FLEXITOON TRIBUTE TO SOUPY SALES 2007

The Laurel & Hardy "Sons of the Desert" founding tent in New York City held a Soupy Sales Appreciation night in November 2007 at The Players Club. Grand Sheik and MC Jack Roth surprises the crowd with a special guest appearance by the one and only 'HEEEEY BOOBIE" POOKIE (built and performed by Puppeteer Craig Marin). Along with other luminaries (listen for the JOE FRANKLIN quip at about 4:10) SOUPY and his wife Trudy were in the front row for the program!!!

Looky here!
http://youtu.be/qU3MNQgIDwA

IN A SOUPY MOOD

Five or six years ago I pitched the head of creative @ J Walter Thompson the idea of using our SOUPY SALES puppets & marionettes for a series of televison commercials. I'm not sure why but I chose BUBBLICIOUS GUM as the showcase product. I drew up the boards and pitched it, and while he laughed outloud, he said it would never get passed committee. "All the spontaneity and fun has gone out of generating the ideas for commercials" he said. Below are the (clickable)boards. . .

Soupy, Oh Really?

No, O'Reilly. . .

http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/?referralObject=8088728

A POTPOUREE OF POWERFUL PUPPETS

"LET'S HAVE FUN"

with

CHUCK McCANN

(my former partner) Holly Smith, Me, Steve Stegman and

PAUL ASHLEY

Backstage in Warwick, R.I. 1974

PAUL ASHLEY'S VARIETY SHOW PUPPETS


BIL BAIRD & SLUGGER RYAN


BIL & CORA
On The Bridge


DISHONEST JOHN & CECIL
from
"TIME FOR BEANY"
(1949)


BOB CLAMPETT & CECIL


GEORGE PAL
He of the
PUPPETOONS


WINCHELL/MAHONEY TIME

SHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Secret shot. . .

KUKLA FRAN & OLLIE & JERRY & PAUL

BURR'S EYE VIEW

(Burr Tillstrom)

POOKIE THE LION . . .

. . . courtesy of

FRANK NASTASI

SOUPY+POOKIE+CRAIG (oh, man!)

FLEXITOON TRIBUTE TO SOUPY SALES at the Sons Of The Desert Founding Tent party at the PLAYERS CLUB in NYC. Pie was served.

SOUPY SALES!

I LOVED Soupy Sales when I was a kid. Whom I kidding? I still do!I kouldn't wait to katch the krazy, souper, hipper-than-thou kid show komedy he kreated that made you feel like you were really in on a wild inside joke. I played this album (below) until the tracks wore thin, and stared at the cover until the image burned into my memory like a kustard kream pie in the brain.

Soupy did The Mouse. . .

. . . I did The Mouse! Didn't you love his handmade imagination?

He had two nutty henchmen:
CLYDE ADLER

FRANK NASTASI
Bless their comedic hearts.

A couple of years ago we were asked to do a tribute to Soupy at the New York Founding Tent of the Sons of the Desert (that's the international fraternal worshipful Laurel & Hardy Society. You heard me.) So we took this as an opportunity to write & perform the SOUPY SALES SHOW that we always wanted to see, but one that Soupy hadn't gotten around to doing yet. We built the whole cast, including the SOUPMAN himself. . .

And it was a BLAST!!

(below)

SOUPY and his beautiful bride TRUDY watched.

SOUPY & POOKIE & ME (oh my)
I became friendly with Soupy over the years (my television kids show, DJ KAT, originated from the same WNEW Metromedia Channel 5 studio as the NY incarnation of the Soupy Sales Show) and I cherish the times we have together.

There will never be another SOUPY SALES!

(soupy caricatures by craig)