For those that don't fully remember, or are seeing this for the first time: The station was going to have a contest, with the prize being $50.00. Johnny misread the original memo, and announced the prize as $5000.00; an amount that was astronomical to a small radio station. Since they couldn't admit the error after Johnny had been broadcasting it all day, they decided to make the contest so hard that no one could figure it out, and then they could end it in a few weeks with no winner. Instead, it was almost immediately solved.
The fun thing is that the most outlandish stuff does happen. Not to compare but I once was playing on a radio trivia show and had dialed in just anticipating the next question would be one I could answer. (Busy lines, time delay etc). Then the host asked the question "How many steps go up the Washington monument?". He opens the line and I'm the first caller. I totally guess '896'. (This was way before Google or the internet.). I won the prize. I knew he was expecting that question to run for at least 10 or 15 minutes. Fun times. I won a lot of lunches on that show.
I would put it right up there with Cliff Clavin playing Jeopardy and Laura Petrie getting husband Rob out of bed early by messing with his alarm clock in a Dick Van Dyke episode.
I always wonder if he came in early for his shift or just hadn't left from the night before. Back in those days you probably could have put your show on tape, then slept on a couch all night while it played back to the home audience. It was a good gig to have at a small station.
I remember how great this episode was! I always like the "crook" that gets the call letters wrong (he says WPRK) and Herb asks Les if that can be edited out, an Les says, "Edit what out?" Classic WKRP!! RIP Howard Hesseman.
One of my favorites was when they decided Fever should do live on air interviews so they find a guy to interview and when he starts talking he pulls out a chart so Fever reminds him he's on the radio and the guy says "Oh, of course " then leans in closer to the microphone with his chart🤣. One of, if not THE best sitcoms ever.
I worked in a radio station that decided to hold one of those treasure hunts. Also a 5000 prize. We sold the advertiser on the fact that it would take a minimum of two weeks of clues before anyone would figure out where the treasure piece was hidden. Our sales manager took it upon himself to hide the treasure as well as to write every single clue and lay them out in order. He didn't even show any of us so there was no chance we could cheat. He would literally walk in three times a day and hand the DJ the clue in a sealed envelope. Our morning drive guy works and he gets his clue and reads it off. I'm doing midday so I get my clue and I read it. The afternoon Drive Guy starts and I'm just hanging around because he's a friend of mine when he gives out his third clue. Keep in mind we're still on the first day of what is supposed to be a two-week guaranteed run. He gives out the clue in 10 minutes later someone shows up at the radio station with the treasure piece. And what's sad is we knew someone was about to find it when we read the third clue because any of us that lived around there was able to take those three Clues and come to the same conclusion. So our Advertiser had to Pony up $5,000 for a 3-day contest and we ended up running makeup commercials for him and doing one live remote just to even the score
We do that s*** with our cash can usually someone finds it in the middle of week two out of four weeks amazing how nuts people go for $1,000. No matter how difficult you make the clues there is always someone with the free time to find it. Don't these morons have jobs?
One of our local stations teamed up with a Kubota dealer to give away a tractor for finding a "treasure rock" or something... guy married to my wife's co-worker found it almost immediately at a small local lake. She told us later the dealer refused to give it to him over the same thing... He didnt want to make a big deal of it and they got away with it afaik. Must happen alot
Funniest episode was, of course, the "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"...A close second was the episode with the bomb scare, with the bomb actually being in the toolbox at the transmitter...
@@BOYTLeRoyJenkins The way Venus convinced Johnny to go back in the booth once the call had come in was priceless. "You know man, when the cops get here they are gonna search the entire building........................even your desk drawer." I never saw Johnny run so fast into the booth.
