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For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. In one of his final interviews, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain described Lemon as "the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen".

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Lemon made his first basketball hoop out of a coat hanger, using an onion sack for a net and an empty Carnation milk can for a ball, with which he made his first shot. Lemon first applied to the Globetrotters in at age 22, finally being chosen to play in In , he left to form one of his Globetrotters imitators, the Bucketeers. Despite being with his own touring team, Lemon returned to the Globetrotters, playing 50 games with them in In the s, an animated version of Lemon, voiced by Scatman Crothers , starred with various other Globetrotters in the Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series Harlem Globetrotters.

In , Lemon appeared in a memorable Burger King commercial by making a tower of burgers until he found a double-beef pickles and onions with no-cheese burger.

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Whipple actor Dick Wilson. In , on episode of adult swim's The Boondocks entitled "The Itis", the name of Meadowlark was used as the name of the park that Ed Wuncler I mentions an interest in purchasing from the state. The dog died in the second episode. In , Lemon starred in the educational geography film Meadowlark Lemon Presents the World and joined the cast in season two of the short-lived television sitcom, Hello, Larry , to help boost the show's ratings.

In the same year, he played Rev. It was several years before he actually became an ordained minister. A born-again Christian , Lemon became an ordained minister in and received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Vision International University in Ramona, California , in