"The Banana Splits The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters. The costumed hosts of the show were Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1968, to September 5, 1970, and in syndication from 1971 to 1982. The costumes and sets were designed by Sid and Marty Krofft, and the series' sponsor was Kellogg's Cereals. The show featured"
"Martin reacted ""like Jeffy was kidnapped."" In his book, Moe Howard of the Three Stooges credited Paul Shannon with sparking renewed interest in the Stooges. Shannon appeared in one of the Stooges' full-length features, ""The Outlaws Is Coming"", as Wild Bill Hickok. Shannon's alter-ego Nosmo King reportedly got his name from a ""No Smoking"" sign. Later on in the series' history, other characters were added, such as Happy Howard (The Friendly Spider). Joe Negri took over the show after Shannon retired in 1975. Negri, also a long-time employee and music director for ABC affiliate WTAE, did other Pittsburgh-based children's shows,"
"Fling in the Ring Fling in the Ring is the 159th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1955 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. The Stooges are trainers for the boxer Chopper Kane (Richard Wessel). Their boss, Big Mike (Frank Sully), a mean-spirited prankster and mobster bets on Chopper's opponent, Gorilla Watson. He then tells the boys (after they bet all their money on the Chopper) to make the Chopper throw the fight or else. The Stooges"
"which he would hug himself and spring into the air, floating back down to Earth. (As revealed in the episode ""Dynamite Fright,"" Snuffles had four quadruplet puppies, who performed the same routine of hugging themselves and springing into the air before floating back down, upon eating dog biscuits themselves.) Quick Draw spent a number of cartoons as his alter ego, the masked El Kabong, who used a guitar (a ""Kabonger"") to bash bad guys into submission. Writer Michael Maltese said the character was inspired by actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as Zorro. A young dachshund named Augie Doggie (voiced by Daws"
"Luck Blackie"" (1949). While Avery preferred to focus on gags instead of characterization, he established several popular MGM cartoon characters, including Screwball ""Screwy"" Squirrel, the ""Of Mice and Men"" derived pair of George and Junior, and his best-known character, Droopy. Droopy, voiced by Bill Thompson (a.k.a. ""Wallace Wimple"" on NBC Radio's ""Fibber McGee and Molly"" show) debuted in 1943 with ""Dumb-Hounded"". He appeared in several more Avery cartoons (including ""Northwest Hounded Police"") before being officially given his own series in 1948 with ""Senor Droopy"". The influence of Avery's cartoons was felt across the animation industry; even Hanna and Barbera adapted"
"format were the four-part ""Robin Hood"", in which he took the role of Friar Tuck; ""Treasure Island"", in which he played the villainous Long John Silver; and a version of ""Snow White"" in which he portrayed all seven dwarves (much easier in an animated setting, with no trick photography needed). The series was inspired by the success of the 1962 television special, ""Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol,"" a serious remake of the Charles Dickens classic with Magoo playing Ebenezer Scrooge. The series was re-shown in the early 1970s on early Saturday mornings and the early 1980s as part of certain channels'"
"girl named Snooks. Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the ""Good News Show"" the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on ""Maxwell House Coffee Time"", sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches. In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken"
"guise of a green-haired, green-bearded, guitar-strumming hippie who slept in a psychedelic-painted coffin and told corny, vaudeville-era jokes given a horror-movie skew. The show's title was derived from Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a yellow, sugary glazed popcorn snack, first produced in the 1960s. Svengoolie was a pun on the name Svengali + ghoul. The show, and character, proved to be wildly successful; the show lasted from 1970 until 1973, when parent company Field Communications sold WFLD-TV to Kaiser Broadcasting, which chose to replace ""Theater"" with a similar show popular in Cleveland, ""The Ghoul Show."" (The Svengoolie persona would be resurrected, with"
"in his face. Fryar also hosted several other children's shows over 43 years in local television. In 1965, Fryar was cast in the Three Stooges movie, ""The Outlaws Is Coming"", playing the part of Johnny Ringo. Upon the movie's release, Fryar quickly received a number of complaints from English teachers because he appeared in a movie with the grammatically incorrect title. Many younger children, who went expecting to see his trademark battered straw hat and striped coat, were unable to recognize him in his outlaw makeup. Older children and their parents were able to appreciate the comedy. On October 2,"
