Hilarious "I've Got a Secret"

My all-time favorite "secret" from the classic game show "I've Got a Secret". Kid eats his brother's bug collection. I believe it was originally broadcast in October 1960. Click "Show More" for the rest of the story...
Additional info: I used to have a hobby of reuniting "kids" with their old appearances on game shows like "I've Got a Secret". I was fortunate back in about 2003 to locate Clifton and Timothy and sent them a VHS copy of their episode. I even spoke with their mother on the phone who sounded EXACTLY like she does in the clip. She was a very charming lady. I believe the copy I gave them was the first time they had ever seen the broadcast (the show was originally televised live and and the tapes sat in a vault for many years until the Game Show Network leased them) and they had a lot of fun showing it to their kids and friends. If I remember correctly, they told me Timothy (the bug eater) went on to do some freelance writing for Saturday Night Live back in the early Belushi/Chase/Radnor years. I have not had any contact with them since but hope they are all in good health.

[@cdrw62]

As a couple other people have noted, Betsy Palmer passed away on May 29, 2015 from natural causes. She was 88. Many will only remember her as the (killer) mother from the original Friday the 13th film (sorry if I spoiled the ending), but I will always remember her as the young midwestern ingenue on IGAS who was at times soooo naive (she didn't understand why Dick Van Dyke turned his head and coughed when miming the military entrance physical exam), but would also occasionally surprise her fellow panelists by guessing the secret quickly (like when she guessed the pumpkin being lit by nuclear energy after only one or two questions). She was gorgeous, vivacious, funny, and my favorite panelist. Well, all five are now gone: Bill Cullen (1990), Garry Moore (1993), Henry Morgan (1994), Bess Myerson (2014), and now Betsy. Up there with Match Game as the greatest game show cast ever.

[@SweptAway529]

Palmer also had a stint on Knots Landing for a couple of seasons playing Joan Van Ark's character's aunt.

[@freeguy77]

cdrw62, you left out "What's My Line?" 's lineup game show cast with Arlene Francis, Martin Gabel, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Bennett Cerf.

[@happyme6153]

She was beautiful.

[@cmoore185]

I grew up in upstate new york. The town we lived in only got one tv channel because nobody had cable back then and only one of the networks had a local affiliate. I remember watching I've got a secret when it and what's my line were the two top shows. Didn't they have the first computer, called univac? Great show.

[@TheLordHighXcutioner]

I never knew Ms Palmer had a career prior to this show being shown on Buzzr.

[@ddmck1972]

At 2:36, I lost it with Bill Cullen's "he's catching flies over there!". He had no idea why the audience was laughing at that.

[@JB---]

Those two boys grew up in my neighborhood and the older brother was a friend of my brother. I heard the story of the little brother eating his bug collection many times, but never knew they got on I've Got a Secret.

[@dominickderosa5552]

JB what became of Clifton and Timothy?

[@JB---]

@@dominickderosa5552 I don't know. I wish I did. I think I'll ask my older siblings if they know anything about them. It was really fun to see them and have evidence that I remembered the story correctly. They were so adorable on this show, and their mother was great, too.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

@@dominickderosa5552 A comment from a person above said about Clifton, "Clifton passed away in 2007 at the age of 61. He served as a navy seal during the Vietnam war." No mention about Timothy. If he's still alive he would be about 61, 62 years old.

[@rucksackzen]

Did some research and Timothy is 62 years old and living in Arkansas. His brother Clifton died in 2007 and their mother passed away in 2008.

[@JB---]

@@sylviacarlson3561 Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for passing this on! I will tell my siblings. They were wondering, like I was, what happened to that nice family. Thank you!!!

[@sandrajenkins6822]

It's like a historical document. The cigarette ads everywhere, the mother with her pearls and clutching her nice handbag and that 1950s US accent.

[@barbarat5729]

US accent? The US has literally hundreds of accents.

