# WKRP to be released on DVD **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731 "2006-12-11T20:30:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/41 "2006-12-13T14:14:10Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodem] The **theme** says it all, doesn’t it, **ScubaQueen**? “Town to town and up and down the dial …” I once quit a station in Carrrollton and went to the competition, and the Program Director at BTR had the nerve to tell me “You’ll never work in this town again!” I laughed in his face. "Dude, this is **Carrollton, Georgia** , not fuckin’ **Hollywood!"** :rolleyes: But you’re right: “Those were the days, my friends…” Do you still dream about your “radio days”? I do. Sorry for the hijack, but I don’t get a chance to talk “radio” much anymore… 😉 Quasi [/QUOTE] oh my yes i do indeed. 🆒 i remember those days well. i still have my third class license framed and on the wall of my computer/tv room. today the license is dumbed down and nothing special, but back in the late 70s/early 80s you had to study your ass off for them. hadda go up to chicago to take the three-hour exam! remember the manuals and all the elements you had to learn? the dive master is an electronics engineer and i love to surprise him now and then with something pithy i dredge up from memory. 😛 cart machines. who \*didn’t \* hate them? i should know. i MADE every damn one of them we used at the station. and boy did they \*\*ever \*\* take a lifetime to re-cue. especially when you underestimated your talk-up into the next record. or while you were trying to meet the cubs audiofeed for the afternoon ballgame. i hated that… speaking of cueing, not only was i the news director i was also the morning drive time jock. i can still back-cue a record perfectly! 😃 those were indeed the days. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/42 "2006-12-13T15:39:42Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodem] Me too! Here’s a “Quasi-Quote” from my News Director days at WBTR-FM: “A minute is only a minute. Unless you’re waiting for a cart to re-cue. Then it’s an **hour**!” 😃 Q [/QUOTE] A-men! And the crew before never puts 'em back. God, I love the holidays. Five million carts, noooo labels. Show brings back memories for me. (College and high school radio only, here) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/43 "2006-12-13T16:21:08Z")
[QUOTE=Asgardking] Not to hijack, but in what episode of Just Shoot Me did that happen? [/QUOTE] It’s the one in which Jack had just come back from a trip to Asia, where he accidentally tipped a guy some huge amount (a year’s salary?). The guy was so grateful that he told Jack where to find this great candy, but nobody tells Jack about the candy’s hallucinogenic side-effect. He brought the candy back to the office and passed it around. I’ll see if I can find an episode title…got it: [Lemon Wacky Hello](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0617924/). > [@Scarlett67](#): > > WKRP did it first, in one of my favorite episodes. Mama Carlson hires a radio consultant to evaluate the station, and Andy, uh, turns the tables on her. I assume that’s the one in which Bailey sings the old Nestle’s jingle–I don’t really remember anything else from that one. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/44 "2006-12-13T16:41:44Z")
“Mama’s Review” Les and Herb pretend to be competent and hard-working, Jennifer feigns being an airhead, Venus and Johnny ratchet up some racial tension, Bailey plays a stoner, and the Big Guy holds the whole show together as the powerful, all-knowing Station Manager. Not a bad episode at all, for a clip show. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/45 "2006-12-13T17:57:38Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] I assume that’s the one in which Bailey sings the old Nestle’s jingle–I don’t really remember anything else from that one. [/QUOTE] That’s the one. Mmm… Bailey… ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/46 "2006-12-13T18:40:33Z")
[QUOTE=Scubaqueen] and how could i forget one of the best eps ever as venus explains the atom. [/QUOTE] I don’t recall this one… Summary, if you would be so kind? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/47 "2006-12-13T19:13:30Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] A-men! And the crew before never puts 'em back. God, I love the holidays. Five million carts, noooo labels. Show brings back memories for me. (College and high school radio only, here) [/QUOTE] Yeah, and those holiday “sale” spots are supposed to be taken out of rotation after Christmas, but one of them _always_ seems to remain in the rack and gets played, and more often than not, it’s a jewelry store account, so they call and bitch and sales has to make an adjustment. **You** didn’t have to worry with that since you were working for a college/high school station, but those were fun times. As were the times when I’d be reading a news story and one of the jocks would set the copy on fire as I was holding it, or the times when the station owner’s wife was out shopping for new clothes and we’d get a call to insert 20 spots for that store within the next hour so she could “trade out” those items. Or how about when the program director would record a particular song onto a cart at a slightly higher speed so there’d be extra time for commercials? _Life In The Fast Lane_, for example. Or playing _Stairway to Heaven_ when you needed some extra time on the john or “other” acitivities? Or taping your whole show and carefully not mentioning times and temps, so that you could replay it while studying for a final or actually leaving the station for more of those “other” activities? I guess it goes without saying I was a night-time jock as well as the News Director. 😉 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/48 "2006-12-13T19:43:22Z")
[QUOTE=ArrMatey!] I don’t recall this one… Summary, if you would be so kind? [/QUOTE] I think it was “Venus and the Man,” Season 3, Episode 12. The night-time cleaning lady is having problems keeping her son in school, and Venus the ex-school teacher offers to talk to the kid. After the usual back and forth, with the kid claiming that chemistry was too hard, Venus relates the proton, neutron and electron to gangs, and the kid has a breakthrough. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/49 "2006-12-13T21:42:20Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] I think it was “Venus and the Man,” Season 3, Episode 12. The night-time cleaning lady is having problems keeping her son in school, and Venus the ex-school teacher offers to talk to the kid. After the usual back and forth, with the kid claiming that chemistry was too hard, Venus relates the proton, neutron and electron to gangs, and the kid has a breakthrough. [/QUOTE] So does Johnny. ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/50 "2006-12-14T00:02:55Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] I think it was “Venus and the Man,” Season 3, Episode 12. The night-time cleaning lady is having problems keeping her son in school, and Venus the ex-school teacher offers to talk to the kid. After the usual back and forth, with the kid claiming that chemistry was too hard, Venus relates the proton, neutron and electron to gangs, and the kid has a breakthrough. [/QUOTE] The Pros are positive dudes who live in the center of the neighborhood with the New Boys. The Elected Ones circle the neighborhood. They’re real negative dudes. “Tron” is Swahili for “Dude” so they’re protrons, neutrons, and electrons. It should be “proton”, but you would still pass a high school exam. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/51 "2006-12-14T00:37:15Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Les and Herb pretend to be competent and hard-working, Jennifer feigns being an airhead, Venus and Johnny ratchet up some racial tension, Bailey plays a stoner, and the Big Guy holds the whole show together as the powerful, all-knowing Station Manager. **Not a bad episode at all, for a clip show.** [/QUOTE] (bolding added) 😕 As far as I can recall, it wasn’t a clip show—?? **Petey:** That was great, man. Say, can you teach us about magnets? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/52 "2006-12-14T00:41:24Z")
My bad. I was also thinking about the previous episode I commented on, which was “Mama’s Review.” Which **was** a clip show. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/53 "2006-12-14T00:55:42Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] My bad. I was also thinking about the previous episode I commented on, which was “Mama’s Review.” Which **was** a clip show. :smack: [/QUOTE] Ah, easy mistake. Any show with Mama Carlson in it is a good one by default. “HIRSCH!!” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/54 "2006-12-14T01:06:21Z")
Especially the meta story of the machinations between Andy and Mama Carlson. “Mmm…Nice hair.” ---
**Author:** ![Asgardking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Asgardking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asgardking)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/55 "2006-12-14T04:26:34Z")
Another great scene… a tornado is approaching, but the only civil defence message Les has is about Communists attacking. Cincinnatti has been attacked by the Godless… tornados" ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/56 "2006-12-14T04:29:25Z")
[QUOTE=Asgardking] Another great scene… a tornado is approaching, but the only civil defence message Les has is about Communists attacking. Cincinnatti has been attacked by the Godless… tornados" [/QUOTE] Aunti Em, Aunti Em. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/57 "2006-12-14T06:30:58Z")
What, into page 2, and no one has mentioned the Phone Cops? And how rough they play? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/58 "2006-12-14T15:21:49Z")
Venus: “I don’t know nothin’ about fixin’ no phones!” ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/59 "2006-12-14T22:07:48Z")
The Wikipedia article is excellent: > **[WKRP in Cincinnati](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRP)** > > WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom television series about the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional AM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta, including many of the characters. Wilson once told The Cincinnati Enquirer that he selected WKRP as the call sign to stand for C-R-A-P. > The ensemble cast consists of Gary Sandy (as Andy Travis), Ho... Not only was “Turkeys Away” inspired by a real-life radio promotion, but so was “Dancing Ducks” (investigated during the “Real Families” episode to reveal that ducks had been forced to dance by being placed on a hotplate). ---
**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:** [December 15, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731/60 "2006-12-15T02:31:30Z")
[QUOTE=StarvingButStrong] What, into page 2, and no one has mentioned the Phone Cops? And how rough they play? [/QUOTE] Not only that, but nobody’s mentioned the Ripper. You know, your old pal Rip Tide, who asks you the three things that a record needs to be played on his show: It’s gotta have a beat, right? (Right!) It’s gotta have soul, right? (Right!) And it’s gotta be paid for, right? (Huh? Just play the music!) Listen, Pizzaface, around here, I crack the whip and you make the trip, okay? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-to-be-released-on-dvd/383731.md?page=4)