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My son loved this show when he was a little kid. Waldo was a favorite of his.
My son would repeat Waldo's dialogue for me.
In one episode Waldo had to make a Thanksgiving dinner in his cooking class. Apparently he was quite a cook.
The teacher takes one look at the meal he prepared and says, What a turkey!"
Waldo replied that he didn't mind criticism but, "Please don't call me names!" lol
My kid thought that was hilarious.
Yes I think it's the "give away" thing that a lot older people do. My grandmother was widowed fairly young. She was only 55. She remained in her home but in her later years it was too much. She moved into a small apartment and in the process gave away most of her furniture, her silver, china, etc. to family members. It seemed like every week my dad was bringing home something else that she gave him.
My mom keeps getting rid of stuff all the time. She's almost eighty. Every week she's trying to give me stuff! But I am also getting at that age where I want to get rid of things too.
On the Golden Girls I am assuming that after Sophia's stroke, Dorothy sold or gave away most of her mother's things. I think Dorothy figured that her mother would no longer be living alone anymore.
"Calm down lady! Did you just get out of prison?" LOL!
LOL Speaking of teen-age angst situations, I just watched an episode last Sunday that showed flashbacks of some of their crazier situations.
One of my favorite scenes takes place in the drugstore where the girls are all buying protection because they are going on a cruise with their boyfriends. The clerk gets on the P.A. system for a price check on condoms.
'Hey Joe I need a price check on some condoms. These three ladies are buying the King George prophylactics!!"
That scene still makes me laugh.
I'm probably in the minority in thinking that Lily is a funny character. She does look grown up for her age. But I do think she is funny.
She actually reminds me a little of one of my sisters. My youngest sister was so serious. She would say funny things but in a totally deadpan way. She didn't smile much. She would watch cartoons and her favorite sitcoms like they were documentaries. lol
Some people just give off that serious vibe.
This was my favorite show as a kid. Once in a while it would be pre-empted and I would throw a fit. i laugh when I remember how angry I would be when they would show the little teaser for the next show and then the announcer would say 'Lost in Space' will be back in two weeks. I would go ballistic. LOL
When I saw the show years later in reruns, I realized that I prefer the black and white episodes from the first season. The show had a more serious feel to it, it was a lot more suspenseful and Dr. Robinson was the true leader of the mission. It was more like grown up science fiction. But when the show went to color there were some silly aliens.
In the color episodes the stories got a bit cartoonish and became more kiddie science fiction. Jonathan Harris's portrayal of Dr. Smith was great. He became less of an evil character and just someone who was greedy, cowardly and just looking out for himself. But the show became the Will, Robot and Dr. Smith show.
I used to wonder how Guy Williams and June Lockhart felt about being reduced to supporting characters.
Well, I loved the show until the end but the first three seasons are my favorites.
Prue was my favorite sister and I really missed her when she died. Rose McGowan added something different and I liked her a lot. But the first seasons were special. Everything was new and the sisters were learning about their powers and how to use them.
After season three with Piper getting married and having kids the show became too "domesticated." Sure, these young women would eventually marry and have families but it didn't exactly enhance the show to have them always worried about boyfriends, husbands, marriage, kids,etc. They needed to be kick a@@ demon fighters, single and unattached! imo
That's what the show was about!
I have trouble picking just one, so my top three... Joe Pesci, Gene Hackman and Robert de Niro. All could play drama and comedy, scary dudes and and funny guys. With de Niro, I always have the feeling that I am spying on his private life and not a man who is acting. He is just SO believable.
Pesci can make me laugh (My Cousin Vinnie) and scare the heck out of me in other roles like Goodfellas and Casino.
Gene Hackman is just amazing in anything.
Oh yeah, I remember you! So post some more on these shows. I'll answer!!
The Sophia comment made me laugh so much. I still remember the episode because I was rocking my son to sleep. And when Sophia made her comment I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud. I had to laugh quietly so as not to wake him up.
Well I'm here! Guess I should post more. This show was a favorite of mine. Some of the episodes had me laughing so hard I cried, especially Sophia's commentaries. I recall the time she complained that her son Phil sent her a Nativity scene made out of cheese for Christmas.
"I'm a Catholic. I can't spread a Wise Man on a Ritz cracker." I almost fell on the floor when she said that.
Don't worry about ranting, just post, post, post. LOL
One of my favorites too! I saw a slogan once that said, 'Dear Lord, please make me the person my dog thinks I am." It's strange to say but even though I have lost family members in the last few years, the ones I yearn to be reunited with are my dogs. I miss them so much. It just wouldn't be heaven without them. Maybe I'm crazy.
Our dogs look on us with such open trust and love. They give their whole hearts. Sometimes it's hard to find that in human relationships. lol
Arthur Hunnicut also starred in several other shows that I liked. He was in the Outer Limits episode, Cry of Silence. Remember the menacing tumbleweeds?
He also played Obie in two episodes of Bonanza. Obie had a dog that was "a caution", Walter. They were a great pair.
There's a show business truism, never work with kids or animals. They will upstage you. But he sure could hold his own with animals.
Only thing that distresses me about the TZ episode is that Arthur Hunnicutt was only 52 when he played an old man. He was younger than I am now! I wonder, do I look that old? LOL He was just one of those character actors who played "older" I guess.
