I’ve been catching up on some Larry Sanders Show episodes on IFC lately. In one episode from 1993 they had as guest stars John Ritter, Gene Siskel and Warren Zevon. All would be dead in 10 years. Ouch.
Of course, this just set me to Full Deathwatch Alert and it’s kind of frightening the percentage of LSS guest stars that have died since then. From on camera guests like Chris Farley to “guests” only mentioned in Hank’s intro like Cark Sagan.
I expect to see a high ratio of dead folk in shows from the 60s and such, but this is just from the early 90s.
I recently watched the whole first season of Bewitched on Hulu and, except for one episode that was obviously aired out of order, they were consistent on the household furnishings for a young married couple just moving into a new home (like not having any dishes yet) but the thing I really noticed was Samanatha’s necklace and her clothes. She wore the same necklace all the time, and many of her clothes would repeat from episode to episode, just like a real person!
I am embarrassed to admit that I have watched probably hundreds and hundreds of hours of Seinfeld but only realized recently that the Cousin Jeffry Uncle Leo always talks about was Leo’s son. I understood one was an Uncle and the other was a Cousin but I always just took it as a crazy relative always talking about someone else in the family that wasn’t Jerry.
I am not even sure what made me have the epiphany, just suddenly I realized they are father and son.
Yes, including George Plimpton, which is awesome.
(I’m assuming of course you are referring to the real Nero on A&E, not the fake one which ran on ABC a few years before, and which sucked. Archie walking past a marina, in Manhattan? :eek: )
We watched Secret Agent/Danger Man all the way through, and were amused to note that every hotel lobby, no matter which continent Drake was on, was the same redressed set. That’s true of other shows also, where the same locations are used for very different places.
There’s an early episode of The Simpsons (might be the one where Homer is accused of sexually harassing the baby sitter) where Homer says that all their problems will be gone once they move into a house under the sea. He even sings a little song about it. Marge says that’s his answer to everything, but it’s not gonna happen.
Years later, there’s a episode set in the future. Marge and Homer are divorced, and Homer is living in a house under the sea.
And at least one Danger Man episode takes place in… The Village.
Which, far from the quaint prison that it’s later portrayed as in The Prisoner, is a picturesque Italian village full of cliches like peasant kids and foreign artists painting landscapes…
That 70s Show and The Big Bang Theory are two recent shows that also do that. I like it. Especially in comparison to the “poor” family on Malcolm in the Middle. The kids always had new clothes and they were usually pretty high-end mall stuff too.
In the Spanish Inquisition sketch from Monty Python, when they’re on the bus during the end credits and Ximenez says, “Two, er, three for the Old Bailey”, I always thought it was an actual blooper that they left in. Watching it recently, I realized that Ximenez had trouble counting throughout the whole episode.
There’s a similar episode of SNL from the 80s that had Sam Kinison, Stevie Ray Vaughan and one of the first appearances of Phil Hartman (not a regular yet, just a featured player) in a skit. None of them made it to 2000.
Something I noticed yesterday - on the modern “Doctor Who”, whenever episodes are set on present day Earth, there is typically a cutaway to somebody watching a news report about the latest alien invasion. It’s always the same anchorwoman reporting on the story.
And another “Seinfeld” observation - I didn’t notice until I saw reruns just how radically different Elaine looked practically every year. Jerry, Kramer, George & Newman all look basically the same throughout the run of the show, but you can date the show from which hairstyle Julia Louis-Dreyfus had on then.
I watched Big Bang from the beginning, but I never noticed the theme of Sheldon’s tshirts until they were mentioned in a thread. They even have their own website, a lovely tribute to a show about computer geeks.
After seeing it mentioned here on The Dope, I started paying more attention to Sheldon’s T-shirts, and notice he wears The Flash one quite a bit. I noticed in one of the latest episodes that the shirt is getting old and the outer edges of the design is starting to peel off. I wonder if it will be replaced or will continue to deteriorate.
Another *Seinfeld *rerun revelation: I was watching one of the episodes with Susan’s family, including her angry little brother. Although I’d seen this episode many times before, I suddenly shouted, “That’s Detective Lassiter from Psych!”