Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Plague Theater: "I'm Phil Rizzuto for the Money Store..."

Posted by el duque at 12:43 PM



The one blemish on an otherwise wonderful career.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sadly this is how I best remember him as this commercial played non-stop on WPIX, even during my cartoons. I'm way to young to have seen his playing days.

May 6, 2020 at 4:26 PM
Local Bargain Jerk said...


I'm the same, Anonymous...

Running these commercials must have cost The Money Store something like $25 a shot. They were everywhere.

May 6, 2020 at 4:46 PM
Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...

I don’t consider this a blemish. Money Store was a part of my childhood too... during Live at Five with Jack Cafferty and Sue Simmons... along with ads for Earl Schieb, the Milford Plaza Hotel, Mount Airy Lodge... Uncle Floyd... all that. I don’t know when I found out that old man ever played baseball.

May 6, 2020 at 11:06 PM
JM said...
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May 7, 2020 at 10:32 AM
JM said...

Ah, Uncle Floyd. I remember watching him with friends in an illegally smoke-filled room on a small black and white TV. Channel 68 from New Jersey, the same station on which we watched old Dobie Gillis reruns and exciting 1950s school-targeted documentaries like How to Fold the Flag.

Good times. Even though I never did go to beautiful Mount Airy Lodge. Wasn't that your host in the Poconos with the most in the Poconos? Lovely heart-shaped beds, mirrored ceilings...very different than the Lulla-BUY of Broadway.

I also recall watching the 11 o'clock news one night when they wheeled out a big birthday cake for Tex Antoine. They used to come back to a shot of the empty news set before the start of whatever was on at 11:30, but the mikes on a couple of the crew were live for some reason. One guy asked the other, "Did you get a good shot of the cake?", and the other guy said, "I would have, if Tex wasn't in the fucking way." Ah, live TV.

As for the Money Store, it was horrible shilling, but since DiMaggio was pitching the Bowery Savings Bank and Mr. Coffee, the Scooter doing cut-rate Money Store spots seemed commensurate with their respective positions in the Yankees firmament.

Regardless, Crazy Eddie's prices weren't actually IN-SANE!!, but his commercials were.

May 7, 2020 at 10:34 AM
Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...

I love Uncle Floyd so much I bought my own Oogie. It’s kinda creepy to see him looking back at you from a closet shelf. If you want one, look for a Pelham Puppets “Vent” called “Walter Ego” or “The Hunter”. If the auction mentions Oogie it sells for big bucks, but if Oogie not mentioned it’ll slip under the radar for $30 :)

When the Covid crisis hit, Floyd started selling his memorbilia on eBay under seller unclefloydshowwarehousesale. Cast photos, 70’s bumper stickers, buttons, 45s... his garage must be a disaster.

May 7, 2020 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous said...

REMEMBER "CUPPY"?

I USED TO LOVE WATCHING UNCLE FLOYD.

THERE WERE LEGIT LAUGHS.

THE MONEY STORE AND UNCLE FLOYD SHOW SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY.

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