I don't think either of those was created as a Cindy Williams or Dick Whichever vehicle.

The Hogan Family comes closer, but I don't know if Valerie Harper had quite the same Q score as Charlie that long after Rhoda.

I'm just saying, don't underestimate Hollywood's interest in milking a successful show no matter what the circumstances.

Laverne and Shirley was half a Cindy Williams vehicle. It was a huge hit when she went on salary-strike.

I guess you didn't see that season of Laverne and Shirley without Shirley. Or the recasting of Darren on Bewitched. Or The Hogan Family (where they lost the title character).

Or Welcome Back Kotter, that was a weird one.

P-C, thanks for reminding me to contact Comcast. Just got $25 knocked off my bill for the next 6 months. When it goes up again I may switch to the new Digital Economy.

Nah, Laverne was always the money. That show was created by Gary Marshall to showcase Cindy Marshall. The casting of her buddy was incidental from the start.

They might TRY to go on without Charlie for a while if they think they can make money at it, but the show has pretty much run its course as it is.

I never really watched Laverne and Shirley but I knew about the other things. They can't recast the role, I guess they could bring in someone to be a Charlie like character but there would go the brother bickering which makes up much of the show.

They could pull a soap opera type thing and have a long lost brother, but that would be kinda lame.

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Sheen addressed the suspension of the show in an open letter obtained by TMZ.

"What does this say about [anti-Semitic term referring to Chuck Lorrie] after he tried to use his words to judge and attempt to degrade me. I gracefully ignored this folly for 177 shows," Sheen writes. "I fire back once and this contaminated little maggot can't handle my power and can't handle the truth.

"I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon. Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words -- imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists. I urge all my beautiful and loyal fans who embraced this show for almost a decade to walk with me side-by-side as we march up the steps of justice to right this unconscionable wrong."

if they wind up in my octagon.

Is that like goatse?

I can't believe he's really uttering those words in public. He's making Mel look pretty damned balanced, although I'm still not feeling actual menace.

Yet.

Maybe when he's hopped up on blow he menaces hookers.

Maybe when he's hopped up on blow he menaces hookers.

In his octagon.