Episodes you just can't stand to watch

[radioman148]

Now you can find patty Duke and her "identical cousin" at your local Social Security office promoting filing online for retirement benefits.

Actually, "identical cousin" Cathy probably went back to England where they have a good pension system and free national health care. ;D

I still can't decide to this day which one I prefer. Cathy was very intelligent, level headed, and cultural.
However, Patty very hip and a party animal--after all a hot dog made her lose control.

 

[Legend City]

If I could cast Gilligan's Island today...

Professor would be Christopher Lloyd
Skipper would be Steve Buscemi
Mr. Howell would be Samuel L. Jackson
Mrs. Howell would be Bjork
Gilligan would be Sasha Baron Cohen
Mary Ann would be Jennifer Tilly
Ginger, would be that hot redhead that just died on Lost

 

[RicoGregg]

For what it's worth, I always thought that the "second Ginger", Judith Baldwin, was much more appealing than the original, Tina Louise. She would have been a great "original Ginger".

 

[cspotrun]

Now you can find patty Duke and her "identical cousin" at your local Social Security office promoting filing online for retirement benefits.

Actually, "identical cousin" Cathy probably went back to England where they have a good pension system and free national health care. ;D

in which case Cathy is losing her teeth, because she can't get in to see the Government controlled dentist. :'(

 

[LKellerIII]

If I could cast Gilligan's Island today...

Professor would be Christopher Lloyd
Skipper would be Steve Buscemi
Mr. Howell would be Samuel L. Jackson
Mrs. Howell would be Bjork
Gilligan would be Sasha Baron Cohen
Mary Ann would be Jennifer Tilly
Ginger, would be that hot redhead that just died on Lost

I can hear the dialogue in your updated version of Gilligan's Island:

Samuel L. Jackson as the new edgier Thurston Howell III: "Enough is enough! I have had it with you motherf___in' castaways on this motherf___in' island!"

 

[radioman148]

For what it's worth, I always thought that the "second Ginger", Judith Baldwin, was much more appealing than the original, Tina Louise. She would have been a great "original Ginger".

and I thought I was the only one who thought that.

 

[Stanislav]

For what it's worth, I always thought that the "second Ginger", Judith Baldwin, was much more appealing than the original, Tina Louise. She would have been a great "original Ginger".

If she'd been born just a tad earlier, that is. IRL, she would have been just 18 when Gilligan's Island debuted -- a little young to play an established movie star. (But then, if Melody Anderson could play Wrangler Jane at the tender age of 16.....) ;D

Per Wikipedia, she was Miss New Mexico USA 1965 and second runner up in the Miss USA pageant that year. Her first acting job in Hollywood was in 1969 on I Dream of Jeannie in the episode "Jeannie and the Bachelor Party" playing Major Nelson's secretary, "Dolores". She also, ironically, appeared with Tina Louise in 1975 (three years before Rescue From Gilligan's Island) in "The Stepford Wives," in which they are actually in a few scenes together.

Here's a publicity still from Rescue From Gilligan's Island that looks more like something from a soft-core bondage flick! (Of course, the effect is ruined with Bob Denver's goofy mug in the picture...) :

IMDB has a few more recent recent shots of Ms. Baldwin. Not too shabby for a gal who turned 63 last month!

 

[Stanislav]

She was Miss New Mexico USA 1965 and second runner up in the Miss USA pageant that year.

Miss USA 1965 finalists (Judith Baldwin 2nd from right).

 

[radioman148]

>>Here's a publicity still from Rescue From Gilligan's Island that looks more like something from a soft-core bondage flick! (Of course, the effect is ruined with Bob Denver's goofy mug in the picture...) >>

LOL ;D

 

[radioman148]

>>This brings me to ask the inevitable questions: Why in the hell did we watch this show? And repeatedly, at that. By any standards, this show would normally be labeled "unwatchable." And to some people, it was. Why in the world did it dodge that bullet? And how?

My biggest question here is why did I keep watching this gawdawful show? The only answer I can come up with is: Dawn Wells. Is that really a reason to keep watching?>>

It's the only one I can think of.

 

[nightfly61]

Any episode of Laverne & Shirley where they turn it into a variety show, especially where "The Big Ragoo", Carmine gets on there & sings...
although Lenny & Squiggy's song "Night After Night" was pretty funny. I also liked Laverne's outfit when they were skating with the monkey man doing "Aba Dabba Honeymoon"
Any Flintstones with Mr. Kazoo.

Any Andy Griffith with the "other" deputy. Ya?ya?ya?ya?
The Brady Bunch episode where Jan was all flipped out about being in the middle & wore the curly black wig.
Any Family Ties after Andy was born.
Any Sanford & Son with Cal.
Any Dukes of Hazzard where Daisy wasn't wearing shorts & after Enos left to start his own show.

 

[nightfly61]

How come, the only time they turned on the radio, they just happened to catch a special warning that was very specific as to what would happen to them?

It always drives me nuts(not just on Gilligan's Island, but ANY show where they're listening to the radio or watching t.v & the announcer stops what they're saying as not to interrupt the actors...or even worse(like on Gilligan's Island where the radio talks back to them in a responsive way.

There was the episode of the Brady Bunch where Jan found the old picture (Eve Plumb dressed old fashioned) of her aunt who looked just like her & she came to visit & didn't quite meet Jan's expectations.

