Shields & yarnell breakfast show

[russella3]

I love it show!

[TastyTacoBoy]

They were on the Muppet Show too. I loved this as a kid.

[fool4singing]

God, they were such cute people! SO talented!

[sanfransardine]

Prince was a robot?

[meeboot]

no one has beat them yet!!!

[perpep]

I was really cool then and it's still very cool today, and no CGI either!

[fluffydolly]

wild 70's show from when i was a kid !!!!!!!!

[NateAlex10]

HAVE THE KIDS TURN AWAY DURING 0:51 - 0:57 (I think they're trying to make baby robots)

[1957thack]

The Originals and the Creators of this Kraft!

[CrazeddancerMomiji]

@1957thack Except, not really.

[script5]

:)

[werkinwoman83]

i remember seeing them on the old "carol burnett show" in the'70's. they are amazing! I am sorry to hear that lorene yarnell passed away after reading the other posts. RIP Lorene Yarnell & God be with your family.

[80MasterOfDisaster08]

I'm lovin' that dude's eyeliner.

[BavarianFunKiter]

wie geil ist das denn!!! *rofl*

[RazorBladeDoll17]

My first time watching...simply AMAZING! Why don't we have stuff like this nowadays? All we have is junk on television!

[MrTherockobama]

1:10-1:22 LOL!!!!!!!!

[markkregel]

Lorene Yarnell, you will be missed

[thebeardedone]

A very well played example of the Uncanny Valley.

[yizuman]

R.I.P. Lorene Yarnell August 6, 2010 Age 66, you will be missed. A great talent lost to the world, but never forgotten.

[SAVGA1973]

I remember seeing this skit as a four year old and being scared to death. Nightmares followed which caused me to fall out of bed onto the hardwood floor. It was not a good evening.

[999manman]

Domo arigato Mr. Roboto!

[niknoon123]

Yes, this was the muppetshow, but I don't know witch epsiode :S

[darrenw71]

Was this shown on the Muppet Show?

[MelC54]

Clearly she wasn't as good as he was at playing the robot, but still it was a wonderful act...I used to love it when they'd be on the Tonight Show.

[deemilieu]

ah, it was a different, simpler time. the energy crisis, nixon, agnew, fall of vietnam, boat people, watergate, the energy crisis, stag-flation, the recession, the rust belt, detroit gas guzzlers and rust buckets...wow, maybe things aren't that bad these days...

[greymattersblog]

R.I.P. Lorene Yarnell - You made people laugh and smile, therefore your life was a worthwhile one. You will be missed.

[YounaTuber]

He looks like El DeBarge. Now I need to go watch "Short Circuit" again. :) 

[FilmNMusicBuff77]

RIP Lorene Yarnell 1944 - 2010

Dance and Mime with God

[StaticJolts]

RIP Lorene...your legacy lives on.

[ALLOFMYLOVE4U]

It was entertaining for the first 30 seconds but then it turned into a neverending root canal

[rextrek]

they were awsome!

[DocLock]

RIP Lorene Yarnell! She was truly amazing. Saw them as a kid performing in Union Sq SF before they went big time. Always a joy and definitely an inspiration that helped my robot dance through the years. God bless.

[brykmantra]

RIP Lorene Yarnell. (She was the robot in Spaceballs, btw.)

[nanomouse]

0:39 wow Shields looks like the love child Prince and Bob Dobbs.

[brykmantra]

@nanomouse Ha ha! Exactly!

[hswatnik]

rip-

[PhillyWings]

RIP Lorene Yarnell -- dead @ 66

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[DRIVEIN101]

I was shocked to hear about Lorene Yarnell's sudden death last week. She was so adorable and talented and will be greatly missed.

[MrKjotta]

R.I.P. Lorene Yarnell

[kidfrombrooklyn66]

Shield & Yarnell - they are the best and I still love them ! !

[chopsnslams]

It's DOT MATRIX!!!

[happy2badad]

I LOVED Shields & Yarnell. Used to watch them with my parents when I was a kid. This is great!!! Thanks!!

[AnalgesicBalm]

I used to REALLY like this stuff when I was 7 years old.

[msalmostnormal]

oh gosh.. thats my dance teacher. lorene darnell i mean... so strange!

[kthrnbeh]

wow that was kind of incredibly impressive.

[clairep13]

Oh yeaaaaahh !!!!!!!!!!!

