Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" Take 4, includes car dropping through floor.

[neatoauctions]

Viewers should understand that the load of glop (at marker 3:42) that John applies to the woman's face was not a pie.

[rolko52]

@neatoauctions Whether or not it was actual pie filling, shaving cream, or something else, it's the perception that counts and delivers the laugh.

[neatoauctions]

@rolko52

I meant to write, "the glop wasn't a pie (wink wink)." You see John's a big man, and you can make of that what you'd like.

~ Ernie Rules

[thevidiotkid]

The car drop reportedly cost $15,000.00 in 1961 money and was done in one take. The crew essentially had to build an elevated stage complete with a fake building wall as a backdrop on the ABC lot.Of course,I don't think that Nash's suspension nor the crew could have survived a second pass. As always scenes like these are a lasting credit to Kovacs and the ABC crew people.

[Ragnemalm]

@thevidiotkid That's incredible! A $15000-gag in about six seconds! But that's the problem with visual humor. It is often quite expensive and dangerous... but can be funnier than anything else!

[Freenbean]

Ernie spent most of the show's budget on the gag starting at 1:09

[fromthesidelines]

3:36 is a parody of the opening of "THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW"; Jolene Brand swirls into the room as "Loretta", who usually asked her announcer "John" to say a few words about her sponsor's product before the evening's story began. Mr. Kovacs, however, allows us to see what WE wanted to see....

[wmbrown6]

The audio of that Young parody wound up within "The Ernie Kovacs Album" in 1976.