I remember watching the pilot of Hill Street Blues when it was first broadcast, and having a major WTF?!? moment when the show ended with Bobby and Andy being shot.
Now hold on, I'm gonna press the right pedal harder. I expect us to accelerate.
Anya ,'Showtime'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Kathy A - Feb 26, 2010 9:56:13 am PST #2128 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
erikaj - Feb 26, 2010 10:03:00 am PST #2129 of 8624
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod...on the commentaries somebody said that they did it thinking they wouldn't be coming back.(one of them was supposed to die.) Also, on another one of those commentaries, I learned that some of those actors hated the actor that played Captain Freedom because he never took the suit off or allowed them to call him his name...Weitz took it in stride, though.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 26, 2010 11:02:55 am PST #2130 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
All Buffistas need to see at least that much Hill Street, okay?
Vic Hitler, the narcoleptic comic. I remember Hill Street.
Damn, has that started coming out on DVD yet? Can't imagine what a complete series set would cost for that, or when I'd get the time to watch it again.
Kathy A - Feb 26, 2010 11:18:38 am PST #2131 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
actor that played Captain Freedom
Dennis Dugan, right? IIRC, he starred in a very briefly lived spinoff of Rockford Files.
erikaj - Feb 26, 2010 11:37:03 am PST #2132 of 8624
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah...he was good there, too.Wacko(or Method) or both, apparently, though.
"Vic Hitler...you ever think of changing your name?"
"No, why?"
(Sigh) "No reason." La Rue was FX before its time, wasn't he? I think I watched up to Season 3 on DVD(and wrote this big gushy essay for The Hat, too) but my queue is so long, I haven't checked to see if more are out.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 26, 2010 4:48:06 pm PST #2133 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
(Sigh) "No reason." La Rue was FX before its time, wasn't he? I think I watched up to Season 3 on DVD(and wrote this big gushy essay for The Hat, too) but my queue is so long, I haven't checked to see if more are out.
OMG - you have no idea what's coming, do you? If you've only seen thru season 3, OMG. No, SERIOUSLY.
Or did you watch it back in the day, and the reviews were on what was available?
erikaj - Feb 27, 2010 8:34:12 pm PST #2134 of 8624
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, yeah, I watched it all in syndication once when I was, like sixteen, but there's a lot of stuff I haven't seen since.(I still remember that Franz punched the jerk chief in the nose in the finale and it still makes me happy to think of it,but there's a lot I probably don't remember.) I loved the Smirking Black Criminal that Belker was always arresting that gave the funny names every time (i.e. Marcel Marceau and Jean-Claude Killy) And Belker's end of his mom's calls.
le nubian - Feb 28, 2010 2:33:12 pm PST #2135 of 8624
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I have been watching "Coupling" season 2 and man I have been helpless with laughter today. That gets me in my funny bone even though I saw the series before. Jeff's birthday episode just made me lose it.
Kathy A - Mar 01, 2010 1:36:34 pm PST #2136 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Glee cast is doing a four-city concert tour in May-- [link]
Phoenix: May 18
Los Angeles: May 20-21
Chicago: May 25-26
New York: May 28-29
Liese S. - Mar 01, 2010 5:08:35 pm PST #2137 of 8624
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Phoenix!?