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From: patrickd@yaya.WPI.EDU (Lazer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: What is the deal with that ANNOYING kid in the Britannica commercials?
Summary: Apple!
Keywords: BRITANNICA
Date: 28 Sep 92 03:44:06 GMT
Organization: Gizmonic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: yaya.wpi.edu

>> rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett) writes:
>
>>[comments on the young man in the Encyclopedia Brittanica TV commercials]
>>
>>>He is one of the most annoying creatures I have ever seen.  The merest 
>>>sound of that scratchy, computer-enhanced voice sends me convulsively 
>>>grabbing for the remote's mute button.  He has done incredible damage to his 
>>>sponsor's reputation, in my eyes.  Britannica is now indelibly imprinted as 
>>>a cheap, sleazy, obnoxious, kid-oriented operation.  They have no better way 
>>>to spend their ad money than on crap like this?!  

He was less annoying before he got rid of the Apple ][ computer.  Hmmm...
maybe there's a connection.

-- 
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Subject: Re: YIJC:  Ending Credits
From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:04:01 -0500
Distribution: na
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <2AC96B1F.28383@news.service.uci.edu>, dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause) writes:
> I noticed that at the end of the last two "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"
> (9/21 and 9/28) that there were no voice overs during the credits.  Could
> George Lucas be telling ABC to leave his baby alone?  Go George!

     Well, when I watched it on 9/28, They shrunk the ending credits
down to a small square, so they could start the Monday night football
game. How come you didn't get this?

Later.......

------======={{{{{{{{((((((Ryan 'Gozar' Collins))))))))}}}}}}}}=======--------
"You can never own enough /    __    ___  ___  \rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
computer equipment"      /    /  /  /  /    /   \RC1DSANU@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
                        /    / _   /  /   /      \rcollins@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu
 |||   "Power Without  /    /__/  /__/  /___      \  R.COLLINS1 on GEnie
/ | \     The Price"  /                            \
	    ------======={{{{{{{{(((((())))))))}}}}}}}}=======-----  30-SEP-1992
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Class of 1995?
Date: 28 Sep 92 00:26:14 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

It is called the Class of 1996, with Lisa Dean Anderson as part
of the cast.

It is a FOX show, and I believe is due to premier in October.  If
the show makes it, the cast will be taken from Freshman thru
Senior year and graduation in 1996.

It might make it, these type of shows are popular now.


-- 
David De Trolio - (detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
_________________________________________________

"We're sailing on the wind of better days"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: EDIAS@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (EMILIANO A DIAS)
Subject: Re: The Ben Stiller Show
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:08:00 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <BvCGJy.6C9.1@cs.cmu.edu> stichnot+@cs.cmu.edu writes:

> I can't believe no one's mentioned the Ben Stiller Show, which was shown
> on Fox Sunday night.  This collection of sketches was the best I've seen
> on TV in a while.
> 
> How about their rockumentary, "U2: The Early Years", with U2's manager
> Reuben Kincaid getting them gigs at bar mitzvahs and product endorsements.
> (Did you catch all the subliminal messages flashed on the screen?  "Partridge
> Family Rules")  Or the parodies of that Jovan Musk (or whatever) "What is
> Sexy" commercial.  And my favorite, the parody of the "Cape Fear" trailers,
> for a movie called "Cape Munster", featuring Eddie Munster stalking his
> agent, whom he blames for the show being cancelled.  "I don't know whether
> to look at him, or go trick-or-treating."
> 
> Anyway, I hope they can keep up this level of comedy and production.
> Check it out while it lasts.
> 
> -- Jim

I was disappointed Janeane Garofalo didn't have a bigger part in the show;
she's great.  She did her standup routine at my college last semester and
it was a trancendental experience.  I even got to buy her a diet coke and
she autographed an ashtray for me.
  
  do you think, she'd mind if I stalked her?...		Tony Dias
From: firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: SNL: Where was Mike Myers?
Date: 28 Sep 1992 20:59:11 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

  Last I heard, he was trying to get out of his contract.  I would say he was
successful, since he wasn't even in the credits.  Considering how popular the
_Wayne's World_ movie was, if they still had him, he would have been there.
Of course, I could be wrong...

firenza@wpi.wpi.edu
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: New fox show, "The Edge"
Date: 5 Oct 1992 23:42:09 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Oct2.174520.10724@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) writes:
>In article <BvEsID.KsD@rahul.net> bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) writes:
>>There were some parodies of other shows, and general offensive humor that I
>>really find engaging.  Was wondering if anyone else liked this sort of
>>humor, as I didn't hear anyone comment yet!

