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The Gong Show (1976)
Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie!
Ah, the Gong Show... distilled essence of the fabulous, frenetic 70s.
Who, at the time, didn't jump up and shout (and take another bong hit) at the opening bars of the Gene Gene theme? Who didn't laugh their butt off at the antics of JP and Arte? Or the Unknown Comic? Or Larry and his Tuba (what ya gonna do?)? Or the thousand and one renditions of 'Feelings' and 'Desperado'? And the popsicle girls?
Who didn't looooove Chuckie, the coolest dude to ever walk the earth? And his many, many hats (that he wore all at once)? And his hockey jersey? And that suspicious nose-wiping after the commercial breaks? And the utter, incomprehensible, delectable madness of it all?
Chuck Barris and the Gong Show was the best television that has ever been aired, bar none.