Mike Scully interview in the Onion...
MuscaDomestica
it up, in the AV section they have an interview with Mike Sculy. Unlike,
say Entertainment weekly, they ask him about the growing wackiness,
Maude's death, and the internet fans. It is interesting, I recommend
reading it.
-Musca domestica
Trole Ling
I guess Mike Scully is doing a new sitcom starring comedian Robert
Schimmel. Robert is hilarious but they say he needs to tone down his
act for TV...but then again maybe not FOX.
Curtis Gibby
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> I saw the new issue of the onion today before my Botany class and
picked
> it up, in the AV section they have an interview with Mike Sculy.
Unlike,
> say Entertainment weekly, they ask him about the growing wackiness,
> Maude's death, and the internet fans. It is interesting, I recommend
> reading it.
Do they have it on the web version? I looked at
http://www.theavclub.com, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
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>
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:16:56 -0600, MuscaDomestica
> <Bugm...@execpc.com> wrote:
>
> >it up, in the AV section they have an interview with Mike Sculy. Unlike,
> >say Entertainment weekly, they ask him about the growing wackiness,
> >Maude's death, and the internet fans. It is interesting, I recommend
> >reading it.
> >
There's nothing on http://www.theonion.com about it. Can you summarize
the interview for us? What did he say about the growing wackiness,
Maude's death and the internet fans?
>
> I guess Mike Scully is doing a new sitcom starring comedian Robert
> Schimmel. Robert is hilarious but they say he needs to tone down his
> act for TV...but then again maybe not FOX.
No, Schimmel is absolutely filthy. And extremely funny. But since most
of his best comedy bits are about sex I don't see how he'll survive on
network TV. He was made for cable.
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years
> ago, we interviewed [producer] Josh Weinstein, and he was talking
about the
> shows he'd worked on, like Sunday Best.
>
> MS: I can top those. I did a show called What A Country, with Yakov
Smirnoff
> and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act. I did
a show
> called Out Of This World, which actually ran for four years. We did
almost
> 100 episodes about a girl whose father lived on another planet, and
she was
> half-alien.
"Would you like to swing on a star,
carry moonbeams home in a jar,
and be better off than you are,
or would you rather be on Earth?"
Scary that I remember this show.
grosse
> Do they have it on the web version? I looked at
> http://www.theavclub.com, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
By Stephen Thompson
For 11 seasons and 250+ episodes, The Simpsons has been synonymous with
television's sharpest and funniest satire, a body of work with some of the
best moments in the history of the medium. In recent years, the show has
grown increasingly unpredictable, periodically lapsing into outright
absurdity rather than running the risk of recycling old storylines, but it
remains a treasure thanks to some of the best writers and voice actors in
the business. Appearing in Aspen for the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival--where he
appeared with Matt Groening as a host of "The Simpsons Live," the first-ever
public readings of the show by virtually the entire cast--executive producer
Mike Scully spoke to The Onion about the show and its place in his career.
Mike Scully
The Onion: How did you get involved with The Simpsons? You've been with the
show since 1993, right?
Mike Scully: Right. I joined after Season 4. David Mirkin was running the
show at the time, and he was kind enough to hire me. At the time, I thought
I was just getting in under the wire, because I figured the show would last
five, six years--you know, "At least I'll get a couple years in before it's
over." Now, here we are, getting ready for Season 12.
O: Did you ever think it would last this long?
MS: Nobody did. Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but
usually it's a couple years of staying past your welcome. So, no, we never
anticipated this. Right now, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. There
does for me, but not for the show.
O: There do seem to be a lot of people coming and going. How have you stayed
on board as long as you have? It seems like a great jumping-off point.
MS: I did a lot of really crappy sitcoms before I got to The Simpsons. I had
some pretty long stretches of unemployment, a lot of highs and lows, so when
I got there, I really appreciated it. Still, to this day, I savor every
moment: to be on a show that I'd watch anyway, and to actually be proud of a
show instead of lying to your friends when they ask you what show you work
on. There were times when I'd rather say I was unemployed than say what show
I was on. It's a writer's paradise. You have no interference from the studio
or the network, so you really get to do what you want. I know that once I
leave the show, it's not going to be that way. So I'm very happy kind of
milking it to the end. As far as turnover in the staff goes, there are
several key people who have remained with the show: There's [executive
producer] George Meyer. There's John Swartzwelder, who's written almost 50
episodes now. [Executive producer] Al Jean came back, which has been a huge
help. David Mirkin consults on the show, so that gives it continuity. And
people like [executive producer] Ian Maxtone-Graham and [story editor] Ron
Hauge have been there a number of years. They make a huge contribution, and
that keeps the continuity going and allows us to make other changes when
people leave.
