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From: Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: RAVEN - Season Premiere (09/26)
Date: 27 Sep 92 15:21:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.332
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Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

Comments regarding season premiere of Raven (09/26):

Parts I liked:

[1] I liked how they used the split screen to show what was happening with
    Raven in one scene and what was happening with the Black Dragon guy in
    the other.

[2] The part with the Black Dragon guy trying to shoot (poisoned?) needles at
    Raven from the roof with a blowpipe was hilarious. Can you imagine the
    scene when he return home after killing Raven with one of those needles?
    Imagine this:
       Black Dragon Leader: How did you kill Raven?
       Black Dragon guy:    I got him with a blowpipe.
       Black Dragon Leader: What? A blowpipe? (Major disappointment)

Some parts are a little unbelievable to me:

[1] The "booby trapped spiked grid thing" was hilarious ... did the Black
    Dragon guy spend all night making it?

[2] It was never explained how the Black Dragon guy arrived and left the
    island.

[3] What really happened to him after he fell into the hole? When Raven
    threw in the knife after he fell in, it didn't make a sound, so it
    must have been a deep hole. How did he get out?

[4] I knew something else was going to happen after the Black Dragon guy
    was supposedly finished off with 15 minutes left. I guess the sumarai
    swords just happened to be in the display window, too ... I knew someone
    was going to get them once they started fighting.

One question:

[1] Did Raven kill him in the end or did he just knock him out? It looked
    for a second like the first prime-time beheading was going to take place.
From: mbrockma@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: ARRRGGHH! "Sky fits heaven..." GO AWAY!
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:22:19 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Sep29.194152.16742@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> hfir_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Hoss 'macromolecular' Firooznia) writes:
>In <69349@hydra.gatech.EDU> cegtitd@prism.gatech.EDU (Tim Dodd) writes:
>
>>In article <jpc.717785565@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov> jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark) writes:
>>>I don't care for this commercial, but every time that Gap Jeans
>>>commercial starts up with that guy reading what we used to call beat
>>>poetry, I want to throw something hard and heavy at the screen.  That
>
>>I agree with you 100% about this commercial.  It's a sure channel-changer
>>or "mute" in my house.  I wonder what goes through the minds of the
>>advertising people who come up with these things!
>
>Yeah, every time I see that pretentious bastard I feel like choking him. >:-)
>Anyone seen that stupid Levi's ad?  You know, the one where hordes of doofy
>looking men are running around on the beach, playing with big bed linens or
>some such, while ominous music drones in the background, and such profound
>messages as "Everything basic... EVOLVES" flash up on the screen?
>
>Say, has anyone *ever* seen a good jeans ad?

Both of these commercials are some of my favorite ads for anything!


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From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: Re: Woops!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:48:21 GMT

  Isn't the word usually spelled ``whoops''?
From: jackie8@dasher.uucp (Jackie Brady)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: ARRRGGHH! "Sky fits heaven..." GO AWAY!
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:25:52 GMT
Organization: Bellcore - Piscataway, NJ

In article <1992Sep29.194152.16742@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> hfir_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Hoss 'macromolecular' Firooznia) writes:
>
>Say, has anyone *ever* seen a good jeans ad?

As a matter of fact, I have.  It's a commercial for women's Lee jeans
or something like that, and the whole premise of the commercial is that
Levi's jeans are designed for men, and don't have the special features
that women's jeans need. 
Anyway, they continually show men coming out of the fitting rooms dubbed
with women's voices saying things like <squeaky voice on> "Umm, I need
<giggle> more room in the hips!" Seeing a 6 ft husky, hunky man saying
that with the appropriate body movements cracks me up everytime I see it.
IMHO, of course.

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From: futrena@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: DangerMouse sounds...
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:56:56 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

For those of you who asked for me to post about the the DangerMouse
sounds, the first of a series of sounds in the MS-DOS .VOC format ahve
been post on alt.binaries.sounds.misc board.

If you have any questions, send me a e-mail message.
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|Bowling Green, KY USA		|P:  Oh, Ick!		  	|
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From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Re: PICKET FENCES - NOT ugh!
Date: 30 Sep 1992 10:57:40 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
Distribution: usa
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>Hmmm... the smart-alec kid (Matthew, played by Justin Sherenkov (sp?)) is

Shenkarow

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From: djt2445@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: QL: The Novel
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:27:17 GMT
Reply-To: djt2445@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Any comments out there on the book?

