Sid Melton, Comic Actor of Film and TV, Dies at 94

nytimes.com ^ | 11/07/2011 | Paul Vitello

[Scoutmaster]

I liked when Mr. Douglas went to Sam Drucker’s store to buy board games. Drucker tells him he has Cabbage and Monotony. Douglas corrects him that they are Cribbage and Monopoly. Drucker pulls out the boxes that say Cabbage and Monotony.

I'm with you . . . except I believe it was "Scribble" and "Monotony."

I remember when hired hand Eb Dawson was trying to win a radio contest by identifying songs heard on the Pixley radio station. Every song was *exactly* the same instrumental, but Eb would come up with a song title such as "Five-Foot-Two, Eyes of Purple, Has Anyone Seen My Martian Gurple."

The cow, Eleanor, swallowed the transistor radio, in the middle of the contest.

As Lisa, Eb, and Oliver gathered around her to hear the next song (which sounds exactly the same as the others), Eb excitedly says "I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back In My Bed While I Cry Over You!" Oliver says "that sounds just like 'Five-Foot-Two, Eyes of Purple, Has Anyone Seen My Martian Gurple.' (which is does)".

Of course, everyone looks at him as if he's crazy, and Eb says "boy, are you tone deaf!"

[fieldmarshaldj]

Funny guy. RIP.

[Charles Martel]

That show was one of the most surreal things ever to appear on television.

[pingman]

Wasn’t he also one of the G.I.s on the Phil Silvers Show?

[BigAl13]

RIP Mr. Melton.

[massmike]

I think you're thinking of Joe E. Ross

[Jack Hammer]

Ichabod Mudd!

That takes me back a bit.

R.I.P. Sid Melton; you brought a lot of happiness and fun to so many of us.