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From: starkid@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Lance Sanders)
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:24:04 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: EnviraForm


   A woman's ability to wreck havoc is inversely proportional
   to her breast size. 

   The effectiveness of feminine hygiene products is inversely proportional
   to the number of butterflies and fairies in the commercial.

   Law enforcement officers who wear Kevlar protective vests can be assured 
   that criminals will shoot only at their vests, and not their heads.

   Be patient --- _everyone_ will eventually host a talk show.

   If you're not Korean or Indian, you can pretty much forget about 
   obtaining a "7-11" franchise.

   "Little Richard" is the only black man Authorized (tm) to rub up against
    Cindy Crawford's butt ("Ready, Cindy??").

   Real Men don't clean toilets.

   What's important about food is that it look good and cook fast ---
   what's actually in (or on) it is of no nutritional consequence.

   If you want to know about the world around you, watch 30 min. of music 
   videos and cartoons. If you want to be entertained, watch the news.

   Learn to speak Japanese. NOW.

---------
Lance Sanders
starkid@ddsw1.MCS.COM         Shakespear's Sister is the second coming
GE Mail: L.Sanders6           of the Beatles.
Vox: (312) 667-5958


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From:  (dave I)
Subject: Re: Married with Children
Organization: Beer R Us
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:09:34 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv

In article <16248.1096.uupcb@satalink.com>, joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe
Siegler) wrote:
> 
> To: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu
> 
> Speaking of MWC, what did you think of this Sunday's episode?   This 
> was the first one this season that I got major painful laughs from.
> I *REALLY* *REALLY* enjoyed this episode.
> 
> And this was the first time that Seven's actually SHOWN UP in for some 
> time.   I was wondering if he was gone, until I saw this week's TV 
> Guide about 4 or 5 days ago.  :)
> ---
>  . 1st 1.02b #1051s . Christina Applegate Fan Club -- Go Kelly Bundy!
>                                                                                                                               
Well, I thought that it was really bad.  First of all the way Al & Peg got
the money was simply not well thought out or funny.  In fact the whole bank
part was rather lame.  What happened to all the stuff that Al bought???
By the second half it was all gone.  

Here is how I think the plot could have been better:
  Bud gets the money and rubs it in the rest of the Bundy's face.
  Al and Peg steal the money to teach Bud a lesson.
  Bud takes them to court to get the money back and to divorce his family. 
    Here is where all the good parodies of L.A Law could be done.

It seems this year the writers are not even trying to make funny episodes. 
I
think that the show has run its course and should not come back next year. 
Why spoil the great memories of classic episodes from season 2,3 and 4 with
the crap they are showing now.
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: LOVE AND WAR
Date: 18 Dec 92 09:34:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <BzFCCp.Gn5@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>, spady@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Robyn Spady) writes...
>Seeing the subject LOVE AND WAR reminded me of something my husband said to
>me the other night that I believe is incorrect . . . 
> 
>My husband says that Helen Hunt played Norm Peterson's secretary on CHEERS.  I
>sure don't remember that . . . if he's right . . . which I don't think he is.

     Get on the right thread!  This is about LOVE AND WAR not MAD ABOUT YOU!
     I'm not sure either, incidentally, but I don't think that was
     Helen Hunt who played Norm's secretary...

>Robyn Spady
>spady@bcstec.ca.boeing.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.tv.uk,alt.comedy.british
From: MDuPree@world.std.com (Micky DuPree)
Subject: Videotapes up for grabs, prompt response needed
Followup-To: email
Summary: Most of the tapes are spoken for.
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:12:51 GMT

Regarding my previous offer of videotapes, the tapes listed below are
the only ones still left, so please, no more email about the others.

I forgot to mention that Tape 4 below is the YIJC ep. that features and
was directed by ex-Python Terry Jones.

Thank you.

-Micky


                             Miscellaneous

    1. "Naked Hollywood," 6-part documentary from A&E, with comm., in
EP.  (Not bad, but if you've read a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff on
Hollywood already, there won't be much new here for you.)
    2. "Rainman" and "Working Girl" (in that order), in EP, taped off of
HBO.
    3. "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles," 9/28/92 and 10/5/92 in SP.
    4. "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles," 10/12/92, in SP.

Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
From: sdoshi@olaf.wellesley.edu (Sucheta Doshi)
Subject: Re: Question for the gals concerning hunks o' burnin' luv
Organization: Wellesley College
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:15:23 GMT

>
>Michael Praed  wow (drool)

Ditto on the above as well as 
	Duncan Regehr (I loved him the minute I saw him on Wizards and Warriors
		       major major crush continued on V)
	Pierce Brosnan (I too was upset he didn't play James Bond)

I'm shocked no one has mentioned as yet

	BEN CROSS!!!!  (major drool, sigh, *that* accent!)