"and Cecil, Space Angel and Rocky and Bullwinkle. Often the Three Stooges episodes were introduced by Shannon spinning ""The Stooge-O-Scope""...a mounted wheel with pictures of the six comic actors who played the Three Stooges attached to it. After Paul would spin the wheel, the camera would zoom into it, with the fade back out going into that day's episode of the Stooges. The show also featured Paul Shannon's alter ego, Nosmo King, a mysteriously silent, bearded man in dark sunglasses, who stalked about the studio in a slouch hat and tan raincoat. Nosmo was also featured ""driving his car"" around"
"episodes, the series was called ""Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle""; however, a lawyer from New York called Beagle contacted NBC and threatened them with a lawsuit. It was then retitled ""Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel"". The series depicted the misadventures of a small law firm, with Groucho playing attorney Waldorf T. Flywheel, and Chico playing Emmanuel Ravelli, a character lifted directly from the 1930 film ""Animal Crackers"". The 1980 discovery of scripts for this 1932–33 series led to publication by Pantheon Books, as described in ""The New York Times"" in 1988: Now, one of the funniest ""lost"" radio shows of the early"
"1980 to 1982, the ABC TV comedic skit series, ""Fridays"", featured an occasional skit of ""The Numb Boys"" - essentially a Three Stooges routine related to a recent news topic - with John Roarke playing Curly (and Bruce Mahler as Moe and Larry David as Larry). Curly's legend far outlived him when an otherwise-obscure rock band, Jump 'n' The Saddle, scored one of the biggest novelty hits of the 1980s with their 1983 single, ""The Curly Shuffle"". The video featured some of Curly's best scenes. One band member claimed they had watched hundreds of hours' worth of Three Stooges films"
"Sanborn Hour"", a thirty-minute program which ran on Wednesday nights at 8 pm in 1933. From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Fanny made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Snooks, a role she premiered in a ""Follies"" skit co-written by playwright Moss Hart. Baby Snooks premiered in ""The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"" in February 1936 on CBS, with Alan Reed playing Lancelot Higgins, her beleaguered ""Daddy"". Brice moved to NBC in December 1937, performing the Snooks routines as part of the ""Good News"" show, then back to CBS on ""Maxwell House Coffee Time"", with the"
"The Snoop Sisters The Snoop Sisters is an American comedy-mystery television show that aired on NBC during the 1973–1974 season. The series aired on a monthly rotation (referred to as a ""wheel"") as part of the ""NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie"", trading timeslots with ""Banacek"", ""Tenafly"", and ""Faraday and Company"". Of these series, only ""Banacek"" demonstrated any longevity. The show stars Hollywood film actresses Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as two elderly sisters, Ernesta Snoop and Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson, who routinely stumbled across mysteries which they solved. Predating ""Murder She Wrote"", both sisters were mystery novelists. They first appeared on ABC"
"rather multi-purpose, since Shemp emitted this sound when scared, sleeping (done as a form of snoring), overtly happy or dazed. It became as much a trademark sound of Shemp as the ""nyuk nyuk"" sound had become Curly's. Because of his established solo career, he was also given opportunities within the sketches to act out comic routines on his own. It was during this period that The Three Stooges first ventured into live television appearances, beginning on Tuesday, October 19, 1948 with Milton Berle on his Texaco Star Theatre program. Shemp appeared with Moe and Larry in 73 short subjects—or 77,"
"Winkler has guest-starred on television series such as ""Numb3rs"", ""The Bob Newhart Show"" (as Miles Lascoe, a parolee just out of jail—he was in jail for armed robbery, twice), ""South Park"", ""The Practice"", ""The Drew Carey Show"", ""The Simpsons"" (playing a member of a biker gang—in one scene, he calls Marge ""Mrs. S"", a reference to Fonzie calling ""Happy Days"" matriarch Marion Cunningham ""Mrs. C""), """", ""Third Watch"", ""Arrested Development"", ""Crossing Jordan"", ""Family Guy"", ""King of the Hill,"" and """". The Weezer video for 1994's ""Buddy Holly"" edited period footage of Henry Winkler as the Fonz, as well as a"
"the TV animation division adapted Carl Barks' Scrooge McDuck comic books for the small screen with the syndicated hit ""DuckTales"". Its success spawned a 1990 theatrical film entitled """" and an increased investment in syndicated cartoons. The result of this investment was ""The Disney Afternoon"" in 1990, a two-hour syndicated television programming block of such animated shows as ""Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers"" (1989–91), ""TaleSpin"" (1990–91), ""Darkwing Duck"" (1991–93, also airing on ABC), ""Goof Troop"" (1992–94, also airing on ABC), ""Bonkers"" (1993–94), and the critically-acclaimed and still-popular ""Gargoyles"" (1994–97). TV animation also brought some animated feature film characters to Saturday"
