Apparently this episode can no longer be shown, because the whole “died from licking envelopes” thing is too close to the current anthrax scare.
Pezwookiee: I thought Joey Lauren Adams de-flowered Bud Bundy right before marrying his cousin.
Aso, I thought it was dumb that the Seinfeld cast, on the final episode, gets thrown into prison for picking on a fat man while he was being robbed. I think Seinfeld was a great show, but they kinda ended it with a lousy episode.
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Larry David’s HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm (in which he actually stars) has hilarious things that are quite tragic, much like the stuff from Seinfeld already mentioned.
But I mainly wanted to mention the entire premise for My Two Dads, with Staci Keanan, B.J. (minus one bear), and Paul Reiser. I believe the whole premise of the show was that her mom was sleeping with these two guys at the same time, and never knew which one was really the father.
There was finally a paternity test in the last episode, but she (the daughter) declined to find out the results.
jabe, while your point about Joey Lauren Adams’ character marrying Bud Bundy’s cousin, I checked the IMDB (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Adams,+Joey+Lauren) and found this:
Her character of Mona Mullins went on to be in both spin-off series of Married… With Children, entitled Top of the Heap and Vinny & Bobbie.
Possibly more spooky that odd.
That episode from Season 2 of Family Guy where Brian and Stewie travel cross country. Anyone remember how Stewie distracted the airport security guards whilst his case was being x-rayed? Now, it gets spookier when the passenger checking in straight after Stewie tries the same ruse …
… I somehow think that the Fox censors aren’t going to let that episode air for a while without editing that scene somehow.
They just had the Diff’rent Strokes episode where Arnold and Kimberly got picked up hitchhiking on the other night–I remember thinking, “This is pretty weird for a fluff show…” At the end Conrad Bain came on and warned us about the evils of hitchhiking. It is different from the one with Arnold, Dudley, and the kiddie pornographers.
It must have been Weirdo Night on TV Land because right after that one was another two-parter, this one where Sam (the little redhead kid who appeared in some of the later episodes) was kidnapped by a looney-tune who took him home and tried to convince his wife and son that he’d rescued a poor little homeless kid (he was trying to replace their other child, who had died leaving his wife in a deep depression). This guy was pretty chilling the way he told Sam he’d kill his parents if he (Sam) didn’t cooperate.
I think I missed a theme night announcement or something.
I really am watching the wrong “Diff’rent Strokes” episodes, aren’t I? Seeing Arnold dressed as Mr. T constitutes weirdness in my book.
Remember “The Simpsons”? The episode where Frank Grimes comes into their lives. I do like the episode and all, and I get the dark humor, but still…him dying like that after the whole rampage. The whole episode seemed a little mean spirited, like the writers were having a helluva bad day. Don’t get me wrong, I love that episode, it just looks so so bizarre the way they cut right to the funeral.
At the end of the epsidoe in Blackadder III where Edmund’s attempts to wangle himself a Lordship have all come to nothing, and Pitt the Younger remains Prime Minister, Edmund’s closing lines are decidedly odd:
“Oh, God. I’ve spent my last penny on a catskin windcheater, I’ve just destroyed a priceless turnip…”
cue loud foreign shouting at door
“… and now I’m about to be viciously slaughtered by a naked Tunisian sock merchant.”
Okay, the catskin windcheater is Edmund’s Lordly robes, for which he’s wasted money. The priceless turnip was what Baldrick spent £1000 on, and which Edmund destroyed by jamming it onto Baldrick’s head. But what on earth is this about a naked Tunisian sock merchant? Closest I can come is that at the start of the episode in a throwaway gag we realise that Edmund’s been coming into the Prince’s bedroom, stealing his socks, and selling them off.
But why is the merchant Tunisian? Why naked? And why does he want to kill Edmund? I seem to remember working all this out years ago when sat in the back of my maths class - I think it actually does make sense, but since then the reasons have escaped me. Truly surreal.
Before they became regulars as cops on Barney Miller, both Steve Landesburg (Dietrich) and Ron Carey (Levitt) played crooks in different episodes. Makes for weird rerun watching.
And poor Dudley in DS was also the one who admitted to Nancy Reagan that he had experimented with drugs. He did get a hug, though (awwwwww).
You can see what happened to Dudley here:
http://www.peoplejustlikeus.org/Tv_and_Movies/Shavar.html
I wonder what was more of an influence – being hugged by Gordon Jump or Nancy Reagan…
The single oddest sitcom moment I’ve ever seen had to be an episode of “Friends” from last year:
Joey and Ross were watching a video together and both fall asleep. While asleep, they start cuddling up in each other’s arms. They wake up, and the standard sitcom homophobic discomfort ensues.
Not an entirely strange setup yet. But the rest of the episode followed a plotline in which Joey wants to take a nap like that again, and pesters a reluctant Ross about it. He ultimately entices Ross into “napping” with him him again. They get caught by the rest of the gang napping together.
This was truly the most bizarre and contrived situation not only of “Friends” but any sitcom ever IMHO.
Not half as weird as Harry Morgan(?)(Col. Potter)showing up in an early episode of M.A.S.H. as a crazy general.
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Wasn’t the child molester on that Diff’rent Strokes episode played by the same guy who played the station manager on WKRP in Cincinnatti?
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