Happy Days Are Here Again Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales - what a blast!
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I'k prompted to write this review because of a trivia note on this board stating that Soupy's references to the 'F' word was the stuff of urban fable - not then! Besides the infamous 'little green pieces of newspaper' bit, I also managed to grab non ane, but two of the comedian's gags regarding the 'F' word.
In the first, Soupy was addressing the camera as he frequently did, and went into 1 of those gestures that kids do when shooting odds and even. Extending his thumb, he says "This is for my female parent", then for the forefinger, "This is for my father", and then extending his middle finger - "And this is for my producer".
The second incident I remember involved a skit with White Fang. Using a large easel for a prop, Soupy wrote the letter 'F' on the board and asked White Fang what letter it was. In his guttural canis familiaris vocalism, White Fang says 'M'. Soupy crosses out the letter and writes it larger, asking White Fang again, and again, he says 'K'. Finally, Soupy draws a huge 'F' on the easel, and asks White Fang once again what he wrote down. Fang still answers 'One thousand', prompting the exasperated Soupy to answer - 'White Fang, why is it that every time I write 'F', you lot meet 'K'. Well I just almost fell out of my chair rolling, and as always, the off screen crew could be heard going into hysterics. If anything, this is the legend that should have survived the series fifty-fifty beyond the send me your money bit.
Those and other antics always made me wonder how Soupy survived as long as he did hosting what was nominally a child show. Now when I saw the episodes in which the above situations occurred, it would take been on reruns during the mid 1960'due south, considering whenever I got home from loftier school early enough, Soupy Sales was like religion, it just had to go on. Patently, the powers that be must take gotten across the original shock of those bits to allow them to be aired once more.
Anyway, "The Soupy Sales Show" was a blast, and I can still remember to this day characters like Philo Kvetch, Onions Oregano, and Pookie the King of beasts, besides as those two nutty off screen canines. Soupy definitely pushed the envelope for TV programming in a way that hasn't been matched since. For all those afternoons just rolling on the flooring - "Thanks Soupy!"
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A somewhat memorable video
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*Spoiler/plot- 1965, This film presents the all-time of ii episodes of Soupy Sales bear witness from the 60's and 70'due south. This prove features Pookie the King of beasts, White Fang and Blackness Tooth throwing pies at each other. See Soupy perform his musical hit, "Your Brains Fall Out". And the usual cast of show characters and stage crew; people at Soupy'due south front door, Words of Wisdom, sketches, and his regular show's comedy features are included for nostalgic fun.
*Special Stars-'Soupy' Sales, Pookie the Lion, Hippy the Hippo, White Fang and Black Tooth.
*Theme- Puns and pies are a funny combination.
*Based on- Archetype Idiot box era.
*Trivia/location/goofs- Black and White and color consummate shows from New York and KTLA Southern California. Information technology's a Rhino Archetype TV videos presentation of the screwball cult one-act. This series comes in two videos. Available: "The Best of The Soupy Sales Evidence" and "MORE of The Best of The Soupy Sales Show".
*Emotion- A somewhat memorable video featuring a rather madcap type of sketch humor with Soupy'south outrageous puns and improvisational comedy with the shows puppets and his sound stage crew. I am a Soupy Sales fan, simply seeing these shows today leaves something to be desired in the laugh-out-loud aspect. It was laugh-out-loud funnier for child of simple school age. It's overnice to experience this show again with your memories of that fourth dimension.
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Bang-up early on television
If you lot were a kid in the 60s information technology didn't get whatever better than "The Soupy Sales Prove", an improvisational-blazon comedy show for children that worked on several levels. Soupy appeared with puppet friends Pookie, White Fang and Blackness Tooth, but it weren't no Shari Lewis bear witness. As best I can recollect, bear witness was single-gear up with a back door that Soupy oftentimes opened, only to be greeted by anything from a speeding locomotive to a pie in the face. Legend has it that joking asking to kid viewers to open dad'south wallet and send in pictures of the presidents led to untimely counterfoil. As Blackness Tooth might say "Ruh Uh Ruh Uh". Watch information technology if information technology's e'er shown again, information technology's classic early television receiver.