[@paulo0651]

​@@barbarat5729no it doesn't, literally same shit every state

[@savageraccoon787]

​@paulo0651 hmm, where are you from? Have you honestly never heard people from the south talk compared to the west. Or maybe heard people in Boston speak

[@Catquick1957]

Older brother Clifton was a Navy Seal, disabled in Vietnam.

[@flyingchimp12]

He really looks like one eh

[@grumpyoldlady_rants]

Sadly, he passed away in 2007 at age 61.

[@juliejohnson497]

Interesting - I can easily imagine him being a Navy Seal and am sorry to hear he was disabled.

[@pamelafoss2033]

That was wonderful. That little boy was as cute as bug's ear!

[@shadowlouise]

Pamela--I see what you did there!

[@crmbaker]

.........that Timothy ate.

[@djjo4757]

Bugs have ears

[@pamelafoss2033]

Being an older person with really old sayings in the back of my mind, I'm just glad there weren't any speckled pups involved!!😃

[@shirleec1811]

Hahahaha

[@mrpuniverse2]

Clifton could definately use the excuse to his teacher that his brother ate his homework. that was hugely enjoyable piece. Thanks for posting

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

definitely Fix it!!

[@margaretjiantonio939]

The usual excuse was the dog ate the homework. The younger brother is better.

[@darlenekerfoot5661]

🤣🤣

[@LazyIRanch]

I raise goats, and when my son was in high school, he had a favorite little mischievous goat he called "Butthead". Butthead was so happy to see him when he got home from school, he always scampered up to him. One day, that goat grabbed his math folder and devoured half of it before we could get it away. He brought the remains of his math homework to class the next day, along with a note and pic of the goat from me assuring the teacher this was not a crazy made-up story. I bet she's still talking about that, 12 years later!

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

@@suzycreamcheesez4371 Thank you. As an elementary school teacher for 33 years, these misspellings drive me crazy!!

[@DreamDancer82]

This show was long before my time, but it just popped up in my feed for some reason. Not disappointed, this clip was hysterical, especially the baby's antics.

[@JeffersonTheGenius]

Same😂

[@bethbartlett5692]

That child is absolutely Precious! A natural ham! Too funny!

[@heidibower2538]

He's the cutest ham that I've ever seen.

[@seeleygirl6178]

Guy didn’t know why his catching flies line got such a big laugh. God, I miss these faces.

[@GlennaVan]

As stated elsewhere, it is a theatrical term for when someone is mouthing words, etc., to upstage the performer. Those are all people who would be familiar with the term.

[@rosiebaybie6245]

This just proves that babies were just as adorable then as they are now. One of the few things that stays the same!

[@lindaackerman3507]

Nothing today is as entertaining on tv or as adorable...😍

[@Kelly-nm4kw]

Hello Linda, How are you doing?

[@lilRadRidinHood]

Even the new version of "Kids Say the Darndest Things" with Tiffany Haddish is quite a big letdown. It's not necessarily her as the host but the kids don't seem as entertaining or even as intelligent. I think we've stifled today's youth quite severely.

[@lindaackerman3507]

@@lilRadRidinHood I think your right Lori, maybe its all the gadgets kids have today that sort of dulls the mind, I believe kids today are not as social and out going as kids from the 50's and 60's were, just different times, no ones fault just the world we live in today.☺

[@jake3539]

Crafty patti p

[@anonymousjohnson976]

@@lilRadRidinHood : I think Art Linkletter's House Party with the kids was much better and funnier. I remember when he asked the little 7 year old black girl about Adam & Eve. She said: "God made Eve out of a rare rib of Adam and then they had a mess of babies!

[@virginiamoss7045]

Couldn't help but notice two things you'd never see on television today: an adult putting a lollipop in their mouth and then giving it to the baby to lick; then a lit cigarette so close to the baby's face with ashes falling on him. Other than that, a very cute and delightful episode. Remember, those shows were done live every day; nothing was recorded ahead of time, not even the advertising.

[@joynorthrop8627]

yeah the cigarette in the baby's face got me, but then the host put it aside when he realized he had kids beside him.

