Buzzy was a big Lawrence Welk fan. After closing the Store on Saturday nights, he would come back into the house and commandeer the one and only T-V available to us. My brother Stevie and I would be watching something sophisticated like Flipper or Gilligan’s Island when Buzzy would kick back in his Archie Bunker chair and pick up the T-V Guide to see what else was on. We knew what was coming.

We would try and convince him that we really needed to finish what we were watching and besides, he was just going to fall asleep watching whatever he put on. He of course would not listen to us and made us switch the channel to Lawrence Welk.

When he did fall off to sleep, we would slip up to the T-V and turn the channel. He would awaken and immediately say “Hey turn it back. I was watching that.” We’d try arguing with him that he was not watching, that he was sleeping, but you know who won that argument. Stevie and I would then slink off to our rooms and either read or play board games. Bottom line, Lawrence Welk has been on my shit list ever since.

SNL portrayed it pretty good with this lampoon of Lawrence and Company: