# TV Binge Watch (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 400
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7981 "2025-04-28T14:06:04Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7982 "2025-04-28T14:07:06Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave It to Beaver ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7983 "2025-04-28T14:07:20Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver 3. Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7984 "2025-04-28T14:19:35Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver 3. Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show 4. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons Well, except for realtor, mayor, power plant employee, police officer, substitute teacher, baker, sculptor, drag queen, taxi driver, crime scene cleaner, and pretzel salesperson. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7985 "2025-04-28T14:41:28Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver 3. Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show 4. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons 5. Marion Cunningham - Happy Days ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7986 "2025-04-28T14:46:23Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver 3. Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show 4. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons 5. Marion Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Morticia Addams - The Addams Family ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7987 "2025-04-28T15:52:26Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver 3. Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show 4. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons 5. Marion Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Morticia Addams - The Addams Family 7. Lucy Ricardo - I Love Lucy ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7988 "2025-04-28T16:19:34Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver 3. Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show 4. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons 5. Marion Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Morticia Addams - The Addams Family 7. Lucy Ricardo - I Love Lucy 8. Carol Brady - The Brady Bunch ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7989 "2025-04-28T19:42:13Z")
**“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver 3. Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show 4. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons 5. Marion Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Morticia Addams - The Addams Family 7. Lucy Ricardo - I Love Lucy 8. Carol Brady - The Brady Bunch 9. Jane Jetson - The Jetsons Although the series is is supposed to take place about a century after second-wave feminism began (it was first broadcast the year _before_ second wave feminism began). ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7990 "2025-04-28T23:56:29Z")
> [@](#): > > **“Stay at home” moms** 1. Donna Stone - The Donna Reed Show 2. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver 3. Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show 4. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons 5. Marion Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Morticia Addams - The Addams Family 7. Lucy Ricardo - I Love Lucy 8. Carol Brady - The Brady Bunch 9. Jane Jetson - The Jetsons Although the series is is supposed to take place about a century after second-wave feminism began (it was first broadcast the year _before_ second wave feminism began). 😆 1. Edith Bunker **Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7991 "2025-04-29T00:14:08Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7992 "2025-04-29T00:33:34Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) 3. Howard Hesseman, _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (He had been a real radio DJ for a short while in San Francisco in the 1960s). ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7993 "2025-04-29T00:44:10Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) 3. Howard Hesseman, _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (He had been a real radio DJ for a short while in San Francisco in the 1960s). 4. Cybill Shepherd, _Moonlighting_ (Both Cybill and Maddie, her character, were former models.) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7994 "2025-04-29T02:17:23Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) 3. Howard Hesseman, _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (He had been a real radio DJ for a short while in San Francisco in the 1960s). 4. Cybill Shepherd, _Moonlighting_ (Both Cybill and Maddie, her character, were former models.) 5. Bob Uecker, _Mr. Belvedere_ (Bob, who played baseball and was a sports broadcaster irl, played a sportswriter. It’s sports all the way down.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7995 "2025-04-29T02:48:22Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) 3. Howard Hesseman, _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (He had been a real radio DJ for a short while in San Francisco in the 1960s). 4. Cybill Shepherd, _Moonlighting_ (Both Cybill and Maddie, her character, were former models.) 5. Bob Uecker, _Mr. Belvedere_ (Bob, who played baseball and was a sports broadcaster irl, played a sportswriter. It’s sports all the way down.) 6. Bill Cosby, _The Cosby Show_ (the wise, funny and world-weary dad, before we knew the terrible other things he also was) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7996 "2025-04-29T03:29:09Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) 3. Howard Hesseman, _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (He had been a real radio DJ for a short while in San Francisco in the 1960s). 4. Cybill Shepherd, _Moonlighting_ (Both Cybill and Maddie, her character, were former models.) 5. Bob Uecker, _Mr. Belvedere_ (Bob, who played baseball and was a sports broadcaster irl, played a sportswriter. It’s sports all the way down.) 6. Bill Cosby, _The Cosby Show_ (the wise, funny and world-weary dad, before we knew the terrible other things he also was) 7. Jerry Seinfeld, _Seinfeld_ (playing a stand-up comedian named Jerry Seinfeld) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7997 "2025-04-29T03:39:46Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) 3. Howard Hesseman, _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (He had been a real radio DJ for a short while in San Francisco in the 1960s). 4. Cybill Shepherd, _Moonlighting_ (Both Cybill and Maddie, her character, were former models.) 5. Bob Uecker, _Mr. Belvedere_ (Bob, who played baseball and was a sports broadcaster irl, played a sportswriter. It’s sports all the way down.) 6. Bill Cosby, _The Cosby Show_ (the wise, funny and world-weary dad, before we knew the terrible other things he also was) 7. Jerry Seinfeld, _Seinfeld_ (playing a stand-up comedian named Jerry Seinfeld) 8. Tony Sirico, _The Sopranos_ (played mobster Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri; Sirico was imprisoned for multiple crimes, including robbery, assault, and extortion) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7998 "2025-04-29T14:42:27Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) 3. Howard Hesseman, _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (He had been a real radio DJ for a short while in San Francisco in the 1960s). 4. Cybill Shepherd, _Moonlighting_ (Both Cybill and Maddie, her character, were former models.) 5. Bob Uecker, _Mr. Belvedere_ (Bob, who played baseball and was a sports broadcaster irl, played a sportswriter. It’s sports all the way down.) 6. Bill Cosby, _The Cosby Show_ (the wise, funny and world-weary dad, before we knew the terrible other things he also was) 7. Jerry Seinfeld, _Seinfeld_ (playing a stand-up comedian named Jerry Seinfeld) 8. Tony Sirico, _The Sopranos_ (played mobster Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri; Sirico was imprisoned for multiple crimes, including robbery, assault, and extortion) 9. Jennifer Grey, _It’s Like You Know…_ (Played an actor named Jennifer Grey who was struggling to find work after being in a hit movie a few years earlier) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7999 "2025-04-29T19:16:01Z")
**Actors playing a facet of themselves** 1. Kristen Johnston, _Mom_ (she’s been sober a number of years IRL) 2. Burt Reynolds, _Evening Shade_ (like his character, Reynolds had been a football star, before being forced to retire from the sport due to injury) 3. Howard Hesseman, _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (He had been a real radio DJ for a short while in San Francisco in the 1960s). 4. Cybill Shepherd, _Moonlighting_ (Both Cybill and Maddie, her character, were former models.) 5. Bob Uecker, _Mr. Belvedere_ (Bob, who played baseball and was a sports broadcaster irl, played a sportswriter. It’s sports all the way down.) 6. Bill Cosby, _The Cosby Show_ (the wise, funny and world-weary dad, before we knew the terrible other things he also was) 7. Jerry Seinfeld, _Seinfeld_ (playing a stand-up comedian named Jerry Seinfeld) 8. Tony Sirico, _The Sopranos_ (played mobster Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri; Sirico was imprisoned for multiple crimes, including robbery, assault, and extortion) 9. Jennifer Grey, _It’s Like You Know…_ (Played an actor named Jennifer Grey who was struggling to find work after being in a hit movie a few years earlier) 10. R. Lee Ermey (originally a marine drill instructor, he played to type in many TV and movie roles) **Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job** 1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - _Becker_ ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8000 "2025-04-29T19:40:04Z")
**Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job** 1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - _Becker_ 2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - _WKRP in Cincinnati_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=399) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=401)