# A new obscure TV Trivia thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889 "2006-04-01T23:16:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/41 "2006-04-04T01:49:42Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > W6. Who provided the voice for “The Great Gazoo” on **The Flintstones**? Harvey Korman ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/42 "2006-04-04T07:03:12Z")
What state was Bilko’s base in? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/43 "2006-04-04T12:05:20Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > On an episode of _Good Times_ Florida, when asked by a white yuppie liberal couple if she’d seen _Roots_, Florida stated “Kunta Kinte is making more money than any of us now” and the audience erupted in laughter and some applause. Why was this joke so funny to them at the time? (Fairly easy in-joke.) The joke was funny because John Amos (who played James Evans, her husband) played Kunte Kinte as an adult. IIRC, he left the series somewhere around that point to pursue a movie career or was gone for an extended period to make the mini-series. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/44 "2006-04-04T17:29:30Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Identify the actors who portrayed the following “Batman” villains: > > -the Siren > -Lola Lasagna > -the Black Widow > -Chandell 1. Joan Collins 2. Ethel Merman 3. Carolyn Jones 4. Liberace (also played Chandell’s evil twin brother “Fingers”) And one more chance at my unanswered ones(with hints): W1. On the final season of “Coach”, what was the name of the NFL team Hayden Fox coached? (City does not have an NFL team) W2. And who played the owner? (Veteran of 2 other successful sitcoms on the same network) W3. On “Blackadder”, which episode did Hugh Laurie guest star in the season before he played Prince George? (2nd season, one word title, “goblins”) W4. Who played a recurring character on **The Brady Bunch** and **The May Tyler Moore Show**? (and probably helped both shows jump the shark) W5. On Comedy Central’s **Sports Monster** , which MLB team did Joe Bolster formerly play for? (No longer exists as that team)? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/45 "2006-04-04T17:54:36Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > W1. On the final season of “Coach”, what was the name of the NFL team Hayden Fox coached? (City does not have an NFL team) > W2. And who played the owner? (Veteran of 2 other successful sitcoms on the same network) The Orlando Breakers, and Katherine Helmond played the owner. > [@](#): > > W4. Who played a recurring character on **The Brady Bunch** and **The May Tyler Moore Show**? (and probably helped both shows jump the shark[ Based on your hint, I’m going to take a WAG and say Robbie Rist. He was Cousin Oliver on _The Brady Bunch_, and I have a vague recollection of him being on a few episodes of _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_, but I can’t remember who he played or anything about him. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/46 "2006-04-04T18:02:57Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > W4. Who played a recurring character on **The Brady Bunch** and **The May Tyler Moore Show**? (and probably helped both shows jump the shark) Robbie Rist (Cousin Oliver/The Baxters’ kid) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/47 "2006-04-04T18:05:26Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > The Orlando Breakers, and Katherine Helmond played the owner. > > Based on your hint, I’m going to take a WAG and say Robbie Rist. He was Cousin Oliver on _The Brady Bunch_, and I have a vague recollection of him being on a few episodes of _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_, but I can’t remember who he played or anything about him. Right, right and right! Robbie Rist played Ted and Georgette’s adopted son David. He was actually _good_ in one particular ep–when he was being a total brat and Ted decided to spank him–and of course went to Lou’s office for advice: Ted: Lou, I need your office, I wanna spank my kid! Lou: No, you don’t. Ted: Yes, I do! You got a hairbrush? David: What would _he_ be doing with a hairbrush? Lou(after angry pause): Go ahead, spank him! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/48 "2006-04-04T21:40:59Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > The joke was funny because John Amos (who played James Evans, her husband) played Kunte Kinte as an adult. IIRC, he left the series somewhere around that point to pursue a movie career or was gone for an extended period to make the mini-series. In a recent interview he said he was basically fired. (For 25+ years he’d let it be said he quit.) Norman Lear basically got tired of him constantly complaining about the character and the show and threatening to storm off if they didn’t let James catch a break and stop making JJ such a buffoon, and he let him go. It didn’t greatly hurt Amos who has never stopped working, and I think he was totally justified in his complaints about the show (as was Esther Rolle who left of her own accord when her contract was up but came back a year later due to $). What long running BBC series about a black barber did John Amos star in several unsold pilots for in an American version PRproduced by Eddie Murphy? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/49 "2006-04-04T22:10:10Z")