"It's a writer's paradise. You have no interference from the studio or the
network, so you really get to do what you want. I know that once I leave the
show, it's not going to be that way."
O: It's weird: The Simpsons is on a major network, yet it still has this
unspoiled quality about it. How have you been able to maintain the integrity
of the show?
MS: Spoiled in what way?
O: Where the network comes in and says you need to bring in...
MS: Oh, bring in a puppy from outer space. [Laughs.] Yeah. Well, it goes
right back to the beginning of the series. When Jim Brooks set it up at Fox,
those were his terms: They couldn't come in and make suggestions. And that's
not to say that their suggestions would have all been bad, but he wanted to
do the show the way he wanted to do it. If he was going to go to the trouble
of launching a prime-time animated show--at the time, Jim was very busy with
movies--he really wanted to make it worth his while. And it paid off. To
this day, every time we start doing a story that I know is really crazy,
like if Bart and Homer think they have leprosy, and you know the network
would say no, it really opens up a lot of areas for you. It's great to have
that complete freedom.
O: You mentioned getting a little bit more outlandish, with leprosy and so
on. The show definitely has gotten a little bit more...
MS: Insane. Yeah. Part of that comes out of the fact that we've been doing
the show for so long--we've done so many stories--that, now, when we sit
down and try to think of new stories, we're constantly thinking of things
we've already done. It's so hard to come up with something a fraction
different. Then you stumble upon an area like leprosy, which everyone knows
is comedy gold. I remember when it was pitched in the room--as a joke, not
as a real pitch--and we all laughed. Then, about an hour later, after
pitching other possibilities for the third act, I remember sitting there
going, "Leprosy, eh?" So we decided to give it a shot.
O: You mentioned working on crappy sitcoms. I remember probably four years
ago, we interviewed [producer] Josh Weinstein, and he was talking about the
shows he'd worked on, like Sunday Best.
MS: I can top those. I did a show called What A Country, with Yakov Smirnoff
and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act. I did a show
called Out Of This World, which actually ran for four years. We did almost
100 episodes about a girl whose father lived on another planet, and she was
half-alien. From there I went to a show called Top Of The Heap with Joe
Bologna and Matt LeBlanc. Six episodes, but it felt like 100. The Royal
Family. It was the show Redd Foxx was doing when he passed away. I came in
right after he died.
O: You were involved in the post-Redd Foxx episodes?
MS: Yeah, so I didn't even have a good story. I mean, you do a lot of those
kinds of shows. I did hidden-camera shows. I've been around the block a few
times. Like I said, I really savor The Simpsons, and any time somebody young
comes into the show, if I sense that they're kind of antsy, that they think
this is just a stepping stone and they want to move on, I usually try and
tell 'em, "Hey, it's awful cold out there. You should really appreciate
this, because you'll never have it as good as this again. Never. You might
make more money, but you'll never have this kind of creative freedom again."
O: It's amazing that, because people work on these bad shows, you don't
always know who's got talent and who doesn't.
MS: Well, you've got to pay the bills and you want to get your foot in. The
great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested,
so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows. And you can
learn a ton of things on a lousy show: You can learn how not to do things,
and you still gain a lot of experience in terms of how to structure a story,
work with actors, and edit a show. You can still learn all that stuff; you
just hope that... The worst thing you can do is get sucked in, where you
take the job thinking, "Oh, this thing is a piece of crap, but it's gonna
pay the bills." But then, at some point, you kind of get sucked in and go,
"Hey, this is pretty good." You lose your perspective. You have to always be
aware when you're writing crap. I think as long as you have that, there's no
shame in doing it. At any given time, you might have five or six really
decent sitcoms on the air, and maybe there are 10 writers per show. That's
maybe 60 or 70 jobs, and you've got 5,000 people trying to get them.
O: If all you've done is crap, how do they know you're good?
