From: x92ochs1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: TV Trivia:  Locked in a...
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:51:31 EST
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Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1j7pdtINNrhk@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, bdsm@poincare.WPI.EDU (Billy Don McConnell) writes:
> 
> A couple of days ago, c9119870@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (ANTIGONE) wrote
>        Who was locked in Sam, the Butcher's, refigerator?
>  
> to which Doug Kraus (dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu) responded 
>        Bobby and Greg.
>  
> and which prompted this from Sandy A (sandya@hpfcmdd.fc.hp.com):
>       Of course, most sitcoms eventually do the "locked in the x" episode. 
>       Remember any others?
>   
>       * Family Ties: Mallory and Skippy get locked in the basement and wear
>         costumes (pandas?) to stay warm.
>   
> I think it was Penguins, wasn't it?
>  
>       * Gilligan's Island:  They all got locked in a prison they made.  Why,
>         I don't know.
>  
> Wasn't the Skipper made Marshall and Gilligan made Deputy?  Then, if I remember
> correctly, Gilligan (just doing his duty) jailed everyone for minour infractions, 
> and jailed the Skipper for being a bad Marshal and trying to let the others out.
> After numerous jail-break attempts (based on scenarios in Ginger's movies) had 
> been foiled by Gilligan (who had seen all the movies many times), Gilligan (acting
> out yet another movie scene) locked himself in the jail and threw away the key
> (just as a rescue plane was flying overhead, naturally).
>    
>       * Leave it to Beaver: Would the one where the Beave got stuck in the
>         coffee cup billboard qualify?
>       
>       * Some show (maybe the Beave again? Or a movie...) Some kid locks himself
>         in the bathroom and the babysitter tries to get in through the window.
>      
>       * Cheers: Norm gets stuck in the pool room window, Diane gets stuck under
>         the floor.  Then there's the one where Sam and Frazier lock Diane and
>         Lillith in th Frazier's bathroom, but that was deliberate.
>    
>       * Full House: The cute uncle gets locked in a garage on the littlest kid's
>         birthday, so she misses her birthday party.
>   
> To the list Jeff (x92ochs1@gw.wmich.edu) added (and I have re-formatted)
>  
>       * Three's Company: Jack and Mr. Furley got locked in the meat freezer by 
>         a robber.  Later, after the robber was picked up and identified as Jack
>         (he took Jack's wallet) and brought home, Janet and Teri identified the 
>         man as not being Jack and the robber told
>         the police where Jack was.  
>  
> And I add
>  
>       * Get a Life:  Chris and Sharon get locked in her meat locker, which she
>         just HAPPENED to have attached to her living room.  What they had to do
>         to keep warm was a source of great nausea to Sharon afterwards.
>  
>       * Get a Life:  Chris and his dad get locked in the NEPTUNE 2000 (or whatever
>         its name was), the mail-order two-man sub Chris had ordered as a kid and
>         built in his shower.
>  
>       * The Lucy Show:  I don't remember for sure, but I'll just bet that at some
>         point Lucy locked herself up in Mr. Mooney's vault...probably with Mr.
>         Mooney himself, but maybe only with Viv.
>   
>       * I Love Lucy:  If we allow the Beave in a coffee cup, should we allow Lucy
>         with her head stuck in a vase (or was it a trophy...no, Richie Cunningham
>         had his head stuck in a trophy...but someone did that to him...)?
>  
>       * I Love Lucy:  Lucy got stuck in a steamer trunk once.  I think she and 
>         Ricky were gonna go overseas, but she couldn't get a passport because she
>         had no birth certificate and the records building that had it burned down.
>         I believe she was considering stowing away in the trunk, and was trying it
>         on for size, when it shut on her.
>  
> Anyone else?  (There's gotta be at LEAST another dozen just with Lucy in them.)
>  
> Don

  I remember when Lucy bought a whole side of beef( and bought a freezer from
  a friend or a relative and tried to hide the meat from Ricky.  She ended
  up getting locked in the freezer.  When Ricky got her out, she was frozen
  solid!

  Jeff