History Trivia / TheBozoShow

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show hasn't really been rerun since cancellation due to most of the classic Bob Bell-era episodes being destroyed, and what does survive is hard to come by even on the Web. WGN has never released the ''Bozo, Gar, and Ray'' special or any surviving episodes on DVD either. Use of outside licensed content in the special could be a factor, but holding onto it until it's two annual holiday airings does ensure it remains special in name and purpose for the network. The Bozo the Clown episodes that circulate on DVD are from the version that aired in Boston from 1959-1970.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show was bumped from its long-held weekday morning slot to Sundays to make way for news; the E/I-compliance laws made it worse, as was the position of being the only kids show WGN Chicago had on the schedule at the time (unlike their superstation feed, they didn't carry Creator/KidsWB until 2004, instead pushing it to WCIU-TV 26).

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show was bumped from its' long-held weekday morning slot to Sundays to make way for news; the E/I-compliance laws made it worse, as was the position of being the only kids show WGN Chicago had on the schedule at the time (unlike their superstation feed, they didn't carry Creator/KidsWB until 2004, instead pushing it to WCIU-TV 26).

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: One perpetually circulating one centers on the [in]famous "Cram it, clown!" (or some other off-color, disrespectful remark) made by a bratty kid after Bozo or another of the show's cast was merely trying to be nice to him. Stories and details vary wildly, and as most programs aired live or -- if they were pre-taped -- erased after airing (due to VHS recording being an expensive commodity prior to the early 1980s) there is no way to verify for sure ... but most accounts suggest the comment came after the kid, picked to play the Grand Prize Game [[note]](a skill game, similar to today's beer pong, with the object being to land a ping pong ball into buckets progressively farther away from the contestant, with larger-ticket items won for each successful attempt, up to the sixth one where a grand prize (often a larger-ticket item such as a trip)[[/note]] lost on the first attempt, and in his frustration that he didn't win anything except a cheap ConsolationPrize for "doing his super-duper best" (either a towel with Bozo's likeness on it or a balsam-wood airplane) uttered the infamous words, after which he was rebuked ("That's a Bozo no-no").

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show hasn't really been rerun since cancellation (only a retrospective special WGN occasionally airs), and episodes are hard to come by even on the Web.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show was bumped from its' long-held weekday morning slot to Sundays to make way for news; the E/I-compliance laws made it worse, as was the position of being the only kids show WGN Chicago had on the schedule at the time (unlike their superstation feed, they didn't carry Creator/KidsWB until 2004, instead pushing it to WCIU-TV 26).
* UrbanLegends: One perpetually circulating one centers on the [in]famous "Cram it, clown!" (or some other off-color, disrespectful remark) made by a bratty kid after Bozo or another of the show's cast was merely trying to be nice to him. Stories and details vary wildly, and as most programs aired live or -- if they were pre-taped -- erased after airing (due to VHS recording being an expensive commodity prior to the early 1980s) there is no way to verify for sure ... but most accounts suggest the comment came after the kid, picked to play the Grand Prize Game [[note]](a skill game, similar to today's beer pong, with the object being to land a ping pong ball into buckets progressively farther away from the contestant, with larger-ticket items won for each successful attempt, up to the sixth one where a grand prize (often a larger-ticket item such as a trip)[[/note]] lost on the first attempt, and in his frustration that he didn't win anything except a cheap ConsolationPrize for "doing his super-duper best" (either a towel with Bozo's likeness on it or a balsam-wood airplane) uttered the infamous words, after which he was rebuked ("That's a Bozo no-no").

* UrbanLegends: One perpetually circulating one centers on the famous "Cram it, clown!" (or some other off-color, disrespectful remark) made by a pouty child after Bozo or another of the show's cast was merely trying to be nice to him. Stories and details vary, and as most programs aired live or -- if they were pre-taped -- erased after airing (due to videotape being an expensive commodity prior to the early 1980s) there is no way to verify for sure ... but most tellings suggest the comment came after the kid, picked to play the Grand Prize Game [[note]](a skill game, similar to today's beer pong, with the object being to land a ping pong ball into buckets progressively farther away from the contestant, with larger-ticket items won for each successful attempt, up to the sixth one where a grand prize (often a larger-ticket item such as a trip)[[/note]] lost on the first attempt, and in his frustration that he didn't win anything except a cheap ConsolationPrize for "doing his super-duper best" (either a towel with Bozo's likeness on it or a balsam-wood airplane) uttered the infamous words, after which he was rebuked ("That's a Bozo no-no").

* UrbanLegends: One perpetually circulating one centers on the famous "Cram it, clown!" (or some other off-color, disrespectful remark) made by a pouty child after Bozo or another of the show's cast was merely trying to be nice to him. Stories and details vary, and as most programs aired live or -- if they were pre-taped -- erased after airing (due to videotape being an expensive commodity prior to the early 1980s) there is no way to verify for sure ... but most tellings suggest the comment came after the kid, picked to play the Grand Prize Game [[note]](a skill game, similar to today's beer pong, with the object being to land a ping pong ball into buckets progressively farther away from the contestant, with larger-ticket items won for each successful attempt, up to the sixth one where a grand prize (often a larger-ticket item such as a trip)[[/note]] lost on the first attempt, and in his frustration that he didn't win anything except a cheap consolation prize (either a towel with Bozo's likeness on it or a balsam-wood airplane) uttered the infamous words, after which he was rebuked ("That's a Bozo no-no").

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show was bumped from its' long-held weekday morning slot to Sundays to make way for news; the E/I-compliance laws made it worse, as was the position of being the only kids show WGN Chicago had on the schedule at the time (unlike their superstation feed, they didn't carry Creator/KidsWB until 2004, instead pushing it to WCIU-TV 26).

* KeepCirculatingTheTapea: The show hasn't really been rerun since cancellation (only a retrospective special WGN occasionally airs), and episodes are hard to come by even on the Web.
* MissingEpisode: Much of the 1960s-70s run is missing, as WGN needed to reuse the videotape.