@@RealSuperNintendan I'm tooo old and out of touch for that reference. ( Like our President! ) Googled her and still have little idea who she is!! lolololol
The producer was a radio manager a decade before and his writers were old DJs. Much in S1 came from his experiences. Radio people called into the producer giving ideas of real life crazy stuff as the show gained traction. Turkeys Away was inspired by a radio stunt that went very wrong...in Atlanta if I recall. Involved live turkeys being thrown off the back of a moving truck. What could go wrong. I was a teen in the 70s and the rock, top 40, stations all did this stuff...contests weekly....crazy remotes....G100 had a disk jockey swim with a live shark in a big aquarium....the shark was 4 inches long but with all the hype, 2800 people came to see.
@@Brees1986 I remember one in the 90's, in real life the clips were longer, though, but not more than a few seconds. I remember one used the drum fill at the end of the chorus of Born To Be Wild, just the drum fill, you don't hear anything else from the song, and then it goes onto the next one. I remember there were about four or five songs I actually did recognize from that, but Born To Be Wild is the only one I remember now.
I'll never forget my mother's reaction when I watched this episode with her maybe thirty-five years ago, when the caller said "The National Anthem, by Francis Scott Key." She laughed and laughed at this line. And of course the caller was right, it was by Francis Scott Key.
@Pablo Van Cleef "To Anacreon in Heaven" was the tune. Key technically didn't write a song he wrote a poem "On the defence of Fort M'Henry" which was later put to that music. Even if one accepts him as the writer of the song, its title is "The Star-Spangled Spangled Banner" not "The National Anthem." I mean it is the national anthem but that is what it is not what it is named. So the caller was wrong.
@@hankkingsley9300 That still isn't the name of the song. It's what the song is. There is a difference. It's like asking what is this persons name showing a picture of Michael Jordan, and them saying a basketball player and saying they correctly named him.
Oh my goodness I remember this episode from fifth grade my brother and I used to watch this show gone are the days of classic sitcoms Mash Barney Miller wkrp all in the family ect
RIP Howard Hesseman🙏! Only you can play Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP In Cinncinati. You were a barrel of laughs. The show wouldn't have lasted four years without you! You will be missed!
I love the part where johnny has an ad to raise the money for don pasola to get his $5,000 as you remember herb,les,mr. Carlson gave the $5,000 to the wrong person
Great scene lol! Pasola comes in with all his ID etc and says 'you guys wouldn't be dumb enough to give $$ to just anyone that walked in here...' lol!!!
Back in the early 90’s I won a radio show contest. I thought I had won a ski trip to the Rockies and I was all excited however it turned out I had won two tickets to some local shag ( why a radio station would have shag tickets from some persons nobody knows as a prize still perplexes me). WKRP was an awesome show.
Interestingly, one of those contests McDonalds uses back long ago (70s or 80s), the 4 winning pieces were W, K, R, and P. I know, because those were the only ones I never saw).
Baby those were good days, I remember them well. WKRP in Cincinnati and Dr Johnny Fever. I laughed so much I fell off the couch 😂🤣😁 definitely a highlight of my days growing up 🤩
WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving -UA-cam "WKRP Drunk Reflex Test" -UA-cam If you haven't, already, watch those, and you'll see why the show was so popular.
I remember watching an episode when I was little where they stayed up all night doing a radiothon, if that's the right term. I don't remember why they did it but it always stuck with me how hard that would be and I've always remembered that.
This episode was written by Casey Piotrowski who, as a DJ on a college radio station (WGSU) in 1970, concocted the same kind of contest. I don't remember if anyone guessed all the songs, but I know the prize was more like some free albums.
At work, for a light start to a staff meeting just last week, we were asked what our favorite sitcoms were. I said WKRP and Taxi. No one else seemed to know WKRP. I was shocked!
@carmine redd "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" bypassed the networks, being marketed directly to local stations, thereby bypassing network censorship and allowing a LOT more controversial topics to be dealt with. That said, the decision to market it that way made it less well known as it was dependent on having a local affiliate. Without that, some regions would never see it due to its lack of a national network. So it could never achieve the fame of many other shows, even though it deserved more recognition as groundbreaking television.