Or did I just happen to be the first to post about it?
It feels somewhat like the Q.L. episodes, but...



Ah well.
The author's Ashley McConnell.
I'm not going into depth about the book, as this editor
doesn't use Ctrl-L. Maybe later.

David Tai
djt2445@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
From: ferguson@andy.bgsu.edu (Douglas Ferguson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: SNL Oct. 3/Hmmm....
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:29:46 GMT
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.

cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
> 
> Stuart Small skit:
> Hands-down the best skit on the show.
> Unfortunately,  Lorne Michaels chose to make
> it the LAST skit on the show, by which time
> most of the viewers had gotten bored and tired
> and turned their televisions off. Al Franken
> is an SNL veteran, and his references to being
> in all of those 12-step groups was an ingenious,
> hilarious, and thoughtful bit. The other writers
> and cast members on the show can learn alot
> from Franken, I think. Maybe next time they'll
> put his bit on an hour ealier, and move duds
> like the sweet pimp skit to 85 minutes into
> the show.

I was watching last Saturday, thinking the same
thing:  Why run this excellent segment so late into the show?

A friend I was with had the obvious answer:

Daily Affirmation sounds like one of those "close to
local sign-off" shows like Meditations, with an inspirational
message prior to the National Anthem.

It seemed logical when she said it,
and it does now.




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From: krotenko@unixg.ubc.ca (Lana Krotenko)
Subject: Re: Shows on a budget!!
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:27:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.120339.13162@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>In article <92267.141449WJT101@psuvm.psu.edu>, <WJT101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>> I recently saw an ad for a new show on ABC called "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper"
>>  (or something close to that).  It showed the family living in the OLD "Growing
>>  Pains" house.  What's the deal??  Taking about cutting expenses by re-using an
>>  old set.  I didn't watch the show and was wondering how they connected the two
>>  series. Did this new family buy the Seaver's old house??   Did they not relate
>>  the two at all??  This just seemed kind of strange to me.  Anybody have any
>>  more info??
>
>     I saw that too from the previews. Does anyone have any more
>information about it? I didn't see anything about it in TV Guide either.
>
The exterior facade used for the opening on "Growing Pains" sits on the
Warner Bros lot. It is very common to use the same buildings for different 
shows, but usually they dress them up to look different. Good eye.
 
Lana
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: QL fistfight question
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:17:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.175401.19081@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, smmcafee@mtu.edu (Sean McAfee) writes:
> I've just been hooked on the QL reruns, and I never watched it regularly
> before last season, but I noticed something amiss in the first episode after
> the series premiere (sorry, can't name it, don't have an episode guide).
> The boyfriend of the girl who is infatuated with the professor Sam leapt
> into pays Sam a visit and without preamble socks Sam in the face.  Sam gets
> up and casually backhands the boyfriend.  Suddenly both fighters are
> breathing heavily, as if they had been fighting for five minutes instead of
> having just exchanged one punch apiece!  What gives?
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "You can argue with ME, boy, but you can't argue with         Sean McAfee

Sean:

too much adrenalin, perhaps?  :-)

Kellie
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From: leaper@ddsw1.mcs.com (Maria C. Munoz)
Subject: QL: Ratings Overall
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 02:41:27 GMT
Distribution: rec.arts.tv
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

	Hey, does anyone have the overall Nielsen Ratings for this week?
I know that QL came in third in its slot...being beaten by Rescue 911
and Full House. How? I don't know why. :)  And Roseanne was first in the
9pm/8pm slot.  Sally? Do you have any ratings info?

Thanks!
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From: wallace@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Glenn Wallace)
Subject: Re: MWC: "I'll see you in Court"
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:32:25 GMT

This episode has already screened in Australia (and the UK already, I
think).

It wasn't what I'd call raunchy, but certainly suggestive. 

Time wise, it was a complete episode. I doubt we'll ever know how close
it is to what the producers intended.

Dean Adams, comments?

Glenn

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From: jeffy@cray.com (Jeffrey Neau)
Subject: Re: Marc Singer
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 28 Sep 92 08:29:47 CDT

In article <srh3.717455458@Ra.MsState.Edu> srh3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Steven R. Hollis) writes:
>     Someone please refresh my memory.  What has this actor been on?

He played 'Beastmaster' in the first movie.  He was also in 'V'...

Jeff
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From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv,news.groups
Subject: Re: Give QL its own newsgroup, please!!!
Summary: no way
Date: 29 Sep 92 08:35:53 GMT
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.

