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Flick's Tongue
Airdate: Saturday - January 27, 1968

WOR Show
Original Airing

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(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

This is terrible, I'm still shaken by this whole thing. . .

Show Description

Shep opens show talking about the previous portion of the show on which he played a recording of a Dayak curse. For the rest of the show he goes about telling the story of being a kid and their involvement in kid mythology. There were the believers and non-believers. He talks about myths such as the poisonous inside of a golf ball, the indelible pencil, bats flying into your hair, swallowing gum will make your stomach stick together,and the tongue myth. The tongue myth stated that if, on a very cold day, you placed your tongue on a metal object, it would stick forever. So one day on the way to school Shep, Flick, Schwartz, and Bruner start talking about this and as they pass an iron telephone pole, start to dare one another to try it. Dares led to double dares and then to the double dog dare! Flick walks up and places his tongue right on the pole and it's stuck!! The rest of the kid's run to class leaving Flick behind. Miss Shield's, their teacher finds out, and the fire department is called to solve the problem.

Comments

• This show is a Saturday night post "Live at the Limelight" show. After the Limelight shows ended, he continued on Saturday nights 10:30 until midnight doing an "in studio" show. This show was repeated on April 6, 1972 condensed to a 45 minute format. This story about Flicks tongue is an early version of the story which ultimately ended up as one of the storylines in "A Christmas Story". This show was used as a "Bonus Extra" on the ACS DVD release

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
•	None

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	No Commercials or Commercials Cut

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 02:00	Unknown - Lucky Lindy	Lucky Lindy
• 31:58	Ballet Mecanique

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 01:59	Mario Sfogliano

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 00:36 ]	General Topics		Dyak Curse
• [ 07:39 ]	People		Flick
• [ 07:39 ]	Movies		A Christmas Story
• [ 07:39 ]	People		Bruner, Ralf
• [ 07:39 ]	People		Schwartz, Paul
• [ 17:31 ]	People		Remaley, Patty
• [ 19:45 ]	People		Melton, Mr.
• [ 31:45 ]	Plots / Story Lines		Flick's Tongue
• [ 36:15 ]	People		Shields, Miss

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

Date	Title
January 27, 1968	Flick's Tongue	Original Airing
April 7, 1972	Flick's Tongue	WOR Rerun
January 3, 1974	Flick's Tounge Stuck To Pole (Repeat)	WOR Rerun
January 12, 1977	Kid Myths - Flicks Tongue Notes: WETA rerun	WETA Synd Replay

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	February 01, 2000
Mass Backwards	December 14, 2004
YesterdayUSA	March 08, 2014
YesterdayUSA	March 23, 2024

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