# Northern Exposure **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285 "2010-03-21T23:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 21, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/1 "2010-03-21T23:38:22Z")
I’m watching an episode of _Northern Exposure_ that I recorded earlier today. It’s the one where Maggie’s boyfriend gets hit by a satellite, and Maurice sells his house to the gay couple and is upset when they think he’s gay. A good one. ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/2 "2010-03-21T23:47:36Z")
Whenever I think of Northern Exposure that’s the episode I first think of. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/3 "2010-03-22T00:06:46Z")
Joel: I had poison blades in the toes, just like Rosa Klebb. Nobody messed with me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/4 "2010-03-22T05:21:25Z")
Yes, I loved Maurice in that episode. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/5 "2010-03-22T07:49:40Z")
I’ve always wondered what the name of the episode is where Joel has a dream in which he gets pregnant… ---
**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:** [March 22, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/6 "2010-03-22T13:37:27Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I’ve always wondered what the name of the episode is where Joel has a dream in which he gets pregnant… I don’t remember that one, but there’s one called ‘My Mother, My Sister’ where Eve is pregnant and Adam experiences pains. [Episodes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Northern_Exposure_episodes). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/7 "2010-03-22T13:42:15Z")
I was watching Barry Corbin in _No Country_ for the umpteenth time the other day and thinking about his range. I put he and Rip Torn in a class by themselves. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/8 "2010-03-22T13:42:40Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I’ve always wondered what the name of the episode is where Joel has a dream in which he gets pregnant… It’s called Three Doctors. Season 5, Episode 1, I think. Northern Exposure may be my all time favorite TV show ever, I hope there are lots of posts on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/9 "2010-03-22T15:27:42Z")
I loved the election episode, especially the candidates debate, when the backwoods fellow asks, “I was wondering if the candidates saw the stop sign as a Jeffersonian or a Hamiltonian expression of democracy?” and debate moderator Ruth-Anne says, “What kind of stupid question is that? SIT!” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/10 "2010-03-22T15:33:09Z")
I love Maurice’s music collection in that one: bootleg Judy Garlands and Ethel Mermans. His love of showtunes was in several episodes. In a later one there’s a disastrous community theater production of OKLAHOMA that features one of the gay guys. It’s revealed that Maurice owns a bonnet worn by Shirley Jones in the film version. (In the dream episodes it’s revealed he has a shoe fetish- Jackie Kennedy’s especially.) ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/11 "2010-03-22T15:49:19Z")
I always think of the one with the Japanese tourists who pick up and leave Maurice’s lecture to attempt to conceive a kid under the Northern Lights. That and Joel’s whiny way of saying “O’Connell”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/12 "2010-03-22T15:54:57Z")
One of my all-time favorite series. Hard to pick a favorite episode, but one that stands out is the one where the old-timer tells them the story of Roslyn and Cicely (which helps explain the references to “Roslyn” in town…Roslyn, Washington being where the exterior shots for the show were filmed). The old-timer was telling the story in Joel’s house. At one point, Shelly has gone off to Joel’s kitchen to make food for the crew. She returns, handing out sandwiches. “PBJ?”, she offers. I can’t remember who accepted, but he took a bite, and said, “what kind of jelly is in here?” “Mint…it was the only kind Dr. Fleischmann had.” (Parenthetically, a friend of mine is currently on vacation in Washington State…he just posted pictures from Roslyn on his Facebook account. He had lunch at The Brick yesterday!) ---
**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:** [March 22, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/13 "2010-03-22T16:10:56Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > (Parenthetically, a friend of mine is currently on vacation in Washington State…he just posted pictures from Roslyn on his Facebook account. He had lunch at The Brick yesterday!) I really should do that. Roslyn is – what? 80 miles? – east of Seattle, and I’m 100 miles north of there. It would make for a fun weekend-getaway. I wonder if they have an HI hostel there? ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/14 "2010-03-22T18:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s not the thing you fling. It’s the fling itself. - Chris Stevens Loved, loved, loved, that show. Plus I had a huge crush on Janine Turner. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/15 "2010-03-22T18:42:44Z")
I’ve probably said it before, but it’s one of the few shows that I think _could_ be revived. I wouldn’t even try to get Morrow and Janine Turner re-involved, and Ruth Anne and a couple of the extras have passed on, and Chris and Ed I could live with or live without so long as you had Holling/Shelley and kids, Maurice (hopefully with Barbara Semanski and their kids) and the local scenery and other recurring characters. The fish out of water thing is always a great way to introduce a series, but this time I wouldn’t make it a big city doctor (which was their mistake when they brought in Paul Provenza and wife to replace Joel) but perhaps a character whose background is released in bits and pieces and a new doctor who is nothing at all like Joel (a black woman from Cuba or Maurice’s Korean grandson perhaps). ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/16 "2010-03-22T18:42:58Z")
> [@Ol\_Gaffer](#): > > Loved, loved, loved, that show. Plus I had a huge crush on Janine Turner. I know a girl who found herself sharing a health-club locker room with Janine Turner at one point during the show’s run. Got to see her naked. Says she looked real good–No surprise there. I also used to work with a woman of Mexican descent who had worked as an extra on the show, since her look was believable as a Native. One day Elaine Miles (who played Marilyn, Joel’s receptionist) showed up to take my friend to lunch, trying to get some tips on playing Hispanic roles, figuring turnabout was fair play. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/17 "2010-03-22T18:49:46Z")
Another vote - I loved this show. Started watching for Janine Turner, continued watching in spite of her. Not that she was a bad actress, her roll was just flat and unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/18 "2010-03-22T19:11:09Z")
> [@Ol\_Gaffer](#): > > Plus I had a huge crush on Janine Turner. I saw her at Six Flags Over Texas about 3 or 4 years ago. She was with her young kid and believe me, she looked Spectacular! That woman’s not lost one step on the stairway to heavenly. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/19 "2010-03-22T19:29:21Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I saw her at Six Flags Over Texas about 3 or 4 years ago. She was with her young kid and believe me, she looked Spectacular! That woman’s not lost one step on the stairway to heavenly. Two pieces of trivia about her: 1. She was engaged to Alec Baldwin but broke the engagement shortly before her audition for _Exposure_ due to Baldwin’s infidelity. On the day she learned she had gotten the role of Maggie she was down to her last few dollars (literally, something like $8 in cash) and was pondering whether it would be unethical to hock the engagement ring she’d never returned to Baldwin. 2. She had enough money saved and invested to live comfortably and planned to retire from show business some years ago when she had her daughter (who was a surprise; I don’t know if she’s ever revealed the father’s identity but he’s not much in the picture). She took the role on _Strong Medicine_ so that she could bank a nest egg for her child’s education and other expenses. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285/20 "2010-03-22T19:32:29Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > That woman’s not lost one step on the stairway to heavenly. I loved the Maggie character. Cute girl who’s a pilot? Of course I liked her! Janine Turner? I can’t get past her [politicical views](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_Turner#Personal_life). (Emphasis mine.) > [@](#): > > **As a conservative Republican, in the 2008 election, she campaigned for VP candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin** and expressed her concern for what she perceives as a decidedly liberal bias in the media as a guest on the Fox News Channel show _Huckabee_ on October 25, 2008 and on the CNN show _Larry King Live_ on October 28, 2008. Turner is a frequent contributor to Republican Party candidates and organizations, donating at least $7,000 over the past decade. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure/533285.md?page=2)