1969 Dr. MEMORY: 10 Strawberry PIES !

When I was 5 y.o., "Sesame Street" premiered. For about the first season of the tv show, they had a repeating segment of a baker with fresh pies in his hands, who would fall down stairs - teaching kids how to count numbers. For young children, this was absolutely the funniest thing ever invented in the world. He would announce: "TEN STRAWBERRY PIES!" then proceed to slip and fall down the steps, dropping the pies all over the place. As children, this was the ONE thing we'd look forward to each and every week - to see the baker drop the pies and get our weekly gigantic guffaw dose of gut-tickling laughter!

THEN - they nearly immediately DISCONTINUED the usage of the baker who falls down the stairs, unfortunately. Perhaps due to parental complaints, perhaps due to the issue of dumber kids trying to emulate it & getting into some scrapes... or worse (early Darwin award winners, for sure). Who knows. It was an early lesson in political correctness we had to endure (the cancellation of the falling baker with the pies), even though they were an effective teaching tool.

The show itself (Sesame Street), upon retrospect, was a liberal BASTION of leftist mind control/PROGRAMMING for children to become liberal demon.crap$ like the creators of it and the greater "children's television workshop" of Pbs... yeah, they were surely WORKING on children's maleable brains then (and now).

But getting back to the (prat)-falling baker each week, that we would laugh our guts out at, it WAS pretty funny. My last post about biden falling down the AF-1 steps reminded me of it, I was kind of wondering if anyone else remembered.

Comedian Chevy Chase adopted that same pratfall a whole 6 yrs. later for his infamous openings of 'SNL,' the first season, to great success during his single year of the premiere of the show.

They have a whole bunch of them archived:





Last Edited by Fred Fred. on 03/31/2021 01:16 AM