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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 31, 2024 15:34:34 GMT -5
When I was a kid and watched alot of sitcoms, I would say WKRP was in a tight contest with Cheers and Night Court for my favorite ever. I've watched both Cheers and Night Court as an adult and been horrified at how poorly they've aged (along with other stuff like Three's Company), so at this point I don't want to ruin any more nostalgia.
More modern stuff, like Seinfeld and Big Bang Theory had moments they were better, but also both went on far too long, so hard to even compare really.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 31, 2024 17:39:55 GMT -5
Les also had a traffic cropduster!
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 31, 2024 17:47:13 GMT -5
WKRP is one of my favorites, along with Barney Miller. I'd put up The Mary Tyler Moore, The Bob Newhart Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show up against The Odd Couple and anything from later decades, Cheers and Night Court included, though I loved both. Night Court kind of ran into the trap of outliving its material and I thought Cheers was getting kind of tired, even before Shelly Long left. Barney Miller has some of that; but man, they still had a lot of good episodes and always had at least one that just made you bust a gut. Plus, by that point, I would be anticipating what a character was going to say and already e laughing. The British sitcom Are You Being Served? Was like that, after watching several series. You could anticipate the punchlines, because you knew the characters so well, or knew how they were going to deliver it. You could tell the live audiences were anticipating the punchlines, but you still laughed. The Odd Couple had a lot of that, as you could usually tell what Oscar or Felix was going to say, but you knew the actors would just sell the line beautifully.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 31, 2024 23:34:52 GMT -5
WKRP can be tough to watch in its home video releases. Between the time the show ended and the time it was to be released for home video, they had lost the usage rights to most of the music in the show, and it would have been too expensive to relicense the music for home video release, so they redubbed/remastered a lot of the episodes with different music, so what you were watching would not have matched up with what you remembered watching when it was broadcast.
I know someone was trying to get the rights to release the eps in its original form a while back, but I don't know if they ever managed to.
-M
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 1, 2024 20:35:17 GMT -5
WKRP can be tough to watch in its home video releases. Between the time the show ended and the time it was to be released for home video, they had lost the usage rights to most of the music in the show, and it would have been too expensive to relicense the music for home video release, so they redubbed/remastered a lot of the episodes with different music, so what you were watching would not have matched up with what you remembered watching when it was broadcast. I know someone was trying to get the rights to release the eps in its original form a while back, but I don't know if they ever managed to. -M If memory serves, the entire series DVD set had a majority of the music back in there. Shout Factory was able to get the bulk of it back in there, except a few things that were either prohibitive or the license holders refused them. They also removed syndicated dubs that covered missing music and restored the one hour episodes to their original format, instead of the half hour versions in syndication. That 1st Season DVD set was brutal, especially when Les and Jennifer go out to an awards dinner and he is getting dressed. The original music was Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" and the dvd has generic music that doesn't even match the rhythms of Les putting on his blazer and ascot and toupee, which were timed against the Foreigner music. Also, the Pink Floyd bit, just has Carlson coming in, while generic music plays, looks at the record and looks up, then leaves the booth, with no dialogue with Johnny Fever (about Pink Floyd and dogs barking). I have bootlegs of older syndicated recordings, with the music still there, as the rights hadn't yet expired. That was the reason I bought them. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 1, 2024 20:36:31 GMT -5
My favorite line in the series (apart from "As God is my witness...I thought turkey's could fly.") was Venus looking at one of Herb's suits, saying, "Somewhere out there is a Volkswagen that is missing a seat cover."
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Post by Chris on Sept 1, 2024 23:23:18 GMT -5
My favorite line in the series (apart from "As God is my witness...I thought turkey's could fly.") was Venus looking at one of Herb's suits, saying, "Somewhere out there is a Volkswagen that is missing a seat cover." Not a Cordoba? Are we definitely talking Volkswagen here? |
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 4, 2024 21:32:15 GMT -5
Anyone have any idea why Frank Miller's David Letterman stand-in was given the name 'David Endocrine' in Dark Knight Returns? Anyone recall reading an interview where he might have explained how he settled upon such a wildly tangential choice? Any guesses?
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 4, 2024 22:33:16 GMT -5
Anyone have any idea why Frank Miller's David Letterman stand-in was given the name 'David Endocrine' in Dark Knight Returns? Anyone recall reading an interview where he might have explained how he settled upon such a wildly tangential choice? Any guesses? I think it was a combination of excess, like everything else, and something that sounded vaguely close to Letterman. I always saw the connection as being some kind of comment about Letterman's over-the-top show, since Endocrine suggests hormones and surges; but, I have never seen comment from him. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 13, 2024 14:56:33 GMT -5
I know that Jack Kirby drew Destroyer Duck 1 for free, but did he get paid for the following 6 issues ?
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 13, 2024 15:05:33 GMT -5
I know that Jack Kirby drew Destroyer Duck 1 for free, but did he get paid for the following 6 issues ? He definitely wasn't paid for the last two issues, because he didn't draw them. |
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Post by rich on Sept 13, 2024 16:17:09 GMT -5
How come we saw so little of Terry Austin on good comics since the 80s? He seems to have just stuck to 'easy' things like Sonic for years and years. The last book I remember him on was Star Wars: Splinter in a Mind's Eye, which he also wrote, around about '95.
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Post by commond on Sept 13, 2024 16:39:14 GMT -5
How come we saw so little of Terry Austin on good comics since the 80s? He seems to have just stuck to 'easy' things like Sonic for years and years. The last book I remember him on was Star Wars: Splinter in a Mind's Eye, which he also wrote, around about '95. He mainly worked for DC in the 90s. He had long runs on Green Lantern and Superman Adventures. |
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Post by rich on Sept 13, 2024 16:57:33 GMT -5
How come we saw so little of Terry Austin on good comics since the 80s? He seems to have just stuck to 'easy' things like Sonic for years and years. The last book I remember him on was Star Wars: Splinter in a Mind's Eye, which he also wrote, around about '95. He mainly worked for DC in the 90s. He had long runs on Green Lantern and Superman Adventures. I'll give you Green Lantern, but Superman Adventures is a low detail, 'easy' type of book to ink, like Sonic. I wasn't aware of his Green Lantern work to be honest. You'd think he'd have been offered more interesting stuff but maybe he was happy just cruising into retirement? |
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