MS: You hope they don't look at your résumé, first of all, and that they
just look at your material. Because I couldn't use any scripts from the
shows I'd worked on, I always had samples of other shows; I had a Seinfeld
and a Larry Sanders. The hardest part is to get them to open it, to ignore
your résumé and open the script anyway and take a look. There are a lot of
good writers who get stuck on bad shows, and there are a lot of bad writers
who end up having good careers because their first job was on a really good
show. Even if they get fired, it's on the résumé. You were on Seinfeld and
you just ride that to the next one.
O: One of my favorite episodes of The Simpsons, and this would have been
during your tenure, was the "Poochie" episode. [In it, Homer gets a job as
the voice of "Poochie The Rockin' Dog," a new character on the cartoon Itchy
& Scratchy. --ed.] There's that incredible scene where the comic-book guy
refers to the "worst episode ever," and Bart says, "They've given you
thousands of hours of entertainment for free; what could they possibly owe
you?" Watching that, it was like 100 voices behind The Simpsons shouting the
line in unison.
MS: We do that once in awhile. Usually, it's just a shot at the Internet
group, who I've never understood. There are some really passionate fans, and
you always appreciate that because that's what keeps the show going, but I
don't understand the ones who keep watching year after year, only to say
every episode stinks and that the show should be canceled and that I should
be fired. It's like, "Why are you still watching? You've hated it for five
years. I'd give up if I were you, if it's that much of a chore." So, yeah,
we do it. We nudge them once in a while. All done with love, though.
O: It seems like the comic-book guy is there to serve as a little voodoo
doll representing those people.
MS: We actually just used him a week ago, in the episode where Homer and
Bart got the racehorse. When we were breaking the story, we realized we were
in dangerous territory, getting close to the episode with Lisa's pony from
years ago, and we wanted to acknowledge that. So, when it looked like the
Simpsons were going to take the horse home, we had the comic-book guy stand
up and point out how it had happened once before, and Homer just says, "Does
anybody care what this guy says?" Everybody says no, and then we're off and
running with the episode. We used it later in the same episode: At the
racetrack, Marge has a fistful of tickets that she's bet and Lisa says, "I'm
worried that you're getting a gambling problem." And the comic-book guy pops
in again with, "I'm watching you." [Laughs.]
O: How many episodes have you done now?
MS: About 250. Number 250 hasn't aired yet, but we've done 252, I think.
O: Is there ever a point where you see an end to it?
MS: I used to predict, and I was wrong so many times that I just stop now. I
never anticipated seasons 11 or 12. There's talk about going on past 12,
depending on the ratings and if we can keep the quality up.
O: And salaries.
MS: Well, that's another issue. Yeah, so I don't know. My thing is, I always
hope we know when to get out before America is screaming at us to get out.
Once they turn on you, they turn hard. I saw them do it with Seinfeld. That
last season, there was so much Seinfeld-bashing going on: "He's lost his
touch, get off the air, pull the plug." And then Jerry finally says, "We're
gonna take the show off. This'll be it." And all of a sudden, everyone's
like, "No!" [Laughs.] What do you want?
"My thing is, I always hope we know when to get out before America is
screaming at us to get out. Once they turn on you, they turn hard."
O: Every once in a while, shows do sweeps-month gimmick episodes. You just
did a someone-will-die episode.
MS: Oh, yeah, it was probably the worst-kept secret in show biz. Too many
people had access to it. The intention was never to keep it a big secret.
Actually, Al Jean had suggested a promotional campaign saying, "Next Sunday
night, someone will die on The Simpsons. Will it be Homer? Bart? Or Maude
Flanders?" [Laughs.] "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" was a lot easier to keep a
secret, because it was revealed in the very last scene of the show. With
this one, she dies in the first act, so the whole show revolved around it.
O: When did Dr. Marvin Monroe die?
MS: I remember that very well. I was in the room, and we just needed a name
for a hospital. Somebody pitched "Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital," and we
laughed and put it in the show. Then, later, somebody said, "Well, this
means he'll have to be dead from now on." We just kind of shrugged and said,
"Okay." We didn't see a lot in his future anyway. But it kind of happened in
reverse. We had the joke of the hospital first, then decided he would have
to die because of that.
O: I figured it was Harry Shearer [who played Marvin Monroe] throwing his
weight around and saying, "I don't want to do this one anymore." I remember
reading that it was hard on his voice.