I know this doesn't count but the Flintstones episode where there were multiple robot Freds from outer space. "I hear & I obey".
back to topic:
Those episodes of Drew Carey with the trick photography throughout.

 

[mleach]

Any episode of Laverne & Shirley where they turn it into a variety show, especially where "The Big Ragoo", Carmine gets on there & sings...
although Lenny & Squiggy's song "Night After Night" was pretty funny. I also liked Laverne's outfit when they were skating with the monkey man doing "Aba Dabba Honeymoon"

The "variety show" thing...HBO's prison drama "OZ" took this road once and it was..well lets just say a lot of fans were turned off by it. I can see why. One week two guys were trying to kill each other with ice picks or whatever and then the next week ( even if it was just for one episode ) the same two guys were trying to act like Hall & Oates. It didn't work.

 

[radioman148]

Any episode of Laverne & Shirley where they turn it into a variety show, especially where "The Big Ragoo", Carmine gets on there & sings...
although Lenny & Squiggy's song "Night After Night" was pretty funny. I also liked Laverne's outfit when they were skating with the monkey man doing "Aba Dabba Honeymoon"

The "variety show" thing...HBO's prison drama "OZ" took this road once and it was..well lets just say a lot of fans were turned off by it. I can see why. One week two guys were trying to kill each other with ice picks or whatever and then the next week ( even if it was just for one episode ) the same two guys were trying to act like Hall & Oates. It didn't work.

As a regular viewer of OZ I don't remember that. Wish I had seen that episode.

 

[71dude]

The Archie-less, Mike-and-Gloria themed episodes of "All in the Family" were some of their worst, especially the New Year's Eve show and the baby-shower show. Gloria acted shrill and Mike acted like a buffoon. The bathroom fire one was pretty stupid too.

Mike and Carol Brady as their own grandparents.

The fantasy/dream episodes of "The Jeffersons".

 

[Legend City]

Well, subset is characters on shows you can't stand.

Lana on Three's Company, terrible.
Carmine The Big Ragu on Lavern and Shirley, makes my skin crawl
Cousin Oliver and Rickey Segal, last ditch efforts to get viewers
Warren on Andy Griffith (though I love Jack Burns, huh? yeah!)
Whoever replaced Barbarino on Kotter
Whoever replaced Foreman on That Seventies Show
The entire cast of "That Girl"
Kurt, the guy with the inn from the first season of Newhart
The maid from the first season of Newhart
Whoever replaced Flo
Linda Lavin when she sang
The kid who played Tommy
The brat they brought into Different Strokes
The brat they brought into Family Ties
The brat they brought into My Three Sons
Chip's hippie wife on My Three Sons
Fred MacMurray on the last season of My Three Sons, literally "phoned in"
Fonzie's wife and her little brat
The handicapped girl on Facts of Life
Buffy's little sister that just "appeared"
Vickie on the Love Boat
Carrie on Little House
Everything Ted McGinley has ever been in.

 

[gr8oldies]

Sorry for being unPC, but Kellie Martin's Aids-stricken boyfriend on Life Goes On.

 

[radioman148]

>>Chip's hippie wife on My Three Sons>>

Polly wasn't so bad, but by that time the show really deteriorated.

 

[mleach]

The handicapped girl on Facts of Life

GERI JEWELL !!!! OMG..I had totally forgot about her. Back in the early 80s where I used to live, we actually had a local radio dj who would tell Geri Jewell jokes on the air. Example "...can you imagine the girls from The Facts of Life working at a pizza joint? Geri Jewell would be PERFECT at Shakey's !!"

Hard to believe now but there was a time back in the early to mid 80's when jokes about the handicapped/sick/people with "issues" were actually popular. Not really so much on broadcast TV but it seemed to be everywhere else like in the movies for example. The Tony Danza flick "The Hollywood Knights", one character was a very overweight, slow guy with asthma who was the butt of jokes saying such things like "my puffer..MY puffer". The Dabney Coleman & TED McGINLEY movie "Young Doctors In Love", I remember that scene with all the little kids dancing around the stage wearing t-shirts that told why they were in the hospital. One girl had "..sexually abused" written on her shirt while another kid with an arm in a sling I believe had "...beaten by daddy" written on his. That was the joke. Its been a LONG LONG time since I had seen that movie.

And of course there was those "Truly Tasteless Jokes" books by Blanche Knott featuring jokes about.. well everything from those with Epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, cerebral palsy to Down syndrome and burn victims...and those books I believe were best sellers too.

..and then it seemed like almost overnight....the jokes stopped.

 

[Stanislav]

The handicapped girl on Facts of Life

GERI JEWELL !!!! OMG..I had totally forgot about her.

Hard to believe now but there was a time back in the early to mid 80's when jokes about the handicapped/sick/people with "issues" were actually popular.

In Ms. Jewell's case, she actually made what would be considered by some to be "tasteless" jokes at her own expense in her comedy act, and encouraged others to see the lighter side of a disability. She felt that by embracing all those remarks that others would make anyway, she would take some of the stigma of her disability away and humanize it. Not sure it was the right approach, or that it had much effect, but I do recall from interviews with her at the time that this was her opinion.