Art Fern’s Teatime Theater Would Love This

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If you’re old, like me, you may remember Johnny Carson’s occasional skit on The Tonight Show where he and Carol Wayne would spoof local TV stations running movies in the daytime. The skit was called “Teatime Theater,” and Carson played the host, Art Fern. Inevitably, he’d have give an ad for a company and show a map to provide directions, then he would say, “Until you come to…” He’d then open a slot on the map, revealing a fork. Then he’d conclude, “The fork in the road.” Today I went to see the fork in the road. There it is! It’s in Franklin, Kentucky, not too far from the Tennessee state line. There’s a fork in a country road, so some high school welding students decided to make a huge fork and put it there. I couldn’t help but think of Art Fern and the “Teatime Theater” and “the fork in the road” joke when I saw it. In fact, I posted that on my Facebook page, along with the movie jokes that made the skit so funny (he’d name three or four actors with similar sounding names and add an animal, then give a bogus movie title). So enjoy the fork in the road. Now, back to our movie, Carolyn Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Dean Jones, and Alfalfa the Flying Emu in “The Man Who Dated Liberty Valance”! Here’s a Teatime Theater from YouTube (the “fork in the road” joke is at about the 8:40 mark):