If you grew up with this show, you probably remember the chaos. 🙂 Celebrating Soupy Sales, born January 8, 1926. Soupy, along with White Fang and Black Tooth, brought a kind of joyful mayhem to kids’ TV that felt completely spontaneous and unscripted — the puppets, the pies, the crazy jokes… and even the crew laughing off camera. I loved that show growing up! Side note: I once met Soupy Sales when I was working as a cashier and he was buying something (can’t remember what it was). But - I do re

A lot of folks don’t realize that Soupy Sales had deep Appalachian roots as he was born in good ol’ West Virginia. Before the pie fights, the goofy voices, and the wild TV antics that made him famous, he came from the same hills that have produced storytellers and characters for generations. That quick wit and charm seems pretty Appalachian to me. Sometimes the holler sends its best humor straight to national television. Do y’all remember Soupy Sales? This clip shows him taking a pie to the face