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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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 Posted - 04/25/2007 : 23:24:17
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I've been watching a lot of Seinfeld lately on DVD, which is probably the best of the bunch.
Let's tune in for some more of TV's best (or worst or most photogenic).
TV SITCOMS |
Edited by - Cheese_Ed on 04/25/2007 23:26:38 |
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tortoise 
"Still reviewing, but slowly."
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 00:09:02
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quote:
They say I might as well face the truth
That I am just too long in the tooth
I've started to deteriorate
And now I've passed my own sell by date.
Oh I am no spring chicken it's true
I have to pop my teeth in to chew
And my old knees have started to knock
I've just got too many miles on the clock.
So I'm a wrinkly, crinkly, set in my ways
It's true that my body has seen better days
But give me half a chance and I can still misbehave
One Foot in the Grave
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 01:43:45
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My Mother the Car.
TV audience gets the gears. |
Edited by - lemmycaution on 04/26/2007 23:07:32 |
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Stalean 
"Back...OMG"
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 01:54:29
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My all-time favorite British (or otherwise) sitcom is Fawlty Towers with John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs.
"It's a bloody rat!" (Basil the Rat, 1979) |
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w22dheartlivie 
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 02:06:28
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| Seinfeld - Nothing doing (although I DID like the Wizard of Oz episode - and the masturbation episode... ) |
Edited by - w22dheartlivie on 04/26/2007 02:32:50 |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 06:04:53
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Okay, so it isn't chocolate, but it was the best Sit-Com on television, EVER. Excellent writing, marvelous actors and it ran mostly without a laugh track.
(It wasn't the funniest Sit-Com, however - that would be "Coupling", of course.)
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Edited by - ChocolateLady on 04/26/2007 06:21:11 |
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 06:22:40
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Another all-time favourite: Blackadder
From Blackadder goes Forth: "For us, the Great War is finito, a war which would be a damn sight simpler if we just stayed in England and shot fifty thousand of our men a week."
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Edited by - Chris C on 04/26/2007 06:24:43 |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 12:05:43
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 15:02:49
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I'm in with Barney Miller, a gentle, wry, marvelously well written gem that started on TV in 1975.
Ron Glass played the sophisticated and cultured Det. Ron Harris, who was also an aspiring novelist. (Eventually, his book 'Precinct Diary' was published under the title 'Blood On The Badge.' He was sued by a shyster lawyer who got the court to agree that all of the characters in the book were real people who were used w/o their permission. Harris had to give up all money earned from the book.)
Max Gail played Stan 'Wojo' Wojciehowicz, the slightly dumb but good-hearted detective who was an average sort of regular guy.
Harris complained about the difficulty of maintaining 'the good life' on his detective's salary. Wojo said he couldn't see that it should be so expensive to just go bowling, have a few beers, etc. Harris said, "That's not the good life! That's gusto!"
Then there was the time that the police dept granted the precinct a little money with which to make a porn film to use in a sting operation. Harris was granted role of director and he threw himself into it with vigor, seeing himself as a Hitchcock. Most fo the film was really boring, while Harris set up the situation...we are not shown the final scene, but apparently it redeemed Harris as a porn director.
There was humorous verbal sparring between Harris and Steve Landesberg's Det. Arthur Dietrich. Both officers were brilliant, but Dietrich was a bit of a social misfit and something of a genius, which annoyed Harris.
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 19:00:08
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| another homage to the house of Jerry... |
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MguyX
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 19:14:42
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John Elroy Sanford, better known as Redd Foxx, starred in one of my all-time favorite shows: "Sanford & Son".
He played Fred G. Sanford, where the G. stood for anything from "Get 'cho gorilla hands off my sandwich!" to simply "Great".
(Based on the British series "Steptoe & Son," of which I've seen sadly only one episode. Sure wish I could see the rest of them.) |
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 19:29:53
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I recently enjoyed the comeback of a Tv show that was here in the states in the 80's. It was called My Two Dads. It just recently returned in the news. This time there were different stars. It starred:
Larry Birkhead
Howard K. Stern
and
Dannielynn Smith
The show didnt last long. In the finale, we finally found out who the real dad was. Unlike the show in the 80's.
Edit: It has since turned into 'Peoples Court' |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 04/26/2007 : 21:46:20
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quote:
Originally posted by TitanPa
I recently enjoyed the comeback of a Tv show that was here in the states in the 80's. It was called My Two Dads. I just recently returned in the news. This time there were different stars. It starred:
Larry Birkhead
Howard K. Stern
and
Dannielynn Smith
The show didnt last long. In the finale, we finally found out who the real dad was. Unlike the show in the 80's
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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 04/27/2007 : 04:20:16
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I was a big fan of Fawlty Towers too 
"Don't mention the war" |
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redPen
"Because I said so!"
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Posted - 04/27/2007 : 05:49:29
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Originally posted by duh
I'm in with Barney Miller, a gentle, wry, marvelously well written gem that started on TV in 1975.
Ron Glass played the sophisticated and cultured Det. Ron Harris, who was also an aspiring novelist. (Eventually, his book 'Precinct Diary' was published under the title 'Blood On The Badge.' He was sued by a shyster lawyer who got the court to agree that all of the characters in the book were real people who were used w/o their permission. Harris had to give up all money earned from the book.)
Max Gail played Stan 'Wojo' Wojciehowicz, the slightly dumb but good-hearted detective who was an average sort of regular guy.
Harris complained about the difficulty of maintaining 'the good life' on his detective's salary. Wojo said he couldn't see that it should be so expensive to just go bowling, have a few beers, etc. Harris said, "That's not the good life! That's gusto!"
Then there was the time that the police dept granted the precinct a little money with which to make a porn film to use in a sting operation. Harris was granted role of director and he threw himself into it with vigor, seeing himself as a Hitchcock. Most fo the film was really boring, while Harris set up the situation...we are not shown the final scene, but apparently it redeemed Harris as a porn director.
There was humorous verbal sparring between Harris and Steve Landesberg's Det. Arthur Dietrich. Both officers were brilliant, but Dietrich was a bit of a social misfit and something of a genius, which annoyed Harris.
Excellent choice, duh! I loved how whenever someone was stumped by something (especially a "big word"), Dietrich would magically appear at their shoulder, waiting for them (smirk in place) to give him the go-ahead to explain to everyone what the mystery word is. Also loved how Harris took to calling his Blood on the Badge book "B.O.B."!  |
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