The Grand Prize Game on The Bozo Show - Filmed Oct 14, 1988

Every kid in the midwest wanted to be on The Bozo Show, especially The Grand Prize Game so they could play Bozo buckets! Who wouldn't want a chance to win a crisp $100 bill and a brand new, Schwinn Bicycle!?! This was filmed on October 14th, 1988! Not sure about the air date. This is the most famous Bozo through all the years.

[@Johnlindsey289]

I remember in the late eighties and early nineties watching Bozo in the mornings

[@JoeFpoc]

Always watched this as a kid. I used to get so annoyed when kids would miss the first or second bucket

[@BrAnarchy]

“Looks like somebody expressed themselves all over this shirt…”. 😂 even bozo was like “alright alright, moving on…”

[@RK-de5wg]

Lol, I was like…”Did cookie just say what I think he think he did?”

[@matthewszalkowski4719]

It's beer pong for kids. The boy is now a beer pong legend

[@jeopardy60611]

Beer pong would be little cups instead of bigger buckets.

[@matthewszalkowski4719]

He was just training at this age

[@fungalcream3814]

wild i faithfully watched this show as a kid

[@alexanderpytko5394]

I'm adult now and $50 is now just part of my weekly spending money but when I look at that $50, it still gives me the feeling, "Wow! That's a lot!" I remember when I was a kid, how hard and long it was to save up $50.

[@I_WANT_MY_SLAW]

With corporate greed as bad as it's become (which they have gaslit everyone into believing that it's inflation), $50 can't buy you anything anymore. But back in my day, $50 could buy a month's worth of groceries.

[@johnnyballenatl]

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAWNow it’s $100 (or even more), in which bucket #6 was doubled to in the ‘90s.

[@Bellathebear777]

FJBUYDUNG

[@swayvacious1]

Too long especially since I got $5 allowance lol

[@timothyjackson926]

Socialism is a bad word for working class but the corporate assholes live socialism that's why all the life politicians have universal healthcare for life even after office, but they tell us we don't want universal healthcare because it's terrible, if it's so damn terrible why do y'all have it for free ​@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW

[@doctorteethomega]

Anyone else remember when TV stopped at night? When I was little this was one of the first shows to come on each day, and I always got up to watch it. Such an insanely different time.

[@bugs3483]

When The Grand Prize Game was over, I knew it was time to leave to catch the school bus.

[@marcosreyes6485]

Yes!!! Every morning before the school bus came.

[@timcritchfield]

Just when I thought this was a kid's show, 4:27 "Somebody expressed themselves all over this T shirt.".

[@pugmanplays]

lol

[@sportsjefe]

Love that to a kid it means the shirt is ugly, but adults get to silently nod their heads!

[@waynehoskins9058]

I watched this every morning before school!!

[@Jaceson440]

Me too!!!! Brings back soo much nostalgia! Amazing how much joy we got from the simplest things!

[@ivansgreatadventures9542]

Same !!

[@ntcw]

I loved watching Bozo when I was a boy. I remember sometimes when someone would tell Bozo they already had that prize at home, and Bozo would sometimes say "Well, guess what?!?!? Now you have TWO!"

[@jovan628]

😂 Classic Bozo

[@professorsponge1554]

this seems so wholesome.

[@SamtheBravesFan]

It is! Just good old fashioned fun and you get actual laughs from Bozo and Cooky. I love how Bozo is thrown off a bit by the envelope in a plastic bag and makes a little bit with it and Cooky's one-liner was gold.

[@missumenimsatanass]

What a great year 1988 was. There will never be another decade like the 80s sadly.

[@brytib200]

1988 $50 was weeks groceries

[@azcop86]

I remember the reruns in the 90’s on the WGN Network

[@jlouis4407]

Yep

[@robbierice7442]

I miss the Bozo Super Sunday show was a great show for kids back in the 80s my generation a great time to be a kid

[@ricarleite]

Why isn't it on the air anymore? Children despise clowns now?

[@RingerDaClown]

One of the reasons I'm a clown today!

