When did a cartoon child first cry, “I want my Maypo” and what is Maypo?
The animated ad featuring a cartoon child crying, “I want my Maypo” first aired in 1956.
Maypo is a maple-flavored oatmeal, new at the time.
The animated ad featuring a cartoon child crying, “I want my Maypo” first aired in 1956.
Maypo is a maple-flavored oatmeal, new at the time.
Clara Peller asked, “Where’s the beef?” for Wendy’s, and Walter Mondale asked it in the 1984 presidential campaign.
Only fifty kids at a time sat in the Peanut Gallery on “Howdy Doody”.
Elvis Presley did not make his TV debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” (CBS, 1948-71), but on “The Jackie Gleason Show” (CBS, 1952-55, 1956-57, 1962-70). Elvis first appeared there in January 1956.
“Roseanne” (ABC, 1988) was the top-rated TV program in 1990.
The real name of the hospital nicknamed “St. Elsewhere” was St. Eligius in Boston. It received its nickname because other hospitals dumped their unwanted patients there.
April Dancer, played by Stefanie Powers, in this short-lived TV spoof of NBC’s popular “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” (1964-68).