Full disclosure, here: today’s cartoon was, of course,
“inspired”, for lack of a better word, by a comment posted here a couple
of weeks ago by Sheikyebouti.
Okay, here are some better words: “stolen from”…”ripped-off”,perhaps?
The Sheik gets an expenses paid trip to see an intellectual property attorney.
And Sheik? Wherever you are out there,don’t go changin’.
Here’s the skinny from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoupySales#Charactersontheshow
Clyde Adler, a film editor at Detroit’s WXYZ-TV, performed in sketches and voiced and operated all puppets on Sales’ show in Detroit in the 1950s and in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1962 and in 1978. Actor Frank Nastasi assumed the role of straight man and puppeteer when Sales took the show to New York from 1964 to 1966.
Possum Pete over 14 years ago
So he wasn’t just some psycho talking to himself in line at the grocery store?
bueller over 14 years ago
Full disclosure, here: today’s cartoon was, of course, “inspired”, for lack of a better word, by a comment posted here a couple of weeks ago by Sheikyebouti.
Okay, here are some better words: “stolen from”…”ripped-off”,perhaps?
The Sheik gets an expenses paid trip to see an intellectual property attorney.
And Sheik? Wherever you are out there,don’t go changin’.
And, thanks!
ksoskins over 14 years ago
Remember Soupy Sales’s 2 big dogs Bluetooth and WiFi?
jpozenel over 14 years ago
Vaguely.
grapfhics over 14 years ago
Well, what do you mean by that, Sheik? name the puppeteer.
runar over 14 years ago
Here’s the skinny from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoupySales#Charactersontheshow
Clyde Adler, a film editor at Detroit’s WXYZ-TV, performed in sketches and voiced and operated all puppets on Sales’ show in Detroit in the 1950s and in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1962 and in 1978. Actor Frank Nastasi assumed the role of straight man and puppeteer when Sales took the show to New York from 1964 to 1966.
The puppets were:
White Fang and Black Tooth (both dogs)
Pookie the Lion
Hippy the Hippo