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The Best of the Uncle Floyd Show

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Growing up in the NY/NJ area during the 1980's, you may have stumbled upon The Uncle Floyd Show. I'm a fan from way back (even had my pictures up on the wall a few times, lol).
This DVD release is pure fun and nostalgia. Prior to purchasing this, I was relegated to buying bootlegs of a few shows on VHS, so it's nice to finally have an official DVD release (it's listed as copyright 2004 Floyd Vivino).
Some of the skits included are:
Tom Cavell's Ice Cream College on the Air, Julia Stepchild, Pasquale's Pizzaria, Eddie Slobbo, Sylvester Cavone, Mr. Grouch and Skip's Auto Sales.
There are also a few chapters on the dvd with Floyd playing the Piano, and, of course, Oogie!
If you're a fan, you simply cannot pass this up.
I only hope that even more material has survived for a volume 2 of the Uncle Floyd Show.
(hey Floyd, take Mugsy's tapes and release more official DVD's!)

I just received this today from Amazon and immediately popped it into my DVD player. Man, is this great stuff! This immediately brought back memories of 1980, rushing home to catch the end of Speed Racer on Channel 68 and then the opening credits to Uncle Floyd at 6 PM. I'm not done watching the whole thing yet, but the first few bits with Oogie, Tom Cavell's Ice Cream College, Julia Stepchild, and Pasquale's Pizzeria were just outstanding. I'm no Floyd afficionado, but I do appreciat his unique contribution to TV comedy. I'm sad that we'll probably not see the likes of this material on TV ever again. But my memories will live on forever as long as this DVD holds up.

This DVD is great! Not being in the NJ/NYC/PA areas for years, had me longing for the UNCLE FLOYD show! I thought it was gone forever! I decided to check out Amazon.com and to my surprise: there it was!!! The DVD and links to the show!! I just hope he will put out more DVD's!! I laughed as if I had never seen these skits before! Thanks soooo much for having this available for the public to purchase!!! MORE,MORE,MORE!!!!

Now I know what David Bowie, John Lennon, the Ramones and Conan O'Brien are on about when they praise the likes of "Uncle Floyd" and "Oogie". Zany antics coupled with the lowest of budgets makes for something that I have a hard time picturing on television. Highlights include scenes with "Cuppy" and "Foreign Language Program". I hope that they release another volume so I can find out who "Bones Boy" is.

Don't forget to keep your head warm, twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd!

It's been over 30 year since I watched Uncle Floyd on the UHF dial (remember them?). The reception wasn't very good but I tuned in every day. The old Soupy Sales shows may be lost forever, but at least we still have Floyd Vivino and company. His low budget antics certainly helped me pass my high school afternoons. Do people outside the Middle Atlantic states know Uncle Floyd? Anyway, it's nice to have Oogie and Looney Skip Rooney back in my life. My only complaint: where's Donkey Oatie?

Great DVD but rather short on "GREATS".
I got to see Uncle Floyd when his show was being filmed in Newark. He would do an entire weeks shows in one eight hour day.
I only wish they had included "Bones Boy", "Weenie" and more of "Skip"..
How about some of his "GREAT" songs that were not covered such as, "Deep in the Heart of Jersey"...
I Highly Recommend this DVD until something else comes out.

The Uncle Floyd show brings back the classic vaudeville-type humor and also shows Floyd's talent as one of the greatest jazz and ragtime piano players of all time. I just about fell off my chair laughing at a routine spoofing ukulele artist Tiny Tim and was induced to watch the whole dvd all over again.

Uncle Floyd is a national treasure and yet he is way under-rated. This is a classic collection.

Sometimes it seems an invisible hand of fate guides our purchase of DVDs. I had just received Disney's "Follow Me, Boys!" and was experiencing some nostalgia for my Boy Scout days, when I stumbled upon "Uncle Floyd" and was sharply reminded of what my Scouting experience was really like! We clowned around at patrol meetings, we clowned around on hikes, and we clowned around after lights-out. We were the sorriest excuse for a scout troop, but we had a lot of fun! And "Uncle Floyd" brings it all back. I'm sure everyone has some memory of routines like the one spoofing Carvel Ice Cream's After-Easter Clearance Sale.

So excited that there was a DVD on Uncle Floyd because it was funny back in the 80's but this DVD wasn't. There were so many funny clips that we remembered and none if them were in it. The only good thing was that Oogie was in it.
Save your money