The First Annual NBC Yummy Awards

I don't know who Pinky Lee is, but that looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdUV5Z1BiDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kvXfeE5cM

Nothing kids love more than Ed Sullivan impressions.

someone thought this would fix nbc's chronic ratings problem........?????

wait so are we voting for most lickable?

Maybe? Not sure. I probably wanted to lick Justine Bateman in 1983.

they found a nice serial killery photo for bozo

Foobie the Robot

I had never heard of Pinky Lee

In 1955, Lee collapsed on camera due to an infection. His normal antics were so energetic that apparently the cameraman and the show's director assumed the fall an ad lib part of his performance. The on-stage audience, or "Peanut Gallery", usually composed almost entirely of pre-adolescent children who were coached by a staff member, continued their enthusiastic cheering and applause from the bleachers located on the stage itself. After as much as ten seconds of subsequent writhing by the stricken Lee the camera abruptly panned to the still cheering audience. The following afternoons Pinky Lee was not present. This effectively ended his leading role on the show, which continued without him until 1956. Rumors that he had died of a heart attack, prompted by the incident, persisted for decades. Occasionally, newspapers carried items mentioning the "late" Lee—even though he was performing at a dinner theater in the same city as the reporting newspaper. The incident also spawned rumors that Lee had been institutionalized after going insane on live television.

Weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6e3wI2d1Hs

During his routines, whenever anybody irritated him (which happened frequently) he would unleash his catchphrase: "Oooooh! You make me so mad!"

I know I've heard that before, but probably reappropriated in some other form.

Um, I posted that video above before I'd watched it to the 'chinaman' btw, having second thoughts now.

should read- "the 'chinaman' bit, btw"

Yeah, that bit was o_O but it's vintage burlesque and sort of expected unfortunately.

http://articles.philly.com/1987-06-17/news/26185278_1_drug-prevention-program-organs-liver

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=283727

Is Fubar D Robot the same person as Foobie the Robot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcs-mqnIr34

I think so, but they probably couldn't get away with calling him Fubar on Silver Spoons/The Yummy Awards.

mallory just slightly yummier than tootie

ah, this was a saturday morning preview from back when the networks would do big specials for their fall lineups and then a separate one promoting their saturday morning lineup. i used to LOVE these.

Watching the clips of Pinky Lee's 50s tv show on youtube is so uncanny, I've seen pastiches of this kind of show in American cartoons all my life, but I don't think I'd ever seen the original until now?

sorry about the burlesque video, I wouldn't have posted it if I'd watched the whole thing through first.

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MALLORY KEATON!