I must have been spend­ing the last cou­ple of decades in a her­met­i­cally sealed egg, because some­how I missed out on the trea­sure that is Wally George and his old UHF show Hot Seat. That all changed tonight, though, when a YouTube search intro­duced me to this very funny clip of Jim and Debbie Goad on Hot Seat:

At one point, Wally blasts the Goads for pub­lish­ing an Answer Me! arti­cle called “Babies Are Dirty and Disgusting.” After berat­ing Debbie, Wally explodes, “I SAY BABIES ARE BEAUTIFUL!!” The audi­ence responds with an awe­some (but brief) chant of “BABIES!! BABIES!! BABIES!!”

So many laughs. Growing up in the 80s, I was a big fan of Morton Downey Jr.‘s show. But Hot Seat is like Mort on steroids. Unmitigated righteousness.

Wikipedia pro­vides the req­ui­site back­ground info:

George Walter Pearch, known as Wally George (4 December 1931 – 7 October 2003) was an American con­ser­v­a­tive radio and tele­vi­sion com­men­ta­tor. Calling him­self the “Father of Combat TV,” George gained national fame as the host of the tele­vi­sion talk show Hot Seat, orig­i­nally a local show pro­duced for KDOC Channel 56, a UHF sta­tion then located in Anaheim, California.

Each YouTube clip is heaven-sent. View as many as you can in one sit­ting. Here’s an episode with GWAR:

And here’s one with the Mentors.

And maybe the best thing I got out of this whole expe­ri­ence, Rudi Krause:

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