"V" related oldie
Rich Brown
may be horrible.
I'm pre-minded of a 1997 song with V in the lyrics:
http://freemars.org/lavender/Songs/google.html
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There's an apt-get for that.
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Michael Liebmann
"Rich Brown" <rab...@freemars.org> wrote in message
news:FL6dnbjwCOT8TG3X...@posted.visi...
And of course, some of us can't forget Paul Willetts' "Little Nazi Lizards."
I won't watch it. I had enough of it years ago (and what's worse, it's been
shown these past few days on SyFy).
Michael
John Davis
> The new "V" is on in my area starting in 5 minutes... it may be good, it
> may be horrible.
>
> I'm pre-minded of a 1997 song with V in the lyrics:
> http://freemars.org/lavender/Songs/google.html
>
and both were busy.... Elsewhere.. So could not watch it.
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Rob Wynne
The most interesting thing about the relaunch of "V", to my mind, is that
it's clearly an artifact of the "Hey, we took an old cheesy show
(Battlestar Galactica), made it dark and gritty, and it was a smash it.
Let's do it again!"
Which of course, leads one (well, me at least), to play the game: What
cheesy old show will they *next* make a dark, gritty remake of.
My top five so far, in no particular order:
1. Manimal
2. Automan
3. Alien Nation
4. The Greatest American Hero
5. Voyagers!
(Most of the fun of this game is just imagining how wildly awful the "dark
and gritty" versions of these shows would be *grin*)
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Kay Shapero
> Which of course, leads one (well, me at least), to play the game: What
> cheesy old show will they *next* make a dark, gritty remake of.
>
> My top five so far, in no particular order:
>
> 1. Manimal
> 2. Automan
> 3. Alien Nation
> 4. The Greatest American Hero
> 5. Voyagers!
>
> (Most of the fun of this game is just imagining how wildly awful the "dark
> and gritty" versions of these shows would be *grin*)
>
>
Well, Manimal would probably just look like a Wolverine ripoff.
Never heard of Automan but from the Internet Movie data base listing,
the basic premise would make it hard to distinguish from remakes of any
of a number of other shows.
Alien Nation was actually a pretty good show as is; I'd say a dark
version would look like District 9 (leastwise if the movie matched the
advertising - I didn't see it).
The "cheese" made up most of the fun with Greatest American Hero - just
wouldn't be the same without weird and silly new powers popping up from
time to time or Our Heroes arguing noisily when sneaking up on things
or... It'd just be one more superhero show.
And I never saw Voyagers but from the sound of it (IMdb again) you might
have trouble telling the result from a Time Tunnel remake. Or, heaven
help us, Dr. Who.
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Lee Gold
My top four, desperately crying out to be dark and gritty
1. Gillilgan's Island
2. My Favorite Martian
3. I Dream of Jeannie
4. The Flintstones
--Lee Gold
Kay Shapero
says...
> > (Most of the fun of this game is just imagining how wildly awful the "dark
> > and gritty" versions of these shows would be *grin*)
>
> My top four, desperately crying out to be dark and gritty
>
> 1. Gillilgan's Island
> 2. My Favorite Martian
> 3. I Dream of Jeannie
> 4. The Flintstones
>
> --Lee Gold
>
Mr. Ed
Mark Horning
Land of the Lost. Dark Gritty Emo Sleestacks, I can see it now.
*shudders*
Mike Van Pelt
Lee Gold <lee....@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>Rob Wynne wrote:
>> Which of course, leads one (well, me at least), to play the game: What
>> cheesy old show will they *next* make a dark, gritty remake of.
>
>
>1. Gillilgan's Island
"Lost"?
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Lee Gold
> In article <hcsvi5$873$1...@news.eternal-september.org>, lee....@ca.rr.com
> says...
>
>>> (Most of the fun of this game is just imagining how wildly awful the "dark
>>> and gritty" versions of these shows would be *grin*)
>> My top four, desperately crying out to be dark and gritty
>>
>> 1. Gillilgan's Island
>> 2. My Favorite Martian
>> 3. I Dream of Jeannie
>> 4. The Flintstones
>>
>> --Lee Gold
>>
> Mr. Ed
"Mr. Ed" by Joss Whedon.
How Ed took out Bad Horse and became head of the Villain Group
briefly seen in Dr. Horrible's sing-a-long.
Lassie gets retrained into an attack dog in the first episode.
--Lee
Rob Wynne
Oh, don't let that Lassie fool you. She was *always* a villain. Do you
REALLY think an active 10 year old boy living out in the country coudl be
so clumsy as to fall down THAT many wells? He was pushed, I tell you.