I agree, I like it.  This weekend's parody of the swimsuit video was great.
This is probably the closest thing around to the original SNL's type of
comedy.

>  I really like Julie Brown (does anyone remember when she was on "The
>Comedy Store" as a waitress?  (I probably have the show name wrong--it
>was the original comedy club show, from the late 70's/early 80's)) so
>that's why I tuned in.

Julie Brown is great.  The show you're thinking of is "Evening at the
Improv".  It's still on (on the A&E Network), but they no longer have the
cast of regulars that do bits before the commercials.

She had her own show "Just Say Julie" on MTV for a couple of years (no, I'm
not confusing her with "Downtown" Julie Brown, who was also on MTV at the
same time).  She's done some great parody songs and videos (a bunch of my
friends have done our own videos of "I Like 'Em Big and Stupid" and "'Cause
I'm a Blonde"), and I think she wrote the script for "Earth Girls Are Easy"
(based on one of her songs).  I also noticed her last night on cable in a
bit part near the beginning of the movie "Timebomb".
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: democrats
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:22:55 GMT
Organization: None for me, thanks . . . I'm driving.

dyrda@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (The Conservative) writes:

> Well maybe this will help..
>
> giggalo, slickster, peace man!!, duhhh!!, why me??, tanker, slickester2

Are these the fall season's new assortment of American Gladiators?

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

(tying to figure out why this nonsense is on rec.arts.tv)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: prv2d@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Peter Villadsen)
Subject: Friday the 13th: The Series
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:33:43 GMT

   Unfortunately the local television station stopped showing
this program last night, and am wondering if it is available
on video anywhere? Also, are there any guides for this show?
Thanks for any info,

   Peter


Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Subject: Re: QL: One Group
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:39:15 GMT

I asked:
>>Can we agree to keep the QL posts in EITHER rec.arts.tv OR rec.arts.sf.tv?
and gave my reasons for this.  

ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:

>There are some people who
>1. Do not get rec.arts.tv and rec.arts.sf.tv
 I can see people still having problems with sf.tv since it's a new
 group, but ratv has been around for ages.  There are some people who
 don't get any of the rec heirarchy--should we accept QL posts in comp
 groups, too?  It's not like I'm exiling the group to alt, just asking
 people to pick ONE rec group.

>2. Do not read rec.arts.tv and rec.arts.sf.tv
 Again, I have problems with this.  I know that if I want to read
 comics I subscribe to rec.arts.comics.whatever.  If I want to read
 startrek, I subscribe to rec.arts.startrek.whatever.  What is so
 difficult about telling QL fans to subscribe to one group or another?

>So in this situation trying to steer it one group is useless.
>Since QL is an ambiguous show (SF or not) new posters are also
>likely to post in either group. 
 So we politely direct them to the correct group or put up an FAQ.
 It's been done before.

>My opinion is to post in both groups so that those not interested
>will support it - I can see those reading one group voting no
>because they don't read the one group QL is posting in and are
>against splits unless they are interested in the topic of course!
 I don't quite understand your first sentence.  I'm asking the QL
 readers and posters to CHOOSE a group; I'm not asking the non-QL
 readers to eject us.  

 Also, with all your talk of making it easier for those who get only
 one group, my argument is that it's difficult for those who read both
 groups, like myself, to follow threads.  Plus, frankly, we are
 annoying the non-QL viewers, as the frequent posts yelling at us for
 taking over their newsgroups or asking us to get our own would attest.
 This will at least placate some of the people, and is that so bad?

 Maybe we ought to hold a poll on the subject--do you read QL posts?
 Would you prefer to see QL posts 1) Only on rec.arts.tv, 2) Only on
 rec.arts.sf.tv, or 3) Continuing on both groups?
-- 
--------------->Elisabeth Anne Riba * lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu<---------------
"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."  Dan Quayle
Quick!  Notify DC.  I think it's time for another 900 number poll.
"We are enjoying a sluggish economy & not enjoying it very much."  --Bush
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: QL: animated (was: Re: QL: NBC messes with it again)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 22:06:39 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <o06PRB2w164w@kryton.UUCP> ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead) writes:

>nigotiating with Selleck, but I wouldn't hold my breath.  On that note of
>would be QL episodes, has anyone (perhaps Sally might know), heard if they
>are going to do the animated QL?  I've heard through some Anime friends that
>Don wanted to use one of the Japanese animtater.  (I don't know which one, or
>what he did, I'm not really into Anime).  Does anyone have anything further

That is as far as I know, still a definite yes. They mentioned that in
the ads that they ran during the Olympics. It's supposed to be done
by Otomo (sp?) who did "Akira".

