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EEFMS - The Early Eyeball
Fraternal and Marching Society was the name of the television club created
during the last months of Ernie Kovac's 3 TO GET READY on WPTZ in Philadelphia
in the early 1950s.
Original members of the club included Trigger Lund, Gertrude the doll, Ernie
Kovacs, Andy McKay, Sandy Stewart and Bernie Leighton.
In an 1953 publicity photograph, all of these members were depicted placing
the tip of their left index finger over their left eyelid.
The group's membership card displayed a logo of a half-closed eye, the words
EEFMS WPTZ CHANNEL 3 and a secret pass-phrase "It's been real." The reverse side
of the card listed the following eligibility rules:
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1. |
An EEFM is: |
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A - |
male or a
female; |
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B -
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or
interested in either political party; |
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2.
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An EEFM never sleeps later than 8:03 . |
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A - |
Unless he
or she is deathly ill, |
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B -
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Unless he
or she is deathly..er..dead, that is; |
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C - |
Unless the
EEFM is sleepy; |
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3. |
An EEFM makes less that $987,648,001.23 per annum.
(Slightly higher in the South and South West); |
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4. |
An EEFM may not raise ostriches or parsley without written
permission of EEFM-1. |
TRIVIA NOTE: The club's password "It's been real"
was a phrase that was popular after World War II. At the end of each show, this
phrase would pop up in some strange place, such as beneath a broom, under a
banana peel or on top of a bald man's head.
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