Like others have mentioned, I too melt at British accents..my future hubby had
better have one..it's a prerequisite.  Australian will do nicely as well:

Other crushes:  Thaao Penghlis (MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE, General Hospital, and
				now Santa Barbara)

		Tristan Rogers (GH)   [very minor crush]
		Ian Buchanan   (GH)   [very minor crush]


BTW..to the person who had a crush on John J. York..he's on GH now with a
	VERY FAKE Aussie accent.

-Sucheta


-- 
**************************Sucheta Doshi***************************
sdoshi@olaf.wellesley.edu               sdoshi@lucy.wellesley.edu
Wellesley, NOT because it's a girl's school without men, BUT
           because it's a WOMEN'S COLLEGE without boys.
From: dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Eight is Enough question
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:43:26 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO

<1992Dec15.231335.628@schbbs.mot.com> (Kevin Cox) writes:
> I know this is WAY old, but I've been watching the reruns of Eight is
> Enough lately and have a question.  In the first episodes Joan Bradford
> (the actual wife/mother) was on the show, then all of a sudden she's
> gone.  In later episodes they mention that she died.  I don't remember
> an episode that dealt with her death.  Anyone know what she died of?
> Was she just written out of the show or what??

As I recall, EIE was a mid-season replacement, so there was only
half a season of the whole Bradford clan.  Over the summer, the
actress who played the mother (name anyone?) died, of cancer I think.
When the show started up again in the fall, the mother character
was written to have died as well.  There couldn't very easily be "an 
episode" about her death, since the actress was no longer around to film
one.  After awhile, they introduced Abby to get back to the intended
format of the show.

-- 
|   Don Porter | dgp@saturn.wustl.edu | Washington University in St Louis   |
|  "The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they     |
|   please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we       |
|___risk congratulations." -- Edmund Burke._________________________________|
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From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: Enough of the QL stuff
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:43:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.102250.1@indyvax.iupui.edu>,
ecohn@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
> 
> HOWEVER, I have noticed that most of the QL discussion seems to be posted to
> rec.arts.sf.tv, and only a little to r.a.tv.  Perhaps we could put all the QL
> discussion on r.a.sf.tv  - keep it all in one place? 
> 
> As Michael said, just MHO.
> 
> Ellen - the crime doctor

  I disagree.  QL is a tv show, and as such, what better place
  than rec.arts.tv?!  

  This is not a flame to the previous poster, but I'm getting
  really tired of people calling for a split of groups in many
  of the groups just because they don't like a particular
  subject that's frequently discussed in that group.

  I don't have kill file capabilities, and personally I like
  to see all the subject lines and see what might catch my
  interest.  It's because of this group that I started
  watching QL, NX, and Seinfeld (before they created an
  alt.tv.seinfeld).

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From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Subject: Re: LOVE AND WAR
Summary: Starting to grow on me
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:02:01 GMT

In article <BzCuEL.7t9@encore.com>, jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich) writes:
> In article <BzBEzu.33K@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
> (Scott J Gorcey) writes:
> > 
> >      Anyone else decided this is the best sitcom since... MURPHY BROWN?
> 
>   Not me.  I keep watching it hoping to really like it (I must
>   be a masochist), but Susan Dey is just not funny.  
>   I like Jay Thomas, the woman at the end of the bar (sorry 
>   can't remember her name), and Ike and his brother.  
>   
>   My husband gave up on it after the second episode.

The show is growing on me.  Susan Dey needs to work on her comedy,
but there's a distinction between "funny people" (Robin Williams)
and people who aren't funny but can be hysterical with the right
material (Robert Stack in Airplane!).  Dey may not be a funny
person, but I like some of the material they give her.

Their holiday show with Jay Thomas' confused explanation of Chanukah
(and Dey's justified reaction to the wine) was a lot of fun.

marc colten

Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: wu@mdd.comm.mot.com (Philip Wu)
Subject: Re: Picket Fences
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:35:41 GMT

In <1992Dec17.061012.25135@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rmt6r@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Roy Matthew Thigpen) writes:

>Au contrair, sir... CBS is very high on Picket Fences. I happen to love this 
>show.  Tom Skarett is absolutely awesome.
>.

I hope they keep this show.  Its quickly jumped to the top of my list
of favorite TV shows. I thought it was another police-family show from
the ads, but was I in for a surprise.   

"Joseph Wambaugh your honor, defender of justice!"
phil
From: jay@tweekco.uucp (Jay Whitley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: FAITH DANIELS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 09:41:16 PST
Organization: Tweek-Com Systems BBS, Moraga, CA (510) 631-0615

 >Where is she from?