W3 “Chains” He played the German Master of disguise, who wound up displacing Miranda Richardson’s character. I like to pretend that this is why the Prince Regent looks so much like him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/50 "2006-04-04T22:17:40Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > W3 “Chains” He played the German Master of disguise, who wound up displacing Miranda Richardson’s character. > > I like to pretend that this is why the Prince Regent looks so much like him. 😃 There’s no pretense necessary–how do you think the royal line suddenly became German? And, for the record, I had forgotten about that one. I was thinking of “Beer”, where he played one of the guests at the drinking party (“sounds a bit…RUDE, doesn’t it?”). So I guess you got me on that one! The “Sports Monster” question is probably too obscure–the answer is the Montreal Expos. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/51 "2006-04-06T07:46:32Z")
Unanswered questions: 20. Adam (Pernell Roberts). 21. Randy. 22. “Peggy.” 30. The music stopped. 31. He disliked it–he was more at home with the cold, damp climate of St. Louis. 33. Her cat Rusty. 🙂 34. I don’t know this one myself. 😕 Here are more: 35. \*\*The Beverly Hillbillies: \*\* Larry Pennell played an actor whose stage name was “Dash Riprock.” What was the character’s “real” name? 36. \*\*The Munsters: \*\* What was under the staircase in the Munsters’ house? 37. \*\*Captain Midnight: \*\* How much was the show’s weekly prop budget? 38. \*\*The Bugs Bunny Show: \*\* What voice-over phrase introduced Bugs as star each week? 39. \*\*Mannix: \*\* Who was Mike Conners’ co-star before Gail Fisher? 40. \*\*The Bob Newhart Show \*\* (beginning in 1969): What bookends did Dr. Bob Hartley have on a shelf in the background in his office? 41. \*\*One Day at a Time: \*\* What did Ann Romano have hanging on the outside of her bathroom door? 42. \*\*Dragnet \*\* (1966-70): What was the name of Officer Gannon’s wife? (Whoever says “Mrs. Gannon” will be shot at sunrise.) 😃 43. \*\*Full House: \*\* What was the name of the family dog? 44. \*\*Candid Camera: \*\* Who served as Allen Funt’s co-host when Durward Kirby left? 45. **Car 54, Where Are You?:** In the show’s song, who does it say is due at “Idelwild”? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/52 "2006-04-06T08:06:21Z")
[QUOTE=dougie\_monty] 1. \*\*The Beverly Hillbillies: \*\* Larry Pennell played an actor whose stage name was “Dash Riprock.” What was the character’s “real” name? Homer Noodleman (which I swear I knew, nto that I’m proud of it). Follow up: who pretended to be Homer’s father in one episode? > [@](#): > > 1. \*\*The Munsters: \*\* What was under the staircase in the Munsters’ house? Grandpa’s lab and the dragon. > [@](#): > > 1. \*\*One Day at a Time: \*\* What did Ann Romano have hanging on the outside of her bathroom door? A bicycle horn (I think- I can almost see it but not quite). > [@](#): > > 1. **Car 54, Where Are You?:** In the show’s song, who does it say is due at “Idelwild”? Kruschev. 46. What 1960s sitcom classic starred the world’s youngest self-made millionaire in a supporting role? (Hint: he was one of the first real troubled child-stars.) 1. Who was Mr. Drysdale’s favorite super hero (mentioned on several episodes)? 2. In _Little House on the Prairie_, what was the occupation of: a. Mrs. Olesen’s first love, who jilted her at the altar? b. Mr. Olesen’s sister? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/53 "2006-04-06T08:12:53Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 1. Who was Mr. Drysdale’s favorite super hero (mentioned on several episodes)? Super-Banker/Money Man (“Faster than a foreclosure”). ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/54 "2006-04-06T11:39:31Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. \*\*The Munsters: \*\* What was under the staircase in the Munsters’ house? Thing, the family pet. > [@](#): > > 1. \*\*Full House: \*\* What was the name of the family dog? Comet. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/55 "2006-04-06T12:19:46Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 1. In _Little House on the Prairie_, what was the occupation of: > a. Mrs. Olesen’s first love, who jilted her at the altar? > b. Mr. Olesen’s sister? a. a minister b. the circus fat lady ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/56 "2006-04-06T13:48:09Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. \*\*The Bugs Bunny Show: \*\* What voice-over phrase introduced Bugs as star each week? “And now, here’s that Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny!” ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/57 "2006-04-06T13:59:23Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > **42. Dragnet (1966-70): What was the name of Officer Gannon’s wife?** This was driving me crazy! Was it Eileen? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/58 "2006-04-06T14:06:36Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Thing, the family pet. Thing was the hand character on _The Addams Family_. Spot was the name of the Munster’s pet under the stairs. ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/59 "2006-04-06T14:07:33Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. \*\*The Munsters: \*\* What was under the staircase in the Munsters’ house? Spot, their pet dragon ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/60 "2006-04-06T14:08:12Z")
And Grampa Munster’s lab was accessed by a trap door in the parlor, not by the stairs under the stairs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889.md?page=4)