hal – Count GorDeVal on Channel 20?
    Count GorDeVal belonged to my church!
    Nothing better than seeing him Sunday morning with his family!
    Belly roll,
    besides being corny, a very decent and family man,,
    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, thanks for those memories,
    sincerely

  33. Such Hollywood pathos in Lonely Hunter. The only person who ended up happy was the drunk who left town. I suspect it is what motivates actors and actresses to leave their miserable small towns and move to California. This tends to be a theme with them, they can’t see anything good about where they came from and take their problems where they go, and then we watch what they do on film and call it entertainment.
    It did call out racism, and a person has to look at Coonman a little differently after this flick, he’s a RAT.

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