What’s happening now, is that people who saw him when they were younger have families, and people are saying to him, “This is our bonding time.” You know, since he’s been there [Detroit] the last time, people keep e-mailing: “When are you getting back on TV?”. Ron always, always had some surprise for them. [16] In an October 2017 interview with Metro Times Jarrett Koral, he stated how he gets ready for a show: "smoke a good kielbasa," further remarking that "smoking a kielbasa will take you to places Steppenwolf never imagined on his magic carpet ride." $1.00 each . Come on back up there.’ OK. When he moved to the country, he started to just make fun of ... “Hey, well I’m glad I don’t live in Parma!” His engineer then would hit this polka music, and Ernie thought that was hysterical, because Parma has mainly Polish people. Ron and the Ghoul crew were planning the day’s taping, which included, “The Watermelon Bit.”, “We can’t blow it up inside. © 2020 Ron Sweed, has died", "Ron 'The Ghoul' Sweed, legendary TV personality, has passed away", "Legendary Cleveland television personality Ron 'The Ghoul' Sweed passes away", "TV personality and legend Ron 'The Ghoul' Sweed dies", "Late-night TV horror host Ron 'The Ghoul' Sweed dead at age 70", "For horror host 'the Ghoul,' every day is Halloween", "Cleveland icon 'The Ghoul' dies 5 months after suffering heart attack", "Legendary Cleveland horror host Ron 'The Ghoul' Sweed has died", https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGhoul/ Facebook group dedicated to Mr. Sweed, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Sweed&oldid=973315309, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 15:13.
"Snort a couple blobs of Cheez Whiz. "Those movies he shows have been around so long that anyone who hasn't seen them by the time they get passed on to The Ghoul's show must've had the TV set off for 10 years," one reader complained to Bettelou Peterson, the Free Press TV writer.
… It doesn’t happen. Some Detroiters remember those crazy days when you actually chose to stay home just to see what that pierogi-wielding nut would do next.
Ernie Anderson lived in Parma for a while, and he hated his neighbors. By the mid-â80s, The Ghoul had blown up his last pierogi, though he continued to do occasional live performances. var script = document.createElement('script'); There were no appearances where no one showed up.”. Your wacky turn blue King and Leader of Cleveland Late Night. “It’s all bottom line.
He said: ‘Nah. Maybe that’s what Detroit is attracted to. [10], "Shooting from no-budget studio sets, the Ghoul inserted his own dialogue and sound effects over insufferably bad B movies, blew up food, model cars and figurines with firecrackers, and produced strangely compelling, culturally relevant skits and parodies. })(); Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox. So Sweed appropriated Ghoulardi’s costume and became the Ghoul in 1971. He also used to do spooky things in the basement. I was supplied with guest earplugs and a sheet of Plexiglas to shield myself. Ron was on the inside of the house by this time and we had to get him out!
And the rest of you missed so much. In a 2017 interview, he didn’t seem to regret the fact that his television career was over. With that blessing, Sweed took "The Ghoul" to Cleveland's Kaiser Broadcasting station WKBF-TV in 1971. So there I am in the gorilla suit, and he comes on.
But you know what, the other thing is that people are so polite and patient. Sweed became Ghoulardi’s personal assistant. Matousek:It’s just been amazing to me. “I'm doing an appearance. ", From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Froggy_the_Gremlin&oldid=980694536, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Froggy appears on the fictional television series, This page was last edited on 27 September 2020, at 22:37. And whenever a character took a drink of something on-screen, The Ghoul would supply a good, loud belch. [3], In 1963, 13-year-old Sweed and his friends went to an afternoon matinee of “Dr. And so we took the bus to Euclid Beach, and it wasn’t a bus driver with a sense of humor. Greg Russell produces and hosts “Positively Detroit,” a monthly special on WB 20 in connection with Detroit’s 300th Birthday. There’s never, never been a problem with people waiting in line for the Ghoul. All the kids are screaming, throwing popcorn at the Frankenstein Monster. I was only gonna do Froggy one time. We weren’t very kind 13-year-olds … Then the show was over, so we took this short-cut home which was through a back alley. “Local things always work, can work, clearly.
Guernsey Farms Dairy Family Style Restaurant. So there’s the Thriller [roller coaster] on one side, and the Laugh in the Dark, and constructed right in the middle was a pretty elaborate stage. [3] Sweed would put on shows for the neighborhood kids with the marionettes. Although the Ghoul may rant and rave about this and that, he’s never mean-spirited, never comes from a dark place. He told me this, and kids would come up to me and say, “Is Ringo Starr really gonna be at your house?” I said, “Would I lie?” That’s all I’d say. Detroit and Cleveland match up suburb per suburb, and the people are so much alike.
