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Best Television Ensemble Casts - Kenji - 07-23-2005
AsMoral Wrote:I think Will and Grace is a great cast, but Karen definately steals the show.
I enjoyed Will and Grace. Yeah, Karen was funny. I liked her character.
But I prefer "Dharma & Greg". Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson always made me laugh. Their parents were funnier antithetical.
After this drama, Jenna Elfman did appearances to movies. "Ed TV", "Keeping the faith"...but I like Dhama, still now.
Best Television Ensemble Casts - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 07-24-2005
Now hold on here, gang, I =know= I'm not the only soul on the board who watched BONANZA on Sunday nights in the '60s. And how about GUNSMOKE? And, uh...F TROOP? "The end of the Civil Was was near/When quite accidentally..."
Best Television Ensemble Casts - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 07-24-2005
Maggers Wrote:I don't know why, but "The Honeymooners" has always given me the creeps, big time. Could not watch it then; can't watch it now. It actually upsets me.
How so, Maggers? Was it, "To the Moon, Alice!!" But I always figgered
that the joke was, =never in a million years= would Ralph hit Alice. She knew it, he knew it, and =we= knew it. Ralph was a blowhard, sure. But his =real= feelings towards his wife were, "Baby...you're the greatest."
Best Television Ensemble Casts - Maggers - 07-24-2005
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:How so, Maggers? Was it, "To the Moon, Alice!!" But I always figgered that the joke was never in a =million years= would Ralph hit Alice. She knew it, he knew it, and =we= knew it. Ralph was a big blowhard (albeit with a big heart, which he showed on occasion.)
I found it to be REALLY REALLY CREEPY. I didn't like the characters; I didn't think they were funny. The threat of violence is not funny, whether or not the fist is actually thrown.
Keep in mind I grew up in a house where the threat of violence was always in the air. I spent the first 20 years of my life walking on egg shells, except for the summers, when roaming the pine barrens of Long Island saved me.
So the last thing I could think to laugh at is someone threatening to hurt a family member. Too close to home.
Best Television Ensemble Casts - KRW - 07-24-2005
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Now hold on here, gang, I =know= I'm not the only soul on the board who watched BONANZA on Sunday nights in the '60s. And how about GUNSMOKE? And, uh...F TROOP? "The end of the Civil Was was near/When quite accidentally..."
Yeah, Bonanza and Gunsmoke are great! Do you remember Alias: Smith And Jones?
When I first moved to Arizona they played The Rockford Files and Simon and Simon back to back, that was a good two hours!
KRW
Best Television Ensemble Casts - t4terrific - 07-24-2005
KRW Wrote:Yeah, Bonanza and Gunsmoke are great! Do you remember Alias: Smith And Jones?
When I first moved to Arizona they played The Rockford Files and Simon and Simon back to back, that was a good two hours!
KRW
Actually I still watch The Rockford Files followed by Magnum P. I. three of four mornings a week. Weren't Simon & Simon of a few Magnim P. I. episodes?
Best Television Ensemble Casts - t4terrific - 07-24-2005
Maggers Wrote:I found it to be REALLY REALLY CREEPY. I didn't like the characters; I didn't think they were funny. The threat of violence is not funny, whether or not the fist is actually thrown.
Keep in mind I grew up in a house where the threat of violence was always in the air. I spent the first 20 years of my life walking on egg shells, except for the summers, when roaming the pine barrens of Long Island saved me.
So the last thing I could think to laugh at is someone threatening to hurt a family member. Too close to home.
I just never liked that dictator type domineering head-of-household character. It just never appealed to me. My dad was laid back and encouraged my sister and I to speak our mind (albeit respectfully). I knew lots fo other kids whos dads were just jerks and we'd sneak around their house hoping not to disturb their jack-ass dads. That character always annoyed me. I never liked Archie Bunker either. I was more interested in characters like Fred Sanford, Andy Taylor, and Ward Cleaver. They were very diferent, but they weren't so edgy.
Best Television Ensemble Casts - Kenji - 07-25-2005
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Now hold on here, gang, I =know= I'm not the only soul on the board who watched BONANZA on Sunday nights in the '60s. And how about GUNSMOKE? And, uh...F TROOP? "The end of the Civil Was was near/When quite accidentally..."
I watched Gunsmoke,too! It was rerun. When I was kid I saw it, so I don't remember the detail. But I remember the GUNSMOKE.
My favorite old TV drama was "Wanted: Dead or Alive", Steve McQueen as Josh Randall. And....."Raw Hide".
Best Television Ensemble Casts - remylass - 07-25-2005
Ultraviolet
They had a great cast, too.
Best Television Ensemble Casts - Mick C. - 08-21-2005
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Barney Miller - Dietrich was my favorite, too
Rescue Me
The Job
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
WKRP in Cincinnati, definitely
The Bob Newhart Show.
SPOILER BELOW
and Newhart - an entire series which was a dream in the mind of a character from an earlier series - pretty audacious!