TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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TV Puppets that AREN’T Muppets

  1. The Famous Eccles from the BBC’s puppet version of The Goon Show
  2. Daniel Striped Tiger from Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood
  3. Kukla and Ollie, from Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
  4. Count Blah, Greg the Bunny
  5. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - Late Night with Conan O’Brien
  6. King Friday XIII, also from Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood
  7. Garfield Goose, from Garfield Goose And Friends
  8. Danny, from The Flip Wilson Show

When Albert Brooks had a lot more hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_me-D6SJK0

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TV Puppets that AREN’T Muppets

  1. The Famous Eccles from the BBC’s puppet version of The Goon Show
  2. Daniel Striped Tiger from Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood
  3. Kukla and Ollie, from Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
  4. Count Blah, Greg the Bunny
  5. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - Late Night with Conan O’Brien
  6. King Friday XIII, also from Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood
  7. Garfield Goose, from Garfield Goose And Friends
  8. Danny, from The Flip Wilson Show
  9. Achmed the Dead Terrorist, from any number of Jeff Dunham’s specials
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TV Puppets that AREN’T Muppets

  1. The Famous Eccles from the BBC’s puppet version of The Goon Show
  2. Daniel Striped Tiger from Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood
  3. Kukla and Ollie, from Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
  4. Count Blah, Greg the Bunny
  5. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - Late Night with Conan O’Brien
  6. King Friday XIII, also from Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood
  7. Garfield Goose, from Garfield Goose And Friends
  8. Danny, from The Flip Wilson Show
  9. Achmed the Dead Terrorist, from any number of Jeff Dunham’s specials
  10. Scorch, Ronn Lucas’s dragon puppet that had its own short-lived TV show in the 1992

‘Short-lived’ is right … six episodes were made, and only three aired.

Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson

…as an aside – the show opened by showing three well-proportioned young women peeking over the edge of a water tower before retrieving their dresses hanging over the side of said water tower … at a junction called Hooterville.
Coincidence? – I think not…

-“BB”-

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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker

Also appeared on Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies in the same role.

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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker
  3. Homer Bedloe (what a career the actor had!)
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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker
  3. Homer Bedloe (what a career the actor had!)
  4. Billie Jo Bradley
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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker
  3. Homer Bedloe (what a career the actor had!)
  4. Billie Jo Bradley
  5. Floyd Smoot

How can I pass up an opportunity to list the name Floyd Smoot? I can’t, that’s how!

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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker
  3. Homer Bedloe (what a career the actor had!)
  4. Billie Jo Bradley
  5. Floyd Smoot
  6. Kate Bradley

Bea Benaderet also played the voice of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones!

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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker
  3. Homer Bedloe (what a career the actor had!)
  4. Billie Jo Bradley
  5. Floyd Smoot
  6. Kate Bradley
  7. Bobbie Jo Bradley
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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker
  3. Homer Bedloe (what a career the actor had!)
  4. Billie Jo Bradley
  5. Floyd Smoot
  6. Kate Bradley
  7. Bobbie Jo Bradley
  8. Dr. Janet Craig

“there’s a lady MD, she’s as pretty as can be”.

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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker
  3. Homer Bedloe (what a career the actor had!)
  4. Billie Jo Bradley
  5. Floyd Smoot
  6. Kate Bradley
  7. Bobbie Jo Bradley
  8. Dr. Janet Craig
  9. Charley Pratt

Engineer of The Cannonball until the actor (the great Smiley Burnette) died and Floyd took over both railroad jobs.

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Characters from ‘Petticoat Junction’

  1. Joe Carson
  2. Sam Drucker
  3. Homer Bedloe (what a career the actor had!)
  4. Billie Jo Bradley
  5. Floyd Smoot
  6. Kate Bradley
  7. Bobbie Jo Bradley
  8. Dr. Janet Craig
  9. Charley Pratt
  10. Mr. Haney

Like other characters in the Paul Henning universe, also appeared in ‘Green Acres’ prior to CBS’s great “rural purge”

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Shows that reference the actors’ other roles

  1. Roseanne - John Goodman and Michael O’Keefe reenact a scene from The Great Santini, in which O’Keefe starred
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Shows that reference the actors’ other roles

  1. Roseanne - John Goodman and Michael O’Keefe reenact a scene from The Great Santini, in which O’Keefe starred
  2. Newhart - In the series finale, Newhart, as Dr. Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show, wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife in the earlier series, and realizes that this series was all a dream.
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Shows that reference the actors’ other roles

  1. Roseanne - John Goodman and Michael O’Keefe reenact a scene from The Great Santini, in which O’Keefe starred
  2. Newhart - In the series finale, Newhart, as Dr. Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show, wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife in the earlier series, and realizes that this series was all a dream.
  3. Boston Legal - In one quick seen William Shatner as lawyer Denny Crane, is being followed by reporters pestering him with questions, and he blurts, “…and at one time I was captain of a starship!”
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Shows that reference the actors’ other roles

