As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

In 1960 he appeared as himself in an episode of NBC's short-lived crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier set on the Sunset Strip of West Hollywood. Stanley revolved around the adventures of the titular character (Hackett) as the operator of a newsstand in a posh New York City hotel. No orda for her juss orda for you!" The routine was such a hit that Hackett made a recording of it and was hired to reprise it in the 1953 Technicolor Universal-International musical Walking My Baby Back Home in which he was third-billed under Donald O'Connor and Janet Leigh.