MS: No, no. They never do that. They never complain. And we throw a lot of
stuff at them, not knowing if they can do it or not. Last year, we did our
Super Bowl show, and we needed somebody to do a Vincent Price impression. We
didn't know if anyone could do it, but we just wrote it in and put Dan
[Castellaneta]'s name next to it and said, "Okay, Dan will do it." Not only
did he do it, but it was an amazing impression. It was so funny, we actually
wrote more lines after we heard him do it.
O: You guys do the read-through and then tweak the scripts?
MS: Yeah. They're rewritten throughout--after the read-through and then,
once we get the first animation in, we rewrite again. Later, once it comes
back in color, we rewrite some more.
O: You do rewrites after it comes back in color?
MS: Yeah. It's much more limited at that time, for financial and time
reasons, but we also change some jokes. If we can match the mouth movement
that's already there, we can get rid of one joke and put a new one in.
That's how we sometimes get lucky and can stick in a topical joke. People
are always wondering how you get topical when you're done nine months in
advance. We just get lucky.
Chris Palm
usually it's a couple years of staying past your welcome. So, no, we never
anticipated this. Right now, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. There
does for me, but not for the show. >>
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Huzzah!
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Chris Palm
shows I'd worked on, I always had samples of other shows; I had a Seinfeld
and a Larry Sanders. >>
That confused me a tad bit, but is he saying that he wrote an episode of
Seinfeld? Anyone know which one?
grosse
money than you do.
Chris Palm <homerp...@aol.compact> wrote in message
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> << Because I couldn't use any scripts from the
> shows I'd worked on, I always had samples of other shows; I had a Seinfeld
> and a Larry Sanders. >>
>
Dean Humphries
Ah, Mr. Grosse, something useful from you.
>Then you stumble upon an area like leprosy, which everyone knows
>is comedy gold.
Gold.
Pure comedic gold.
>I did a show called What A Country, with Yakov Smirnoff
>and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act. I did a show
>called Out Of This World, which actually ran for four years.
Why doesn't that suprise me?
>MS: We do that once in awhile. Usually, it's just a shot at the Internet
>group, who I've never understood. There are some really passionate fans, and
>you always appreciate that because that's what keeps the show going, but I
>don't understand the ones who
>keep watching year after year, only to say
>every episode stinks and that the show should be canceled and that I should
>be fired. It's like, "Why are you still watching? You've hated it for five
>years. I'd give up if I were you, if it's that much of a chore."
>We nudge them once in a while. All done with love, though.
Now look what Scully has done!
Matt Rose won't be able to sleep for months!
........and he was just calming down.
Bastards!
___________________________________________________________________
The fight was over.
And so the ranch was saved.
The young intern sat by himself in one corner of the coffee shop.
Matt Rose
>
>Now look what Scully has done!
>
>Matt Rose won't be able to sleep for months!
heh heh...I resemble that remark.
I have a really hard time believing it's "done with love" though. And for what
it's worth, I have stopped viewing on a regular basis.
Surly09
called Out Of This World, which actually ran for four years. We did almost
100 episodes about a girl whose father lived on another planet, and she was
half-alien.
- a horribly bad cheesy sitcom. amazing scully made the jump from that to the
simpsons.
mgr_babe
<cgi...@byu.education> wrote:>> MS: I can top those. I did a
show called What A Country, with Yakov
>Smirnoff
>> and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up
act. I did
>a show
>> called Out Of This World, which actually ran for four years.
We did
>almost
>> 100 episodes about a girl whose father lived on another
planet, and
>she was
>> half-alien.
>
Yeah, I watched it. The only other thing on in my area were
Sunday church shows and Meed the Press.
Jake
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>
> > I did a show called Out Of This World, which actually
> >ran for four years. We did almost 100 episodes about
> >a girl whose father lived on another planet, and she was
> >half-alien.
> >
> >simpsons.
>
because you are immune to suprise.
boo!
see...nothing. this is only bad during hiccups.
the professor
Bartroff
>
> > I did a show called Out Of This World, which actually
> >ran for four years. We did almost 100 episodes about
> >a girl whose father lived on another planet, and she was
> >half-alien.
> >
> >- a horribly bad cheesy sitcom. amazing scully made the jump from that to the
> >simpsons.
>
> Why does this not surprise me.
Now lets go back and read all 600 of those articles where MG swore on his nuts
that the "keys to OFF's success" included 'never, ever hiring sitcom writers.'
