One can't say he isn't giving his all. I got the Rifftrax of this special so I saw the whole thing, and I feel like the man is trying his best to make a very small (low budget, limited script) production work.
One can't say he isn't giving his all. I got the Rifftrax of this special so I saw the whole thing, and I feel like the man is trying his best to make a very small (low budget, limited script) production work.
Thank you for making this! I keep asking my parents to show me this and rent the Rifftrax of this when I visit (I live out of the country) because John Bilyeu was my grandpa! Gonna watch this and show my husband how my grandpa was kinda a big deal. I wish the two could have met... UPDATE: oh my god, hearing him speak made me tear up. Damn.
@@cottontail1039 being unconscious may seem like a tempting option to escape the mental scars but I wouldn’t recommend it because that’s how you end up dead
The best cure for bronchitis - stick the sick kid in a thin circus costume and put her in a fever dream of a stage setting with a bunch of other kids to infect.
Same reason how a talented stage play performer can ended up looking like an over-the-top pretentious actor when he shifts himself to acting in movies I suppose.
I wonder if clowns have a higharchy? Like are circus clowns at the top? Childrens birthday party clowns are trash? What about scary clowns? I have many clown related questions.
Thanks for this. Frank Wiziarde was iconic in the Midwest. I remember seeing this and it is surely cringey but fun. 1966 seems like a long time ago. The kids were from Johnny Miller Dance Studio. And this was completely local.
The RIFFTRAX take on this is hilarious. Prefaced by a terrible Xmas short about creepy Christmas trees with human faces (made by a group of French mimes - something that should never happen).
9:08 Todd Philips saw that scene and thought "you know what ima use that for my movie, only its gonna be less creepy and people are gonna feel bad for Arthur and not the kids"
Sorry Snob but there are still plenty of onesies left to wear. New Year's onesie, Valentine's onesie, Easter onesie (looking forward to those bunny ears!) and many many more. Now go slip into something less comfortable and make us laugh!!
i was in Belize in 1989 and they aired US tv. - Bozo the Clown was on every week.. omg the "magic" of clowns was dead by 1970... how the hell did he last so long into the century..?
I'm from Missouri. Never heard of Whizzo the Clown before, but I grew up around people who talked with the same mannerisms and inflections he does. It's actually kind of nice to hear something like that again, even if it is through the vessel of a hell-spawn 1960s children's entertainment program.
These are my favorite types of things for Snob to review, the weird, fever dream-esque public access nightmares, like Fun in Balloonland, which never fails to make me laugh.
Tommy Deonauth's Archives If you’re familiar with RiffTrax.com done by former MST3k members, they did their take on this movie a few years ago. I personally got a kick out of their riffs on this. But of course I enjoy Snob’s version as well.
Thinking back, children's entertainment shows were pretty horrifying in the 60s. I don't think people really noticed it because everything was weird in the 60s. Tiny Tim didn't really seem that unusual in that era.
Frank Wiziarde sounds like a comic character's name that would become a supervillain with the name something Wizard. Probably a speedster called Whizzing Wizard.
I grew up in Topeka and remember Whizzo on tv from KC although I had never seen this. We also had another local clown show around this time in Topeka called "Bumpo" the clown portrayed by Gordon Jump who you may remember as "Mr. Carlson" from WKRP in Cincinnati and later in commercials as the Maytag repair man.
I'm kind of disappointed that Mrs.Velma and Whizzo never made a movie together. It would have made the nightmares of young children for decades to come. 😥
@@jacksongibbs8998 Omg and maybe even have the child eating monsters from Little Red Riding Hood and the monsters for good measure. It's a cannibal pedophilic nightmare for every child in radius.
I don't know. Whizzo the Clown seems more... wholesome compared to the dystopia of Balloonland and the madness of Miss Velma. Just a guy who's been a performer his whole life and wants to entertain kids.
Oh this isnt to bad Snob between being abducted by Kirk Cameron and a CGI Tom Hanks on the polar express it looks fairly safe with a clown named Whizzo. 22 minutes later oh i understand now. I would like to extend warm christmas greetings to everyone in the large Stoned Gremlin family and all supporters of the channel.
