Mid Day Open Thread
By bluegal Saturday Nov 29, 2008 3:00pmThe infamous Turkeys Away segment from WKRP in Cincinnati. Open thread below.
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The infamous Turkeys Away segment from WKRP in Cincinnati. Open thread below.
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i miss when tv was good
just got finished watching (for the 3rd time) the entire 18 epi run of freaks and geeks...i dont know how he did it, but apatow was watching me and my friends during our hs and early college years
I always thought that was a dance.
Les Nessman=Bill Schneider
I just finished watching this episode 15 minutes ago. WKRP was one of the funniest shows. Like Arrested Development it ended way to soon.
They also did an episode that was really nice tribute to the tragedy at Riverfront during a Who concert when 11 fans where crushed to death. I remember in the day going to concerts and it was all festival seating. We use to rush the stage to get up front. I was knocked down a few times. The Riverfront tragedy changed all that to assigned seating.
BOOGER!
see video: Journalist Receives Death Threat for Talking About Israel
of a threat by some wacko??? what is your deal???
RepresentativePress should be in everyones favorites. I had not seen this vid or many of the others at their site. I'm always looking for the truth even if it's not pc.
Les Nessman wasn't there when Sarah Palin was interviewed at her turkey-pardoning. I'll swear, THAT was something you'd expect to see on WKRP, not in real life.
this show is one of the greatest!!
Oh, the humanity!
Best episode ever.
I remember sitting in my boyfriend's apartment while he was trying his best to break up with me. Unfortunately, at the time of the "dumping" the WKRP turkey episode was playing on his TV. So, I was caught between hearing "it's not you, it's me" and "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly". Poor guy, it must have been rough trying to break up with a girl who's laughing hysterically. Oh, the humanity. Hmmm, after all these years, I finally understand why I was an unfit girlfriend. lol
Personally, I like the episode where a sleazy cameraman managed to get nude pictures of Jennifer, while she was changing for a studio promotion shoot.
It was a two parter.
Good one, ysbad.
Is that the non-edited version which wasn't the result of record companies extorting the writers for more money than those clips and name-drops are really worth?
That reminds me of an episode of WKRP where they had a new DJ on the take, who kept playing this one lousy song, because he was being paid off in nose candy.
And I remember one where Dr. Johnny Fever refused to help record a commercial for a new client, because they were advertising some energy supplement with catch-phrases culled from the drug culture, and they were targeting kids.
One of my favorites is when a friend of Venus Flytrap asks him to convince her son to stay in school. The kid was moving toward gangs. Venus convinced him if he could teach him one thing, he would stay in school. Venus explains basic atomic theory where protons and electrons and neutrons were rival gangs fighting for their own turf. The kid gets it and agrees to stay in school. As usual Dr. Johnny Fever is passed out behind the couch, and surprises Venus, who then has to admit he was once a teacher.
There was another good one with Venus where he admitted he deserted the Army and Arthur Carleson helped him sort it out with the brass. Apparently, his boss didn't think the army would be too severe since he didn't desert until after he was rotated home FROM Vietnam, and just witnessed one soldier leaping to his death from the flight transport.
"Can you teach me about magnets?"
Jennifer would be good at teaching that to teenaged guys.
There were some bad shows during that period too. Mork and Mindy started with a bang the first season when it was mostly Robin Williams improvising, but once writers insisted they write they show, the quality nose-dived.
The last few years of Happy Days sucked.
Then there was the sequel Joanie Loves Chachi.
Then there was Super Train
Then Manimal
And finally Cliffhangers, anything but.
I have vague memories of a spy show that had the cover of glamorous photo shoots, was it Outrider?
Oh, and who could forget Misfits of Science?
You watch a lot of tube! I never even heard of half of them.
Actually I didn't watch most of them. I'd see them once, give up, but unfortunately my brain doesn't let go of a lot of memories.
I can still remember how I embarrassed myself when I was six at a zoo. Funny thing, I don't remember events where I was proud of myself. I don't know if that's a memory glitch or there's simply nothing to recall.
We remember the things that stick most in our minds...for whatever reason. I remember being in a crib at 18 months or so, arms extended saying Uppy (which was my word for Get me out of kiddie prison). After that, it is the most impressionable things, just like you (and most of mine are embarrassments, too).
I want you as my partner for Trivial Pursuit. I do great on all the categories but entertainment. I can hold my own on the arts but the tubes are always a loser for me.
I don't know nutthin about sports. Me and my brothers got involved in different kinds older: track, me: body building, younger: soccer.
But none of us watch sports.
We all have full bookshelves.
But I go to my nephew's house and see not one book, but tons of DVD's.
Hah! I'd forgotten all about Stupor Train. I don't think it even made it past the PILOT, did it?
There was also DINER, which wasn't exactly a bell ringer. And I think Welcome Back Cotter, MASH, All in the Family (with nobody left but Carol O'Connor), and One Day at a Time were all in the last throes of slow, agonizing deaths at the time.
Yeah, in retrospect, that era was pretty much the last gasp of the situation comedy, until Seinfeld came along and rescued the genre ten years later. 1980 pretty much marked the fall of the half hour situation comedy, and the rise of the one hour ensemble shows, like Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere.
The Simpsons and Married with Children, and I'll agree with you.
