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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - TV Shows
I remember this show, gagedesoto! This was the first time I heard Tom Bosley and he was PERFECT as the confused,crabby bald Harry Boyle! I also liked how the next door neighbor had his own 'troop' complete with a submarine in his backyard pool [like how was THAT going to defend our country?] And,gagedesoto, on my local market it often came on right before they'd show "EMERGENCY!",LOL! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 26, 2011, 8:16 am

Weakest Link, The - TV Shows
If they were going for a 'older, domineering British . ..witch' angle for a host, why didn't they use Joan Collins instead of this woman who had zero appeal and whom I never heard of before/since? Seriously, jp. I agree this show wasn't really any good and not worth bothering eith. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 26, 2011, 8:10 am

Behind the Music - TV Shows
It got to the point in which every person/thing profiled turned out to have a 'new project' the show shilled at the end. Oh, and did anyone else wish just once the narrator would have said 'They blew it and it was all their fault!'? LOL -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 23, 2011, 1:22 pm

Betty White - Celebrities
I always thought she was more fun as Mary Richard's nemesis Sue-Ann Nivens than as daffy Golden Girl Rose! Still, I'm glad to see she's steadily working even though few if any of her contemporaries in the industry are employed. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 23, 2011, 1:18 pm

Burger King - Random Topics
Anyone else remember Herb the Nerd from '85 to '86? It seemed someone got the bright idea of having a campaign in which they'd found out the very last person in the US who had never had a Burger King burger was this glasses-wearing, white socked nerd who they then had a 'Where's Herb' campaign to see if patrons could FIND him and give them big prizes. Long-short is he got found, THEN they made him the SPOKESMAN but this bombed when folks decided that they didn't want to eat what Herb had. Anyway, even HERB was better than the Plastic Faced King. Not that I've even there in years, though. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 23, 2011, 1:15 pm

Chris Brown - Celebrities
That's an EXCELLENT question,Jay D! Alas, there seems to few performers out there who actually have enough priniciples re refusing to work with those known to have been physically abusive [and,for that matter, there seem to have few consumers willing to quit buying stuff from physically abusive performers]. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 16, 2011, 2:57 pm

Buddy Holly - Music Groups
Amen to that, JayD! Though, sometimes I have to admit I wonder if he'd lived longer whether he'd have shared Ray Orbison's fate of having a few decades of obscurity yet FINALLY being rediscovered and given his just due right before he died. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 16, 2011, 2:43 pm

Lidsville - TV Shows
Yeah, what was the deal with the Krofft Brothers stranding all these kids in weird places under constant threats with no means to get home? Did they hate kids that much?! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 13, 2011, 12:32 pm

Kiss - Music Groups
PYLrulz, Your comments made me laugh! I mean, I can recall my elder sibs listening to KISS but it's funny thinking of folks old enough to be parents of adults STILL fans of the group! LOL I guess it shows how many generations this Forum covers. I mean, my mother STILL is a fan of Big Band and classic jazz but, no she doesn't dress up like Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore or Lena Horne did in the 1940's despite liking their songs! For me, KISS is a take-or-leave deal but I have to admit getting a bit weary of seeing what else they can sell their logo for $$$. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 13, 2011, 12:28 pm

Video Games - Random Topics
I'm old enough to remember playing Pong in the local Holiday Inn lounge when it first came out and thinking that nothing could top it! LOL -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 10, 2011, 3:07 pm

John Goodman - Celebrities
Never saw "Normal" and have no interest in seeing it. However; he did a PHENOMENAL job portraying the steamroller Louisiana governor Huey Long- which even my often skeptical father said NAILED how he recalled via newsreels (and colleagues who knew Mr. Long) how the governor was!Yeah, there's more to Mr. Goodman than Dan Conner, live-action Fred Flintstone and being the star of a sitcom I barely recall happening. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 10, 2011, 3:03 pm

Twitter - Websites
And the benefit of sending bogusly spelled messages re one's own navel gazing to the world is, what again? -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 10, 2011, 2:58 pm

Ludacris - Celebrities
I agree, Travaltron. Though what's even more infuriating to me is that, thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Spears naming her their now-famous daughter that name, TONS of girls are getting named a garbled spelling of 'Brittany' -( a fascinating, scenic peninsula in northern France of great historic value with Celtic influences) while fewer folks than ever will consider looking up info on the French region all thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Spears trying to sound 'cute'. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 10, 2011, 2:56 pm

Dan Castellaneta - Celebrities
I can't say I like most of his 'roles' as much as I did Mel Blanc's but I agree that he sure DOES have [almost] as an impressive range of voices as did the late Mr. Blanc! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 9, 2011, 9:57 am

Peter Falk - Celebrities
I agree, lbloom. Although Suzanne Pleshette told a story in which she claimed he pulled some diva stunts during her guest spot on "Columbo" that were so unpleasant to all around that that she said resulted in her not speaking to her friend from adolesence for a year thereafter. However; she concluded 'but how can you stay mad at Peter Falk?'. How, indeed! RIP, Columbo! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 9, 2011, 9:49 am

Elvis movies - Movie Series
For the most part, I agree, lbloom. However; check out his first movie "Love Me Tender" in which he portrays a returning Civil War vet who has to deal with a very changed world and his own postwar angst over the world especially his family. A very impressive performance which showed he wasn't the simple bumpkin Col. Tom Parker wanted everyone else to think. Alas, this could be WHY Col. Parker never let Elvis pick another 'deep' role again until possibly the last film- "Change of Habit" in which Elvis played a doctor in a charity clinic who falls for a nun played by Mary Tyler Moore[!]. The latter not as good as it could have been but not without its own intrigue. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 9, 2011, 9:44 am

Patrick Stewart - Celebrities
I like how he used his Shakespearean experience to make even the most preposterous and absurd plotline seem a bit 'legit' on the Enterprise. I think even the Bard himself would have been proud! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 9, 2011, 9:36 am

George Carlin - Celebrities
Sorry, I must dissent from everyone else. I'm sorry he's dead but I do not admire his work. I consider him to have been a significant contributor to the decline of civility in discourse that may have initially seemed 'liberating' back in the 1960's but has proven to turn even the slightest philosophical disagreements into crude,juvenile rants which no one 'wins' much less learns anything. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 9, 2011, 9:34 am

Planet of the Apes - Movie Series
Even if the hokey premise of apes getting brainy due to consuming some serum could happen, how can the filmmakers get around the actuality of apes being VASTLY outnumbered by humans for a 'takeover' to succeed? Sorry, but the 70's series was ape enough for me! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on July 25, 2011, 12:31 pm

Jurassic Park - Movie Series
Two words PYLrulz: 'Crystal Skull'. In other words, make it a 50-50 bet this will be worth even surfing upon on free cable in X number of years much less paying full cinema price for. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on July 25, 2011, 12:26 pm