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Post by Scott on May 18, 2021 14:34:01 GMT
Okay. A 1970's sit-com. Based on a Martin Scorsese movie.
I think this is the only recognizable line so if no one gets it, I don't know what I'll do:
"Kiss my grits!"
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Post by Scott on May 19, 2021 5:32:03 GMT
Most of the show took place in a diner. Based on the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
I don't remember this but it was reportedly a repeated line:
"Wait a minute! I don't know how to drive!"
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Post by Scott on May 20, 2021 1:24:30 GMT
The show was on for nine years and apparently they said nothing memorable. I remember little from the show. There was an episode where the main character is worried someone might break into her apartment so her co-workers tell her to get out her gun and are surprised that she doesn't own a gun. In another, the writers were apparently trying to give the kid who played her teen son a complex by having him list all the ways in which he was physically unattractive while the women try to reassure him.
And here's from the opening theme sung by Linda Lavin. She mangled the lyrics so they didn't rhyme and made no sense but no one noticed for a couple of years and they re-recorded it:
"Early to bed. Early to rise.
And in between I cooked and cleaned and went out of my head."
Based on the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More. Unrelated to the Woody Allen movie Alice or the wife-swapping comedy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice or the Peter Sellers' comedy, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. (Alice B Toklas was Gertrude Stein's girlfriend and invented or at least popularized the hashish brownie.)
If you do an image search for the show, pictures of the Brady Bunch's maid appear.
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Post by Shane on May 20, 2021 13:22:21 GMT
A show called Alice. Never heard of it before.
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Post by Scott on May 20, 2021 16:28:59 GMT
Yep. Alice. There was a reference to it in a Simpson's episode you wouldn't get, but other than that, you didn't miss a thing.
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Post by Shane on May 22, 2021 10:24:28 GMT
From an 80s show.
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Post by Scott on May 23, 2021 5:29:18 GMT
I didn't watch nearly enough TV in the '80's. What was I doing back then?
The A Team?
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Post by Shane on May 23, 2021 9:33:30 GMT
No, but I remember the title character being described as the one-man answer to the A-Team back then.
Another quote:
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Post by Scott on May 23, 2021 19:12:58 GMT
Oh...it must have been----that other show I never watched, with that guy in it.
MacGyver.
Did it take a lot of egg whites to clog a radiator? What kind of radiator?
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Post by mamabear on May 23, 2021 22:37:18 GMT
Pretty sure you're right, Scott. My husband has been watching a lot of MacGyver lately and it definitely sounds like it came from there.
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Post by Shane on May 24, 2021 9:13:53 GMT
You've got it, Scott. It's been a long time since I've seen the episode, but he had to fix a jeep's radiator. The idea was suggested in a fan letter. Normally, it was the show's scientific advisors who cooked up the MacGyverisms. When the team tested it, they found it worked. I think Mythbusters also tested it. They had an entire episode focused on MacGyver. Not sure how many eggs it would take.
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Post by Scott on May 24, 2021 15:17:53 GMT
Well, I'm sure I'll never have occasion to use the egg-in-the-radiator trick. But you never know.
Oh, wait----they did it to FIX the radiator. I thought it was an act of sabotage.
Here's another sciencey TV quote. They mock Star Trek's tendency to use simple analogies to explain complicated plans: "If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure."
"Like putting too much air in a balloon!" |
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Post by mamabear on May 24, 2021 17:36:43 GMT
It sounds like it could be Futurama?
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Post by Scott on May 24, 2021 23:09:31 GMT
Yes, you got it, Mamabear!
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Post by mamabear on May 26, 2021 18:59:07 GMT
Oh, yay! Alright, here's one.
"My father said there were no monsters. My uncle insisted monsters were real. And he should've known... because he was one. But he did teach me one thing: the only way to deal with the things we fear is to face them, to drag them kicking and screaming out of the darkness and destroy them."
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Post by Scott on May 28, 2021 1:06:53 GMT
Just a wild guess... Supernatural?
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Post by mamabear on May 29, 2021 19:02:19 GMT
Just a wild guess... Supernatural? Haha, a very smart guess for anyone who knows anything about me! But, I knew I'd already posted a Supernatural quote, so I went a different way and chose a show I've been enjoying since the end of Supernatural (along with rewatching Supernatural, of course). So, you're pretty near the right genre, but wrong show. 😀 |
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Post by Scott on May 30, 2021 15:17:04 GMT
Was there one called Monsters?
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Post by mamabear on Jun 5, 2021 2:53:19 GMT
There might be, but this isn't it. It's a series based on the book series by Jim Butcher.
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Post by mamabear on Jun 6, 2021 18:03:20 GMT
Need another hint?
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Post by Scott on Jun 7, 2021 4:50:48 GMT
Yeah, probably do.
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Post by mamabear on Jun 13, 2021 2:11:10 GMT
It was unfortunately a short-lived show, airing only one season from 2007-2008. I'm really sad they only did one season, it was an excellent show. The premise is that a Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator. Here's another quote:
Character 1: You brought them here!
Character 2:
You brought me here, you idiot!
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Post by Scott on Jun 13, 2021 2:55:53 GMT
Never seen it but...The Dresden Files?
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Post by mamabear on Jun 16, 2021 20:13:54 GMT
That's correct! You're up!
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Post by Scott on Jun 17, 2021 1:50:29 GMT
Okay. A '50's sitcom. They couldn't say "pregnant" but they somehow slipped this joke past them:
"We're taking a survey."
"Your name's not Kinsey is it?"
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