Have you heard her Tahiti Village "call-in" ads? Those are in the dictionary under "sucky."mediawatch22 said:
A minute or two of those with Roseanne are worse than two weeks of Roseanne at Disney.
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Shows That "Collapsed" Right At The End
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A minute or two of those with Roseanne are worse than two weeks of Roseanne at Disney.
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I think they're just as bad if not worse than Tanya Roberts' fake call-ins. :quadraphonic said:Have you heard her Tahiti Village "call-in" ads? Those are in the dictionary under "sucky."mediawatch22 said:
A minute or two of those with Roseanne are worse than two weeks of Roseanne at Disney.
mediawatch22 said:
For YEARS I have heard the story that the whole purpose of those "lottery" shows...well actually pretty much all of those bizarre episodes during the last couple of seasons of Roseanne, were Roseanne Barr/Arnold ( or whatever ) and John Goodman's way at getting back at ABC for forcing them to continue to do the show even though neither Roseanne & Goodman really wanted too.
Alice went down the tubes after Flo left and even though the show continued for several more years by the time Vera had gotten married and "Joline Honeycutt" became a waitress...it was clear Linda Lavin was getting bored with Alice and I am pretty sure she wrote and directed some of those later episodes so that could very well explain why that show wasn't very good towards the end.
mediawatch22 said:
What show doesn't "go commerical" after it becomes popular. I remember shows from the 1960s like the "Beverly Hillbillies" and the "Munsters" going to Marineland. If you think about it, what were all the Disney shows (specifically "Disneyland" and "Disney's Wonderful World of Color") other than advertising for the Disney parks? Now that NBC is owned by Universal, have you noticed how many ads for Universal movies are seen on NBC TV-- including the "Today" show, which I thought was part of the news division.
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nightfly61
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Here's one from my era...Friday Night Videos...I LOVED that show when it first aired (first year or two) since there was no one hosting it (plus we didn't have MTV yet)-they ran whole videos plus would simulcast on some radio stations. Then they started having singers & stars host it taking up good video time & half the time they looked bored or fake ,like when Malcolm Jamal Warner & others were on there hyping Cosby or whatever). Then they started CHOPPING videos to fit in more garbage & play that week's host's favorite videos. WHO CARES THAT TUDI FROM THE FACTS OF LIFE'S FAVORITE VIDEO IS "SECRET LOVERS"? (which probably really WASN"T & they just told her to say that). Got to the point there I couldn't watch.
Casey's Top 10 started getting "edit happy" as well, but that's understandable since they had to cram 10 videos into 1/2 an hour.
Casey's Top 10 started getting "edit happy" as well, but that's understandable since they had to cram 10 videos into 1/2 an hour.
nightfly61 said:
THAT doesn't surprise me at all !
I remember one night when Friday Night Videos had another Facts of Life star on the show...Lisa "Blair" Whelchel going on about what was her favorite video. Not sure what it was but either way it was kind of strange considering that even during her Facts of Life days, Whelchel was deeply religious and as I can recall she was speaking out against rock music on shows like the 700 Club and Jim Bakker....
...and yet she appeared on Friday Night Videos. Figure that out !
mleach said:
...erm -- simple garden-variety hypocricy? ;-) ...
Agree with the comments about "Friday Night Videos," but that was really just a microcosm of what would also later happen with MTV. However, the reunion of Paul McCartney with Julian Lennon on a 1984 episode was a nice surprise, especially considering that they had not seen each other in several years!
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Don62
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You got that right. She was very pleasant to watch, as were the trio of girls who bathed without their bathing suits in that water tank at the Petticoat Jct. How I would have loved to have....nightfly61 said:
KyDXIn said:
King's Island lucked out twice when they opened. The Brady's and the Partridge Family had shows centered around the park.
What show doesn't "go commerical" after it becomes popular. I remember shows from the 1960s like the "Beverly Hillbillies" and the "Munsters" going to Marineland.
It's been years, but I remember those being specials and not actual episodes of the shows.
It's been years, but I remember those being specials and not actual episodes of the shows.
RE: Kings island ( The Brady Bunch and Partridge Family ) ..