"four like a normal dog as he did previously. Fred, Daphne, and Velma were dropped from the series, and the new ""Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo"" format now consisted of three seven-minute comedic adventures starring Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy instead of one half-hour mystery. Most of the supernatural villains in the seven-minute ""Scooby and Scrappy"" cartoons, who in previous ""Scooby"" series had been revealed to be human criminals in costume, were now real within the context of the series. This version of ""Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo"" first aired from 1980 to 1982 as part of ""The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show"", an hour-long program also"
"each attempt to do away with the gang lest they be returned to the chest, often employing Weerd and Bogel as lackeys. Story editor and associate producer Tom Ruegger led the overhaul of the property, and the irreverent, fourth wall breaking humor found in each episode would resurface in his later works, among them ""A Pup Named Scooby-Doo"", ""Tiny Toon Adventures"", and ""Animaniacs"". Of ""The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo"", Ruegger recalls not being fond of the Flim-Flam character (""Definitely the product of network focus groups"") or the other added characters in the cast. As with most of the other early-1980s"
"appear in a puff of smoke (""Hiya, kids! Hiya, hiya, hiya!"") when McConnell yelled the catchphrase ""Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"" The same phrase was later used by Andy Devine. Froggy was always interrupting the story and causing trouble. McConnell died of a heart attack in 1954. Andy Devine took over the show in 1955. After McConnell's death, the show was hosted by the rough-voiced, gentle giant Andy Devine, who had earlier appeared as Jingles on ""The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok"" with Guy Madison. Studio reaction shots were again intercut, and Devine did his segments without a live audience."
"show on WFBM-TV that ran from 1960 to 1972 and highlighted the old Three Stooges shorts. He appeared under the name ""Harlow Hickenlooper"" and was one of a trio of hosts with Curley Myers and Captain Star (Jerry Vance, a.k.a. Larry Vincent). Together, they sang songs and did skits for a live studio audience of children. Fryar fell into the Stooges' slapstick comedy routines with passion. His idea of Harlow Hickenlooper's personality was for him to be a character for whom nothing ever went right, no matter how hard he tried. Hickenlooper regularly ended up with a (shaving) cream pie"
"Jess Cain Jess Daniel Dennis Cain III (June 17, 1926 – February 14, 2008) was an American radio personality. For 34 years, from 1957 to 1991, Cain was the morning drive personality on WHDH/850 in Boston. Cain also was a professional actor and appeared in numerous theater and musical theater productions, and appeared in early television on the Sergeant Bilko - a.k.a. ""The Phil Silvers Show"". In the Boston area, he was known especially for playing Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' ""A Christmas Carol"". A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a graduate of Northeast Catholic High School in Philadelphia"
"a science fiction spoof, Avalon ceded leading man duties to Tommy Kirk, but he had a cameo. He was back as leading man in ""Beach Blanket Bingo"" (1965). Avalon later recalled, ""'That's the picture of mine that I think people remember best, and it was just a lot of kids having a lot of fun -- a picture about young romance and about the opposition of adults and old people... It was also fun because we got to learn how to fake skydive out of an airplane."" Avalon appeared in nearly two dozen TV episodes, including ABC's ""The Bing Crosby"
"the same Stooge. For their haircuts, Moe had a bowl cut, Larry was bald on the top of his head with his remaining hair frizzled out, Shemp had a more loose hairstyle (It frequently fell into his face), while Curly, Joe, and Curly-Joe were all bald. Characters could appear in groups of three, sporting the signature haircuts. Each Stooge developed his own signature action and reaction. Moe would frequently eye-poke the others, to which they developed a signature hand block. He always slapped one of the others. Curly had a shuffle where he would spin on the floor. Larry played"
"Wilson. On screen, Brice portrayed Baby Snooks in the 1938 film ""Everybody Sing"" in a scene with Judy Garland as Little Lord Fauntleroy. Hanley Stafford was best known for his portrayal of Snooks' long-suffering, often-cranky father, Lancelot “Daddy” Higgins, a role played earlier by Alan Reed on the 1936 ""Follies"" broadcasts. Lalive Brownell was Vera “Mommy” Higgins, portrayed by Lois Corbet (mid-1940s) and Arlene Harris (after 1945). Beginning in 1945, child impersonator Leone Ledoux was first heard as Snooks' younger brother Robespierre, and Snooks returned full circle to the comics when comic book illustrator Graham Ingels and his wife Gertrude"
