What onetime TV kiddie-show host urged New Year's Day viewers to dig into their sleeping dads' wallets and send in some "little green pieces of paper with pictures of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Jefferson on them"?
Funnyman Soupy Sales, on WNEW in New York, in 1965. Sales was suspended for a week for the prank, which he later reported netted him a few real dollars and a lot of Monopoly and other play money.