I also want to see the Phil Hartman credits where he is by his wife.
Is that a typo? Did you mean to write “gay vampire”?
In season 2 of “Grey’s Anatomy”, George is warning Meredith of her reckless behavior. That she’d end up “in a hole in some guy’s basement being ordered to ‘put the lotion on the skin or else you’ll get the hose again’.” Referring to a famous line from Silence of the Lambs. While he says this, the background song is Greenskeepers Lotion, which has SotL based lyrics
The woman in the hole was played by Brooke Smith who later that season made her first appearence as Dr. Erica Hahn on GA.
That’s something I would never have noticed, the song in the background. My main reason to want to quit watching Grey’s is the music component of the shows. Too loud, the lyrics are in the CC which we use to be able to catch subtle dialog, and rarely relevant at a conscious level – in short, they compete too much with what’s on the screen in the scene. If I had made the connection you just have, I might be less bitter. But I doubt it. This is the weakest show we watch in terms of background music.
It’s pretty weak in creating sympathy for the protagonists, also, IMHO, but I reckon that’s fodder for another thread.
Interesting coincidence with the SotL stuff, though.
If you have Netflix, you can actually see the intro in their “instant” section. Look for SNL season 16, and any of the episodes will have it.
Speaking of Lisa Kudrow - her first big break was being cast as Roz on the Frasier show…they were taping the first episode and then decided to fire Lisa and replace her with Peri Gilpen. Lisa was crushed, as you can well imagine, until a few days later when she got a call to join the cast for a new show called, “Friends”.
I’d never heard O’Neill was up for Sam Malone. The big names I always heard were Fred Dryer (when the character was conceived as an ex-football player) and William Devane.
I get that you, like my daughter, love NPH. But how exactly was TV history made?
The Nanny was remade in Russia as My Fair Nanny, and proved so popular that once they’d remade all the original scripts, they hired some of the American writers to come over and write new episodes. The Fran Drescher character was changed from Jewish to Ukrainian. Clip
The remake of Married with Children was also hugely popular in Russia. Clip
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Most interesting. All I ever “knew” about her was that she despised Andy Griffith and spoke to him only when absolutely necessary.
Really?
Everything I ever read about Andy Griffith was that Andy was NOT! acting when he played Lonesome Rhodes in** A “Face in the Crowd” **. Everything I have read said Andy Griffith’s true personality was the same as that of Lonesome Rhodes…and that Andy Griffith was not nice to anyone and nor was Andy liked by anyone - which would explain why Francis, and everybody else, despised Andy .
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Really?
Everything I ever read about Andy Griffith was that Andy was NOT! acting when he played Lonesome Rhodes in** A “Face in the Crowd” **. Everything I have read said Andy Griffith’s true personality was the same as that of Lonesome Rhodes…and that Andy Griffith was not nice to anyone and nor was Andy liked by anyone - which would explain why Francis, and everybody else, despised Andy .
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I’ve read he’s very serious but I haven’t read he’s hated. Certainly he and Don Knotts got along very well.
I don’t know much about Andy Griffith’s personality, but in his long-running show “Matlock” (which I have never watched a single episode of, but have seen bits and pieces of many times when my mom was watching) it seemed like damn near every co-star and bit player from “The Andy Griffith Show” did a guest spot or two during it’s TV run.
The actors who played Barney, Thelma Lou, Goober, Gomer, Helen, Ellie, Howard, and possibly Floyd were all guest stars on “Matlock” at one point or another.
Maybe they all loathed Andy Griffith and just needed the work, but it seems that he was at least generous enough to give them a little work when he had the chance, 20+ years after “The Andy Griffith Show” went off the air…
NPH is one of the first openly gay actors to be cast as a (very) straight guy in a regular role. But I question the premise that Barney’s role was small at first. He’s very involved in the gang’s shenanigans right from the beginning and his “expanded role” only came about because the producers figured out that the show shouldn’t be about Ted and was better as an ensemble.
That happened around like the fifth episode.
I’ve heard this before so I paid attention when I watched an episode of SD. Unless they make soy based products that look like ham and pepperoni, Shaggy DOES eat meat.
They do actually. They don’t taste that bad. Not like real ham or pepperoni, but not bad.
But I agree with you, I think the “Shaggy is a vegetarian” thing is largely a myth because Shaggy is definitely piling meat into his sandwiches.
Hey, I can tie two subthreads together.
The same shooting arrangement was made for Henry Fonda in “The Deputy,” a Western that ran from 1959-61.
I had never heard of it, but I just started watching it a few weeks ago. And one of the episodes featured a woman who was pure evil. She would fake attacks on herself, and then stand up in church and accuse her neighbors of doing it. She bullied her son into doing all kinds of bad things, but of course he balked at killing Henry Fonda in cold blood. She wore men’s clothes and seemed tough enough to beat up any of the men in town.
I didn’t recognize the woman, but her voice sounded familiar, so I checked the credits.
Vivian Vance!
She appeared in the final episode of Newhart as the wife of one of the Darryls. (Center, in black, around 3:12.)
There is a rumor that Charlie Sheen can be difficult to work with and that it’s caused problems on Two and Half Men. Has anybody else heard this one?
Actually, Reed was already a well-known TV star when “the Brady Bunch” began. He had starred on the controversial series the Defenders from '61 - ‘66. It’s been kind of forgotten about over time, but it was a big deal in its’ day - especially one episode that dealt with the trial of a back-alley abortionist (“Mad Men” mentioned this in an episode.)
Reed wasn’t the first person cast in the role. He replaced Jeffrey Hunter, whose major claim to fame was playing Captain Christopher Pike, the original “Enterprise” captain in the original “Star Trek” pilot.