[@tk848]

I never saw this show growing up in California, but when I was in my late teens I was in the Army stationed at Ft. Drum, NY and got in the habit of watching this every morning. After a while all of us in the barracks were watching to see if anyone would get the grand prize! I don't think I ever saw anyone win it.

[@alexanderpytko5394]

I used to watch this show, too. My cousin was contestant on the Grand Prize Game once. She made it to Bucket #4 and got a lot of great prizes.

[@alvexok5523]

I watched it when I was in 1st and 2nd grade

[@JPSinvestincts]

Little did these kids know that The Grand Prize Game was actually early training for playing beer pong or quarters in their teen years.

[@monicapoindexter6560]

😂😂😂😂

[@shaybrew]

Because of your comment, someone made a meme saying the same thing… which brought me here… Full circle.

[@DJDizzyStorms]

I miss watching this every Sunday morning next to the cartoons. WGN was the stuff in the 90s

[@alvexok5523]

I remember watching this in the early 1980s when I was 6 and 7

[@nicholasmardis9846]

I miss watching it too.I wish someone would upload all the episodes of The Bozo Show to KZbin.As there is only one full episode of The Bozo Show.

[@ul7185]

Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends Segments from The Bozo Super Sunday Show

[@markpeirson7832]

Somebody expressed themselves all over this shirt 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. This show is better then I remember

[@FrankG5874]

Today it would be for $200, a family vacation to Walt Disney World in Florida, a laptop computer, or an iPad tablet if you hit the sixth bucket.

[@JsRetroVideoGames]

Plus, a Nintendo Switch, a Royal Caribbean Cruise, early driver's license with a brand-new Ferrari, college scholarship. Today's kids get everything lol.

[@cyrusbuelton11]

I totally had that same wagon! I was 8 when this episode aired

[@kerry1979]

I was 9 years old I totally remember watching Bozo before school.

[@campursarian1977]

I was 11 years old that year. I still remember it.

[@Junglejag]

How old old are you now 40

[@Junglejag]

Not hating

[@jammck1399]

I was 8 at that time still going to school, and still remember it so much. That's when WGN was great!!!

[@joegaito702]

RIP bozo and cookie will be missed thanks for the memories really enjoyed and appreciate you guys take care. Joe

[@EchoRhythmMusic]

I used to be late to school, watching this damn clown

[@StarlingShea]

LOLLL SAMEEEE

[@aheartlikethesea]

I have a fear of clowns now but Bozo never has scared me

[@TimBurVlogs]

Same! Funny how that works out!

[@alvexok5523]

I think the "It" clown and "Killer clowns from outer space" is what got people scared of clowns. Oh, and Jack Nicholson's Joker. All from the 80s.

[@foch41]

It’s Sunday, time to watch Bozo!

[@timduke4616]

Fun fact 50 dollars in 1988 is the equivalent to $120.80 today😏

[@yefartz108]

I remember watching this as a kid thinking that's a hookup!

[@arnoldjanikowski7122]

that wagons probably worth $999.99

[@ffejgib]

Thank you so very much for uploading this nostalgic 80s gem! I hope there's episodes!

[@IronHulkTriathlon]

unfortunately KZbin didn't allow me to upload the entire episode.

[@Enk64]

2:09 The guy in the orange T-shirt... 😂 Probably overworked and did not want to be there. 😆

[@alishablackburn2242]

Brings back memories

[@marydimaggio5537]

I used to watch this when I was a kid but was never in the audience

[@ericsamuelson5656]

This was the best part of The Bozo Show. Just imagine how many families flying to Chicago so kids will throw a ping pong ball into a bucket. The farther the bucket means the bigger the prizes.

[@ndagrassjefmic]

I thought that too, as I watched it and chuckled to myself, Imagine something like that airing in today's world!!

[@CaesarCapone]

This is FAR more horrifying than I remember seeing it as the children watched.

[@skeeter1858]

Lol right. And the way Bozo kept calling the little girl pretty was creepy.

[@joen8529]

@@skeeter1858 No it wasn’t, it was perfectly innocent, and it’s creepy and tragic how everyone just assumes the absolute worst these days.

[@WyldStallion-bs9oo]

Horrifying was missing Bucket 2!!!

