Charlie Potatoes

Good question! I take it you're watching it on TV too?

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Charlie Potatoes is a Southern slang term applied to men who think they are hot stuff, or to put it the way a person who uses the term would say it, "A Charlie Potatoes is a man who thinks his s**t don't stink." It possibly began as a reference to a man's gonads.

Kenneth Rorie

potatoes as in cash
making anyone a big timer
so charley big time or charley potatoes

I'm gonna buy me a pair
of buckskin shoes,

with a brand-new suit and a silk shirt.

And I'll be Charlie Potatoes,
comin' down the street,

with a Panama hat and a good-lookin' gal.

You're Charlie Potatoes, uh?
- Yeah.

You gonna dance down the street with
a gal on one arm and this on the other?

You gotta be Charlie Potatoes,
the man with the money.

Then you don't have to
bow down to nobody.

That's the way I'm gonna live.

Even when they didn't give me a tip
I still had to say thank you.

Saturday night in a gin mill,
bein' Charlie Potatoes with a blonde,

or maybe a redhead. Anythin' I wanted.
Tell me all about Charlie Potatoes, when
the chain's off and nobody's chasin' ya!


We gave 'em a helluva
run for it, didn't we?

Yeah.

(barking)
Charlie Potatoes.



I'm mashed potatoes now.

I bet Barney Fife could tell you. If not, then Eddie Haskell.