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Tom Turkey Cake

By The Museum Of Classic Chicago Television

“Here’s a treat for ‘Fuzzy’ New Yorkers: a commercial for Carvel Ice Cream, promoting their ‘Tom Turkey’ ice cream cake for Thanksgiving. (The molds used to produce this were also used for such other goodies as Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale.) Serves 10 to 12, net weight 45 ounces.
“Voiceover by Tom Carvel (the founder and namesake of Carvel Ice Cream), both as himself and (sped-up and heavily processed) as Tom Turkey.
“This aired on local New York City TV (and in Chicago through cable) early Saturday, November 17, 1984 during the 4:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. timeframe.”

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Posted on November 24, 2014

Paul Lynde vs. Halloween

By The Museum Of Classic Chicago Television

“Here’s a promo for The Paul Lynde Halloween Special on the ABC Network, which aired on Friday, October 29, 1976 at 8 p.m. The special featured the rock group KISS, Donny & Marie, Tim Conway, and more. Main voiceover by Ernie Anderson. Ending voiceover by Ed Jordan. This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 27, 1976.”

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Posted on October 14, 2014

Windy City Live Co-Host Confused About Hitting Her Kid

By Steve Rhodes

“The only person you can legally hit in the United States is a child,” Mel Robbins writes at CNN Opinion in the aftermath of the Adrian Peterson saga.
“Hit your partner, and you’ll be arrested for domestic violence. Hit another adult, and you’ll be arrested for assault. But hit a 4-year-old, and you can call yourself a ‘loving father.’ That’s completely screwed up.
“It should be against the law for a fully grown adult to slap, hit, spank, punch, switch, whoop, whip, paddle, kick or belt a defenseless child in the name of discipline. But it is legal, and new research in the Journal of Family Psychology suggests that the average 4-year-old is hit 936 times a year.
“If study after study conclusively proves that hitting your kids doesn’t work as a disciplinary method, and worse, it has long-term damaging impact to their psychology and makes your kids more aggressive, why do we as a society allow it?”
That’s a good question for Windy City Live co-host Val Warner and her band of apologists, including Tribune columnist John Kass.

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Posted on September 16, 2014

Jobs In Chicago

By The Museum Of Classic Chicago Television

Looking for a job? Let Mr. Don Ferris help you, circa 1959. Make sure you wear your pressed white shirt and gray slacks when you show up for the interview. 🙂
Illinois Department of Labor presents Jobs In Chicago, with Don Ferris speaking for the Illinois State Employment Service. It aired on WTTW Channel 11. This was one of the first if not the first TV job for Don Ferris. (He was of course a long-time voiceover announcer at both WTTW and WSNS).

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Posted on August 29, 2014

Sun-Times Columnist Mary Mitchell Wants Black Jesus To Get Off Her Lawn

By Steve Rhodes

“I pray. I read the bible. I go to church. I try to do unto others, as I would have them do unto me,” writes Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell.

Do I have questions about who Jesus is? Sure I do. Yet, those questions don’t get in the way of my reverence.
So, it isn’t surprising that I would be disgusted with Aaron McGruder’s Black Jesus, which made its controversial debut on Adult Swim last week.
Finally, we get a black Jesus and he’s a wig-wearing, profanity-spewing, gangbanging, weed-smoking, Hennessey-swilling hippy.
Really?
In the recent Son of God, believers got a dignified portrayal of Jesus, played by Diogo Morgado. In 2004, we got a suffering Jesus played by Jim Caviezel in The Passion.
But when black people are the targeted audience, what do they get?
Buffoonery.

Okay. Um, Son of God and The Passion of the Christ (the actual title) were dramatic movies. Black Jesus is a comedy on Adult Swim, the nighttime block of the Cartoon Network, and is much if not more a social commentary simply using a black Jesus as a comedic device than a religious commentary.
Besides, has Mitchell never seen Family Guy, now in its twelfth season and, among other accolades, the first animated show to be nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series since The Flintstones in 1961?
To wit:

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Posted on August 14, 2014

Sword Of Justice!

By The Museum Of Classic Chicago Television

“Here’s the opening and first commercial break for the next-to-last presentation of the short-lived series, Sword of Justice, on WMAQ Channel 5; this episode, ‘Port of Entry,’ was originally telecast on December 24th, 1978.
“The series – one of several offerings over the years from Glen A. Larson (a former member of the 1950’s and ’60’s singing group The Four Preps) – starred Dack Rambo as Jack Cole, an avenger a la Zorro only without the mask, and co-starred Alex Courtney as Arthur Woods.
“This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, August 4th, 1979 between 9 p.m. and 9:03 p.m.”

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Posted on August 6, 2014

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