[@virginiamoss7045]

@@joynorthrop8627 Back then there was no consideration for others, even children except for getting burned; he did not put the cigarette away other than to keep it from the child. I know; I lived through all that.

[@justjane805]

It's a good reminder of how far we have come in terms of not allowing cigarette advertising in this manner

[@wildfireintexas]

@@virginiamoss7045. Seriously? I’m 62, every year people become more self absorbed and just rude. Have you driven on a road recently or been to a store?

[@virginiamoss7045]

@@wildfireintexas I'm 74 and back in 1972 I was living in Nashville where, almost literally, nearly every time I went out on errands I witnessed a vehicle accident happen, almost happen or being worked by police or left on the side of the road. The city government started putting the worst-looking wrecks by intersections and, where room, in medians so that people could see clearly what must have happened to the occupants. It was gruesome. I suppose my experience as a child colored my outlook as an adult. Children were completely excluded from the adult world and then turned out into it to start figuring it out at age 18. We were highly controlled and taught to obey and nothing else. That has changed, thankfully.

[@robbernath]

Hands down, one of the funniest episodes of the original IGAS in its 16-season run. Many, many thanks for the umpteen belly laughs and update about this family later in life.

[@angelsaltamontes7336]

I like how Mom came out onstage CARRYING HER PURSE!

[@debbieashton4976]

That cracked me up too.

[@community1949]

That's the way things were - people were prim and proper and knew how to dress and behave in public.

[@dianneys4887]

@@community1949 Now people wear pajamas to the grocery store. 😯

[@AmberUnavailable]

@@dianneys4887 your point?

[@janina8559]

@@community1949 with a cigarette hanging out their mouth.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Lol. What a ham that child is. Whatever he did that got a reaction, he kept doing.

[@lorenzobeckmann3736]

I saw the episode where two teenagers had a secret. They, when babies, had Betsy Palmer as a babysitter (her from Whiting,In.) the teenagers lived five houses away from me in adjacent city.

[@caitjohnson6021]

I remember each panelist and of course Bill. May they all rest in peace. They were wonderful. 9.27.23.

[@xander7ful]

At 2:50, even Clifford, the big brother, laughs at Bill Cullen's remark, "He's catching flies over there."

[@icturner23]

*Clifton

[@poetcomic1]

It is an old theatrical term for upstaging the main actor by trivial motions.

[@joanmcgregor578]

@@poetcomic1 ?

[@AbiSaysThings]

​@poetcomic1 nobody is asking what he meant by that it was just hilarious to the audience because of how close to the literal truth it was... good grief

[@Euphoftoday]

He wanted to give his lolly to Betsy bless him.

[@mordechai-]

What a charming child! This whole segment was hilarious!

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

It's amazing that the fella said 'he's catching flies' !

[@thevictorianedge5465]

The little guy seemed such a character!!!!! Great family!! Really enjoyed the show!!

[@melvawages7143]

Instead of "The dog ate my homework," he gets to say "My brother ate my homework."

[@grumpyoldlady_rants]

Oh my gosh, I would love to find out how Timothy turned out. What a character!

[@Joe_Okey]

There is some info in the description. Sounds like he turned out to be quite a person.

[@paulaneary7877]

OMG both boys were adorable, thankful for the young man's service as a Seal, also, looks like Timothy was really trying to blow kisses to Betsly, definitely wanted her attention! SO cute!

[@almostfm]

And it looked like he wanted to give her the lollipop. Even at that age, some guys have game.

[@fjccommish]

Someone was off camera motioning to get the kid to do all that.

[@janewalters3855]

Thanks to all for the information. I was wondering about them also. Jane

[@wildfireintexas]

Which boy became a SEAL?

[@kempedkemp]

The good old days... we didn't know it.

[@gardenmom6180]

I remember my parents smoking in the front seat, flicking the ashes out of the triangle vent window, and the lit ash flying back into the open window at the backseat and burning me. I complained and was told to be quiet.

[@anoushkaarmstrong7673]

first time i hear someone having a similar story !!! that happened to me once too and it burned my shirt !!!! they paid attention and it never happened again! 'sorry you were told off....!

