# Name the show. No cheating and looking things up like a sneaky cheater! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007 "2011-11-24T23:23:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/41 "2011-11-25T20:08:17Z")
“My name is Rusty Shackelford.” ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/42 "2011-11-25T20:15:48Z")
Marta, Lars, Nels and Dagmar ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/43 "2011-11-25T20:18:53Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Ernie Kovacs? If he said it, I never heard him. > [@Colibri](#): > > Foghorn Leghorn He DID say that, didn’t he? But not the show I had in mind. > [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > Firefly? > > edit - [spoiler] > Yeah, I was probably wrong. Knew it was said with a Southern or a “cowboy” accent. > > It’s also said by the Engineer in Team Fortress 2 in addition to whatever tv show you’re referring to.[/spoiler] Wow. Popular line, I guess. I might have to do some rhetorical tap dancing to plausibly insist that I really am thinking of the show that this is a HUGE hint for… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/44 "2011-11-25T21:28:36Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > “My name is Rusty Shackelford.” _King of the Hill_ TW3 ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/45 "2011-11-25T21:29:05Z")
“He’s as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/46 "2011-11-25T22:19:32Z")
> [@Tibbytoes](#): > > Marta, Lars, Nels and Dagmar _Mama_, the televison show as differentiated from the movie _I Remember Mama_. We had the book in our house because we’re a Norwegian family and this is a distinctly Norwegian (immigrant) story. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/47 "2011-11-25T22:23:01Z")
Chuck, Ned, Emerson, Lilly and Vivian - and don’t forget Olive. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/48 "2011-11-25T22:32:25Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Chuck, Ned, Emerson, Lilly and Vivian - and don’t forget Olive. Pushing Daisies- Lilly & Vivian being known professionally as the Darling Mermaid Darlings Ellen, Eunice, and- depending on the incarnation- Larry, Jack, Philip, and Vinton ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/49 "2011-11-25T23:03:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _Punkin’ Puss & Mushmouse_? (I think I asked about that cartoon a couple of years ago, mis-remembering the character as ‘Possum Puss’.) Nope, though you caused me to doubt my memory. A pause and a hard think made me realize I was remembering correctly. It did indeed have to do with “hillbilly” cartoon characters, but it was a different cartoon studio’s portrayal. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/50 "2011-11-25T23:12:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ‘I’d like a chance to shoot at a educated man once in my life.’ Lonesome Dove? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/51 "2011-11-25T23:12:43Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > _Mama_, the televison show as differentiated from the movie _I Remember Mama_. We had the book in our house because we’re a Norwegian family and this is a distinctly Norwegian (immigrant) story. Bingo! And, the more famous [Dagmar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_%28American_actress%29)(Virginia Ruth Egnor)of [Broadway Open House](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Xi2YxXtJ8)fame (and other 50’s variety shows to follow), was given her stage name by BOH host, Jerry Lester, in reference to the popular sit-com [Mama](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q2rzfOaLyA)’s younger sister, \*Dagmar Hansen \*(Robin Morgan). ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/52 "2011-11-25T23:21:33Z")
“This is the city…Los Angeles, California…” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/53 "2011-11-25T23:30:20Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > “This is the city…Los Angeles, California…” > ~VOW Dragnet OK, here’s a toughie: _“Hello, Joe! Hello, Mr. Dunahee..hee..hee…hee…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/54 "2011-11-25T23:30:48Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > “This is the city…Los Angeles, California…” > ~VOW Dragnet! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/55 "2011-11-25T23:48:21Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Sorry, turkey day duties called me away. Yes, you’re right, and it was Arte Johnson as the dirty old man who’d say this - to Ruth Buzzy as Gladys Ormphby, IIRC. You forgot the _name_ of Arte Johnson’s character: Tyrone F. Hornigh > [@teela\_brown](#): > > “It’s possbull, it’s possbull . . .” _Deputy Dawg_ > [@Tibbytoes](#): > > OK, here’s a toughie: > _“Hello, Joe! Hello, Mr. Dunahee..hee..hee…hee…”_ I remember it well from _The Jackie Gleason Show_ but don’t remember the name of the character. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/56 "2011-11-25T23:58:07Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I remember it well from _The Jackie Gleason Show_ > but don’t remember the name of the character. Well, he was one _crazy_ dude, I’ll tell you that… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/57 "2011-11-26T00:30:35Z")
> [@2nd\_Law](#): > > Lonesome Dove? Just watched it last night. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/58 "2011-11-26T01:12:50Z")
> [@Tibbytoes](#): > > Well, he was one _crazy_ dude, I’ll tell you that… Gotcha! A-hee-hee-heee! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/59 "2011-11-26T01:32:52Z")
Somebody mentioned TW3: That Was The Week That Was! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-show-no-cheating-and-looking-things-up-like-a-sneaky-cheater/604007/60 "2011-11-26T03:38:29Z")
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