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Uncle Floyd fans UNITE!!!!!!

New Wave/Punk music, culture, genres, memories. '80s revivalism and other relevant topics.

Uncle Floyd fans UNITE!!!!!!

Postby phillyidol » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:12 am

We have been talking about him so why not a thread. If you don't know, he is this goofy guy with a really cheap set who had a local tv show. It was great because the set would fall down around him. There was tons of inside jokes and tons of great bands.

Do you remember- his puppet OOGIE? And how the camera had to pull away from his face so you wouldnt see his lips move?
- a guy named Netto that worked on the show.
And some of his skits- cowboy charlie
- Mr. Angry
- General Delivery
-My all time favorite skit: cuppy the cup head
He had a doll that wasw suspended from a string and it had a paper cup for a head. He would play the piano or talk to a band and all of a sudden, this cup head would come down from the cieling and start dancing around.
The show sounds stupid but it was funny as hell!
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Postby Momotaro » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:23 am

Let's see there was:
Uncle Floyd
Looney Skip Rooney
Scott Gordon
Artie Delmar
Netto
They added a woman to the cast later on, I can't remember her name.

Puppets:
Oogie
Bones Boy
Mrs. Prune Face
Igor

Skits:
Flo Jo the TV Clown
Charlie Chin
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Postby schwenko » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:27 am

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Postby Momotaro » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:34 am

OH MAN!!! I just remembered something I cannot believe I forgot!!

I am a mortician/funeral director. I was serving my apprenticeship in a Bergen County funeral home. I am standing in the foyer, waiting for 9:00PM, when the granddaughter of the deceased
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Postby savethewave » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:03 pm

The punk band I was in, The Plague, actually played on the show in 1983. I pretended to play imaginary drums while the rest of my bandmates pretended to play unplugged instruments and lip-synched.
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Postby EchoBeachBunnyBoy » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:38 pm

I remember that show, but did not watch it very often. I was more into "Creature Feature" & hosts like Elvira & Son Of Svengoolie...
[:p]
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Postby skinnytie » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:13 pm

For a short while, Uncle Floyd's show was actually on network TV, but it wasn't the same. It would come on after Saturday Night Live, on NBC, but he got a new set, and the spontaneity wasn't there. They did get a better grade of bands though.
I did see
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Postby ghosty » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:39 am

In the late 90's, he revived the Uncle Floyd show on New Jersey Cablevision. I have a few of those shows on tape. Floyd would do this segment called "Uncle Floyd's New Jersey" where he would stand in the parking lot of a convenience store in Paterson or W
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Postby phillyidol » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:16 am

I do remember when he went to regular tv after snl. Skinnytie is right. It was not the same. When he had rotten sets it was so funny. The cheese of the show made it funny. He would be so unprofessional talking to the people off camera and thats what made
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Postby schwenko » Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:48 am

from Billboard (keep reading)

"DVD Offers Inside Look At The Ramones

From the time he rejoined the Ramones in 1987, drummer Marky Ramone toted a video camera during the band's trips around the world. It's that footage that allows fans intimate acces
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Postby middlesexnj » Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:12 pm

- Mr. Angry
- General Delivery

Don't forget "Corporal Punishment" and "Ku Klux Clam". Wait a minute...

Anyway, the thing that I remember most about Uncle Floyd was that... he just would not go away. He had his heydays, then fell a bit, but would no
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