Reply #30: You and I must be abou t the same age, pokerfan. [View All]

Oh, yeah, we were huge fans of the Smothers Brothers. In fact, I even recall the EARLIER show they did together (boy, that dates me) in which the conceit was that Tommy was an angel visiting his brother on Earth.

But I digress. Their variety show was a favorite at my house, and we loved it when Tommy and Dick would begin playing a song straight and then Tommy would cause it to disintegrate into madness. They did that one night with "English Country Gardens" (or whatever the song is called), with Dick providing a litany of birds found in an English country garden, and then Tommy correcting him: "Robins, Robins, you forgot the robins!" And it went on from there: "Vultures, vultures, you forgot the vultures!" We kids imitated that routine for some time after.