Sally
-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"

Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: Re: SNL quality
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co.  /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 07:29:38 GMT

Of late, I've wondered if Lorne Michaels continues to produce Saturday Night
Live for $$, and then puts his creative efforts into the Canadian program
BOYS IN THE HALL (which *is* damn funny.)

PS  You're in luck -- they're putting it on in the States on late-late
night.

                           "I've told you I don't live and die by the polls.
                            Thus I will refrain from pointing out that we're
                            not doing too bad in those polls."
                                           -- George Bush
---
                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
INTERNET:     moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
Manual UUCP:  {uunet, uw-beaver, sun, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty
CREDO:        You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
                 **>> Keep circulating the tapes <<**
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: cass@netcom.com (Diana Tenery-Fisher)
Subject: Re: SNL: October 3, Really Bad.
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:31:02 GMT

 "Hey free dummy...." - almost my favorite one....

At any rate... I have all the deep thoughts in a file, plus the 
Happy Fun Ball ad.. if anyone is interested, let me know... I will mail
them out to you...

-diana

--

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diana tenery-fisher               'It is only with the heart that one can see
cass@netcom.com                    rightly. What is essential is invisible
                                   to the eye'  -  The Little Prince
 
Soundtrack >  these thoughts were had solely under the influence of 
  du jour  >             Narada Sampler 2 - Lotus Artists


Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: ckile@andy.bgsu.edu (crystal kile)
Subject: coe.montana.edu: What gives??
Keywords: what gives??
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:24:28 GMT


Anybody know what gives with the "two anonymous ftpers at a time" rule
at ftp.coe.montana.edu, the big tv episode guide site??

I've been trying to get on for THREE DAYS now!!  Shheesh!!

If Montana can't handle the traffic, then the archive should move so
some institution that can!

Anybody know if this bottleneck is just temporary??

					Crystal Kile
					Department of Popular Culture
					Bowling Green State University

P.S. If the site is down for repairs, disregard my yelling and !!!ing :)
Xref: sparky rec.arts.tv:18616 rec.arts.sf.tv:3516
From: mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Thumbs down on season premiere
Date: 26 Sep 1992 14:54:26 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu

kimi@newsance.att.com (Kimiye Tipton;ball of confusion) writes:

>Yeah, this really bothered me.  My four-year-old was getting ready for
>bed, and I had to do some fast explaining.  He's always been able to
>watch QL before (on tape delay when it was on later), so it was a nasty 
>shock when the extended and extremely violent scenes appeared before
>9 p.m.  As I hustled him out of the room, he asked, "Why does that guy 
>keep beaming in and out of places?"  Didn't one of y'all ask the same 
>thing? :-)  

>I will have to tape and watch it later if the violence level continues.
>Who knew we might have to censor an 8 p.m. QL from a little kid?  It's
>not like PG-13 adult content was a regular feature of the show in its 
>later time slot.

     Ummmm, what about episodes like Raped and Justice and Southern 
Comforts and the Halloween episode??  I've never really thought of QL
as appropriate for the younger crowd.

--
Love is like pizza, it's either cold and flat or hot and gooey.
you have to take it in pieces and hold the anchovies.
  -- Alf {I'm not sure what it means - 
          but it sounds very philosophic}

    Mary Allison (mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu) Urbana, Illinois
Catx2 Owned, Square Dancer, Leaper, Ballroom Dancer in training
From: rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Quantum Leap:  When Venus Smiled
Date: 3 Oct 92 13:35:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.38928
Organization: MAWL - Mudd Alums Without Lives

All this talk about this didn't "resemble" a Leap ep.  I'd have to
disagree.  In fact, it more than resembled a Leap ep, it redid one.

After Al started expounding about Sam's feelings for Vanessa, did
anyone else out there think "A Hunting We Will Go" (the "Leap from Hell)?

Of course, in "Venus," Nikos gets the girl whereas the bounty hunter
Sam leapt into (Ray?) parts ways with the other character (played by
Jane Sibbett, for lack of a better description) at the end.

Agitator
  #->

"A political deadend."                  Bruce Herschensohn for U.S. Senate!!!
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      asked about a Dukakis-Gore ticket   Congress insider      //   outsider
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========================================== Bring Back the Caltech Cannon!! ==
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh)
Subject: Re: SNL:  Where was Mike Myers?
Reply-To: iho@cac.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Tacoma
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:38:10 GMT

breid@pyrhard2.eng.pyramid.com (Bill Reid) writes:

> As to what 
> this portends for his future on SNL, I would say it bodes ill, but 
> he might pull a Jan Hooks and return.  