Showbiz phony, he is, says I.
(Not to forget all the other writers who are from shitwipe sitcoms, too)
Matt Rose
Dave Hall
>
> Now lets go back and read all 600 of those articles where MG
> swore on his nuts that the "keys to OFF's success" included
> 'never, ever hiring sitcom writers.'
Assuming you're referring to the (Canadian) TV Guide article
from a few years: it was Bill Oakley and not Matt Groening that
stated this. The article excerpt in question:
4 DON"T HIRE SITCOM WRITERS
"We don't like to hire people who have worked on
sitcoms," says Oakley. "we like to get them from
weirder areas - variety shows like LETTERMAN or CONAN
O'BRIEN that tend to do a lot more experimental stuff.
We want people who are not ruined by the standard sitcom
form."
FYI Matt doesn't actually have anything to do with the hiring/
firing of the staff writers -- that job is usually left up to
the current exec. producer.
FYI Mike Scully was hired by David Mirkin, but not before first
meeting with Richard Sakai, the President of Gracie Films.
An additional note: Mike Scully got his start as a stand-up
comic, and writing for other comics like Yakov Smirnoff all the
while trying to get his spec scripts read. Scully also did
audience warm-ups for various TV shows. Later, he made the jump
to sitcom writing and somewhere along the way one of his spec
scripts made its way to Gracie Films, and the rest we pretty
much know.
On a off note, it's been remarked more then once by past posters
on this newsgroup, that Troy McClure bares a striking
resemblance (both physically and professionally) to the late
actor Doug McClure, who played the character Mayor Kyle
Applegate on "Out of This World".
--
"Hello, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such Fox network
specials as "Alien Nose Job" and "Five Fabulous Weeks of `The Chevy
Chase Show'."
-- Troy McClure
Curtis Gibby
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> On a off note, it's been remarked more then once by past posters
> on this newsgroup, that Troy McClure bares a striking
> resemblance (both physically and professionally) to the late
> actor Doug McClure, who played the character Mayor Kyle
> Applegate on "Out of This World".
I'd been trying to remember who that was! Thanks Dave!
simp...@my-deja.com
"Curtis Gibby" <cgi...@byu.education> wrote:
> "Dave Hall" <dave...@escape.ca> wrote in message
> news:sbcv1b9...@corp.supernews.com...
> > On a off note, it's been remarked more then once by past posters
> > on this newsgroup, that Troy McClure bares a striking
> > resemblance (both physically and professionally) to the late
> > actor Doug McClure, who played the character Mayor Kyle
> > Applegate on "Out of This World".
>
> I'd been trying to remember who that was! Thanks Dave!
> --
I thought part of Troy's character came from a guy named Jack Scallia
(sp?). Jack was on various infomercials and actually said "Hi, I'm
Jack Scallia--star of such films as. . ."
Jake
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Before you buy.
Dave Hall
>"Curtis Gibby" <cgi...@byu.education> wrote:
>>"Dave Hall" <dave...@escape.ca> wrote in message
>> > posters on this newsgroup, that Troy McClure bares a striking
>> > resemblance (both physically and professionally) to the late
>> > actor Doug McClure, who played the character Mayor Kyle
>> > Applegate on "Out of This World".
>>
>> I'd been trying to remember who that was! Thanks Dave!
>
> Scallia (sp?). Jack was on various infomercials and actually
> said "Hi, I'm Jack Scallia--star of such films as. . ."
I never heard of him. Troy Donahue and Doug McClure is mostly
the only names that ever come up on alt.tv.simpsons when people
think of Troy McClure.
--
"Yes, the Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made
humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling
debts."
-- Troy McClure
Dean Humphries
>>> > posters on this newsgroup, that Troy McClure bares a striking
>>> > resemblance (both physically and professionally) to the late
>>> > actor Doug McClure, who played the character Mayor Kyle
>>> > Applegate on "Out of This World".
>>>
>>> I'd been trying to remember who that was! Thanks Dave!
>>
>> I thought part of Troy's character came from a guy named Jack
>> Scallia (sp?). Jack was on various infomercials and actually
>> said "Hi, I'm Jack Scallia--star of such films as. . ."
>
>I never heard of him. Troy Donahue and Doug McClure is mostly
>the only names that ever come up on alt.tv.simpsons when people
>think of Troy McClure.
