If you’re familiar with the term “Heavens to Murgatroyd”! you’re almost certainly a Boomer.
Holy Toledo!
Gadzooks!
Far OUT man…
And it’s corollary, “Heavens to Betsy”.
“Jiminy Crickets!”
Jumpin Jehoshaphat!
Groovy.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Lucy, I’m home.
Roll em, roll em, roll em, …
Oh, Lou …
Marlboro man.
Brylcream, a little dab l do ya, …
The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant.
Brylcreem, a little dab’l do ya
Brylcreem, you’ll look so debonair
Brylcreem, the girls’ll all pursue ya
They love to get their fingers in your hair.
Mr Spacely from the Jetsons used that…
Snagglepuss
The Newbomb wins the prize.
Trivia: Murgatroyd was actually a place in England, named after a real person.
Now: What was the WABAC machine?
SalUte nailed it.
Where was Frostbite Falls and who came from there?
You’re on your honor not to Google or to do anything of the kind.
The thing about many of those shows of that era is the dual significance of the humor. As kids, we didn’t understand anything about a place called Murgatroyd, or the in a time machine called WABAC at a time when Univac was the biggest computer around.
Minnesota. Rocky and Bullwinkle.
I loved the Tex Avery cartoons. There was one that took place in Coldernell, Alaska.
Gee willikers Mr. Wilson!
