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Okay, as of right now, there is no Ernie
Kovacs Fan
Club. Really? Hard to believe.
This was a question many
many people wrote in about since this site was launched in 1996...and
still
ask about. Edie Adams made a few
attempts to get one off the ground over the years (anyone have one of
the T-shirts? with Ernie's driver's license on the back?) but it
has not quite
ever,
er...gotten off the ground. We hosted a subscriber mail-list that
a fan had set up for a while some years ago, but it kind of unravelled
after a year or
two.
Ernie had his own ersatz fanclub during the early 1950s, the Early
Eyeball Fraternal Marching Society, or E.E.F.M.S. Many fans (and
members) still have their E.E.F.M.S. membership cards. The notion
came from the fact that Ernie's first show, "Three to Get Ready"
(1951-53, on WPTZ, a local NBC affiliate in Philadelphia) aired from
7:00-9:00am Monday to Friday. Well, it was pretty early for Ernie.
Luckily this internet
thing
has really caught on and since 2006 sites
like MySpace, Facebook and Blogger have provided ways for online folk
to stay in touch with each other and get Kovacs news etc. Below
are links to the Ernie Kovacs blog — which I write along with Al
Quagliata — as well as a Facebook fan page for Ernie Kovacs:
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Did
you know there was an E.E.F.M.S. song? A fan from Nyack, NY
remembers the lyrics and e-mailed them in to the Kovacs Lost &
Found here at the website. Hum along, you early eyeballers you
(to the tune of "our alma mater"):
"Hail to thee oh EEFMS
members
Be so brave and strong
From warm July to
cold December
Sing our EEFMS song
EEFMS Oh EEFMS
EEFMS Oh EEFMS
We say this now with
no misgiving
If you're not EEFMS
you're not living"
An EEFMS card issued during the run of
"Kovacs Unlimited" on CBS (1953-54):
- My alarm goes off before the neighborhood
rooster starts his warm-up
- I have an aunt named Albert
- I wil never raise seahorses or kohlrabi
for profit without permission of the president
- I have at least one uncle who habitually
smokes a hookah
- My father can lick your father
- When in kindergarten (in my youth) I
received a straight "A" in "sandpile"
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