# Unanswered Questions from TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328 "2000-11-22T18:10:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [May 7, 2001, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/41 "2001-05-07T10:34:48Z")
Sir Rhosis writes; \> Did any of the Cartwright boys ever date/marry a woman \> who lived beyond one episode? It runs in the family, I guess. I want to know what was the father’s problem. He had two sons while still in his teens and another in his early twenties. (Look up on IMDb the relative ages of the actors.) These were all supposed to be by different mothers. Isn’t that a little odd? Didn’t any of the neighbors suspect something was fishy when Ben Cartwright told them, “The new wife? Oh, she died in childbirth, just like the first two. Of course, she had the baby at the ranch, so no one else was around to witness the death.” Here’s my theory. Pa and Hop Sing were gay lovers. They wanted to have kids to raise themselves, so they arranged for Ben to get three women in succession pregnant and had a hastily arranged marriage in each case. They killed each woman afterwards and passed off her death as being in childbirth. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/42 "2001-05-07T12:30:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wendell Wagner \* > \*\*Here’s my theory. Pa and Hop Sing were gay lovers… \*\* You’ve put **waaaaay** too much thought into this, Wendell. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/43 "2001-05-07T13:21:20Z")
Why didn’t Pete ever let Jim drive in “Adam-12”? - He did (I saw this over the weekend during ‘Fandemonium’). One episode had the car breaking down constantly two days before it was to be retired. As the two were sneaking up on a prowler, a radiator hose cracked, giving them away. In another instance, they capture someone and while handcuffing him, the emergency brake lets go and the car rolls away. Malloy let Reed drive for once so that he could deal with the car problems (the accelarator had a nasty habit of sticking and the rear-view mirror kept falling down). ---
**Author:** ![DarbyV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@DarbyV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarbyV)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/44 "2001-05-07T14:35:51Z")
Did Pa EVER bring in a succesfull crop? Was Carrie retarded or just really slow? If the Olesons were so rich, why did Willie wear the same clothes every day? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/45 "2001-05-07T15:22:45Z")
\>7. Did the English couple in the Taster’s Choice commercials ever get it on? Sadly, no. He was called to America by the secret organization that he worked for in order to mentor a young woman with special abilities. After that fell through, he started working with a vampire slayer. More questions: 1. Why in Star Trek, when space ships meet, they’re always right side up? 2. Why does Max lower the Cone of Silence when he knows it never works? Why does the Chief let him? 3. What was the Chief’s last name? What was Agent 99’s name? Didn’t Max think it might be a mistake to marry a woman whose name he didn’t know? 4. What did Ozzie do for a living? Did he coast on the residuals from Ricky’s records? 5. Where did King Arthur get the cocoanuts? ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/46 "2001-05-07T15:38:30Z")
What was Norm’s total bar tab? Will it ever be completely paid off? Why doesn’t Frasier ever drink beer anymore, when that was his drink of choice at Cheers? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/47 "2001-05-07T15:43:39Z")
How about this one: - Did Robb & Laurie Petrie ever get a king-sized bed? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/48 "2001-05-07T15:48:27Z")
How about these: - Did Robb & Laurie Petrie ever get a king-sized bed? - Did Jim Rockford ever get paid? - Who was the final card player Gee and the others were waiting for at the end of the “Homicide: Life on the Street” finale/movie? ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/49 "2001-05-07T16:44:08Z")
Speaking of Frasier, why didn’t he recognize Sy Flembeck, the advertising man, as his own father? Or, for that matter, why didn’t he recognize that female reporter as really being Roz the producer? 🙂 And on WKRP, how could they run an entire radio station with that one little shelf of albums they had in the booth? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/50 "2001-05-07T19:29:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\* > 5. Where did King Arthur get the cocoanuts? \*\* He found them. My questions: 1). What ever happened to Bat Campell when he walked into the ambush? 2). What happened with all the other cliffhangers from the last episode of **Soap**? 3). How did Mr. Rourke fit all that stuff for everybody’s fantasies on one island? And how much did a trip to Fantasy Island cost? ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/51 "2001-05-07T20:30:52Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by xizor \* \*\* > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > 3). How did Mr. Rourke fit all that stuff for everybody’s fantasies on one island? And how much did a trip to Fantasy Island cost?_\* I know this one - when the series first started (I think it was actually a TV movie and then became a series), a trip cost $50,000. I liked the original premise of the show, because all the fantasies **were** possible to create by hiring actors, building sets, etc. ($50K obviously went a lot further circa 1975 than it does now.) Later on, the show turned to quasi-supernatural “Mr. Roark is a wizard” hokiness, and the fantasies were created by waving a magic coconut or something. Not as interesting, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/52 "2001-05-07T22:48:49Z")
[li]Who is the father of Sculley’s baby?[/li][li]Did Mulder and Sculley ever get past first base?[/li] I’ll stop there cuz these are too easy… how about: [li]What happened to Seattle after the Season 2 Finale of _Millenium_?[/li]What is the Millenium Group doing now? ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/53 "2001-05-08T03:08:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*What did those two guys driving down **Route 66** do for a living, that they’ve got all this free time to drive around in? \*\* IIRC they took some menial job each episode. According to Mort Drucker, Richard Kimble took the jobs they quit. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/54 "2001-05-08T04:09:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LlamaPoet \* > \*\*Why didn’t Pete ever let Jim drive in “Adam-12”? > > - He did (I saw this over the weekend during ‘Fandemonium’). One episode had the car breaking down constantly two days before it was to be retired. As the two were sneaking up on a prowler, a radiator hose cracked, giving them away. In another instance, they capture someone and while handcuffing him, the emergency brake lets go and the car rolls away. Malloy let Reed drive for once so that he could deal with the car problems (the accelarator had a nasty habit of sticking and the rear-view mirror kept falling down). > \*\* Is this the episode where Jim gets royally pissed, slams his hand against the steering wheel and screams “YOU BEAST!”? God, what language. Sir ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/55 "2001-05-08T04:13:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nineiron \* > \*\*And on WKRP, how could they run an entire radio station with that one little shelf of albums they had in the booth? \*\* Heck, these days they can run it off one CD! At the Top Ten stations, that is. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/56 "2001-05-08T04:21:53Z")
I’m gonna chime in on the Cupid question. What a great show. Too bad it was doomed. My question… Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Did they make it out of the jungle? They had a plane. The lunatic doctor had a machine gun. Was the village destroyed by the influx of modern culture? Could the opera singer find any more revealing jungle attire? I watched the whole season, to be left hanging off the cliff at the end. Aaaargh! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/57 "2001-05-08T07:36:41Z")
What did Kramer do for money? What kind of a name is “Gilligan”, anyway? Why didn’t Peg and Al Bundy get divorced? ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/58 "2001-05-08T07:57:45Z")
Speaking of Peg Bundy… Why doesn’t anyone else think Peg Bundy was hot? ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/59 "2001-05-08T14:44:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Rhosis \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by LlamaPoet \* > > \*\*Why didn’t Pete ever let Jim drive in “Adam-12”? > > > > - He did (I saw this over the weekend during ‘Fandemonium’). One episode had the car breaking down constantly two days before it was to be retired. As the two were sneaking up on a prowler, a radiator hose cracked, giving them away. In another instance, they capture someone and while handcuffing him, the emergency brake lets go and the car rolls away. Malloy let Reed drive for once so that he could deal with the car problems (the accelarator had a nasty habit of sticking and the rear-view mirror kept falling down). > > Is this the episode where Jim gets royally pissed, slams his hand against the steering wheel and screams “YOU BEAST!”? God, what language. \*\* > > That’s the one. What a fantastic show, combining the real-life drama of Cops with the no-nonsense in-your-face attitude of Dragnet. > > To stay on topic, how about: > Why didn’t Laura Petri move the coffee table after Dick tripped on it every night? Was she really that sadistic? > Sir \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/60 "2001-05-08T15:03:46Z")
Bughunter, I, for one, think Peg was hot. Kelly was just a bit too bland; Peg has Character. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328.md?page=4)