Classic TV Thread

[Warriors4ever]

The dentist stuff was hilarious.
But the Gone with the Wind spoof…. ‘I saw it in the window and couldn’t resist it ‘ as Carol comes down the stairs of Tara wearing curtain rods…🤣

[Herman Cain]

Winston Ads for The Flintstones….
https://youtu.be/fSmU65ZoRYo?si=cJOSYRIiYumQCx1v

[Pakuni]

The president of Argentina has been watching reruns of "The West Wing."


Argentina’s rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the United Nations general assembly from the political drama The West Wing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/argentina-javier-milei-accused-plagiarising-un-speech-west-wing

[muwarrior69]

Yep. And a Marquette alum as well. Jack Benny's deadpan humor was also classic. I think that in addition to his perfect delivery, his looking like such a schmuck helped make it work.

What most people forget is that Eddie "Rochester" Anderson made Jack Benny great. Those two were way way ahead of their time.

[dgies9156]

Any show with Bob Newhart. His deadpan humor was great.

His best role ever as Professor Proton on Big Bang Theory!

[muwarrior69]

Don’t forget the best of them all - the Jackie Gleason Show. It birthed “The Honeymooners”.

Yes, how could I forget Jackie Gleason. We could debate the "best" all day, but one of the most underrated and very funny comedians of that era was Ernie Kovacs. Chevy Chase paid homage to Ernie upon winning his Emmy performance on SNL. Since I from Jersey, Ernie was a Trenton favorite son.

[CTWarrior]

They've all been mentioned separately, but in 1973 CBS had the following line-up on Saturday night

All in the Family
M*A*S*H
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Carol Burnett and Friends

I'm not a fan of M*A*S*H (Hawkeye Pierce gets my vote for the guy I'd most want to punch out in television history), but all of them were great.

[Goose]

CTWarrior

Are you sure on All in the Family in that lineup?  My memory has All in the Family as a Sunday night show and MASH on Tuesday. I definitely remember the last three as Saturday night on CBS.

[tower912]

That would be a fun thread.   TV character I most want to punch out.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

CTWarrior

Are you sure on All in the Family in that lineup?  My memory has All in the Family as a Sunday night show and MASH on Tuesday. I definitely remember the last three as Saturday night on CBS.

All in the Family moved from Saturday to Sunday in the late 70s.  MASH started on Saturdays but moved to Tuesdays in the mid-70s.