Talk:Howdy Doody

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Contents 1 Toy Story, y'all? 2 Guest appearances 3 Inquisitive Editor 4 Puppet Playhouse 5 Jericho (TV series) cancellation and is-was dispute 6 Howdy Doody Restaurant? 7 Image 8 AirODoodle 9 original puppets 10 We have cleaned and digitized these episodes.... 11 Why does the Clarabell picture have to be posted twice?

[edit] Toy Story, y'all?

Wasn't the Howdy Doody Show the inspiration for Toy Story? If so, I think this factoid would well be worth a small mention in the article. --15:04, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Look up anything you can about Howdy Doody he might be from along time ago but he is still is awesome i hope you look this up

Thank You

Ciera

[edit] Guest appearances

Didn't Clarabell and "Bufallo" Bob once appear in "Happy Days"? I remember an episode where the plot revolved around the opportunity for publishing a picture of Clarabell without his makeup. Luis Dantas 17:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inquisitive Editor

I removed this from the article, but thought I'd be nice and post it here to help out Gentle18:

A question was this show ever filmed in LA. I remember being there but I don't rember going to NY. e-mail gentle18adina@hotmail.com My name was Harriet Giler DOB 2-16-47 Question was the dowdy doody show ever filmed in LA, I believe I was in the peanut gallery. Harriet Giler with my brother Mike Giler. DOB 4-29-43 and 3-16-47 email gentle18adina@hotmail.com thanks

Sorry Harriet, I don't see anything about the show ever being filmed at any location other than New York. Hoof Hearted 20:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Puppet Playhouse

Wasn't the origional name of the show Puppet Playhouse? How should that be added and used with the TV infobox? Vexrm 16:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I LOVE HOWDY DOODY!!!

[edit] Jericho (TV series) cancellation and is-was dispute

In light of the dispute on the Jericho article talk page about whether it "is" or "was" a show, I have edited the tenses (some of them) regarding Howdy Doody. 68.36.214.143 16:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Howdy Doody Restaurant?

I haven't been able to find any evidence online that it ever existed, but when I was young (in the late 1960s, say) my grandmother used to take me to a fast food burger place called Howdy Doody's. Store decor featured images of the puppet and other characters from the show. I remember getting a plastic hand puppet of Howdy Doody there, one of those "plastic mitten"-type disposable puppets. Good shakes, too, if my memory serves after all those years.

The restaurant was on Route 1/VFW Parkway in or near Dedham, Massachusetts - close to West Roxbury. I'm sure it was part of a chain. Later that store became a McDonalds. But even that has been gone for fifteen or twenty years.

Does anyone else remember the Howdy Doody restaurants? PMaranci 13:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image

It's an article about Howdy doody, so they show an image of Clarabell. C'mon Wiki. Get smart.72.73.221.13 16:08, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Lestrade

[edit] AirODoodle

Howdy had an all-purpose vehicle called the AirODoodle that deserves a mention. It was part steam locomotive, part car and part boat -- and also had wings and a helicopter rotor. There's an image on this site: http://www.tvacres.com/images/airodoodle.jpg --NameThatWorks 22:23, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] original puppets

I'm not adding this to the article because I don't have a print reference yet, but Velma Dawson did not create the original puppets. Here are several articles describing what happened in the first year of the show: [1] [2] [3]

Basically, they started out in 1947 using puppets built by Frank Paris. When the show turned out to be a hit, Paris demanded a better deal on licensing proceeds and sued the producers - either in 1948 or 1949, the online sources are inconsistent. The suit was settled, Paris and his puppets left the show, and they gave Howdy a radical makeover - which was written into the script, since the change was pretty noticeable. (I think the terms of the settlement required that Paris not only refrain from performing with the original Howdy, but destroy it.) So it's true, as the article says, that Dawson created the puppets until the end of the show - just not from the start. ←Hob 18:34, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] We have cleaned and digitized these episodes....

Who is the "we" in the sentence beginning "We have cleaned and digitized these episodes for the delight of today's children...."? Is this a new Wikipedia project, or was this entire sentence (paragraph) transplanted verbatim from someone's press release? Charles dye (talk) 17:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why does the Clarabell picture have to be posted twice?

Just wondered. Landofpartinggifts (talk) 23:44, 9 June 2008 (UTC)