"television block ""Adventure Time"". The show aired on WTAE channel 4 in the afternoons. The show showed Three Stooges shorts, the vast library of Warner Bros. Cartoons, Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, Little Rascals shorts, and the first color anime, ""Kimba the White Lion"", in serialised form along with skits and songs. Shannon also played to a studio audience that attended each broadcast, usually scout troops and amused his audiences with his alter ego, ""Nosmo King"", a play on ""No Smoking"" signs (but not to be confused with H. Vernon Watson (1886–1949), the British music hall artist who also performed as"
"York-based children's television show characters, appearing on ""Winky Dink and You"" as Mr. Bungle for five years, and playing ""Phineas T. Bluster"", ""Flub-a-Dub"", and various other puppet characters on ""Howdy Doody"" (as well as several ""live"" characters, including Ugly Sam and Pierre the Chef) for 4 years. Dayton was also the voice of Deputy Dawg, Heckle and Jeckle, Luno, and many early 1960s Terrytoons cartoon characters. Allen also provided the voice of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. He continued to be a voiceover performer through the 1990s. He was best known as the ""Why Not?"" man when he joined the cast"
"married and retired from voice acting, Heather North assumed the role of Daphne, and would continue to voice the character until 1997. The TV influences of ""I Love a Mystery"" and ""Dobie Gillis"" were apparent in the first episodes. Of the similarities between the ""Scooby-Doo"" teens and the ""Dobie Gillis"" teens, the similarities between Shaggy and Maynard are the most noticeable; both characters share the same beatnik-style goatee, similar hairstyles, and demeanors. The core premise of ""Scooby-Doo, Where are You!"" was also similar to Enid Blyton's ""Famous Five"" books. Both series featured four youths with a dog, and the Famous"
"""Spaddle"" to vote for the red team or blue team. The ""prize"" that the performers competed was the Sponk Trophy, a golden rubber chicken. Occasionally an audience member would be the sketch participant while the original performers acted as a celebrity panel, and won a small prize. Sponk! Sponk! was a children's television game show, which premiered on American network Noggin September 10, 2001 and ran until March 3, 2002. After the last episode aired, the show went in reruns until January 1, 2003. The premise of ""Sponk!"" was improvisational comedy, similar to the show ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"""
"Nathan Ruegger Nathan Alexander-Ruegger (born January 19, 1984) is an American screenwriter, voice actor and film director, the son of writer/producer/director Tom Ruegger and voice actress Adrienne Alexander. He was the voice of certain characters in his father's cartoon shows. The first was in ""Tiny Toon Adventures"" when he played the baby version of Plucky Duck, famous for his catchphrase ""Water go down the hooooooooole!"". The second was in ""Animaniacs"", in a far more prominent role as Skippy Squirrel, the nephew of Slappy Squirrel. Around the end of that show's run, he landed the role of Froggo in ""Histeria!"". He"
"Nosmo King). Puppeteer Hank Stohl had another puppet called Knish, which was nicer than Nosmo King. He also used a prop he dubbed ""The Magic Sword."" A high point of the show came each Christmas season, when Paul Shannon read children's letters to Santa Claus, placed them into a rocket, and launched it to the North Pole. Shannon was one of several 1950s-1960s children's TV hosts to begin presenting reruns of the Three Stooges on Adventure Time, bringing the trio's 1930s and 1940s comedy shorts to an entirely new audience. It helped revive the Stooges as a viable act at"
"hospital with other ailments. Around the age of five he received a guitar from his father and taught himself to play by listening to and playing along with the radio. A mischievous youngster, he was given the nickname ""Snooks"" after a radio character named Baby Snooks. In 1947, at the age of 11, Eaglin entered a talent contest organized by the radio station WNOE and won it with his performance of ""Twelfth Street Rag."" Three years later, he dropped out of a school for the blind to become a professional musician. In 1952, he joined the Flamingoes, a local seven-piece"
"empty room while switching channels from Jerry Springer to a cart race then to black and white burlesque figure skating after that to a strip show and finally to a Richard Marx music video when he decides to change the situation and the idea of ""Doggy Fizzle Televizzle"" comes to his mind. This ends the intro and the main theme follows with Snoop rapping. Here are the episodes with the list of segments long enough to be notable. Intro: MTV News about Snoop is challenging Lance Bass to a space race, when gets kidnapped by UFOs. Intro: Snoop reads a"