# Stupid little TV questions that have annoyed you - but don't deserve their own thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032 "2006-11-03T22:48:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/41 "2006-11-05T05:25:37Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Has any major character ever been evicted or had a house foreclosed on in an TV show and had to move? [/QUOTE] That’s the entire premise of _Almost Home_, the spinoff of _The Torkelsons_. Throughout the first series, the family is rather deeply in debt (in the first episode, much of their furniture is repossessed) and the mother comes up with a variety of ways to try and pay the bills, including taking in a boarder and selling home-made jams. The second series has them beign forced to move out of the house, with the mother working as a nanny for a relatively well-off family in Seattle. Presumably, they could only afford to move part of the family, as two of the Torkelson kids also get misplaced somewhere (possibly taken in by the dad, but it’s never explained). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/42 "2006-11-05T05:59:54Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] The guys in **The Young Ones** have to leave their house in the first episode because their house is being demolished. They move in the second episode. But uh…the houses looked pretty much the same 🙂 [/QUOTE] No they didn’t. The first house had a smaller living room and kitchen, while the second house was larger and more open plan. I imagine they had built the first set to fit within the second set, so it wasn’t a big job to change sets between episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/43 "2006-11-05T18:00:18Z")
Speaking of Buffy, I was always amazed that the strange going-ons in that town never attracted the attention of the national news media. You’d think, for example, that after the school principal turned into a huge monster during graduation and started a ruckus that destroyed the school the major news networks would send a few reporters there to see what happened. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/44 "2006-11-05T18:27:48Z")
I would hope that the entire town being sucked underground would have merited at least a Sig-Alert. “Traffic on the 101 through the Sunnydale area is being detoured, due to the town being devoured by a Hellmouth.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/45 "2006-11-05T18:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] I would hope that the entire town being sucked underground would have merited at least a Sig-Alert. “Traffic on the 101 through the Sunnydale area is being detoured, due to the town being devoured by a Hellmouth.” 😃 [/QUOTE] That one’s easy, sinkholes. You draw too much water from an aquifer, and the pourous ground can’t support the weight of stuff above it, like, say, a small town. So the town collapses into the sinkhole. As for teh school blowing up? Gangsters on PCP. I’m frankly curious why we don’t see more federal law enforcement in that town though. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/46 "2006-11-05T19:02:09Z")
Sunnydale was the Iraq of the US’ War on Supernatural Terror. You know, “…so we don’t have to fight them here.” ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/47 "2006-11-05T19:07:55Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Has any major character ever been evicted or had a house foreclosed on in an TV show and had to move? [/QUOTE] Drew Carey did…sort of. It was quite convoulted. PANAMA! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/48 "2006-11-05T19:17:22Z")
[QUOTE=Ronald C. Semone] Speaking of Buffy, I was always amazed that the strange going-ons in that town never attracted the attention of the national news media. You’d think, for example, that after the school principal turned into a huge monster during graduation and started a ruckus that destroyed the school the major news networks would send a few reporters there to see what happened. [/QUOTE] How do you know it didn’t? I know for a fact that there was at least one show purely devoted to the goings on in Sunnydale. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/49 "2006-11-05T19:40:36Z")
[QUOTE=Kyla] If Lorne the Host can read peoples’ \*souls \* when they sing, then how can he read vampires, demons, and Wolfram & Hart lawyers, all of whom are presumably soulless? [/QUOTE] [The Host, called Lorne, is an anagogic demon, which means he can mystically sense people’s thoughts, feelings, and futures – when they sing karaoke. It seems that the distraction of singing opens you up to having your feelings read. It’s also been shown lately that when someone’s destiny or feelings are particularly strong, the Host has been able to read them without needing them to sing.](http://thecityofangel.ayelle.net/characters/host.html) As for Buffy’s dad, Buffy mentions after her mother’s death that he’s unreachable, “In Spain with his secretary, living the cliche.” ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/50 "2006-11-05T20:24:54Z")
How come Scully never got her own desk? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/51 "2006-11-05T20:54:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Speaking of Buffy, I was always amazed that the strange going-ons in that town never attracted the attention of the national news media. You’d think, for example, that after the school principal turned into a huge monster during graduation and started a ruckus that destroyed the school the major news networks would send a few reporters there to see what happened. I once read a really good Tom Clancy fanfic where Special Agent John Clark was briefing President Jack Ryan about the strange occurrences in a small California Town called Sunnydale. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/52 "2006-11-06T01:30:51Z")
On WKRP, I understand that Fever was the morning drive DJ, various people needed to drive the plot would do the housewife’s hour (10-2 usually), and Venus did afternoon drive, but what was Venus’ shift. Most of the local radio that I listened to at that time had afternoon drive starting at 2pm and ending about 6, sometimes 7, but it seemed Venus’ shift always started at night and ended at night. Was he not really the number 2 dj at the station? Did someone else do evening drive? SGT Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/53 "2006-11-06T02:08:36Z")
Had **House** ’s ex Stacey been his wife or just his (long-term relationship, I’m sure) girlfriend? Everywhere I’ve looked I haven’t been able to find anything out definitively. Of course, I’m certainly not a search wiz, so I’m probably just overlooking the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/54 "2006-11-06T02:14:12Z")
How’s Annie? ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/55 "2006-11-06T02:15:17Z")
[QUOTE=faithfool] Had **House** ’s ex Stacey been his wife or just his (long-term relationship, I’m sure) girlfriend? Everywhere I’ve looked I haven’t been able to find anything out definitively. Of course, I’m certainly not a search wiz, so I’m probably just overlooking the answer. [/QUOTE] They were definitely not married. Can’t cite the ep at the moment, but there was a conversation in which House indicated that they had lived together but not been married. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/56 "2006-11-06T02:51:36Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Has any major character ever been evicted or had a house foreclosed on in an TV show and had to move? [/QUOTE] Grace and her family, in **Grace Under Fire**. She cleaned up and repaired her rental, inspiring her landlord to sell it. She wound up buying a house down the street. This series also had an episode about the get-rich-quick foreclosures niche of real estate. [QUOTE=DianaG] As for Buffy’s dad, Buffy mentions after her mother’s death that he’s unreachable, “In Spain with his secretary, living the cliche.” [/QUOTE] Was he connected to the monks who created Dawn? I never followed **Angel** closely enough to catch this. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032/57 "2006-11-06T02:59:22Z")
[QUOTE=Sgt Schwartz] On WKRP, I understand that Fever was the morning drive DJ, various people needed to drive the plot would do the housewife’s hour (10-2 usually), and Venus did afternoon drive, but what was Venus’ shift. Most of the local radio that I listened to at that time had afternoon drive starting at 2pm and ending about 6, sometimes 7, but it seemed Venus’ shift always started at night and ended at night. Was he not really the number 2 dj at the station? Did someone else do evening drive? SGT Schwartz [/QUOTE] Venus was originally hired as the nighttime DJ, but later seemed to slide into afternoon drive. Nighttime DJ’s were VERY big in AM radio in the 60’s, even though their status had begun to wane by the time WKRP premiered. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-tv-questions-that-have-annoyed-you-but-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/379032.md?page=2)