Comedy/sitcom jokes that people won't "get" anymore

[cd637299]

^ "I Spy" can be seen on Cozi TV if you have it, but I know there aren't many Cozi affiliates at this time....

As to the late Cosell, he was a frequent "___________" on Match Game, whenever the answer called for an obnoxious celebrity. And of course GSN ran MG into the 21st century! Despite that, MG was one of GSN's highest rated shows for a long time.

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P.S. BTW, kudos to johnbasalla for starting this thread....this can go quite some time!

Match Game is still popular for the "Dumb Dora" questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXPRtEFjZaA

Just viewed it, and made comment there, but I get no points! I am not sure that if MG made a comeback, that they'd have a Dumb Dora question----it wouldn't be PC.

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[firepoint525]

It's like when on the Brady Bunch they had Wes Parker, the plot tells you who he is, but a lot of the thrill is lost because most young people won't know how BIG a baseball star he was. But while you lose that "Wow" factor, the plot isn't less because of it.

There were quite a few like that on The Brady Bunch. Don Drysdale (Greg's baseball episode) and Deacon Jones (Peter's football episode) were relatively unknown to me, even when I watched reruns of the show in the '70s. Jones made reference to Rosey Grier, but I am not sure how many would even know who he is nowadays. (We don't really have that happening with the Joe Namath episode--at least not yet!)

Davey Jones was already approaching has-been status by the time Marcia invited him to perform at their school dance, which was spoofed quite nicely in The Brady Bunch Movie, in which Davey graciously appeared. One girl scoffed at Marcia, and suggested that they should also invite The Fifth Dimension, the Carpenters, and the Beatles, too! One problem: the Beatles had broken up by then. If The Brady Bunch had been able to effect a Beatles reunion, imagine how much more popular the Bradys would be now! ;D

 

[cd637299]

Drysdale was on an ep of "Leave It to Beaver" as well---possibly the only named celebrity guest who ever appeared as himself on that show. It was too unrealistic----Beaver called long distance to the L.A. Dodgers and asked to speak with Drysdale, and they put him on the phone! Try that today with any pro athlete.....yeah sure. (Basically the episode involved how much of a phone bill Beaver ran up.)

Here is a totally ludicrous sitcom clip featuring the Dodgers----I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVm-HwAkVp8

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[anotherguyTN]

Euell Gibbons was the target of many a Carson joke as well. You can Google all this stuff

Gibbons (who was still alive at the time) also got a mention in Larry Groce's (who?) 1976 hit, "Junk Food Junkie."

Larry Groce went on to work with children's music for Disney and other projects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Groce

 

[Braves2005]

Another episode of The Brady Bunch is where Cindy buys a Shirley Temple record to impress a so-called talent scout (actually a client of Mike's played by Natalie Schaffer (aka Lovey Howell from Gilligan's Island) and Cindy dressed up as Shirley Temple even though Cindy was almost a teenager so she was too old to be playing her.

And the question is: Did Shirley Temple ever make any photograph records during the 1930's or did they put any of Shirley Temple's songs from her movies on record later on as her movies began playing on TV starting in the 1950's?

 

[rnigma1]

I think it was because Jan and/or Marcia tricked Cindy into thinking that she could be the next Shirley Temple. Been a while since I watched the Bunch.
On the subject of the celebrity episodes, there was one where Marcia, out of the blue, proclaimed her love for Desi Arnaz Jr., who of course appeared in that episode. I don't believe Desi Jr. was that big of a star, even when he was on his mother's show.
(The Bradys tended to idolize the oddest people... Bobby once hero-worshiped Jesse James....)

 

[cd637299]

^ Convert that plot to a 2013 sitcom, and it would be a girl with a crush on Nick Lachey or Jason Mraz....I am sure that either one of them would be happy to appear as themselves....

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[firepoint525]

On the subject of the celebrity episodes, there was one where Marcia, out of the blue, proclaimed her love for Desi Arnaz Jr., who of course appeared in that episode. I don't believe Desi Jr. was that big of a star, even when he was on his mother's show.

I kinda thought the same thing. But I really did not remember enough about that episode to comment on it.

(The Bradys tended to idolize the oddest people... Bobby once hero-worshiped Jesse James....)

