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[Peter Q. George]

--- Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:

> >I have often wondered whether Uncle Gus actually
> hated kids or if parents 
> >who brought kids to be in the audience of a
> low-budget TV show generally
> raised brats.

>From what I saw from watching Channel 9 over the
years, Gus Bernier seemed to be a very down-to-earth
person, at least it seemed that way on the air.  He
was an ICON in New Hampshire television.  Even down
here in the Boston area, people knew about Channel 9
and Uncle Gus.  

As for Bob "Big Brother" Emery, this was not the first
time I've heard about him not really "big" on kids. 
I'm sure everybody has had a bad day with a bunch of
kids (especially when they're really bratty).  

Who knows....  since both Bob Emery and Gus Bernier
are now deceased, we'll never know.



    
> 
> I don't know about Uncle Gus Bernier, but there is a
> long-standing urban 
> legend (that has been going around Massachusetts for
> at least 35 years) to 
> the effect that "Big Brother" Bob Emery on WBZ-TV
> couldn't stand children
> and was once heard to make an exceedingly nasty
> remark about them one day 
> before his mike had been turned off.
> I've never quite believed it; I was on the show once
> I when I was a little 
> kid and he seemed like a heck of a nice guy.  A
> friend of mine from my 
> college days, who was raised in Needham, swears it's
> true and that he heard 
> Emery say it.
> 
> . . . And then there's the story about Channel 5's
> Bozo (Frank Avruch) and 
> the squirrel joke.  We won't get into that.
> 
> (Donna, can you confirm or deny any of this ---?)
> 
> -Doug
> 
> 



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