TV, Back In The Day

Last night, after the news, and the 11 PM Simpsons rerun, and the 11:30 NewsRadio rerun, what should come on at midnight but a rerun of "Three's Company."

I used to lo-ooo-ove that show when I was younger. (I thought John Ritter was really cute, and still is, judging by the latest episode of Ally McBeal.) The cool thing is that even though it's an old show and has really blantantly obvious plotlines, the humor still works, even 20-some-odd years later.

PS. Mr. Rogers is on the cover of the latest issue of Esquire Magazine.

I'm thrilled that they're showing re-runs of "All in the Family". I just saw one last week that was terribly funny, overt racism aside. Slap was saying that Eric Cartman has taken the place of the Archie Bunkers, because only little kids (and cartoon ones at that) could get away with that kind of un-P.C. attitude today.

In this particular episode, Archie had been invited to speak at a co-workers funeral. However, Archie didn't know this guy was Jewish. He's very nervous in the first place, and being Archie, had prepared a Catholic-oriented eulogy. So now he has no idea what to do, and proceeds to tell a Jewish joke, at the funeral. It was unbelievably funny, and managed to be touching without being schlocky as well. Those were the days...

john ritter - he's becoming like the next kevin bacon. he's in EVERYTHING in kind of an "it's a conspiracy" kind of way. first there was that string of film appearances he made, starting with that billy bob thorton movie. then there was the ally mcbeal episode. now he has a role in BRIDE OF CHUCKY. what next, i ask? what next?

Was Mr. Ritter really chubby on Ally McBeal last week, or is it that Calista is now just a mere shadow of her former self? In the opening scene with her dancing, her jeans were actually BIG on her (gaping in the back, near the waist)...as it was they were probably GIRLS jeans from GAP KIDS or something!

Ohh, and of COURSE practically all the men on the show have to fall in love with her. Twig.

you know, he's looked pudgy on both ally episodes. he doesn't look too pudgy in "bride of chucky" though, but then again he' s wearing a police uniform in that movie and those are pretty slimming unless you're like a hugo donut type cop. but i think he really has gained some weight because his face even looks pudgy, even next to ally.

i think the key indicator here is that he even appeared a bit pudgy next to elaine, and she's filled out quite a bit.

and i'm not going to lie - i want to see john ritter and calista flockhart in an on screen romance.

What's with all of Ally's faux-kickboxing? In a skirt so short, no less? And heels! Yeah, she's so tough. Snap.

(Janet, who is sick of Ally's pouting over her lost love and everything else but will watch anyway because of the rest of the riveting ensemble cast.)

oh for the love of Pete, Janet...Do you watch Star Trek and gripe about the inconsistencies on that, too?

(I gotta admit, my buddies do that and I think it's the most hysterical thing ever when they argue about it).

My biggest TV gripe?

I WILL NOT be appeased untill they just come out and say:
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I'M SORRY TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT WE'RE COMPLETELY OUT OF IDEAS. THE WHOLE NOSTALGIA THING WAS JUST A PLOY."

WE WILL START FILMING OLD "DOBIE GILLIS" SCRIPTS NEXT SPRING. DOBIE WILL BE PLAYED BY TOM CRIUSE, MAYNARD WILL BE BRAD PITT, AND THAT ONE ANNOYING CHICK THAT USED TO FOLLOW DOBIE AROUND ALL THE TIME WILL BE PLAYED BT JENNIFER ANISTON.

WE APOLOGISE FOR NOT ADMITTING THIS SOONER, YOU MAY NOW RETURN TO YOUR DROOLING AS WE JOIN JERRY SPRINGER, ALREADY IN PROGRESS."

I tell you, the best thing for the entertainment industry is to just slide the whole of Southern Califirnia right into the ocean.

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I happened to really LIKE "Dobie Gillis", it was just the first show I could think of.

Heh, now you have really hit geek-central. One of my favorite things to do is to down a few beers and put on Star Trek: Voyager.

For hours and hours after the show ends, I'm still wandering around the house doing my Janeway impersonation:
"Chakotay, we're *pause* seventy five years away from anything we know. *pause* Federation rules just *pause, pained, yet wistful look* don't apply any more."

As much fun as it is to mock Star Trek, it's even more fun ripping apart Melrose Place and 90210... but keeping track of Michael Mancini's wives is just getting to be too much.

In the first season, Janeway said something about Pecan Pie, and it was one of the funniest things I'd ever heard. I walked around imitating her "Pecan Pie" for weeks.

Oh, you mean like why are all the aliens just deformed humans, and none of them have, like, 6 legs or 3 heads or anything?

Here's my Ultimate Star Trek Uh-Duh Moment: I was watching Voyager and getting a little tired of them whining about being in space and going on all of their different space missions and so forth, so I ask "Well, if they're so sick and tired of space, why don't they just turn the damn ship around and go back to Earth?" At which point Avery looks at me and says "Uh, because they're 75 light years away FROM home. They're trying to find a quick way to GET home. That's the whole POINT of the SHOW."

Oh, yeah.

Way back there, Kimme had mentioned "All in the Family," which brings to mind Rob Reiner, which leads me to inform you that Proposition 10, which puts huge new taxes on tobacco products here in California was authored by...get this...none other than Meathead himself, Rob Reiner. Since when do so-called Hollywood directors get to dabble in the writing up of political Propositions?

Isn't he so freakin' noble?