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What's in the Pop Bottle?
Airdate: Friday - March 21, 1975

WOR Show
Original Airing

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Last Update: 07-27-2025

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Well, I see a guy a guy out in Virginia has come up with a new invention. . .

Show Description

Teeth marks in a candy bar At a friends house the friend opens a new jar of peanut butter and found someone had scooped some out and put the jar back on the store shelf. Another friend opened a box of raisins and found a cigar butt in it Shep recounts his own story about going out on a date and buying bottles of Coke. His bottle had an inch and a half of dead flies in the bottom of the bottle

News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
• 05:19		Freeloading in a New Car

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 16:29	This is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 16:31	The Trenton Times
• 17:33	Broadway Play	The Ritz
• 18:31	Harper's Magazine
• 19:33	New York Sports & Vacation Show
• 20:34	Women's American ORT
• 35:33	Shopwell Supermarkets
• 36:39	Norwegian America Line
• 37:37	Broadway Play	Good Time Charlie
• 38:12	Madison Square Garden
• 38:43	Herr's
• 39:16	Metropolitan Opera

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 04:15; 35:16	After You've Gone

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 04:37	Al

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Jews Harp

Rating / Review

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 31:16 ]	Plots / Story Lines		Flys in the soda bottle

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	March 21, 1975 Recno: 1926	What's in the Pop Bottle?	Original Airing

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Set Name	Show #	Media
Series 100 Group E	113Db	Cassette

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975