Little shoulder but right behind the knees and down he'd go.
And who got all the glory for "rescuing" him? Good ol' Lassie.
Got you all snookered, she did.
Kip Williams
> My top four, desperately crying out to be dark and gritty
>
> 1. Gillilgan's Island
> 2. My Favorite Martian
> 3. I Dream of Jeannie
> 4. The Flintstones
My Mother the Car
Bewitched
My Living Doll
The Smothers Brothers Show
Too many more come to mind. Must stop now.
Kip W
D.J.
<k...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>My Living Doll
Wouldn't that be the movie 'Cherry 2000' ? A guy hires a woman
tracker/ranger who helps him find repair parts for his robot love
doll. Thev tracker is played by Melanie Griffith.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/
It shows on cable tv now and then.
JimP.
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Daniel R. Reitman
<k...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
OK, time to dig out my "TV Programmer's Alphabet."
Dan, ad nauseam
Kip Williams
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:41:46 -0500, Kip Williams
> <k...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>> My Living Doll
>
> Wouldn't that be the movie 'Cherry 2000' ? A guy hires a woman
> tracker/ranger who helps him find repair parts for his robot love
> doll. Thev tracker is played by Melanie Griffith.
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/
>
> It shows on cable tv now and then.
I had no idea. I'll try and be alert next time it shows up in the
listings. It did seem to me like the possibility for a dark
interpretation was certainly inherent in the concept.
Kip W
Rich Brown
The Smothers Brothers are still touring. I worked at a show they were in
a couple weeks ago. Tom can still play 90 mph.
(I share your horror at a dark My Mother the Car remake.)
Rich Brown
>
> Got you all snookered, she did.
Won't you go, Lassie, go
And have Mom bring a ladder
For I'm trapped in this mine
I'm afraid that snake's an adder
Won't you go, Lassie, go
D.J.
IFC, Independant Film Chanel, showed it this past weekend.
Kip Williams
>> The Smothers Brothers Show
Just to clarify, I mean the half-hour sitcom where Tommy was an angel.
> The Smothers Brothers are still touring. I worked at a show they were in
> a couple weeks ago. Tom can still play 90 mph.
I really enjoyed their 80s show. I wish I hadn't missed taping the
climax of Pat Paulsen's presidential campaign, where he gave his "You
won't have Patrick Leyden Paulsen to kick around any more" speech. It
was as funny as, if not funnier than, any of his appearances in the
earlier variety show.
Mind you, there wasn't anything quite as biting or funny as the original
Smothers Comedy Brothers Show's "Honey House" sketch, where Dick led a
tour group through "the actual Honey House... where Honey lived, and
Honey played, and Honey grew up" while performing the song better than
Bobby Goldsborough (who was reportedly amused by the sketch, and who
hadn't particularly wanted to record the song in the first place).
> (I share your horror at a dark My Mother the Car remake.)
It'll probably happen some day, with whoever takes over the Jim Carrey /
Will Smith 'remake everything' niche.
Kip W
Kay Shapero
says...
Dan Goodman
> Rob Wynne wrote:
> >Michael Liebmann <sff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>"Rich Brown" <rab...@freemars.org> wrote in message
> news:FL6dnbjwCOT8TG3X...@posted.visi...
> > > > The new "V" is on in my area starting in 5 minutes... it may be
> > > > good, it may be horrible.
> > > >
> > > > I'm pre-minded of a 1997 song with V in the lyrics:
> > > > http://freemars.org/lavender/Songs/google.html
> > > >
> > > > -- There's an apt-get for that.
> > > > Rich Brown -- rab -- Song Assasin -- FreeMars.org
> > > And of course, some of us can't forget Paul Willetts' "Little
> > > Nazi Lizards."
> > >
> > > I won't watch it. I had enough of it years ago (and what's
> > > worse, it's been shown these past few days on SyFy).
> > >
> >
> > The most interesting thing about the relaunch of "V", to my mind,
> > is that it's clearly an artifact of the "Hey, we took an old cheesy
> > show (Battlestar Galactica), made it dark and gritty, and it was a
> > smash it. Let's do it again!"
> >
> > Which of course, leads one (well, me at least), to play the game:
> > What cheesy old show will they next make a dark, gritty remake of.
> >
> > My top five so far, in no particular order:
> >
> > 1. Manimal
> > 2. Automan
> > 3. Alien Nation
> > 4. The Greatest American Hero
> > 5. Voyagers!
> >
> > (Most of the fun of this game is just imagining how wildly awful
> > the "dark and gritty" versions of these shows would be grin)
>
> My top four, desperately crying out to be dark and gritty
>
> 1. Gillilgan's Island
Perhaps retitled "The Island of Dr. Gilligan"?
