Your Favorite WKRP Scene...

[Bzzzz]

Here's Mine: Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZByndN_ffyw

[EFerrari]

1. I can't watch that again! The HORROR!

I liked the one where Les tapeS off his "office". :)

[KamaAina]

2. Jennifer says Yes to a date with Les

just to piss off poor old frustrated Herb.

Meanwhile, the station has a new sponsor: a wig/toupee shop. Les decides to take the plunge in preparation for the Big Day. He shows up at work wearing this huge curly bird's nest. While he's walking down the hall, Jennifer deftly plucks the piece from Les's bald pate without his even noticing. So he ends up going on the date au naturel after all!

[ChoralScholar]

3. Les Nessman saying

"Chai Chai Rod-ruh-gweez"

and Dr. Johnny Fever saying "I almost forgot------BOOOOOOGER!!!"

And any scene with the lovely Bailey Quarters.

[youthere]

20. I loved Les saying Chi hooa hooa (Chihuahua).

[sarge43]

47. And Cheye Cheye Road reye geyes

:rofl:

[driver8]

49. I had the BIGGEST crush on Bailey...and if you ever saw her on

"Battle of the Network Stars", you did too!

[lizziegrace]

4. N-E-S-T-L-E-S

Nestles has the very best...chocolate. Bailey was terrific. :)

[dysfunctional press]

5. when i saw your subject line, my mind IMMEDIATELY flashed to-

"as god as my witness, i thought turkeys could fly..."

still one of the single funniest scenes EVER broadcast on any sitcom EVER, in the history of mankind.

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Turkey Drop

Les Nessman:

“It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!”

[WolverineDG]

22. ...

It's been AGES since I've even seen an episode & I can hear this one in my head as I read that post!

:rofl:

dg

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. One that almost nobody remembers

It involved Mr. Carlson and Venetian blinds and him saying to Andy, "Well, whadda YOU want, dammit?!?"

One of the funniest slapstick bits EVarrr. :rofl:

[lizziegrace]

8. Johnny and Venus taking the alcohol test

Johnny's reflexes improve with alcohol while Venus' deteriorate. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. 'I *am* the air!'

:rofl:

[youthere]

21. I'll never forget Venus in that episode...

stumbling into Mr. Carlson's office demanding "a lid", and winding up with that fishing hat with the giant bill.

[lizziegrace]

24. During the episode

he ended up switching hats with the officer. :)

[RoyGBiv]

44. Oh yes ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L_Oy9t98i7Q

Completely sober, he has the reaction time of a man who has had six vodka martinis.

[mcscajun]

9. It's a split decision...Part "Fish Story" and part "An Explosive Affair"

"Fish Story" has the drinking on air "contest" (really a public affairs experiment with an officer in the booth administering the drinking/reaction test).

Johnny: All right fellow babies, that was the Doors, and this is sort of Johnny Fever, kind of Doctor. And after... nine drinks, Venus Flytrap is catatonic, and I myself have personally just seen a giant pig. He is currently painting the walls of our lobby.
Officer: He is obviously drunk, ladies and gentlemen.
Johnny: Yes, he is, and I'm not feeling badly myself.
Officer: This test has been given to hundreds of people! No one's ever got better!!

In "An Explosive Affair", Johnny's a bit paranoid about the "phone cops".

Johnny, hearing all the sirens: It's the phone company. They know what I did here today.
Venus: What are you talking about?
Johnny: They're coming to get me, man!
Venus: That's paranoia, man!
Johnny: Wake up, sucker, this is the phone company we're talking about! They see everything, they know everything, they got their own covert police force! I'm probably wired for sound right now! I gotta get out of here!
Venus: Johnny!
Johnny: Don't use my name!!

Johnny: Don't you people get it? It's the phone cops!!

Andy: There is no such thing as phone cops!
Johnny: Oh sure. Cover for them.

[lizziegrace]

12. "on the air?"

"I AM the air!"

[mcscajun]

16. Yeah, that was a good one.

"I am the wind! Thanks for the lid, Art."

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Jeebus H!

Where'd you find those scripts?

I gotta KNOW!!! :bounce:



"The real cops are IN on it, man!"

[mcscajun]

23. AFAIK, the actual scripts are nowhere online

but dance a little Internet two-step, and you can find almost anything. The transcripts for many shows ARE online at www.twiztv.com

If you can recall anything about the episode, start with www.tv.com, search for WKRP, and then look up the episode lists. Get the title of the ep in question, add it to WKRP in an AltaVista (or Google if you Must) search, and you're likely to find what others have already saved as their favorite lines.

www.imdb.com is another great quote source.

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. Any scene with Bailey Quarters

I always liked her better than Jennifer.

[regnaD kciN]

41. In other words, you had taste, too...

:thumbsup:

[Jamastiene]

11. Johnny Fever scratching the disco record.

:rofl:

[mcscajun]

18. That scene is sacred.

:)

He's performing an act of worship (of pure rock 'n' roll).

[Jamastiene]

30. Yep, it was hilarious back then when I saw it the first time.

At first, I didn't know what to think. I understood that many of my favourite performers hated disco, but some actually made a few disco songs (Blondie). It is still a hilarious scene to think about. It was just one of those moments when everything clicked in my young mind.

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Wasn't disco

KRP was an "easy listening" station before the format change. Johnny's penultimate line before the scratch was "Well, it's goodbye to the elevator music" as he peeled a record off a turntable, breaking it in half in the process.

I may be confusing two episodes — the pilot and the one where he quit to take back his old LA job, then returned but got stuck with the graveyard shift and used the air name Heavy Early — but I think the record he scratched might've been the Cincinnati Tabernacle Choir's version of "You're Having My Baby."

:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

29. There was one, if I am not mistaken, where

he scratched a disco record. I think it was Heart of Glass by Blondie, but I may be wrong. I actually love Blondie, so it was one of those things where I had to stop and think before I realized it was funny. After that, it was always hilarious when I saw it in reruns. I don't know why I got the joke.

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. Huh

I don't remember him scratching a record except in the pilot, when they changed formats. :shrug:

Maybe it was when Johnny and Rip Tide were warring in the "Gotta Dance" two-parter. :7

The more I think about it, the more I think it was Heavy Early who played "You're Having My Baby." (What was that line? Something like "Music... for people who don't have anything better to do than listen to music at 5:30 in the morning.")

[Jamastiene]

35. I could have sword he scratched a disco record once.

Like I said though, I could be wrong. I wonder if there is a way to find out for sure?

[jobycom]

48. Here's the only record scratch I remember

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOVDhKGE8XE

[NewJeffCT]

13. too many good scenes

several already mentioned here...

I was just thinking of the scene where the dead rich guy had a videotape of his will played for his freeloading family. (He ended up giving his money to Jennifer so she could assemble a parade for his old military unit)

"You've always been an all or nothing sort of guy... and, since you can't have it all, you get NOTHING."

[baldguy]

15. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

Cracks me up every time.

[xmas74]

19. last part of one of my favorite episodes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWwyMBvVpWA&search=WKRP%20WKRPCincinnati%20Herb

[lizziegrace]

25. "Hold me closer

tiny dancer"

:)

[Maccagirl]

42. OMG that's my favorite too

The Russian hog expert who had a crush on Bailey and at the end dedicates "Tiny Dancer" to her as she listens to it in the semi-darkness. That's always been my favorite Elton John song so it's meaningful to me.

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. Aw, man

That made me mist up a little. I absolutely loved that episode.

I coulda killed 'em for screwing up the original music rights. I taped a good chunk of a KRP marathon when Nick At Nite brought it back, but not having the original music pretty much ruined it. x(

Ooo, trivia: Michael Pataki, who played Ivan, also played the main Klingon dude — the one who starts the bar fight — in "The Trouble With Tribbles."

"We go in beeg car with tape deck! To Cleveland and freedom! Ivan and Bailey sit in back seat. Get down."

:rofl:

[jobycom]

26. "Phone cops!"

Johnny runs through the office to hide from the phone cops, after the rest of the studio believes he and Venus were killed in an explosion.

[pokerfan]

34. Phone Cops - second only to the turkey bombing

A group called Black Monday has called in a bomb threat against the station and everyone is asked to evacuate. Andy tells Johnny and Venus to take some albums and head out to the transmitter to continue to broadcast. Both are reluctant to return to the booth. When Venus reminds Johnny that the police will check every inch of the building, including Johnny's desk drawers, he goes to get the albums.

At the transmitter, Venus tries to place a bet on a horse race with Johnny's Chinese bookie, but can't get through the language barrier. The two wait to hear from Andy.

Back at the station, Les interviews Andy for his newscast. He reveals that Black Monday blew up the transmitter of a Dayton TV station.

Andy then realizes that the bomb is at the transmitter and tries to call Johnny and Venus to warn them. However he can't get through because Johnny destroyed the phone with a tool box after getting upset about a bet he couldn't get down in time.

The police are dispatched to warn Johnny and Venus, while the staff anxiously waits. The bomb goes off, taking the station off the air. Everyone fears that Johnny and Venus have perished in the blast, but Johnny rushes in, thinking the phone cops are after him for destroying the equipment. A shocked Venus walks into the station, muttering "...at the transmitter, the bomb was at the transmitter."

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Bless you!

For the life of me, I couldn't remember the context of "phone cops." Now I can see plain as day Johnny running into the bullpen going "You didn't see me, you didn't see me!"

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

38. Oh yeah - the bomb was inside the toolbox!

the Johnny used to bash the telephone to pieces.

He calmly asked Venus to hand him the toolbox after he was unable to reach his bookie.

Venus says that it's locked. Johnny says that doesn't matter and then procedes to smash the phone to pieces.

It was the first ep of a two parter and as it came to an end, the camera zooms in on the toolbox which Johnny is now using as a bongo drum.

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. 'Why doesn't he call?'

"Here, John. Call him."

:rofl:

[RoyGBiv]

45. Some context ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9uFZBGEo1U8

[RoyGBiv]

43. It's the phone cops, man!

Don't you get it!? They're everywhere!

[lizziegrace]

28. Johnny and "Caravan"

Classic Johnny Fever. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ymCnGAeG8

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. 'He's such a cute little Nazi'

:rofl:

Hey — remember this?

"Do I hear dogs barking on that record?"

"I do."

[lizziegrace]

33. Heh

:rofl:

:)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

40. Cincinnati is being attacked by the godless....tornadoes!

I lived in Cincinnati for fifteen years, and every time we'd have severe weather alerts on TV, I'd find myself chuckling.

[sarge43]

46. Johnny telling Herb

that Jennifer is the result of the most cunning sex change operation in history.

Les getting dressed for his date with Jennifer with "Hot Blooded" playing in the background.

Les telling about his boat breaking loose from the hitch on the freeway.

The whole episode where the gang imaged themselves in a different setting like Les imaging himself as Ed Murrow - Andy as the Godfather telling Johnny to start playing disco is my favorite.

The baseball game with WPIG.

Any thing with Hersh and Mother Carlson

Johnny's "Oh yeah fellow babies. BOOGER!"

And of course, turkey drop.

[dajoki]

50. When Mr. Carlson...

thought the foot powder was cocaine.:rofl: The "flying" turkeys was another good one, there were plenty of great ones!!