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In reply to the discussion: Cultural references no one under 30 would get. [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,223 posts)and here are the ones you missed.
"You rang?"--Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver) on Dobie Gillis
Super Circus was an afternoon kids' program with Claude Kirchner as the ringmaster and Mary Harline as the trapeze artist. It literally featured circus acts.
Tom Terrific was a cartoon character, not a comic strip character, who had a dog named Manfred. His shtick was that he could shape shift--turn himself into anything to overcome the scheme of the villain, Crabby Appleton ("rotten to the core"
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"Fan mail from some flounder?" a line from Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Rocky and Bullwinkle find a message in a bottle, and that's what Bullwinkle asks. Actually, it's a lead-in to a commercial.
"Our Mr. Sun" was part of Conquest, a kid-oriented science program that played on Sunday afternoons. In the days before PBS, and before pro sports conquered the world, Sundays were the day for educational and cultural programs. Other episodes in the series were "Hemo the Magnificent" (about blood) and "The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" (about radioactivity). The series was sponsored by Bell Labs.