[@RandemNJ]

​@@WyldStallion-bs9ooyou nailed it 😅

[@joeshields2005]

Bozo kept petting the back of the kids heads 😂😂😂😂

[@coryeastman5084]

Cookie knew what he was saying...

[@joegaito702]

Bozo and cookie very classic keep up the good will be missed RIP appreciate your style take care best wishes to everyone always enjoyed watching you on TV. Joe

[@darrenXparker]

It was my dream to play the grand prize game, I would have killed it!

[@infamousnotoriousxx3]

me too

[@ericriley922]

Omg this is all!!!! I would watch as a kid I loved this so much

[@emilytolman46]

I watched this when I was younger i loved it!

[@cky395618]

I think this is the first video of the grand prize game that I’ve seen where when the kid wins the prize on the first bucket and bozo says look over there for the photo to be taken and the kid is ready for it and smiles instead of looking confused haha

[@mathprodigy]

Some of us are just built different at 5 years old.

[@captaincrow6966]

Wow I was 4yr when this aired what a childhood I really loved this show, and I remember wanting to go to it so bad.

[@joegaito702]

Good job really miss him and cookie so classic rest in peace appreciate the memories you have us best wishes take care. Joe

[@Anthony-gh5yu]

The nostalgia

[@user-ol4hr3zs7s]

Wow i didnt know they were still showing this in 88 as a freshman in highschool i certainly wouldnt have been watching but in the 6th grade this show was gold.

[@vsgfilmgroup]

Back when $50 meant something.

[@GavachoToro]

Funny you should say that, my wife and I were just talking about how $50 back was equivalent to $200 today.

[@abutts02]

$50 would be a lot for a young kid, even today.

[@claytonbouldin9381]

That's what I made doing my paper route!

[@Cheeselord83]

"Someone expressed themselves all over this T-Shirt" LMFAO WHAT

[@deanmeanmachine85]

I just saw this video and LOST IT at that line 😂

[@StevenandDonnaMarieslife]

I spit my coffee across the room ​@@deanmeanmachine85

[@cbartal1]

Cookie: I'm getting up at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow and going fishing. Bozo: You got worms? Cookie: Yeah but I'm goin anyway Best joke ever

[@destynova4512]

The reason us kids before mid 90s were never afraid of clowns.

[@terrellwestbrook1396]

The touchy-feely' ness from Bozo would NEVER fly today. 😂

[@Alaska-Jack]

Especially in a homicide every week in Chicago the days of innocence are gone thanks for the you know who people.

[@maximusprime3459]

😐

[@SamtheBravesFan]

I love how Bozo is thrown off by the envelope in a plastic bag.

[@KnowledgeSeeker78491]

The post office machine more than likely tore it up

[@ricarleite]

He didn't have his glasses

[@CM-jk5tf]

I miss these days❤❤

[@ChitChatGaming]

I always wanted to play this! Good times.

[@alvexok5523]

Anyone else remember the Bozo show bumpers that had the tune that went: "🎶 Here's to Chicago having a good time, keep on watching channel 9 🎵"

[@LogoMan7777]

"Kids in Chicago having a good time, they're all watching.... Channel 9"

[@Wallyworld30]

That Comic Book Teen Titan Anniversay edition is worth $100 today on eBay. The Michael Jordan Horse Basketball game is worth $400!!! The Basketball game was called Lil Sport Horse Basktball. The little shooter guy in this one was last white figure with Jordan's #. This was corrected in following year with a Black Michael Jordan.

[@evanisovich]

The highest price on eBay for that Teen Titans Comic book is a near mint copy that sold for $50.99; remember, what something is sold for and the seller’s asking price are usually two very different things.

[@jessicapatton2688]

I rem. It’s weird how long I’ve been here. This was the start of this wonderful personality. ThIS was my start in this world. Lol I am a fucked up individual! Thank u for messing me up bozo

[@thatguyineverycommentssection]

underrated contest

[@ronbusby3335]

Oh, what a much simpler time. Very, very missed.

