There are only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers.
On Benson, you never found out just what state they were in either.
I remember one episode, where the characters played by Ethan Phillips and Didi Conn were getting married. Just as the guy got to “By the powers vested in me by the state of…” a shot rang out, interrupting the service.
Zev Steinhardt
We almost found out 99’s last name in one episode.
When Max meets 99’s mother, he says something like “Well, I’m happy to meet 99’s mother, Mrs. . . .”
To which, 99’s mother simply responds something like, “Oh, how cute, you use numbers.”
Chief’s first name was known to a few (like the President, KAOS, and an old flame), but when he was accepting a delivery, the delivery guy (protrayed by some actor I don’t remember, but he reminded me of Johnny Silver) was unable to get a signature, because the Chief said his name was “classified.”
DeepPurple, you beat me to “Duffy’s Tavern.”
Not quite that far back, on the TV sitcom “December Bride,” you never saw Pete’s wife Gladys, even though Pete told jokes at her expense all the time. Later, there was a spinoff called “Pete and Gladys,” in which she did appear.
The show was “Richard Diamond, Private Detective.” Mary Tyler Moore played Sam, the secretary, who was never seen except for her legs. The identity of the actress was supposed to be a big secret, but Mary eventually blabbed and was fired.
The Dick Van Dyke Show: They never showed Alan Brady’s face.
In all of the Star Trek series and movies, you never say any of the characters who were in sane, supporting, healthy long-term homosexual relationships.
Seinfeld: We never saw the front of George Steinbrenner, just the back of his head.
Nikki (I may have been the only one to watch it): Every episode began with a striptease/dance routine. I liked the one where the ladies were dressed as cops and criminals, dancing to Joan Armatrading’s “I Love it When You Call Me Names.”
I have to confess, I sat here while the second page was loading racking my brain for where the feck Fox Force Five came from. Sweet relief!
There’s also Bernie Mac, speaking directly to the camera in his monologues, and the writing on the screen to convey extra details to the audience.
Yes, they did. In one episode, Laura told on a TV Show that Alan Brady had a toupee, and he was played throughout the show’s run by Carl Reiner.
Nikki I thought was actually a solid B grade sitcom. I really liked the characters and their relationship.
When the husband was a big chubby guy who wanted to be a wrestler it was cute but then after he lost all the weight between seasons he was just this goofy guy who you couldn’t believe any more.
My favorite opening Vegas number was Godzilla by BOC one.
On “Roseanne” there was the chicken shirt.
“Newhart” had Larry and his brother Darryl and his other brother Darryl. They would always introduce themselves every time they came on-even though they all knew each other.
Gunther’s secret crush on Rachel in Friends.
(About the Barney Miller set originally mentioned by Icerigger)
But not in the pilot episode (which really doesn’t count). They showed Barney’s apartment. And his wife.
(I hope no one mentioned this on page two. I haven’t gotten that far yet.)
-Rue.
I know that Chuck was an onscreen character in the early episodes. I was joking about how Chuck disappeared from the show and was never mentioned again. My theory is he changed his last name to Starkweather and the family never talked about him after he went on his killing spree.
Didn’t know about Jenny Piccolo though.
In the animated series Clerks, Randall did a voice over announcement during the opening scene of every episode. Okay - both episodes. As I recall, the announcement for the first show was “Previously on Clerks…” followed by a blank screen.
Actually, in a trick very similar to the pie smeared face of Vera in “Cheers”, there is an episode where Carlton the doorman is at a costume party (I believe at Rhoda’s), dancing, where we see his body, but his face (and head) is covered by a (Dog?) mask. I remember thinking to myself how chunky he looked.
Let’s not forget Lenny & Squiggy.
“You’d have to be a real moron to believe that.”
“Hello.”
That gag cracked me up every time.
And of course, it could not have been Kentucky-- it’s not on the ocean (has a seaport seen in the sub episode and Navy episode-- and also where the containership full of hot pants was delivered). The actual state named was meant to be a joke-- like Troy was pulling it out of his-- well you know where.
DS9: Miles O’Brian and the Doctor – :rolleyes: His wife was just a front I tells ya. . .
The things about not showing Allan Brady’s face on **The Dick Van Dyke Show ** is just wrong – Carl Reiner appeared several times, face and all, on TDVDS (not just the toupee episode).
Several of the items listed in this thread aren’t intentional things (like the “red shirt always gets killed” on Star Trek – although it happened so often that it’s become part of Star Trek lore).
Carlton’s non-appearance on Rhoda, however, is a good example of such an intentional gag. Besides the “mask” example given above, there’s one episode where he was called in to help carry a table or something out. But the table hides his face so you can’t see it.
There a similar bit now with The Powerpuff Girls – you never see the face of the buxom, red-haired Sara Bellum, the Mayor’s executive assistant. Even in the episode where she and Buttercup trade bodies, they hide her face. Cute touch.
But Kentucky is bordered by the Ohio River, where our submarines patrol day and night to prevent an invasion by troops from, um, Indiana. And to guard the shipments of hot pants.