A country radio station here in Fort Worth many years ago ran a promotion on the air in which the DJ said a lot of cash was hidden in a book somewhere in the downtown library. As you can guess, listeners descended on the library and started tearing the place apart: throwing hundreds of books on the floor, etc. The librarian had no idea what was happening and called the cops. The radio station had to pay for all the damages.
I think right after this fadeout Fever turns to Travis and says "Well I really enjoyed working here" and then quips "maybe the cough will get to Pisolla first".
The caller said 'National Anthem" - that's not the name of the song. Since he didn't say "Star-Spangled Banner" they could have said he was wrong and not had to pay out.
That produced the joke, upping the bet from Wayne Newton on a rock station. However since it was just the music on that cut...it wasn't written by Key. He just wrote the words in a poem. The tune is an old drinking song from the Anachrion Club in London.
I'm guessing that because the clips are so short UA-cam won't demonetize this! Something similar might have happened back when the show was syndicated..
baby if you ever wondered wondered what ever became of me i'm living on the air in Cincinnati Cincinnati WKRP, we are WKRP in Cincinnaaaaaaaaaati back when TV was funny and Johnny Carson was the king of late night
Got kind of tired packing and unpacking Town to town and up and down the dial Maybe you and me were never meant to be But baby think of me once in awhile I'm at WKRP in Cincinnati 😁
RIP Dr. Johnny Fever, Howard Hesseman. 01/29/2022. Thanks for the wonderful laughs. You will be remembered fondly. 🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
BOOGERRRR!
He can't hear you...
I just found out he passed away from reading the comment.
RIP Johnny
@@chiensyang Well there you go, a small lesson. The dead are for the living. The living are not for the dead.
ua-cam.com/video/GTZNn3719Kc/v-deo.html
For those that don't fully remember, or are seeing this for the first time:
The station was going to have a contest, with the prize being $50.00.
Johnny misread the original memo, and announced the prize as $5000.00; an amount that was astronomical to a small radio station.
Since they couldn't admit the error after Johnny had been broadcasting it all day, they decided to make the contest so hard that no one could figure it out, and then they could end it in a few weeks with no winner. Instead, it was almost immediately solved.
Thanks, had no idea what exactly what I was watching.
Still don't.
But at least I know why this is funny.
Just a moment before the clip, the contestant did NOT win, but did get five of the six songs. A laugh all by itself.
And then to make thing worse, they gave the money to the wrong guy :D
People in radio are very very very very very very stupid after 40 years of working with the idiots I know this
@@martythemartian99 And Johnny redeemed himself by getting it back
WKRP is one of the best sit-coms ever!
The fun thing is that the most outlandish stuff does happen. Not to compare but I once was playing on a radio trivia show and had dialed in just anticipating the next question would be one I could answer. (Busy lines, time delay etc). Then the host asked the question "How many steps go up the Washington monument?". He opens the line and I'm the first caller. I totally guess '896'. (This was way before Google or the internet.). I won the prize. I knew he was expecting that question to run for at least 10 or 15 minutes. Fun times. I won a lot of lunches on that show.
Absolutely one of the most hilarious comedic scenes in TV history. RIP Howard Hesseman
Wkrp had loads of them.. Truly a classic ensemble of talent
Booger!
To me, the Thanksgiving turkey drop is one of the best ever.
A@
I would put it right up there with Cliff Clavin playing Jeopardy and Laura Petrie getting husband Rob out of bed early by messing with his alarm clock in a Dick Van Dyke episode.
That caller is so true to life. A guy coughing himself to death who just doesn't give a damn.
Sounds like got a hold of Al Bundy after a long night at the Nudie Bar........
you dont get the joke. he was a STONER!!
He was smoking a joint when they called
@@jamesdavis5096 Relax man, Chill out
Only corporatized countries. The billionaires don't care about their employees health so long as they rich
RIP the Fever when TV was TV thanks for all the laughter 😃
Johnny and Venus were believable as close friends. Also Venus was a NIGHT time DJ yet he was always there in the daytime
What can one say, he had no life... well, he did but he brought his girl up to the station. Apparently security sucks there.
