Andy's Gang - Pasta Fazooli vs. Froggy the Gremlin - Tuba

[@sgt4thmarines49]

I am 70 and could not wait until Saturday to see Froggy and Andy, then Howdy Dooty show

[@marlaleemouse]

I remember watching this when I was a kid! I never thought I'd ever see it again. Plunk your magic twanger Froggy!!!! Never forgot it.

[@vincentquartararo1142]

After the agricultural show on Saturday was Good Ole Andy's Gang. I always got up early and finished all my homework, watching Froggy drive everyone crazy, Froggy was actually the star of the show. Great memories but not many of us left who watched black and white TV.

[@suemichaels8867]

I loved this show as a kid. I'm 71 now and never forgot "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy" or that particularly nasty "ha ha ha" laugh Froggy had. This show was right up there with Axel and His Dog.

[@RAYMOND169]

I am 75 and remember the show

[@mholub]

Andy was Wild Bill Hickok's (Guy Madison) side kick on the TV show, "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock," 1951-1958. One of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I miss all those GREAT Westerns!

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Froggy: The very first troll!

[@mortyharenza9854]

I'm 71 and remember this well and have said the magic words throughout my life along with "I'm buster brown, I live in a shoe here's my dog tigue, he;'s in there too!!

[@tulifuli]

That's my dog tigue. Look for him in there too, (I think)

[@wbondar]

OMG, I grew up watching this show, loving this!

[@charlesm.1856]

Don't forget Midnight the cat. "Nice."

[@LoveFlatfootin1]

We loved this show so much as children! Will never forget Froggie the Gremlin!

[@terrythompson1804]

Not only do I remember Froggy plunking his magic twanger, I remember the secret word he used to do it ! POM GAR. That's Rag Mop spelled backwards. Geez, the stuff we store in our brains.

[@bobjlv]

Can't help but think of him every time I pass through Kingman, AZ...street named after him.

[@BanBiofuels]

I am 70 and remember Froggy very well. I also liked Captain Midnight and Sky King. I had a crush on Penny. We has a 12 inch black and white TV that picked up one or two channels sportatically.

[@lenilenape]

Time it was And what a time it was It was . . . A time of innocence A time of confidences.

[@jimblue39]

Wow I vaguely remember this from a LONG time ago when I was a kid, my brother and I use to watch this on our brand new Zenith round screen TV.

[@MickeyMaguire]

LOL! The fabulous Vito Scotti in a skit I remember when it was broadcast in 1955. Pasta Fazooli, indeed!

[@StellarBlue1]

You will need to be approximately sixty (60) years old to remember this show, as it ran from 1955 to 1960. You could get a Froggy, you could, you could. It was a Gremlin, just like him!

[@lamadamadingdong1926]

Froggie was my favorite! I remember Saturday mornings...Howdy Dooty, Andy device, mighty mouse, Fury, and Sky King. Wonderful! "Here I come to save the day.y.y.y!"

[@sitarnut]

QE..Man- alive, you filled in the gaps for my brother and me...we also saw Lash LaRue on Black Diamond with advertiser "Grapette" and in the early afternoon all those Westerns where they looped the speeding horses going round the same boulders 10 times and the cowboys threw the bullets out of their pistols and fired 30 shots without reloading..... miss those innocent days a lot.

[@cathieclemons8694]

Me to that went tv was just fun

[@Brace67]

Listen to the kids scream with laughter as Froggy makes fun of Pasta Fazooli.

[@conniewhitcraft9105]

So glad I found this. I’m 65 years old and I could remember Andy Devine talking to a animal which was on a “grandfather” ? clock.(I thought the animal was a mouse in my memory 😆. Now I know what it was! 🐸

[@bobfriedman409]

YAY!!!!! I grew up, (or down) with this show!!!!!

[@bettybuckley7319]

I actually remember watching these when I was a kid!

[@Juliaflo]

Yikes! I remember this. Don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Merry Christmas.

[@mdw188lga]

VITO SCOTTI was the perfect foil for FROGGY.

[@robertdougherty349]

"....And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in the studio about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven gremlins which stood before Froggy; and to them were given seven tubas.

[@terrygannon8207]

One of show's sponsors was scotch tape and I will never forget them saying "we're palls and palls stick together with scotch brand tape"

[@jimzehner1564]

there was a fellow who hosted before andy....older guy.....anybody else remember or am i having a senior moment

[@barbanna92]

Excellent! Thanks for sharing this! Still hilarious. Pasta Fazooli (Vito Scotti) was the funniest of all Froggy's victims.

[@suretorun]

I kept my Froggy for many years, but now I'm not sure if he's still in the house! He was my favorite!

