Since we are getting close to Halloween, I found myself remembering this guy from the 80s. Who can ever forget this hometown favorite?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Scary
Since we are getting close to Halloween, I found myself remembering this guy from the 80s. Who can ever forget this hometown favorite?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Scary
80s!? Was his show that old? I remember him from the early/mid 90s.
Definitely 1980's
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...CountScary.jpg
fanniemae, George Noory from Art Bell's "Coast 2 Coast" worked @ WJBK then and had a hand in bringing Morgus here still has him on fairly often
Detroitplanner, I recall Tom Ryan copping @ the time that he ripped off "Count Floyd" from SCTV. You can rip off a show on tv for a comedy bit on the radio & it's no biggie, but when you take it to TV...now that's painful. And all the Detroit media pretending this guy invented sliced bread when the source material was on NBC Friday night @ 12:30 AM[[10 PM on the CBC if you preferred Channel 9) starring John Candy & Joe Flaherty[[who'd essay the SE Michigan father role in "Freaks & Geeks") is just a small illustration of local media's tunnel vision
Speaking of scary things and halloween, love watching this at this time of year
Thanks for the info. I listen to Noory a lot, CKLW 8 AM at 1 in the morning. I bet his show before Halloween will be a scream. Morgus was a unique and goofy character. Around that time , the Munsters came out and there was an interest in goofy , mad scientists. I don't remember which came first though. Morgus or Grandpa Munster. I liked Count Scary for about 5 seconds. Thought that was more a kids thing.fanniemae, George Noory from Art Bell's "Coast 2 Coast" worked @ WJBK then and had a hand in bringing Morgus here still has him on fairly often
Detroitplanner, I recall Tom Ryan copping @ the time that he ripped off "Count Floyd" from SCTV. You can rip off a show on tv for a comedy bit on the radio & it's no biggie, but when you take it to TV...now that's painful. And all the Detroit media pretending this guy invented sliced bread when the source material was on NBC Friday night @ 12:30 AM[[10 PM on the CBC if you preferred Channel 9) starring John Candy & Joe Flaherty[[who'd essay the SE Michigan father role in "Freaks & Geeks") is just a small illustration of local media's tunnel vision
I remember my mom going to Great Scott to get the 3 D glasses to watch Count Scary's movies.
Yeah, he was from the early to mid 80's. We were in high school, my sister and I were both Sir Graves Ghastly fans, and we thought Count Scary was kind of lame, so we called him Count Stupid. "ooooh, that's stoooopid"
Count Scary was a rip-off of SCTV's Count Floyd. Count Floyd would say "ohh thats stooopid!" Perhaps thats where you got it from?
Tom Ryan did rip "Count Scary" off of Joe Flaherty's "Count Floyd" on SCTV. The original is still the greatest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9iIf4tFoyE
Anybody remember " Morgus" ? I think he did the weather as a joke on Channel 2 late 60's.
You could probably count on one hand [[no pun intended), how many people here are familiar with Morgus [[or even his connection with The News...now I'm really dating myself).
The last I heard, he went down to New Orleans and was doing his show down there for a number of years. I don't know if he's still doing it or even if he's still around.
Morgus The Magnificent He's a tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theorist.
Last edited by Jimaz; October-20-10 at 10:53 PM.
Show was called "Morgus Presents" if I am correct. He used a laboratory setting as his backdrop.You could probably count on one hand [[no pun intended), how many people here are familiar with Morgus [[or even his connection with The News...now I'm really dating myself).
The last I heard, he went down to New Orleans and was doing his show down there for a number of years. I don't know if he's still doing it or even if he's still around.
I watched the Ghoul talking bout Parma Ohio, "Zingie Zingie Zingie"...and froggie too
I feel a certain loyalty to Sir Graves Ghastly, but Count Scary was OK. I even picked up the 3-D glasses to watch the horrible televised 3-D horror pictures. He was a goofball ...
I loved Count Scary...EEEEwwww That's ssccaaarrryyy!!! He would have started on t.v. sometime before 1983, the year I got married. I remember our T.V. died in October of '83, and I made my husband go out and buy a new one so I could watch Count Scary. Remember his dancing by a pool...can't think of the song he was dancing to....in his Dracula costume and tennis shoes. Not sure I don't think he was on too many years after '83, maybe only one. Somebody mentioned Count Stupid, didn't he have an alter ego on the show called Count Stupid?
Last edited by thewitz; October-20-10 at 07:46 AM.
Ah, memories. George Baier on the WRIF [[at the time) morning show making fun of Count Scary with his "Count Stupid" character. Count Scary was actually Tom Ryan from WOMC, wasn't it?
We had a house just west of U of D, me and a bunch of other guys [[and one girl) renting from a lady who lived in Southfield, and one halloween we hired The Ghoul to emcee a party. Truly a wonderful time, Ron was a gentleman and brought along much of his old entourage, this in the late '80s. The party ended up getting just a trifle out of control, as was our custom back in the day
Aw man. I loved this guy when I was a kid. Does anyone remember Charlie Lum [[pronounced Rum)?
Count Scary = Tom Ryan who used to be the afternoon drive time DJ on WOMC. Wonder where he is now.
Speaking of Tom Ryan, anyone remember the "Hamtramck" tv spoof he tried to do? Channel 4 showed one episode, and the babcie almost stormed the station with their babushkas and brooms.
Rumor has it that there were more episodes filmed, but the station won't even admit they know what you're talking about.
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