Now THIS is some strange old TV

[johnnie]

Someone posted a link to this on my Facebook and it made me laugh. I'm sure it has been posted here before, but I've never seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. One toke? Those poor fools.

Wait until they see the goddamn fucking bats.

[Orrex]

4. .

:thumbsup:

[MilesColtrane]

8. The rest of the clip shows Lawrence in the throes of an adrenochrome rush.

He starts crying, then mumbles, "Tank you boys. Dogs fucked da Pope...no fault of mine. A one anna two...".

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear johnnie!

That HAS to be a joke, or photoshopped, or something!

There is no way in hell those two would have sung that, lol!

:rofl:

[johnnie]

3. Here is what one of the writers said after that aired

"The Vice President of the United States, Spiro Agnew, named us personally as a subversive to American youth, but at exactly the same time Lawrence Welk performed the crazy thing and introduced it as a gospel song. That shows how absurd it really is. Of course, we got more publicity than we could have paid for"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I love it!

Oh, and check your PM.

[texanwitch]

6. Try Hippe Welk, if you dare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmSv2WFDrs

[astral]

7. I remember that song on the radio before I ever had heard of

pot (well, I was only 10 or so!) and I DO remember it being on Casey Casum's top 40 and him EXPLAINING to us (the radio listeners) that he had ASKED the writers what the song meant and they made up some story about a bus token (railcar token?) or something like that . . . . Hey, it was a catchy tune, they couldn't help it when it took off and ran!

Pretty hilarious, huh!

Same time just about was that Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" which was one of the greatest little ditty-songs of all time (as it creeps in your head and stays there, like, for YEARS?)

I'm sure it highly distresses some people that he was talking about being saved by Jesus, on the a.m. radio where little susceptible children could hear it . . . .that could never happen today.

Change isn't "ALWAYS" progressive, you know . . . . back in the 70's, if the cops caught some -- ahem! -- 'Underaged Persons' partaking of something like a little tequila and pot, like at a place outdoors in nature, they just told us to dump the booze out and get out of there. No arrests, no jail time, no criminal record, no being banned from ever flying on a jet for as long as you live . . . . .

Okay, a little off-top free-flowing thought-connecting here . . . . . guess I'm done now : )

[XemaSab]

9. The fact that one of the recurring characters on Andy Griffith

was a drunk was interesting to me... That would not happen in a sitcom today, especially not a family sitcom.

[Tabasco_Dave]

10. Not all the musicians on the show where squares.

My mom was a jazz singer and used to date one of the musicians from the Lawrence Welk show. Many of them where very good studio musicians, who played with people like Miles Davis and Buddy Rich, so they knew what the song was about, and i imagine many of them where cracking up.

[MilesColtrane]

11. One of the hardest drinking/smoking motherfuckers I ever met went on the road with the Welk band...

...for a while.

We journeymen have a saying..."a gig's a gig".