The Digital TV channel Antenna TV, has made the announcement that they are adding some old classics to their lineup next year. I haven;t seen ODAAT in so long
All I can say is 15-year-old Valerie Bertinelli. Schwing!!
And I would still date her now in her 50’s
I’ve been catching up on the Alton Browncast and she was on. And, she was on. 
No kidding. Holy hell, that woman is something.
Dammit, Schneider!
Dammit, Barbara!
Dammit, Julie!!
She was much better looking in her early 20s. I say this as someone who lusted after her for much of the series.
But my REAL crush was on Bonnie Franklin. Old enough to be my mom, but back then quite mattressable. (No longer, of course, as she’d be in her 70s now, if she weren’ dead, which she is.)
Thing is, Valerie Bertinelli’s hotness was really the only reason to watch.
C.H.O.M.P.S. was just on the other night; even Valerie Bertinelli couldn’t save that one.
If you want to see how hot Valerie Bertinelli can be, watch the episode of Hot in Cleveland where they are trying to get bounced into the country club. Holy Hotness!!
I got the first season DVD release (the only season yet on DVD) last year as a birthday gift, and enjoyed it greatly. It had that classic Norman Lear mix of comedy and drama, but it was less hamfisted on the drama side. Plus I’d forgotten how good Mackenzie Phillips was as an actress before the personal demons took over. I wasn’t really impressed with Valerie’s work, but then again she wasn’t really asked to do anything that first season than to push the plot along.
I’m looking forward to Mork & Mindy and Mr. Belvedere, which are also being added to Antenna TV. And Newhart. That’s the one where he was a beekeeper in New Hampshire or something like that.
Lord help me, I saw that in the theater as a boy.
Innkeeper.
‘My name is Larry. This is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl.’
I remember the first season where Valerie was just a skinny little kid. I probably wouldn’t have watched the show again except that I caught an episode in the second season, she had certainly grown.
Have I ever told you guys the story of the time I drove Valerie Bertinelli from the Four Seasons hotel in Georgetown to the Verizon Center for a Van Halen concert?
I don’t know who you’ve told, but that’s no reason for you not tell it again.
Actually, that’s pretty much the entire story.
I was a PA for Live Nation and Van Halen was playing at the Verizon Center in DC. This was 2007 or 2008, something like that, and Eddie and Valerie’s son, Wolfgang was playing with the band. I was sent to pick her up and bring her to the show. Verizon Center is only about a 10 minute drive from the Four Seasons. She was a nice lady. Still looked good.
Whoosh. CBS aired a special in 1991 which reunited the cast of The Bob Newhart Show. The show starts the morning after Bob Hartley wakes up from his dream. He goes to the office and discusses his dream with Emily, Howard, Jerry, and Carol. At one point, Howard says, “Tell us some more about your dream, Bob. The one where you were a beekeeper in New Hampshire.” Typical Howard. He also claimed to have been an astronaut living in Florida who had a friend with a genie.
The show ends with:
everybody deciding to go to lunch together. One of the two elevators arrives. Everybody piles in except for Bob, for whom there is no room left. Bob says, “You all go ahead. I’ll wait for the next elevator and meet you in the lobby.” The other elevator opens. There are three workers in the elevator. There is a ladder in the middle of the elevator. Wires are hanging from the ceiling and there are ceiling panels stacked along the walls. The three workmen turn around and are revealed to be Larry, Darryl, and Darryl. Larry says, “Hi. My name’s Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl” Bob screams, “EMILY!” and takes off running down the stairs.
I also read the book. I still suffer the scars of the clash with the movie with my own grammatical pedantry. It’s supposedly an acronym, yet “Canine Home Protection System” meet no acceptable grammatical rules to result in “C.H.O.M.P.S.”
CHOMPS, CHomPS, either of these I could begrudgingly live with. C.H.O.M.P.S., however, forces me to fanwank a narrative justification for a movie which I am neither a fan of, nor wank to. (fanwank: Due to the limited availability of mixed case tiles for outdoor display signs at 7-11, where the robot dog would eventually be mass-marketed to support sagging ICEE revenue in a sales tie-in, the all-caps format was proposed by marketing and approved at the board of directors meeting. The potential of the HOT DOG? ICEE CHOMPS! sign lettering blitz advertizing was irresistible.) Ugh, now I feel dirty.
At least in the novelization, the author adapts it into “Chomps” for use in reference to Chomps as a character name for the little dog, reserving the formal C.H.O.M.P.S. for the identifier of the robot dog project.