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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:
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* ShamelessSelfPromoter: Freberg did an entire episode near the end (when the show itself failed to attract a sponsor) about advertising himself.
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* ShamelessSelfPromoter: Freberg did an entire episode near the end (when the show itself failed to attract a sponsor) about advertising himself.himself, complete with jingles.
-->Stan Freberg, the foaming comedian\\
Floats the jokes right down the drain!
-->Stan Freberg, the foaming comedian\\
Floats the jokes right down the drain!
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** This gets taken to a rather ludicrous extreme when Stan starts singing a rendition of "Old Man River" in front of a censor. However, seeing that "old" is a potentially offensive adjective, the title is immediately changed to "Elderly Man River". How far will Stan go to adapt to the censor's standards?
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** This gets taken to a rather ludicrous extreme when Stan starts singing a rendition of "Old Man River" in front of a censor.censor, Mr. Tweedly. However, seeing that "old" is a potentially offensive adjective, the title is immediately changed to "Elderly Man River". Furthermore, the poor spelling in the song must be adjusted, for the sake of the tiny tots. How far will Stan go to adapt to the censor's standards?
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*** He gives up with the "jail" bit, knowing there's no way that gets past the censor.
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*** He gives up with The song builds steam and momentum but then stops immediately before the "jail" bit, knowing there's no way that gets past word "drunk":
--->'''Stan:''' Take your finger off thecensor.button, Mr. Tweedly.
--->'''Stan:''' Take your finger off the
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** This gets taken to a rather ludicrous extreme when Stan starts singing a rendition of "Old Man River" in front of a censor. However, seeing that "old" is a potentially offensive adjective, the title is immediately changed to "Elderly Man River". How far Stan go to adapt to the censor's standards?
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** This gets taken to a rather ludicrous extreme when Stan starts singing a rendition of "Old Man River" in front of a censor. However, seeing that "old" is a potentially offensive adjective, the title is immediately changed to "Elderly Man River". How far will Stan go to adapt to the censor's standards?
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*** He gives up with the "jail" bit, knowing there's no way that gets past the censor.
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* OrphanedPunchline: One episode featured a "real-life" couple who was listening to the show and would occasionally turn off the radio to talk about what they were hearing. At one point, the husband tunes back in just in time for the apparently hilarious punchline:
-->'''Stan:''' ... alligator? I thought you said ''bagpipes!''
-->'''Stan:''' ... alligator? I thought you said ''bagpipes!''
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** Edna St. Louis Missouri from ''Face the Funnies'', referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay]].
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** Edna St. Louis Missouri from ''Face the Funnies'', referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay]]. Also using the "city name" theme, a character in another episode is named Evanston Illinois.
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Creator/StanFreberg's short-lived (15 episodes) SketchComedy radio series from 1957, featuring the voices of Creator/DawsButler, Creator/JuneForay and Peter Leeds. Greatly influenced ''Creator/TheFiresignTheatre'' in their audio recordings.
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Creator/StanFreberg's short-lived (15 episodes) Creator/{{CBS}} radio SketchComedy radio series on from 1957, featuring the voices of Creator/DawsButler, Creator/JuneForay and Peter Leeds. Greatly influenced ''Creator/TheFiresignTheatre'' in their audio recordings.
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* PunnyName: Jet Crash, Bang Gunleigh, among others.
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* PunnyName: PunnyName:
** Jet Crash, Bang Gunleigh, amongothers.others.
** Edna St. Louis Missouri from ''Face the Funnies'', referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay]].
** Jet Crash, Bang Gunleigh, among
** Edna St. Louis Missouri from ''Face the Funnies'', referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay]].
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* LimitedWardrobe: ConversationalTroping in one of the ''Face the Funnies'' sketches, where the other panelists rib ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' expert Dr. Linus Quoit over Annie appearing to wear the same dress everyday. He angrily insists she has a closet full of identical dresses.
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of a brand new radio series...
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of a brand new radio series...[[note]]Which got changed to "a conked-out radio series" for the last episode.[[/note]]
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* TransatlanticEquivalent: Arguably for ''Radio/TheGoonShow'', not so much in format or style, but they both were contemporaneous examples of {{Postmodernism}} in radio comedy.
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: The show would usually pause about midway through for a song (standard practice for network radio comedy). Peggy Taylor, the show's singer, also made occasional appearances in comedy sketches.
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* SeriousBusiness: ''Face the Funnies'', a parody of ''Series/MeetThePress'', featured experts on ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'', ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' and ''{{Franchise/Tarzan}}'' who treated their subjects with the utmost seriousness and invariably got into heated arguments over them.
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* MorePopularSpinoff: "Wun'erful, Wun'erful", an adaptation of the Lawrence Welk sketch first done here, became a hit for Freberg when he released it as a single.
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