Cool doesn't sleep ;D
I always wonder if he came in early for his shift or just hadn't left from the night before. Back in those days you probably could have put your show on tape, then slept on a couch all night while it played back to the home audience. It was a good gig to have at a small station.
@@Tzunamii777 '70's DJ... Coke doesn't sleep.
@@aspalovin ^^ can't argue with facts.
I was a little kid when I saw this show, but for some reason, this scene stuck in my head over the years.
Gold! These reruns brought me and friends together in high school.
I LOVED this TV series . I was heartsick when it was cancelled. RIP to all cast, who have passed on. ---------------------MJL< 75 y/o
They’re reactions are priceless. LOL. Happy to hear Rocky won some money.
Sounded like Donald Posalla was Sylvester Stallone.
The caller sounded like Sylvester Stallone.
I remember how great this episode was! I always like the "crook" that gets the call letters wrong (he says WPRK) and Herb asks Les if that can be edited out, an Les says, "Edit what out?" Classic WKRP!! RIP Howard Hesseman.
One of my favorites was when they decided Fever should do live on air interviews so they find a guy to interview and when he starts talking he pulls out a chart so Fever reminds him he's on the radio and the guy says "Oh, of course " then leans in closer to the microphone with his chart🤣. One of, if not THE best sitcoms ever.
I worked in a radio station that decided to hold one of those treasure hunts. Also a 5000 prize. We sold the advertiser on the fact that it would take a minimum of two weeks of clues before anyone would figure out where the treasure piece was hidden. Our sales manager took it upon himself to hide the treasure as well as to write every single clue and lay them out in order. He didn't even show any of us so there was no chance we could cheat. He would literally walk in three times a day and hand the DJ the clue in a sealed envelope.
Our morning drive guy works and he gets his clue and reads it off. I'm doing midday so I get my clue and I read it. The afternoon Drive Guy starts and I'm just hanging around because he's a friend of mine when he gives out his third clue. Keep in mind we're still on the first day of what is supposed to be a two-week guaranteed run. He gives out the clue in 10 minutes later someone shows up at the radio station with the treasure piece. And what's sad is we knew someone was about to find it when we read the third clue because any of us that lived around there was able to take those three Clues and come to the same conclusion. So our Advertiser had to Pony up $5,000 for a 3-day contest and we ended up running makeup commercials for him and doing one live remote just to even the score
We do that s*** with our cash can usually someone finds it in the middle of week two out of four weeks amazing how nuts people go for $1,000. No matter how difficult you make the clues there is always someone with the free time to find it. Don't these morons have jobs?
One of our local stations teamed up with a Kubota dealer to give away a tractor for finding a "treasure rock" or something... guy married to my wife's co-worker found it almost immediately at a small local lake. She told us later the dealer refused to give it to him over the same thing... He didnt want to make a big deal of it and they got away with it afaik. Must happen alot
So, what you're saying is that this skit that was written for laughs actually happened.
@@joelellis7035 most of the stuff on krp was based in reality
@@vogelaccount5902 everybody who works in radio is an idiot and I'm an idiot for working in radio
I've been loocking for this scene for decades!!!! Yes, I have it!!!
I love the episode where Johnny gets drunk and takes some sort of reaction test where a bell is involved. Plz upload a clip from that one. Ty.
that was to show how drinking slows reaction time for a drunk driving public service but he keeps getting better with every drink
@@jetsamperes5762 Venus: "I want a hat. Cops got a hat........I want a hat!"
Here ya go!
ua-cam.com/video/YdQ_W-0V7UQ/v-deo.html
Funniest episode was, of course, the "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"...A close second was the episode with the bomb scare, with the bomb actually being in the toolbox at the transmitter...
@@BOYTLeRoyJenkins The way Venus convinced Johnny to go back in the booth once the call had come in was priceless.
"You know man, when the cops get here they are gonna search the entire building........................even your desk drawer."
