you're looking
for is right here:
Save money!
|
Everything
you're looking for is right here: Save money! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|||||
| BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TODAY SHOW
In 1977, original hosts Jack Lescoulie, Frank Blair and Dave Garroway joined Jane Pauley and Tom Brokaw to celebrate Today's 25th anniversary. Notably absent - J. Fred Muggs who was doing a nightclub act in Florida at the time. When asked about his missing co-host, Garroway replied, "I didn't want that damn monkey on the program." Largely forgotten by the public and out of work for more than a decade, Dave Garroway committed suicide in 1982. By then, the show he helped create was running a poor second to ABC's Good Morning America.
Couric announced she was jumping ship to CBS in April of 2006, a few months before her contract with the Today show was up - giving NBC a few precious months to prepare America for waking up to Matt Lauer and Curious George.  FREE
ADVICE FOR NBC:If NBC should decide again on a simian sidekick for Today, what would be their modern-day options? They'll be looking for chimps with a strong Q rating and lots of TV experience.
"J. Fred was born in French Cameroon in 1952, so he is old enough for AARP membership, but because of his foreign birth, J. Fred Muggs is not eligible to become President. Which might be a shame, because he must be quite bright and articulate compared with a few pols from both parties here in the United States." Think about it NBC - J. Fred may miss the perks of being the star of one of NBC's top shows and be willing to make a comeback. Other chimps with high Q ratings include:
Clyde - from Clint Eastwood's hit movies in the seventies. Clyde probably won't stoop to doing television, most movie actors won't, if they can help it.
Bubbles - Michael Jackson's chimp has the highest Q rating of all. Perhaps as a test for possible weekday duty, Bubbles was given his own Saturday morning cartoon series in 1985. He's an unlikely choice as his owner has gone on the record as saying, "I'm the star! Not that chimp! Bubbles just isn't that cute anymore!" According to insiders, Bubbles sucker-punched the fragile superstar one day and was promptly shipped off to Sylmar, CA to share a cage with 22 other primates.
THE
TODAY SHOW : EARLY YEARS |
THE
TODAY SHOW : EARLY YEARS
TV
on DVD
Download the Romper Room tunes you loved!
|
| Everything
you're looking for is right here: Save money! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
| TV
Shows on DVD/ /
/ / / / / 2009
TV Show Reviews /
/ / / / / / Cartoons
on DVD/ / / / /
/ / Holiday
Specials on DVD
/ / / / / / Classic
Commercials |
|||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
Save money! |
In
2001, faced with losing the most important female talent in network daytime
television, NBC capitulated to Couric's salary demands (to the tune of
$60 million-plus for five years).
Surprisingly,
J. Fred Muggs is still a possibility. TVparty-er Mark tells
us, "J. Fred Muggs is alive and well and living in retirement
with a chimpanzee ladyfriend in Florida. 
Tonga
- this chimp had two hit series - as the 'Bloop' on Lost in Space
and as the title character in the 1970 action series, Lancelot Link,
Secret Chimp. Tonga would now be in his forties. This makes him the
elder stateschimp of the bunch, but much too old for TV.
Mr.
Smith - the star of NBC's 1983 self-titled series. Smith has an edge,
he's a talking Orangutan with Washington insider experience - or at least
he played one on TV, what's the difference? Still, NBC is unlikely to
rehire the big ape after he almost single-handedly wrecked their Friday
night schedule in 1983. Mr. Smith was back in the jungle before Christmas
of that year!
\r\r