12. Wallace and Ladmo was Family Entertainment
What Wallace and Ladmo had figured out was a secret of family entertainment. Entertaining kids effectively means keeping parents engaged too. Nothing overt, but it pays to toss in references that only the adults will understand, pop culture references, political jabs, bordering on the sort of thing one would find on a late night show. “I had not been a children’s entertainer as such, but I knew better than to talk down to kids,” McMahon said of kids shows to Wallace Watchers “… I saw The Wallace and Ladmo Show at my house that day, for the first time, and I said ‘This is brilliant!’”