[@juliejohnson497]

My dad's ashes flew back on me, too, the same way. 1950's.

[@shannydavis1973]

I was in the bed of the pickup, my Dad's spit of chew hit me in the eye. It burned for days. Good memories

[@stellaandes9622]

I loved "I've Got a Secret" and was shocked and saddened when Gary announced the show had been canceled. So glad to see it again.

[@sheryldougherty282]

Never laughed so hard. That baby was so cute. Big brother was so patience.

[@cindariley7315]

These 2 kids are great!! Hysterical!!

[@tegoblue]

The cigarette grazing the baby's head! The Winston sign. Him talking with the cig in his lips on national tv. HAH.

[@900milesfromnormal3]

"Never work with animals or children." Attributed to W.C. Fields

[@SirPaulMuaddib]

The "he's catching flies over there" comment was priceless!!!

[@vickiechandler3112]

That lollipop bit was the best.....Umm hey , old dude..you gave me a broken lollipop and then when the host takes the "good" end ...His poor little face just fell... LOL

[@zugfraz]

I love that mom carried her purse onstage.

[@charlesperez9976]

That was utterly magnificent,one of the golden moments of the golden age of television!!!

[@chasec143]

Thanks for playing I’ve Got a Secret! Your prize is a pack of Winston Cigarettes and a lighter!

[@lynettepalecek3141]

That's stupid.

[@packingten]

@@lynettepalecek3141 Ever hear of sarcasm!?...

[@JILL0704USA]

My little brother was always so ''helpful''. Like the time he ate most of the pecan fudge cookies I made for extra credit for my home ec class. They were wrapped and hidden in my bedroom closet as I was taking them to school the next day for an end of the semester class party. Fortunately, I found the leavenings in time to make another batch. He actually got away with his 'theft'. Our mom said 'boys will be boys'....the aroma of the cookies was too difficult to ignore and that I should have offered him some in the first place. Well, I had the offered him some and all I got from him was ''yuk''. I couldn't catch a break 😏.

[@GlennaVan]

LOL!!! There is nothing as good as the forbidden. That's why the wrapped cookies became victims of his appetite.

[@cdrw62]

Can I just say that I have watched this clip a zillion times and laugh just as hard as the first time. Thanks for all the comments.

[@sandip.7968]

A million THANKS for posting it!

[@lisahinton9682]

@cdrw62 I think this is the funniest IGAS episode I've seen. Thanks very much for posting it, and for the explanation in the notes as well.

[@libertyann439]

"Catching flies",😁lol!

[@scootergurl48]

Hey, when the cigarette company is footing the show's bill, you advertise any way they tell you too. My brother, sister, and I had to suffer through car rides of aunts and uncles that smoked even when the windows were closed so Mom wouldn't get a draft. In a Volkswagen Beetle, no less! LOL Sound familiar to anybody else?

[@lawrencephelps3181]

How did you move on with life?

[@tinydancer7426]

Yep. Daddy was a smoker and it didn't help with my motion sickness ..... stuck in the middle of the back seat (right over the hump) and for some reason, the cigarette smoke would always be in MY face, not my sister's, not my brother's, just mine.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

@@tinydancer7426 My memories, too! Although I think my siblings probably couldn't escape the smoke either.

[@tinydancer7426]

@@daniellamcgee4251 We didn't get any relief from the cigarette smoke until daddy had his first heart attack ..... can you believe that during his recuperation, his doctor actually said he could smoke? (this was back in 1961/1962) Only one per day, the doctor said. Daddy would get friends to visit who "smugggled" in cigarettes. When mom found out that was going one, she actually frisked visitors before she would permit them to go up to visit daddy ..... when he protested that it was "such a embarrassing thing for his visitors to be frisked for cigarettes", she simply asked him if he wanted to continue to have visitors while he was confined at home. THAT was the day my father stopped smoking ...... won't say "quit" because is was not voluntary. But, I must say, once he was back on his feet and went back to work, he never smoke ANYTHUNG again after that. Car rides were blessedly smoke free ....... but I still got car sick ...... still do to this day if I cannot be in the front seat as a passenger (or better yet the driver) ...... put me in the back seat, you better make sure it is a window seat and that I have a bucket ...... and I am 70 years old ...... :0D

[@daniellamcgee4251]

@@tinydancer7426 Also, your mother certainly sounds like a sensible, caring, and strong willed lady!

