Red and Rover by Brian Basset for February 01, 2012

It’s all about perspective……

The lovely parting gifts on “Let’s Make a Deal” were the best! Now, stay tuned, boys, for the Art Fleming edition of “Jeopardy”…

giant ant farm? is that a farm of giant ants … or a very large farm of regular sized ants?

rover is paying close attention

i picture an 8 foot tall ant farm with a bazillion regular ants. yuck!

The only good tv is bad tv…

To many people, ant farms aren’t worth a hill of beans, Red.

The best ‘60s/’70s game show ever! How many episodes of this did I watch with my brothers? We would become audience members and contestants too. “The box! The box” “No, take the money!” “Curtain #3!” Poor Jay dressed in a giant diaper in an even bigger pram or riding a giant tricycle. What was the name of the ‘curtain girl’, Carol? Great show! The recent updated version cannot compare.

Better have a huge container for it or mom will get mad!

This brings back such memories!…home sick, the alcohol rubdown, chicken soup for lunch, and, if I wasn’t too feverish, being allowed to lie down on the sofa, swathed in blankets, to watch Jeopardy, Mom’s soaps or the Mike Douglas Show, You Don’t Say, The Match Game, or reruns of Lassie. (Or, if I was really lucky, coverage of one of the manned space flights! Don’t remember much of Mercury, but I do remember Gemini and Apollo!)

for me it was the afternoon movie. “Dialing for Dollars” and the “Charlie and Humphry” show.

@finkd..THANK-YOU! .Yes, Carol Merrill! ).That was gonna bug me all day (at least until I looked it up

If the ant farm is big enough, maybe you could run it along your wall. Make an interesting living room decor.

LOL!! And of course how are you going to herd them all into the barn and keep them there? And branding them with your ranch symbol would be a pain.

I’ll wait for Jack Berry on The Joker’s Wild. I think I just dated myself.

I’m just glad he’s not watching one of those horrible talk shows or judge shows.

Atleast he would have giant ants to do his bidding.

A personal television? In the fifties? And it’s small enough to fit on a dresser top? o_O; Red’s family must be LOADED x_x;

Ah, sick day TV. I remember it well.

Fond memories of being home from school and watching game shows…until the soap operas came on!

Ahhh – the dregs of daytime TV – next up “The Price is Right”

My dad worked the evening shift, so when we had to stay home sick, he’d watch all the daytime game shows with us. We’d bet pennies on which person would get picked on the Dating Game. Smooooooooch,

I know that game show Red and Rover watching. It’s “Let’s Make A Deal!” I remember that show.

Did I win anything yet, Brian?<3

I still think of that stuff to day watching the new one. I wonder if anyone could take home the zonks. I mean you won it right?

Obviously Red’s feverish right now!

When sick I ended up watching “Dark Shadows”..but I do

remember Monty Hall..One show the guy really messed

up and picked the wrong door..behind it was a goat..

You could just see the look on his face said.."Now

what the HEII am I going to do with a goat?"..

It’s “THEM” on a big Farm

Drat I just deleted my earlier comment accidentally while attempting to revisit Red and Rover. I appear to be my own worst enemy.

I’ve seen Them! and I think the guy dodged a bullet by not getting the giant ants.

Yep, afternoon TV shows were the only thing that kept me from being a totally whiny sick child!

Ah, the classic “Monty Hall Problem”.

If I stayed home sick I was too sick to watch TV. Back then, we had just one anyway! Good old Rover. He’ll endure daytime TV to be near Red.

The current Let’s Make a Deal is hosted by Wayne Brady and airs weekdays on CBS as a companion to The Price is Right.

Oh, the memories.

Great fun until the top gets knocked off and all the little critters get use in the house.

yeah I know who would not want a giant ant farm..

Does it come with giant ants?

Is Red feeling better?

Great strip. Thanks, Brian.

Fond memories… I watched Art Linkletter’s Garden Party, Treasure Island, Romper Room (too old for it but not much choice), Mike Douglas. I still remember watching a soap in which a woman’s arm had turned skeletal and she was trying to hide it. Doesn’t seem to have been “Dark Shadows”, good luck finding data on “Secret Storm”… We slathered on Vick’s and Mentholatum without the slightest idea they did nothing, but were simply what you smelled first when your sinuses cleared on their own.

I always loved to see the Zonks.

only one i ever saw of those aforementioned was dialing for dollars, but they just had a dark shadows movie on tcmnever seen it before, liked it better than twilight

Good choice ‘Larry’! Monty Hall – wow! That was one of my favorite shows!

I don’t remember Zonks at all! Was that a regional program?

Who wouldn’t love a giant ant farm?

Most of the shows on back then were a lot better than some the things they want you to watch now.

That grinning hand-drawn cariacture of Monty Hall floating across the TV screen holding a dollar bill freaked me out at a very young age. I don’t know why. But it has stuck with me all these years.