TV Quote Weekends

"Yeah, like anyone would want to 'R' her!"

-Buster Bluth

TV Quote Weekends

"I heard your dad went to the restaurant and ate all the food in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant."

-Ralph Wiggum

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“I’m not fat. I’m cultivating mass.”

-Fat Mac

Happy Thanksgiving

“It’s a helicopter, and it’s coming this way. It’s flying something behind it, I can’t quite make it out, it’s a large banner and it says, uh – Happy… Thanks… giving! … From … W … K … R… P!! No parachutes yet. Can’t be skydivers. I can’t tell just yet what they are, but: Oh, my God, they’re turkeys! Oh! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they’re plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Everyone’s running around, pushing each other. Oh, my goodness! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!”

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

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The I.T. Crowd

The picture below might look somehow familiar to viewers of British sitcoms. Familiar, yet a bit different. 

In 2007, NBC put together its own version of the British sitcom The I.T. Crowd, complete with the hilarious Richard Ayoade playing the eccentric "Moss", imported from the British version. Rounding out the cast were Jennifer St. Clair, Joel McHale and Rocky Carroll.

The happiness of the cast, however, was short lived. Despite grandly announcing that the show had a spot on the Fall schedule, NBC quietly killed the show before filming any episodes. The success of The Big Bang Theory has inspired NBC to give this project another chance with an as of yet unannounced cast.

Would the Real Danny Tanner Please Stand Up?

The producers of Full House knew they'd found the perfect Danny Tanner after they auditioned Bob Saget for the role. Too bad he was under contract to CBS. Bob couldn't get out of his CBS Morning Show contract, so Full House went with Plan B- John Posey.

John Posey filmed the pilot and no doubt began counting the millions he'd soon be making from his starring role on this saccharine family sitcom.

But fate is a strange thing. CBS decided to shake things up and Bob Saget was fired. Now able to do whatever he wanted, Bob called up ABC to see if the role of Danny Tanner was still available. It wasn't, of course, but since ABC hadn't officially signed any of the talent to their final contracts, they made room for Bob Saget by showing John Posey the door. 

Louie Anderson, a Perfect Stranger

Most 1980's television viewers remember the high jinks of Balki Bartokomous and his exasperated Cousin Lou, played by the hilarious Louie Anderson on their classic show called The Greenhorn. Wait, what?

Your eyes (and Photoshop) are not deceiving you. Pictured above are Bronson Pinchot as Cousin Balki and Louie Anderson as "Cousin Lou" starring as a latter day odd couple on the pilot episode of Perfect Strangers. When ABC picked up the show, they told the show producers that they loved the premise, but felt Mr. Anderson had no familial chemistry with Bronson Pinchot. If Lou didn't seem to get along with Balki, why would he put up with the eccentricities of his distant cousin?

So when the show began production, the title was changed to Perfect Strangers and Louie Anderson was replaced by Mark Linn-Baker. The character's name was also changed to Larry Appleton and television history was born.

TV Quote Weekends

“We’re the bears that sing for Duke, Doo-dah, Doo-dah! Drinking moonshine ’till we puke all the Doo-dah day!”

-from "The Critic”

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"Well, if it isn't Chesty LaRue!"

-Jerry Seinfeld

BANNED: Steven Seagal

In our continuing series on actors banned from Saturday Night Live, we come to our next banned actor- Steven Seagal.

How did the beefy action star end up banned? By being extremely difficult to deal with and coming up with sketch ideas that were non-sensical, bizarre, ridiculous and/or borderline offensive. Lorne Michaels still considers Mr. Seagal to be the worst host ever.

Carol Seaver's Growing Pains

It's the Seavers, just as you remember them! Except, who's that girl?

That girl was Elizabeth Ward, the original Carol Seaver. Test audiences didn't like her, so she was replaced by Tracey Gold, who was originally rejected for the role. While Elizabeth's scenes in the pilot were reshot with Tracey, Elizabeth was still visible in the background of one scene.

In the Not Too Distant Future- 25 Years Ago

Twenty five years ago, Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on The Comedy Channel. The idea was a novel one- a guy gets stranded in space, forced to watch bad movies with his two robot friends. 

The show would run for ten years and popularize grade Z films like Manos: The Hands of Fate, infamous directors like Ed Wood and bizarre characters like Mr. B Natural.