[@DanGheeslingVODs]

that girl got robbed, they switched the ball on her, because she was on fire --- look at her first shot, stone cold 3 pt assassin, she had the 6 bucket marty but they didnt want her to win

[@andrewapel3604]

The whole 596 was robbed.

[@wjackson522]

Lmao

[@77462377]

Yep, They shoul did, I watched it over and over again, the Ball's both were different color's, one was white and the other one was red, and they didn't even do that too the boy....

[@WordsByAsti]

Disagree. They were in there and the children chose the balls themselves.

[@jasongoad1084]

😅🤣😂

[@Ztinkyy]

Awesome that the bumper music at the end was stepping out by Joe Jackson. Also the second banana clown was pretty funny with his expressed herself gag, you know those clowns were exhausted.

[@daleschroeder5582]

I LOVE BOZO

[@nickynomads7410]

The day I was born!!!!!! Oct 14th 1988!!!

[@livinlikelarry395]

I just learned last night that I work with the guy who was bozo the clown from 1987-89. I have no idea how this crazy old man from Fort Wayne Indiana ended up being such an iconic character.

[@Wallyworld30]

To play Bozo the Clown you would have to be Crazy IRL I'd imagine.

[@someguy23475]

Several cities had their own Bozo. Fort Wayne likely did too.

[@livinlikelarry395]

He was bozo in California. This is actually him in the video. He’s just from Fort Wayne. He said he was on set doing wiring for the lights or something and was asked if he wanted to be bozo. That’s my understanding, but regardless, this is him.

[@trentb3148]

@@livinlikelarry395 You sure about that? This is Joseph D'Auria in this clip, the flagship Bozo performer from 1984 to 2001 in the Chicago market, who is currently a professional voice actor.

[@M3anMike]

This bring back so many memories!!!!

[@baddab55]

I still wanna do the grand prize game and the kid’s toy run.

[@JustinPinedaMedia]

Chicago had much better prizes than the other cities. I remember from the early 2000s getting all 6 buckets also won a free trip to any Southwest Airlines destination.

[@joegaito702]

RIP in peace bozo and cookie really enjoyed and appreciate you guys best wishes thanks for the memories. Joe

[@briansivley2001]

This wasn't Bob Bell's Bozo this was Joey D'Auria's Bozo.

[@user-sg9rp4wz3w]

How did they passed away

[@daleschroeder5582]

love this show

[@movieandvideogamefanatic9848]

I love this part of the show as a kid and watched it all the time but I have never seen a kids win all the prizes

[@JsRetroVideoGames]

I watched this show every day and this is the only part of the show that I really remember. lol

[@mresturk9336]

It was extremely rare but I do recall a few kids winning the bike over the years I grew up with this show. Probably only about 6 over nearly a decade. A deceptively hard challenge.

[@drunkweebmarine9492]

My dad grew up on this and so did i

[@alvexok5523]

I remember this show from the early 80s when I was a little kid

[@kingporter67]

Very good 1988 Grand Prize game classic on The Bozo Show!!

[@coloradoghosthunter8277]

I was 10 days short from being seven when this episode aired

[@alexanderpytko5394]

That boy did very well, especially for a boy his age! Bozo seemed impressed with him, too.

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Started recording Bozo in 1979. Posted a few shows online but WGN removed them.

[@9262XYZ]

You should make a torrent. I assumed that all of these shows were gone but surely somebody must have been recording them. Somebody who was on the show, even in the audience, surely recorded their episode, if they had a VCR.

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

@@9262XYZ sold my collection

[@jctbay]

Someone expressed themselves all over that t-shirt? I saw this episode while eating Frosted Flakes 40 years ago

[@motorcyclemike1299]

So you saw a 35 year old show 40 years ago. Good one.

[@bruhmoment11111]

@@motorcyclemike1299 Wow you CAUGHT him in his lie! It's not like rounding exists, or estimating exists. Dude was just a bald-faced liar and you're oh-so smart and clever for calling him out. Since I know you're too fucking dense for sarcasm, let me spell it out for you, motorcycle mike: I'm calling you a dumbass who doesn't know that you can round up in years.

