Howdy Doody

[MamaTraci70]

I hate all the racist comments on here. :(

[oMpaglamoMalakas]

ti einai avtos o kwlobaras .. 

[Nando1940]

Not much "diversity" in the Peanut Gallery, is there?

[blastingcaps]

@Nando1940 Thats cause all white people including children and racist klansmen. huh?

[eddfredandkyle]

how is it fun to eat a regular cearal going on for 25 years? you just sit there and eat the stuff? seroulsly 1954 is weird

[tedkadar]

you a*#holes ya didn,t live back then , n, we weren,t so surperiorily sophisticated as you s*#theads....hahahahha

[CandiceIsACupcake]

he kinda reminds me of Jeff Dunham's Bubba Jay...

[DibsWife]

Those kids look scared :/

[rdsieben]

did they not use a clip on Indiana Jones?

[MrCticky1]

@rdsieben ...and Back to the Future III. :)

[alasdairgillis]

I think Buffalo Bob had people buried in his backyard or stuffed in oil drums

[alasdairgillis]

LOL Injun rain dance for Rice Krispies yeahhhhh kill them redskins and take their krispies! Did you know Rice Krispies were a main staple of the Native American diet?

[QuickSilverChick]

NICE.

[HDC619]

Pawn stars

[InYourEveryDream]

Anyone remember this?

[DyneBeats]

Thumbs up if you got bored and typed in Howdy

[spritevscoke98]

Hey kids, its Scotty McCreery!!!

Ugh :(

[jensmom604]

Notice that all the kids are Caucasian.

[4x4American]

@jensmom604 other colors werent allowed on tv back then, durr

[Pentaki1]

Kellogs! Rice! Crispies!

[Frizzurd]

i am only 27 and yet i think Howdy Doody and Bozo should make a comeback

[prunar]

Thought it was Charles Krauthammer at first glance.

[LuigiFan99]

lol how he dancines. sorry for my bad english

[TheAnalyst]

Kellog's must have payed them like crazy.

[estesoyojajaja]

No wandering this show was canceled. The clown, the Marionette...SCARY AS HELL !!!!

[estesoyojajaja]

Great Scoot ! Howdy Doody.

[MicahLuvFun26]

this is just scary

[dennisrayso]

1:34 fucking gave me a heart attack!!!

[estesoyojajaja]

@dennisrayso this is the original Chucky, the killing toy.

[XxShadowvalkyriexX]

THE CLOWN LOOKS SO WEIRD! Hes pasted together parts hehehe!

[codyboy900]

stupid!

[Catdude5000]

...but then you'd have creepy ghosts emanating from the attic, wouldn't you!? :-)

[vampaubrey]

that fucking thing is creepy and should be put in a box then in the attic

[RaffyAndaya]

@vampaubrey or maybe chained in a box then burn it in transelvainia

[Snowdrift68]

Now don't give up yet. The Sixties Generation is now going to be the elderly generation...no telling what can happen...Love, Dylan and......still hold true for this flower child...hugs

[sydneybon]

Yeah, we '60s hippies had it all goin on with Rice Kriispies and other stuff. It surely is a childhood memory for me ! I was even in the Peanut Gallery once !!! I want to somehowhow be able to get my Howdy Doody doll back-it disappeared ( and no it wasn't a 60s thing ). One day it was just gone. The 50 s and 60 s were THE BEST- wish I could go back to that simpler way of life........does anybody know what time it is ?

[TheNakedBandits]

This scares me soooo much! D':

Im having nightmares tonight.

[fry21100]

@TheNakedBandits yea,he scares me too,i'll burn him,cut him into shreds with my chainsaw,put the shreds in a box,throw the box into a black hole,then i'll destroy the black hole!

[tittnydoodle]

@fry21100 i want to kiss you

[tittnydoodle]

@fry21100 i want to kiss you

[fry21100]

@tittnydoodle (;

[Catdude5000]

Now I know why Baby Boomers did all the funky shit they did in the 1960s....It was definitely something in the Rice Krispies.......

