sorry i just kind of freaked out the other day when I saw an Underdog ad. Can't wait for the Magilla Gorilla remake!!!
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
(i.e. can't wait until they ruin everything!!!)
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
JABBERJAW: THE MOVIE
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
WKRP and Barney Miller were the two shows my Dad *always* watched in the era before Cheers. I often watched with him.
I don't have specific favorite memories of the show, but I do remember driving past Cincinnati on a huge group trip to Washington DC in 1992 for a pro-choice march. The entire van full of people sang the theme song from this show as we passed the city.
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
SILVER SPOONS: THE MOVIE
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
MANIMAL: THE MOVIE
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
SMALL WONDER: THE MOVIE
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Even though I've been using the name Johnny Fever for a long ass time now, I barely have any memories at all of WKRP. I wish one of the cable networks had it on in reruns.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
You have to call us "fellow babies," for a start.
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
MWAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAH
AAAHAHAHAHAAAAH
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
(I saw the sneak trailer for Get Smart...looks hilarious)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
(sorry Ned for derailing yr thread)
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
love this show. they are in my top 8.
― chaki, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
WHERE IS THE LOVE FOR SCUM OF THE EARTH?
― Andy K, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Two best things about this wonderful show:
1. Bailey Quarters 2. Theme song
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
PHONE COPS!
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
1. Bailey Quarters 2. Bailey Quarters
― David R., Wednesday, 18 July 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve Carell is a perfect choice for Maxwell Smart, despite his recent Noah debacle.
How would you make a WKRP movie? Radio stations don't work like that anymore. And we already have FM and Private Parts if you want movies about radio people.
Two best things about FM:
1. Martin Mull 2. the theme song
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
How would you make a WKRP movie? Radio stations don't work like that anymore
WKRP at the University of Cincinatti
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
How would you make a WKRP movie?
duuuuuuuude you'd set it in the 70's duuuuude
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuckin' great, Will Ferrell as Johnny Fever.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
yesssssssssssssss Jessica Simpson as Jennifer Marlowe
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Jamie Foxx as Venus Flytrap
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Howard Hessman as Mr. Carlson
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
the episode with WREQ "Ramblin Wreck radio" is a reference to the station I work for!
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Who is perfect enough to be Bailey?
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, I got it: Hope Davis.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I would prefer Anne Hathaway.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I think this must have been one of the first US comedies I saw (aprt from possibly Soap). Totally great. I assumed completely that this was what America was like.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The Thanksgiving Day turkey drop -- "Oh the humanity!"
― nickn, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I also remember that after the Who concert in Cincinatti where 11 people were killed in the crush at the doors, they did an episode that had that event as the main focus. Starts with someone mentioning it after getting a phone call and others in the office not believing it. It was done fairly soon after the real event. I was pretty impressed with a sitcom gettin' real like that.
Errmmm, and Bailey Quarters.
― nickn, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish one of the cable networks had it on in reruns.
Wild guess: a problem with getting all the rights to all the music.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's why it wasn't on DVD for the longest time. A problem since rectified.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Same problem for the best show ever, China Beach.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Some say it will never come out.
This thread needs more pictures.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, well, I still can't buy that set if there's no "Do you hear dogs barking?" "I do." scene.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost of Bailey
― kenan, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
My random favorite song drop-in:
"We've only just begunnnnnnnnnn..."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Maura Tierney could be Bailey.
Favorite moment: Venus Flytrap: On the air? I AM the air!
― craven, Thursday, 19 July 2007 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Maura's too old now (she's married to Luka! And has a baby!), but she is the right type.
― nickn, Thursday, 19 July 2007 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember one guy's sunglasses but not much else.
― youn, Thursday, 19 July 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
....oh yeah, BOOOOOGERRRRRR!!!!!
― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 19 July 2007 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link
the one where they fool the consultant that mother carlson hires slays me every time. the big guy is over worked, jennifer's a ditz, and the scene where venus pulls a switchblade on johnny fucking kills me.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 July 2007 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
who is smarmy enough to play herb? i can totally see dwight from the office as les nesman.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 July 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hoodlum rock. Two steps below punk rock."
― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 19 July 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought I read somewhere that the DVD sets have replaced original songs with "soundalikes."
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 July 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Sadly the case, it seems. Fuller details down towards the bottom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRP
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 July 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"hit the road... DUNGAREE."
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought this was interesting (http://members.allstream.net/~jacjud/wkrpmusic.html):
"WKRP was produced by MTM Enterprises, but in the mid-'90s MTM was bought out by Pat Robertson's International Family Entertainment (which also owned the Family Channel in the U.S.), and then in 1997 International Family Entertainment was bought by 20th Century-Fox. Fox soon shut down the struggling MTM Enterprises. So currently Fox owns the rights to WKRP, and since the "redubbed" versions did not start to appear until the videotape set in 1998, a year after Fox bought MTM, I think it's quite possible that the music changes were made by Fox (other MTM shows, like "St. Elsewhere," also had some music changed around this time). But on the other hand, it's equally possible that the changes were made while MTM was the nominally independent but financially-strapped property of International Family Entertainment."
PAT ROBERTSON IS BEHIND THIS!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Today in 1979, Dr. Johnny Fever shows up at WKRP hung over and just does whatever the fuck he wants. pic.twitter.com/wLdo8HXxxZ— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) October 14, 2021
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 January 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
My man would've been around 39 years old in that shot.
