Who is that man supposed to be, anyway? Lorne Michaels? He chases a dog around at the beginning and end of the cartoon, yelling “Come back with my show!” (Not shoe)
Also, back in the 80’s, there was a professional wrestler named Yokozuna who must have weighed about 800 pounds. That guy was huge. They did a tribute to him on one episode of the Man Show.
Thanks, I had that kind of messed up.
Yokozuna is also the highest rank attainable in the Japanese Sumo Federation. At that rank, you can never be demoted, although you may be “compelled” to retire.
A variation on Mutant Enemy: At the end of “Once More with Feeling,” the “err, arr” was sung in a faux operatic voice.
Originally Posted by mobo85
Who is that man supposed to be, anyway? Lorne Michaels? He chases a dog around at the beginning and end of the cartoon, yelling “Come back with my show!” (Not shoe)
I think it was supposed to be Richard Nixon yelling " come back with my show!"
There was also a sitcom during the 80s (damned if I remember which it was) with an end cap featuring a bushy-haired guy sitting in his study, smoking a pipe and typing on a typewriter. He finished a page, grabbed the sheet of paper, and yanked it out of the typewriter, at which point it flew through the air, turned into a cartoon, and landed on a stack of pages, the top few of which curled around with it to make a letter C.
No idea what show that was.
That was Stephen J. Cannell, who had quite the record for decent shows in the '80s:
The A-Team
Hunter
Riptide
Wiseguy
21 Jump Street
Hardcastle & McCormick
et. al.
He also was a big guy on The Rockford Files, but I don’t know if that carried his endcap or not.
Looking at his bio at TvTome I’m not sure what sitcom you might be remembering…as you can tell, he was a one hour action/crime-drama type of guy.
Thanks, fiddlesticks! I guess it wasn’t a sitcom; it was probably The A-Team, Riptide, or the Greatest American Hero, or more likely all of the above. My brother and I loved those shows.
Does anyone remember the interludes from ALF? I’ve been trying to recall them all day.
This is really embarrassing … but until I read this thread I always heard the “Sit, Ubu, sit!” line as “Sit, Boo-boo, sit!” … and so I thought the dog’s name was Boo-boo. :o
Actually, I believe Yokozuna (real name Rodney Anoai) didn’t come along until the 90’s. At least not as Yokozuna, he did have prior gimmicks after all.
The sticking the butt in the face thing, however, sounds more like what his cousin Rikishi (Solafa Fatu) does. I don’t recall Yokozuna ever doing that.
Are you talking about Robert Smigel’s intro to (among other things) Saturday TV Funhouse?
Because that most certainly is Lorne Michaels. That’s what’s supposed to be funny about it.