Obviously, the idea is to lampoon the semi-stars that the infomercial people
can afford on their limited budget, not often do you see a Tom Hanks do an
infomercial.
In fact, when Cher did a favor for a longtime friend and appeared in one that
promoted a product she came up with, many people (including Cher herself) felt
that it lead to tarnishing the gleam on her star appeal and her bookings and
offers decreased, so for many once-popular actors the infomercial usually means
that things are not going very well for them (career-wise).
There is no semi-star as almost-famous as Doug McClure, who made a career of
being cast in the lead role in pictures that were carbon-copy low-budget
versions of movies that previously were hits.
A perfect example of this is At the Earth's Core, which is a thinly disguised
version of Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Below (copied from the IMDB) is my list of semi-stunning roles that semi-star
McClure has been in (and, no, Christmas Ape isn't one of them):
Battling for Baby
Dark Before Dawn
Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles
Omega Syndrome
Cannonball Run II
The House Where Evil Dwell
Firebird 2015 A.D.
Humanoids from the Deep
Warlords of Atlantis
Wild and Wooly
Strange Companions
SST: Death Flight
The People That Time Forgot
At the Earth's Core
Satan's Triangle
The Land That Time Forgot
The Bananas Boat
Death Race
The Hellhounds of Alaska
The Judge and Jake Wyler
The Escape of the Birdmen
Terror in the Sky
Backtrack!
The King's Pirate
The Lively Set
The Devil's Children
Because They're Young
Al Denton
>called Out Of This World, which actually ran for four years. We did almost
>100 episodes about a girl whose father lived on another planet, and she was
>half-alien.
>
Wait. Refresh my memory. . .was that the show with the girl named Evee that
could freeze time by connecting her two index fingers??
Peace out,
Al
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"Dean Humphries" <dean...@aol.comrade> wrote in message
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> Below (copied from the IMDB) is my list of semi-stunning roles that
semi-star
> McClure has been in (and, no, Christmas Ape isn't one of them):
Most of these are WORSE than Christmas Ape...
>
> Dark Before Dawn
Dark BEFORE Dawn? That's a stretch... are we supposed to believe it is DARK
in this movie before the sun comes up?
>
> Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles
What?
> The House Where Evil Dwell
It's "Dwells", Dean... the title is dumb enough without YOUR error.
>
> Firebird 2015 A.D.
This one needs the description from IMDB pasted for our enjoyment.
In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government
of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse
of limited natural resources - except, of course, for official purposes.
There are many renegades who oppose the authorities, and will stop at
nothing to allow themselves the freedom of burning around the countryside.
>
> Humanoids from the Deep
Ooooh, they're HUMANOIDS! And they're FROM THE DEEP!
>
> Warlords of Atlantis
Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and
Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship,
attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell destroyed,
a deep sea monster attacks the boat. They are all dragged to the bottom of
the sea where they meet the inhabitants of the lost continent, an advance
alien race makes slaves of the ship-wrecked sailors. The aliens want to rule
the human world to create a nazi state. Due to his high IQ, they think that
Charles may join them. Greg and the team will need the help of Delphine, the
daughter of a slave, to escape the city surrounded by evil creatures...
Even scarier:
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures Corporation [us]
Distributors
Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. [us]
The late seventies and early eighties really seems to be the golden age of
hack screenwriters pitching scripts to major studios AND getting them
approved.
> SST: Death Flight
This is the movie that they made that scared the general public so badly
that they had the FAA re-examine the safety level of the Concorde.
Oh wait, nevermind, no one watched it.
> The Hellhounds of Alaska
Ummm....
OK
Ochlocrat
I wanna see some of these movies
Dave Hall
>> I did a show called Out Of This World, which actually ran for
>> four years. We did almost 100 episodes about a girl whose
>> father lived on another planet, and she was half-alien.
>
>Wait. Refresh my memory. . .was that the show with the girl
>named Evee that could freeze time by connecting her two index
>fingers??
Yes. The plot summary that's on the IMDB is provided by John T.