So Fun in balloon land, Velma and those past ones have all been genuinely horrifying and insane and seem to serve no purpose to anyone, but this... I dunno, there is some endearing qualities here. I'm not a fan of clowns just as much as the next guy but I mean, he seems perfectly serviceable. CS's quips are still hilarious as always, but this guy, not as *fucking insaaane* as the others.
I saw the Rifftrax guys do this. It's bad, but about what you'd expect from a Kansas City local UHF program. I can't really diss on it. Although that poor kid that sounded like she had bronchitis or something.
Me and my older sister was on the local "Ramblin' Rod Show" in Portland, Oregon in 1975. I think I was 4 and started crying at some point, think I lost a game and didnt get a prize . Damn local tv network entertainers and clowns that once corrupted the airwaves.
If you were a kid before 1973 or so there was the "Saturday Matinee" nothing like the high dollar award winning stuff kids have now. Achingly bad live action crap with bad costumes, horrible "furry" mascots in big fake heads, dreadful low budget animation. Think Pinocchio in Outer Space. Non acting "actors" "Special effects" that insulted a tube worm, and no perceptible story. As often as not imported from other countries for nearly nothing, and dubbed with incredible ineptitude. It was assumed that kids went to the movies to run around and throw popcorn, and that we would watch any sort of crap that was up on the screen. This formula worked for the 50's and the 60's, but thankfully was pretty solidly dead by 1975.
The atrocious dubs of Pippi Longstocking were sort of the last vestige of this kind of thing. By the 70s we'd moved on to disturbing freak-out animation by acid burnouts (Hugo the Hippo, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, etc.)
@@crimsondynamo615 When Rifftrax did this one a few years back, they made the same gun shot comment after the camera panned away. It just calls for it. It's like the perfect reaction
As much of a bad wrap clowns get. Wizzo does seem to genuinely want to entertain. Not nearly as freaky as King Neptune in balloon land.
wants to entertain you right into his dungeon.
brandon roberts people said same thing about John Wayne Gacy
Wizzo reminds me of the clown from Uncle Buck
Art The Clown agrees.
One can't say he isn't giving his all. I got the Rifftrax of this special so I saw the whole thing, and I feel like the man is trying his best to make a very small (low budget, limited script) production work.
Watching Wizzo is exhausting but hilarious. He talks non stop from the start of the movie till the end.
He's like the Micro Machines guy.
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One can't say he isn't giving his all. I got the Rifftrax of this special so I saw the whole thing, and I feel like the man is trying his best to make a very small (low budget, limited script) production work.
Also I refuse to believe that Fun in ballonland and this movie are not happening simultaneously.
I do believe that Wizzo's Wonderland and the set of Batpussy is the same
@@Kocktail1 batpussy 2 was going to be about her doing foot fetish shit with whizzo
with a comeo from Tim Ormond of The Burningh Hell fame, after he was told, it was just another Estus Pirkle production.
@@crimsondynamo615 Are the feet stepping in shit? Asking for a friend.
That's so gay. ;)
my pops grew up in MO and i've heard all about whizzo. dad still knows the theme song.
10:07 "Give that damn kid a cough drop! Whizzo is trying to speak here!"😁
Take parts of this special, put them over some nuclear bomb tests, add a filter and boom, Rob Zombie music video.
That I can do.
@@dragonempress8367 When we gonna see it?
That makes to much sense
@@dragonempress8367 liar I checked your entire channel and the only thing I found was Steven universe cringe
"Tom Servo's Overweight Aunt" made me damn near choke on an Oreo. That joke was worth it.
And then he curled up under a blanket for 27 years before returning to Derry, Maine to feast on more kids' terror!
THIS is the Clown that is haunting Pennywise in his dreams
THE END!
That last shot looks like Whizzo is going to cry himself to sleep. Just like every Christmas.
"And as Wizzo left sight of the camera, a single shot rang out, and all was silent." Mike Nelson. from Rifftrax.