[iixNe0NBl4cKxii]

and someday we get Kellogg's advertising in 3D

:D

[fromthesidelines]

Because I've sifted through a lot of material about Howdy, and read Howard Davis' "Say Kids, What Time Is It?"- probably the best "inside" book on Howdy you'll ever read, 'mick'.

[zoth00]

Great now i'm getting nightmares for the next whole month......

[DeDeDinah0749]

This was very early. From 1947 to 1955 it was in black and white and then from 1956 to 1960 it was in colour.

[eyesword101]

At 0:41 is that Mark Ruffalo?

[Apocalyptikai]

KILL IT!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

[MagnumJake100]

I just watched this stoned im Srsly trippin it out

[dabigdikdangler]

They were jammin on the Rice Krispies song, I want some right damn now! I'd need some sugar though.

[otherhervey]

Isn't the singer for the Rice Krispies commercial Thurl Ravenscroft, who also did the singing for "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"?

[albinogoatman]

howdy there mr. doodie lol

[tiou886]

they dont allow that many white kids on one show anymore, do they?

[SilverJinn]

Good heavens. This sure brings back memories.

[MrCraig1930]

Both my boys watch this show in the late 50s.

[Xtrememan89769]

I have the ventriloquist version of Howdy Doody.

[Frequent2001]

haha what a crooked way to sell fucking cereal

[KeffandMac]

That damn doll can dance better than most everybody these days.

[FOTZEL]

Howdy Doody was(mostly) filmed in brooklyn,n.y.!!

[fromthesidelines]

Yes, the sponsors WERE an integral part of the show, 'RJ'. There was such a "waiting list" of them, they had to be "rotated" (let's say, Monday, Kellogg's is the day's sponsor; Tuesday, Mars Candy [3 Musketeers]; Wednesday, Colgate-Palmolive [Colgate Dental Cream]; Thursday, Welch's Grape Juice; Friday, Poll Parrot Shoes- the following week, Continental Baking [Wonder Bread, Hostess Cup Cakes], Sweets Co. of America [Tootsie Roll], Campbell Soup Company, and others got THEIR turn).

[mickjagger64]

@fromthesidelines Why do you know this?

[YoungmindOldsoul]

dis show da shit wita 40ounce en pork en chicken dont forget ciggs u kno how people from the hood act

[poeticphantom]

the deep voice that is singing the rice krispies song was also a singer featured in disney's "grim grinning ghost" song played in the haunted mansion attraction at disneyland resort.

[oldmcbran]

the second kid from the right really enjoys himself

[ksalbrecht88]

I know. I was only asking so I could get a rapid response instead of having to wait until I bought the set because grandmother was nearby at the time & it would have been fun to confirm that the girl is her.... if maybe you purchased the DVD set & already knew the venue & date. I am going to buy the set next Friday so I will know soon enough. I am 22 years old so I personally have no interest in Howdy Doody, I just want to see confirmed film of my grandmother when she was 8 years old.

[esaywhat12]

When my uncle showed me his howdy doody i screamed and ran

[SpiritTheWolf1]

I never seen this show at all unless if you count youtube lol if you liked this show back in the day it was the first T.V. shows ever now it's just laughably stupid and funny

[spxmet]

Boy, Howdy, this Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal sure tastes good, just like my Winston cigarettes!

[GusF]

I love the shameless Kelloggs advertising!

[The1994Gforce]

Ha! He's dancing with a box of cereal!

[extruderofdertrude]

such a different time..

[xavierz66]

I love his little dance/trot it's so cool. Great example of early Americana television.

[TheMAGGIEMAE4]

HEY KIDS..........................­.WHAT TIME IS IT??????????????

I THINK I SEE MY COUSIN VINNY IN THE AUDIENCE!!! HE'S EATING RICE KRISPIES. YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS CLIP...IT IS NUTS!!! EVEN THE COMMERCIAL IS INSANE!

[PamiOhio]

I remember watching this show when I was a wee one ...

[designermite]

Hey kids what time is it? It's Howdy Doody time!

