🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't have any disagreements with the previous posts - I was definitely a
Ghoulardi fan and remember watching him for a few years and was crushed
when he left.  He was followed by houlihan who assisted with some of the
later skits, then houlihan was joined by big chuck sidowski(sp?) for the
houlihan and big check show.  Eventually, houlihan left for greener pastures
(reminiscent of ghoulardi) and big chuck was joined by little john, a midget
(who I actually met working at a jewelry store) who was in a number of the
skits.  They are still going strong and are often involved with community
service activities.

But enough about today - my memories of ghoulardi was watching tv late
friday night waiting for my dad to come home from work with some hamburgers
that we could eat after midnight (religious aside: we're Catholic and this
was back in the days when we couldn't eat meat on Friday).  Anyway, there
was this movie on about a tribe that buried their dead in trees (or some
assorted nonsense like that)  Evidently, some people weren't fully dead and
the trees came to live and ... well you get the story.  Anyway, my mom &
I were watching and all of a sudden there was this little guy running on the
screen screaming and yelling - we thought it strange but kept watching.  After
the next commmercial, he came on with a weird vibrating oval surrounding his
face and he talked about how dumb the movie was and what to watch for next.
He had a wacky hairdo, a maynard g krebs goatee (for dobie gillis fans) and
I think crazy glasses.  His favorite lines were "Turn Blue, you big knif"
(pronounced kanif- its fink spelled backwards).  and he made jokes
about Parma (a mostly Polish suburb of Cleveland - you got to remember
polish jokes were REALLY big then (BTW I'm half polish on my mother's
side and while we were mildly offended by some of them we also thought
they were funny i.e. no PCness then)).  Manners' Big Boy (the local
now defunct Big Boy franchiser) also had the Ghoulardi Shake which was
an orange milkshake with some chunky bits (possibly pineapple??) served
in a neon flourescent green plastic cup with Ghoulardi's face on it and
the words "turn blue you big knif" on it (why green and orange when the
phrase was turn blue is beyond me).  Anyway we watched every friday and
my folks got just as big a kick out of the guy as I did.

Thanks for reminding me of the simpler time (and yeah the first poster who
started this thread was definitely watching the ripoff "The Ghoul")

Bob Novak
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