Ernest, who writes:
The series revolves around Evie Garland, who is the daughter
of Troy and Donna Garland. Troy, however, is an alien from
the planet Anterias. As a benefit of her half-alien
parentage, Evie develops three powers as the series
progresses. She can pause and un-pause time, "gleep" objects
into existence, and can transport herself from one place to
another. Troy is living on Anterias and is never seen, but
Evie talks to him via a crystal cube. Evie is thirteen at
the beginning of the series and lives with her mot her in
Marlowe, California. Visitors to the Garland home include
Donna's brother Beano; the mayor Kyle Applegate, a former
actor; Lindsey, Evie's best friend; Chris, Evie's boyfriend;
and Buzz, who tends to take things literally. Episodes
usually revolve around Evie getting herself out of a
situation that she has caused.
--
Krusty: I'm no fake! I'm the real Krusty!
Lisa: Oh yeah!? Who played your daughter in the short-lived sitcom
`President Clown'?
Krusty: I don't know her name... but she held up a liquor store last year.
Ochlocrat
> papac...@aol.com (Al Denton) wrote:
> >> I did a show called Out Of This World, which actually ran for
> >> four years. We did almost 100 episodes about a girl whose
> >> father lived on another planet, and she was half-alien.
> >
> >Wait. Refresh my memory. . .was that the show with the girl
> >named Evee that could freeze time by connecting her two index
> >fingers??
>
> Yes. The plot summary that's on the IMDB is provided by John T.
> Ernest, who writes:
>
> The series revolves around Evie Garland, who is the daughter
> of Troy and Donna Garland. Troy, however, is an alien from
> the planet Anterias. As a benefit of her half-alien
> parentage, Evie develops three powers as the series
> progresses. She can pause and un-pause time, "gleep" objects
> into existence, and can transport herself from one place to
> another. Troy is living on Anterias and is never seen, but
> Evie talks to him via a crystal cube. Evie is thirteen at
> the beginning of the series and lives with her mot her in
> Marlowe, California. Visitors to the Garland home include
> Donna's brother Beano; the mayor Kyle Applegate, a former
> actor; Lindsey, Evie's best friend; Chris, Evie's boyfriend;
> and Buzz, who tends to take things literally. Episodes
> usually revolve around Evie getting herself out of a
> situation that she has caused.
Was Evie cute? I remember watching this show, but I don't remember whether
Evie was cute or not.
Ochlocrat
I do remember the theme song, too, heard it before the original
Curtis Gibby
> >Was Evie cute? I remember watching this show, but I don't remember
whether
> >Evie was cute or not.
>
>
>
What are you talking about? I seem to recall that she was in her teens.
I always thought she was pretty good-looking, too.
Dean Humphries
>Evie was cute or not.
Evie was all of eight years old.
___________________________________________________________________
The young intern sat by himself in one corner of the coffee shop.
He had learned about medicine,
but more importantly,
he had learned something about life.
langdo...@hotmail.com
wrote:
>>Was Evie cute? I remember watching this show, but I don't remember whether
>>Evie was cute or not.
>
>
>
>Evie was all of eight years old.
>
>
answer the damn question!
Dean Humphries
>whether
>> >Evie was cute or not.
>> Evie was all of eight years old.
>
>What are you talking about? I seem to recall that she was in her teens.
>I always thought she was pretty good-looking, too.
Are you sure you weren't confused with Charles in Charge, which ran back to
back in many markets?
Dean Humphries
>>whether
>>> >Evie was cute or not.
>
>>> Evie was all of eight years old.
>>
>>What are you talking about? I seem to recall that she was in her teens.
>>I always thought she was pretty good-looking, too.
>
>
>Are you sure you weren't confused with Charles in Charge, which ran back to
>back in many markets?
I looked it up, she was thirteen.
Still extremely young by me.
Chris Palm
>>> Evie was all of eight years old.
>>
>>What are you talking about? I seem to recall that she was in her teens.
>>I always thought she was pretty good-looking, too.
>
>
>Are you sure you weren't confused with Charles in Charge, which ran back to
>back in many markets?
Uh, Dean? The first episode of "Out of This World" was titled "Evie's
Thirteenth Birthday."
The last episode was titled "Evie's Eighteen."
She was definitely in her teens.
Ben Mann
>
> "Dean Humphries" <dean...@aol.comrade> wrote in message
> news:20000226220716...@ng-fb1.aol.com...
> whether
> > >Evie was cute or not.
> >
> >
> >
>
> What are you talking about? I seem to recall that she was in her teens.
> I always thought she was pretty good-looking, too.
Watch it, Mor-man!