> 2. My Favorite Martian
> 3. I Dream of Jeannie
> 4. The Flintstones
>
> --Lee Gold
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Kip Williams
> Lee Gold wrote:
>> My top four, desperately crying out to be dark and gritty
>>
>> 1. Gillilgan's Island
>
> Perhaps retitled "The Island of Dr. Gilligan"?
Years ago, I had the idea of recasting it as "Where do seven sinful
castaways spend their eternal torment? Right here, in Gilligan's
Inferno!" In my sketch, each of them represented one of the Seven Deadly
Sins.
Roy Hinkley - Pride (in his inventions)
Thurston Howell III - Avarice
Mary Ann Summers - Envy (of Ginger)
Jonas Grumby - Gluttony (just look at him)
Ginger Grant - Lust
Lovey Howell - Sloth (expecting to be waited on)
Willy Gilligan - Rage (carefully hidden behind a mask of random idiocy)
Then, of course, they'd spend their eternity in little psychodramas in
which all parts would be played by members of the island cast (and not
even Vito Scotti to break the monotony). The Professor would be unable
to invent anything that works right. Howell would have to beg, Lovey
would have to work hard, Skipper would have to watch the others eat
lavish meals. Ginger's charms would go completely unnoticed (in some
ways, it wouldn't be all that different from the show). This wouldn't
all be going on at the same time -- each would be in their own world,
like the dream sequences on the show. The others would be in their own
hells, also populated (apparently) by the rest of them.
Gilligan would be treated like a harmless idiot and have to carry wood,
pedal contraptions, and so on. Just like the show, in fact. Only instead
of three seasons, it would last forever.
Kip W
D.J.
Hm... Sounds like an original Twilight Zone episode type scenario.
Daniel R. Reitman
wrote:
>Perhaps retitled "The Island of Dr. Gilligan"?
What happens when we get to "The Gilligan of Dr. Island"?
Dan, ad nauseam
Mike Van Pelt
Kip Williams <k...@rochester.rr.com, mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Mind you, there wasn't anything quite as biting or funny as the original
>Smothers Comedy Brothers Show's "Honey House" sketch, where Dick led a
>tour group through "the actual Honey House... where Honey lived, and
>Honey played, and Honey grew up" while performing the song better than
>Bobby Goldsborough (who was reportedly amused by the sketch, and who
>hadn't particularly wanted to record the song in the first place).
Dang. It's been over 30 years since I heard that song. I'd almost
managed to forget....
AIIIII!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! GET IT OUT GET IT
OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!!!!!!!
Daniel R. Reitman
wrote:
>In article <IZVIm.651$We2...@newsfe09.iad>,
>Kip Williams <k...@rochester.rr.com, mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dang. It's been over 30 years since I heard that song. I'd almost
>managed to forget....
>
>AIIIII!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! GET IT OUT GET IT
>OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!!!!!!!
Paging Tom Smith!
Dan, ad nauseam
Dan Goodman
Somebody builds a time machine.
Rich Brown
>> What happens when we get to "The Gilligan of Dr. Island"?
>>
>> Dan, ad nauseam
>
> Somebody builds a time machine.
Out of coconuts.
Kip Williams
> In article<IZVIm.651$We2...@newsfe09.iad>,
> Kip Williams<k...@rochester.rr.com, mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mind you, there wasn't anything quite as biting or funny as the original
>> Smothers Comedy Brothers Show's "Honey House" sketch, where Dick led a
>> tour group through "the actual Honey House... where Honey lived, and
>> Honey played, and Honey grew up" while performing the song better than
>> Bobby Goldsborough (who was reportedly amused by the sketch, and who
>> hadn't particularly wanted to record the song in the first place).
>
> Dang. It's been over 30 years since I heard that song. I'd almost
> managed to forget....
>
> AIIIII!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! GET IT OUT GET IT
> OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!!!!!!!
In order to atone for this earworm, here is a file of the Smothers
Brothers "Honey House" sketch in mp4 format. It's about a 35MB download,
but you may find it eminently worthwhile because of the superb quality
of snark (and Dick's perfect reading). Super Dave spotters will notice
Bob Einstein as one of the ensemble company playing a tourist at the
'Honey House' Museum.
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/774150078/b1eed958977928bad7f0f1023bb151b7
Time-sensitive. Links at YouSendIt go away after about seven days.
Kip W
Arthur T.
