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Post by Scott on May 4, 2021 14:16:50 GMT
Brooklyn Nine-nine?
I've never watched it. Most of the '50's TV dramas were only half an hour. Cops shows, westerns, private eye shows, science fiction. They seem fine---you don't sit there wishing they'd drag on another half hour. I'd watch more TV if they were all that way. And there'd be twice as much to watch. There'd be twice as many TV stars and they'd have to work half as much. Child stars would be half as traumatized as they are now but there'd be twice as many of them.
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Post by josie on May 4, 2021 17:08:48 GMT
Yes, you got it! And you make very good points. I prefer shorter shows, and it's why Brooklyn Nine Nine is my favourite crime show  |
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Post by Scott on May 5, 2021 3:53:40 GMT
Police investigating a murder:
"I'm sorry to bother you at a time like this. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."
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Post by Shane on May 5, 2021 10:39:02 GMT
I'll guess the first of two suspects. Police Squad!
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Post by Scott on May 5, 2021 13:59:45 GMT
Yep, you got it, Shane!
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Post by Shane on May 6, 2021 10:28:53 GMT
This line was heard in every episode of the other show I thought the Police Squad! quote may have come from.
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Post by Scott on May 7, 2021 0:58:42 GMT
I have had occasion to think back to it but haven't heard it mentioned in thirty years!
Sledge Hammer!
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Post by Shane on May 7, 2021 10:44:14 GMT
You've got it, Scott. I watched the first season again in January.
In an interview, Harrison Page talked about his audition for the role of Captain Trunk. It was his idea to have Trunk shout so much, since he felt the guy must be going mad with frustration over having such a loose cannon subordinate. He was so convincing (and audible), that people from outside the room were running in to see what was up.
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Post by Scott on May 7, 2021 12:28:39 GMT
I haven't seen it in years. Police sitcom, all takes place in the squad room, apparently filmed in front of a live audience, the show that made people think that Abe Vigoda was old and in terrible health.
Two men in a holding cell:
"What are you in for?"
"Playing my music."
"Is that your trumpet?"
"Yes."
"That's my sledge hammer over there."
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Post by Scott on May 8, 2021 3:27:58 GMT
Police at the time thought it was the most realistic cop show on TV. Here the intellectual cop talks to the Japanese cop: "I've always admired the Japanese outlook on death. The calm acceptance, the treating it as a part of life..."
After he walks away,
"I dunno what he's talking about - personally, I'm going kicking and screaming all the way."
"Why don't you tell him that?"
"I like my image." |
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Post by Scott on May 9, 2021 4:26:08 GMT
1975 to 1982. Show is eponymously named named for the main character who is the straight man. Barney somebody. Barney M*****.
For a short time the show that came on after it was a sitcom set in a prison which didn't last long, and later one of Don Rickles' short-live sit coms.
With Abe Vigoda who left for his own spin-off. Jack Soo, Max Gail, Ron Glass. Steve Landesberg, Linda Lavin for a while. Ron Carey. James Gregory.
"Barney, his wife has decided not to press charges, so I let him go after giving him that spiel you always give about 'not losing one's perspective.'"
"I'm... flattered that you chose to use it."
"Well, I thought it ought to be in the public domain by now." |
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Post by josie on May 9, 2021 15:32:46 GMT
My brain automatically filled in those asterisks to make Barney Miller, but if it's actually right I have no idea what deep dark part of my memory it came from...
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Post by Scott on May 10, 2021 14:36:42 GMT
Oh, how strange---I thought I responded. Barney Miller is it! You're up, Josie!
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Post by josie on May 10, 2021 17:23:40 GMT
Oh wow. Didn't know I knew that. This one has a Barney in it too! |
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Post by Shane on May 10, 2021 17:32:05 GMT
How I Met Your Mother. Longest story ever.
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Post by josie on May 10, 2021 17:42:47 GMT
Wow, that was fast. You answered while I was finding a quote for the other game Yes! And yes, those kids were veeeeery patient  |
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Post by Shane on May 11, 2021 9:30:08 GMT
How I Met Your Mother ended up being responsible for the creation of one of the most popular characters on Breaking Bad. Bob Odenkirk (who played Saul Goodman) was unable to appear in the season 2 finale of Breaking Bad as he was filming on HIMYM. The character of Mike Ehrmentraut was created for that scene, and went on to become far more than a one-off.
New quote:
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Post by josie on May 11, 2021 17:59:25 GMT
Wow, really? I didn't know about that. Cool! I don't know your one, sorry |
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Post by Shane on May 12, 2021 10:24:55 GMT
Character yelling at his agent.
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Post by Shane on May 13, 2021 8:56:44 GMT
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Post by Shane on May 15, 2021 22:17:09 GMT
Ok, the quotes were from Frasier. Let's try this.
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Post by Scott on May 16, 2021 15:46:14 GMT
I don't know----Hannah Montana?
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Post by Shane on May 17, 2021 9:33:17 GMT
No. The show started in 1997. I've quoted it pretty recently.
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Post by Scott on May 17, 2021 22:45:09 GMT
Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
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Post by Shane on May 18, 2021 13:57:27 GMT
Correct. Your turn, Scott.
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