Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for March 16, 2020
March 15, 2020
March 17, 2020
Transcript:
what's new in sitcom technology now your favorite wacky-family sitcom offers exciting dvd-style extra features! cast commentaries - fascinating insights from the stars themselves! oop: i'm really good in this scene! oop: no - watch what i'm doing! extended director's cut - chock full of deleted jokes, plot contriv-ances, crowd scenes, helicopter shots & other digressions that really pump up the laffs! man: stampede! learned annotations - analysis of the genre by bernard ubby, ph.d., author of "rob petrie's ottoman: furniture groupings in the american sitcom." bernard: consider the centrality of the sofa to the comic mise en scene. prognostications - psychics reveal the stars futures in the "where will they be then?" feature! mystic: the annoying child star will rise to dominate world culture in hideously unforeseen ways...
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Alice precursor!
well-i-never almost 5 years ago
I know I’ve been aware of furniture groupings since Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver. A book like that would be a gold mine of memories!
Vince M almost 5 years ago
One of my favorite episodes of “Community” features a community college class analyzing the sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” The professor takes it very seriously (and of course wrote a textbook on it).
DCBakerEsq almost 5 years ago
The “Gilligan’s Island” outtakes are hilarious.
Sisyphos almost 5 years ago
Central sofas and child stars gone bad. —Yup. I recognize those….