# The Rerun Show - the hell?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689 "2002-07-25T02:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/1 "2002-07-25T02:39:52Z")
On August 1, NBC will premiere the summer fill-in show, The Rerun Show. In it, a comedy troupe will re-enact parts of “classic” sitcoms word-for-word. The difference being that the actors will rely on physical comedy and exaggerated mannerisms of the actors they are portraying. This could be funny or this could be the stupidest thing ever broadcast in the history of television. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/2 "2002-07-25T02:43:37Z")
Ooh wow. Sounds intruging, to say the least. Do you know which sit coms will be featured? I agree, it could go either way. But I’ll take a look. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/3 "2002-07-25T02:58:50Z")
I saw a commercial for it. I think it’s the final piece of evidence I need that network programming executives have officially run out of ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/4 "2002-07-25T03:01:59Z")
From what I’ve seen, it’ll be NBC comedies: Facts of Life and Different Strokes were featured in the ads. I think my TV will explode, along with my head. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/5 "2002-07-25T03:45:39Z")
Ugh. I saw some stuff searching on google, and it did mention those two shows. I’m sorry, but I hardly think either of the above mentioned sitcom is classic. Memorable for the screwed up lives of its child stars (at least with Diff’rent Strokes), but I have a great hatred of these shows. They’re just too smarmy. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/6 "2002-07-25T03:57:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*From what I’ve seen, it’ll be NBC comedies: Facts of Life and Different Strokes were featured in the ads. I think my TV will explode, along with my head. \*\* As they are the producers of the show, it will feature comedies from the Columbia-TriStar library. I’ve read articles which mention _I Dream of Jeannie_ and _All in the Family_ will be included as well. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/7 "2002-07-25T05:06:40Z")
When TV starts parodying itself _qua_TV, you know it’s died as a medium. Seriously…the show might be funny, but what this means for creativity frightens me. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/8 "2002-07-25T05:45:39Z")
Will the do the Diff’rent Strokes where Arnold and his friend get molested? I hope not… ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/9 "2002-07-25T11:25:41Z")
**ResIpsaTooLong** Yeah, like when we have parodies of rants about parodies of rants, you know the message board medium has died. I enjoy watching, but I shudder to think what this will mean to the continued relevance of postcount parties in MPSIMS. The inevitable return of the great green 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/10 "2002-07-25T14:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\*I’m sorry, but I hardly think either of the above mentioned sitcom is classic. Memorable for the screwed up lives of its child stars (at least with Diff’rent Strokes), but I have a great hatred of these shows. They’re just too smarmy. \*\* I think that’s part of the reason they are doing these particular shows. They’ll be making fun of their smarmy-ness. I did laugh at the commercial with some fat guy playing Mrs. Garrett, but I agree with Mr. Blue Sky that it could go either way. And yes, they have officially run out of ideas, Atreyu…my thoughts exactly! ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/11 "2002-07-25T15:33:22Z")
[More details.](http://www.nbcmv.com/pw2/main/dnr.v25.cgi?cmd=detail&query_id=57503) > [@](#): > > Television programs which will be “re-run ‘Rerun’-style” this summer include “Bewitched,” “Diff’rent Strokes,” “The Facts of Life,” “The Jeffersons,” “Married…with Children,” “One Day at a Time,” “The Partridge Family,” “Saved by the Bell” and “What’s Happening!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/12 "2002-07-25T15:34:41Z")
This show seems to be the same as “The Brady Bunch Show”, a live theatrical presentation that has run here in Boston (and, I’m sure, elsewhere – it probably originated elsewhere). They took the original script and went through two or three BB episodes without changing the _words_, but with a completely different emphasis and playing for laughs. For instance, much was apparently made of the Brady Dad actor’s gayness in the way people reacted to certain lines. It was, I think, partly the modern-day reaction to the squeaky-clean innocence of the time of the original script, combined with the naughtiness and incorrectness of the reading. How they expect to get away with this on the still relatively bland an deliberately inoffensive medium of TV (and without the advantages of audience feedback and topicality) I do not know. You can’t get by on gay jokes alone. ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/13 "2002-07-25T23:52:28Z")
Is this Gus Van Sant’s fault for remaking “Psycho”? ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/14 "2002-07-26T00:23:57Z")
I think the fact this is debuting in the dog days of summer says a lot about what we can expect from this show. Network Executive: How can we show reruns and dupe people into thinking they’re new? How can we get more mileage out of our old shows without having to pay more residuals or hefty appearance fees for clip shows and reunion specials? How can we generate new shows without commissioning pilots that we’ll air only a few of, and proceed with even fewer? How can we lure in that 18-34 demographic by appearing hip, self-aware, and cutting edge? And thus an idea was born. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/15 "2002-07-26T01:52:04Z")
/Mr. Hand/ What are you people, on **dope??!!** /Comic Book Guy/ Worst Idea For A TV Show Ever!! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/16 "2002-07-26T05:11:10Z")
> [@](#): > > As they are the producers of the show, it will feature comedies from the Columbia-TriStar library. I’ve read articles which mention I Dream of Jeannie and All in the Family will be included as well. Maybe Jeannie will be, but in order to get Sony to agree to let them do the show, they had to agree not to do All in the Family or I Love Lucy. Or so says this week’s TV guide. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/17 "2002-07-26T17:05:56Z")
I thought Fred Berry had been given a new variety program.😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/18 "2002-07-27T17:35:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\*Maybe Jeannie will be, but in order to get Sony to agree to let them do the show, they had to agree not to do All in the Family or I Love Lucy. Or so says this week’s TV guide. \*\* Actually, the other show they are not allowed to do is _Seinfeld_, not _I Love Lucy_ (which is actually a Viacom property). ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rerun-show-the-hell/120689/19 "2002-07-27T18:10:34Z")
“Squeaky-clean innocence of the time of the original [Brady Bunch]?” You know, the phrase “squeaky-clean innocence” is seldom associated with the year 1969. One thing latter-day Brady mockers (and fans) fail to understand is that the show was widely mocked for being out of touch with reality when it originally aired.