I believe Faith Daniels was an NBC news reporter/anchor
prior to "A Closer Look" which became "Faith Daniels."  Didn't
she even work "The Today Show"'s morning news desk for awhile?

I also believe that this show has turned for the worse since it
switched from a more serious news-oriented "A Closer Look" to the
more sensationalized "Faith Daniels" which is more like Donahue et
al.  

In San Fran, "Faith Daniels" is on at 12:30 in the afternoon on NBC.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Where is Lake Edna? (KFC)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:54:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.144903.13199@bsu-ucs>
00tdspence@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:

>Does anyone but me think that it is highly politically incorrect of KFC
>to create a fictional town whose only African-American citizen owns the
>fried chicken shack???

Hrmph. At least he *owns* something. Biggest problem I've got with Boston-
we don't own sh*t around here.

	-Kenny

p.s. - P.C. - <snicker>
-- 
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OSF, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142	+1 617 621 7306
kenny@osf.osf.org			OSF has nothing to do with this post.
	  Religion: The longest-running gag ever played on Mankind.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: holliman@sounder.csc.ti.com (Ed Holliman)
Subject: Re: Where is Lake Edna? (KFC)
Organization: Texas Instruments
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:29:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.144903.13199@bsu-ucs> 00tdspence@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:

   Does anyone but me think that it is highly politically incorrect of KFC
   to create a fictional town whose only African-American citizen owns the
   fried chicken shack???
   I have seen no other minorities in the spots other than Russ or whatever
   his name is.
   This whole ad campaign smells of racism to me. 

No, the current Christmas commercial from Lake Edna shows him, his wife, and
two children. So there are at least four.

-- 
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From: cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: SNL Review/12-12-92
Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:23:57 GMT
Organization: your service
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpctdke.col.hp.com

> Stuart Smalley:
> Again, not my favorite Smalley bit, but Al Franken's
> character is still one of the funniest recurring ones on
> the show nowadays.

----------

And didn't he say something like, "Well, now I'm
shitting on myself"?   I'll have to play it back 
(taped it for my wife), but it sure surprised me!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: athos@apple.com (Rick Eames)
Subject: Re: Showtime Special--_Medusa_
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:32:46 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv

In article <BzEqED.4LB@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ziauddin@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
(Tasneem Ziauddin) wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if Julie Brown's _Medusa_ is available on videotape?  It's
> being reshown on Showtime this week.

Yes it is.  I have seen it in my local video store.

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Apple's)
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Don't blame me, I didn't vote for Boxer.
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: jil@donuts0.uucp (Jamie Lubin)
Subject: Brooklyn Bridge
Reply-To: jil@donuts0.bellcore.com (Jamie Lubin)
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:48:39 GMT

The following was a portion of an article entitled "Support For 'Brooklyn
Bridge' Spans Nation" (appeared in my local newspaper 12/12/92):

With creator Gary David Goldberg pronouncing the show effectively canceled &
CBS saying it all depends on support for 7 episodes early next year, viewers
are weighing in to influence the network.

The letters are being sent to CBS Entertainment President Jeff Sagansky,
sponsors of the series, & TV columnists who are forwarded the missives to the
network.  Viewers for Quality Television, a grassroots organization, is
encouraging the write-in campaign.

In the last week alone, our mail brought a batch of supporting letters from
such places as Colorado, Montana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Florida, Virginia,
Maryland, upper N.Y. state &, oh yes, Brooklyn.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: colette@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Colette Goodyear)
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:03:42 GMT

In article <8151@lib.tmc.edu> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
>In article <rtamer.724521745@epistat> rtamer@med.miami.edu (Robert Tamer)
>writes:
>>When someone is in a restaurant/diner/lunch counter/etc. he always
>>leaves a wad of bills on the table.  You never know how much the tab is.
>
>This behavior is normal and expected. You never see a restaurant employee
>saying "Hey! You forgot to pay your bill!"
>
>David Gutierrez
>drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
>
Related to this:

Character will sit down in bar/restaurant/diner to have chat with
other character.  Will order a drink/coffe/meal.  Will then
remember or be told something so astounding that he/she will have
to leave, either (a) before the order gets to the table
or (b) without so much as touching the order.  Sometimes
the character will leave without paying.  Cheers is notorious for
this as are most cop shows.

Colette Goodyear
colette@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
From: cad3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CHERYL ANN DOUGHERTY)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: LOVE AND WAR
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:53:47 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <z+l2h+j@rpi.edu>, monitn@rs6414.ecs.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto) write
s:
>v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) writes:
>
>
>>     Anyone else decided this is the best sitcom since... MURPHY BROWN?
>
>Ding! Right here! :)  MB and Love and War make a great hour of Monday night
>viewing. And followed up by Northern Exposure...amazing.
>
Add a third vote for that line-up.  IMO, the BEST 2 hours on television.
From: hphri@usho26.hou281.chevron.com (P.H.Rice)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Angel voices on 90210
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:31:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Chevron


What are the names of the people who played the voices of the angels on
Beverly Hills 90210?  Thanks.

