This brings me back to like 1995 when Cartoon Network just started and they’d put this on after the normal looney tunes block was over. That’s when I knew we stayed up past midnight. Good memories🙂
I remember that too. I specifically remember being at my nanas house. I also remember being slightly fascinated by this show cuz it seemed like it was from another world or something
Cartoon Network bought out Hanna Barbara and a few others and merged. That’s why they were able to play newer cartoons and old Toons such as looney tunes. Flinstones, wacky races, smurfs and do on
I remember watching this show when it was new and I've had this theme randomly stuck in my head for 45 years now. FINALLY I can hear it again and get it out of my head. THANK YOU!!!!!
This was the first 'adult' cartoon shown on TV in the UK. A definite precursor to 'The Simpsons' and 'Family Guy.' I was at primary school in Glasgow, Scotland and it was shown around one o'clock in the afternoon. I recall having only ten minutes to run to school after it finished.
I used to watch this show "all" the time! OMG!!! The memories I had watching it after all these years. My sister, whom lives in Florida, reminded me of it. Awesome!
I watched this in the 90s when Cartoon Network first came into existence and all the shows were old. I got my younger brothers hooked on it, they still talk about it to this day :)
This show was so ahead of its time. This episode in particular the Dad gets mugged and beaten. Could you imagine a family sitcom like Flintstones or Full House where something terrible like that happens to the main character? Not only that, but his older kids hate the dad for trying to prosecute the mugger and want him to have some sort of therapy instead.
Right you are Giovanni Vella. Fred really got mugged and robbed near the end of this episode right after Barney and him win $2000 at the racetrack by betting $50 on a 40-1 longshot named "Saber Tooth" that winds up winning. Naturally Wilma doesn't believe Fred at the end. ;-)
Always remember this from when I started junior school. The theme always stands out and was shown on Sunday lunch time in the UK about 1972-73 before Randall and Hopkirk deceased.
Every time I see Family Guy popping up on my TV I get flashbacks of this show...and yes...Tom Bosley WAS the voice of Harry Boyle! Talk about childhood memories, I am sooo ninety!
Nowadays the family is broken and the government is not helping the situation its very very important to have a father who will lookout for his daughter ❤️❤️❤️
We used to get this show here in the UK as well and every other cartoon show but this was one of my favourites so nice to hear that theme tune again still remember all the words.
I was 3 when this aired, so I certainly not recall the series when it was new but discovered it in the late 70s and early 80s with re-runs. Stange series, in between another adult-oriented animated fare, like the Flinstones a decade earlier and the Simpsons on the early 90s, certainly a precursor of things to come. Definitely a social-political satire and not the standard animated series of the Saturday morning offerings. I seem to recall it being broadcast in the early evening hours in re-runs.
I could see where Married with Children got one of their intros from with the handing out of the money. I think I was like 4 when this cartoon was around. I'm 51 now.
This is one of those memories you're not sure you're even remembering right, like was there really a show with this title? Is this jingle I've been singing since I was 5 actually a theme song or did I dream it up?
It is my understanding that a lot of American shows get syndicated to Canada. It is because of a Canadian company that I have the entire series of "Gimme a Break!" on DVD. In any event, I remember hearing about cases in which "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" was syndicated as far away as Australia!
This stumbled so the Simpsons and King of the Hill could take off. This tripped so that Family Guy and later American Dad could Glide. This dropped the ball so Bob's Burger's and F is for Family could pick it up and throw it to the End Zone.
Ah the simple days of Television (1970's) before the onslaught of Cable TV. When TV was censored, how this simple animation entertained millions during prime time, sadly it's not much compared to the animated, obnoxious Family Guy or the ever popular Simpsons. One thing for sure, these animated cartoons of the 70's, got the point across.
after the Flintstones/Jetsons this is one of the other prime time toons that was awsome because it had a political spin on it----remember alot of remarks about Nixon---and as a kid ya didn't pick that up. Much like Rocky and Bullwinkle---alot of puns ya get as an adult but missed or didn't get as a kid.
Jesus Christ, was that strangling joke real?? In 1972? For _television_??? How was this lost to the sands of time when it was so innovative and trailblazing for its time?! This was doing The Simpsons' shtick 19 years before they ever appeared on the Tracey Ulman show!