[@leoniemillerl4487]

Everyone seems so sweet in this clip.

[@deboraholsen2504]

I love how, when the panel was asked what Timmy's part was in the secret concerning the bugs, it was the two women who said, without missing a beat, "He ate them!", while it hadn't even occurred to the men! Things haven't changed! PS: I do understand that there ARE some intuitive dads out there!

[@Nrvsmum73]

Momma Knows!

[@WhatAndEver]

I figured that out before his secret was revealed to the audience. I had no idea he ate ALL of them 😂

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

That cheeky face at 4:37 hahaha, so adorable!!!

[@ellicooper2323]

This was when tv was clean, imaginative and funny.

[@dougs7367]

The cigarette looks trashy though. Especially with the kids on

[@gabbadd5840]

Except for the Winston poisoning!!

[@mattiemathis9549]

It’s funny. If I had seen this on TV in the 70’s I wouldn’t have even noticed the cigarette. But now, when they brought the kids out, I cringed hard. No judgement, it was a different time and we are better educated. But yeah, I couldn’t imagine being that close to my granddaughter with a cigarette. Also not saying I didn’t smoke in the house or car when I had my kid. But, better educated now…

[@nikiTricoteuse]

I laughed out loud so many times watching this. The ability of the smallest brother to steal the scene despite not being able to say a word was hilarious. The big brother was obviously such a sweet boy too and the mother managed to make me laugh with her description of her son and which part of the insects he had eaten. Possibly my favourite episode.

[@jessiejames7492]

nice the way these 2 children are dressed..so suave

[@frederickkruse4815]

That's the way my parents dressed me.

[@jessiejames7492]

Frederick Kruse how times have changed..:(

[@deboraholsen2504]

@jesse james ahh, the 60s !

[@ElCid48]

this was in the 1960's when people dressed up in their best to go to Church and out in public.

[@jessiejames7492]

@@ElCid48 yes. ! P

[@holylandfan3275]

Still a cute episode in 2021. 😂

[@photo161]

These panelists are so very lovely, attractive, and gracious ..Do people like this still exist?!

[@alfandeddie]

eoselan7 yes, but heavily tattooed

[@Doug41160]

Not in Hollyweird!

[@earthmother1917]

I loved this program as a kid. This.was when.adults used formal English and dressed beautifully at a special occasion. A woman didn't appear without her purse. If you were fortunate to fly. You were very careful how you dressed. Now anything goes and they fist fight during a flight. How we have changed.

[@patriciaceja6112]

Yes, I do, thank you!

[@lindamulholland406]

That little boy was quite the charmer , did he see this episode when he was older ? I bet he won't eat another bug , ever ! He is so cute . 😍

[@zerotwoisreal]

he would be 60 now, I don't know where he is now,,

[@bevfitzsimmonds3382]

Yes he did....see the show notes. 😊

[@HavensLight364]

I love the little smirk Timothy gives the camera at 4:36. ^_^

[@dbentleyto95]

Gary dealing with the toddler is so sweet

[@laurap4407]

The good days when most of us were slightly supervised and left alone to create our adventures.

[@watchman1178]

That's the truth. I used to get on my bike and go everywhere. It's been quite awhile since that was okay, though. Totally different time.

[@c.j.forever7990]

That little kid is ADORABLE and so well behaved...

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

Lol Betsy and the baby. Totally classic. This is so funny

[@belladonna131]

THE LITTLE BOY IS SO CUTE AND VERY ENTERTAINING! ❤😅😂❤

[@terrysampson5759]

My late grandfather and dad were supposed to go on that show. But my grandfather died just before they were supposed to air it.