Kip Williams <k...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>Mike Van Pelt wrote:
>> In article<IZVIm.651$We2...@newsfe09.iad>,
>> Kip Williams<k...@rochester.rr.com, mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Mind you, there wasn't anything quite as biting or funny as the original
>>> Smothers Comedy Brothers Show's "Honey House" sketch
<snip>
>> Dang. It's been over 30 years since I heard that song. I'd almost
>> managed to forget....
>>
>> AIIIII!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! GET IT OUT GET IT
>> OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!!!!!!!
>
>In order to atone for this earworm, here is a file of the Smothers
>Brothers "Honey House" sketch in mp4 format.
And if that doesn't help, try reading through
http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/honey_glazed.htm
(Note: If you don't already know Tom's version, read the italicized
introduction AFTER reading through the song.)
--
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Mike Van Pelt
Arthur T. <art...@munged.invalid> wrote:
>In Message-ID:<fOMKm.30728$1g6....@newsfe10.iad>,
>Kip Williams <k...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>Mike Van Pelt wrote:
>>> In article<IZVIm.651$We2...@newsfe09.iad>,
>>> Kip Williams<k...@rochester.rr.com, mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Mind you, there wasn't anything quite as biting or funny as the original
>>>> Smothers Comedy Brothers Show's "Honey House" sketch
> <snip>
>>> Dang. It's been over 30 years since I heard that song. I'd almost
>>> managed to forget....
>>>
>>> AIIIII!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!!! GET IT OUT GET IT
>>> OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!!!!!!!
>>
>>In order to atone for this earworm, here is a file of the Smothers
>>Brothers "Honey House" sketch in mp4 format.
>
> And if that doesn't help, try reading through
>http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/honey_glazed.htm
>
>(Note: If you don't already know Tom's version, read the italicized
>introduction AFTER reading through the song.)
Heh. I had not heard Tom Smith's version.
The title was kind of a clue, of course...
Daniel R. Reitman
wrote:
>
>>> What happens when we get to "The Gilligan of Dr. Island"?
>>>
>>> Dan, ad nauseam
>>
>> Somebody builds a time machine.
>
>Out of coconuts.
Which explains how King Arthur finds them. Swallows, indeed.
Dan, ad nauseam
thnidu
> > And who got all the glory for "rescuing" him? Good ol' Lassie.
>
> > Got you all snookered, she did.
>
> Won't you go, Lassie, go
> And have Mom bring a ladder
> For I'm trapped in this mine
> I'm afraid that snake's an adder
> Won't you go, Lassie, go
Ow!
Which reminds me, finally, of why I logged onto this group this
evening. I'm about to post it.
Mark A. Mandel
The Filker With No Nickname
http://filk.cracksandshards.com
Rich Brown
Who, through accident or folly
Often found his troubles dire
Then he'd turn and tell his collie
>> Won't you go, Lassie, go
>> And have Mom bring a ladder
>> For I'm trapped in this mine
>> I'm afraid that snake's an adder
>> Won't you go, Lassie, go
>
> Ow!
So... anyone want to finish this?
Joe Kesselman
> Land of the Lost. Dark Gritty Emo Sleestacks, I can see it now.
Land of the Giants. (It actually already had some dark elements...)
Joe Kesselman
> My Mother the Car
Old principle for creating a new hit TV show: Take an old show and
reverse the plot. Green Acres becomes Beverly Hillbillies. My Mother The
Car becomes ... Knight Rider?
Lee Gold
Or maybe you junk an old car and the next you know, your widowed father
has remarried a woman who mysteriously appeared from out of nowhere and
you have...your car as a stepmother.
--Lee
Harold Groot
A Nit: The theory is fine, but some of the data is reversed.
The Beverly Hillbillies ('62) came 3 years before Green Acres ('65).
Kip Williams
In this case, that's a reversal of a radio show, "Granby's Green Acres."
(Footnoted, just because.)
Once, on Petticoat Junction, Kate was trying to get advice from Sam
Drucker without dragging herself into it. "Suppose there was a widower,"
she said, "with three sons, and..."
"Oh, yeah," said Sam. "I like that show. Watch it all the time."
"And suppose," Kate says, "that the youngest son wants to get married,
but his father..."
"You mean Ernie? That little kid wit' th' glasses? Ain't he kinda
young?" Sam goes on to tell Kate he knew all along she was talking about
herself. For a minute, it was almost the kind of fourth-wall
deconstruction that Green Acres would later revel in.
Kip W
Kip Williams
But several years after the 1950 radio show "Granby's Green Acres."
Here's one episode:
http://www.archive.org/details/otr_granbysgreenacres
Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet are the leads. Some differences, of
course, but the central premise is about the same.
Kip W
Joe Kesselman
> The Beverly Hillbillies ('62) came 3 years before Green Acres ('65).
I sit corrected.