There were no "live-in boo's" back in 1972; at least, none that would admit it. Of course, back then "Boo" was only either what a ghost said or what one did when they were against something.
Shown in the UK before the evening news as part of Children's Programming. It's not really a children's show. I can see that now looking back. It is an adult sitcom, in the form of a cartoon. Ahead of its time, like the cartoon spin off from Rhoda about Carlton the Doorman. Great. Ideas, just about twenty years too early.
I used to watch this on Cartoon Network back in the mid 90's. I miss when they would show rare and obscure cartoons. Now it's garbage. On another note I would love to see Family Guy do a parody of the opening
In the Family Guy theme song where it says ""But where are those good old-fashioned values.... On which we used to rely?!" WTYFGH would be the show with the good old fashioned values.
@@jimlastname Yes,they were both racists.I watched both shows growing up.I loved the episode where they both met and talked shit to each other.Funny stuff.But neither had good family values,js.
All I remember is the "wait till your father gets home" part, but strangely enough I've never forgotten about this cartoon. I wish they'd bring these shows back, or put them on dvd for people to enjoy now.
I was 6 and I have dreamed of seeing it again: I can remember a Halloween Night sitting in my “Hobo” costume waiting for the dark to come and go trick-or-treating and watching WTYFGH before we were allowed to go out-and we were in the neighborhood where the Golden State Killer was murdering his victims in Goleta off Cathedral Oaks-making Halloween Xtra Scary 😱!!!!
THIS!!! I only heard the theme song twice during 1980s re-runs of this and have never forgotten it. I would randomly sing it in this squeaky high pitched voice and one day thought, 'maybe I'm making this up and there's no such thing as this theme song at all...or maybe over time I've mangled it in my memory and am singing it all wrong'. I listened to this clip with my jaw agape. HOOOOOOW is it possible to remember a one line jingle I only heard twice 40 years ago?! I love that you left the comment you did, of all the things you could have said. What is it about this tune? 😆🤔
I’m so happy I see this is on RUclips. I must have been 4 years old when I first seen this because my late sister used to sing the intro song and she sat me on the family couch to watch it with her... such fond childhood memories.. this brought a smile and a tears at the same time. I miss my sister ..this was a cartoon she loved.
I am 46 years of age, that makes me a child of the 70's. I grew up on this along with Josie and the Pussy Cats. Scoobie, Eltro Woman and Dyno Girl, Land of the Lost. and many more. My heart aches for my son in what he calls "good shows" and "good music". I remember the days when my mom would utter 'WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME" fear and trembling came over us. Now the computer is raising the kids and television is crap rather be on you tube with my memories.
beachgoddess1966 Now HR Puffnstuff is legal marijuana, or maybe cause I live in California everything is a "weed" reference. Can't you just weep for our grandchildren?
+markalan1two Am I the only one that remember H R Puff and stuff? My kid thinks I am talking about weed. You can tell we live in Los Angeles were it is now legal.
HR Puff n stuff was my all time favorite went to see the movie when it came out and I still have the collectable figures "mayor puff n stuff the two police " and don't forget the artful dogger and witchie poo
I remember when this reaired on CN around 1996/7. it was on awfully late at night but I always tried to watch any episode I could. I remember that it wasn't on for too long
Centuries before the simpsons and family guy, this was on in the evening, the theme and the situations were very 1970s. After years of saying the title tag line, i can now play it whenever i want, life is good
My Dad was director of animation on this show
Prove it
Wow that's amazing can remember this from been very young , still good
Really I love this show when I was a little girl tell him thank you for my memories
@@moonleverette5611 if you like the complete season 1 is on dvd today
He did a good job.
This brings me back to like 1995 when Cartoon Network just started and they’d put this on after the normal looney tunes block was over. That’s when I knew we stayed up past midnight. Good memories🙂
And now look at it. Nothing but the same damn cartoon made by talentless hacks, with different colors of paint.
I remember that too. I specifically remember being at my nanas house. I also remember being slightly fascinated by this show cuz it seemed like it was from another world or something
Yup. U had to stay up late in the summer time to catch this show. Memories
I have those same memories :)
Cartoon Network bought out Hanna Barbara and a few others and merged. That’s why they were able to play newer cartoons and old Toons such as looney tunes. Flinstones, wacky races, smurfs and do on
I remember watching this show when it was new and I've had this theme randomly stuck in my head for 45 years now. FINALLY I can hear it again and get it out of my head. THANK YOU!!!!!
