# Alright G-d, We understand Johnny Cash, but... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 12, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-g-d-we-understand-johnny-cash-but/201220 "2003-09-12T16:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-g-d-we-understand-johnny-cash-but/201220/81 "2020-05-10T23:04:06Z")
This made-for-TV movie wasn’t my favorite John Ritter role, but it was definitely an excellent role for his best friend Henry Winkler. The movie is about a man with several children who owns a construction company and is going through a divorce from their mother that is amicable until she starts dating an unemployable, abusive psycho. The kids, of course, figure this out before she does, and in the end [Ritter’s character kills the boyfriend, and buries him under concrete in one of his projects[/spoiler] The casting was perfect, because Winkler played someone who is the polar opposite of his image. Yeah, it was cliched and all that, but I found it memorable because of who was in it. I remember watching it in a motel room while I had a traveling job, a couple years after it debuted, probably on Lifetime or some comparable channel. > **[The Only Way Out (TV Movie 1993) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107749/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_59)** > > The Only Way Out: Directed by Rod Hardy. With John Ritter, Henry Winkler, Stephanie Faracy, Sam Mancuso. Jeremy Carlisle's ex-wife Lynn is trying to stay away from her dangerously disturbed ex-boyfriend Tony, and Jeremy does all he can do protect his... ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-g-d-we-understand-johnny-cash-but/201220/82 "2020-05-10T23:36:03Z")
I’m still bummed about Vladek Sheybal’s passing. And I’m quite disturbed, no {{{_ **embittered** _}}} about the negligent lack of mention of maybe JR’s most sublime role, as the [genuine, scrupulous record producer](https://youtu.be/raHA3pzB2Kk?t=679) in Ringo’s All-Star TV Special from 1978. [Irrelevant but wonderful little taunting scene.](https://youtu.be/raHA3pzB2Kk?t=350) ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-g-d-we-understand-johnny-cash-but/201220/83 "2020-05-11T07:05:37Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > In the world of theater I’m familiar with - high school, college, and small-town community theater - they’re legitimate screwups which some youthful wiseacre manages to salvage with a perfectly timed comment. Maybe they begin that way. But if such an accident happens and the wiseacre comment ends up getting a bigger laugh than the actual written material, the performers might find it irresistible to stage the exact same accident in subsequent performances, no? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-g-d-we-understand-johnny-cash-but/201220/84 "2020-05-12T17:37:24Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I’m still bummed about Vladek Sheybal’s passing. . . . Oh, now, especially. He could write his own ticket for any movie calling for a Vladimir Putin type. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-g-d-we-understand-johnny-cash-but/201220.md?page=4)