RIP Bozo

**alaskaguy** · 07-03-2008, 06:48 PM

Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.

Link:
wjz.com - Larry Harmon, Longtime Bozo The Clown, Dead At 83

**LindenCy** · 07-03-2008, 06:58 PM

Wow, I'm surprised I didn't hear this yet, unless it just happened. Sad to hear.

**brianhos** · 07-03-2008, 07:14 PM

I loved watching the bozo show on WGN as a kid...

Time for the GRAND PRIZE GAAAAAAME!

**superdorf** · 07-03-2008, 07:49 PM

i loved the grand prize game... it had to be one of the hardest on tv though.
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**Cydar** · 07-03-2008, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by brianhos

I loved watching the bozo show on WGN as a kid...

Time for the GRAND PRIZE GAAAAAAME!

Was that game the where you had to drop the ping pong balls in the bucket?

I remember Bozo's TV POW game

**coachdags** · 07-03-2008, 07:56 PM

That is sad.......I loved Bozo the Clown

**4VR4CY** · 07-03-2008, 07:59 PM

I liked the Wizzard (Do De Do De Do). :)

**JonDMiller** · 07-03-2008, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Cydar

Was that game the where you had to drop the ping pong balls in the bucket?

Yes.

Heck, even in high school, I would wait to jump in the car and drive to school right after the grand prize game was over.

**cyclonepower** · 07-03-2008, 09:14 PM

Homie dont play that....wait wrong clown

**Landshark** · 07-03-2008, 09:20 PM

Stephen Kings IT really ruined the whole "clown" thing for me. Pennywise has forever changed my once fondness of clowns....sad...

Bozo was great!!

**SeattleClone** · 07-03-2008, 11:12 PM

That's too bad, although for some reason I had thought he was already dead.

One of my neighbors at ISU (The Dude) grew up in Chicago and one night he showed us a tape of himself playing The Grand Prize Game as a kid. He got to bucket 4, which I believe got him the Radio Flyer wagon? Of course he got his picture taken with Bozo on the brand new Polaroid Spectrasystem Camera after bucket 1 but he didn't still have the picture.