Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me

Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me

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Yes, you are reading that correctly, it says “Overalls in a HEE HAW print” as in that show that was on opposite of Lawrence Welk. Was this show popular with the playground crew? Wearing these where I grew up would be the equivilant of being caught dressing up my cats. Not available in “Junior Samples” size.Source: 1977 Sears

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Mantooth
AKA Brian Heiler author of "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" and co-editor of "Toy-Ventures Magazine". Co-Host of the "Pod Stallions" podcast. Host of the Brick Mantooth Youtube channel, painter, designer, writer, mental health advocate, toy collector, Mego, and Mego Knock-Off enthusiast. I have large feet, ADHD and I live in Canada. Talk toys, not others.

19 Comments

  • JFStan on November 8, 2007

    And by all means, wear your Hee-Haw overalls without a shirt to complete the look.

    Do you think this kid ever lived this down? He could be a high-powered lawyer or CEO today.. then a co-worker finds this picture and hangs copies of it all over the office. Doomed.

  • rob! on November 8, 2007

    “PLEASE BEAT ME UP!!”

  • Swinebread on November 9, 2007

    Thank you for bringing back a very painful memory

  • Maxwell Hammer on November 14, 2007

    My brother had a pair of these.

    To this day some people still call him “Hee Haw”.

  • Anonymous on November 15, 2007

    I’ll see your denim ones and raise you a pair of brown ones. That’s what I wore in preschool.

    Off to make a shrink appointment…

  • Anonymous on December 8, 2007

    Those are hilarious … and my parents would have been first in line to buy them for me to wear, unfortunately!

  • Anonymous on December 15, 2007

    I had a set of these, but hee-haw overall SHORTS…. I dropped out of pee-wee soccer ’cause of ’em. wore them on the first day… my name was “hee-haw” the rest of the season.

  • Anonymous on December 28, 2007

    My friend’s little brother had a pair. He was a chubby kid, so they must have come in “husky” as well. He had his school picture taken in them, which was prominently displayed on the faux brick foyer.

  • jinxie beaverhausen on July 13, 2008

    I had the shortalls in brown and my sister had overalls in pink. My mother’s ‘ludes must have been working on that shopping trip.

  • Jay on July 16, 2008

    What, no Minnie Pearl hat for the little ladies?

  • Anonymous on November 26, 2008

    Sadly I had a pair of these too as did two other girls at school. We used to wear them on the same day. On purpose. I’m glad my parents never ever took pictures of me growing up cause I know my siblings would NEVER let me hear the end of it.

  • Anonymous on December 28, 2008

    My son and neice had a pair of these overalls,I don’t know what happened to them or where you can you even find them anymore. I would love for my two grandchildren to have a pair just for fun.Does any one know where you can find them. My mother-in-law found ours in the early 80’s in piegon forge,tn.

  • Anonymous on April 3, 2009

    Try e-bay

  • Anonymous on September 1, 2009

    Sadly I had a pair of these too as did two other girls at school. We used to wear them on the same day. On purpose. I'm glad my parents never ever took pictures of me growing up cause I know my siblings would NEVER let me hear the end of it.

    OH MY GOD. So did I and two other girls at school. And we would wear them on the same day. I had the green ones. My siblings NEVER did let me hear the end of it.

  • Christy on November 30, 2009

    I have to admit that in 1993-94 (I was a Jr in HS) I had bought a pair of the Hee Haw Print ones in Pidgeon Forge, TN as a joke and wore them to school…. They were a hit… everyone thought they were awesome! I lost them after graduating and would love to find another pair (just for shits n giggles if nothing else!)

  • Annette on September 29, 2011

    Had a pair of hee hew bibs
    around 1974. They were one of my favorite things to wear back then. Also has black and white overalls that said "Billy the kid" a few years later.

  • Anonymous on October 18, 2013

    I'm HAPPY to say I had these cool HEE HAW overalls as a kid! I'm sad I have no pictures in them!
    HATERS GONNA HATE!!!! 😉

  • AndrewJ on May 24, 2014

    SALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL-UTE!

  • roxanne on May 8, 2018

    I actually have a picture my niece found of the 2 of us, Summer 1976, I am rocking my hee haw shortalls!!! Pigtails and all…

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