[adric137]

They are great!

[dudezillasf]

I LOVED shields and Yarnell, on the Muppets, Carol Burnett, and the tv special(s)... This routine was seared into my rain as a 4-year old.

I named my clownfish Shileds and Yarnell.

[DJRoxi]

Amazing people Sheilds and Yarnell. What talent and grace. What a mess in the kitchen. Were they a couple?

[retro80stv]

Married in 1972 and divorced in 1986

[buffalocrotch]

I remember them well. Loved their acts.

[TheMikesMaiden]

My sweet friend robert I love you xx

[stephenv0826]

watching old disney shows as my dance inspiration . :] ahah

[fivebearrugs]

Btw, this is from Season 4 of The Muppet Show :)

[ffej980]

the canned laughter makes the whole skit

[retro80stv]

it should be canned - it's from the Muppet Show.

[errbarkkill]

How the hell they do it without blinking the whole time. Talk about staring contests. WTF

[habbadou]

When I was little I thought this was the funniest shit.

[TheMattandrew]

i need to now some history behind this scene for a project can any one help me out?

[bil56]

They were silly skits but if you want to know what drugs can to you as president in the 70's watch and listen to Bush Jr. in his speeches.

It's better than watching a man trying to speak in complete sentences making up words as they go along! :)

[Serpo71]

This is proof that a lot of people were high on drugs in the 70's when two people's only talent is to act like puppets or robots and people actually watched them and were entertained by it......

This is the corniest shit I've ever seen

[Cherstars]

My buddy Robot Robert xx

[lorenewilliams]

i do not believe i use to like this shit, but i was a kid then.

it's all just why? can't watch for too long and the sounds , music & people laughting just drives me crazy, damn what entertains some peoples is pure crap to others

[rangutan3]

I you appreciate the complexity behind robotics or built them, you will find this very very funny (unless you are a kid, then its funny to see adults or machines as clumsy as kids themselves!)

[jamesbondaygee]

Man i used to love this routine. I just remmebered off the top of my head. It took me fifteen minutes of googling to figure out their proper names and find this vid!!

[AnimALnyc]

Damita Jo Freeman did the dance "the robot" on Soul Train in 1972 with James Brown. Look her up on Youtube. And she wasn't the first to do the dance called the robot. I think she learned from another street dancer named Charles the Robot. And I heard street dancers in Oakland, CA were doing the robot since the late 1960's.

[atlmycity2]

Yea youre absolutely right, although it aired Robert and Yarnell publicly world wide. This dance was invented by a black man from the group called the lockers. google him, it will tell you. If you guys ever heard of Rerun" from the whats happening show" he was in the group also with Tony basil. Search Original lockers

[fluffydolly]

more kool 70's tv ohh yeah

[faryezondaiz1990]

lets see you do it then smart ass.. i think its hilarious

[cjlivheidi]

It's amazing to me how lame this is.

[jlarson88]

I remember some other skits from Mac Davis specials, such as one in a grocery store. I would be quite surprised to see those on Youtube since those specials must be hard to come by.

[catchersmitt0]

It's kinda poignant... they usually end up harming each other, despite their attempts to be together.

[spikelilgirl]

I had such a crush on Robert!

[midnightcaller77]

I saw them at the Nugget in Reno years back. And expected the worst. But they just killed us all! Like Evil Kinevnel, they gave the world something we've never had since. And the make-up hides what's true. They are both two of the best looking people I ever saw...

[Cherstars]

He is a wonderful person too, very caring, and no he doesn't blink, but she does, they are no longer together as husband and wife, but still perform together, they look the same they haven't changed much at all and still just as brilliant.

[0seabiscuit0]

@Cherstars Women actually biologically blink more than men, maybe there's a link here :)

[Tempe1962]

@0seabiscuit0 And talk more too.Something like 7000 words for woman compared to 2000 for men.Or was it 5000 for men.Probably 2000.

[JustLeftMovie]

I feel a comeback on the horizon...

[thenewnamesrin]

wow how do they not blink at all!?

[Jal8919536]

I love the opening number where Skooter goes to check on Shields & Arnell and it appears Shields is so shocked she smears lipstick across her face. XD

[nowhereboy]

I don't know what is a bigger blast from the past... Shields and Yarnell... or that hideous 70s wallpaper!!!