Turns out this was the episode where Snob really reviews The Day The Clown Cried
Thank you for making this! I keep asking my parents to show me this and rent the Rifftrax of this when I visit (I live out of the country) because John Bilyeu was my grandpa! Gonna watch this and show my husband how my grandpa was kinda a big deal. I wish the two could have met... UPDATE: oh my god, hearing him speak made me tear up. Damn.
Was he actually whizzo? How cool!
@@sianjones7167 no, he played Santa in this
That little elf girl totally smashes her face into that doorknob, right around 16:50...
It’s as great to see as in Willy Wonka when that girl gets decked by that rising counter during the candy man sing
Well, I would ask my friend to knock me out if we were stuck in some place with a scary clown.
@@cottontail1039 being unconscious may seem like a tempting option to escape the mental scars but I wouldn’t recommend it because that’s how you end up dead
@@crimsondynamo615 now I have to check that out
"Did you survive Fun in Balloonland? Well you're not making it out of Whizzo's Wonderland alive or at least sober "
Yes, the snob did indeed say that......whats your fucking point???
(To be read in snobs voice.....lol)
I expected Whizzo to pull a gun out and shoot Santa during a horrible joke.
How bout a joke Santa?
FIDDLESPRUM!
*bang*
@@alexdionisos I laughed too hard at this. Maybe Whizzo can be funny after all...oh, the horror.
I laughed *waaay* longer then I was supposed ta :)
That would have been killer..
I remember seeing this on Rifftrax. The poor girl would not stop coughing, and man was it funny.
"The rattling is in BOTH my lungs now!"
The best cure for bronchitis - stick the sick kid in a thin circus costume and put her in a fever dream of a stage setting with a bunch of other kids to infect.
That's where I saw it too!
@@Clay3613 same here.
Oh yeah, that caught my ear, too. LOL
Oh my god... This guy has roots in the CIRCUS? He knows what it means to be a REAL CLOWN? How the flying dutchman did it come out THIS BAD?
Same reason how a talented stage play performer can ended up looking like an over-the-top pretentious actor when he shifts himself to acting in movies I suppose.
@@GlassesnMouthplates A master of one format bombing in another because the requirements of different formats are themselves different?
I wonder if clowns have a higharchy? Like are circus clowns at the top? Childrens birthday party clowns are trash? What about scary clowns? I have many clown related questions.
@@Lazysupermutant
That's a very good question... There's no denying that Wrinkles the Clown may be the most famous clown-for-hire today. lol
@@Bobsheaux ......... well we had a god once... but a damn cop popped his nose with his badge
Yup, Whizzo went into hibernation... for 27 years.
*"I guess I'll just have to go practice my banj-"*
Merry late Christmas, cartoon devil thing. :)
11:28 nothing like a Halloween III reference in my 60’s Christmas movie review!
"All Christmases in the future have been canceled". Brad. You did this to us.
Can't sleep. Clown will eat me. Can't sleep. Clown will eat me. Can't sleep,...
Ahhh poor Bart :(
That could be a fun tree house of horror, modern It remake vs Joker as a two parter
*HELLO JOE!*
@@crimsondynamo615 as long as the clown isnt going to eat us
7:32 You can buy the rerelease of “Whizzo Dust” in select Rust Belt cities near you.
The Rifftrax on this and Balloon Land are great, even if I have to sit through those movies and have nightmares later
I'll give Whizzo this: I'd rather watch this Christmas special than most of the others Snob's dug up.
At least the clown is trying and looks like he's having fun.
That one kid is texting during the old "my foots gone" gag... almost 50 years before smartphones were even invented.
Sigh. Kids those days. Always on their mobile telegraph machines.
This movie brakes time and space
Thanks for this. Frank Wiziarde was iconic in the Midwest. I remember seeing this and it is surely cringey but fun. 1966 seems like a long time ago.
The kids were from Johnny Miller Dance Studio. And this was completely local.
Tell me about it. '85 feels like forever, I can only imagine how '66 feels
The Frank Miller Dance school??
