Comments on: 7 TV Celebrities Your Parents Loved

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:01:14 +0000

Sorry @marybeth

Euell Gibbons said “Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.” I was there and still see him standing next to the tree.

By: marybeth

marybeth — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:09:00 +0000

If I remember correctly, Euell Gibbons said, “Ever eat a pinecone? Many parts are edible.”.

“Ever eat a pine tree? Ever lick a river?” was from a SNL parody of his commercials.

By: Savannah

Savannah — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:59:52 +0000

Dr. Ruth has been elevated to a person of interest for me since reading this article, because that’s way freakin’ awesome!

I assume that Mutual of Omaha guy is the one my dad told me about one of the many times I wasn’t really listening…

By: QuincyK

QuincyK — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:07:05 +0000

I love love love Justin Wilson. I grew up watching him with my Daddy. I always thought the ” a little wine for Justin” part was classic. My Daddy was also a Euell Gibbons fan. I never saw anything he was in.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:05:41 +0000

As a T.V. chef I always liked Graham Kerr the galloping gormet.

By: Alli

Alli — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:30:12 +0000

Great, now I have the Mutual of Omaha jingle stuck in my head:

Mutual
Of Omaha
is people,
you can count on when the going’s rough…

And apparently I too am my parents, as I know all those folks. I used to LOVE staying up to watch Wild Kingdom (came on at 7:30 I think; my bedtime as a young-un), and I think I actually own “Stalking the Wild Asparagus” although I’m not sure why. I’ve even tried a Bob Ross type painting.

By: Sara in AL

Sara in AL — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:02:39 +0000

i remember my mom watching Bob Ross when I was, like, six,seven.

By: Barbwire

Barbwire — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:20 +0000

Gee, I quit reading Mental_Floss because all the quizzes were directed at young people. Euell Gibbons: Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible. And I remember Betty White in “Life with Elizabeth”, when Jim Backus was her husband. BTW, my oldest just turned 50. But I was 17 when she was born (really).

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:47:31 +0000

Didn’t Bob Ross always add in Happy Little Clouds too? Or maybe it was just Happy Little Trees? I always watched him, right after lunch, every Saturday growing up.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:47:01 +0000

Steve, Martin Yan is still around. He has a show on the new PBS Create channel. Martin Yan’s China, or something like that. He travels to China, samples local cusine and comes back to the studio to do his version of it.

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