This is considered insulting toward another poster, so don’t do it again.
Maybe unknown with the squares. That was 3 years after he started his multiple appearances on Saturday Night Live including a performance on the 1st episode. As with everything Kaufman it is hard to find out how much of it was him pulling one over on people and how much of it was a joke performed with other people. I find it hard to believe no one on the set knew who he was and that it was a joke. By the time Taxi came on a few years later the credits read “and with Andy Kaufman…” The second most prestigious position in the credits is after the “and.”
But that probably meant that they removed the glue from his room because he’s a druggie now, not that he sniffed it when he was a kid. Believe it or not, some of us used airplane glue for its intended purpose of gluing models together.
That’s not -
- what your comment said; you list exactly ONE reason other than it being recent. Quite a few series have had widely stated “pent up demand” for some reason and sold very poorly. That this one series, of all the 80s staples, has sold so extremely well makes it a special standout. The snippets of 80’s pop are not the make or break on this, IMHO, although I agree that watching reruns with generic noise dubbed in was less than satisfying.
Andy Kaufman is probably as popular now as he ever was alive. When Taxi started he was certainly known to many people, but wouldn’t have been anyone you thought was a star. He was maybe the eighth most famous person on Saturday Night Live.
If you think about it, it’s probably more common than not that sitcoms start out with casts made up largely of people with limited stardoms. Nobody on “The Big Bang Theory” was particularly well known prior to the show; Kaley Cuoco had a supporting role on another show so I guess she was the big star. The biggest star on “Family Ties” going in was Meredith Baxter-Birney, and you can be forgiven for not remembering what she was famous for before that; she was swiftly eclipsed by Michael J. Fox. One of the women who played his girlfriend on that show was, of course, Courteney Cox, whose biggest claim to fame prior to that was being the lady who dances onstage with Bruce Springsteen in the “Dancing In The Dark” video. She wasn’t a household name or anything, but was probably the best known person in a little show you might have heard of called “Friends.”
One could go on and on; in particular a great many shows have as their star a comedian who’s well known in standup but had few film credits. Hell, I don’t think a lot of people knew who the hell Jerry Seinfeld was before he was in that show, I forget what it was called… the most well known name there was probably Julia Louis-Dreyfus, by virtue of her having been a by-then largely forgotten SNL cast member.
There’s been a trend of late to give stars of previous well known sitcoms their own new sitcoms, with mixed results. Kevin James, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and Tim Allen have all been given new shows within the past few years, James and LeBlanc just this year.
I replied it probably sold well due to 1. the entire series, 2. being released recently, 3. with the original music.
Again, what are you arguing here? Because you seem to be belaboring the “a lot of series have never made it past a stripped season one or two release” point which is neither here nor there. Is your contention simply that you mistakenly thought I didn’t list enough reasons because it’s your personal belief that the music had nothing to do with it?