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| − | Fifties rock and roll act from the "Spidey Fixes the Hum" segment on an episode of ''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066651/reference The Electric Company]''. Formerly David Dinger, he forgot the words to a song early in his career and just hummed. It caught on, and he was a big hit until 1960. Then his career hit the skids and he turned into a TV repairman who cheated customers by humming and claiming it was coming from their TV set, then offering to fix it. Spider-Man catches him and reveals his scam. | + | [[Image:Dinger_Hum_Electric_Company.jpg|right|350px]]Fifties rock and roll act from the "Spidey Fixes the Hum" segment on an episode of ''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066651/reference The Electric Company]''. Formerly David Dinger, he forgot the words to a song early in his career and just hummed. It caught on, and he was a big hit until 1960. Then his career hit the skids and he turned into a TV repairman who cheated customers by humming and claiming it was coming from their TV set, then offering to fix it. Spider-Man catches him and reveals his scam. |
The episode aired sometime between 1975 when Todd Graff (who plays a kid in the sketch) joined the show, and 1977 when the show ended. | The episode aired sometime between 1975 when Todd Graff (who plays a kid in the sketch) joined the show, and 1977 when the show ended. | ||
Played by Luis Avalos. | Played by Luis Avalos. | ||
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| + | Also used in the comic book tie-in, ''[https://www.comics.org/series/2188/ Spidey Super Stories]''. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| − | *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEbhDduB1ow | + | *https://www.comics.org/series/2188/ |
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[[Category:1975|Dinger, Hum]] | [[Category:1975|Dinger, Hum]] | ||
[[Category:Television series|Dinger, Hum]] | [[Category:Television series|Dinger, Hum]] | ||
[[Category:Rock|Dinger, Hum]] | [[Category:Rock|Dinger, Hum]] | ||
[[Category:The Electric Company|Dinger, Hum]] | [[Category:The Electric Company|Dinger, Hum]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 06:22, 11 April 2022
Fifties rock and roll act from the "Spidey Fixes the Hum" segment on an episode of The Electric Company. Formerly David Dinger, he forgot the words to a song early in his career and just hummed. It caught on, and he was a big hit until 1960. Then his career hit the skids and he turned into a TV repairman who cheated customers by humming and claiming it was coming from their TV set, then offering to fix it. Spider-Man catches him and reveals his scam.
The episode aired sometime between 1975 when Todd Graff (who plays a kid in the sketch) joined the show, and 1977 when the show ended.
Played by Luis Avalos.
Also used in the comic book tie-in, Spidey Super Stories.
