The Don Lapre Appreciation Society of Crossdressers picks in the COMEDY-Sitcom category, "The Office" (2005) (US version)
Excellent pick Windom!!!
....while I love the British version this is certainly one re-make that was not ruined due to the brilliance of Steve Carrell and the rest of the cast.
After the trash that was the Ab Fab import among others, I dreaded to see how they'd ruin The Office and was thrilled at how well it came across the ocean.
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Team Idiot Box is proud to select in the category of Canadian, the awesome The Littlest Hobo.
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Is that not brilliant in its simplicity?
Something I didn't know, it originally aired from 1963-1965, then was revived in 1979 and lasted until 1985.
Youtube goodies:
The theme song:
The Closing Credits:
I tried to find clips of the show itself, but there are so many clips on Youtube of people using their own dogs or just singing the theme, it was impossible to wade through them all.
I loved this show was I was little, so it just had to be my Canadian pick. I am happy to have thought of it.
I thought you didn't watch much TV? That was to be my Canadian selection
The Don Lapre Appreciation Society of Crossdressers picks in the COMEDY-Sitcom category, "The Office" (2005) (US version)
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Nice!
I really enjoy the American office too which is very ususual for a British remake. There have been so many remakes of excellent Britcoms that have bombed in the States. They have tried to do Fawlty Towers on a few occasions with terrible results.
With The Office (US) though they got the characters just right. It's an excellent show in it's own right.
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I distinctly remember the characters having their own voices. Hammy was 'normal', Matty the mouse was kind of manic and GP sounded like WC Fields. Anybody else remember?
Yeah, I think that is the British version Dion found. I know what you mean.
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Well it seems that things have worked out for the Infomercial Kings as our pick that we were woried about last round is still here.
So the Infomercial Kings are proud to select in the 4th round, in the World category - Cracker.
Fitz is a classic antihero, unfaithful to his wife, alcoholic, a chain smoker, overweight, addicted to gambling, manic, foulmouthed and sarcastic; and yet cerebral and brilliant at his speciality: getting into the heads of violent criminals. As Fitz confesses in "Brotherly Love": "I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. I am too much."
Each case spanned several episodes and cliffhangers were quite often used, but it was not until the end of the second series that a cliffhanger was employed to tie off the series. Some of the plotlines in the cases took as their starting point real events such as the Hillsborough disaster, while others were purely fictional with only tangential ties to actual events.
Team TV Guide is thrilled to select in the World category (and continuing the tradition of the show being from the UK...), Blackadder!
I now officially hate you (not really), it was the only show on my radar for World. Now this category will prob wait until the last round and then I'll take a random Zimbabwean sitcom.
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For my next pick, Frozen TV Dinner is very pleased to select what is possibly the best police drama to air on broadcast television. In the Crime/Drama category, originally airing from 1993 to 1999 on NBC, Homicide: Life on the Streets.
A critically acclaimed, but ratings-challenged show, Homicide debuted in the coveted post-Super Bowl slot in 1993 but soon found itself airing in the death-slot of Friday night at 10pm.
Despite its poor time slot and weak ratings, NBC kept it on the air for seven seasons (although its second season was only 4 episodes long) because of the strength of its stories and characters. Andre Braugher was spectacular in his (eventually Emmy winning) portrayal of Frank Pembleton.
The show lost steam after Braugher left the show after its sixth season, and only lasted one season without Pembleton. Only four actors remained with the show for its entire run: Yaphet Kotto as Al Giardello; Clark Johnson as Meldrick Lewis; Kyle Secor as Tim Bayliss; and Richard Belzer as the ever-present John Munch. Munch was such a popular character that he was transferred from Baltimore to New York City, where he still serves the innocent people of the television universe on Law & Order:SVU.
A great scene...
Happy New Year, 1997...
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Just when you thought MTV was a lost cause, professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek comes along and, armed with his best friend and bodyguard Big Black (aka Christopher Boyken), a skateboard, and a bulldog named Meaty, gives us a reason to tune in again. "Rob & Big" is a buddy comedy to end all buddy comedies. Cameras follow the duo living together in Dyrdek's Hollywood mansion off DC shoes royalties, with nothing to do all day except follow their every whim. This can include buying a mini-horse, attending a turtle racing tournament, trying to travel through time and trying to break a few world records.
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5th pick in the TV Draft proudly select from the Pre 80's Category........
Set in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, Hogan's Heroes is lightly based on the play/film, "Stalag 17." Hogan's Heroes focuses on the exploits of five main prisoners of war (Hogan, LeBeau, Newkirk, Carter & Kinchloe who, while under the cover of being typical prisoners of war, are really secretly doing their best to sabotage the German war effort through whatever means necessary. They communicate regularly with the outside, easily move throughout the camp and outside to town by using numerous tunnels, and have all the munitions, money, and uniforms to do pretty much as they please.
I love watching the re runs of this show and recently bought some the seasons DVD's
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
proudly select from the Pre 80's Category........ 