I never saw Johnny run so fast into the booth.
"The Doctor is in (Heaven)!" RIP Howard Hessman A.K.A. Dr. Johnny Fever. They don't make shows like this anymore.
unfortunately most of the sitcoms from the late '70s and '80s can't be made anymore or could not be made anymore because of political correctness
The ending with Vincent Schiavelli, and Tracey Walter was classic.
Dr.Johnny Fever is the Man.
I remember Vincent from the movie Ghost
@@RealSuperNintendan Why not get real and watch "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"!
@@mortb9 I prefer the unmade sequel: Two Flew Over Kaley Cuoco’s Nest”.
@@RealSuperNintendan I'm tooo old and out of touch for that reference. ( Like our President! ) Googled her and still have little idea who she is!! lolololol
For those not old enough, they actually had this contest on many stations across the country back then.
That was when radio stations were independent.
I remember contests like this well into the 90’s…
@@Brees1986 Sure do.
The producer was a radio manager a decade before and his writers were old DJs. Much in S1 came from his experiences. Radio people called into the producer giving ideas of real life crazy stuff as the show gained traction.
Turkeys Away was inspired by a radio stunt that went very wrong...in Atlanta if I recall. Involved live turkeys being thrown off the back of a moving truck. What could go wrong.
I was a teen in the 70s and the rock, top 40, stations all did this stuff...contests weekly....crazy remotes....G100 had a disk jockey swim with a live shark in a big aquarium....the shark was 4 inches long but with all the hype, 2800 people came to see.
@@Brees1986 I remember one in the 90's, in real life the clips were longer, though, but not more than a few seconds. I remember one used the drum fill at the end of the chorus of Born To Be Wild, just the drum fill, you don't hear anything else from the song, and then it goes onto the next one. I remember there were about four or five songs I actually did recognize from that, but Born To Be Wild is the only one I remember now.
Thanks for all the laughs, Johnny. You were the best parts of TV when I was a kid.
RIP my brother. Thanks for the fond memories and laughter. You will be missed.
I'll never forget my mother's reaction when I watched this episode with her maybe thirty-five years ago, when the caller said "The National Anthem, by Francis Scott Key." She laughed and laughed at this line. And of course the caller was right, it was by Francis Scott Key.
The melody of that song is an old English drinking song if I remember correctly
@Pablo Van Cleef "To Anacreon in Heaven" was the tune. Key technically didn't write a song he wrote a poem "On the defence of Fort M'Henry" which was later put to that music. Even if one accepts him as the writer of the song, its title is "The Star-Spangled Spangled Banner" not "The National Anthem." I mean it is the national anthem but that is what it is not what it is named. So the caller was wrong.
@@darkamora5123 every baseball game ever been to they don't say rise for the Star-Spangled Banner at this time please rise for our national anthem
@@darkamora5123 also if this was real life, the radio station would have used that error loophole as a reason to say the caller was wrong.
@@hankkingsley9300 That still isn't the name of the song. It's what the song is. There is a difference. It's like asking what is this persons name showing a picture of Michael Jordan, and them saying a basketball player and saying they correctly named him.
God: Welcome to Heaven Dr. Johnny Fever, are you ready to rock?
God doesn’t rock.
BOOGER!
@@alextaylor8776 sure he does!!!
@@stephenkehl7158 Curtis Armstrong!
Oh my goodness I remember this episode from fifth grade my brother and I used to watch this show gone are the days of classic sitcoms Mash Barney Miller wkrp all in the family ect
Awesome show, classic 70's comedy tv was some of the best
RIP Howard Hesseman🙏! Only you can play Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP In Cinncinati. You were a barrel of laughs. The show wouldn't have lasted four years without you! You will be missed!
That’s crazy. It was just him. The whole damn cast was great.
I love the part where johnny has an ad to raise the money for don pasola to get his $5,000 as you remember herb,les,mr. Carlson gave the $5,000 to the wrong person
Great scene lol! Pasola comes in with all his ID etc and says 'you guys wouldn't be dumb enough to give $$ to just anyone that walked in here...' lol!!!