He says Sweed wasn’t the only local personality having trouble staying on the air back in the ’80s. ", "Holy Parma", "Amrap" and Froggy's "Hiya gang, hiya hiya hiya!") Alan Frank, president of Post-Newsweek Stations Inc., which include Detroit’s WDIV-TV, may not have grown up with the Ghoul, but he sees other problems. Film flew everywhere. Froggy, the Frog Prince, was originally a character on the popular kids show “Buster Brown” back in the ’50’s.
And then, Sweed hauled out the firecrackers. He would never appear out of costume, which gave him the option of traveling about town freely without being harassed by exuberant fans. Ghoulardi was played by Ernie Anderson, who was the hottest thing going on Cleveland TV in the 1960s. People loved Froggy. Froggy was a troublemaker. Each week, he would appear as a latter-day beatnik in fright wig, lab coat, fake goatee, and wacky eyeglasses, and unleash a string of junior-high gags. He was huge, he’s just fabulous, and so I figured he’s gotta notice me, OK. It was spectacle.
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CLEVELAND — Legendary Cleveland TV personality Ron ‘The Ghoul’ Sweed passed away Monday evening following a heart attack several months ago, according to his ex-wife.
Froggy made regular appearances on The Ghoul Show in which he was more often the victim of the host's pranks rather than the initiator of the same. The late, great, Ernie Anderson became one of the highest paid voiceover talents in Hollywood back in the ’70s and ’80s, the well-known voice of ABC’s The Love Boat, and America’s Funniest Home Videos. The judge ruled that no infringement occurred, as most horror show hosts portrayed the same basic character - a ghoulish individual who pranced about in costume, performed comedy routines, and showed horror movies. He was 70.
Embryos. King, when she was 17, and she was 18 when they married. He wasn’t afraid to laugh at himself or the films he was doomed to show, “improving” them with sound effects and inserted dialogue.
They were married for 14 years. She fell in love with the man first.
But Sweed could only duplicate his fame in Detroit, on Channel 50. Midnight Sundays obviously speaks for itself,” says the Plain Dealer’s Dawidziak. Look at that!”, “Mom, look what I got! Chef Curdle — the Galloping Ghoulmet, Papa oooh mow mow Papa oooh mow mow, hiya hiya hiya gang, and that little Ghoul Power T-shirt I loved to wear with the classic Milan Kecman caricature. It was his misfortune to have left an open trunk with a gorilla suit there. It’s just amazing how people love the blow-ups. So they don’t make the distinction, they just say, “Hey Ghoulardi!” Whereas Detroit’s just … it’s consistent, it’s consistent, it’s consistent.
Metro Times: How are you different now from when you started? And so that’s what happened. During the last few years, he would make occasional appearances at metro Detroit clubs. Paying homage to the late Ron Sweed's life and legacy, the Redford Theatre will host a tribute show at 8 p.m. on April 18. He used his own language and worked on a set full of posters, plastic models and whatever else his fans decided to send in. “I didn’t think it would go all over like that,” Ron proclaimed, probably for the millionth time. Having survived a checkered TV history and a long underground, off-the-air stint, not to mention endless sci-fi and horror conventions, he’s kicking and exploding things again on Cleveland’s TV and radio airwaves. Later, when Anderson graduated to bigger things, he gave his blessing to Sweed, who wished to do his own version of Ghoulardi. He picked out a puppet. They’re giving out these free gorilla suits!”.
", "Scratch glass, turn blue", "Stay sick, climb walls", "Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy! “The Ghoul” starting off in Cleveland on WKBF-TV in 1971, and later Kaiser Broadcasting syndicated his show to Detroit, Chicago, and Boston. These guys are bringing their kids in, so now the kids know about the Ghoul. The Cleveland personalities were being dropped sort of left and right ...” And it wasn’t just Cleveland.
His grandfather took him downtown to see Santa Claus, and he was going to buy him one Christmas present, like maybe a football or a baseball or a catcher’s mitt. He would appear on and off on Channel 20 and 62, most recently on three holiday specials on Channel 20 in late 2001, but rarely after that. I don’t care.” He put me on the air that day, the Saturday show. Silkini was loading up to go home. Unlike many newspapers, ours is free – and we'd like to keep it that way, because we believe, now more than ever, everyone deserves access to accurate, independent coverage of their community.
I should have known then. Every Wednesday Sweed would put on a show for the class with his Jerry Mahoney dummy. [1] He grew up in Cleveland. People always wanted to know … I didn’t take drugs and I didn’t drink, but people were convinced that the Ghoul had to be high on something. At 51, the Ghoul is once again turning blue, scratching glass and terrorizing late-night television in his native land, continuing to horror-host those unbearable B-movies. But I think what I like the best is, when he does stuff, it’s that, ‘What-the-hell’ attitude.
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