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His Show was Memorable
When i was growing up in New Jersey, one of the first shows I remember was The Soupy Sales Show on Aqueduct five in the afternoon. He was then talented and and then funny and while I remember petty virtually his show, I do remember he had several puppets including Pookie the Panthera leo, who e'er said "Hey Bubbie!" and White Fang the dog who never spoke, simply grunted. One memory that has stuck with me for many years is that my mom use to refer to him as "Soupy Salesman." His show will always exist remembered for the many pies he threw or got in the face up and that was and so funny. I never saw the incident where he told his young viewers to transport him "those lilliputian green pieces of paper" but i've read about it in a number of books. Sadly, nigh of his shows from the WNEW era (they also aired in syndication) were erased just the ones that all the same survive are treasures of a very talented man. Let's non forget that he as well created the dance "The Mouse" that was also a record. The Soupy Sales Show brings back memories of the 60s.
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A Comic Genius Ahead Of His Time
Milton Supman was born January 8, 1926, in Franklinton, N Carolina. His family was the just Jewish family in the boondocks and Sales often commented (humorously) that the "local Ku Klux Klan members bought the sheets used for their robes from his male parent's store." Sales got his nickname from his family unit, who chosen him "Soup Bone," later shortened to "Soupy." From then on he would be known equally Soupy Sales.
For all of the wonderful things Sales gave the earth, the daily children'southward boob tube show "Luncheon with Soupy Sales" is how he was all-time known.The testify featured on the spot improvised sketches, many slapstick in nature, gags, puns, banter with the TV crew, which mostly concluded with Sales getting a pie in the face up. The pie then became his trademark, and also a staple in the TV series. Over the years Soupy Sales estimated that he and his guests had been hitting past more than twenty,000 pies during his career.
In 1960, Sales moved to the ABC-Telly Studios in Los Angeles, California. ABC-TV cancelled the show in March 1961, only it continued as a local program on KABC-TV until Jan 1962. Sale's guests included Hollywood stars, and people like Frank Sinatra literally "begged" Soupy to exist hit with a pie on the bear witness. Sinatra was not only incredibly plastered by pies, he delighted in throwing them back at the cast and Boob tube coiffure. The episode of Sinatra is available on YouTube and DVD, and it's hilarious seeing Frank behaving like a kid, laughing, equally his pal, Sammy Davis, gets some other pie in the face! That episode was something like, "The Three Stooges Meets The Rat Pack."
Soupy'southward TV entourage routinely included the "giant dogs" White Fang and Blackness Molar, Pookie, The Human being at Door, Hippy, and both puppets and humans seemed to merrily engage each other in Soupy's Playhouse (much similar Pee Wee Herman's, but far less eccentric). As a child, this was the perfect show to spotter later schoolhouse, and considering much of the dialogue and humor was also cleverly targeted towards adults, my parents often watched the show with me. It's a shame that the studios did not remember to archive the episodes because very picayune of them exist today for viewing. Amazon offers a small scattering of DVDs which include some of the original black and white episodes, and a few afterward episodes in color. The black and white (Season 1) episodes are the most outrageous and frankly the nearly fun to watch.
Soupy Sales was i of a kind, and his book, "Soupy Sez!: My Zany Life and Times," is worth reading, especially if yous are a fan looking to get a little more insight into his life.
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sexy soupy
I loved this show as a kid. It was very funny, and the pie throwing slap stick comedy was perfect for a ten twelvemonth old, but a lot of the subtle humor was mode over our heads, aimed at adults. I remember he used to reply a knock on the door and open up it. We never saw who was backside the door unless they entered, just could only imagine who or what was there. In college when I worked at a Boob tube station, I saw some rather blueish video tapes. One of them was a Soupy Sales evidence in which he would reply the door and they would play the song The Stripper. He would ooh, ah and grin before closing the door. I call up he reopened the door 4 or five times - aforementioned song - same comments. The video I saw interspersed cuts from behind the door. Yes there was a stripper there. I heard his crew pulled all kinds of pranks like this and worse, on him while he was doing his live evidence.
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Thanks for the Memories
Going back to the '60'due south and coming home from schoolhouse to picket Soupy Sales. The pie in the face, white fang (all you could meet was an arm). Yes, Soupy did push the envelope for daytime TV, merely he was spontaneous and a groovy comedian. As a 10 year. old, he made me express joy, merely my parents would have to remember nearly what he said, lots of double meanings. Now equally I think back on what was said, there brings a chuckle - how did he become away with it? But isn't that what "wit" is all about? Thank you for the memories of the mid 1960's when all you had to worry near was beingness home on fourth dimension for dinner and was your homework done. - Oh, and yeah, I did collect his trading cards. When yous had a complete ready, and you flipped the cards over, it had a large "Soupy Sez" comment.
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Peachy bear witness when I was a kid.
I call up a skit where White Fang told Soupy that he was a magician and could make things appear and disappear. So Soupy says, "OK, make me a chocolate milkshake." White Fang waves his wand and in a puff of smoke, Soupy is turned into a milk shake.