Ben Mann / buck...@concentric.net
Internet King
Curtis Gibby wrote:
> "Dean Humphries" <dean...@aol.comrade> wrote in message
> news:20000226220716...@ng-fb1.aol.com...
> > >Was Evie cute? I remember watching this show, but I don't remember
> whether
> > >Evie was cute or not.
> >
> >
> >
> > Evie was all of eight years old.
>
> What are you talking about? I seem to recall that she was in her teens.
> I always thought she was pretty good-looking, too.
She was cute. She was also in some movie with the box office death duo of
Corey and Corey. They had to save her grandfather's island resort from some
bad guy. Awful move (duh) but you get to see her in a bikini. BTW-I really
am this pathetic.
Sincerely,
Little Girl
Chris Palm
Corey and Corey. They had to save her grandfather's island resort from some
bad guy. Awful move (duh) but you get to see her in a bikini. BTW-I really
am this pathetic. >>
National Lampoon's Last Resort:
http://home.snafu.de/keks/thumbs/nllr.html
In fact, there's a whole page with pictures of her here:
And, these are pretty crappy quality, and I'm not sure if they're fake or
not...but here's some (possible) nude ones, for all the Ochlocrats out there:
http://www.findaceleb.com/girlshtml/MaureenFlannigan.shtml
Okay...I officially have no life, either.
Chris Palm
Corey and Corey. They had to save her grandfather's island resort from some
bad guy. Awful move (duh) but you get to see her in a bikini. BTW-I really
am this pathetic. >>
National Lampoon's Last Resort:
http://home.snafu.de/keks/thumbs/nllr.html
In fact, there's a whole page with pictures of her here:
And, these are pretty crappy quality, and I'm not sure if they're fake or
not...but here's some (possible) nude ones, for all the Ochlocrats out there:
http://www.findaceleb.com/girlshtml/MaureenFlannigan.shtml
-=Krispy
Internet King
Nice rack though.
Sincerely,
Little Girl
Dean Humphries
>Corey and Corey. They had to save her grandfather's island resort from some
>bad guy. Awful move (duh) but you get to see her in a bikini. BTW-I really
>am this pathetic. >>
>
>National Lampoon's Last Resort:
>
>http://home.snafu.de/keks/thumbs/nllr.html
>
>In fact, there's a whole page with pictures of her here:
>
>http://home.snafu.de/keks/
Well, this was very enlightening, I was the wrong person here, I had the show
confused with Small Wonder, the actress in that one was very young:
Father Ted Lawson creates robot, Vickie. The family, Ted, Joan, and Jamie, keep
the information that Vickie is a robot secret, and pretend that she is their
daughter. Harriet, their nosy and annoying neighbor, has a crush on Jamie and
plans to marry him. Her dad, Brandon Brendall, is Ted's boss because Brandon
stole Ted's ideas and said he invented them. Tiffany Brisset stars as Vickie
"The Robot" Lawson.
>And, these are pretty crappy quality, and I'm not sure if they're fake or
>not...but here's some (possible) nude ones, for all the Ochlocrats out there:
>
>http://www.findaceleb.com/girlshtml/MaureenFlannigan.shtml
What a rack!
They're Out of This World!
>Okay...I officially have no life, either.
..and you broke the law.
You're not 18 yet, are you Krispy?
BTW-thanks for the cheap thrills.
Chris Palm
..and you broke the law.
You're not 18 yet, are you Krispy? >>
Snuhtever do you mean?
Sir Lynn
dean...@aol.comrade (Dean Humphries) wrote:
> There is no semi-star as almost-famous as Doug McClure, who made a
career of
> being cast in the lead role in pictures that were carbon-copy
low-budget
> versions of movies that previously were hits.
> A perfect example of this is At the Earth's Core, which is a thinly
disguised
> version of Journey to the Center of the Earth.
>
> Below (copied from the IMDB) is my list of semi-stunning roles that
semi-star
> McClure has been in (and, no, Christmas Ape isn't one of them):
>
*** snipped titles of many low b grade movies listedCannonball Run II
>
> The House Where Evil Dwell
>
Left this one in because it contains that great and memorable line
"There's a mean face in my soup!". God, how did I ever sit through the
whole movie?
Sir Lynn
Jimmy Jay
>"There's a mean face in my soup!". God, how did I ever sit through the
>whole movie?
Butter.....LOTS of butter.
I can't think of anything clever enough to put in this signiture. i am
pathetic.