During Chevy Chase's tenure, my parents wouldn't allow me to watch SNL.Originally Posted by Dave (in MA)
During Chevy Chase's tenure, my parents wouldn't allow me to watch SNL.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
I had to look that one up, because I wasn't sure, but I believe I wasn't even in the country during Chevy Chase's SNL tenure. My dad didn't get transferred back Stateside (my dad was stationed in West Germany since March 1973) until 1976, probably after Chevy had already left the show for his Hollywood career.
Also, I was two years old, so...
^^ I was in the 6th grade during the '76 election cycle...the time during which Chase did most of his Gerald Ford parodies. One effect Chase had was convincing Americans Ford was a klutz, when in reality, there was a single incident when he tripped a little. That's almost as bad yellow journalism getting the US into a war with Spain, just prior to the turn of the 20th century.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
There are a couple of instances of Ford falling caught on tape. They use to be on YT. One of them was while he was coming down steps from a plane; he gets up, clearly disheveled from the fall he tries to shake the hand of one of his assistants rather than the dignitary who was waiting for him.
Yeah, well Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam", Ed Sullivan never said "We've got a really big shoe tonight!", Carl Sagan never said "billions and billions of stars", and William Shatner doesn't insert those long pauses into his dialog. Those are all things impressionists did, and are "what you do" when doing an impression of that person, even though it has nothing to do with anything that person actually did or said.
The bit with him coming down the steps from Air Force One was used in an episode of Quantum Leap, where Sam bets someone that Ford will down the stars (of course being from the future, Sam knows what's going to happen). The guy says there's no way Ford's gonna fall on camera again, so he takes the bet, loses, and ends up having to do whatever it was Sam wanted him to do, I forget what it was now.
For what it's worth, I've read several times that Ford had a good sense of humor about things like that. As I recall, he recorded a "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night" bit from the Oval Office, and sent his press secretary to appear on the show.
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Sagan may not have said "Billions and billions of stars", but he did say "ten billion, billion, billion atoms"...
And. William. Shatner. Did. Have. A. Choppy. Delivery.
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
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I never said most of the things I said. --Y. Berra
Ford was originally from Grand Rapids Michigan, which is about 45 minutes from where I live, so he was very well known in these parts. He always did have a great sense of humor about everything and I think even appeared with Chevy Chase on more than one occasion. The ironic thing about it all is the Ford was probably one of the best athletes to ever sit in the Oval Office. Ford was a football star at the University Of Michigan and won two national championships while he was on the team. The Gerald Ford museum in Grand Rapids is a pretty cool place to visit if anyone ever gets up that way.
Ford did get an aircraft supercarrier named after him. I wonder when Jimmy Carter gets his.
<edit> a quick search and JC already has (appropriately) a Seawolf class sub named after him.
Found out last night that Prime has Orphan Black!
My dad had Pawn Stars on for a bit. A woman brought in the very first issue of Mad comics. I think the expert said it was something like 6.5 or 7, in a scale of 1 to 10, and that it was probably worth 2 grand. But Rick and the lady apparently didn't come to an agreement, because Rick would only offer $1,400 and her bottom price was $1,500.
And that brings up another thing about this kind of stuff, if an expert says "Oh, you could get 3 grand for that easily", why would you let some jack ass pawn broke take 15 percent or whatever of that?! You could sell it yourself and get the full price!
^^ Selling high dollar items isn't as easy as it would seem. With the cut Ebay and Paypal take, a seller will end up with about the same amount as the 2/3 of its value from a pawn shop. The pawn shop also removes any headache and risk dealing with the public.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Last week and tonight, the Magnum P.I. reboot is the lead in to Tom Selleck's current show, Blue Bloods.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Hmm, I didn't realize Ebay and Paypal took a cut, but I guess it makes sense. Not much point in running a site like that if you're doing it for profit. And I suppose you have a point. You sell it to the pawnshop and it's their job to find someone to buy it from them.
Not many people even shop for high dollar items. It would require advertising to let the right people know the item is even available. Also deduct those advertising costs from the price of the item. A pawn shop who would buy and sell high dollar items already has the connections to sell those items.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
^^ selling collectors items requires connections most "regular folk" don't have.
So now it's onto Series 3, episode 8 of The Grand Tour. This week, our heroes are going on an RV vacation in Nevada!
Just got done watching the first episode of a 2009 British show called Paradox. Basically, a physicist, who's monitoring the sun for solar flare activity, receives, via a satellite connection, photos predicting a disaster that will happen in 10 hours, so calls in a group of police detectives who have to piece together where and what's going to happen, in an attempt to prevent. I thought this was a new show, but the copyright says 2009. I looked it up on Wiki and apparently only five episodes were made, and the BBC chose to not renew it for a second series. Good, suspenseful program, I'll have to check out the other four episodes.
Is each episode an hour of real-time similar to the series "24"?
It's nothing at all like 24. Episode 1 took place over the course of 10 hours.
So now I've added another British series, called Humans, to my list. This is about a future where androids have become a common part of society, doing hard labor type jobs and also present in homes as nannies, butlers, etc. Episodes draws us toward four different tales, involving androids. One is about an elderly man (played by William Hurt) who has one of the first "D series" androids which is starting to malfunction, another is about a family who takes an android nanny (against the mother's wishes), and another is about man searching for three stolen androids, and a fourth we only glimpse in episode one, but we see a somewhat young married couple with an android named Simon.
So this is looking promising.
In May 2019, Channel 4 announced that the series had been cancelled.
Yes, I know Humans has been cancelled, but I believe it ran for three seasons before Channel 4 dropped the hammer on the show. Anyway, I liked the first episode, so I'm going to continue with it.
I also liked it and was disappointed when it was cancelled.
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