Don't go in the can with a microphone on
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Originally Posted by ralper,Aug 31 2006, 05:35 PM
Didn't this same sort of thing happen to Buffalo Bob of the Howdy Doody Show in the 1950s? Thinking that the microphone was turned off, he referred to the kids in the Peanut Gallery as "little bastards". The whole network heard it and that more or less was the end of his career.
Soupy Sales did get in a lot of trouble when he told kids to go through their parent's drawers and send him all their "pictures of dead presidents".
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Originally Posted by Lainey8484,Aug 31 2006, 07:41 PM
Rob,
That sounds very similar to something we heard on an aquarium tour we all attended recently.
Wasn't it something about dolphins?
That sounds very similar to something we heard on an aquarium tour we all attended recently.
Wasn't it something about dolphins?
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From: Randolph, NJ
Originally Posted by drewchie,Aug 31 2006, 07:52 PM
That's an Urban Legend... (parodied on "The Simpsons" when Gabbo refers to his viewers as "little SOBs")
Soupy Sales did get in a lot of trouble when he told kids to go through their parent's drawers and send him all their "pictures of dead presidents".
Soupy Sales did get in a lot of trouble when he told kids to go through their parent's drawers and send him all their "pictures of dead presidents".
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Originally Posted by ralper,Aug 31 2006, 05:53 PM
I remember that. What a great show the Soupy Sales Show was. I think they took him off the air after that.
Here's the poop:
Soupy Sales hosted several incarnations of the Soupy Sales Show for American television from 1955 up through the late 70s. He was known for goofy puns and pie-in-the-face jokes for the kids, but also for edgier humor for adults. Legend has it that Soupy instructed kids to "go to your parent's dresser and send all the pictures of dead presidents you find there to me," for which he was fired.
Documented: Soupy Sales got in trouble for telling kids to send him pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents from their parents' dresser drawers on his show. Most retellings say he was fired and his show cancelled over it.
The detail of his being fired is incorrect, but otherwise Soupy did essentially ask this on New Years Day 1965: he asked the kids to go get Dad's wallet and take all the "little green pieces of paper with pictures of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln, and Jefferson on them, send them to me, and I'll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico." The show received thousands of angry phone calls, and Soupy was suspended for a week.
http://tafkac.org/faq2k/television_315.html
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