This show was always a must watch for me back in the day… One of my favorite scenes ever!
I swear every time I see this clip, I hear Le Freak by Chic 😂
You did
Pretty sure I heard it too.
So he got it wrong!!! They should have been off the hook. But then it wouldn't have been funny.
@@jlh4jc Just kills me to think my idol, and world's greatest DJ would cheat his listeners like that 😂
I heard it to!
Back in the early 90’s I won a radio show contest. I thought I had won a ski trip to the Rockies and I was all excited however it turned out I had won two tickets to some local shag ( why a radio station would have shag tickets from some persons nobody knows as a prize still perplexes me). WKRP was an awesome show.
Priceless. Especially Howard Hessman & Gary Sandy with their reactions, that from 1-2 Notes of each song, Listener Correctly Names All 6. LOL
Interestingly, one of those contests McDonalds uses back long ago (70s or 80s), the 4 winning pieces were W, K, R, and P. I know, because those were the only ones I never saw).
This show was so funny! Rip Howard hessman
The days are gone when the radio station calls you. You now have to call the radio station.
Baby those were good days, I remember them well. WKRP in Cincinnati and Dr Johnny Fever. I laughed so much I fell off the couch 😂🤣😁 definitely a highlight of my days growing up 🤩
R.i.p., Herb Tarlek.
and Johnny Fever.....
Mother Carlson won’t be pleased!😹
Too wild to tame . The boyzz. Wow. One of my favorite records. Not even on Spotify now.
WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving
-UA-cam
"WKRP Drunk Reflex Test"
-UA-cam
If you haven't, already, watch those, and you'll see why the show was so popular.
the phone cops
R.I.P. Howard hessman thanks for the memories still one of the greatest shows on TV ❤😂😂😂
RIP Howard Hesseman. Thanks for the entertainment!
I remember watching an episode when I was little where they stayed up all night doing a radiothon, if that's the right term.
I don't remember why they did it but it always stuck with me how hard that would be and I've always remembered that.
This episode was written by Casey Piotrowski who, as a DJ on a college radio station (WGSU) in 1970, concocted the same kind of contest. I don't remember if anyone guessed all the songs, but I know the prize was more like some free albums.
I also understand that Howard Hessman was a DJ in California when he was first starting out in the 1960's.
RIP Dr Fever! Loved your show!
The guy playing the game Mr Pesola, named after the most popular spring scales for street level dope sales. If you were a player, you had Pesolas!
When he says the last song (National Anthem by Francis Scott Key) is always makes me laugh!
My favorite Disc Jockey!
That cough! 🤣🤣🤣
Merrimann Funeral home was part of a classic Episode!
At work, for a light start to a staff meeting just last week, we were asked what our favorite sitcoms were. I said WKRP and Taxi.
No one else seemed to know WKRP. I was shocked!
Both were great. So was Soap.
@@stanstenson8168 ah, yes... another classic!
Mary Hartman Mary Hartman
@carmine redd "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" bypassed the networks, being marketed directly to local stations, thereby bypassing network censorship and allowing a LOT more controversial topics to be dealt with. That said, the decision to market it that way made it less well known as it was dependent on having a local affiliate. Without that, some regions would never see it due to its lack of a national network.
So it could never achieve the fame of many other shows, even though it deserved more recognition as groundbreaking television.
Sucks to be the old guy at the office, doesn't it?
A country radio station here in Fort Worth many years ago ran a promotion on the air in which the DJ said a lot of cash was hidden in a book somewhere in the downtown library. As you can guess, listeners descended on the library and started tearing the place apart: throwing hundreds of books on the floor, etc. The librarian had no idea what was happening and called the cops. The radio station had to pay for all the damages.
1:20 😂😂😂 makes me crack up every time 😂😂😂😂. National anthem… by Francis Scott Key. 😂😂😂
The contest winner sure sounded like Sylvester Stallone.
it was Steven Wright
I definitely heard Le Freak and Respect in there. I don't think Mr. Pasola got it.