[@Wonderouz]

Crazy that the babies in this are older than me at 32😂😂

[@valariehernandez9924]

Man I use to set up buckets to play this😂❤️

[@slorgdulschmodus]

No lie, that girl went on to become 2006's female beer pong US grand champion

[@mistervacation23]

You're living on the past. You're hung up on some clown from the 60's, man !

[@Wazboom]

We are all here together!

[@robertrodriguez787]

well your here so what does that say about you

[@mistervacation23]

@@robertrodriguez787 I'm Eric the clown that beats Bozo any day

[@RandemNJ]

Love the Seinfeld reference 😂

[@gaming2k185]

Hopefully they will have this on one of the streaming services soon

[@ThunderPants13]

"You're hung up on some clown from the 60s, man!"

[@kristinc8384]

Ah seinfeld

[@BrianMesser-pr7im]

It was still on in the early 90s. I use to watch it when I was a kid and I wasn't born til 85.

[@Cheeselord83]

This comment made me cackle. I'm here because I just watched that episode. Then I seen this and I lost it.

[@oldthinkertube]

Here’s some trivia for ya: the clown on Seinfeld who said that… was played by Jon Favreau.

[@KLmoxie]

Wonderful 80s-90s childhood memories

[@michaelterry1000]

That girl will be 40 years old next year.

[@HorrorVet]

Naw. She dead

[@michaelterry1000]

@@HorrorVet Ya, probably a Fentanyl OD.

[@charasime]

Well i guess Bozo is one of my fav clowns, i didn't existed in the 60-70s but it looks fun 👀 (Also having the music steppin' out as an outro is neat)

[@ricketzen5917]

They need to bring him back again 🎉

[@timothyjackson926]

They did it's called Donald Trump

[@fafoinnernet]

And all the child petting as well?

[@kristenfoster1074]

4 min 28 seconds-anyone else catch that?

[@RipsNordic7]

Yes, hilarious!

[@redmanr5522]

circa fall 1989 , new Bozoputer, plus lights around the bucket & music plays as the contestant is about to throw a ping pong ball.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

And a $100 bill will be in Bucket 6

[@theradzone934]

Bag says Marvel Comics, contains Teen Titans books. 😂

[@BearMeat4Dinner]

I dated a chick who lived in Winnetka n Kenilworth. Her pops fired Bozo... lol.. I miss home Chicago!

[@christiangonzales7429]

The guy who ran the Tribune Co.? He's the real Bozo.

[@kevinkravitz8023]

i saw it with the lackluster participants, but i was hoping this was the notorious "that's a bozo no no/Cram it clown!' episode!

[@sbenz17]

I watch for the audience fashion and reactions

[@IronHulkTriathlon]

SAAAaaaame!!!!

[@barthunt8640]

Yep, looking for all the mullet hairstyle’s.

[@Hispandinavian]

Channel 9 Chicago! I used to get jealous of the other kids getting all those toys.

[@redmanr5522]

Rebecca, 5 then 40 now in 2023.

[@ThunderFist1978]

Does anyone remember anyone getting all the way to bucket 6 and making the shot in bucket 6?

[@Matt-wm1bf]

I do happened about 4 or 5 times a year and they would get a Schwinn Bicycle with a bananas seat and the 100 dollars. It was 100 in the late 80s i think this video is the early 80s.

[@StevenandDonnaMarieslife]

That's exactly how I remember it to!!! I was like no it's a 100 bucks not 50 bucks @@Matt-wm1bf

[@emanuelgarcia6221]

😭😭😭awesome memories

[@autumnkeefhaver3239]

The way he said Rolla Missouri made me laugh 🤣

[@DanklingBS]

I don’t think Ronald Mcdonald is coming back from this one 💀

[@Bradman77]

Nice Bozo: You were a wonderful player! Bad Me: GTFOH! You couldn't make it past bucket 2!? 😂😂😂

[@christiangonzales7429]

So you're the kid who told Bozo "Cram it clownie" and flipped him off back in the day? LOL

[@Josh-ff1zm]

Oh I know, my brothers and I used to watch this and talk so much shit when we were little.

[@samgr436]

0:18 Yay children's sound comes from here