Art Appreciation Month continues...

With one of the finest Arts in television history:

Art Linkletter

Art Linkletter is probably not knowed to many a you, since he was born afore the dawn of true television.  You know, with cable and all.

Anyway, Art was born in Moose Jaw, Canada, son ta the infamous Sasquatch.  Ol' Sasquatch couldn't do a good job a raisin' no kids on account a all the chasin' around and copyright issues with Bigfoot.

So little Art was adopted to another set of folks who raised Art like he was they own. Once he overcame his fondness fer the taste a human flesh, things settled right down in the Linkletter household.

Art spent most of his life tryin' ta hide his shame at bein' born a Canadian.  He spent countless hours practicin' not sayin "ay?" after every sentence, pretendin' Curlin' made any sense and actin' like Celine Dion ain't all that hot. Although she ain't bad ta look at I gots ta say.

Anyway, at a young age Art took to one a the newest forms a entertainment.  Black and white TV.  Unfortunately race conflict was a big problem back then and the black TV shows and the white TV shows, well they didn't get along too well.

Many people don't know this but fer the longest time the Jeffersons and Good Times couldn't stand ta be on the same network as Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons.  The cultural divide between the urban black shows and the rural cracker shows was just too great.

That's where Art came in.  His famous show Kids Say the Darndest Things was a hit with everybody!  That's cause white TV kids and black TV kids...none of them don't know nothin' and theys always sayin' funny stuff!  This was the shared cultural event that TV needed ta take the unifyin' step ta color television.

And all was right with the TV world, thanks ta Art Linkletter.

Rock On, Art Linkletter!