parma place skits from the old 60's Ghoulardi show.... 

How did I end up here? I was watching Jeopardy the other night and the answer was something about AMRAP as it related to CrossFit. I told my wife “Hey! That’s Parma spelled backwards!” After a good laugh together, I started searching Ghoulardi and Parma Place and here I am. I didn’t remember that John cleaned the muck from Lake Erie. If you were ever on the Goodtime II in the 60’s, you would know that it would be a pretty steady job, lol. One of the comments here complained about the quality of the video. We lived in the Akron area and this is about the best we could tune in channel 8. It’s just like watching on our old RCA tv complete with the 60 cycle hum of a tube tv.

LOL...grew up watching Ghoulardi...Parma jokes are still funnier than West Virginia or Kentucky jokes....

Awesome. You had to live there to appreciate this. Parma was peeved by how this show made a stigma out of being from Parma. Euclid used to laugh at people who wore white socks saying look at those Parma socks. In general this was a spoof parody of soap operas...

That is amazing that these tapes are able to be viewed after being buried in a basement for decades. Thank you so much for posting these, and please thank your pal at channel 8 too!

Thanks so much for posting this gem! This is some funny stuff for real. Parma didn't like it,but I think it was simply a good-natured ribbing of Parma,no harm was intended or done. A lot of it was funny because it was reasonably accurate. Eventually it seems that Parma developed a sense of humor for this type of stuff,Houlihan and big Chuck had a great run in the 1970s with similar material.

OMG 😂😂😂😂😂 BRILLIANT! 😂😂😂😂😂can't stop😂😂😂😂 the piano....😂😂😂

Gold

Thanks for posting. Brought back fantastic memories.

Ahhhh...the good old days. Watching these and listening to WIXY 1260.

Thanx for showing this. I know only of Ghoulardi from Psychotronic magazine. A friend from Norway.

This was the first time I ever saw the first episode of Parma Place.

Many thanks! I was too young to watch these when they were new (I was like, 1 year old) but I have been hearing about them for years.

You will notice that on the last episode here that there is no PARMA PLACE logo on the title card. By this time, the skits had made such a stink in Parma that management came down on Ernie and forbade him from ever mentioning the place again. Ernie sort of got around it by constantly referencing polkas, Polish food, and playing Frankie Yankovic's 'Who Stole the Kishka'.

These are episodes 1,3,8 and 10 of Parma Place-the only episodes that Big Chuck was in. I wonder if the other episodes were recorded and preserved at all.

Chuck told me they did 13 of these originally. Always wondered if they actually ran all of them, given the series was axed by the station.

Thank you so much for posting this.

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! STAY SICK!!

We need to see some pink flamingos!!!!

This was great! Thank you!!!

"Now that's good muck."

An entire suburb had their feelings hurt, so this segment on Ghoulardi was scrapped. I don't believe it.

Stay Sick!

The radio that Chuck turns on at 25:55 looks like an iPhone!

I'm pretty sure Ghoulardi was kicked off of Toledo television when he blew up a live rat with a fire cracker

How can he be in Parma without white socks?

You should send these to someone who can remaster them...there is things out there to remove that noise and boost audio and video quality

Parma???!!!