I didn't get the impression that she's returned.  Didn't they announce
"a special appearance by Jan Hooks"?  I thought she just played Mia in
the opening skit and nothing else.

-- 
Il Hwan Oh                              | What is "Martinizing",
Computer Facilities Manager             |  and why does it
University of Washington, Tacoma        |   take one hour?
iho@cac.washington.edu                  | 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: slambert@AFIT.AF.MIL (Steve Lambert)
Subject: Re: Reese's Pieces Commercial
Organization: Air Force Institue of Technology, WPAFB OH
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:41:36 GMT

In article <ddogan.9.717969157@AFIT.AF.MIL> ddogan@AFIT.AF.MIL (Darryl Dogan) writes:
>From: ddogan@AFIT.AF.MIL (Darryl Dogan)
>Subject: Reese's Pieces Commercial
>Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:52:37 GMT

>  Excuse me, but I'm in a quandary about the Reese's Pieces commercial that 
>runs with the afternoon and Saturday cartoons ("Hair pieces, eye pieces, 
>Reese's Pieces").  The nerd from "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" appears in it.

>  The pay-off verse of the jingle says that Reese's Pieces has "the famous 
>flavor of Reese's Peanut Butter in a (???????) shell."  The words aren't too 
>clear.  I won't rest until I get to the bottom of this.  Anybody have any 
>idea what kind of shell encases Reese's famous peanut butter?  Thanks in 
>advance for the help.


I have seen this commercial a couple of times and like you I could not quite 
make out certain words in the commercial.  I watched for it last night and I'
m quite certain that it's "...in a fucking shell."  No offense intended!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: MWC: "I'll see you in Court"
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 13:42:17 GMT

M.J.H.Cox@bradford.ac.uk (Mark Cox) writes:
 >If you have read the Married With Children episode guide then you'll
 >know the story about the 'lost show' called "I'll See you in Court".
 >This show apparantly got ripped to shreds by the censors so that the
 >writer decided it wasn't worth showing in its censored form.
 >Apparantly the show never got aired in the USA.
Right.

 >Know what lines were cut from the original so I can see if they are
 >showing the censored version 

There is no "original" (except perhaps for a script somewhere).
The censored version is what was filmed, and that is what was
released to the international market.

 >If anyone is interested I'll post a summary of the episode next Thursday.

Here is the guide entry of anyone can't wait:    :-)

 45. 02/**/89  "I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT" 
 Written by: Jeanne Baruch & Jeanne Romano

 In an attempt to revive their sex life, Peg (at Marcy's suggestion),
 lures Al to the Hop-On-Inn motel.  There they discover a couple of
 familiar faces on the adult video channel: Steve and Marcy.  When 
 Steve points out that Al and Peg must have been taped too, Al and
 Marcy want to break some legs, while Peg and Steve want to sue.
 In court, the details of the Bundys' sex life leave the jury so 
 unimpressed that they award them nothing, but Steve and Marcy's
 performance was worth $10,000.   [Note: this episode was never 
  broadcast as scheduled, because of numerous disagreements between
  the show's producers and the Fox network censors.  See Appendix V
  for more detailed information.]

 Ms. Weigel ....... Lora Zane           Judge ............ Lillian Lehman
 Jury Foreman ..... Ken Thorley 

-{ DA }-

Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: patstew@oz.plymouth.edu (Pat Steward)
Subject: Re: QL: ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply-To: patstew@oz.plymouth.edu (Pat Steward)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 12:41:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.203036.10157@eos.arc.nasa.gov> shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum) writes:
>In article <1992Sep29.124535.2975@oz.plymouth.edu> patstew@oz.plymouth.edu (Pat Steward) writes:
>>
>>Learn to use your KILL file, bud.
>
>Maybe Gary, like myself doesn't *mind* reading about QL, but Jeez-o-Pete,
>*hundreds* of articles daily on the LHO episode??!!!
>Besides, once you kill an article, some dork will always subtly change
>the subject line so the next one will "sneak through".

At the risk of repeating myself, you should check on your KILL file's
abilities, too.  Although not ALL have the capability, many allow you
to specify the *first few characters* of a subject line, such as "QL".
Then all QL posts would be killed, regardless of the rest of the
subject.

Have a day.
-- 
Pat Martin Steward                          patstew@oz.plymouth.edu
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is;
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express senti-
ments that differentiate me from a doormat.       Rebecca West, 1913