Back when I was a little kid we didn't have video games or cable tv.  No, really, we didn't.
What we had were three tv stations - four if you counted public television.

We only had AM radio and these things people called "records" for music.
We also had 8-Track tapes and they would go "bbbbbbb-click" in the middle of your favorite song.
They also had things called "coloring books" but tv was much better.
Mom took us to the Drive-In a lot.  Sometimes I would hide in the trunk to get in free.

Here is a list of people and things that made me the man I am today.  Because I know you care.
It's not my intent to provide any information.  I'm merely tipping my hat to the people in my head.
So if they interest you look them up.  Your hands aren't broken.  And if they are I'm sorry.

 

"I'll stay in the truck while Jim sits in
the lion trap holding a bloody zebra leg."
 

a.ka. Gailard Sartain, was the "Uncanny Film Festival".  I just realized it spells "Me Zappa".
Gary Busey was there too as Teddy Jack Eddy.
 

"To the Batpole, Robin!"
 

"What are we gonna do now Matthew?"
 

"Show 'em what's behind door number three."
 

"You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd."
 

I was exposed to them before The Monkees
and The Monkees before The Beatles.
 

I was the only one who saw what she saw.
And everyone thought she was crazy.
 

No one sported the neck kerchief like Charles.
 

The devil made him do it.
"Sock it to me!"
 

a.k.a "How-ed Co-sell".
They took him off Monday Night Football
when he said "Look at that monkey run."
 

"Guchi Guchi Guchi !"
 

He wanted to suck my blood.
 

He narrated a six part "Energy Crisis" film series
I had to watch in 4th grade science class.