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Thread #46999   Message #700578
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
29-Apr-02 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: part II Forgotten TV series
Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series
How about "The Banana Man"? He was a regular guest on the Captain Kangaroo show. He was a clown with this big, baggy suit on. The schtik was, he would produce items from his suit, like bananas, watermelons, apples, beach balls, etc with something like astonishment that they should be in there. He would say "oh!...oh...oh...WOW!" and produce a giant watermelon. The first thing that came out was a little train made out of foldable boards, which he assembled, and then filled with the other stuff in his suit. By the time he finished, this little seven-foot long train was full of items, and he would put on an engineer's hat, climb into the locomotive part, and drive it off.