# Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. - new Disney reboot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [September 14, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648 "2021-09-14T14:12:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/21 "2021-09-15T16:05:19Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I really only see laugh track sitcoms on ABC and CBS nowadays. I can’t think of any direct-to-streaming shows that use one. _Alexa & Katie_, for one example. It was another show supposed to be a mix of comedy and drama, though it only _very_ occasionally decided to touch seriously on what was supposed to be the main conceit of the series, that the main character had leukemia. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GwmSMHG8VRg/maxresdefault.jpg "The Breakfast Song | Alexa & Katie | Netflix After School") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmSMHG8VRg) _No Good Nick_ is another one. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DWpcqSqP6-I/maxresdefault.jpg "Nick Meets the Thompson Family 👪 No Good Nick | Netflix After School") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpcqSqP6-I) Those are two that I personally happened to watch. Probably plenty more tween/teen streaming shows like them. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/22 "2021-09-15T20:33:32Z")
The actress who plays the doctor was the star of the Disney show Andi Mack. That didn’t have a sound track, either (that show may also be notable for being the first teen series where one of the kids comes out as gay). ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/23 "2021-09-15T20:35:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > a father who is a doofus surfer-dude type who quit his day job to start a food truck that sells shaved ice and flowers. The father is played by Jason Scott Lee, who played Bruce Lee in “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/24 "2021-09-15T22:43:02Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Nah, she records a short video. Whether it was a diary or an instatok post wasn’t obvious from the first episode. Obviously, a sing-along vlog. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/25 "2021-09-17T04:12:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The actress who plays the doctor was the star of the Disney show Andi Mack. That didn’t have a sound track, either (that show may also be notable for being the first teen series where one of the kids comes out as gay). Okay, this one confused me for a minute. I was thinking _“That show was on a long time ago. There’s no way the actress who played Andi Mack is young enough to be playing a teenager in this new series.”_ And then I figured out Andi Mack is not the same character as Alex Mack. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/26 "2021-09-23T04:42:53Z")
> [@naita](#): > > The first episode is pretty much the same as the pilot of the original, with some scenes repeated line by line. I recently rewatched the pilot of Doogie Houser\* and you weren’t kidding. It had been a couple of decades since I had seen it and I had remembered nothing. (I also hadn’t remembered this point about your post and came here to point the same thing out.) I made a comparison of the openings of the two. This is the first scene of DH and the second scene of DK: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Awp0ZGBZ3-8/hqdefault.jpg "Doogie vs Doogie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awp0ZGBZ3-8) \*The whole series is on [archive.org](http://archive.org). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/27 "2021-09-23T06:07:25Z")
I only saw one episode of Doogie Houser, and the kid was attending a woman giving birth. She was screaming her head off and there was blood and guts everywhere - and there was the hero who would have been more realistic riding his bike to a baseball game. I couldn’t watch a childbirth scene myself, much less with a woman screaming in pain. And the kid taking it all in stride creeped me out so much I never watched it again. NOT. Funny. I would have been screaming, too, for him to get the F out and for them to bring in a real doctor, not that little freak. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/28 "2021-09-23T13:50:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I recently rewatched the pilot of Doogie Houser\* and you weren’t kidding. It had been a couple of decades since I had seen it and I had remembered nothing. (I also hadn’t remembered this point about your post and came here to point the same thing out.) > > I made a comparison of the openings of the two. This is the first scene of DH and the second scene of DK: Yeah, I realized I had Doogie Howser available a couple of months ago on one of the streaming services and thought that would be fun to rewatch. I think I only got through the pilot and half an episode, but the interrupted driving test was fresh in my mind when I watched the reboot and so obviously just recycled. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/29 "2021-09-23T20:45:58Z")
Why would it be funny? The show wasn’t a comedy. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/30 "2021-09-24T17:28:59Z")
It certainly had meant-to-be comical elements, it is described as a ‘comedy/drama/family’ show on IMDB…During that scene I remember, the attending medical people and the kid doctor, too - everyone very laid back and casual - just another day at work. ‘Ok, Betty, one more good push’. It rubbed me the wrong way, it might be realistic, but with little Doogie there,I think we were supposed to chuckle at his chill attitude. A young boy looking up a grown screaming woman’s vagina while she was giving birth with the same level of interest as looking at a dissected frog? I thought it was inappropriate and gross. (not the woman, the kid ). ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/31 "2021-09-29T08:31:14Z")
They had Phoebe do that on Friends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648.md?page=1)