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Flick's Tongue
Airdate: Saturday - January 27, 1968

WOR Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

This is terrible, I'm still shaken by this whole thing. . .

Show Description

Shep opens show talking about the previous portion of the show on which he played a recording of a Dayak curse. For the rest of the show he goes about telling the story of being a kid and their involvement in kid mythology. There were the believers and non-believers. He talks about myths such as the poisonous inside of a golf ball, the indelible pencil, bats flying into your hair, swallowing gum will make your stomach stick together,and the tongue myth. The tongue myth stated that if, on a very cold day, you placed your tongue on a metal object, it would stick forever. So one day on the way to school Shep, Flick, Schwartz, and Bruner start talking about this and as they pass an iron telephone pole, start to dare one another to try it. Dares led to double dares and then to the double dog dare! Flick walks up and places his tongue right on the pole and it's stuck!! The rest of the kid's run to class leaving Flick behind. Miss Shield's, their teacher finds out, and the fire department is called to solve the problem.

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Comments

• This show is a Saturday night post "Live at the Limelight" show. After the Limelight shows ended, he continued on Saturday nights 10:30 until midnight doing an "in studio" show. This show was repeated on April 6, 1972 condensed to a 45 minute format. This story about Flicks tongue is an early version of the story which ultimately ended up as one of the storylines in "A Christmas Story". This show was used as a "Bonus Extra" on the ACS DVD release

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Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 02:00	Unknown - Lucky Lindy	Lucky Lindy
• 31:58	Ballet Mecanique

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	Mario Sfogliano

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	People		Flick
•	Plots / Story Lines		Flick's Tongue
•	Movies	November 18, 1983	A Christmas Story
•	General Topics		Dyak Curse

Record: 737 / ID: 19680127W0737

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

Date	Title
January 27, 1968 Recno: 737	Flick's Tongue	Original Airing
April 7, 1972 Recno: 1248	Flick's Tongue	WOR Rerun
January 3, 1974 Recno: 1669	Flick's Tounge Stuck To Pole (Repeat)	WOR Rerun
January 12, 1977 Recno: 6542	Kid Myths - Flicks Tongue Notes: WETA rerun	WETA Synd Replay

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19680127W0737	Sponsors up to date:	No
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	None	Station ID up to date:	No
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	No
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	No
Description up to date:	Yes

Known Recordees

Jim Clavin

Dictaphone

Art Shifrin

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Source: Jim Clavin

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Source: Jim Clavin
The January 28, 1968 show was recorded by me. It came off a reel of 1968 shows so I'm sure of the year. Some show I had dated, others were marked 1/68 one of which was the Flick's Tongue show. On the 1-29-68 show (People in the news, Drunk Test...) he refers to having done the Rariton Valley Hospital Show the previous Friday (1/26) and that he has a show at Seton Hall on "this Thursday February 1st" He also talks to a caller regarding the Friday Rariton Valley Show, and about the show featuring the Dayak Curse. No mention of the date of the Dayak Curse show. It's possible he re-ran the Dayak show of April 4, 1966 on Friday night since he could not do a live studio show and be at the Rariton show at the same time. HOWEVER, how would the caller have seen the Rariton show and heard the Dayak show if both were Friday? Since January 1968 was the first month of post Limelight shows, he may have been still on for the 10:30 to midnight slot and re-ran a trimmed down version of the Dayak Curse show for the first half hour and then did the last 55 minutes live. My conclusion - Curses was run on 4-6-66 and then re-run either Friday 1/26/68 while he was doing the Raritan Show or on Saturday in a trimmed down version. The Flick's Tongue show was done on 1/27/68 and rerun on 4-6-72 in a trimmed down version.
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December 14, 2004

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0309	March 08, 2014
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	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

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Jim Clavin

Running Time: 54:29

Recordee:
22 - Jim Clavin

Inventory Name: 1968 01 27_W0737_022 Flicks Tongue.mp3
Station: WOR

Comments: From reel to reel

Art Shifrin

Recordee:
529 - Art Shifrin

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: Jean Shepherd - recorded 1/25/68
Source ref number: S62
Station: WOR

FHC / JSP

Running Time: 51:47

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1968 01 27_W0737_030 1966 04 06 2 Flicks Tongue WOR Jean Shepherd HAD WRONG DATE.mp3
Source ref number: 3D
Station: WOR

Mass Backwards

Running Time: 59:49

Available on Internet

Recordee:
22 - Jim Clavin

Inventory Name: 1968 01 27_W0737_500-022_M2004-12-14 Flicks Tongue.mp3
Station: WBAI

Comments: Mass Backwards recording

Max - Everything Sets

Running Time: 52:31

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1968 01 27_W0737_601 Flicks Tongue.mp3
Source filename: 1968_01_28_Flicks_Tongue.mp3
Source description: Was dated wrong
Source set: Everything Set Vol 12
Station: WOR

Brass Figlagee - Archive.org

Running Time: 52:31

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1968 01 27_W0737_995 Flicks Tongue.mp3
Source filename: 1968_01_28_Flicks_Tongue.mp3
Source description: Was dated wrong
Station: WOR

Mass Backwards

Running Time: 56:01

Available on Internet

Recordee:
22 - Jim Clavin

Inventory Name: 1968 01 27_W0737_500-022_M2000-02-01 Flicks Tongue.mp3
Station: WBAI

Comments: Mass Backwards recording

YesterdayUSA

Running Time: 1:23:01

Available on Internet

Recordee:
22 - Jim Clavin

Inventory Name: 1968 01 27_W0737_551-022 Y309-2014-03-08 Shep Dayak Tongue.mp3
Station: YUSA

Gary Hines

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 1-27-68 Flicks Tongue
Station: WOR

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Max Schmid

Running Time: 1:19:58

Recordee:
512 - Dictaphone

Inventory Name: 1968 01 27_W0737-041-512 SAT 503-1 complete wo news Dayak Curse, Flick's Tongue.mp3
Source description: 68-01-27 SAT 503-1 complete wo news Dayak Curse, Flick's Tongue.wav
Station: WOR

Dictaphone

Recordee:
512 - Dictaphone

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 68-01-27 SAT 503-1 complete wo news Dayak Curse, Flick's Tongue
Station: WOR

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