Yes, that's so true! She started out as a girl who said that she "couldn't balance my checkbook!" But when she was chosen for the job she became a strong fighter who taught her son to fight and never give up hope.
Stop lurking and start posting.LOL I am trying to do my part. I've posted on favorite TV shows and started new threads on shows I love.
Just start posting! Who knows how many people you will inspire to post when they see a good thread! Let's just keep up the good work. Hopefully people will come.
Oh yeah, I got what you originally meant. I thought Joan Collins might be good in a remake. It was the poster before me who brought up Agnes Moorehead.
What I meant was that Joan Collins could not have copied the Endora character that Agnes Moorehead created.
Actually I don't think good actors copy the character another actor has played. Look at all the James Bonds! All the actors have made the role their own.
My sister bought me the uncut version for Christmas about twenty five years ago and it remains one of my favorite Stephen King novels.
I had no interest in reading it, but since my sister gave it to me (and complained about how heavy it was to lug around the Mall while shopping, lol)I thought I'd give it a chance. The first chapter was puzzling. I was wondering what the heck was going on. But the story picks up steam rather quickly and never lets up. I even enjoyed what some people have termed "the slow parts".
Maybe it was just me, but it was one of those books that I couldn't put down. I've read many books which I enjoyed but I could put them down for a day or two or more and then get back to them. The Stand was one book that I had to read every day until I finished it. Even if I could only read a few pages, it kept calling me back.
The characters are very clearly drawn. Their stories are separate at first and it is so interesting to see how Stephen King draws them all together. It works on so many levels. It's the age old story of good vs. evil.
When the miniseries was announced, it was fun trying to cast the parts in my head! I never imagined Jamey Sheridan as Randall Flagg. But once I saw in him action, I thought he was perfect. In fact I thought most of the cast was well chosen with the glaring exception of Molly Ringwald as Frannie Goldsmith. She was great in those teen movies. But she either didn't have the acting ability to portray the different facets of the character or she got poor direction.
Frannie had much more depth in the book. A lot of her personality is revealed in the private journal she kept in the novel. Don't know how that could have been conveyed in a miniseries. But Molly's interpretation of Frannie just reminded me of a slightly older Claire from The Breakfast Club, a Claire who was forced to grow up because of dire circumstances.
But I thought it was one of the better miniseries to come out of a giant sized novel. A lot of things had to be skipped and some characters are combined into one. But both the book and miniseries are well worth it.
I don't know...Crystal Carrington thought Alexis was quite the witch on Dynasty. LOL
But yeah I do agree she isn't exactly in Agnes Moorehead's league.. Endora was a very nuanced role. Joan Collins usually plays her characters in broad strokes.
It's all just speculation but I think she could've pulled it off if Endora was written differently. She certainly couldn't do an Agnes Moorehead imitation.
Wow, that's interesting. Reminds me of something that happened to me about twenty five years ago. I also live in the northeast. My sister and some of her friends moved to Washington to get jobs. They lived right outside of D.C. I took a Greyhound bus to visit her. It was night time when the bus arrived and I hoped I'd be able to get a cab.
There were a lot of black people who got off the bus too. In fact I was one of the few white people in the bus station. A black cab driver ignored everyone and made a beeline for me to ask if I needed a cab. I said I did , but I needed to make a call. I wanted to phone my sister's apartment just to tell her friends I had arrived. (my sister was still at work) So he waited for me.
The next time I visited her, I arrived in the daytime. So I sat outside on a bench to wait because she and her friends were picking me up. A little black boy of about ten was selling newspapers. There were a lot of people, mostly black, waiing outside the terminal. I think he had to go use the restroom so he asked me to watch his papers and money.
This happens to me a lot. Maybe I just have an honest face. LOL People hand me their babies to hold too.
They "enhanced" me right off their site! Good bye and good riddance! LOL
I posed that same question months ago. It seemed to be the logical thing to do. If your team got in trouble at least you'd have someone to come to the rescue.
But the Marines did not seem to think that they would encounter any situation which they couldn't handle. Remember how Gorman told Ripley when they paid her a visit in her apartment, "We are trained to handle situations like this."
Clearly he had NO clue what "a situation like this" was. It's a big puzzlement to me. Gorman tells the Marines that they have Ripley's report "on disc" and suggests that they watch it. So did they watch it? Did they take her seriously? And Ripley, knowing how seriously dangerous ONE Alien was, should have been way more forceful in explaining what happened!
When Gorman interrupted her, if I had been Ripley, I would have said, "Not so fast!! You people are tough (as Sargeant Apone said "bad asses" lol) but you have absolutely NO IDEA what you are getting into. Trust me, I saw this thing in action and the worst thing you can do is to be overconfident in your ability and your weapons."
Ripley was sent as a consultant. Sure she was still traumatized but she took on the gig and she needed to get her head out of her butt and impress upon these people what an immensely dangerous creature they were up against. In her explanation to the Marines, she looked like a weepy, weak female who saw some friends killed in an accident instead of explaining what a dangerous killing machine the Marines would be facing.
The Marines went in overconfident and overly sure of their abilities. If Gorman had any sense he would have left one person onboard to send down the other dropship. It was a total screw up all around. I think Burke was somehow responsible for getting someone like Gorman who was clearly over his head, in charge of the mission.