[@berenicebauer72]

I vaguely remember this. Didn't watch much TV as a child. We didn't get a TV until I was 10 or 11 so sitting in front of the set was not something I was raised with. I remember my grandpa used to watch th western when he would visit.

[@richardmoderate]

oh man-plunk your magic twanger froggy-i first heard this on the radio when i was a kid-i only vaguely remember it on tv (and with Andy Devine??) wonderful stuff -thanks-and thanks again

[@bobbyhats]

I'll be good, I will, I will.....

[@davidanthonystone5165]

When Comedy was eccentric and interesting

[@vastwasteland77]

Vito Scotti appears to have attended the same Italian American mash-up language classes as Joe Kirk (born Ignazio Curcuruto) who played Mr. Bacciagalupe on "The Abbott and Costello Show."

[@ajweberman]

Froggy later joined the Weathermen

[@bobstewart7312]

Also worked for The Ghoul, in Ohio on his kid's show, years later.

[@ronnie237]

I used to watch the show. Plunk your magic twanger Froggy.

[@peterwilson2080]

Looks like this was shot on a budget of 10 bucks.

[@ztahs]

Awesome! Froggy is the ultimate role mdeol. He exposes the foolihness of adult authority figures. He's probably better than either Obama or Romney.

[@grigrichanceux5893]

loved it way after it went off air amazingly hysterical

[@jimmyratz]

Froggy was radical chic long before anyone else!

[@eolafan100]

Loved Froggy as a kid, I guess I saw a little of myself in him.

[@Vik42220]

But he never was good, was he? Froggy sowed rebellion into the Baby Boomer generation, and our parents could never figure out how Froggy was poisoning our minds! Go Froggy!

[@souloftheage]

Reminds me of "The Itchy and Scratchy Show" from The Simpsons

[@APRIL2862]

This goes back so far I almost forgot it!

[@desertrat1111]

I don't know why, but that frog used to scare me.

[@MeNUmew]

I LOVE Froggy the Gremlin!!!!

[@lordofthegadflies2589]

And it's still funny!

[@philbenza6380]

Now this show was fun! Could not have one like it today due to my political correctness. Great stuff, great memories.

[@paulbrown1585]

As a little kid back then, that damn frog frightened me. He was a mean toad, and with that voice....!

[@DondeArandas]

I love froggy lil evil bastard

[@nagabobby]

Watch what happens to Pasta Fazooli at the end of the video. Was Froggy a terrorist?

[@new_hampshire]

Its Pasta Fasule Fasule means "beans"

[@fcontitwo]

,,, remember it well ,,, and well done 👍✨🇺🇸🌎✨🤓✨

[@juanmosey]

The baker in The Godfather I, LOL!

[@dradioz]

Good for the entire family of twangers :)

[@wygtam]

Jedi mind tricks.

[@DavidIrthum]

Who determined Froggy was a gremlin?

[@johnholloway2445]

he was allways pranking andy, i remember when he shrank him..... coulndnt stop laughin

[@michaelabbott3082]

Saturday mornings

[@satweavers]

Is that Sam Picasso?

[@kayfowler1]

this is funny.who is that tuba player

[@death2pc]

OG Froggy..........

[@toddparke8535]

Vito Scotti...cool flick.

[@larry2612]

I thought that was Vito Scotti

[@simonjager9259]

You ought to read Armageddon Rock by George R R Martin from the year 1982

[@fvshkatie]

Froggy always creeped me out. I work in a museum that has a lot of Andy Devine memoribilia and we have a very fragile Froggy on display. Still creeps me out. Vito Scotti was an amazing actor, very funny, in lots and lots of TV and movies.

[@glennhfriedman4571]

ha haha ha frogs legs are tasty .

[@BikerDad49]

Strangely, I DO recall watching these shows! Very odd, but funny.

[@alext9067]

Too cerebral for me.

[@johnzane4610]

This was hilarious, however in today's politically correct world, you could never have such a show...... it would be construed as making fun of a minority !!!! Soooo Sad !!!

[@sugarjoe50]

A complete insult to Italians...not to mention frogs!

[@nuccten2227]

Teaching innocent young children to play with matches and blow things up - terrible, just terrible. (Sarcasm)

[@jonathanklein686]

In terms of humor, the people in the 50s apparently had pretty simple tastes. Accepting it was kind of a kid's show of course. Realizing mores have changed over the years, this still is a bit crude to me. Making fun of various racial stereotypes, being a loud mouthed bully... I don't find it offensive, just stupid. Why did I look this up? Because my dad was reminiscing about the shows of his childhood and suddenly yelled, "PLUNK your magic twanger froggie!" I guess we all remember our childhood through rose-colored glasses, but to me this is just boring schlock and kitsch.