The only one I got was straight on by Heart
I got the national anthem.
I could tell it was Ann Wilson's voice, but couldn't figure out the song.
RIP Fever.
BOOGER!!!
All were great. Bailey was the greatest!
Yes, yes she was.
$5000 in 2022 dollars is approximately $18,000.
RIP Dr. Johnny Fever. WKRP was hilarious.
Francis Scott key lmao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 hilarious!! Cracks me up every time
COUGH KAFF COFF HACK
Dr. Johnny Fever was my favorite and then Less Nessman.
Who could not love this man
Rip Dr Johnny fever
More Rock and Less Nessman. Classic. Hahaha
I think right after this fadeout Fever turns to Travis and says "Well I really enjoyed working here" and then quips "maybe the cough will get to Pisolla first".
“Uh-Huh,Hmm-Hmm,Uh-Huh,Uh-Huh,Uhhh Huh, Congratulations Mister Pesola,you just won five thousand dollars!”
Technically the caller got the last one wrong. The name of the song is the Star spangled banner.
One of my favorite shows.
Yeah… what the hell…. 😂
Donald Pissola!
Technically they would not have to pay out on the prize. The actual name of the national anthem is The Star Spangled Banner.
Hé's got Rambo on the phone.
lol
… With bronchitis
@@BaconTomatoCheese the guy was getting high, lol.
that was Steven Wright on the phone 😆
It took the internet before I knew that D-day from Animal House was NOT Howard Hesseman!!! lol
Your kidding no im not kidding priceless reaction😆😆😆😆😆
Man I loved that show as a kid.
Remember " get down Lester" and les would drop !
contestant sounds like a sick "rocky", sylvester stallone.
Contest winner sounded like Comedian “Steven Wright” 🤣👉😑
Now I understand why Johnny was upset, it was his announcing mistake that made the total $5000
Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem😂😂
The turkey giveaway was my favorite episode…
I loved this show back in the day. I would like to see a remake with a modern twist.
Have you seen what today's modern twist = for a remake? I have never seen this show until this clip but do not wish destruction on something you love.
I'm going start answering my phone like that - "What is it ?"
Here's an idea for a contest. Make it impossible to win ,then call a stoner! We can't lose!.
Clapton doing a JJ Cale tune!
The caller said 'National Anthem" - that's not the name of the song. Since he didn't say "Star-Spangled Banner" they could have said he was wrong and not had to pay out.
Yeah that always bothered me too.
Even before it was the Star Spangled Banner, it was an old British drinking tune. That's where Francis Scott Key got the melody.
Just watching you was an automatic disaster😂
Loved Johnny Fever.
" national anthem by Francis Scott key "🤣🤣🤣
Had to be one of the most random inclusions ever. 😄
That produced the joke, upping the bet from Wayne Newton on a rock station.
However since it was just the music on that cut...it wasn't written by Key. He just wrote the words in a poem. The tune is an old drinking song from the Anachrion Club in London.
I'm guessing that because the clips are so short UA-cam won't demonetize this!
Something similar might have happened back when the show was syndicated..
Yeah, that's coming out of Dr Johnny Fever's paycheck.
baby if you ever wondered
wondered what ever became of me
i'm living on the air in Cincinnati
Cincinnati WKRP, we are WKRP in Cincinnaaaaaaaaaati
back when TV was funny and Johnny Carson was the king of late night
Got kind of tired packing and unpacking
Town to town and up and down the dial
Maybe you and me were never meant to be
But baby think of me once in awhile
I'm at WKRP in Cincinnati 😁
That was funny. They gave the 5000 to the wrong winner and herb and les got fired that week. Only in wkro in Cincinnati.
$5,000 in 1979 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $19,539.67 today.......
And he didn't even have to use his smartphone to look them up either.
"Wutizzit."
I watched this twice and behold I knew all the answers
Best TV show.