It won't go though.. :)
Social Media ruined our relationships, but RUclips will always be out time capsule! 🤗
Me too 😂
You thought listening to this tume will get it out of your head? It will only exacerbate it! 😅
Same here. I thought I was alone.
Bicycle. Home. Dinner. This show. Bed. Crickets. Sleep.
Life was good.
That's such a great way to put things. I relate.
Yes it was.
Finn McCool what about fireflies ??
Bed Crickets!
@@ernestinemaloy6752 Yes, they were there too. Beautiful.
This was the first 'adult' cartoon shown on TV in the UK. A definite precursor to 'The Simpsons' and 'Family Guy.' I was at primary school in Glasgow, Scotland and it was shown around one o'clock in the afternoon. I recall having only ten minutes to run to school after it finished.
No, that was the Great Space Coaster.
cartoon network at nite 1994-95 everything was so much better then
I hear ya. Cartoon Network back then rocked. The shows today fall into 3 catagories. Garbage junk and crap.
No it fucking wasn't. Adult Swim is fantastic. You can see your Vietnam era cartoons on RUclips, Agnes.
i hear you
Mr. CherryCola just ur view but keep living past. Oh yea remember this show and looking back it was lame
Oh ok then
I used to watch this show "all" the time! OMG!!! The memories I had watching it after all these years. My sister, whom lives in Florida, reminded me of it. Awesome!
Classic! I was a young kid of 9 back in 1972 when this came out....great memories!
same
I watched this in the 90s when Cartoon Network first came into existence and all the shows were old. I got my younger brothers hooked on it, they still talk about it to this day :)
I was 9 too!
I was 5 and it stuck in my head for 50 years 🤯
Same. 9 years old and loved it.
I saw this show in 1972 when I was 6. That means this damn theme song has been stuck in my head for 50 years !.
I was 3 years old 1972
This show was so ahead of its time. This episode in particular the Dad gets mugged and beaten. Could you imagine a family sitcom like Flintstones or Full House where something terrible like that happens to the main character? Not only that, but his older kids hate the dad for trying to prosecute the mugger and want him to have some sort of therapy instead.
Fred Flinstone had a gambling addiction in one episode. That's way worse than being mugged.
Bmm Wtw They did have some serious episodes like when Kimmy got drunk or Stephanie’s friend was being abused at home
Right you are Giovanni Vella. Fred really got mugged and robbed near the end of this episode right after Barney and him win $2000 at the racetrack by betting $50 on a 40-1 longshot named "Saber Tooth" that winds up winning. Naturally Wilma doesn't believe Fred at the end. ;-)
Didn't this show "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" come on tv in the early 70s,like 1972?
This song is so stuck in my head,I actually love singing along with it.
Always remember this from when I started junior school. The theme always stands out and was shown on Sunday lunch time in the UK about 1972-73 before Randall and Hopkirk deceased.
Hardly anyone remembers this! I tell people about it, and they think it is one of my flashbacks! It really happened!
Every time I see Family Guy popping up on my TV I get flashbacks of this show...and yes...Tom Bosley WAS the voice of Harry Boyle! Talk about childhood memories, I am sooo ninety!
Aww never knew Tom Bosley was the voice of Harry Boyle, now it seems obvious! Such a perfect choice.
Nowadays the family is broken and the government is not helping the situation its very very important to have a father who will lookout for his daughter ❤️❤️❤️
Shoot, mom sung that familiar song, too, when I was a kid-with a leather belt driving the rhythm/percussion section.
Michael Philbert 😂😂😂
😂🤣
Is it a joke? I don't get it.
Blue Fire He was saying that he heard the same line--with some corporal punishment included.
Oh.
This cartoon just popped in my head out of nowhere the other day. I used to watch this as a kid in the 70s.
this show is so underrated. it’s very good.
I loved this cartoon. I was very young. Miss this. Thanks for the vid. Subscribed.
I remember when these episodes were first run back in the early '70s Classic stuff!
1972 to be exact.
