Lamb Chop

In his controversial autobiography, Fisted Full of Dollars, (Harper and Row) Lambchop, the lovable children’s character-turned-activist, talked a lot about the constant threat of being replaced. There were always rumors of cats and bears being called in to read and at the end of the sixties there was even talk that Snoopy had been offered the job. In the end Lambchop and the show died it’s normal death like all children’s TV shows do, living for a while in that hazy land of syndication and Christmas specials before dropping of the radar, appearing only in the occasional PBS fundraising special and strip-mall openings.

I bring this up because in Volume II chapter 13 he kind of goes off on a tangent about Shari Lewis spitting all of her lines, and how, especially near the end of their run, when the crew wrapped, he would have to be toweled off before being put down for the night. You can really tell he’s in a lot of pain recalling those days, there’s a lot of anger, hurt and humiliation he’s working through, and you kind of get the feeling that he’s revisiting old, old wounds, opening up after all those years at a time when he thought that his life would be finally settling down.

The last things I’ve heard is that he’s been pulled out of mothballs once again I guess only time will tell what will come of this new incarnation. I’ve got a feeling that this time things are gonna be a little different as I’ve also heard he’s decided that he can live the best of both worlds by opening up his very own website. A site where he can be true to his own nature and that of his fan’s as well.

I really wish him all the best.

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