Happy Days did not "jump the sharK" when Fonzie jumped the shark. It actually "jumped the shark" after the first season & half when they went to the three camera set up and filmed before a live audience. It went to a great coming of age comedy to just plain stupid.
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Stanislav said:nightfly61 said:Saved By the Bell was one of the worst for ooh-ing & aaahhh-ing teenie-boppers in the audience. I'd cringe every time a kissing scene came on or when the guys (not Screech) came on in muscle shirts. :
Frankly, the mere mention of that show is enough to make ME cringe.....
Yeah, but it eventually brought us a naked Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls so SOMETHING good came out of it.
;DWMC2006 said:Stanislav said:nightfly61 said:Saved By the Bell was one of the worst for ooh-ing & aaahhh-ing teenie-boppers in the audience. I'd cringe every time a kissing scene came on or when the guys (not Screech) came on in muscle shirts. :
Frankly, the mere mention of that show is enough to make ME cringe.....
Yeah, but it eventually brought us a naked Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls so SOMETHING good came out of it.
Ask Elizabeth about that...it pretty much destroyed her career. Not her naked body...nothing wrong with that ( ;D)...just the fact that the movie was such a bomb. Strange, too considering the pedigree of the book it was based on (by author Carl Hiaasen), and the screenwriter (Joe Ezsterhas).
Lkeller said:WMC2006 said:Yeah, but [Saved By The Bell] eventually brought us a naked Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls so SOMETHING good came out of it.
Ask Elizabeth about that...it pretty much destroyed her career. Not her naked body...nothing wrong with that ( ;D)...just the fact that the movie was such a bomb. Strange, too considering the pedigree of the book it was based on (by author Carl Hiaasen), and the screenwriter (Joe Ezsterhas).
...the problem with Showgirls was that it was so overhyped and then flopped at the box office (like Heaven's Gate). It was fairly good as a movie. Eszterhas was on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday morning and discussed his renewed Roman Catholicism since losing most of his larynx to cancer...
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I'm still curious, how do they keep the audience quiet? Especially with cel phones & as rude as people are these days somebody's bound to leave their ringer on even when told to turn them off.
Well for starters, cell phones didn't exist when most shows that had live audience taping were made. In the case of The Price Is Right today right on the admission the ticket it says "No cellphones or cameras" and they are dead serious about it. You won't be let onto the studio lot if you are carrying a cell. I'd imagine all the other studio lots do the same.nightfly61 said:
hubcity said:
Oops...caught me...you're right! I'm getting my crappy movies confused with each other. Hiaasen is always a good read. He also writes great books for teens and tweens - Hoot being the most succesful, which they also made into a good...if low budget movie.
Robnoxious said:
I have heard that pretty much all tapings don't allow kids in the audience either ( I would assume the rule doesn't apply to shows for kids ). I know it makes sense to ban kids under 12 but I have heard for many shows the age limit is far higher than that. Many its 18, others its 21. 18 I can see but 21 ?
That's pretty much true, it's usually 18 for most network shows. When Carson was doing The Tonight Show the age limit was 21 as Carson tended to tell bawdy jokes when the cameras were off. 8)mleach said:
Robnoxious said:
Which used to be picked up on the raw feed of The Tonight Showby the early "big dish" owners, before NBC got wise and started first cutting the audio during the breaks and, eventually, scrambling the feed.
Red Skelton was notorious for doing a highly ad-libbed and very "blue" version of his show during dress rehearsal -- staffers at the network would always contrive to be near the studio at that time so they could just "wander in" and catch the show.
I believe I could shed some light on this one for you. At my high school, at one of the end-of-the-school-year assemblies, a number of juniors and seniors "acted up" during the assembly (hollering, etc.) and were disciplined. I suppose you could chalk up some of that to "senioritis" and spring fever, but it was entirely the older students carrying on! This was my freshman year, but it was all upperclassmen (and women!) who were disciplined! And this happened several times during that assembly! Now this event was not taped (that I know of, and I am sure those students were glad of that!), and it was certainly not televised, but I believe it points up that 18 and 19 year olds, at least as a group, can be quite disruptive!mleach said:
Another show (possibly the last of the big hits) to do a 'studio audience' disclaimer was 'Cheers'...offhand, I remember hearing most of the cast read it.(Rhea Perlman and John Ratzenberger usually added an 'in character' joke, such as Cliff preceding the disclaimer with 'Here's a little-known fact', or Carla saying 'Listen up!')
Red Skelton was notorious for doing a highly ad-libbed and very "blue" version of his show during dress rehearsal -- staffers at the network would always contrive to be near the studio at that time so they could just "wander in" and catch the show.
I've heard that the "canned" laughter we would hear on many shows not taped in front of an audience actually came from the old Red Skelton shows. Can anyone verify this?
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So "The Flintstones" audience is really Red Skeleton's audience?KyDXIn said:Red Skelton was notorious for doing a highly ad-libbed and very "blue" version of his show during dress rehearsal -- staffers at the network would always contrive to be near the studio at that time so they could just "wander in" and catch the show.
I've heard that the "canned" laughter we would hear on many shows not taped in front of an audience actually came from the old Red Skelton shows. Can anyone verify this?
KyDXIn said:
...considering the "Silent Spot" Skelton would do on most shows, it would be at least plausible...
I guess, cause the "Flintstones" started in what--1961, and Skelton began on TV in 1954?nightfly61 said:So "The Flintstones" audience is really Red Skeleton's audience?KyDXIn said:Red Skelton was notorious for doing a highly ad-libbed and very "blue" version of his show during dress rehearsal -- staffers at the network would always contrive to be near the studio at that time so they could just "wander in" and catch the show.
I've heard that the "canned" laughter we would hear on many shows not taped in front of an audience actually came from the old Red Skelton shows. Can anyone verify this?
KyDXIn said:I guess, cause the "Flintstones" started in what--1961, and Skelton began on TV in 1954?nightfly61 said:So "The Flintstones" audience is really Red Skeleton's audience?KyDXIn said:
...September 30, 1951...
Re: Red Skelton
There's an old Red Skelton promo that CBS or any network wouldn't dare run today:
Red Skelton is dressed as a Native American tribal chief. The stereotypical sounds of braves whooping and drums beating in the background.
The "Chief" starts "communicating" with his hands and arms, going in every direction. The announcer "translates":
"What the Chief is saying is, If you've got a TV in your tipi, watch the Red Skin Show."
How times have changed.
There's an old Red Skelton promo that CBS or any network wouldn't dare run today:
Red Skelton is dressed as a Native American tribal chief. The stereotypical sounds of braves whooping and drums beating in the background.
The "Chief" starts "communicating" with his hands and arms, going in every direction. The announcer "translates":
"What the Chief is saying is, If you've got a TV in your tipi, watch the Red Skin Show."
How times have changed.
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