We used to get this show here in the UK as well and every other cartoon show but this was one of my favourites so nice to hear that theme tune again still remember all the words.
NETFLIX has cloned this show.. PERFECTLY.... its called "F" is for family.
Only 6 episodes so far but they are hysterical....
Now 8 more.
That’s exactly why brought me here lol
Billy Burr. That was my thought too.
Just discovered this show today, this theme song is low key a bop 😂😂🤷🏽♂️
Watching this, I felt bad for Harry. Whenever he got mugged or delt with nudity, his family is always against him. He can't seem to win.
I was 4 when this came out. I was quite pleased with it.
I was born in 72, but do indeed remember watching this on TV, maybe as a toddler. I guess it was reruns maybe.
I was 3 when this aired, so I certainly not recall the series when it was new but discovered it in the late 70s and early 80s with re-runs. Stange series, in between another adult-oriented animated fare, like the Flinstones a decade earlier and the Simpsons on the early 90s, certainly a precursor of things to come. Definitely a social-political satire and not the standard animated series of the Saturday morning offerings. I seem to recall it being broadcast in the early evening hours in re-runs.
I’m a millennial and I remember watching this back in the 90s. I drove my parents crazy because I needed to watch it every night 🤣
Yeah CN used to play this show hella late when I shoulda been in bed lol
*HUGE* influence on Seth MacFarlance in creating Family Guy.
jpowell180
*"MINOR" INFLUENCE .*
Loved this show!
Remember watching this, The Odd Couple and Love American Style around the same time on Friday nights.
I wasted my life with my addiction to reviving the past that I went overboard until cable TV went downhill!!!!!!
I sooo remember this.. watching with my brother 😢
My earliest memory at 4 years old. I only realized it just now
I could see where Married with Children got one of their intros from with the handing out of the money. I think I was like 4 when this cartoon was around. I'm 51 now.
Nowadays many kids would get away with these behaviors, too many have NO father, NO mother.. NO adult guardian..period!
I'm old enough I use to love this cartoon. 😀
I LOVED this cartoon!
Tom Bosley's voice...
This is one of those memories you're not sure you're even remembering right, like was there really a show with this title? Is this jingle I've been singing since I was 5 actually a theme song or did I dream it up?
I was 10 when it aired originally . Sad when it ended after couple seasons.
Use to watch this as a kid in the 70s 😂
That’s awesome - love this show!
And it ended
I can't wait watch this show on MeTV Toons launch
1:12
You know it’s 1972 when your hair looks like a baseball helmet
This and Happy Days were spin-offs of Love American Style and Tom Bosley played the dad in both.
in mid 70s i was a kid and i remeber this cartoon was broadcasting in iraqi television without translation or dubbing
Watched this on Cartoon Network with my brother lol ❤❤
My mother used to sing this in the early seventies
1:06 ...wha-what happened...?
omg
Rough sex
but fun. Like riding a moped
John Smith
*R A P E .*
@@reepacheirpfirewalker8629 that was fuckin funny...moped. I havent' heard that term in years..yes the fat girl was indeed a moped
This was the first ive ever heard of this show. I need to check it out. Didnt know the father was Howard Cunningham.
It is my understanding that a lot of American shows get syndicated to Canada. It is because of a Canadian company that I have the entire series of "Gimme a Break!" on DVD. In any event, I remember hearing about cases in which "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" was syndicated as far away as Australia!
Honestly when I saw family guy I saw the inspiration right away.
This stumbled so the Simpsons and King of the Hill could take off.
This tripped so that Family Guy and later American Dad could Glide.
This dropped the ball so Bob's Burger's and F is for Family could pick it up and throw it to the End Zone.
Ah the simple days of Television (1970's) before the onslaught of Cable TV. When TV was censored, how this simple animation entertained millions during prime time, sadly it's not much compared to the animated, obnoxious Family Guy or the ever popular Simpsons. One thing for sure, these animated cartoons of the 70's, got the point across.
I never heard that. Mom took care of business herself. Dad got what was left of you when he got home.
Before F is for Family, there was this
I remember the theme song like it was yesterday
after the Flintstones/Jetsons this is one of the other prime time toons that was awsome because it had a political spin on it----remember alot of remarks about Nixon---and as a kid ya didn't pick that up. Much like Rocky and Bullwinkle---alot of puns ya get as an adult but missed or didn't get as a kid.