Completely loco, agreed.
;)
All I want for Christmas is Cinema Snobbery!
Whizzo: I could've been the frontman for Insane Clown Possie, but no I had to be a kids entertainer
The Snob doing Whizzo? Now we've got that to worry about.
I find this less creepy than Fun in Balloonland, probably because there was no Sea King or nightmarish balloon monsters.
Yeah, plus Whizzo seems like he's genuinely friendly, and doing his best with what he has.
Sea King escaped to One Punch Man.
GTS: Great Teacher Scathach YOU ARE WELCOME HERE
Both coincidentally covered by Rifftrax on their Twitch channel.
The lobster was the best character in the whole thing.
The RIFFTRAX take on this is hilarious. Prefaced by a terrible Xmas short about creepy Christmas trees with human faces (made by a group of French mimes - something that should never happen).
" Santa's Christmas'... "
*LET ME STOP YOU RIGHT THERE!*
See? I told you that all that hysteria surrounding Joker was justified, but none of you listened to me!
And now clowns are abducting children to allegedly take them to Santa! What has the world come to?
9:08 Todd Philips saw that scene and thought "you know what ima use that for my movie, only its gonna be less creepy and people are gonna feel bad for Arthur and not the kids"
Sorry Snob but there are still plenty of onesies left to wear. New Year's onesie, Valentine's onesie, Easter onesie (looking forward to those bunny ears!) and many many more.
Now go slip into something less comfortable and make us laugh!!
Little known fact there was a nation wide outage of speed in December of 66 because Whizzo did all of it before taping this special.
So I only got familiar with this was through Rifftrax, but enjoyed your little history of the guy. What a trip!
If It Chapter 2 took inspiration from this Christmas special we would have gotten a much scarier sequel
Huh, this Joker remake turned out weirder then I expected.
It's the Joker Christmas special.
Nice to see Triumph the insult comic dog's grandpa.
More like his great great great great great great grandpa.
He seems much nicer than Triumph.
Whizzo, the clown you hire when Bozo thinks he's too good for your production.
I was going to say hes like Bozo's drunk cousin.
i was in Belize in 1989 and they aired US tv. - Bozo the Clown was on every week.. omg the "magic" of clowns was dead by 1970... how the hell did he last so long into the century..?
1966 my mom was in high school and my dad was serving in Vietnam.
I'm going to guess your dad didn't see this then.
@@dubuyajay9964 I have no idea but probably not.
My dad was born in ‘66, and my mom wasn’t even born yet.
Brad's clown 'hyuck-hyuck-hyuck' impression is both hilarious and terrifying lol.
The weird thing is I just watched the rifftrax version of this
Tis the Season?
This is one of the funniest episodes you've done, imo.
And your Whizzo laugh is beyond great. XD
I'm from Missouri. Never heard of Whizzo the Clown before, but I grew up around people who talked with the same mannerisms and inflections he does. It's actually kind of nice to hear something like that again, even if it is through the vessel of a hell-spawn 1960s children's entertainment program.
I hate that they cut the potential storyline about the dog puppet practicing his "banj."
It was guitar lesson first, but my immediate reaction to that was, "You don't have fingers!"
Sure he does. They're just all in his head.
These are my favorite types of things for Snob to review, the weird, fever dream-esque public access nightmares, like Fun in Balloonland, which never fails to make me laugh.
Those kids look like they're trying to enjoy their last meal before execution. By the looks on their faces.
The sequel to Santa’s Christmas Elf (Named Calvin) is going in a lot of really weird directions but at least there’s MOTION!
Is it just me, or does Frank Wiziardi's voice bears a strong resemblance to Paul Winchell. (Tigger, Dick Dastardly, Gargamel, etc.)
I swear every time Wiziardi talks, I keep hearing Tigger.
17:44 hey that’s the toy from the boomerang bumpers
Boomerang, it's all coming back to you.
20:14 Been watching you for years, so I know your humor, but the gunshot still surprised the hell out of me.
I feel like we need Joker references here.
