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.
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Feb 24, 2011 5:18:00 pm PST #24845 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
megan walker - Feb 24, 2011 5:20:47 pm PST #24846 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Trudy Booth - Feb 24, 2011 5:20:55 pm PST #24847 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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.
askye - Feb 24, 2011 5:22:13 pm PST #24848 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
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.
Hil R. - Feb 24, 2011 5:22:17 pm PST #24849 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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."
Steph L. - Feb 24, 2011 5:24:04 pm PST #24850 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
if they wind up in my octagon.
Is that like goatse?
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2011 5:24:32 pm PST #24851 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Steph L. - Feb 24, 2011 5:26:22 pm PST #24852 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Maybe when he's hopped up on blow he menaces hookers.
In his octagon.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2011 5:27:29 pm PST #24853 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
With fire-breathing fists.
I only like the kitten part of this picture. It's adorbs. Charlie needs to look at pictures of kittens.
Trudy Booth - Feb 24, 2011 5:27:36 pm PST #24854 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I suppose you could turn the kid 18 and get a new half-man.
It could be funny to have Duckie come into a bunch of money and start acting all Charlie. Charlie goes off to a monestary. The kid acts like Duckie because now there is a kid he feels the need to save from corruption - Charlie's seekrit child with the stalker neighbor or somesuch.