I hated the Star Trek TOS episodes that had a “comic” end scene when they were on their merry way away from whichever planet it was, the comedy usually at the expense of Spock, accompanied by a plinky plonky “comic” tune on an ascending scale.
I hated that one. The whoie episode smacks of “comic relief”. All if needed was sad trombone. WAAA whaa!
Mac is mad at Pete because some psycho hose-beast is stalking Pete. How is that his fault? I guess “it’s funny when a man can’t control his woman”. In Jack Webb’s universe I guess.
I figure all that happened is Pete took her to bed, she was happy, and then she dumped him. Since he wasn’t emotionally invested in the “relationship”, that he wasn’t dreaming of his new life married to a rich heiress, he didn’t care. But, that’s the game she loved to play. She thinks she “won”. And he’s happy to be rid of her. I wish he could have kept he car - it’s just a gift from his “girlfriend”, not a bribe. It sure would have been better than that POS Matador he had.
(Thought, with the comic reliefness of the episode, it may have been meant that he actually DID murder her. WAAA whaa.)
Thanks for such a good name! I’ve always wondered what to call that awful music.
I’ve always called it the “Fuck you, Bozo!” music.
(If you grew up in Chicago, you probably know what I’m talking about.)
But I think the whole country heard the story. It was the first meme in our grade school.
I’m curious. Was it supposed to have happened in Chicago, or elsewhere?
I remember watching the show on WGN when I was on summer vacation in Joliet.
Anywhere that had a live Bozo show.
The ping-pong ball toss is the story I heard.
I once knew a guy from Lake Geneva, WI, who claimed to have seen the incident happen on live TV when he was a kid.
Lake Geneva would’ve gotten Chicago stations, so his story could be true (ask him which ending of BIG he saw).
The story we heard was set in Chicago, and had an undercurrent of “Oh, man, we never get to do cool stuff like big city kids!”…
In the seventh episode of the series, CHP Officer Jon Baker decided to write a novel about the misadventures of his partner – Officer Ponchariblo. No, that’s not a typo. The really bad part about this was the ending, with Jon realizing that he can only write clichés and Ponch desperately trying to keep Jon from ripping up everything he had written.
My ridiculous memory tells me that Ponchariblo was how the Captain initially pronounced Ponch’s name on his first day.
See, that’s even worse. The whole idea behind using “Ponchariblo” in Jon’s novel was to obscure anything Ponch had done and their superiors did not know about.
Yeah. If I recall correctly, there were a number of embarrassing comic relief things in CHIPS. Whenever there was a fad in the 1970s, CHIPS would have a scene or two featuring it - whether it was a Rubik’s Cube or a popout roller skate wheels
Speaking of CHiPs and roller skates, there’s the classic CHiPs “Roller Disco” episode. Looks cheesy now, but was pretty typical of 70’s shows:
Probably in an onion field somewhere.
If you watch the episode, it begins and ends on Silver Lake Blvd. in LA County with the reservoir in the background.
I interpret this as a (more or less) subtle clue as to what Malloy did with the body.