February 5, 2014
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Pie Face TV
If you grew up in the Detroit area, you knew the Soupy Sales TV show. @Adamswomanback advised me to write about him. In grade school we used to run home at lunch time to watch it. Soupy liked to tell corny jokes to Pookie and Black Tooth, usually accompanied by a Motown sound track. We knew that sooner or later someone was going to get hit in the face with a pie.Soupy tells the story that he once asked Frank Sinatra to be on the show. Sinatra, a big fan, said he would do it only on the condition that Soupy hit him in the face with a pie. A classic skit.
Another wonderful kid's show was Pee Wee's Playhouse. Well, it looked like a kid's show. I wonder if kids actually watched it. I am sure its main audience was stoners.
Years later I became aware of surrealistic Japanese TV shows like this. I can't help thinking it was inspired by Pee Wee's show:
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Fun post!
The only one of these shows I remember is PeeWee's Playhouse! I have his Christmas special and still watch it every year at Christmastime! It's so funny!
I bet it was fun waiting and watching with glee wondering when the pie would get thrown and who would get it in the face!
That's funny that huge stars went on that show! I bet their kids loved that!
HUGS!!!
You told me to post this. I hope you're happy. BTW you can find a lot more Soupy Sales vids in Youtube.
Ha! People rarely do what I tell them to do...so you surprised me!
I AM happy!!! 
I will enjoy some of this vids on YouTube soon!
Thank you and HUGS!!!
I too was a fan of Soupy and Pee Wee.
Ha. I thought I was alone.
Seriously? That's Soupy Sales? It looks like Mel Gibson to me.
I can so visualize Mel Gibson covered in lemon meringue.
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