  1. Roseanne - John Goodman and Michael O’Keefe reenact a scene from The Great Santini, in which O’Keefe starred
  2. Newhart - In the series finale, Newhart, as Dr. Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show, wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife in the earlier series, and realizes that this series was all a dream.
  3. Boston Legal - In one quick seen William Shatner as lawyer Denny Crane, is being followed by reporters pestering him with questions, and he blurts, “…and at one time I was captain of a starship!”
  4. Arrested Development - Henry Winkler’s Barry Zuckerkorn jumps over a shark during a conversation with the Bluths on a pier.
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Shows that reference the actors’ other roles

  1. Roseanne - John Goodman and Michael O’Keefe reenact a scene from The Great Santini, in which O’Keefe starred
  2. Newhart - In the series finale, Newhart, as Dr. Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show, wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife in the earlier series, and realizes that this series was all a dream.
  3. Boston Legal - In one quick seen William Shatner as lawyer Denny Crane, is being followed by reporters pestering him with questions, and he blurts, “…and at one time I was captain of a starship!”
  4. Arrested Development - Henry Winkler’s Barry Zuckerkorn jumps over a shark during a conversation with the Bluths on a pier.
  5. Third Rock from the Sun - John Lithgow’s alien, Dick Solomon, and Wiliam Shatner’s Big Giant Head share memories of a disrupted plane ride - both played passengers on an airplane that is attacked by a monster - Shatner on the TV series “The Twilight Zone”; Lithgow on “Twilight Zone: The Movie”
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Shows that reference the actors’ other roles

  1. Roseanne - John Goodman and Michael O’Keefe reenact a scene from The Great Santini, in which O’Keefe starred
  2. Newhart - In the series finale, Newhart, as Dr. Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show, wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife in the earlier series, and realizes that this series was all a dream.
  3. Boston Legal - In one quick seen William Shatner as lawyer Denny Crane, is being followed by reporters pestering him with questions, and he blurts, “…and at one time I was captain of a starship!”
  4. Arrested Development - Henry Winkler’s Barry Zuckerkorn jumps over a shark during a conversation with the Bluths on a pier.
  5. Third Rock from the Sun - John Lithgow’s alien, Dick Solomon, and Wiliam Shatner’s Big Giant Head share memories of a disrupted plane ride - both played passengers on an airplane that is attacked by a monster - Shatner on the TV series “The Twilight Zone”; Lithgow on “Twilight Zone: The Movie”
  6. Archer - s4e1: An amnesiac Archer is working at a burger joint, where he is “Bob” and has a family. (H. Jon Benjamin voices both Sterling Archer and Bob Belcher/Bob’s Burgers.)
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Shows that reference the actors’ other roles

  1. Roseanne - John Goodman and Michael O’Keefe reenact a scene from The Great Santini, in which O’Keefe starred
  2. Newhart - In the series finale, Newhart, as Dr. Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show, wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife in the earlier series, and realizes that this series was all a dream.
  3. Boston Legal - In one quick seen William Shatner as lawyer Denny Crane, is being followed by reporters pestering him with questions, and he blurts, “…and at one time I was captain of a starship!”
  4. Arrested Development - Henry Winkler’s Barry Zuckerkorn jumps over a shark during a conversation with the Bluths on a pier.
  5. Third Rock from the Sun - John Lithgow’s alien, Dick Solomon, and Wiliam Shatner’s Big Giant Head share memories of a disrupted plane ride - both played passengers on an airplane that is attacked by a monster - Shatner on the TV series “The Twilight Zone”; Lithgow on “Twilight Zone: The Movie”
  6. Archer - s4e1: An amnesiac Archer is working at a burger joint, where he is “Bob” and has a family. (H. Jon Benjamin voices both Sterling Archer and Bob Belcher/Bob’s Burgers.)
  7. The Simpsons - Lisa once told Marge she was laughing at a joke she heard on Herman’s Head. Yeardley Smith was a cast member on that show. (Marge was not amused.)
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Shows that reference the actors’ other roles

  1. Roseanne - John Goodman and Michael O’Keefe reenact a scene from The Great Santini, in which O’Keefe starred
  2. Newhart - In the series finale, Newhart, as Dr. Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show, wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife in the earlier series, and realizes that this series was all a dream.
  3. Boston Legal - In one quick seen William Shatner as lawyer Denny Crane, is being followed by reporters pestering him with questions, and he blurts, “…and at one time I was captain of a starship!”
  4. Arrested Development - Henry Winkler’s Barry Zuckerkorn jumps over a shark during a conversation with the Bluths on a pier.
  5. Third Rock from the Sun - John Lithgow’s alien, Dick Solomon, and Wiliam Shatner’s Big Giant Head share memories of a disrupted plane ride - both played passengers on an airplane that is attacked by a monster - Shatner on the TV series “The Twilight Zone”; Lithgow on “Twilight Zone: The Movie”
  6. Archer - s4e1: An amnesiac Archer is working at a burger joint, where he is “Bob” and has a family. (H. Jon Benjamin voices both Sterling Archer and Bob Belcher/Bob’s Burgers.)
  7. The Simpsons - Lisa once told Marge she was laughing at a joke she heard on Herman’s Head. Yeardley Smith was a cast member on that show. (Marge was not amused.)
  8. The Good Place - At one point Ted Danson’s character is tending bar (referencing Cheers)