“All I have are negative thoughts.”
*"YOU'LL FLOAT TOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"*
Now, we need a Whizzo The Clown & CATS crossover.
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Or maybe we don't...
Well I for one am inspired and have found my true calling. From now on, call me Pisso the Clown.
Skele-clown?
I've officially been watching Snob for over 6 years! Merry Xmas, Snob.
This, Ballonland and Santa clause meets the Ice Cream bunny would make a scary triple bill!
How do you find these things?
It’s amazing what people throw away.
Cinema Snob is a wizard.
Tommy Deonauth's Archives If you’re familiar with RiffTrax.com done by former MST3k members, they did their take on this movie a few years ago. I personally got a kick out of their riffs on this.
But of course I enjoy Snob’s version as well.
Rifftrax mocked this and it was hilarious, so I'm glad the Snob is also covering the film.
Kitty! X3
If ever I had a Christmas wish ....it would have to be watching Cinema Snob on RLM's Best of the Worst.
Or Rifftrax!
We can always dream :)
9:10 missed joker 2019 reference there =P
Thinking back, children's entertainment shows were pretty horrifying in the 60s. I don't think people really noticed it because everything was weird in the 60s. Tiny Tim didn't really seem that unusual in that era.
Frank Wiziarde sounds like a comic character's name that would become a supervillain with the name something Wizard. Probably a speedster called Whizzing Wizard.
I grew up in Topeka and remember Whizzo on tv from KC although I had never seen this.
We also had another local clown show around this time in Topeka called "Bumpo" the clown portrayed by Gordon Jump who you may remember as "Mr. Carlson" from WKRP in Cincinnati and later in commercials as the Maytag repair man.
I'm kind of disappointed that Mrs.Velma and Whizzo never made a movie together. It would have made the nightmares of young children for decades to come. 😥
You mean dreams of small children for decades to come
No, the perfect combination terrifying Christmas specials would be Whizzo plus Miss Velma... in Balloonland.
@@jacksongibbs8998 Omg and maybe even have the child eating monsters from Little Red Riding Hood and the monsters for good measure. It's a cannibal pedophilic nightmare for every child in radius.
@@alwaysme_t
And off course, there’s the twist ending...
“SHUT THAT DOOR!”
3:10 "Take your damn cocaine!"😆
I don't know. Whizzo the Clown seems more... wholesome compared to the dystopia of Balloonland and the madness of Miss Velma.
Just a guy who's been a performer his whole life and wants to entertain kids.
Agreed, and I'm glad "dystopja of Baloonland" is now a phrase.
Early Krusty the Clown episodes are very depressing.
Yes whizzo, a clown that even pennywise whould say “yeah I need you to stand way over there”.
Omg I look forward every year to a weird christmas video from you....NOW its Christmas 😁
Oh this isnt to bad Snob between being abducted by Kirk Cameron and a CGI Tom Hanks on the polar express it looks fairly safe with a clown named Whizzo. 22 minutes later oh i understand now. I would like to extend warm christmas greetings to everyone in the large Stoned Gremlin family and all supporters of the channel.
I wonder if Whizzo is ever asked for pics of his feet.
Oh jeez OH JEEZ
Quentin Tarantino wishes he could have made a movie that’s just Whizzo’s feet
I was afraid it was going to be the “Wizzo” from the Chicago Area Bozo Show. Glad it’s not, and thanks for the reference. ;)
This one doodys on the film in a whole different way
Thumbnail Brad’s facial expression was my reaction when I scrolled and read the title of this video just now.
Hmmmm, can’t tell if I should make a it reference or a joker reference.
You could throw a bit of a curve with “I’m the Joker Baby”
Yes.
So Fun in balloon land, Velma and those past ones have all been genuinely horrifying and insane and seem to serve no purpose to anyone, but this... I dunno, there is some endearing qualities here. I'm not a fan of clowns just as much as the next guy but I mean, he seems perfectly serviceable. CS's quips are still hilarious as always, but this guy, not as *fucking insaaane* as the others.
