― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon Jones Reynolds (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I even remember, sometimes, when I would have a really awful day at school, I would actually think about that show and that character and try to remind myself that it wasn't me that was crazy, it was the school (turns out, of course, that it was both).
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
"You can't do it You can't do it You can't conquer a Whale!"
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I guess Ray Romano is supposed to be an example of this, but it's not funny *at all*.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
This PBS retros of Newhart's career airs tonight in most of the country... I never realized how 'overnight' his success was as a standup... he got the Best Album Grammy (not comedy album -- the major award) for his FIRST live club engagement.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave k, Thursday, 21 July 2005 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
I love Newhart's response to an Emily Gets Pregnant script: "Very funny; who will you get to play Bob?"
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Aside from the fact that some of his jokes were just fucking terrible (of the "asians eat dogs" and "women are bad drivers" variety)
OTM in the first case (I cringed), but I demur on the second (The Driving Instructor bit was the only classic he did from the first 2 albums, I think). What can one reasonably expect from a guy who started writing jokes 50 years ago? It was a different culture. He also had a canny setup bit when he initially drew groans from women in the audience:
"Some of you think it's sexist? OK, I can adjust. We'll make it a Chinese driver. [Sits in chair and begins to speak in pidgin Chinese.] Now I can do this for the next 8 minutes, or..."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103372/
I didn't know there was a second (albeit short) season.
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
maybe my favorite episode of television ever.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
-- laurence kansas (lawrence_kansa...) (webmail), May 9th, 2005 1:18 PM. (lawrence kansas)
OTM
― señor citizen (eman), Friday, 22 September 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
However, I know I'm not crazy for loving the theme song.
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Suzanne Pleshette RIP
― akm, Sunday, 20 January 2008 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I just read that as well. Deserves a separate thread I think...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 January 2008 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP. She was so funny, a perfect foil.
Bob Newhart Show and Newhart were both classics. Man, did I love the "Home to Emily" opening credit sequence of the 70s show. I dreamed about walking home through the city with a briefcase and going home to a cozy apartment with that jazzy theme playing. Seemed like a good life.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 20 January 2008 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, I recently watched the American Masters program in its entirety, and it made me remember how great the seventies' Bob Newhart Show was. Jack Riley's character was fantastic, and he came across in the interviews as being a super-sweet guy.
I never enjoyed the eighties Newhart show as much, but...
And, wow, I had no idea that Suzanne Pleshette was married to Tom Poston!
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
And, yes, the theme song to the Bob Newhart Show is unbeatable. Frantic jazzy drumrolls...
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
if Howard Borden was my neighbor i would have him arrestedhe is an idiot and a menace DO NOT LET HIM IN YOUR APARTMENT BOB HE IS A NIGHTMARE (but i love the actor bcz I Dream Of Jeannie)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 March 2024 03:56 (two months ago) link
seriously, I started watching reruns of this recently, for the first time since I was a kid, and it never occurred to me how freakin annoying and boundary-less dude he is… “here I’ll just pop into my neighbors house with my new upright bass”I had forgotten how sweet and funky the theme tune is.
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:28 (two months ago) link
I've been watching an episode each week--this show is relentlessly brown! It's a shame no one has given it a remaster--both the streaming and DVD episodes look subpar, especially when compared to Columbo. (Although the latter is blu-ray, so perhaps an unfair comparison). My Mary Tyler Moore sets also look a little pixelated.
My favorite bit of the theme is when it slows down in the middle, with the tinkly piano.
― blatherskite, Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link
I would also be uncomfortable with Howard Borden being my flight navigator.
― Josefa, Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link
Have we mentioned the excellent use of this shop in the "Hi Bob!" episode of For All Mankind when the three of them are all alone together on Jamestown Base?
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:57 (two months ago) link
otm! i think about that all the time
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
Shop = show. My autocorrect needs an autocorrect
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:05 (two months ago) link
I can't think of anyone else to have done the thing Newhart did in his old phone-call routines where ... it's just a solo straightman! Alone on a stage, reacting to implied dialogue. Totally agree with Nick in his thread start about how this made the sitcoms interesting: they have a straightman so good he doesn't even need comedy to react to, so they can just set up a mundane awkward conflict and it's more than funny enough to watch the guy just stand there in it. I can think of a few performers you could kind of do this with today, but I can't picture any television brave enough to actually try it.
― ን (nabisco), Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:42 (two months ago) link
nabisco otm!
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:49 (two months ago) link
Peter Sellers was brilliant when he did something similar in Dr. Strangelove. By then, Newhart's phone bits were already well-known and massively popular, so one wonders if it came to mind when they wrote that scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO7O7meqZlo
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 March 2024 00:47 (two months ago) link
FWIW, a cursory search shows that Newhart's a big fan of the film, especially due to Sellers's performance (paywall prevents me from seeing whether he mentions the aforementioned scene).
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 March 2024 00:54 (two months ago) link
Never thought of that before (or did I?) but it makes sense.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 March 2024 01:35 (two months ago) link