WKRP in Cin-ci-naaat-tiiiii....

12 year old me found loni anderson super repulsive,which in retrospect is really weird

xp Cool, thanks for posting that. Interesting, they did mention the Who a couple of times, but didn't play any of their songs. Looks like they have Herb taking the Walter Cronkite ("drug-crazed mob of kids") / Mike Royko ("barbarians") role.

found loni anderson super repulsive,which in retrospect is really weird

i dunno. Her helmet hair never really did much for me, either.

i'm sure that was it but odd to be so discerning at the outset of puberty

I feel it's my duty to at least make an appearance in this thread.

bailey quarters

So many misspellings of Cincinnati ;_;

As God is my witness

Oh, the humanity.

Antenna TV is showing that ep 4 times tomorrow.

I love Antenna. Mainly because they show WKRP.

http://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-away-an-oral-history/

...wait. This existed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_WKRP_in_Cincinnati

Shh, we all agreed to never speak of it again.

Apparently in the reunion episode, they explained Bailey's absence by saying she couldn't get away from her duties as the mayor of Ann Arbor.

Also her dignity.

I watched New WKRP for a while. It was not good. French Stewart.

looking for the parody of the video for u2's 'numb' the NEW wkrp in cincinatti did when it was on vh1 i came across this which may be of interest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-2D4UPkug

commentary by howard cosell and billy crystal

that was fucking excruciating

70s were some dark shit

this is a very serious girl, in point of fact

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/1-29-2014/7GxFYQ.gif

Every time I roll through or to Cincy going north on I-75 I hear the theme song come into my head. I actually stayed at the Radison right on the river in Covington last year when I went up for a Reds game and was probably a pretty new hotel when you see it on the opening credits for WKRP. It's a pretty swanky hotel, definitely a very 1970s building.

idgi is that nicklaus? i thought he was from columbus.

That's Dick Van Patten. He's from "Eight is Enough".

famed dog food vendor dick van patten

Oh wow, on the related videos list for that Smithers' dunk tank thing, there's one of those w/Robert Urich dunking Catherine "Cathy" Bach.

Van Patten OTM, if somewhat unsubtle about it.

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/WKRP-Cincinnati-The-Complete-Series/19780

please, please, please, let me get what i want, with the original music cues.

http://www.avclub.com/article/10-episodes-screwball-hilarity-and-social-commenta-205282

Herb, seeing an opportunity to get the station’s counterculture element out of the way, makes a rousing, delusional speech to Les about “the dungarees versus the suits,” hoping that for once his fellow suits would end up on top.

I don't think I ever saw this one.

Amazing the turkey episode was seven episodes into the whole series.

That was the one where they had the $5000 contest to identify a sequence of drops from songs including "The Spar-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key."

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/tvandmediablog/2014/06/06/wkrp-in-cincinnati-howard-hesseman-loni-anderson-tim-reid-shout-factory-vietnam-war/10019209/

^^ Great link, just for the 1978/2007 parallel video alone.

"In Concert" was a more accurate reporting of that tragedy, and what caused it, than most contemporary mainstream news stories.

^^ Great link, parallel video gave me an idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSTF1Z9i7Y

Forget that last one, here's a final version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfQdvXkTZd8

Okay, looks like they've released info on what music made the cut and what didn't:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/wkrp-in-cincinnati-to-be-reissued-with-most-of-its-original-soundtrack/

Scroll down for the full list. Here's what didn't make it, sadly:

A notable absence is Pink Floyd’s “Dogs”, which was heavily featured in the show’s most popular episode “Turkeys Away”. Other choice songs missing include The Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA”, The Beatles’ “Come Together”, Devo’s “Whip It!”, The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me”, and U2’s “I Will Follow”.

But on the bright side Foreigner did make it, meaning we get the Les Nessman "Hot Blooded" moment.

Roger Waters, why you wanna break heart?

Related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udDCBsutHzA

I wonder what they'll use in that scene instead.

Strange that AC/DC of all acts were all, sure go ahead, while something like "You Really Got Me" - a song that I could've sworn was played in the ad for Problem Child IV - is snipped.

I was wondering about the Kinks, too; I assume it has something to do with the parts of the Kinks catalog that are controlled by Allen Klein('s estate).

It's funny, I went on a quest last night to find any classic rock songs with dogs barking (that could replace FLOYD).

It was all Beach Boys and Beatles.

I was wondering about that too, and I'm hoping they went with this:
http://youtu.be/8U9uGSGUliM

"I hear them."

http://i.imgur.com/6e2bCDJ.jpg

I have been watching WKRP for the first time, thanks to Mr Veg being a longtime fan & I have to say I loved it from the first ep. I’m partway into S2 and we watch 2 episodes every night at dinner.

I love Les Nessman SO much, especially his SSSS SSSS SSS laugh. All the characters are great - it’s impressive how well-defined the characters were right from the pilot.And sometimes the episodes really get to me! I loved the episode with Venus’s backstory about being a Vietnam deserter - it was so heavy & it was handled well I thought. And shit, they can even get me misty-eyed over corny old Herb watching slideshows of his kids. Or Johnny Fever playing James Taylor for the teenage mom who abandoned her baby - that made me BAWL and I pretty much hate James Taylor lol

And Gordon Jump’s mannerisms, his physical comedy, everything about the way he plays Mr Carlson is just so damn great.

But: The invisible door to Les’s “office” is my favorite gag.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Br0u0zSCIAE0g-s.jpg

Haven't watched it in a long time; I expect I'd still find it very funny. The one thing where I think the series would benefit if it had been done today would be a greater attention to music. Obviously, they could have done a lot with that, but shows just didn't do that sort of thing then, not even one set at a radio station. (I recall that they'd occasionally mix in a song, but I don't remember anything specific, and not anything particularly good.)

(And would still be madly in love with Jan Smithers.)

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1449/0596/products/Turkey_Drop.jpg?v=1518461572