2 Responses to “WKRP turkey drop”

1. 1 Gary Petersen  on Nov 21st, 2008 at 9:28 pm

   I used to work at Maytag during the time that Gordon Jump, who earlier had portrayed WKRP station manager Mr. Carlson, was the Maytag Repairman. I was at one of the more significant trade shows one spring where we were showing the Maytag Cordless Iron in a booth. Gordon Jump and Mark Devine (then portraying the Maytag Apprentice) were both working the show for us. I got to ride from the hotel to the show with them in a limo one morning.

   Mr. Jump had a tremendous sense of humor and was exceptionally good interacting with people. He and Mr. Devine were joking back and forth during the ride. In the middle of it, Mr. Jump said the line from that scene, “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” in perfect character and had us all giggling as we rode.

   He was a great actor and a remarkable professional. What he and Mr. Devine did for Maytag was much harder work than I imagined. They both represented Maytag ideals better than I think the company did not too long after that.

   Maytag was fortunate to work with him as long as we did.

2. 2 Torontonian  on Nov 21st, 2008 at 10:19 pm

   WKRP succeeded in looking as cheesy as pop radio
   stations in that part of America. Cincinnati was particularly
   vulnerable because of its reputation with the likes
   of Pete Rose , Marge Schott, Charles Keating and
   Jerry Springer.

   I’ve said it for a long time that the only good thing
   to come out of Cincinnati was a Baldwin piano.

   Sorta miss Herb’s white patent leather shoes and
   loud jackets, don’t you?

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