[the long march]

I loved the old Soupster. One of the funniest shows ever. White Fang always arrived just in the nick of time to leave Soup pretty well mauled.

May the angels sing him home

[Buckeye McFrog]

He could have brusquely dismissed those irritating reporters simply by saying “No Soupy for You!”

[mudblood]

Great post. He’s before my time, but I’ve heard the “little green pieces of paper” story and I think its fabulous. I wish I had heard about this yesterday...but I think there may have been a missing white girl somewhere in need of media attention, or something.

[SMARTY]

I remember him. He was funny

[DallasDeb]

He was on lots of gameshows during the 60’s, too. That’s how I seem to remember him.

[BenLurkin]

[CharacterCounts]

After he jokingly asked the kids to send him those little pieces of green paper, the station received thousands of dollars. To its embarrassment, the station could not send much of the money back because the little kids never put a return address on the envelope.

[a fool in paradise]

Soupy's sons went on to play in bands with Iggy Pop and David Bowie.

[jimfree]

Mrs. jimfree took a cream pie to work today as a memorial.

[a fool in paradise]

To his eternal and ambivalent fame, he was once suspended from the show for a New Year’s Day 1965 joke: he asked kids to go into their parents’ bedrooms and take the “little green pieces of paper” they found — i.e., money — and send them in to him.

Always found it odd that they suspended him over this but not the appearance of a (largely offcamera) stripper (who was captured in her act with an unaired second "blooper" camera) while "The Stripper" played.

[Deb]

I laughed at a Cinderella parody called “The Sisty Uglers” until I couldn’t breathe. My Mom threatened t turn Soupy off, but my Dad wouldn’t let her.

[chris_bdba]

LOL I think I got in trouble for trying to get the green paper to send but being a 4 year old I had to ask Mom to address the envelope and get me a stamp. :)

[dfwgator]

I’m sure YouTube will be working overtime with people watching the old clips.

[dalereed]

Never heard of him.

[Hot Tabasco]

White fang, Black Tooth and Pookie.......best supporting cast of all televisiondom.......

I'll never forget those good days sitting on the floor of my grandparents' house in front of the wooden cabinet, maybe 15" diag. black and white television with rabbit ears..........and watching Soupy Sales.

"Be true to your teeth... or they will be false to you!"

'You do dat, I love you and give you a big kiss.'

[Irish Queen]

Soups Sales was very popular with teens in the early sixies. The first time I saw him on TV was at a cast party at our choir teacher's house. The party began right after school and all the kids were surprised when Miss Brocaw wheeled a TV into the living room and turned on Soupy Sales. Miss Brocaw was quite a character. Every Halloween she would tell how she had married a French officer in Paris on October 31, 1946. She'd end the story by saying she soon found out that her dreamboat treat was actually a dirty trick.

Soupy Sales came across the black and white screen as such a lovely, gentle man. It made it all the more sweet that "The Soupy Sales Show" really annoyed my mother.

[pyx]

RIP Soupy, and thank you.

[Mad Dawg]

I loved Soupy.

One time he got hung up with pie on his face and he let White Fang take the commercial. I’m pretty sure I did permanent damage laughing at this alleged dog arm gesturing at a box of cereal and uttering gibberish.

And he would often give the footnote to a joke, as in,
“Bud Abbot, 1952.”

Genius.

[GSWarrior]

His musical sons, Hunt and Tony, played with David Bowie in the band Tin Machine,

Let's not hold that against them.

[HighlyOpinionated]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pae99gvWR8Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv3rVV1mfs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_OioLUqcFo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As7MaQSc7qc

There’s loads more at YouTube.