[@pedieq]

Terry Sampson, what secret were you going with?

[@AlbuquerqueAnnie]

Oh dear Lord! A bug collection as a TV show prize!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[@anniefannycharles9951]

And you know what else was interesting? He was sincerely grateful for the gift.

[@GlennaVan]

Very appropriate in this case.

[@jessiejames7492]

my daughter who was about a little older than one ate a fly she caught once. I dont know where the fly came from..but when she was eating, the fly landed on her high chair which was messy with her spaghetti sauce. She hit it with her hand andbefore I could grab it she put it in her mouth and ate it...I will never forget that!

[@Sheri451]

My mother said I ate a spider one time. I'm 53 and am still as healthy as ever too.

[@jessiejames7492]

***** my cousin ate garden snails. !:

[@Sheri451]

People in France eat Snails you know, I guess they taste good if you eat them all your life. They say you dip them in garlic butter.

[@jessiejames7492]

***** i havent tasted it but i can imagine it must be delicious

[@Sheri451]

I think French restaurants serve them, as Escargot. I would like to try one just once to see if they're good.

[@kingdoc3262]

Oh my 🤣 kids back then way Different 😂

[@kezzachadda8175]

This was a very fascinating old video to watch that baby sure kept everyone laughing lol (including me)...😂😂❤❤❤

[@dorothyyoung8231]

I love that the host has a cigarette in his hand while interviewing children … The mother’s a hoot!

[@sushicourier]

In his hand... watch when they come in. Garry literally has the cig hanging out of his mouth with the ash tip right over the babies' head!😅

[@Willene1950]

Don't like that part

[@onthedottedline1]

That’s what I noticed first - and sponsored by Winston cigarettes. No issues with secondhand smoke back then

[@walkingtrails7776]

super cute! wonder where those charming young fellows are at now? hope they had successful lives.

[@SharpLady53]

Walking Trails 777 Read the description for the clip.

[@grumpyoldlady_rants]

Clifton died in 2007.

[@sandip.7968]

This is absolutely HiLARIOUS! I'm going to share the link with friends so they can laugh, too!

[@beckybanta126]

How fun that this was persevered to see again & again. Certainly wonder where these brothers are & what lives they have lived! Thanks for sharing!😊

[@macbethpkyiv]

I was trying to watch a zoom/youtube conference on Barbara Pym and kept getting this instead. I finally gave up and watched it---very glad that I did! Little Timothy is a natural star! Clifton and their mother are pretty funny too "he left behind the butterfly wings and the beetle's rear end"

[@sheilagravely5621]

I love the vintage shows, him smoking a cigarette on stage and the ads on for cigarettes remind me of the old days.

[@the_Real_Grammy_of_6]

OMG - that little boy is/was so adorable

[@thegeeg1751]

He's smoking a cigarette in the faces of two kids....just like I remember from that era!!

[@stevehuffman7453]

Soon as he said he collected 40 bugs I knew his younger bro et 'em all (without dipping them in chocolate. Remember the chocolate coated bug "candy" available at grocers and Walgreens in the 1960's?) What else could it bee? :D

[@patriciaceja6112]

Ooooh, good one!

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

The folks amazed at Garry Moore smoking in front of a baby are clearly too young to remember when this was commonplace. My dad regularly smoked in the car with us kids sitting in the back seat.

[@Jaheartsjonas]

Still doesn't make it okay

[@flyingchimp12]

@@Jaheartsjonas they didn’t know better...

[@trainliker100]

Smoking was VERY common. In early episodes, "Rob and Laurie Petrie" smoked. In early episodes Father Knows Best "Jim Anderson" smoked. And dozens more. At the end of a Roseanne episode where she was trying to quit smoking she started down a long, long list of lovable sitcom characters who smoked.

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

@@Jaheartsjonas Its anachronistic to hold past generations to today's account.

