As much as I love Katey Sagal and Jim Garner, WTH was David Spade doing on, “8 Simple Rules…”, after John Ritter died?
Actually, I heard that Elisabeth Rohm ad-libbed that line as a joke, and Dick Wolf decided to keep it. That’s why Fred Thompson’s response breaks character for a moment when he says “No,” and why all she comes back with is “Good.” She was just making it up with no idea it would make the final cut. It’s interesting that Thompson chose to try to respond in character and play it out (despite the obvious surprise on his face). But I understand that sometimes actors sort of make a game with trying to get one another to break character.
Wait, what? That sounds like a story-- more details, please!
Roseanne brought Sarah Chalke back for a cameo after Lecy Goranson had resumed the role. She plays a young mother bringing her little kids by trick-or-treating, and Roseanne says something like “What a nice woman; I wish we had kids like her.”
Both Chalke and Goranson will be on the Roseanne reboot, but Chalke will be recast.
I thought his addiction to painkillers and alcohol were more directly involved.
On “MAS*H”, Soon-Li went from about age 10 to the adult Mrs. Klinger in about 2 years on the war scale, even though there was plenty of time in broadcast years.
Soon-Lee was only in the last two episodes of MASH, and then in AfterMASH. She was never 10 in the series. Maybe you’re thinking of something else, but I can’t think who.
I don’t remember this at all. Soon-Lee character was only in the final years and After MAS*H.
ETA: I did some checking, even the actresswas only in those 2 episodes to finish up the series.
Pretty sure she was first an orphaned little girl stumbling into the camp in high heels in an attempt to support herself by prostitution. The 4077th took her in and “saved” her.
Different character, Oksun Li.Only appeared in one episode, and wasn’t a child.
It’s called SORAS, which stands for “Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome”. A kid can be born one year, be a teenager the next year, and a full-grown adult the next. Some of the longer-lived soap characters can become great-great-grandparents to the ‘young adult’ characters on the show.
It doesn’t just happen on soaps either. Worf’s son went from being about five years old on TNG to a late teens/early20-something character on DS9, despite there being no gap in years between the shows. (Only about five years separated the appearance of pre-adolescent and 20-something Worf Jr.)
“Angel” parodied this by having the title character’s son Connor kidnapped at three months old, taken away to another dimension (where time lapsed much more quickly) and returned to Angel as a 20-something about three episodes later.
Perfectly reasonable for a 12-year old alien to look like a 20-year old human. It’s established in Star Trek that Klingons have a shorter lifespan than Humans. It was fanon before it was canon. I believe it started with the novel The Final Reflection.
That’s the one. Oddly similar name, and saved by Klinger, but you’re right, not *quite *the same character for reasons best known to the writing staff (the age change, maybe?).
Someone beat me to Diagnosis Murder, but they have to be the winner. Move the hospital building and all its staff from Denver to LA, no explanation ever given at all. Still, it’s Dick Van Dyke so he gets a pass from me.
You’ll like this pic: Battle of the Beckys (Roseanne reunion) - Imgur
In general, MASH has to have it’s own category of suspended disbelief.
The show lasted 11 years while the war barely lasted three. Which, by itself, isn’t that bad, but the show didn’t start at the start of the war - the setting and characters were already established. And there was an episode that took a full year of real time, but no characters changed during that year. The final episode took place over months (?), again with no characters coming or going. And don’t forget the myriad Christmas episodes, when there were only three Christmases during the way.
When did they have the time for all that stuff that happened?
regarding the location of the Dobie Gillis show : The stories it was based on were indeed set in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The stories were collected in a book called “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” by Max Shulman, and they are hilarious.
Duet did this, but had a title card in the beginning of the third season saying it was three years later than the second. All of the characters also had life changes.
The Joey Bishop Show had a complete revamp after the first season. Bishop’s character Joey Barnes went from being a bumbling PR agent in LA to a major talk show host in NYC.
On that note, several shows over the years added a baby and then had them age rapidly. I believe Family Ties was one of them or its wanna be clone Growing Pains.
Technically speaking, 67 years and counting. An armistice was signed but no formal cessation of war. I know, I know, nitpick of nitpicks.
Game of Thrones did rapid aging on Tommen “Baratheon” and Dickon Tarly. And several were recast, most obviously Daario, who wasn’t even given an attempt at making them look the same.
“The Big Bang Theory”, in which Stuart was introduced as a suave, articulate artist on the make, but was immediately changed to a hopeless nebbish with no explanation.
That’s an exaggeration - he was pathetic even at the beginning. Penny took his genuine self-loathing to be charming self-depreciation for long enough to agree to go on a date with him, but he screwed up the date immediately by getting involved in an argument with Sheldon rather than going to Penny’s apartment for “coffee.”