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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPost a brief description of a sit-com, old or new, and see if anyone knows the name of it.
Television sit-com set in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The main character is a 30-year-old who has been working for most of his life as a paperboy for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)red dog 1
(27,802 posts)Chris Elliot starred in it and Bob Elliot played his dad.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)red dog 1
(27,802 posts)It was hilarious but short-lived, and I loved it
Do you have a favorite episode?
Mine would probably be the one where his mother talks his father into taking him and his buddy camping.
His father deliberately "loses" his son + friend, and, hungry & lost, they find some psychedelic berries and hallucinate.
49jim
(560 posts)Schitt's Creek on Netflix....funny series
ArnoldLayne
(2,067 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)Not you ... that was the name of the show.
flying rabbit
(4,634 posts)Hi jinks ensue. Figure it out in the end. Lather, rinse, repeat.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)flying rabbit
(4,634 posts)Sopranos=Not a sitcom.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...with Tony seen as a descendant, in a way, of Ralph Kramden. When he says, To the Moon, it has a whole new meaning. But I was actually making a not-very-successful attempt to be funny...
flying rabbit
(4,634 posts)there are a lot of things that could fit into my description. Think physical comedy and cheesy as hell.
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)flying rabbit
(4,634 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,291 posts)but your answer has merit
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)flying rabbit
(4,634 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Tom Kitten
(7,347 posts)aka Newhart
Response to Tom Kitten (Reply #14)
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True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Ohiogal
(31,999 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Makes friends, but has trouble navigating the sea of love.
Tom Kitten
(7,347 posts)I remember that show! Well I remember him and the orchestra, had to google the title. As I remember as a preteen watching it was pretty good! Carol Burnett liked him too, see him a lot on her show reruns.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)I enjoyed it. I wonder why it was cancelled so quickly.
catrose
(5,066 posts)Being a classical musical musician in training at the time
Ohiogal
(31,999 posts)Remember when Paul Sand guested on the Mary Tyler Moore show as her tax accountant?
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Response to red dog 1 (Original post)
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912gdm
(959 posts)An old patriarch has had a store for decades and needs to look to his younger heir to revitalize the business.
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)and it was based of a very popular overseas sitcom
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)There is a sequel out now which stars the nephew as the grumpus
However I can't recall the American version
happybird
(4,608 posts)and was tickled to see the 'real' Granville playing the curmudgeon!
leftieNanner
(15,100 posts)but that's a British show.
912gdm
(959 posts)It was an unfair submission... but fun... . Beane's of Boston only aired the pilot and it was so horrible it was never aired again. This was the American spinoff of Are You Being Served and they used the script for German Week.
Watch if you dare
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)Unable to afford an apartment, they decide to dress up as women after work each day so they can share a room at a women's residence hotel.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)red dog 1
(27,802 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,291 posts)act more like it's the Vietnam war.
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)aka MASH
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,291 posts)Seen the movie many times also.
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)And I was delighted to see the show streaming on Hulu lately. I usually hate seeing a TV show repeatedly, but this is the best show ever.
jpak
(41,758 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)an airplane assembly line in California.
procon
(15,805 posts)My pop, who worked at Lockheed in Burbank, Ca in the same era, loved that show. It sure brings back nice memories of our family all sitting together in front of that tiny TV screen to watch all the evening shows. He was fond of the show's popular catchphrase, "What a revoltin' development this is!" that William Bendix used in every episode. Jim Gillis, played by Tom D'Andrea was Chester A. Riley's buddy and neighbor.
doc03
(35,337 posts)it was originally a radio program and a movie.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)That was a short lived one.
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)consider_this
(2,203 posts)It's about space, it's about the whole human race!
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)He travels to the other city in preparation for selling the restaurant. When he returns to the Ivy university, his life goes sideways and he ends up moving to the other city and keeping the restaurant. The vast differences in his previous town vs. his new town and its denizens make for lots of hilarity and thought-provoking plots.
Leith
(7,809 posts)I remember that one - good show.
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Hilarity ensues.
Actress becomes a staple on cable.
doc03
(35,337 posts)buddy works in the sewer.
consider_this
(2,203 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)an upscale apartment building.
consider_this
(2,203 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)run down garage in East LA.
Sanity Claws
(21,848 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)son were on BBC.
Sanity Claws
(21,848 posts)The show was so long ago. The original was Steptoe and Son on the BBC; it was adapted for US television as Sanford and Son. I got them mixed up.
