C/D: Marlin Perkins

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"Mutual of O-Ma-Ha is people..."

He was a badass, better than that freaky Australian copycat. But I always got the feeling that the episodes were filmed like 15 years earlier, so consistent in the production values.

― andy --, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

classic! if only for sunday morning (was it sunday? or saturday?) nature creepiness!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

I think it was Sunday night, after "Hee Haw."

― andy --, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

hmm i remember it being a morning show, but it was probably syndicated so different time slots for different cities. hee haw was sat. night in the 'ville.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Mm, you might be right, I have memories of eating chili & cornbread during Hee-Haw, so that would have been Saturday.

The episode where he, not Jim, wrestled the ananconda = classic.

― andy --, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

i imagine, but don't remember, that there might've been tons of obvious racism on the show.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

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No, it wasn't racism, it was speciesism.

― andy --, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

naw i mean like on their adventures they'd "visit" some african tribe and marvel at their "primitive ways" or somesuch. but maybe i'm just projecting.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, I imagine they 'persuaded' a lot of villagers to go change out of their pullovers, shorts and flip-flops and come back in a grass skirt and beads. The end justifies the means, however.

― andy --, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

yes, we are all richer for it. except for the villagers.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Marlin Perkins was like Art Linkletter, minus the pizzazz.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I thought for the longest time that the show actually took place in Nebraska.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

was the monkey called Jim?

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

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