And the funny thing is that considering the fact Kings Island is know part of the Cedar Fair empire , chances are today they would actually turn down a movie/TV show from being filmed there. I know for years Kings Island's sister park in Virginia..Kings Dominon was used a LOT for commercials, mainly for other amusement parks like Pittsburgh's Kennywood, Denver's Elitch Gardens, and I think even for a few of the various Six Flags parks. The purpose was to showcase rides Kings Dominon had while those parks were building their own and they needed a commerical in time for the debut of their new ride. However once Cedar Fair took over, that practice came to a stop even though I think Cedar Fair still allows filming to be done at their Knotts Berry Farm though.
And the funny thing is that considering the fact Kings Island is know part of the Cedar Fair empire , chances are today they would actually turn down a movie/TV show from being filmed there. I know for years Kings Island's sister park in Virginia..Kings Dominon was used a LOT for commercials, mainly for other amusement parks like Pittsburgh's Kennywood, Denver's Elitch Gardens, and I think even for a few of the various Six Flags parks. The purpose was to showcase rides Kings Dominon had while those parks were building their own and they needed a commerical in time for the debut of their new ride. However once Cedar Fair took over, that practice came to a stop even though I think Cedar Fair still allows filming to be done at their Knotts Berry Farm though.
My personal favorite use of an amusement park is the video over the closing credits of Step by Step - shot at Magic Mountain in Northern Los Angeles County. Shot from the air over the roller coaster, the ocean appears as the helicopter pulls away. Interesting since Magic Mountain at least 30 miles inland.
I often wondered why it was decided to CGI the ocean in to that shot. Just for dramtic effect I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tlABajJGCc
I often wondered why it was decided to CGI the ocean in to that shot. Just for dramtic effect I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tlABajJGCc
I don't remember the "Munsters" going to Marineland, but the "Beverly Hillbillies" was not a special, but actually two episodes that are still shown in the rotation on both WGN and TV Land. The first Marineland episode was shown in the second season when Mr. Drysdale wanted to take the Clampetts Deep sea fishing, while the second Marineland episode aired during the 3rd season when Jethro was going to join the service and the Clampetts thought Marineland was a Marine base.Corky Marlowe said:
Another show that "Collapsed" at the end was the Lucy Show/Here's Lucy. The Lucy Show was fine the first several years it was on, when she and Vivian Vance lived together with their children in New York and Mr. Mooney was just her banker, yet when she moved to California and started working for Mr. Mooney, it seemed their were using the same plots and storylines over and over. Even when they would use a "Fresh" storyline, she character was too old for those storylines to be believable, i.e., when she was mistakenly drafted into the Marine because she got a Draft Notice for Lou C. Carmicheal when her name was Lucy Carmichael. She was already well into her fifties at time.
Lkeller said:
Step by Step was set in Port Washington, Wisconsin (a northern Milwaukee surburb), and the city is on the shores of Lake Michigan, which can explain the "oceanic" effect.
jwk1979 said:
Funny how Marineland was mentioned earlier since the first episode of The Lucy Show without Vivian Vance as a regular was shot at Marineland. Believe it or not there is still debate TO THIS DAY as to why Vance left The Lucy Show. True..there are a number of Lucy books out there ( actually too many of them ) and all give different reasons about Vance leaving but the thing is just about all of those books have the "blessing" of Lucie Arnaz. And since it is well known that Lucie Arnaz is very very protected in regurads to the image of her parents ( and Vivian Vance...not as much with William Frawley ), wouldn't surprise me at all that those books had left something out on prupose..to make Lucie Arnaz happy.
By the time Lucy started working for Mr. Mooney...yeah it collapsed all right. The show became more/less..a guest star show and many of those "big stars" appeared to be bored doing the Lucy Show/Here's Lucy.
Brady Bunch with Oliver..
azumanga said:
Actually it was Nurse Frightenshale who confiscated the cigars that Fred and Barney were smoking. The voice is similar to Wilma's mother in that the same actress voiced both of them. She also threw away the flowers that Barney gave to Pebbles and threw out Barney and Betty in the process.
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nightfly61
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The Tony Danza Show...but then again that started collapsing 5 minutes into the 1st episode!
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