Phil
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: hodge@acca.nmsu.edu (Hodge)
Subject: Re: Who Will Be King of Night? Re: Whither FK? / David Letterman, Vampire Hunter
Organization: New Mexico State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:43:00 GMT


> 
> This makes me think? Who will be the next King of Late Night TV?
> [...]
> Personal opinions included. Letterman is funny. He can be obnoxious,
> but he is no Howard Stern, either. [...]

   Good point.  And you have hit on the one person I think can really come
to dominate late night TV, if given the shot.

  Here's the new breakdown, with my edits:
> 
> 
> Ability        | Arsenio    | Leno        | Letterman      |STERN!
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Makes Guests    |No         | Usually     | Usually        | ALWAYS
> entertaining
> 
> Funny Standup   | Sometimes | sometimes  | Not Always      |not applicable!
> 
> Can Laugh at    | Not Seen  | Not Well   | Always          |ALWAYS
> Self
> 
> Has Skits       | Rare-Bad| Usually-OK  | Yes-Good Stuff   |The Best
> 
> Band            | Good Rock | Great Jazz | TV's Paul Schaeffer |Who knows?
> 
> Relaxed on      | Comfortable| Slight Tense| Doesn't care  | EAT ME
> Camera
> 
> Polite       | Guests only| Always to All | Usually,unless he |who cares?
>              | Hates Leno | On Camera     | feels person
>              | Openly     | even Arsenio  | deserves it
> 
> Atmosphere   | Den        | Tonight Show  | inverted Tonight  | ANARCHY
> 
> Regular Bits    | none    | Headlines     | Viewer Mail,[...] |Lesbian Dating
                                                                |Game, Hooker
                                                                |Hllywd Sqr.s,
                                                                |etc,etc
> 
> Audience Partic | Woof Woof| Audience      | (x)-Cam Shot, Man |BUTT BONGO!
>                            | band challenge|   under seats
> 
> Professionalism | None          | Yes           | Usually     |EAT ME
> 
> Laugh Rating    | Low           | Moderate      | High        | ASTRONOMICAL
> 
> serious side    | occasion      | occasion      | rare        | HUH?
> 
> Style           | 'Hip'         | Carson-like   | natural     |men's locker
                                                                |room
> [...]
>                                               
> Final Final FINAL summary:
> 
> Pluses: Arsenio: serious Issues... Leno: Polite... Letterman: Talent
       Stern: actually entertains people that have two neurons to rub together
> Minuses: Arsenio: Sense of Humor... Leno: Tight... Letterman: Will Bite
       Stern: will anger everyone with an IQ under 95

  My analysis says: if any network pinheads get desperate enough to give the 
King of All Media a shot, he will destroy all competition!

==== Bob Hodge ====================================================
From: dfk0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (David F. Keppel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:56:12 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


* the refrigerator is always full

* nobody seems to have household chores

* meals are served on the best china on a weekday.

* the phone cord never gets tangled

* Whenever a character watches a news report pertaining to the plot or of
  important interest, they will always turn the tv off in the middle of
  the reporting.
  The same applies to the radio, either at home or in car.

* Most police have monotone voices and are very serious.

* Whenever there is a car accident in an intersection, its usually an
  old Ford LTD or some big car. (probably to protect the stunts)
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
From: cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl)
Subject: Re: TV Crushes
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:51:08 GMT

In article <1612@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
>I have two words for you:
>
>Bruce Boxleitner

Oh yes!!!  I must agree.  Is it true that he had a fling with Kate Jackson?
And what happened in the last ever Scarecrow and Mrs. King as I missed it??

love and vibes
Joolz
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim)
Subject: Last year's Grammy on tape?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:04:41 GMT

Pardon me if this message belongs somewhere else.  I need a copy of 
last year's Grammy Award on VHS or 8mm tape.  Of course, I will pay 
for all expenses.  Thank you.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: rick@sadtler.com (Rick Morris)
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Organization: Sadtler Research Laboratories
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:57:22 GMT

David Gutierrez writes:
>
>The best place to hit someone is squarely on the chin - it always knocks him
>right out and you never hurt your knuckles.
>

Well, in Simon & Simon, during the first couple of seasons, they would
always hurt their knuckles... But then I guess they got tough...

And MacGiver always hurt his knuckles.

And Rockford... didn't he always hurt his knuckles?...

Maybe we should say bad guys never hurt their knuckles, and good guys can
just shake it off...

-Rick.
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