Ben Model presents "Kovacsland Online!": the internet's first Ernie Kovacs fansite (est. 1996)

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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:
 
kovacs on facebook

Kovacs blog



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):
eefms
  1. My alarm goes off before the neighborhood rooster starts his warm-up
  2. I have an aunt named Albert
  3. I wil never raise seahorses or kohlrabi for profit without permission of the president
  4. I have at least one uncle who habitually smokes a hookah
  5. My father can lick your father
  6. When in kindergarten (in my youth) I received a straight "A" in "sandpile"


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