[@garyfrancis6193]

@@Jaheartsjonas Nobody said it was OK? Why do you people always tend to think people think it’s OK? It’s like feminists saying they have to teach men that rape is not OK? Whoever said it was OK? A hundred years ago it was punishable by death. Does thst sound like men were saying it was OK? Get a brain for once in your life.

[@searching56]

thanks for sharing...I was about 9 of that year and remember the show but not this particular one.,,great memories

[@watchman1178]

LOL....Great segment. Timothy went gaga over Betsy Palmer. Young man had good taste in women. I wonder if he married a blonde when he grew up?

[@rosered103]

Wasn't he a cutie. I wonder what he grew up t do for a career. I almost fell of my chair when I saw the cig hanging out of Gary Moore's mouth. I had forgotten, those were the days. thanks for posting and my smiles.

[@juliejohnson497]

I was astounded about the cigarette, too.

[@crmbaker]

What can I say but Positively Classic!!

[@KDL861]

I could not stop laughing!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@su-rv2uq]

What a show stealer that baby is, and he is smitten with Betsy!

[@sinneadfert]

OMG I'd not even thought of this show in decades!

[@janetgies8698]

I love how he’s handling the baby with a cigarette in his mouth.🙈.

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Oh yeah those were the days

[@Joanne48S]

That's one of the first things I noticed. Well, Winston is the sponsor.

[@patriciaceja6112]

At least it wasn't lit!

[@Mcgrandma]

It was fun giggling to this precious little guy’s antics! Memorable!

[@doginstine]

RIP Betsy Palmer

[@inthelandofmorethansmall7582]

Hes over there, catching FLIES!!!" (little do YOU know😳😬😆🤔🤷‍♀️😉)

[@nans969]

A lot of comments about the cigarette. This was very normal then. They were promoted as healthy. Mainly towards women and minorities. I Grew up in the 70s and every adult smoked. Even had ashtray furniture and pedestals.

[@johnbeardshall2898]

I remember ashtrays in stores, bowling alleys movie theaters, offices and alot of my parents friends would smoke on the weekends at parties

[@brendalg4]

When I made a swimming pool out of clay with a diving board, the teacher told me it would be used as an ashtray

[@Dolphin-cb9sq]

What a cute story. Wish we could see what the brothers became when they grew up.

[@jenniferowens8000]

The older brother was a navy seal. Not sure about the little brother.

[@suzannelawson9215]

I wonder if Timothy is still alive? Sorry to read Clifton passed away at only 61 years old. Great watching these brothers on this show!

[@al4berry]

And Gary pops the lollipop in his mouth licks it and then gives it to the kid!

[@lisahinton9682]

@Alice Berry Perfectly acceptable back then. People were not afraid of a little saliva from someone else's mouth. People did not freak out if you gave their kid a lollipop with a tiny bit of your saliva on it, even if you were not a famous gameshow host. I miss the normalcy of it all. People today are not free.

[@enriquesanchez2001]

Delightful child........

[@rhondabitler2461]

How adorable...just charming. Natural humor is the best.

[@abbieprice3430]

I’ll betcha those brothers laughed about this for years after they were on the show!

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

So I'm the one that's going to have to ask it? Did that kid have butterflies in his stomach before going on?

[@bubblemum]

Well, one of them certainly did...

[@aaronharris6921]

Not the wings😂

[@Musician-r5q]

9 of them.

[@notsonutsomills593]

Killer bees

[@shadowlouise]

Good one! (I see what you did there).

[@debrabolton9372]

I wonder where these boys are today? This was hilarious!

[@grumpyoldlady_rants]

It would be interesting to know what Timothy ended up doing. Sadly, Clifton died in 2007 at age 61

[@jacquelinenguyen759]

Timothy sure had me in stitches.

[@mariehowlett25]

Even though i was not born yet when this wonderful show was on the TV I love to watch it in reruns I was born in 1984. I love how the cast members make good jokes.

[@oliviamacarthur18]

Timothy is probably old enough to be a grandfather now...

[@larryk731]

Unfortunately he passed away in 2007 at the age of 52 if what I found was accurate.

