Team Idiot Box will select in the category of Pre80s, Get Smart.
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Bumbling Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, with a great deal of help from his competent partner Agent 99, battles the forces of KAOS
Opening Credits:
The Cone of Silence:
99 at the Door:
The Craw?
I wish there were better clips on Youtube.
Loved this show when I was little, when it was in reruns. I was too young to catch the show when it originally aired. I always loved all the little gadgets, loved the end credits where he walks through all the vaults, and I always wanted a friggin shoe phone.
I recently purchased the first season on DVD, you can really see how PC we've become when watching it. There are lots of things in this series that would probably be censored today with regards to race depictions, etc.
The last few have been really good picks, but I didn't expect them to be made so fast!
I have a couple that I'm debating on choosing for this round. I'll need to sleep on it though.
Pick will be up tomorrow morning.
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I *loved* Get Smart as a kid - how did I not realize it hadn't been taken yet? What a steal!!!
Have you caught the movie yet with Steve Carrell & Anne Hathaway as Max & 99? The spirit of the original with an updated setting - definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
I *loved* Get Smart as a kid - how did I not realize it hadn't been taken yet? What a steal!!!
Have you caught the movie yet with Steve Carrell & Anne Hathaway as Max & 99? The spirit of the original with an updated setting - definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
Thanks.
I have seen the movie. I was really looking forward to it, because I loved the show so much. I wasn't thrilled when I heard about Anne Hathaway playing Agent 99. But I was pleasantly surprised with her, and with the movie. I heard bad things about it, but I really enjoyed it. Haven't picked up the DVD yet, I am hoping Santa brings me a copy.
Sorry everyone. Got busy this morning. I'll name my pick quickly to keep things moving.
The Don Lapre Appreciation Society selects for their 10th round pick, in the REALITY (Elimination) category, "The Apprentice" (2004)
I picked this show because I generally hate Reality shows, but this one is worth it for The Donald'
s haircut alone.
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
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The Infomercial Kings are proud to select in the Educational Category, Man vs. Wild.
I just love this show, and I have learned so much from watching Bear.
In the show, Grylls both demonstrates and narrates techniques for wilderness survival in regions around the globe, from ice fields and mountain ranges to swamps and deserts. The general format of each episode is that Grylls is dropped into the region simulating a stranded explorer/tourist. The episode documents his efforts to survive and find a way back to civilization, usually requiring an overnight shelter of some kind. Bear also tells about successful and failed survivals in the particular area he is in.
First off, Frozen TV Dinner would like to wish a very Merry Christmas to our wonderful Commissioner and all of the other General Managers. Sorry for taking so long to make the next pick, but, hey, it's Christmas.
"Johnny always put butter on his BLANK."
For my next pick, Frozen TV Dinner is very happy to select one of my favourite shows from my childhood and likely the reason my sense of humour is so screwed up...In the Game Show category, The Match Game.
I just spent the last hour or so watching clips from the show on YouTube, and I can't believe the bawdy nature of the show, and the fact that my mother actually let me watch it as a preschooler (obviously, most of the double-entendres went over my head at the time).
For those who don't remember the show (which has had numerous revivals over the years), the premise (for the 1970s' incarnation) was simple: Gene Rayburn (with a ridiculously long and skinny microphone) was the host, and every game had 2 contestants (usually a man and a woman, but not always) whose goal was to match the answers given by the panel of six celebrity guests (usually including Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, and future Family Feud host, Richard Dawson).
The questions were short riddles or limericks containing a "BLANK" which was filled in by the contestant and celebrities. The contestant received one point for every contestant whose answer matched the one given by the contestant. The clues usually had an obvious "dirty" answer and the humour came from watching the celebrities try to come up with a "clean" answer that was still funny. Being the 70s, the show was frequently sexist and occasionally racist by today's standards.
Boobs...
Queer...
Mrs. Krabapple is the only one who says what everyone else was thinking (and gets censored for it)...
In case you didn't know, Richard Dawson was a perv...
Back in the 70s, a "liberated" woman didn't wear a bra...
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Team Alternate Feed selects in the TV Movie category:
Stephen King's
The miniseries closely parallels the events of King's post apocalyptic novel by the same name. A superfli devastates the United States, leaving only a few survivors. These survivors gravitate towards either the side of good or evil, driven mainly by very vivid dreams in the aftermath of the plague. The climax is a final showdown between good and evil in Las Vegas.
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select from the Crime/Law Category........
David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning legal drama, The Practice, had eight amazing seasons, with promising, provocative, issue-related stories, coupled with the writer's trademark humor.
Set in Boston, The Practice centers on a firm of passionate attorneys to whom every case is important and every client worth a fight to the end. Legal maneuvering is the firm's modus operandi, and they have it down to a science, making even the most questionable arguments convincing. And while they can't — and don't — win every trial, the pursuit of justice remains the priority until the final verdict is announced … and sometimes afterwards. Pursuing justice, however, often confronts them with serious ethical and moral issues of conscience.