[doodledashia]

lol my lil sisters are scared of howdy doody.....hes not scary but the clown freaked me out

[JeffW77]

Thurl Ravenscroft's voice on the Rice Krispies jingle. Nobody else has a voice like Mr. Ravenscroft.

[RJRanke]

In the old days,sponsors seemed to be so much a part of the show.Howdy Doody 's content seemed to be half advertising for cereal,shoes,Wonder bread or whatever else.

[thecatatemyhomework]

I was in the first row of the Peanut Gallery. I'm on a mission to check out all of them to see if I see myself. If I do, I'll probably freak out lol. I remember that day very well.

[TheDragonCult]

any where I can see what the date and venue of this filming was and what date it aired?

[MillCreekEnt]

Yes. We released a booklet with that information inside the box set. Check it out where DVDs are sold. Howdy Doody Show - 40 Episodes UPC = 683904506573

[ksalbrecht88]

@TheDragonCult Did you ever find out the date and venue of this film. I am almost certain my grandmother is in this video. She said it was filmed in Longview, Texas sometime in 1953. I would appreciate a reply. Thanks!

[TheDragonCult]

@ksalbrecht88 the uploader MillCreek responded that the recording date information is in a Howdy Doody DVD box set but no word on when or where this was

[utubeguy35]

My Grampa loved this show in the 1940s as a kid. Too bad it died in 1960.

[jesusjerkoffisgod]

hahahaha...every time he craps he gets splinters

[ljcteehee]

Adding cream into cereal? Wow. Whole milk is bad enought.

[joni106]

i remember this show

[Djinn0fire]

That is diabolical !!! LOL

[shocktower70]

The raveings of my peers...

Fellow boomers childhood foolishness...

Perhaps snippets from a happier time

In our America

[Stereolabdream]

Mind you, that clown would put me off my breakfast straight away....

[Stereolabdream]

My goodness, the commercials aside... (I gre up with the BBC so my parents' taxes sponsored the programme, lol), isn't it interesting how all the children in the audience are in their "Sunday best"??? We are all so complacent about TV now...

[hourlynewscaster]

You have to remember one thing about the "brainwashing" of old TV ads, at least they were plain foods that didn't foster hate or violence. The commercials were so important that when Buffalo Bob had a heart attack, NBC set up a one-camera, one-mic studio in his home and microwaved his segment back to downtown. Kids were told that Bob was "on assignment" at Pioneer Village. They would check in with him and, ironically, he would do the commercials. Commercials pay for the show, you know.

[rpterz]

Awesome! It's Highway Doody time!

[JahsirAtari]

the clown is frightening...

[VoxHouseStudio]

This is like brainwashing. I thought modern advertising was bad. Reminds me of that simpsons episode where the cult is chanting.. "The leader is good, the leader is great! We surrender our will, as of this date!"

[hourlynewscaster]

Holy cow. I was wrong. It was Thurl Ravenscroft. I forgot that the jingle was recorded on the west coast while "Howdy" originated from NYC. Dennis

[hourlynewscaster]

No, Thurl Ravenscroft was the voice of Tony the Tiger, also he sang the song at the Beginning of the "Grinch" TV special and was the voice of many characters at Disneyland.

[fromthesidelines]

Kellogg's was one of Howdy's long-time sponsors- this is a 1954 opening sequence [from the 5:30pm(et) weekday edition] , featuring Doc Whipple on the organ, with an "integrated" opening commercial for Rice Krispies. And yes, that's Thurl Ravenscroft delivering the "basso" vocal- he was also pitching Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes as "Tony" at the time...Bob Smith had a tendency to sound like a "car salesman" as "Howdy" and "himself", but he was a master salesman!

[loltehinternet]

When Howdy says "Yessiree kids" he sounds like a car salesman.

By the way that was actually a pretty good rice crispies commercial. Combining content and advertising is alot more enjoyable. I understand why they stopped, but man it'd be great nowadays.

[whewfan]

Is that deep voice singing the guy that was the voice of Tony the Tiger? Sure sounds like him.

[Garveergor]

Yes, that was Thurl Ravenscroft.

[Misslucy000]

love the dancing!!!!! LOL