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Chuckles Bites the Dust

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201:"Chuckles the Clown brought pleasure to millions. The characters he created will be remembered by children and adults alike: Peter Peanut; Mr. Fee-Fi-Fo; Billy Banana; and my particular favorite, Aunt Yoo-Hoo. And not just for the laughter they provided — there was always some deeper meaning to whatever Chuckles did. Do you remember Mr. Fee-Fi-Fo's little catchphrase? Remember how, when his arch-rival Señor Kaboom hit him with a giant cucumber and knocked him down, Mr. Fee-Fi-Fo would always pick himself up, dust himself off, and say 'I hurt my foo-foo'? Life's a lot like that. From time to time we all fall down and hurt our foo-foos. If only we could deal with it as simply and bravely and honestly as Mr. Fee-Fi-Fo. And what did Chuckles ask in return? Not much. In his own words, 'A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.'" 193:"You know how hard it is to stop after just one peanut!" and "He could've gone as Billy Banana and had a gorilla peel him to death.") They dissolve into helpless laughter, except for Mary, who is appalled by her co-workers' apparent lack of respect for the deceased. They try to assure her that they mean no disrespect for Chuckles. Their reaction is simply an emotional release, a response to humankind's fear of death: "Everyone does it." Mary shames them into uncomfortable silence by answering, "I don't." 150:
jokes about the strange death of a strange person except for Mary, who repeatedly scolds her co-workers for disrespecting the deceased. However, during Chuckles' funeral service, Mary begins to giggle uncontrollably, much to her embarrassment. The celebrant assures her that laughing is the proper response to the life of a clown.
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At the funeral, the jokes continue until the services are about to start, at which time a final scolding by Mary encourages her friends to become properly somber. However, Mary alone begins to giggle uncontrollably as the minister recounts Chuckles' comedy characters and comic routines. She tries to
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portrays Chuckles when he arrives at TV station WJM the morning after a city election, to find the news staff—having lost contact with City Hall during a blizzard—still on the air. Chuckles has the election results in his newspaper, and announces the winner of the mayoral race on the air in clown
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The next day, as Mary and Murray are watching Ted deliver the live newscast, Lou rushes into the newsroom in shock and tells the staff that Chuckles has been killed during the parade. He had dressed as the character Peter Peanut, and a rogue elephant tried to "shell" him, causing fatal injuries.
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which first aired on October 25, 1975. The episode's plot centers on the WJM-TV staff's reaction to the absurd death of Chuckles the Clown, an often-mentioned but seldom-seen character who starred in an eponymously titled children's show at the station. Most of the WJM-TV staff cannot help making
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Mary's friends, and the other attendees, are shocked by her laughter. The minister, however, asks the mortified Mary to rise, and assures her that her laughter is actually in keeping with Chuckles' life's work. "He lived to make people laugh. Tears were offensive to him; deeply offensive
So go
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him. Mary then asks Ted to do her a favor when they freeze him – "Could you take this with you?", and takes out of her refrigerator the "food mobile" Sue Ann gave her at the beginning of the episode; everyone laughs as the credits roll.
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to turn down the "honor". Ted is upset and tries to rally Mary to his side. Mary agrees that Lou acted a bit hastily, but then tells Ted that Chuckles the Clown has been asked in his place and has accepted.
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Chuckles had a brief non-speaking role in the third-season episode titled "Who's in Charge Here?", where he was portrayed by an uncredited extra. In this episode, Chuckles meets with
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Back at Mary's apartment after the funeral, she and her friends discuss how they envision their funerals. Sue Ann says she just wants to be cremated and have her ashes thrown on
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Splitsider said that the episode "found a way to even make death funny, and that’s what makes it one of the most human—not to mention hilarious—episodes ever."
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next played Chuckles in the fourth-season episode "Son of 'But, Seriously Folks'". Aside from these appearances, Chuckles, like
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The next day at the studio, the unusual circumstances of Chuckles' death provoke a wave of workplace jokes, especially by Lou,
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During a commercial break, Lou orders Ted to adlib a eulogy for Chuckles, with disastrous results.
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Chuckles's first on-camera appearance was in the first-season episode "The Snow Must Go On".
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ahead, my dear: laugh for Chuckles." Mary then bursts into helpless, heartbreaking sobs.
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stifle her laughter, but cannot contain herself as Reverend Burns delivers the eulogy:
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is hired as the grand marshal for a circus parade, but is ordered by
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
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Richard Schaal, TV Actor and Second City Veteran, Dies at 86
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7th episode of the 6th season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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for "Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle All the Way" (1991)
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Index

Chuckles the Clown
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Joan Darling
David Lloyd
List of episodes
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Ted Baxter
Lou Grant
Sue Ann Nivens
Murray Slaughter
Robert Redford
Everything's Coming Up Roses
Richard Schaal
Lou Grant
Mark Gordon
Phyllis Lindstrom
TV Guide
100 Greatest Episodes Of All Time
David Lloyd
Emmy Award
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown
The Cleveland Show
Richard Schaal, TV Actor and Second City Veteran, Dies at 86
Comic Actor Richard Schaal Dies at 86
"1975–1976 Emmy Awards"
"The 100 Greatest TV episodes of all time"
the original
"30 Rock vs. Community and Roseanne vs. Mary Tyler Moore"

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