Either way, it sounds like I didn't get the right answer.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Sanford and Son!
leftieNanner
(15,100 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss ...
Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)Great cast, too: Jack Cassidy, Hamilton Camp, Kenneth Mars.
MuseRider
(34,109 posts)aka-chmeee
(1,132 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)I loved Maude. She had moxie.
FM123
(10,053 posts)mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)and then there's Maude?
FM123
(10,053 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)A married couple who realize that they will never make the millions they dreamt of, quit the rat race to become domestic servants to a rich industrialist who rarely stays in the mansion they take care of.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)has her celebrity sister move in with her after she literally torched her career in Hollywood.
no_hypocrisy
(46,104 posts)He snaps his fingers and people stop moving. He snaps his fingers again and they start moving and the crises resolve. (Sitcom didn't last a year.)
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)( Bouquet) who pretends to be a member of the Aristocracy!
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)My favorite!
lapfog_1
(29,204 posts)releases a box office clunker has one more chance to make a hit, hires his prostitute / girl friend to be an associate producer and lives with his uncle / chief of security.
Only lasted 1 season but it was the funniest damn thing I've ever seen (it is my sense of humor as it was not a ratings hit)
dameatball
(7,398 posts)lapfog_1
(29,204 posts)dameatball
(7,398 posts)consider_this
(2,203 posts)from New Zealand - trying to make it in NYC, with an ineffective manager and one fan.
happybird
(4,608 posts)I loved that show. The manager was so freakin' ridiculous and gloriously awkward. Can't remember his name. Barry, maybe?
consider_this
(2,203 posts)I think the mgr guy's name was Reis, something like that. Loved their zany songs, especially 'Business Time'. Lol
happybird
(4,608 posts)just watched on YouTube.
"And you know when I'm down to my socks what time it is"
Now I'm gonna have to see how many episodes are available online. That was such a funny show.
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)They even grow vegetables in their front yard, much to the chagrin of their next-door neighbors.
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)We own the DVD set.
It is a very funny show
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Remember this one?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_(TV_series)
And , Waiting For God? That one is back at 7:30.
DFW
(54,378 posts)Definitely a comedy, although so tongue-in-cheek that it might not always have been recognized as such.
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)DFW
(54,378 posts)I have heard the Don Adams character in Get Smart being described as a number of things, but "erudite" was never one of them!
Think: "we're needed."
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)jls4561
(1,257 posts)I think I spent too much time trying to be Emma Peele on "The Avengers".
DFW
(54,378 posts)I had no idea what Diana Rigg was like in real life, but in those days, I didn't care!
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)DFW
(54,378 posts)A DAY IN THE LIFE
(88 posts)I can't remember their names. Kate Jackson (I think) was the Mrs. part.
Angleae
(4,482 posts)Ohiogal
(31,999 posts)DFW
(54,378 posts)Sometimes I wondered if that wasn't secretly meant as a comedy, too. I was talking about The Avengers, the British series.
Ohiogal
(31,999 posts)Perhaps farce would be a better term for those two shows.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
(88 posts)Captain of an intergalactic garbage scow with a wacky crue: a plant (Ficus), a hermaphodite (Gene/Jean), twin beauties (one was a clone, the Betties), and a cowardly robot.
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)Didn't he once write for "The Tonight Show"?
Ohiogal
(31,999 posts)red dog 1
(27,802 posts)I don't think he was old enough to have written for the old "Tonight Show" anyway.
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)Quark, maybe ?
ETA: YESSSSSS!!! I Googled after posting. I sort-of-remembered it was a one-word title, something vaguely SF and vaguely oddball. Then 'Quark' popped into my head.
happybird
(4,608 posts)red dog 1
(27,802 posts)happybird
(4,608 posts)I still end up yodel-laughing like a freakin' hyena. Poor Manuel.
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)The actor who played him was seriously injured twice on the set.
- Once, when the director insisted that John Cleese use a real iron frying pan, instead of a foam one, in the scene where Cleese hits Manuel with it....I think he suffered a serious concussion.
- The other time was in the "Fire Drill" episode, when Manuel comes running out of the kitchen with smoke coming off him yelling "Fire!"..[Cleese tells him, "No, Manuel, there's no fire"]
The actor was seriously burned by the chemical they used to make the smoke come off him.