You mean Sandra Bullock's ex? ;D See where this is going? ;D

 

[BD Sullivan]

The Bradys tended to idolize the oddest people...

They probably idolized whoever could fit within the confines of Sherwood Schwartz's budget.

 

[cd637299]

^ Pretty much this, I'd say!

 

[landtuna]

(The Bradys tended to idolize the oddest people... Bobby once hero-worshiped Jesse James....)

You mean Sandra Bullock's ex? ;D See where this is going? ;D
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Just shows you what different generations are thinking.

First time I saw a reference to "Jesse James" I wondered how the outlaw could be related to Sandra Bullock. :

 

[cwf1701]

And some people might mistake the Jessie James Bobby Worshiped for one of two Jessie James that come into mind in recent years:

(1) the reality show Jessie James (known for Building custom Motorcycles)
(2) the Villainous group From Pokemon (Jessie and James)

 

[onairb]

Recent repeats of 'The Brady Bunch' on Hallmark Channel are keeping this thread alive. An episode on Thursday was filmed in the Kings' Island amusement park in Cincinnati(the infamous one in which cylinders containing Mike's architectural sketches and Jan's poster are accidentally mixed up). The conclusion featured the 'William Tell Overture', a rare playing outside of 'Lone Ranger' contexts. I just checked, and it turns out the amusement park is alive and well, although I'm not sure how well-known it is outside the area. But I can't remember the last time I heard the 'Overture', leat alone a reference to the Lone Ranger.

 

[BD Sullivan]

But I can't remember the last time I heard the 'Overture', leat alone a reference to the Lone Ranger.

You may get a chance to hear it this summer, since a new Lone Ranger movie will be coming out, starring Johnny Depp.

Another dated reference: in a 1968 episode of Dragnet, preparations are made for a visit by "The President." During a press briefing, a reporter asks if there was anything they couldn't ask him. Bill Gannon (played by Harry Morgan) offers a lame joke: "Don't ask him about the Washington Senators baseball team."

 

[onairb]

But I can't remember the last time I heard the 'Overture', leat alone a reference to the Lone Ranger.

You may get a chance to hear it this summer, since a new Lone Ranger movie will be coming out, starring Johnny Depp.

True, I'd forgotten about that, as well as the 1981 version, starring Klinton Spillsbury(don't know if the overture was used in that one).

 

[rnigma1]

But I can't remember the last time I heard the 'Overture', leat alone a reference to the Lone Ranger.

You may get a chance to hear it this summer, since a new Lone Ranger movie will be coming out, starring Johnny Depp.

True, I'd forgotten about that, as well as the 1981 version, starring Klinton Spillsbury(don't know if the overture was used in that one).

It was, during the film's climactic fistfight between the Lone Ranger and Butch Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd). Much of the film's score consisted of songs by Merle Haggard, if I recall.

 

[71dude]

Don't forget the Brady Bunch episode centered around trading stamps!

 

[onairb]

Also, the episode where EG Marshall guest-starred as the school principal, and had a scene with Mike, was mentioned as a 'big deal' in TV GUIDE as a sort of 'reunion' of the two stars of 'The Defenders'. While viewers in the '70s probably 'got' the writers' nod to the audience, once 'Defenders' disappeared from syndication, while 'Bunch' continued playing on, the significance of that episode diminished. Today, Marshall may be best remembered for his guest-appearance as the President in 'Superman II'.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Also, the episode where EG Marshall guest-starred as the school principal, and had a scene with Mike, was mentioned as a 'big deal' in TV GUIDE as a sort of 'reunion' of the two stars of 'The Defenders'. While viewers in the '70s probably 'got' the writers' nod to the audience, once 'Defenders' disappeared from syndication, while 'Bunch' continued playing on, the significance of that episode diminished. Today, Marshall may be best remembered for his guest-appearance as the President in 'Superman II'.

And Clark Griswold's father in law on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

 

[KyDXIn]

But I can't remember the last time I heard the 'Overture', leat alone a reference to the Lone Ranger.

You may get a chance to hear it this summer, since a new Lone Ranger movie will be coming out, starring Johnny Depp.

True, I'd forgotten about that, as well as the 1981 version, starring Klinton Spillsbury(don't know if the overture was used in that one).

Talk about the potential for a future dated joke. With a name like Klinton Spillsbury, add a blue dress and make your own joke!