Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down was a 1970 animated showcase for various caricatured Jerry Lewis characters, all based on characters from the Lewis film, The Family Jewels and styled in a fashion similar to Archie's TV Funnies and the Groovie Goolies; the title was a variant of the deciding question on the game show To Tell the Truth: "Will the real __________ please stand up?". Like most Saturday morning animated series of the era, Wil...
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Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down was a 1970 animated showcase for various caricatured Jerry Lewis characters, all based on characters from the Lewis film, The Family Jewels and styled in a fashion similar to Archie's TV Funnies and the Groovie Goolies; the title was a variant of the deciding question on the game show To Tell the Truth: "Will the real __________ please stand up?". Like most Saturday morning animated series of the era, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down contained an adult laugh track.
As with all of their wilder comedies, such as those mentioned above and later shows like Uncle Croc's Block and The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Filmation stuffed the episodes with slapstick jokes, and the rubbery, gangly animated version of Lewis was well realised. Among the caricatured characters were Chinese detective Hong Kong Flewis and his rotund son, One Ton Son; Professor Lewis, and his sister Geraldine (and her pet frog, Spot). In the series, Jerry worked for the...
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