The Bottom Line: "Great"
This episode was about a man who had to drive very fast - towards the west. Only west. Okay, but while our team was trying to find out what was wrong and how to fix it, we were all saying to ourselves "we've seen this with Keenu Reeves and a bus" on the big screen. Okay, maybe not the same thing, but it is a shot once again that shows how X-files is a redundant mass of taking plots from movies and books and any other media and weaving it into a story of their own.
The Bottom Line: "Great"
This show had to be a milemarker for other sitcoms in the 90's. Newsradio explored office politics, relationships, and crises through a group of co-workers at WNYX NewsRadio. It was a show that everyone talked about when you mentioned it, but no one admitted to watching.
Newsradio had a great casting and an excellent group that had some special scenes. They kept the show together and made it seem like a 90's sort of Mary Tyler Moore show. All for one and all working on things with the main focus the news, but what was happening in their lives also.
Now, this show had to have been one of the best comedies of the 90's. There was a thread of comedy that you can't find in today's humor. There was some innuendo's and ridiculous events that you find in all sit coms from I love Lucy to Friends, but it worked well with this group.
The beauty was in the equations you saw - Dave the main character was normal everyday guy and yet he was in an office and surrounded by every brand of nutcake imaginable. And some of them went on to be great names. Phil Hartman was the DJ egomaniac named Bill Mc Neal that was fantastic. Andy Dick, Maura Tierney, Joe Rogan have all gone on to new shows and each in different directions. Andy is still in an office sitcom, Maura a hospital drama (ER), Joe is on reality tv (Fear Factor) and DAve is hosting the card game show. It is pretty neat that they each found new venues.
I wish it was on late night tv more often. I would watch it. I am pretty sick of Raymond. Give me Dave!
The Bottom Line: "Great"
This was an earlier Ivan Tors 'animal' based show - Gentle Ben is one that came after it. Flipper had a similiar premise. A family adopts a wild animal and the animal becomes part of the family.
Flipper was like the third boy in the bunch. There was the Dad, Porter Ricks (played by Brian Kelly), the two boys, Sandy and Bud Ricks and Flipper. No Mom in this home.
But again, the family is out on the water and the boys go to school, help Dad and learn about life thru the events of the day. They learn that they should listen to Dad.
There was a sense that this was a father who was intelligent, understanding, and when warranted, firm. Porter Ricks raised his two sons, Bud and Sandy, with keen senses of the difference between right and wrong. This was something that stuck with me and that I saw again in other similiar shows by Ivan Tors. (Gentle Ben)
Flipper was a very intelligent dolphin and in the same sense of Lassie and Gentle Ben and some others, knew how to go for help, figure things out and solve problems that came up.
Many scenes took place out on the water, in a high speed boat with Flipper flying ahead leading them to the troubled area. It was exciting for tv and for us children.
I am glad to have been a part of the Flipper era.
Well, don't know if anyone will be reading this. But I stopped back - and probably will be back more. I have been a true Lostaholic and having fun turning others on to the show. I have friends that missed the whole first and second season so I converted them over Christmas. That was great. A marathon Lost weekend and they caught up to season three thanks to some dvd's I have been recording.
In my real life, I have had a lot happen and don't know where to start. People have died, others have not, jobs have changed, things have been fixed in the house, other things are still not fixed.
Guess the most fun this weekend was enjoying the sun and planting the flowers and tomatoes for the summer. I love sitting in the yard with the music playing, the dogs trying to get my attention and the sun on my back. Wheeeee!
See you all on the Lost forum!
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