Kind of in the same boat lol. This guy at least...means well.
Do they make this in Technicolor? I guess that was the HD of the 1960s.
BLOODY POND LIVES i man i miss technicolar
Yeah. I suppose “Technicolor” used to mean red, green, white and absolutely NO other colors. 😅
Nah, nothing can top the absolutely nightmarish scenes of Fun In Balloonland.
"And then the kids were turned into Animatronics."
Whizzo is the man behind the slaughter?
At the end Whizzo converted himself in alien cocoon.
I thought that 21:54 he was going to say "that if you like Santa's Christmas Circus, you will be added to a Watchlist."
Whizzo sounds like uncle Pecos. Jerry’s uncle from Tom and Jerry
I just realized at 15:04 there's a gun by Santa's feet. A Rifle. Whyyyyyyyyyyy?
Well, he's fallen down drunk, so...
Yeah I'm with Rob on this one. I am never sleeping again.
nah, you'll sleep again at some point
Godzilla Guy and that’s when the clown shall attack
We all float down here 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
Basically, Whizzo is a bad Red Skelton impersonation in clown makeup.
Best Christmas ever! I got "Another Cinema Snob Movie" in the mail yesterday. And bonus: it's also a better clown movie.
Is it me or does Whizzo sound a lot like Paul Winchell?
I was thinking the exact same thing!
gotta love an xmas clown
Especially not a murderous one like Mister J.
ThatMissQuin Christmas Clowns, so classic.
I can tell you love clowns
@@dragonempress8367 What gave it away?
I saw the Rifftrax guys do this. It's bad, but about what you'd expect from a Kansas City local UHF program. I can't really diss on it. Although that poor kid that sounded like she had bronchitis or something.
This show was actually on a VHF TV station in Kansas City, MO (KMBC-TV, Ch. 9).
Me and my older sister was on the local "Ramblin' Rod Show" in Portland, Oregon in 1975. I think I was 4 and started crying at some point, think I lost a game and didnt get a prize . Damn local tv network entertainers and clowns that once corrupted the airwaves.
Legend has it that this played on a loop in John Wayne Gacy's cell....
Ah, every year I hope he'll review Christmas Evil, and every year he manages to find something more terrifying.
"Snakes....er Clowns. Why did it have to be Clowns?"
If you were a kid before 1973 or so there was the "Saturday Matinee" nothing like the high dollar award winning stuff kids have now. Achingly bad live action crap with bad costumes, horrible "furry" mascots in big fake heads, dreadful low budget animation. Think Pinocchio in Outer Space. Non acting "actors" "Special effects" that insulted a tube worm, and no perceptible story. As often as not imported from other countries for nearly nothing, and dubbed with incredible ineptitude. It was assumed that kids went to the movies to run around and throw popcorn, and that we would watch any sort of crap that was up on the screen. This formula worked for the 50's and the 60's, but thankfully was pretty solidly dead by 1975.
The atrocious dubs of Pippi Longstocking were sort of the last vestige of this kind of thing. By the 70s we'd moved on to disturbing freak-out animation by acid burnouts (Hugo the Hippo, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, etc.)
Say that to LAND OF THE LOST and Rankin and Bass
@@nils-olofohman1079 oh yeah. I remember them well!
@@TheRealNormanBates The land of the lost looked like gone with the wind compared to this crap.
Not gonna lie, that gunshot effect actually spooked me.
Would you honestly be surprised if this ended with Whizzo committing suicide and the camera panned away so you wouldn’t see it
@@crimsondynamo615 When Rifftrax did this one a few years back, they made the same gun shot comment after the camera panned away. It just calls for it. It's like the perfect reaction
Was every 60-70's Christmas special a found-footage of a secret cult activity?
10:58- "And this has been 'What If It Exploded!' hosted by me, Lloyd."
Marshall Brodien's years outside Chicago were fucking weird.
Merry Christmas brad&your beautiful Wife. 💖🎄
I can't tell if this was filmed with a two-color coloring process like real old Technicolor films or if the blue faded away from age lol