At 8 years erstwhile, I thought this was the height of one-act. Edgy and provocative for a child in the 60s.
I think that between Soupy Sales and Mad Magazine we were all prepared for the events of the tardily 60s.
Soupy Sales probably helped prepare the way for the later psychedelic era.
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Terrific guy, and a office of our youth...now on DVD!
wgbw v Oct 2006
No sour grapes from Wisconsin, on this fellow.
Soupy was a part of our growing upward. Take abroad the pie throwing for a infinitesimal... at that place was some great, clean comedy... jokes that have lasted for generations.
And, even through the What'south My Line era, he kept u.s.a. entertained as well.
Try to take a static set with a door, window and table, and try to make something out of it... maybe Ralph Kramden did it... merely Soupy excelled!
I remember, just like Helm Kangaroo, Romper Room, The Mickey Mouse Club, this was function of our life. To ignore information technology, is a shame.
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I met Soupy in the late 80s
You lot couldn't have asked to meet a nicer person, nosotros went to see one of his shows at the bottom line in NYC's village, when the show was over, he came out a spoke with his fans, I was get-go in line, we stood side by side and spoke like two old friends, he didn't attempt to give me the bum's rush abroad from him. My cousin had Polaroid camera, but when it came fourth dimension to become my picture taken with soupy, the damn camera wouldn't work, then Soupy ad-libbed, how about a quick charcoal sketch? Sure his old shows had corny jokes and routines, just he was funny and every other word didn't have to exist blocked out, ala Chris rock, whose only claim to fame is the word 'F**k I asked him about the episode that resulted in him being suspended, he said he received mostly Monopoly money and 2 bucks from a woman who said he should stay in Puerto Rico. I judge anybody has unlike tastes in one-act, but i similar mine make clean and sober, like Bob Newhart, etc. To the person that was built-in in 62, y'all missed a classic bear witness, I only promise you abound up and give Soupy a adventure, who knows, you may detect yourself chuckling. He was playing to the crew equally much as his audience.
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Cracking kids testify and should exist seen once again
Soupy Sales was a peachy comedian loved by the kids adults and even Big fourth dimension actors and entertainers. He showed a love for children with the Big Kiss he gave to all the kids. He appealed to the smaller children with the puppets. Overall a Nifty bear witness and I am glad that there are videos for Our kids to see. I tell my youngest girl about White Fang and since she was 10 to now xvi she still asks me to imitate the white hand known every bit Fang and she withal gets a kick out information technology, as I know I did when I was piddling. And who could forget the Big smiling from Pookie. These are the great memories I have and will nonetheless take of the show along with many other persons my historic period. He should see this letter and realize that he was really appreciated and loved by people similar me and now my daughter.
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Splendid, thats all any ane tin say.
I was very young when started watching this Man, I nonetheless laugh myself sick. I am glad some one had the---- to have Him remembered>> Soupy I volition miss your Humor. I know there was other people helping, you could always pick upwardly a little laugh, hither and there. Y'all could tell past the the large smile,Soupy had someone had washed something behind the camera,or backside the door. Thank you all for your efforts to keep him in our memories. At this time everything was live, Uncle Millty, Milton Berle,etc. Red Skelton, Burns and Allen, to name a few. But, and I say that with a big but, He Soupy Sales was my favorite. White Fang & Black Tooth were my favorites.
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Ane of my favorites!!!!
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I had lunch with Soupy for years. My mom sent my proper noun in on my birthday and Willie the Worm gave me a happy birthday (I was a local hero at schoolhouse that day). I was a member of the "birdbath order" and was a loyal fan. Pookie was my favorite! I loved information technology when the photographic camera would move and accidentally give united states of america a separate 2d look at Clyde the man behind Pook, Whitefang and Blacktooth. It was live TV and annihilation could happen. I got to run into Soupy and get a picture with him at an appearance in Michigan around 1995 and he was talkative and friendly! The knocks at the door were great. Loved Peaches as well. She was Then pretty. I made my parents buy all the stuff he sold--CoCo Marsh, United Daries Milk, Flavor Straws, Double Cola...
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Lunch with Soupy Auction!
Back in those times we got to walk home for tiffin. I would become through the milk shout to make it my parents house, make lunch and watch Soupy. Then become out the front door back to schoolhouse. I did that until I couldn't fit the milk shout anymore. Soupy wasa the all-time back and then, he made me express mirth and it made me experience good going back to school. So I was forced to go to junior loftier and had to walk 1 1/two miles. No more Soupy Sales. Bummer :(
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