Television, Bloody Vapid Television
Ryan H - Mar 1, 2004 5:35 am
Edited by Sep 24, 2004 9:31 am
What happened to the Television, Bloody Vapid Television thread?
I think it automatically expired.
- Eleven episodes showed scenes outside of the police station (Ramon, The Stakeout, The Hero, Grand Hotel, Fish, Wojo's Girl Part 2, Contempt parts 1 & 2, Chinatown Parts 1 & 2, and Eviction part 2)
- Both 'Steve Landesberg' and Ron Carey guest-starred as felons before joining the regular cast.
- One of the props used on the police station set was a chalk board the cops used to show whether they were on duty or off duty. When show ended, the chalk board was donated to Smithsonian Television Museum.
- The episodes were orginally taped before a live audience. This element of the show was eliminated in later episodes.
- The producers were approached during the run of the series about doing a feature film based on the show using the regular cast members. The film was never made.
- Several references to the Broadway play and film "Flower Drum Song" were used in connection with Jack Soo's character Det. Nick Yemana. Jack Soo played Samuel Adams "Sammy" Fong in both the play (on Broadway) and the subsequent film.
- In 1979, an episode was done with the actors out of character as a tribute to actor Jack Soo, who played Det. Nick Yemana. Soo had died of cancer of the esophagus in 1979. The episode consisted of unscripted reminiscences of Jack Soo by the cast members, intercut with clips of Jack Soo from the show.
- At the end of the tribute episode honoring Jack Soo, the cast raised their coffee cups as a tribute to him.
(325 previous messages)Hobbes
- Feb 3, 2008 5:57 pm (#326 of 341)
I can't believe the offensive Super Bowl commercial for salesgenie.com. They used cartoon panda bears with stereotypical Asian accents. Who thought that would be acceptable?
- Feb 3, 2008 6:02 pm (#327 of 341)
All these years I've heard all this hype about Super Bowl ads. Yesterday I happened upon a site that had all the commercials from last year. I watched them all waiting to see something interesting. Nada. All I can say is most Americans must be fools.
- Feb 3, 2008 6:14 pm (#328 of 341)
I can't believe the offensive Super Bowl commercial for salesgenie.com.
just wait till they use it during the Chinese Olympics!
- Feb 12, 2008 12:01 pm (#329 of 341)
I can't believe the offensive Super Bowl commercial for salesgenie.com. They used cartoon panda bears with stereotypical Asian accents. Who thought that would be acceptable?
Did you miss the one with the Indian stereotypes?
Bill Russell
- Feb 12, 2008 12:20 pm (#330 of 341)
No class?
Hobbes
- Feb 12, 2008 5:19 pm (#331 of 341)
Did you miss the one with the Indian stereotypes?
Was it salesgenie.com?
- Feb 12, 2008 8:31 pm (#332 of 341)
I noticed that the bears who had the stereotypical accents were clueless until the bear with the American accent set the straight. Trash.
Bill Russell
- Feb 12, 2008 8:43 pm (#333 of 341)
Edited by Feb 12, 2008 8:46 pm
Just like the old cowboy and Indian movies and many war movies, etc. in which the U.S. and the white boys were always shown as superior. I used to watch some of those in Japan with my Japanese friends, and they would laugh out loud when that happened.
Trash is right.
- Feb 16, 2008 8:42 am (#334 of 341)
Was it salesgenie.com?
Yes.
- Feb 16, 2008 9:41 am (#335 of 341)
And yet I have no trouble with Apu!
- Mar 13, 2008 4:34 pm (#336 of 341)
Speed Racer... one of my favorite cartoons as a kid.
- Mar 13, 2008 11:29 pm (#337 of 341)
oahh!
- Mar 14, 2008 5:38 am (#338 of 341)
I vaguely remember the title of this thread, but I can't remember exactly what it was about and the posts in it don't seem to help.
I mean, sure. Obviously, somebody was lamenting how television, being passive entertainment, can become so absorbing and yet how it's terrible to absorb something that is, for the most part, so insipid.
But I can't remember why I... er... somebody went on that rant to begin with. Did one particular show raise somebody's ire or was it just a general non-specific rant?
With my best Esqueleto smile, let me just say that I like TV now. Especially Masterpiece Theatre (or Mosta Piss Thee-ata, as I believe it is properly pronounced).
In a couple of weeks, they're going to show Jane Austen's Emma starring a young, haughty and nubile Kate Beckinsale. Ggggggrowl!
Hobbes
- Mar 14, 2008 8:10 am (#339 of 341)
Yeah, I used to (heart) Kate Beckinsale, but it seems she's made a lot of dumb choices in regard to movie roles.
- Mar 14, 2008 8:25 am (#340 of 341)
I kind of liked her in that movie where she and Owen Wilson's brother were terrorized in a cheap hotel. I like a woman who can kick ass.
I heard that Sarah Jessica Parker was originally slated for that role but had to drop out. Thank God. I don't know what Sarah Jessica Parker's niche is... maybe singing or something. So maybe she should stick to musicals or become another Bette Midler or something. But it's just a waste of my time to see her in other movies - like all of the chick flicks my wife makes me watch. She just doesn't really engage me as an interesting character to watch.
But I like Kate Beckinsale. I do thinks it's weird how much she's changed in the last 15 years or so. She was such a cute girlish young woman and now she seems so lean and mean.
But when I think of people I know in real life, nobody else looks as good as they did in 1993, so why should I begrudge Kate Beckinsale. She's still gorgeous.
- Mar 14, 2008 11:56 am (#341 of 341)
I once rented a room to her current husband. lucky bastard.
he was so naive--just out of school--that he thought rent was due at the end of the month.
but he seems to have gotten his bearings.
Television, Bloody Vapid Television