The NBC-TV 1970-71 Rankin Bass series, Tomfoolery, was based upon the nonsensical verse and whimsical characters of authors such as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Frank Gelett Burgess, and Lewis Carroll....
The NBC-TV 1970-71 Rankin Bass series, Tomfoolery, was based upon the nonsensical verse and whimsical characters of authors such as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Frank Gelett Burgess, and Lewis Carroll. It was billed as a mixture of "Riddles, Jokes and Silly Things".
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Isn't it it funny that only a few people caught on to this show? I remember a sketch about the elephant asking where Flugel Street was, which involved in everyone he asked destroying the straw boater hats he was selling. I also remember the song "Bibbledy Bobbeldy / That makes good sense/ Good old nonsense/ Bibbledy Bobbeldy /Ladies and Gents /Pennies are pence to me" being played afetr some limericks in the show sometimes too. I loved it all.
Oh my God!! I sqaw this EXACT episode some 38 years ago, and never again until tonight! The part I remembered was in the middle of this clip, where the big-headed character was holding up images of himself that went on and on, and the narrator says, This could go on forever! I always wondered what the hell that memory was from! Man, it blows your mind to see something after a lifetime!
It must be over 30 years since I last saw this; I always asked if anyone remembered Tomfoolery. No one had. Nice to know a few of us on this planet did not forget. I enjoyed this show Sunday Morning around 9am to 11am UK time. Them good ol' days :-)
i am the same age as you and have had the same experience as none of my friends remember this. got to be the mid 70s when i last saw this. "the sky is falling :)
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I must have been 6 or 7 when this ran. Thank you!
got to be the mid 70s when i last saw this.
"the sky is falling :)