# 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:** 423
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8441 "2025-06-04T00:18:27Z")
**Shows that were Mark VII Productions** 1. Dragnet 2. Emergency! 3. Adam-12 4. O’Hara, US Treasury 5. The D.A. 6. Hec Ramsey 7. Project UFO (aka Project Bluebook) 8. Chase 9. Sam Aired only six episodes before cancellation. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8442 "2025-06-04T22:12:29Z")
**Shows that were Mark VII Productions** 1. Dragnet 2. Emergency! 3. Adam-12 4. O’Hara, US Treasury 5. The D.A. 6. Hec Ramsey 7. Project UFO (aka Project Bluebook) 8. Chase 9. Sam 10. Noah’s Ark Pass. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8443 "2025-06-04T22:40:38Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8444 "2025-06-04T22:46:55Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ In his quest to understand humor, the android Data takes lessons from a standup comedian on the holodeck (played by Joe Piscopo), but his attempts ([1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdwgJa2GaF0)) ([2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZYw-YkqWgo)) at entertaining Guinan with what he learns falls flat. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8445 "2025-06-05T00:02:41Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 3. Midge Maisel - _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ ---
**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:** [June 5, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8446 "2025-06-05T00:31:55Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 3. Midge Maisel - _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ 4. Jerry Seinfeld - _Seinfeld_ ---
**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:** [June 5, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8447 "2025-06-05T02:22:12Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 3. Midge Maisel - _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ 4. Jerry Seinfeld - _Seinfeld_ 5. [Lois Griffin - _Family Guy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIi-odJ_s4) ---
**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:** [June 5, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8448 "2025-06-05T02:37:38Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 3. Midge Maisel - _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ 4. Jerry Seinfeld - _Seinfeld_ 5. [Lois Griffin - _Family Guy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIi-odJ_s4) 6. Danny Partridge - _The Partridge Family_ Somehow, Danny got it in his head that he could be a standup comedian. He bought jokes from a washed-up comedian (Morey Amsterdam), and bombed when he opened for the family’s performance one night. “Good evening, ladies and germs”; that sort of thing. That was the only time he tried that, but he did try it. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8449 "2025-06-05T03:43:36Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 3. Midge Maisel - _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ 4. Jerry Seinfeld - _Seinfeld_ 5. [Lois Griffin - _Family Guy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIi-odJ_s4) 6. Danny Partridge - _The Partridge Family_ 7. Michael Scott - _The Office_ Scott organized “The Roast of Michael Scott”, permitting his staff to openly mock and criticize him before he fled in humiliation. He later returned to roast each one of his workers. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8450 "2025-06-05T08:46:09Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > “Good evening, ladies and germs”; that sort of thing. I never did get that joke. Is it a reference to something I’m not familiar with? Or is it supposed to be done as part of that rapid patter stand-up comics did about 100 years ago, when they slipped wrong words into expected phrases, and spoke so rapidly, you didn’t hear he mistake until they’d gone on to something else, so it didn’t matter so much what the word was? But the lines weren’t funny out of context. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8451 "2025-06-05T09:02:50Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I never did get that joke. Is it a reference to something I’m not familiar with? No, you can take it pretty much at face value. It’s nothing more than you expecting to hear “gentlemen,” but the comedian says, “germs,” and you’re supposed to laugh. But it is so old and worn out that it is no longer funny. Kind of like, “Now, take my wife. [Pause.] Please.” That was the point to Danny’s routine: not knowing any better, he bought a bunch of worn-out jokes from a washed-up comedian whose most recent experience was in vaudeville and on the Borscht Belt circuit. As I recall, Morey Amsterdam played his part perfectly: one part Henny Youngman and one part an amped-up Buddy Sorrell. The jokes would have been old and tired when Buddy Sorrell wrote for “The Alan Brady Show” in the early 1960s (as part of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”); they were positively ancient when Danny tried to deliver them in the early 1970s. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8452 "2025-06-05T12:21:49Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 3. Midge Maisel - _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ 4. Jerry Seinfeld - _Seinfeld_ 5. [Lois Griffin - _Family Guy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIi-odJ_s4) 6. Danny Partridge - _The Partridge Family_ 7. Michael Scott - _The Office_ 8. Krusty the Clown - _The Simpsons_ ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8453 "2025-06-05T13:07:54Z")
**Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 3. Midge Maisel - _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ 4. Jerry Seinfeld - _Seinfeld_ 5. [Lois Griffin - _Family Guy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIi-odJ_s4) 6. Danny Partridge - _The Partridge Family_ 7. Michael Scott - _The Office_ 8. Krusty the Clown - _The Simpsons_ 9. Sally Weaver - _Seinfeld_ ---
**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:** [June 7, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8454 "2025-06-07T16:50:47Z")
> [@](#): > > **Characters who have performed stand-up comedy, on stage, in front of an audience at least once** > (size of audience and quality of humor don’t matter; at least one performance shown in an episode) 1. Dee Reynolds - _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_\* 2. Data - _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 3. Midge Maisel - _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ 4. Jerry Seinfeld - _Seinfeld_ 5. [Lois Griffin - _Family Guy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIi-odJ_s4) 6. Danny Partridge - _The Partridge Family_ 7. Michael Scott - _The Office_ 8. Krusty the Clown - _The Simpsons_ 9. Sally Weaver - _Seinfeld_ 10. Coach McGuirk - _Home Movies_ He’s a regular on an open mike night at a local bar, where he tells soccer jokes, and usually lays an egg, but he thinks he is hilarious. NEXT: **Movies you thought you would like from the preview, but ended up hating** 1. _Forrest Gump_ (always somewhere on my 10 most hated list) ---
**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:** [June 7, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8455 "2025-06-07T16:54:57Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Movies you thought you would like from the preview, but ended up hating (This is the TV thread, not the Movies thread. 😉 ) ---
**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:** [June 7, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8456 "2025-06-07T16:56:25Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > (This is the TV thread, not the Movies thread. 😉 ) Duh trying to do too many things at once PASS ---
**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:** [June 7, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8457 "2025-06-07T17:02:37Z")
**TV Scientist Characters** 1. Sheldon Cooper (theoretical physicist), _The Big Bang Theory_ ---
**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:** [June 7, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8458 "2025-06-07T17:08:34Z")
**TV Scientist Characters** 1. Sheldon Cooper (theoretical physicist), _The Big Bang Theory_ 2. Dr. Zed, _Owl/TV_ Canadian educational children’s program ---
**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:** [June 7, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8459 "2025-06-07T17:11:05Z")
> [@](#): > > **TV Scientist Characters** 1. Sheldon Cooper (theoretical physicist), _The Big Bang Theory_ 2. Dr. Eleanor Bramwell (practicing physician as well as medical experimenter and researcher) _Bramwell_ ---
**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:** [June 7, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/8460 "2025-06-07T17:22:24Z")
**TV Scientist Characters** 1. Sheldon Cooper (theoretical physicist), _The Big Bang Theory_ 2. Dr. Zed, _Owl/TV_ 3. Dr. Eleanor Bramwell (practicing physician as well as medical experimenter and researcher) _Bramwell_ (Housekeeping) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=422) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=424)