Flip Wilson Show opening theme intros

[Wheeljack35]

If I was good I got to stay up to watch this show.Hell I was about 7 or 8 when this happened

[determination9995757]

I know that death is a part of life, but I sure hate it when death takes someone you truly, truly love. This was Flip, and all other wonderful and beatufiul people that help make life a little bit more bearable. Thank you Flip.

[DG3744]

he doesnt come out dancing like ellen!

[mphk55]

Man thank you thank you for posting this. The music is the bomb. And I cant find if its a song. But the repeat of it is so kool. Man wish I knew it was a song...

[ElectricBlueOil]

He was the Bill Cosby of the 70s.

[DelilahThePig]

I never cared much for the show, but loved the funky intro lights. Seeing these clips three times in a row, the last arrow kind of looks like a middle finger.

[thewipsportsfan]

yeah even if you did'nt like the show the lights and the intro made it somewhat palatable

[thewipsportsfan]

BTW is that John Harlan (Name That Tune, You don;t Say) Announcing?

[kachoo2135]

Thanks to Flip, I knew what to name a new Siamese cat I got that year - his name was Leroy.

[blueshooby]

I met Flip Wilson in 1993 in Nice in south of France, I had no idea who he was and didn't care, which amused him, he would look at me at times and say you really don't know who I am do you? nope I'd reply and Flip would just leave it there, never telling a thing of his past. I hung with him and his family for a week, and didn't realize who he was until I returned to England and checked him out on the internet. Flip was a totally cool character and I'll never forget him....R.I.P my friend.

[jjlucash]

This is when TVLand used to be good.

[joecrewdog]

TVLand??!!

Heck NBC at 8pm. Thursday if I remember right? Flip was the man! 1970-1974. Loved watching him! Still have his LP's. BTW, R.I.P. Flip.... He went too soon.

[blacksiouxsie]

Intro 3 was where it's at. God, I miss old school TV Land.

[jjlucash]

I know, right? That's the specific one I remember the best. :D

[deckie1985]

Hah, wow I misjudged the 1970s. I thought it was all about ugly clothes and big hair and bell bottoms, and this show was what... 1970-1972? Looks almost like the early 1960s!

[markojameow]

If you want really ugly clothes, check out those '80s football player shoulder pads and the grunge outfits from the early 1990s, as well as those Ugg boots circa 2004 and the (thankfully) waning Crocs shoes craze. Suffice to say, I wore huge shoulder pads in high school and grunge in college.

[deckie1985]

These clothes actually look normal, unlike the late 1970s clothes.

[markojameow]

So true. Though I liked the wrap dresses from that era, I wouldn't be caught dead wearing skin-tight satin pants or, if I were a guy, a shirt opened mid-chest and practically covered with medallions and chains. Those things were in really bad taste.

[thewipsportsfan]

your confusing the EARLY 70s with the LATE 70s. much of the bad fashion took place in the latter. people still had a slight kind of sophistication then

[markojameow]

I guess that each decade has at least one or two fashion trends that are, or were, in really bad taste. The 1970s were notorious for loud colors, extreme designs and some questionable fabrics. (Polyester doubleknit wasn't comfortable in any season of the year.) But, heck, that decade didn't really try to be like any other, and that was part of its, let's say, charm.

[thewipsportsfan]

Even the 90s! and don't anyone dispute me on that!

[markojameow]

Remember those baby tees, MC Hammer pants and, of course, grunge? Two of those '90s monstrosities have made a comeback in the late 2000s. I just hope they don't bring back those baby tees - they even made Pamela Anderson look like, well, a slut. (Not that it's hard for her to begin with.)

[thewipsportsfan]

yeah and don't forget those pants sagging down to past the knees yep Jail-culture fashion!

[markojameow]

It's sloppy and it's in poor taste, but it could be worse. Every time I see schoolgirls walk around in kilts that barely cover their butt cheeks, I want to roll the windows of my car down and shout, "Auditioning for the Pussycat Dolls, huh?" That 1990s Britney Spears video did nothing to improve the image of Catholic schoolgirls everywhere - and I attended one of them in the 1980s.

[thewipsportsfan]

that too. hand in hand. they are IMO one and the same pimps and ho's. none better none worse equally BAD taste. Actually I do think that the "thug culture " and the reladed whore fashion is part of a bigger Moral problems that I wish not to speak about here and I don't blame those who blindly follow it , but those execs who shove it in my face as acceptable behavior and don't get me startedon Ms Spears. please pardon me for my waxing on the thug stuff but I went to school during the 90s &....

[thewipsportsfan]

and it was wall to wall wannabe thugs with anger and behavioral problems many of the people who I went to school with are now in their late 20s and 30s and still dressing like this as if the 90s never ended and that their style is still "becoming". Judging by your previous posts you are probably are a decade older than I and did not have to deal with it like I did. at least the disco, grunge and hair-band people of their respective eras grew up and matured.

[markojameow]

So true. I would not walk around looking like a pimp or a street thug, either, but as a girl I hate it when 12-year-olds walk around a suburban neighborhood like common streetwalkers. I see where you're coming from - and, yes, I have a decade's start on you. But the thing is, men's fashions seem to have a longer shelf life than their female counterparts, for better or worse. (In this case, worse.)

[markojameow]

I was so little when this very funny comedian had his own variety series. TV was far better in those days than it is now - with Jerry Springer, so-called reality series, and sex-sex-sex poluting our airwaves, my only alternative is throwing the set out.

[thewipsportsfan]

100% right! I have a Big screen HDTV less than 2 years old and barely watch it.

I'watch the Youtube more than the TV now

[7olusegun]

What's wrong with this video postage which inculcatedly flipped again and again?

[Squirrel36]

Flip was AWESOME!!!!!!

[fordwagonnut]

i wasn't alive when this was filmed....but it was shown on TV Land while I was in HS in the mid 90s......that was an awesome show! Too bad, its a lost gem in my own generation...."Whos Flip Wilson?"

[Davidt33]

He was a comedian and actor from that time, His real name is Clerow but he got the name "Flip" when he was in the Air Force for his flipped out sense of humor. This show ran on Thursday nights on NBC from 1970-74. He also hosted "People Are Funny" in 1984 and starred in Charlie & Company in 1985 and he had other guest appearances on some TV shows. He died in 1998.

[BrynMawrYamBag]

Flip was one of a kind my friend. This was in the days when TV was worth watching for entertainment. What do we get now ? Springer,Maury,Ellen Degenerate,Springer's Bodyguard has his own show now. There is no such thing anymore on TV just for fun or real entertainment value. So sad.

[thewipsportsfan]

Filp was a treasure It;s hard to believe that He has been gone more than 10 years now

[ACLTony]

Man were those the days! Fond memories indeed!

[34airflow]

He was just awesome. Of course, I was in 1st Grade at the time. But I thought he was so cool.

[PossumPie]

Does anyone have him doing Geraldine? I would love to see that!

[A1l2l2e2n4]

"The Devil made me do it!"