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
Yeah, that's why it wasn't on DVD for the longest time. A problem since rectified.
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
i loved this show when i was a kid i don't remember why or much about it though, which is weird
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I've listened to two very different versions of the theme song. I'm wondering if it too was replaced (or perhaps re-recorded during the shows actual run).
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I like this bit about the closing theme:
The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits", was a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Wilson decided it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs.[3] Also, since CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, Wilson knew that no one would actually hear the closing theme lyrics anyway. In one pop-cultural nod to the closing theme, a character performs the song in the film Ready to Rumble.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, that's really interesting. This was a fantastic show.
― Bimble, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i love this show and if it ever gets on cable again with the original music i'm taping every episode.
did "spap oop" from from WKRP?
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 19 July 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
WGN is now airing WKRP on Sundays (7pm eastern, 4 pacific)!
― kate78, Monday, 21 July 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
dammit, wgn america has a different broadcast schedule than local wgn.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
If you get the "American Life" network, they show it sometimes, including tonight at 10.
― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 21 July 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uH76COzk8
^^^ USEFUL
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
holy shit thats amazing
― roy division, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
― Hubie Brown, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"Oh, the humanity!"
― kate78, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
season one on hulu
― dell, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link
dude who wrote closing theme is the dad of girl i work with
― and what, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
the lyrics to that are great
― dell, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits", was a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Wilson decided it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs.[8] Also, since CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, Wilson knew that no one would actually hear the closing theme lyrics anyway. In one pop-cultural nod to the closing theme, a character performs the song in the film Ready to Rumble.
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
FM is about to come on VH1 Classic.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost yeah, whatever. These are the lyrics:
Gotta foot Saturday and a little lack-of-silence affair Going to this party got some gin and it'll be aw-haw Gotta pull the socket me and peter pack some gin aw-haw Said i'm good, good, and i'll do a lot of better aw-haw
― dell, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
does it have the original music or did they have to replace the songs like on the dvd?
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't actually watched any episodes, so I'm not sure!
― dell, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
One of my favorites was the two parter where Venus and Johnny Fever end up at the transmitter where a bomb is located. The part where Fever comes running into the station office all druggy paranoid going off on how the phone cops are after him is fantastic.
There is also a hilarious scene where Les Nessman puts on a big curly toupee while the station is playing something like Foreigner's Hot Blooded.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 02:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm watching The Insider, and just spotted Gary Sandy in a small role. Checking online for confirmation, I was reminded of this 1966 Newsweek cover with Jan Smithers:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_isUvlzkZPIQ/R0W0y4UcfEI/AAAAAAAABH8/zrmIhmmnQRk/s200/175px-Newsweek_March_21_1966.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 31 October 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6hDZt1e0ofY/SqLjY8NMnWI/AAAAAAAAG-0/KMxGL8f4L7k/s400/jan+smithers.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 31 October 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
She kind of looks like the young Susan Dey in that photo.
― clemenza, Monday, 31 October 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
Wanna Mr. Burns that Smithers.
― bear has little fear of hades (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 31 October 2011 03:06 (twelve 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, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:30 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark
Errmmm, and Bailey Quarters.
― nickn, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:30 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark
iirc, the plot revolved around the fact that the station had given away tickets to that show. But they never mentioned the Who by name, instead calling it "the big concert," and playing a lot of Who songs in the episode.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 31 October 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, you're right.
And here's the entire episode rightcheer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch92FIHx-Hs
― pplains, Monday, 31 October 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
12 year old me found loni anderson super repulsive,which in retrospect is really weird
― How many socks do you 'deploy' ? (buzza), Monday, 31 October 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 31 October 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
found loni anderson super repulsive,which in retrospect is really weird
i dunno. Her helmet hair never really did much for me, either.
― Aimless, Monday, 31 October 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sure that was it but odd to be so discerning at the outset of puberty
― How many socks do you 'deploy' ? (buzza), Monday, 31 October 2011 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
I feel it's my duty to at least make an appearance in this thread.
― Herbert Ruggles Tarlek Jr. (get bent), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link
bailey quarters
― j., Wednesday, 3 July 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
So many misspellings of Cincinnati ;_;
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 05:28 (ten years ago) link
As God is my witness
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
Oh, the humanity.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
Antenna TV is showing that ep 4 times tomorrow.
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 November 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
I love Antenna. Mainly because they show WKRP.
― SWM seeks intrinsically and gravely disordered action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 November 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
http://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-away-an-oral-history/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
OK, may have to rewind a bit.
― nickn, Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:01 (four months ago) link