Rowan and Martin's Laugh In

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 8:27pm

Ok, I know I like to reminisce. How many of you remember Laugh In? I always thought it was hysterically funny not to mention way ahead of it's time. You bet your sweet bippy this was one of my favorite shows! Just what is a bippy anyway?

[Mamie]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 10:57pm

Aparently someone socked it to the bippy because no one here has a clue what it is!


(My favorite characters were Fred and Fanny Farkle and their daughter, Sparkle Farkle).

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 10:59pm

oh, I remember it very well...and if you look in the first 100 pages of the Adults Smoking thread there are quite a few references!

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:02pm

Mamie.....That's because most of the people on this board are so young that they don't know what a record is or how to get along without a cell phone. The old farts are mostly in bed! I loved Joanne Worley. BORRRINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG

[kjklo]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:03pm

Never missed it on Monday nights. I don't know what a bippy is, but I do remember that at the height of the show's popularity, Rowan and Martin made a quickie film entitled "The Maltese Bippy." It ranks right up there with the Get Smart film, "The Nude Bomb." Might make a good double bill.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:03pm

The Fickle Finger of Fate Award.

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:03pm

i've seen it in re-runs on the Trio network and a good friend of mine had some episodes on DVD. it's okay..i guess you had to be alive at that point in time to get some of the references.

some skits i've seen were funny, like ruth buzzi and arte johnson as the old couple on the park bench...he'd say something off color to her and she'd sock him with her handbag.

goldie hawn was cute too, screwing up her lines and giggling all over the place.

Updated On: 11/8/04 at 11:03 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:07pm

Regulars:
Gary Owens, Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Eileen Brennan,
Lisa Farringer, Sarah Kennedy, Flip Wilson, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Goldie Hawn, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Alan Sues,
Roddy Maude-Roxby, Jo Anne Worley, Donna Jean Young,
Pigmeat Markham, Charlie Brill, Dick Whittington,
Mitzi McCall, Chelsea Brown, Dave Madden, Ann Elder,
Teresa Graves, Jeremy Lloyd, Lily Tomlin, Tod Bass,
Byron Gilliam, Nancie Phillips, Barbara Sharma,
Johnny Brown, Dennis Allen, Pamela Rodgers,
Harvey Jason, Richard Dawson, Moosie Drier,
Patti Deutsch, Jud Strunk, Brian Bressler, Larry Hovis,
Betty Ann Carr, Muriel Landers, Elaine Beckett, Willie Tyler.

[kjklo]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:07pm

Look that up in your Funk & Wagnell's!

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:08pm

The Maltese Bippy was ok. Remeber Sammy DAvis jr..........Here comes da judge! Laugh In was a work of genius.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:09pm

Arte Johnson as the German Soldier,
peering out from behind a potted palm murmering,
"Verrry interesting!"

Ruth Buzzi as Gladys, the little
old lady with the hand bag, forever whacking the equally
decrepit Tyrone who snuggled up beside her on a park
bench

Lily Tomlin as the sarcastic, nasal telephone
operator named Ernestine

Gary Owens as the outrageously
overmodulated announcer, facing the microphone, hand
cupped over ear

Alan Sues as the grinning moron of a
sports announcer

Goldie Hawn, as the giggling dumb
blonde

Lily Tomlin as Edith Anne, a child philosopher
whose catchphrase was "and that's the truth"

Updated On: 11/8/04 at 11:09 PM

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:09pm

The way they danced at "The Party" was so cool.
I love to dance that way these days.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:10pm

Glebb, it was GROOVY!

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:11pm

Like "Rich Man's Frug" and "Turkey Lurkey Time".

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:13pm

When I was 11, I dressed up for Halloween as Gladys and went around hitting people with my purse. My 9th grade Biology teacher looked like Larry Hovis.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:15pm

Tiny Tim and 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips'

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:19pm

Is that another chicken joke? Joanne Worley. Sock it to me? Richard Nixon

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:20pm

The Cocktail Party

Letters to Laugh-In

Laugh-In Looks at the News

The gags written on the undulating body of a girl in a bikini

The joke wall at the close of each show, in which cast
members kept popping out of windows to throw each other one-liners--or a bucket of water.

[CJR]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:25pm

Here come the judge... here come the judge......


I love Laugh In!

[Jon]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:55pm

Don't forget Lily Tomlin as Edith Ann: "...and that'th the truthhh!"

Remember the Farkle Family? Fred Farkle, Fanny Farkle, little Sparkle Farkle, and the twins, Simon and Gar Farkle?

[MusicMan]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:36am

I'd like a couple of Walnettos.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:12am

JoAnne Worley was just a part of the Cy Coleman tribute, and was still VERY much on top of her game!

[dano]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:13am

remember...

someone being handed a light socket.
"What's this? You're giving a socket to me?"

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:14am

"Is this the party to whom I am speaking?" - Ernestine

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:31am

i still quote laugh in...

"do you believe in the hereafter?"

"yes."

"then you know what i'm here after!!"