― pplains, Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
He and Richard Sanders are/were basically the same age.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
Aaaaand Gordon Jump was 47 in '79. Goodnight everyone!
― pplains, Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
Hesseman almost six months older than Sanders!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
Held his own at the table with Jack and Kathy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bywUe7ZBAtU
― pplains, Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
RIP Johnny Fever
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 30 January 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link
Only discovered this show in the last year, it’s so great. I kind of don’t want to watch all the episodes too quickly.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 30 January 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
savor them like malt liquor
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 31 January 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
Black Death Malt Liquor!
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzMwM2E4NWQtZTUzMi00YjU2LWJmOTQtNzY1YmE1ZmUxNjA5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjUxMjc1OTM@._V1_UY1200_CR576,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 January 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link
With his disdain for MOR, and his refusal to "play the hits", was Dr. Johnny Fever the first rockist character in popular culture?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 31 January 2022 05:12 (two years ago) link
Probably. Apparently Hesseman and Reid quickly became responsible for whatever their respective characters played on the show, with Dr. Fever hitting with an interesting mix of '50s Oldies (Bo Diddley, Elvis), Hippie Faves (Van Morrison, Grateful Dead, Hendrix), and most surprisingly, a good bit of New Wave (Pretenders, Blondie). He even plays the odd Rock-Disco track, despite being vehemently anti-Disco.
There's a funny moment in one ep where Andy Travis tells Johnny that he'll "shoot him if he plays that song again"; said song is not named, but it's implied that it's something from the first B-52's album, which we saw him cue up in the previous scene.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 January 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link
The Decades HD channel will be showing 24 Fever-centric episodes tommorow starting at 12:00 PM EST.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
Here's today's schedule: https://www.decades.com/schedule/
Nicely picked, even though with 24 episodes we don't get the Rip Tide ep, the station bombing two-parter (PHONE COPS!), or the series finale, where Johnny saves the day and the station from a format change.
Also, for some reason the last one they're showing has the wrong title or episode description.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
If you care more about musical cues than picture quality, Internet Archive has VHS rips with all the original music—albeit, two episodes per file, which makes it annoying to add to Plex or other home media servers.
― blatherskite, Saturday, 5 February 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
was Dr. Johnny Fever the first rockist character in popular culture?
I might go with Paul LeMat/John Milner in American Graffiti, when "Surfin' Safari" comes over the car radio: "I don't like that surfing shit. Rock'n Roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died."
(Which only makes sense in the context of 1962--the Beach Boys, obviously, ended up on the other side of that divide.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 February 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
Milner is a good one, and taking it back to TV, I imagine Fonzie or Richie Cunningham was pretty '50s Rockist on Happy Days, which predates WKRP.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
Ick, they're using the old syndication versions, and whoo-boy those replacement cues are awful!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
One neat thing about this though is that the version of "The Contest Nobody Could Win" has the original, lighter ending with Vincent Schiavelli as the scammer who attempts to steal the prize money before getting found out by Johnny. This version wasn't included in the box set.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
One last thought on the "first rockist" question. I really don't want to detour the WKRP thread--actually looked for an "origins of rockism" thread, and even though there are five screens of rockism threads, none are on the origins.
Anyway, a drunk David Proval/Tony in Mean Streets, same year as American Graffiti: "Play only old ones tonight...only old ones." I think there's sort of an implied rockism there. (His request is followed by the Chips' "Rubber Biscuit," vintage doo-wop.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
Had no idea there were two endings to The Contest!
― pplains, Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
I don’t know whose hand she’s holding but I invite you to join me in imagining it’s Herb Tarlek’s. pic.twitter.com/mrkQiVuFFv— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) March 7, 2022
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 01:33 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2Nja7Vb.jpg
Well, it's not Herb Tarlek, but ... one of the Waltons?
(Hi, Lou.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link
Good catch--it was Judy Norton Taylor, a/k/a Mary Ellen Walton.
This was from the "Battle of the Network Stars," memorably sent up by SNL as "Battle of the Network Ts and As."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 02:48 (two years ago) link
Well, that's not a nice way to refer to Ed Asner!
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 03:07 (two years ago) link
Don't devalue Asner's tits!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 04:23 (two years ago) link
Anyone know what this shirt was about? Looks like it said "Firme" or something, very glittery.
https://i.imgur.com/P5Wvpmj.jpg
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 2 April 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
This eBay store is selling off Howard Hesseman's record collection: https://www.ebay.com/str/bananalouiestore
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Some rad shit in there... hardly any bids, either
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
wow he really was johnny fever eh?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 29 April 2022 09:40 (one year ago) link
Got my eye on that August 1979 Trouser Press.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link
May and September 1979 too.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPibSwtZhzw
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 June 2022 03:09 (one year ago) link
i die every timethe classic-est
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
They've started showing it on Decades, but they're the ones with the soundalikes. That episode was on tonight, with <the moment> now soundtracked by a similar riff and an ott cock rock vocal singing on the nose lyrics about how "You got style!"
Terrible, but still funny.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 June 2022 05:15 (one year ago) link
yeah foreigner makes it extra-funny
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 05:46 (one year ago) link
https://super70ssports.com/arcade/turkey-drop/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
Jan Smithers was a singer in a group called Hot Cup of Friends in 1973. She was the girlfriend of the band leader, who was Henry Mancini’s son
This was posted on fb, including a link to a Midnight Special in which this group appears (at about 37:00 if this link doesn't go the correct spot).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_XNR6QwMg
― nickn, Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:01 (four months ago) link
OK, may have to rewind a bit.