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The season I was born

A little self promotion from NBC

Looking back... not so hot.

Karen Valentine was once the hottie of ABC. Now, looking back, she looks like Fran "The Nanny" Drescher.

She never thanked Steve for suggesting to Oscar she get the operation.

Local station insane!

I can't stop laughing at this K.T.L.A.Channel 5 ad.
This is the local C.W. station in Los Angeles.
Why! WWWWHHHHYYYYYY?

Yes surrrr we got it right thurrrr KTLA in the morning when I'm brushin my herrrrrr.
I cant stop sayin'it!




KTLA all day...
My new tat.

more damn frog

That show sure had some bitchin guests. High ones too. I love Debbie but she's on something here. Her mouth is doing something she cant control Still she keeps herself enough in the moment to pull it off. Kudos for riding the HORSE and being on a national kids show a the same time.

The best of the worst.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Here is an alphabetical list of all the things the Captain has called Claymore Gregg.
aromatic fishmonger
barnacle (four times)
benighted barnacle
blasted barnacle
blasted ninny
blasted sea slug
blasted pipsqueak
blasted bonehead
blockhead
blubberbrain
buffoon (three times)
chuckle-headed booby
clod (three times)
clumsy nit
clumsy dolt
conniving cipher
corrupt cockleshell
cowardly codfish
devout coward
dolt
dreadful nuisance
dunce (twice)
dunderhead
Ebenezer Scrooge
failure at living
fiddlebrain
flotsam-faced fake
fool (twice)
fortunate clod
Gregg pretender
gull-bellied, snip-headed busy-body
ill wind
insignificant petty conniver
jellyfish
larcenous sea slug
leech
lilyliver (twice)
lout, as welcome as an outbreak of scurvy
lummox
malingering bilge-blister
mere pygmy
miserable barnacle
miserable sheep in wolf's clothing
miserable wart
miserable skinflint
miserly squid
money-gouging grub
money-gouging sand shark
nincompoop
ninny who can be frightened by an angry termite
ninny (twice)
nit (twice)
numbskull (twice)
oaf (four times)
one of a bumbling brigade
one of a pitiful pair
one of a misbegotten pair
one with a crafty, craven, cringing hide
penurious penny-pinching lease-breaker
pilfering pickpocket
pilfering pipsqueak
pilfering pirate
pinheaded pyromaniac
pitiful sight with weak chin and watery eyes
poor imitation with watery blood and weak flesh
puny pelican
quaking jellyfish
quivering squid
quivering bowl of blamange
quivering squid with a jellied backbone
quivering mass of jelly
rodent
scoundrel with a nickel-nursing heart
scurvy swab
second-rate scoundrel
simpering dolt
simpleton (twice)
skinflint
snivelling misfit
spineless toad
splay-footed marshmallow
sponge-spined jellyfish
stingy, money-grubbing, penny-pinching...
stupid
swab
the one thing abhorred more than marriage
the lesser of two evils
treacherous conniver
two-legged worm
underhanded oaf
whimpering, mewling, brittle-boned pest
worthless nothing
wretch

Fresh italian

Italian does not make Will Smith hot.

Rottura Della Prigione

Too bad Wentworth Miller doesn't really speak Italian. He'd be much hotter if he did.

"Look a seagull"

A conservative Christian group charges that a popular, happy yellow cartoon figure is part of a conspiracy to promote a homosexual agenda.


At a black-tie party for President George W. Bush’s inauguration, Dr. James Dean, founder of Focus on Family and a former sausage stuffer, spoke out about the insiduous nature of the beloved animated Bananagrabber. Week after week, dozens watch the animated banana snatch bananas from other forest creatures.

While children love the giant banana’s antics, Dean says the Bananagrabber actually represents a Doberman with its ears cut off. His attempts to grab other bananas are just “a transparent manifestation of his homoerotic desires.” Dean asks, "Why would a banana grab another banana? I mean, those are the kind of questions I don’t want to answer."

In addition, Dean cites the oversized banana’s lisping as one of its many homosexual tendencies. He says the banana’s catchphrase “Look a seagull” is a clever reference to Anton Chekhov’s play: The Seagull has been embraced by liberals for exploring the theme of forbidden love.

The cartoon’s creator, George Oscar Bluth II, could not be reached for comment. However, the cartoon’s producer, D. Nile Rogers, scoffs at the accusation. “I don’t know what sort of illusion this guy is trying to pull, but it’s just a amateurish attempt at diversion. I mean, come on!”

According to Dean, Focus on Family believes the banana grabbing scenes should be replaced with “playing grab ass in the shower.” But he hastens to add that the animators should stay away from graphic depictions of those scenes, such as the one with Frightened Inmate #2. “They must be never nude.”

