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"CHATSWORTH OSBORNE, JR.": RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW TODAY
Myself | 11-24-2004 | Captain Peter Blood

Posted on 11/24/2004 6:40:07 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood

I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show today and heard Rush start talking about last night's Crossfire Show.

I was only half way paying attention when he mentioned a question by Chatsworth Osborne, Jr..

Well I had to think a minute because I knew that name from someplace and then all of a sudden it came to me that it was a character on the old Dobie Gillis show and was played by a very fine character actor named Stephen Franken.

The it hit me that Rush was using that moniker for our old friend Tucker Carlson. Well that fit could not be better. Tucker really has a number of the charactistics of that old Dobie Gillis character and I have say I laughed until I fell on the floor.

That was almost as much fun as when Rush rechristened Wesley Clark into General Ashley Wilkes from "Gone With The Wind". That also was just perfect.


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: chatsworth; doby; gillis; krebs; maynard
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Anyone out there remember the old tv show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". I remember watching that show as a kid and when Nick at Night had reruns of it several years ago. I really loved that show and who can ever forget Maynard G. Krebs?
1 posted on 11/24/2004 6:40:07 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Tucker Carlson is the Bob's Big Boy mascot. All he needs is suspenders.
2 posted on 11/24/2004 6:41:53 PM PST by skip_intro
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Maynard G. Krebs

The G stood for Oscar.
3 posted on 11/24/2004 6:43:43 PM PST by Mike Fieschko
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Dobie Gillis was played by Dwayne Hickman.
Maynard G. Krebs was played by Bob Denver.
Zelda Gilroy was played by Sheila James, now Sheila Kuehn (sp), a lesbian California legislator.
Chatsworth Osborn, Jr. was indeed played by Steve Franken, who I believe is now deceased.
And of course, Warren Beatty got his start on that CBS show.
4 posted on 11/24/2004 6:44:02 PM PST by Publius
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To: Publius

Just checked on the IMDB and Stephen Franken is still with us and working.
By the way how could anyone have ever been in love with Zelda Gilroy even on a good night???????????????


5 posted on 11/24/2004 6:46:07 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Ashley wilks was only a major


6 posted on 11/24/2004 6:49:37 PM PST by Rockiesrider
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To: Captain Peter Blood
The Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. comparison was perfect. That was a pretty funny show, and Chatty was such a turkey.

They also had Maynard G. Krebbs........... and the statue, The Thinker!

7 posted on 11/24/2004 6:49:47 PM PST by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Let's not forget Tuesday Weld as Aphrodite.

I last saw Steve Franken in a minor role in "The Missouri Breaks", an Arthur Penn film with Marlon Brando giving a grotesque performance an as Irish "regulator".

8 posted on 11/24/2004 6:50:04 PM PST by Publius
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Not Aphrodite. Thalia Menninger.


9 posted on 11/24/2004 6:50:39 PM PST by Publius
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Is Steve Franken any relation to Stuart Smalley?


10 posted on 11/24/2004 6:50:48 PM PST by duffthor (yay)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
who can ever forget Maynard G. Krebs?

Work!?

11 posted on 11/24/2004 6:53:15 PM PST by Samwise (This day does not belong to one man but to all. --Aragorn)
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To: Publius

Don't forget Chatsworth's "Mummsy" played I believe by Doris Packer. She always referred to Chatsworth as "such a nasty boy." Beatty played Milton Armitage, a less amusing rich kid. Also, William Schallert played Mr. Pomfritt, their high school teacher. Frank Faylen was Herbert T. Gillis, and Florida Friebus was Winnie Gillis. Herbert always used to talk about his "good conduct medal." Also would always say about Dobie "Someday I gotta kill that boy, I just gotta." Wonderful show.


12 posted on 11/24/2004 6:55:42 PM PST by speedy
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To: Samwise

Hey Dobe, want to go watch them tear down the old Endicott Building?


13 posted on 11/24/2004 6:56:37 PM PST by speedy
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To: speedy

Bill Schallert later went on to fame with Patty Duke's show and even the "Nancy Drew" show in the late 70's. Warren Beatty hit the jackpot with "Bonny and Clyde".


14 posted on 11/24/2004 6:58:25 PM PST by Publius
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To: Mike Fieschko

I thought he said once it stood for Walter. Maybe it kept changing. He also was hip enough to be listening to Thelonius Monk. Like, hi, Mr. G, Mrs. G., Dobe G.


15 posted on 11/24/2004 6:58:29 PM PST by speedy
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I gotta kill that boy! I just gotta!


16 posted on 11/24/2004 6:58:44 PM PST by Redleg Duke (Pass Tort Reform Now! Make the bottom clean for the catfish!)
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To: speedy

And watch "The Monster That Devoured Cleveland".


17 posted on 11/24/2004 6:58:56 PM PST by Publius
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To: Publius

Yep. He and Patty were also both SAG Presidents. Another irony is that Jean Byron, who played the mother on "The Patty Duke Show," also briefly played one of Dobie's high school teachers. The small world of the sitcom.


18 posted on 11/24/2004 6:59:48 PM PST by speedy
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To: Captain Peter Blood

WORK!


19 posted on 11/24/2004 7:00:00 PM PST by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
By the way how could anyone have ever been in love with Zelda Gilroy even on a good night [some redundant question marks removed for brevity]?

Who was?

20 posted on 11/24/2004 7:01:42 PM PST by FredZarguna (Free markets. Free Speech. Free Minds. But no Free Lunch.)
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