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TV NEWS
ROOTIE KAZOOTIE IS A ROOTER KAZOOTER
The importance of being Rootie is becoming more and more evident, as ABCTV's mighty lilliputian, Rootie Kazootie, exerts increasing influence among the vast audience of knee-pants devotees who view his beguiling antics each Saturday at noon, via Channel Six. Since he first brought his impish personality to the TV screen, Rootie has created quite a stir among the future citizens of America. His offices in New York receive an average of 32,000 letters a week. Rootie need only request that his "Rooters" drop him a note, and protests are echoed by weary mailmen all over the country. To test Rootie's pull, the program's producers decided to try ONE announcement on ONE weekday show, specifying that a dime would bring all senders a badge and membership card to the Rootie Kazootie Club. The resultant deluge consisted of over thirty thousand requests from Metropolitan New York alone. Last year a New York department store staged a storewide hunt for the polka dots lost by Rootie's girl friend, Polka Dottie. The outcome of the idea saw fifteen thousand tots scampering through the store in an effort to rescue Dottie from her dilemma. During the first four days of the interim when the program was switched from NBC to the American Broadcasting Company network, over twenty-three thousand letters, telegrams, and postcards were received appealing to Rootie to hurry back. The Rootie Kazootie craze is spreading. Kids have adopted the Rootie Kazootie language ("yesirootie," "nosirootie," "gosharootie," etc.); a Boy Scout Troop has a Rootie Kazootie Patrol; television comedians are building skits around Kootie's [sic] adventures. In his many roles,` Rootie is a cowboy, a baseball player, space explorer, a gay caballero and many more. At this rate, that man Kazootie may even be our next president-oops, presidenterootie. All pictures on this site
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