[@vickiemeisinger9632]

This story reminds me of when my son had to collect in sacks for a school project, and I told him he had to keep it up on the refrigerator and I didn’t want to see it. He had stick pins that we’re technically wig pins to hold a wig in place on a manikin head. They were quite long. Anyway, he was pretty excited. One day when he caught a great big beetle outside and I was not and I told him throw that thing back outside and he said mom it’ll get me extra points. So I told him OK just get it on your board and put an extra pen in it, because it really was big! So he puts the pin in it but doesn’t listen to his mother and put two in it. He does put it up on the refrigerator when he’s done. We leave for an evening event and when we come home, the house was dark, and before I can even turn on the light, I hear this scratching sound , this scratching sound, this weird scratching sound and it makes me a little nervous before I get the light turned on just what was making that sound.! I turn on the light and what do I see but my son’s bug collection on the floor in the Beetle is STILL ALIVE with the pin through its back🤣😂!!!! I give a slight scream and tell my son to get that thing out of here, but he said he can’t because it’s a school project. I repeat, then get two pens stuck in him so he’s dead. my son picked up the beetle/bug collector and goes off to his room to do if I’ve asked. I am not making this up but the next night we leave and we don’t get home until after dark. Before I can even open the door, I can hear from the inside a tapping/bumping, every so often rhythmically at my door. Again, I am eerie to even wanna open my door, but I do so cautiously. Turning on the light much to my surprise was the Styrofoam Board of my sons bug collection, and that stupid beetle was still alive despite two pins through its body, and head wiggled and squirm until he fell off the refrigerator and was upside down, moving the entire Styrofoam board all the way to the front door, which was easily 50 feet or more.… I’m guessing I’m not good at this measuring part. Needless to say I was creeped out and I told my son to take that bug collection outside kill his bug and put it somewhere until the next morning when he could take it to school and tell his teacher he was turning it in early and for the reason he was ~ I because his mother could not tolerate another near death experience with a bug!!!! When I listen to the story of this little boy, I don’t laugh. I have to think what was going on with that mother, but she ignored a little baby toddler for that long to eat that many bugs. I’m sorry I don’t think it’s funny and I don’t think she was taking very good care of watching her child. I can see where 1, 2, 3 or 4 could be eaten; maybe even five. But you think about how long it takes to choose something crusty like it bug that you’re not used to eating that’s several minutes for each one so I’m guessing 10 minutes for five. You would be checking on a toddler by then. I’m just saying it’s suspicious, how he could eat all of them without her being aware. My other comment is thank goodness I did not have to be a mom in that era because she walked out in the front be long dress with her pearls and gloves in purse like Mrs. June Cleaver…. I don’t know a single mother in the 21st-century that would dress like that except maybe the Amish. Time to certainly changed.!!

[@CamboRamboMac]

Timothy has good taste. Not eating bugs but I too would of flirted outrageously with Betsy.

[@teridamron2810]

Instead of the older brother saying “The dog ate my Homework!” He can say “My baby brother ate my Homework!” Lol!

[@annettefournier9655]

Well that's different. His brother ate his homework.

[@gabe-po9yi]

I was afraid they were going to award a carton of cigarettes.

[@nancymontgomery8897]

LOL

[@hemikid52]

Back when you could watch TV on only three stations, and have a line up every night... not these days with the crap they have on and call it "America", then try to make it funny when they don't get it. This was back when life had lots of good, clean fun.

[@PatchworkUSA]

It's the boomers who know what the 50's were like because we lived through them. No need to call people stupid. Just say your opinion without attacking. The world is what we make it.

[@Tracymmo]

People like hemikids52 are so tiresome. My 98 year old great aunt's favorite show is Two and a Half Men. She isn't stuck n the past.

[@hemikid52]

@@Tracymmo Two and a Half Men was funny before Charlie left..

[@community1949]

You got that right - I was 11 in 1960 and we had a ball playing outside.

[@dandelion1239]

@@Tracymmo no she’s just stuck watching the evil immoral things!