[monkees4ever]

they scare me!!!!!!!!!!!

[wookie72]

This freaked me out as a kid.

[ACelticLass67]

what a blast from the past!

[brazosbill]

If you're ever in Sedona AZ check on Robert. He is a fantastic artist and has three places of business there now. Very amiable when you meet him.

[tapkid89]

HAHA! I love Lorene, my dancing-teacher! I know I have said it before:P

[wickedfeylady]

you're very lucky

[Peach1atTmail]

Thanks Dizzrokn for putting a time line on it, stuff like that is very important because people think oh so much time has passed, that history can be revised.....na it's not happening.

And I got news for you Popalong ALL Great dance routines have a storyline a beginning,a middle and and end...if you don't believe me then just watch Salah!

[jarrod40k]

Oh god... The machines WON and we're all in the MATRIX! Paul Lind SAVE US!!!

[dizzrockn]

robert sheilds owns the robot! he was a street performer in San Francisco before he ever made it to TV land. Union Square in 1976 way b4 soul train...it wasnt performed on soul train until at least 78 or 79.

[Popalongkid]

All respect to S&Y they did influence many street dancers , but the robot as a dance was first done on Soul Train before the S&Y show came on tv. But after S&Y came to our homes , hell yeah they were a great influence and i love them to death. But they did theirs as skits and perfomances not as a dance . Much respect to S&Y .

[tonygrimsley]

He looks like a robotic Prince.

[Ilendinpa]

Wasn't this from the Donny and Marie show in the 70's?

[AZmermaid]

I think they were regulars on The Sonny & Cher Show. AWESOME - thanks for the memories !!!!

[PhilipHolla]

I have this on video, it´s from an episode of the Muppet Show !!!

[NatosREekeiEinai]

i dont know what you sad but i think this video is prrety good.

[brewerdrummer]

christ on a crutch.

[tbone5665]

This is so thoroughly bad that I think I shit my pants.

[Peach1atTmail]

No, let me clarify. I never said they invented POPPIN no way, that was guys from southern Cal.. please forgive me for the memory lapse but I don't know thier names. I meant S&Y poineered the cool/funny robotic characters w/blank face stare. Wow I'm seriously impressed with you Pecorino69 The other vuadevillian dance  from the decades of 10s 20s 30s was refferred to as ECCENTRIC, good reasearch, you rock!

[Peach1atTmail]

I watched U-min , let me clarify.........wheres the fucking storyline? its a bunch of guys doing syncronized movement that they PIONEERED........no acting or evolved storyline that would warrent anything but a stint on "So you think you can Dance" or "Americas got Talent".

Let me remind you that S&Y had an entire variety show built around them they did skits danced sang and did comedy all with guest stars of that era.......these guys are ESL poppers with no more

than a cute one act routine.

[PoppinDingy]

lol.. saying u min arn't as great cuz they are just dancers you might as well say all dancers suck cuzt hey they don't act and do multible things or have a tv show like shields or yarnell did... such a dumb thing to say

[Peach1atTmail]

eat my words huh? listen to the greatest poppers from the 70s speak especially the soultrain dancers the lockers and other guys who started this style....they will tell you they were influenced by S&Y....anybody doing popping or robotting now is doing what they pioneered.

if you do a little research and you will see....peace.

[pecorino69]

i`m from that era and a forner street dancer. i totally agree that they brought it mainstream into peoples houses. but i dont agree that they invented poppin. lotsa vaudville guys, mostly african american "Hoofers" were doin it in the 20s and 30s.

[Cherstars]

God Bless you Robert, xxxxxxxxxxx

[maraisreq]

i remember being 4 when this show was on and The Clinkers scared the complete shit out of me.

then mom would add fuel to the fire by mimicing them.

thanks, mom !!! =p

[PopYourSoul]

damn! at 2:31... haha... and the whole show is really dope!

[ToddonCapeCod]

Post more of the Clinkers, if you are able, please!!!

[DancingSpiderman]

I miss their show!

[Peach1atTmail]

These people took it from Marcel Marceau whiteface mime,to another level......Brilliant. No-one, but no one ever, has since touched it! God Bless them!

[173dan]

search u-min and then eat your words

[Jigey]

OMG Awesome! The funniest stuff I've ever seen!!! XD! I love Shields and Yarnell! :D

[JayRIPx]

superb