Two of my favorite shows, but we're forgetting about Cheers, Taxi and Night Court.
And of course on Saturday Morning, Pee Wee's Playhouse.
I would include Alf, but I tried to watch an episode recently and it wasn't the same without the weed.
You're talking about Archie's Place. MASH stayed pretty good, except when Alan Alda was the creative head and it got far too preachy. Of course it's sequel AfterMASH with Klinger, Potter and Mulcahey working in a VA hospital was a dud.
Seinfeld was a rip-off of the Gary Shandling show. It come on either right before or right after the Tracy Ullman show (where the Simpsons came from). Essentially it presented itself as a show about nothing, where almost anything could happen like Rob Reiner popping over to join the fun, and then be set to work washing dishes, or Tom Petty would show up with his band in the middle of the show, set up, play the themesong rocked up Petty style, break down their equipment and leave.
There was a bald heavy-set buddy, and a cute brunette girl who was a platonic girlfriend who Shandling may've had a past with. He started the show with a monologue. The only thing missing was Michael Ritchie who seemed to steal his bit from Bill the Cat.
was my fav. Had Obama not been running, I'd have voted for Opus. ;-)
that petered out and had lousy spinoffs, unfortunately.
The first thing I can remember watching on TV is Rocky and Bullwinkle. Because of that show, I grew up to appreciate puns and double-entendres. R&B was truly one of the best shows ever.
One of the most memorable lines from 70s television:
"As God is my witness...I thought turkeys could fly."
LOL!
Thanks. You just reminded me of the reason I sold my TV and didn't watch one for about 35years. What a way to waste a lifetime.
bush probably got his education watching that garbage tv. (about his speed and the untaste of republicons.)
That was supposed to be comedy? - stupud.
And we wonder about the dumbing down of America?
there's bad TV, movies, websites, books, plays, musicals, etc...
Unless you are willing to denounce all media, the old "I hate TV" thing because I'm smarter than everyone is truly silly.
Tell us all about the genius comedy that's better than our favorite episode of WKRP.
You hit the nail on head. There's always at least one in every bunch, isn't there?
WKRP was a great show. This was a great episode of a great show.
The real life tragedy of a man getting trampled at Wal_Mart also reminds me a great WKRP episode which was a parody on life. 11 people died as they got trampled to death at a Who concert. WKRP brought national attention to general admission seating to these "must see" events.
clip didn't do the episode justice. It missed out on the buildup which was essential for that joke. Anyway, I was forced to watch shows my parents liked back then or were already in afternoon rerun, so I remember Barney Miller, the odd couple, and the early season of Good times. Plus my brother and sister had our own version of MST2K with the afternoon shows like One day at a time. I was also upset my mom wouldn't let me watch SOAP. Damn you Billy Crystal
Back when Billy Crystal was actually funny.
lets face it folks the republicans werent interested in winning the election, they gave it away, guess they figured they can get what they want without winning!or cheating!
A San Jose radio station had Mr. Sanders, AKA Les, out for a Thanksgiving promotion.
Afterward he said: "Never did I think I would see something more horrific than the actual episode itself."
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One thing that sticks out in my mind about WKRP was my vain attempt to make any sense whatsoever of the vocals of the out theme. Anybody? BTW I thought it was a real catchy riff, that bit of music could have been expanded into a rock and roll anthem.
I LOVE the closing music from that show.
The lyrics are officially jibberish, I read that from somewhere.
As hard as I tried to make out what he saying in the song at the end of the show, I could never catch ONE SINGLE WORD. Is he really saying anything or is it just gibberish?
Edit: I guess I should have read the post directly above mine before i posted. Oops. Oh well. Good to see I'm not the only one who couldn't make out the lyrics.
Yes, it was gibberish. It was the first pass at a vocal track, meant to show the basic tone the as-then-unwritten lyrics ought to carry. The music supervisor liked it so much they just went with it.
I never realized WKRP was his baby.
KRP had a great ensemble feel among the cast members, where one character never took a prominent role relative to the others. It was "warm". That's one of the reasons why the show is so well-loved. Plus, it was really really funny. And cool. And the closing music was killer.
Also, I have a pimple on my ass.
Before I forget - Richard Saunders is a great actor.
It's my understanding that Loni Anderson had a hand in increasing Jan Smithers part of the show, because she felt she was being underused.
Is Jan Weyland's sister?
Funny thing about the name Weyland Smithers. If you watch the old Erroll Flynn Robin Hood movie scene with the arrow tournement, and even the same scene in the '80's cable show Robin Hood starring Michael Praed, one of the contestants is Wayland the Smith. They probably come from the same book by Howard Pyle The Adventures of Robin Hood. Wayland the Smith is a borderline mythological figure if not a full-blown one (so to speak). He seems comparable to Hephaestus, Vulcan and Goibnu.
you really have an encyclopedic mind. You are just awesome.
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Sun, 11/30/2008 - 07:06 — SK
Also, I have a pimple on my ass.
And here I thought that was a gummy bear.
Bit of a continuity problem there. In one shot, the record label is red and in the next, it's white.
One of my favorites. My grandparents live in cincy, and it was cool seeing all of the familiar landmarks in the opening credits.
It's also unfortunate that on the DVD release of the show they had to remove all of the real rock songs and replace them with generic music due to copyright. VERY unfortunate.
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