In article <1992Sep25.152456.17674@unlinfo.unl.edu>, aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A. Berigan) writes:
...
> As for a mainstream group, it is still undecided whether or not it
> should be classified under rec.arts.tv.* or rec.arts.sf.tv.*.  IMHO,
> r.a.sf.tv.quantum-leap, esp. since sf == Speculative Fiction, which
> happens to encompass Science Fiction, which the producers don't even
> classify it as.

	Because it's not.  Stick to the TV hierarchy or it will fail *again*.

Brett                                                      
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Tape of QL episode needed
Date: 30 Sep 92 02:45:12 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <BvB8Io.no@inews.Intel.COM> sramirez@hopi.intel.com (Steve Ramirez) writes:
<My roomate is interested in obtaining a tape of the episode
<(last season?) where in the end, Sam becomes the hologram.
<I'm not as up as most folks, but wasn't that the "Shock Theater"
<episode? Anyway, if someone would be so kind as to offer to make
<a copy, my roomate will compensate them in kind.

Close, it was the episode after "Shock Theatre", part of a two episode theme,
cliffhanger.

I have made a special edit (using 3/4" Umatic-SP) of the two episodes and
put them together, back-to-back.  When one episode ends, it flows right into
the next episode.  The credits from "Shock Theatre" are gone, but not lost.
At the end of the special edit are the credits for "Shock Theatre", a couple
of NBC promos for the season opener and a special mix edit of the two different
opening credits.  The opening credits were changed between the two seasons,
but it really is surprising how the same they really are.  Special visual edits
show the differences by using split screen video editing.

The 3/4" edit was then transferred to S-VHS for making future dubs (after
all previous requests were handled [I even sent a tape to Norway]).  If you
want a tape, I can make you a VHS or S-VHS Hi-Fi stereo copy.  Send me e-mail
for details.
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From: kapa@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (k.a.perkins)
Subject: Re: NX Premiere "Northwest Passages"--LONG
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:05:54 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Summary: ruth ann very annoying in a true to life way

In article <1992Sep30.164048.11511@newsance.att.com>, kimi@newsance.att.com (Kimiye Tipton;ball of confusion) writes:
> 
> The episode pointed out that the problems of aging are real, and it
> wasn't just Maggie's insecurities and worries that were the problem,
> but all of society's attitudes about youth and missed opportunities.
> Ruth Ann's speech about how it was fine never to have children was
> great-- Maggie really wants kids and is fooling herself that she's
> got all the time in the world to do it.  But that's a valid worry
> of aging, which she is trying to throw out along with the worry about
> yogurt bum.

I found this speech on Ruth Ann's part to be incredibly annoying
and condescending.
It reminded me of similar speeches that my sister and I endured
throughout our 20's from our shirt tail relatives in small town
Wisconsin that thought the epitome of life for a woman was marriage
and children with any slimeball with a good income that oozed into
her life.  I thought it was out of character for Ruth Ann.  I expect
more from her.

By the way, I do have a child and have one more on the way and
while she (they) are a true joy in my life, I don't think that
being a parent is for everyone.  People can be "real women" or
"real men" without reproducing.

Kate Perkins
From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: _Herman's Head_ new intro
Summary: new opening - "simpson's"
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:30:05 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Sep29.151844.14239@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:
> 
> Any opinions on the new intro sequence for _Herman's Head_? Am
> not sure if I like it better or not; definitely preferred the
> original theme music.
> 
> Still, so far the new episodes have been just as much fun as
> ever. Will be a sad day in my household if/when it goes downhill.
> 
> Loved the scene in the last episode where Heddy convinces
> Jay to date her fiance's ex-wife: "She's a Victoria's Secret 
> model", "Those aren't implants", and "She has a history of 
> bisexuality"
> 
> :-)
> 

Didn't really like the new opening, although the old one was a bit
long winded.  Definitely preferred the old music.

but whatI really loved was the opening bit with Yeardly smith -
"That's the 12th person who's said that to me today.  Herman, I
dont' sound that that Lisa Simpson character, do I?" 

marc colten
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From: iott@rtsg.mot.com (Joel K. Iott)
Subject: Re: New fox show, "The Edge"
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:54:03 GMT