Jesus Christ, was that strangling joke real?? In 1972? For _television_??? How was this lost to the sands of time when it was so innovative and trailblazing for its time?! This was doing The Simpsons' shtick 19 years before they ever appeared on the Tracey Ulman show!
It was WAY too ahead of its time.
CatMaster90001
*"STRANGLING JOKE" ????*
*WHAT ABOUT THE "RAPE JOKE" @**1:05** ???*
Wait till your father gets home? What if you live in the ghetto and don't HAVE a father? "Wait till your mom's live-in boo gets home?"
There were no "live-in boo's" back in 1972; at least, none that would admit it. Of course, back then "Boo" was only either what a ghost said or what one did when they were against something.
@@WrenFaithBridger I know it's been one year later, but the Black family unit was well underway in its destruction during the 70s.
Shown in the UK before the evening news as part of Children's Programming. It's not really a children's show. I can see that now looking back. It is an adult sitcom, in the form of a cartoon. Ahead of its time, like the cartoon spin off from Rhoda about Carlton the Doorman. Great. Ideas, just about twenty years too early.
Harry=Peter
Irma=Lois
Alice=Meg
Chet=Chris
Jamie=Stewie
the dog(Whose name I can't remember right now)=Brian
I miss boomerang they use to show all the old school cartoons
The memories
The voices sounds like Fred Flintstone
Thank you
I remember this from Cartoon Network
My childhood
The cartoon before The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Family Guy.
im only 18 but this makes me nostalgic 😭
Yes, you are right.
the complete season 1 is on dvd today
I do I never missed it when it was on 72, 73, 74.
I used to watch this on Cartoon Network back in the mid 90's. I miss when they would show rare and obscure cartoons. Now it's garbage.
On another note I would love to see Family Guy do a parody of the opening
In the Family Guy theme song where it says ""But where are those good old-fashioned values....
On which we used to rely?!"
WTYFGH would be the show with the good old fashioned values.
Kevin Sanchun, I think the family guy lyrics are pointed to the All In The Family opening. Archie Bunker and Edith singing together.
@@jimlastname Yeah,Archie Bunker was a proud racist.So unless racism is considered "good old fashioned values",I beg to differ.
@@kevinsanchun2052 so was George Jefferson. But we don't talk about that...LOL....good Lord it's a TV show.
@@jimlastname Yes,they were both racists.I watched both shows growing up.I loved the episode where they both met and talked shit to each other.Funny stuff.But neither had good family values,js.
I do talk about what others avoid talking about btw.
That was my old man. Tap on the head
My mom was too young to watch this at the time, how do I know these lyrics 😂
Good memories haha...
this was made when my dad was 0
At the part when the daughter comes home from her date, I remember as a kid thinking she got beat up and that’s why she looked disheveled 😂
All I remember is the "wait till your father gets home" part, but strangely enough I've never forgotten about this cartoon. I wish they'd bring these shows back, or put them on dvd for people to enjoy now.
My Dad was director of animation on this show
I was 8 when this cartoon first came out in 1972 and i have never forgotten the tune.
I was 6 and I have dreamed of seeing it again: I can remember a Halloween Night sitting in my “Hobo” costume waiting for the dark to come and go trick-or-treating and watching WTYFGH before we were allowed to go out-and we were in the neighborhood where the Golden State Killer was murdering his victims in Goleta off Cathedral Oaks-making Halloween Xtra Scary 😱!!!!
THIS!!! I only heard the theme song twice during 1980s re-runs of this and have never forgotten it. I would randomly sing it in this squeaky high pitched voice and one day thought, 'maybe I'm making this up and there's no such thing as this theme song at all...or maybe over time I've mangled it in my memory and am singing it all wrong'. I listened to this clip with my jaw agape. HOOOOOOW is it possible to remember a one line jingle I only heard twice 40 years ago?! I love that you left the comment you did, of all the things you could have said. What is it about this tune? 😆🤔
The original Family Guy.
Lol.
+Cameron Renton I never said he was wrong.
It seems way nicer and more civil than "Family Guy".
like in the early seasons
Not nearly as crass, vulgar, cynical and militantly atheistic though.
