Switched to The Scooby Show while making the bed and getting ready for work. Shaggy has a scary close encounter with "The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face" while water skiing. Old Iron Face was a convict with a mask welded onto his face, and now it looks like he wants to scare everyone away from the old hotel on Skull Island. The others drag Scooby and Shaggy into investigating the terrifying island hideaway.
Hurried off to work after that. I wish I hadn't. Work was crazy-busy up until my last half-hour with people shopping before the big Eagles-Commanders game tomorrow. I wish the kids around here would find better things to do than use the parking lot as their personal bike park. One of the managers and I twice had to shoo a group of bratty 13-year-old boys away who were playing with the electric carts. As I pointed out to the boys, they weren't acting like they were 13. They were acting like they were 5.
Not 20 minutes after they finally left, I got fussed at by an older man who complained that there were no electric carts left for him. Sorry, we only have three, and it was so busy! It's first come, first serve. I had no help today, either. They kept sending the head bagger into the registers. She wasn't able to help me until nearly 4, by which time I was almost done anyway.
Needless to say, I rushed home after that. Listened to the Manhattan Transfer and worked on the Abbott and Costello review when I got in. Their self-titled album is from when they were more into jazz and standards, before the line-up changed. "Candy" and "Sweet Talking Guy" are charming; "Tuxedo Junction" was a hit that is still associated with them to this day.
Ran into an early Nickelodeon show I haven't seen for years on YouTube. Out of Control was a very strange spoof of news shows, with Dave Coulier as the host and anchor trying to get the rest of his weird crowd together for something like a show. Each show revolved around a main plot, like Dave's birthday in the episode I saw. Too-goofy Diz tended to be more annoying than anything. Slightly sleazy reporter Herm and Dave's fellow anchor Angela were generally easier to take. Computer HaHa was the show's writer and commentator. They would introduce a variety of sketches and interviews of real and fictional people and places.
My sisters and I loved this show as a kid. We thought the sketches were hilarious and loved the sheer variety. Nowadays, some of the interviews and skits come off as dated, but other things still work, including laid-back Dave himself as the anchor for the loonies around him.
Finished the night elsewhere on YouTube with a marathon of Match Game episodes featuring Mr. Periwinkle questions. Mr. Periwinkle was the randy old man character who generally either married someone much younger than him, or got into shenanigans at the old folks' home. Gene Rayburn probably got more into playing Mr. Periwinkle than he did any other character. He even wore an old man wig in a syndicated episode that made Brett claim he was Mr. Periwinkle come to life! Another time, Fannie Flagg pushed him over when he was playing Mr. Periwinkle, and he ended up in Elaine Joyce's lap.
Mr. Periwinkle's antics proved to be so popular, he outlived the 70's Match Game run. Mr. Periwinkle jokes turned up on Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour (notably the crazy episode where the X-O board broke and the panel had to make Xs and Os with their hands) and even Match Game '90. Ross Schafer would sometimes do a not-bad Mr. Periwinkle voice, though he doesn't in the episode included here.
Get to know the randiest old man in game shows in this wild marathon!
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