Judy and John used to get high on reefer together when they first started dating in high-school, and later Judy would occasionally smoke a J binder, maybe snort a little coke or drop a few hits of 'cid with John (and his pack of famous friends) as they got older, but by-in-large, once he hit the Big Time on Saturday Night Live, his occasional use had turned into at least a minor league addiction (especially if compared to the full-blown drug addict he ended becoming in his last couple of years) and so then Judy decided to quit all her own casual drug use, feeling she didn’t have the moral authority to confront John on his self-destructive behavior if she was right there doing the same thing he was, even if it was just once in a while.
Jeopardy was off the air for 3 years with it’s original host Art Fleming. Then after 5 years off it returned with Alex Trebek.
That’s a myth, but as I mentioned upthread Vance was dressed in clothing 2 sizes too small to make her look fat.
[QUOTE=Sampiro;13963790Sanford’s return as a 1 season show abd the continuations of The Brady Bunch have been mentioned. Were there any other U.S. shows that were revived after a hiatus of a few years?[/QUOTE]
There was a new version of The Untouchables that ran for two seasons (syndicated, I think) in 1993-94.
Wife hung out with the local (as in, “where the Belushis are from”) potential-Second-City crowd and at parties people kept telling her she needed to stick around until the Belushi brothers showed up, but she always missed them. She’s still funnier.
Mid-80s, seeing Roseanne standup on TV: “Honey, you need to see this. This woman is using all your material, but her delivery is shit.”
I see this assertion from the wikipedia article lacks a cite, and it doesn’t jibe with what the creators of Friends (Marta Kaufman, David Crane, and Kevin Bright) said on the commentary track for the pilot episode in the DVD collection of season one. They said they auditioned a zillion actors for Chandler – the character they’d assumed would be the easiest to cast, since he’s the “funny guy” – and nobody was nailing it, to the point they started to doubt the material; then Matthew Perry read for it and they knew right away he was the one. There was some concern about casting Perry because he was already cast in another pilot, but when they found out the other pilot was about garbagemen in outer space, they decided to chance it. 
Anyway, at no point in the commentary did Bright, Kaufman and Crane ever mention offering the role to Bierko or anyone else before Perry was cast.
So we’re supposed to take the word of an actor who could get some publicity/attention out of “I turned down Friends” over the creators of the show?
I don’t know, maybe he’s telling the truth, but it seems like a weak cite.
If I had known that Gilligan was Gilligan’s last name, I would have posted that, hey, I bet y’all didn’t know this, but Gilligan was Gilligan’s last name, and not his first!
To the long ago op. Garry Marshall wanted Mickey Dolenz to be Fonzie but was much taller than the rest of the cast. Not reading the whole thread to see if it is mentioned.
Too lazy to do nested quotes, but Bierko says in that article that Friends was originally called Six of One – and any Friends fan worth his salt knows that the show was originally called The Insomnia Café, not Six of One. I call shenanigans.
According to the Imdb Henry Winkler and Mickey Dolenz are both the same age. For some reason I figured Mickey Dolenz was at least 10 years older. I guess it’s just because he’s been around longer (as an actor).
Hold back your shenanigans. “Six of One” was a real working title for Friends.
I stand corrected. Guess I need some more salt.
I just read that Pat Harrington Jr, aka Dwayne Schneider from One Day At A Time, was the voice of the Inspector in the Pink Panther cartoons.
Well, I’ll be jiggered.
Did either character talk?
Yes, a lot.
Oui.
This is false. It was a joke created by Ball herself that took on a life of its own.
The only person Vance really hated was Frawley, BTW.