I’m so happy I see this is on RUclips.
I must have been 4 years old when I first seen this because my late sister used to sing the intro song and she sat me on the family couch to watch it with her... such fond childhood memories.. this brought a smile and a tears at the same time. I miss my sister ..this was a cartoon she loved.
$ same sentiment my brother $
😢 es muy triste amigo se me llenaron los ojos de lagrimas al leer tu comentario que Dios la tenga en la gloria.
1972 I was 3
I’m 30 and remember watching this all the time at like 2am on Cartoon Network when I was a kid. Watching it now as an adult it’s so underrated lol.
Any other Millennials here who managed to catch this show on CN when they shoulda been in bed? 😂
Velma let herself go.
ha ha ha That's funny
FireLightning16 she has to many secret scoops snacks 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Looks good with a ponytail though.
I like her fluffy tho.
@@wishagoodfluffyhoneylovego4657 Then you have no standards. Listen to Tom Leykis.
I see a lot of people comparing this to Family Guy, seems more like 70s King of the Hill to me
Love this show! It brings back soooo many childhood memories.
if you love it the complete season 1 is on dvd today
Anything that's fun
I'm sure if we waterboarded Seth McFarland he would admit to this being a strong influence on "Family Guy"
Who is Seth McFarland?
Ill get my bucket and towels. ..are you in???
I was going to say the same thing, not the waterboarding part - but yeah.
@@vicegirlsusa You know he means Seth McFarlane, the Commie who ripped off this show and created the vile Family Guy.
You could do that to anyone to get them to lie. Not saying it would be in Seth’s case.
I was 9 years old in 72. I used to sing this song all the time. Liked the cartoon a lot.
Catchy tune🎉
I wasn't old enough to appreciate this show, but my older brother loved it.
I am 46 years of age, that makes me a child of the 70's. I grew up on this along with Josie and the Pussy Cats. Scoobie, Eltro Woman and Dyno Girl, Land of the Lost. and many more. My heart aches for my son in what he calls "good shows" and "good music". I remember the days when my mom would utter 'WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME" fear and trembling came over us. Now the computer is raising the kids and television is crap rather be on you tube with my memories.
I grew up with those cartoons that you listed. I also miss HR Puffnstuff!
beachgoddess1966 Now HR Puffnstuff is legal marijuana, or maybe cause I live in California everything is a "weed" reference. Can't you just weep for our grandchildren?
+shoeladyt i also grew up with these TV is so boring now mostly reality shows
+markalan1two Am I the only one that remember H R Puff and stuff? My kid thinks I am talking about weed. You can tell we live in Los Angeles were it is now legal.
HR Puff n stuff was my all time favorite went to see the movie when it came out and I still have the collectable figures "mayor puff n stuff the two police " and don't forget the artful dogger and witchie poo
This show is among my earliest memories when I was 3 years old.
I was 3 years old too 1972
family guy before family guy
+Thethreebrothers Before the Simpsons, too.
Except Harry Boyle wasn't a dope like homer and peter
Freezepark I'm suprised Hong Kong Phoey or Harry Boyle and family never appeared in Harvey Birdman:Attroney at Law
Freezepark
*ONLY IN THE CHARACTER DESIGNS . IT REALLY DOESN'T GO ANY FURTHER THAN THAT .*
You've just got to love the vocals on this song
This was a damn funny show but it didn’t last long. Really is too bad.
The animation sucks.
Edward Gaines this was the seventies
@@cam-edy1294 actually the super early 1980.
Robert Grant ran from 1972-1974
Ends are often important depending on how long a series is able to last
I remember when this show was on the cartoon network in the late 1980s. Seeing this show meant: "you stayed up too late. Go to bed."
Yeah.. It was my cue to go to bed. Never watched a full episode. lol
Rashaed Cartoon Network didn't exist in the 80s.
Steven Johnson 1992 I guess.
I remember when this reaired on CN around 1996/7. it was on awfully late at night but I always tried to watch any episode I could. I remember that it wasn't on for too long
Sean LoPresti Yeah I used to sneak to watch this late at night on the weekdays.
Centuries before the simpsons and family guy, this was on in the evening, the theme and the situations were very 1970s. After years of saying the title tag line, i can now play it whenever i want, life is good