Help me figure what show a friend is trying to remember

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There was also the dismal Nearly Departed, the worst thing anyone connected with Monty Python ever did.

The trope “only you can see or hear me” has been a part of TV comedy since Topper.

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Dammit. I actually had the right guess for this one, for once! But too late.
Screw it! I’m going for it anyway.

Was it Jennifer Slept Here? It sounds a bit like that… :slight_smile:

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I definitely remember the show, even some of the gags, but would not have been able to come up with the name.

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You obviously never saw Rutland Weekend on BBC in the '70s. Idle was in that, too.

I assume everyone knows that Topper was a series of films back in the '30s? :dubious: Cary Grant and Constance Bennett were the original Kerbys:

And, O God, yessssssssss, Ann Jillian was HOT, HOT, HOT!!! :cool:

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I’ve seen a few segments of Rutland Weekend, and anything that was the source of the Rutles can’t be all bad. Nearly Departed was all bad.

I remember a comment by one TV critic. Evidently they showed an episode then did a press conference with Idle. The critic said, basically, that everyone wanted to say, “You’re Eric Idle, a comic genius. Why are you doing this piece of crap?”

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Whoa. I was just thinking of Jennifer Slept Here a couple of days ago. (Some obscure line… “If I catch it, I’m here. If I don’t–” “We got ants.”)

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So the show he remembers with the dead husband or brother or parent turns out to be the one with the dead movie sexpot who only speaks to a 14-year old boy?

And I never thought Ann Jillian was as hot as Barrie Younfellow or even Wendy Schaal.

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This Wendy Schaal?

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Could be worse. It could be the one where young Susan shows up in the classroom. :smiley:

I’'ve had enough “I remember this…” and the correct answer turned out to be some variant of my recollection that I can overlook such mis-remembering. We scored another win, anyway.

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wasn’t the Johnny Miller show from 6-8 years ago something like that? Lot of strange stuff on it, and i think he got advice from a dead brother. or not.

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probably not Eli Stone. His dead father did appear a bit, but maybe as a flashback…

weird show, though.