In article <BvEsID.KsD@rahul.net> you write:
>
>It is basically a parody show.  The show premiered last Sunday, I believe,
                                                         ^^^^^^ Saturday
>at about 9:30pm.  They spoofed the HELL out of 90210, and it was damn
>funny.  At one point, Brandon and Brenda were on the verge of making out in
>her room.  When mommy walked in, they just said, "But, mom, it's so hard to
>resist, when you look so beautiful.." (An indication of how great all the
>stars on 90210 look.)  Then, mom says (after the fact has been made that
>"Mothers are the demographic group most attracted to Brandon on 90210")
>"I know," and licks her lips saucily with her tongue whilst looking Brandon
>up and down.  It was raucous!
>
>Was wondering if anyone else liked this sort of
>humor, as I didn't hear anyone comment yet!
>

It was hilarous, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.  Other good bits: 

"Brandon" & "Dylan" looking at each other, similar to "Brandon" and "Brenda"
Brandon makes his hair higher, but Dylan tops even that
Hair fights
When the spotlight goes on Brenda and she gives her speech about drinking, etc.
  not being cool
Giant Delta Burke eating tiny Brandon and Dylan, prefering Dylan because he's
  spicier. 

Too bad it's condemned to the Saturday night ghetto of TV.  If Fox had any
brains, it would be on Sunday, replacing one of their lackluster sitcoms like
"Herman's Head", "Woops!", etc.

--
Joel
From: sallyn@pyrxbooter.eng.pyramid.com (Sally Norton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Marc Singer Roles
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:18:34 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Pyramid Technology


>   Someone please refresh my memory.  What has this actor been on?


    Marc Singer trained as a stage actor. He was a member of the
    the American Conservatory Theatre company in San Francisco
    for a couple of seasons.

    TV and Film Roles:


                        Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
                        Beastmaster, The
                        Body Chemistry
                        Born to Race
                        Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (TV)
                        Dead Space
                        Go Tell the Spartans
                        Her Life as a Man (TV)
                        High Desert Kill (TV)
                        If You Could See What I Hear
                        Journey from Darkness (TV)
                        Sergeant Matlovich Vs. the U.S. Air Force (TV)
                        Something for Joey (TV)
                        Things in Their Season (TV)
                        Two Worlds of Jennie Logan, The (TV)
                        Ultimate Desires
                        Watchers II
                        "Contender, The"
                        "Dallas"
                        "Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue" (mini)
                        "Roots: The Next Generations" (mini)
                        "V"

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From: dzembj@sage4a.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Subject: QL Episode Guide Update
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:10:58 GMT

Leaping Of The Shrew (aka "When Venus Smiles")
September 27, 1956

Air Date:  September 29, 1992
Writer:  Richard Okie & Robin Jill Bernheim
Director:  Alan J. Levi
Guest Cast:  Brooke Shields

It's Robinson Crusoe with a twist when Sam leaps into a Greek sailor stranded
on a deserted island with a beautiful young rich woman who appears to be less
than fond of him and their stranded situation.



						Respectfully Submitted,
						Jason E. Dzembo
						(net.chronologer)
From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: MURPHY BROWN
Keywords: great show, good response
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:00:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.20797
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Sep25.220241.13216@athena.mit.edu> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>In article <saurav.717278820@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
> saurav@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Saurav Chatterjee) writes:
>
>
>It's been a few years since I considered myself a "hardcore conservative",
>but I was turned off.  The basic problem with this episode was that it chose
>to attack Quayle instead of being funny.  I've watched Murphy Brown for two
>years, but I probably won't watch it any more.  On Monday I turned to
>another channel once the Quayle-bashing started.
>
>Perhaps the problem is that the creators of the show have left.  Better
>writing could have come up with a way to use the Quayle remark without


Well, Quayle attacked Murphy Brown instead of being funny.  Quayle's
comments were rude and offended a lot of people.  Given the favt that
Murphy isn't even a real person.  But, maybe that's what makes it
safe.  Maybe if Quayle had, say, chosen to attack Linda Jackson from
Chicago ( and I'm sure there may very well be an un-wed mother in
Chicago named Linda Jackson) publically for having a baby before she
had a wedding ring he would have been in real trouble.

The trick to politics is to say the most while offending the least,
and Quayle/Bush don't seem to understand that. 

Now. As for my comments on the episode.  Very well done. I'm not even
a serious fan of MB and even I watched thos episode.  

The over-all message of this season may be that it is damn hard to be
a single mother.  That baby is not just something that is kinda cute,
but a real person that requires a lot of responsibilty on the part of
both the mother AND the father. 


-Brett
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