# This may be the wrong-ist thing I've ever seen on crappy TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719 "2024-04-02T04:52:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/41 "2024-04-03T01:08:55Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > A Travesty. That’s what it is. I’m calling someone. 😡 There’s something strange in the neighborhood & you need to call someone… The Ghostbusters HQ is in Tribeca, which borders the Financial District, where the twin towers were. That sounds like the neighborhood to me. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/42 "2024-04-03T14:02:31Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Fun fact about Hal Linden. He picked his stage name from a water tower in New Jersey. Coincidentally, Ron Glass picked his stage name while looking out a window at that same water tower. If you wait ten minutes, you can verify this on Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/43 "2024-04-03T14:32:30Z")
And Jack Soo changed his name because he wanted postwar audiences to think he was ethnically Chinese; not Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/44 "2024-04-03T14:45:00Z")
And Abe Vigoda changed his name to match a vaudevillian everyone kept thinking was dead, because he thought it was funny. My post is my cite. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/45 "2024-04-03T15:12:38Z")
_Barney Miller_ had the best theme music ever. _My_ post is my cite. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/46 "2024-04-03T16:00:17Z")
I’ve seen bass players thrown out of music shops for playing that. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/47 "2024-04-03T16:19:54Z")
Then there was Deitrick. I swear he evoked @Cecil_Adams occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/48 "2024-04-03T17:41:43Z")
To this day I can’t watch a Gregory Peck movie without saying “Go away. Beverly is busy” at least once. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/49 "2024-04-03T17:50:03Z")
Blame Kermit the Frog. [He caused 9/11](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kermit-did-911). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/50 "2024-04-03T22:08:15Z")
Too soon? Yeah may be. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/51 "2024-04-04T12:09:23Z")
r/sipstea ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/52 "2024-04-04T13:54:00Z")
I’m not sure, but you may be able to watch all the episodes of _Barney Miller_ for free on YouTube. You can try to find them all there. Isn’t this cheaper than watching them on FETV? You could at least watch as many episodes of _Barney Miller_ as possible for free on YouTube and then watch the ones that you couldn’t find on YouTube for free on some streaming channel for whatever would be the cheapest to stream for long enough to see all the ones you couldn’t find. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/53 "2024-04-04T17:03:05Z")
I’m happy with Dish. We’re very rural and Internet service is not consistent enough to stream. I sometimes stream a bit at Dialysis, which has a stable Internet, on my tablet. I put a freebie stream thing on there. I get enough _Barney_ episodes and the time I spend watching it is a particular pre-bedtime thing I’ve come to rely on. For reasons. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/54 "2024-04-04T18:02:00Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Blame Kermit the Frog. [He caused 9/11](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kermit-did-911). Oh come on. The idea that there’s a connection between the Muppets and Al Qaeda is … ridiculous … [![](https://mediaproxy.snopes.com/width/1200/height/1200/https://media.snopes.com/2001/10/bert_osama.jpg) ](https://mediaproxy.snopes.com/width/1200/height/1200/https://media.snopes.com/2001/10/bert_osama.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/55 "2024-04-04T22:21:51Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Then there was Deitrick. I swear he evoked @Cecil_Adams occasionally. Some of my coworkers called me Dietrich. I guess they were right as I have always had a ton of trivial answers stored in my brain. And I liked to spew them out deadpanned. By the way, dearest Beck, you made 2 spelling errors in his name. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719/56 "2024-04-04T22:30:21Z")
Yeah. Never can get that name right. My reason for never posting about Marlena Deitrick(oops). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-may-be-the-wrong-ist-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-crappy-tv/999719.md?page=2)