The end of last season saw Bobby Donnell quitting the firm and leaving Eugene Young (Steve Harris) in charge. In the final season, we find Eugene not only tackling his new role as head of the firm, but also the new dynamic with co-workers Ellenor Frutt (Camryn Manheim), a single mom known for her fervent commitment to clients and for refusing to take "no" for an answer; Jimmy Berluti (Michael Badalucco), a hard-working "good guy" with a winning record and unparalleled loyalty to the firm; and a budding relationship with Jamie Stringer (Jessica Capshaw), a young associate recently out of law school.
In addition to returning cast members Manheim, Harris, Badalucco and Capshaw, in the final season, Kelley injected the series with intriguing new characters, including acclaimed film actor James Spader, who will play Alan Shore, a complicated and ethically challenged lawyer, and Rhona Mitra, who will play Tara Wilson, a confident paralegal in her third year of law school who is also the firm's new tough-as-nails assistant.
The multiple Emmy Award-winning drama has also earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series, a Peabody Award, a Viewers for Quality Television Award, an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award and, most recently, a coveted Humanitas Award.
The Practice Theme
The Practice - Emmy Award winning clip
The Practice - Emmy Award-Winning clip 2
The Practice - Helen is outraged by the jury's verdict
With my next pick I'd first like to thank Prototype for passing it over.
Team Jumped the Shark is happy to select one of my favorite Stephen King books and a really great TV movie:
A 1990 Emmy-winning horror film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.
Starring:
Harry Anderson - Night Court, Dave's World
Dennis Christopher - The Profiler
Annette O'Toole - Smallville
Tim Reid - WKRP, Simon & Simon, Frank's Place
John Ritter - Three's Company, 8 Simple Rules
Richard Thomas - The Waltons
Tim Curry - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Home Alone 2
Seth Green - Family Guy, Robot Chicken, The Italian Job
Emily Perkins - Ginger Snaps
IT aired as a two-part television mini-series on November 18, 1990 on ABC, and loosely follows the plot of the novel. The first half of the film, set in 1960 (in the novel, it was set in 1958), introduces a group of social misfits, the "Losers", as they meet and form a tight-knit group in the face of a cruel and intolerant world. They each individually come into contact with the child-killing monster, which they name "It", haunting their hometown of Derry, Maine. It usually appears as the thing the child victim mostly fears before taking the form Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Tim Curry).
The film opens with a young girl riding her bike singing Itsy Bitsy Spider. It is about to storm outside and her mother tells her to come on inside. The girl ignores her mother and tries to ride some more. But she hears children laughing in a distance. Then she hears a clown giggle. As she turns around the voice whispers "Hi". She sees a seemingly friendly clown, it is Pennywise luring her into his death trap. The film then flashes to her bike left unattended with her dead body beside it. She is found dead by her hysterical mother.
With my next pick I'd first like to thank Prototype for passing it over.
Team Jumped the Shark is happy to select one of my favorite Stephen King books and a really great TV movie:
A 1990 Emmy-winning horror film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.
IT aired as a two-part television mini-series on November 18, 1990 on ABC, and loosely follows the plot of the novel. The first half of the film, set in 1960 (in the novel, it was set in 1958), introduces a group of social misfits, the "Losers", as they meet and form a tight-knit group in the face of a cruel and intolerant world. They each individually come into contact with the child-killing monster, which they name "It", haunting their hometown of Derry, Maine. It usually appears as the thing the child victim mostly fears before taking the form Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Tim Curry).
Great pick HD - I remember watching this while at school and my friends and I all being totally freaked out by Pennywise.....right up to the end when they cheaped on the special effects and ruined an otherwise excellent show!
Despite the poor ending, I can't stand clowns to this day and IT is partly responsible for that so it certainly did something right!
Thanks for bringing back 18 years of repressed memories HD! I saw this movie at a sleepover one night when I was in like Grade 4 and it gave me nightmares for 3 months I swear. I hate clowns to this day because of it. It probably didn't help that the girl's bedroom at whose house we were watching it was filled with clowns on top of it. I also don't know what kind of parent lets kids in Grade 4 watch a movie like "It" to begin with. Now excuse me while I go sit in a corner and cry.
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Where's the Remote? will take, for Soap Opera the long running British BBC series
"Eastenders"
EastEnders is a popular and award-winning televisionsoap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End of London. The series primarily centres around the residents of Albert Square, a Victorian square of terraced houses, and its neighbouring streets, namely Bridge Street, Turpin Road and George Street which comprises a pub, a street market, a night club, community centre and various small businesses in addition to a park and allotment.
Couldn't let this one fall any more and I'm surprised it is available at this point in the draft. Very, very funny show that kind of broke down some walls having two homosexual main characters on a prime time TV show. Obviously, America loved it as it ran strong for 8 seasons.
Eric McCormack, Debra Messing and Sean Hayes were great in their roles of Will, Grace and Jack respectively, but I really fell in love with Megan Mullally and her over the top performances of Karen Walker, Grace's independently wealthy assistant. Laugh after laugh after laugh. The show never failed to provide laughs! I counted 16 Emmy wins and a plethora of nominations during the shows run.
Grace's Breast Enhancement
10 minutes of Megan Mullally
Ex-boyfriends are off limits
The Gay Bee
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select from the Crime/Law Category........
