TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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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.

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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.

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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*
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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) (2) at entertaining Guinan with what he learns falls flat.

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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
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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
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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
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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
  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.

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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
  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.

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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.

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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.

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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
  6. Danny Partridge - The Partridge Family
  7. Michael Scott - The Office
  8. Krusty the Clown - The Simpsons
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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
  6. Danny Partridge - The Partridge Family
  7. Michael Scott - The Office
  8. Krusty the Clown - The Simpsons
  9. Sally Weaver - Seinfeld
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  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
  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)
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(This is the TV thread, not the Movies thread. :wink: )

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Duh

trying to do too many things at once

PASS

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TV Scientist Characters

  1. Sheldon Cooper (theoretical physicist), The Big Bang Theory
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TV Scientist Characters

  1. Sheldon Cooper (theoretical physicist), The Big Bang Theory
  2. Dr. Zed, Owl/TV

Canadian educational children’s program

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  1. Sheldon Cooper (theoretical physicist), The Big Bang Theory
  2. Dr. Eleanor Bramwell (practicing physician as well as medical experimenter and researcher) Bramwell
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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)