People Are Funny 1955. Art Linkletter in a zany game show, with a Nash Metropolitan car as a prize.

[@195511SM]

Watched to see Art interview a bunch of kids....like he did often in the 1960s. Never saw this particular version of the show....but stuck around to see MY dream car.

[@witherblaze]

That was a different show.

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

The size reminds me of the cars my husband and I had, when first married; an MG and a 240z, both of which sat only 2 adults. We sold both, when our 1st baby was born. There was nowhere to put the car seat.

[@CuppaTeaandaSliceoCake]

Wonderful ... thank you very much indeed.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@williamdunphy352]

"People Are Funny", should get a reboot.

[@fromthesidelines]

It was "rebooted", briefly in 1984. Flip Wilson was the host, and his stunts were performed outside the studio.

[@RichS-jy7sb]

No it shouldn't. Linkletter had class as did the era. Reboot it today and you'd have the token minority host making comments about "booty" and babbling in urban lingo. Just the way Steve Harvey has ruined "Family Feud".

[@sandrababb9062]

Strange but a good show!

[@-oiiio-3993]

25:59 That brand new Nash Metropolitan was a perfect fit for the ol' girl. Wonder if she let her husband drive it?

[@-oiiio-3993]

05:59 - $1.69 0f 1955 is equivalent to more than $20. today. 06:13 - $2.95 would be over 33 and a half.

[@trainer1158]

The Pamper shampoo lady is Vera Miles.

[@ralphturner3798]

That car is so small that when the woman and her husband are in it there won't be any room for groceries.

[@kt9166]

Art Linkletter's very popular show before he did KIDS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS. The radio version started in 1942, and the TV version ran 1954 (my birthday) through 1961. That's the producer, John Guedel, who also produced Groucho Marx's YOU BET YOUR LIFE. And I used to love Orange Julius!

[@twistoffate4791]

This was 68 years ago. I wish I knew how all their lives progressed, what gave them joy and if they had any regrets.

[@briseboy]

They surely regretted buying $2.95 Papermate pens before old Baron Bic got rich selling boxfuls of a dozen for about $1.95.

[@57buickcentury]

28:22 Isn't that Vera Miles in the shampoo commercial?

[@jeffreylockhart8292]

I don't think these people are so stoked about the New Nash Metropolitan ! 40 mpg sounds good but when gas is 27 cents a gallon ? heck I want a new Caddy! This car is no big deal here many have 4 kids this ain't gonna work maybe for their daughter going off to college?? My aunt drove one and took me to Doumars drive in year of 1959. The car I found out has a 10 gallon tank? 3 bucks to fill up on empty running on fumes? Crazy you could do a buck and it would be like half a tank?? Nice

[@ianblakesley3349]

As a Brit, I cannot understand why Nash/Hudson got the Austin Car Company of Longbridge UK to produce such a small car for the US market. Maybe it was because Austin's main competitor Morris/Nuffield had sold the Morris Minor (another small car) to the US for a number of years before?

[@briseboy]

We once stuffed 17 teens into a Morris Minor, beating the 13 or so maximum fitting into a Volkswagen beetle. That Nash IS a dream car, rivaling the 80s Honda civics in mileage, until mid decade, when the latter produced the Acura Integra, which i once bought in 2007 getting 44mpg, and doing over 100 mph, lasting 10 more years until auto repairmen, not knowing how to fix old cars, refused and i sold it to a junkyard. These, apparently, are simpler times, as this USA, once and in the near future, again considers electing a fat Hitler Wannabe while Macron, France, and Ukraine look on, aghast at our mechanics unable to fix but allowed to vote as Fly Larvae. (see the red baseball hats surgically attached. Understand the spelling errors sported thereon.)

[@briseboy]

Pre-obesity epidemic. I watch old movies like an avid palaeontologist, avoiding the excresences of the present.

[@Chad-Fraser]

Art Linkletters daughter sounds like Sally Brown from Charlie Brown Christmas. Sounds identical!

[@briseboy]

A busboy serving retired Art Linkletter and 3 generations of his family at a moderately upscale resort hotel, i had no idea why he was famous or wealthy. But he was pretty hilarious, and his jokes as funny as the Quebec program "Juste pour rire" - just for laughs, did nonhostile humor this century.

[@ambulet]

Wonder if she passes any homeless encampments while she takes the groceries out on the street.

[@zzzut]

Simple unpretentious television. I miss it.