A Focus on Family spokesman says the cartoon is an attempt by liberal cartoon-makers to subvert the “family first” agenda. By going public the cartoon’s hidden agenda, says the spokesman, “the cartoon-maker is out.”



Ok maybe there was something to this ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. I despise comedy that uses the limitations of its venue to convey "a joke." ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT had struck me as that type of comedy.
I just may be mistaken.

Ann-Margret Drinks Canada Dry

Ya gotta love the hipness of it all.

T.V. growing up. Its a wonder I'm alive

Big John, Little John
was a Saturday morning NBC sitcom from 1976 produced by Sherwood Schwartz which starred Robbie Rist as the young lead, and Herb Edelman as the elder John.
The show centered around a 45-year-old school teacher named John Martin (played by Edelman). While vacationing in Florida, he discovered the real Fountain of Youth. He took a small drink from it and changed into a 12-year-old boy (played by Rist), and back again. Martin had no control over when the change would occur. Only his immediate family knew about the recurring changes and, to explain the appearance of the 12-year-old John, claimed that he was their nephew.
Throughout the series, John unsuccessfully tried to find a cure for his predicament.


Carter Country was an American television sitcom, that ran from 1977 to 1979 on ABC. It was set in a small town in Georgia (presumably near the part of the state from which U.S. President Jimmy Carter hailed, thus the title), and featured Victor French as white police chief Roy Mobey and Kene Holliday as city-bred, college-educated, African-American Sergeant Curtis Baker. It also featured Richard Paul as Mayor Burnside (who coined a minor catchphrase with his manic, "Handle it, handle it, handle it!"), Harvey Vernon as officer Jasper DeWitt, and Barbara Cason as town employee Cloris Phebus. Additional comic support was provided by Texas-born actor Guich Koock who played the part of goofy deputy Harley. Vernee Watson rounded out the cast. The plot was centered around the stereotypical racism of the Deep South. The show was often characterized as being an irreverent, comedic version of the movie In the Heat of the Night.

Out of the Blue was a short-lived American fantasy-based sitcom that aired on the American Broadcasting Company during the fall of 1979. It was a spin-off of Happy Days, patterned after Mork & Mindy.

The series starred Jimmy Brogan as Random, an angel-in-training who is assigned to live with (and act as guardian angel for) a family and work as a high school teacher. The series co-starred Dixie Carter (later of Designing Women) and Eileen Heckart.

The unsuccessful series aired from September 9 to December 16, 1979.


Oh my God then there was yet another Happy Days spin off:

Blansky's Beauties premiered February 12, 1977 .
Nancy Blansky ( Nancy Walker) was den mother to a bevy of beautiful Las Vegas showgirls in this short-lived comedy. In addition to keeping order in the chaotic apartment complex where they all lived, Nancy staged the girls' big numbers at the Oasis Hotel.
Emilio (Johnny Desmond), the matire'd, was Nancy's boyfriend. To help Nancy defray costs of her apartment, Sunshine (Lynda Goodfriend) and Bambi (Caren Kaye) shared it with her, along with her nephews Joey DeLuca (Eddie Mekka), a choreographer, and leering, 12-year-old ("going on 28"), Anthony DeLuca (Scott Baio). Anthony was forever trying to impress Bambi, who much to his chargin treated him like a kid brother, as did almost all of Nancy's girls. Also sharing Nancy's apartment was a huge Great Dane named Blackjack who was shown in the opening credits playing blackjack.

Wait, now lets see:
Happy Days was a spin off of...
LOVE AMERICAN STYLE (Love and the Happy Days)
From Happy Days we have:

Jonie Loves Chachi.
Laverne and Shirley.
Blansky's Beauties.
Mork and Mindy.
Out of the Blue.

Man, Happy Days was not even a funny show.

Yeah but which one?

I stumbled across a great website dedicated to THE NIGHT GALLERY series. On my other defunct site I posted some pictures from off of this great webspot. While it is not my favorite anthology series it did have its moments. It also contained the peak of JENNOT SZWARC's directing career. Pity too. He went on to direct several other things (Jaws 2 for example) and he just couldn't get the suspense back into his projects.
The amazing thing about this series is the history behind it syndication. There were not enough episodes created to make a full syndication package so the episode were cut down from 60 minutes to 30 minutes and new openings were filmed. New introductions from Rod Serling. Also it seems the DVDs do not contain correctly restored episodes. Some sequences are out of order and it appears footage was not included. Its confusing considering that some segments were too short for a 30minute cutdown so they were padded out with outtakes to bulk them up. Other segments were to long and cut down. So peoples memory of this series all depends on when and where you saw it.
Click on the title of this post to be taken to THE NIGHT GALLERY