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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo You Have a Favorite Episode of "WKRP In Cincinnati"?
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Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Station receives a bomb threat so its evacuated. Johnny and Venus are sent to broadcast from the transmitter. Johnny's rantings about the "phone cops" ring especially true today.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)Hide me Andy, I'll play the Carpenters, I'll play Barry Manilow....It's the phone cops man!
red dog 1
(27,866 posts)red dog 1
(27,866 posts)I'll add it to the list above.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Its amazingly close to reality as far as the main characters were written.
kiva
(4,373 posts)Iggo
(47,571 posts)I showed this to my son a couple years ago when he was a 6th grader. He loved it.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Thanks for the clip.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
C'mon, no contest.
red dog 1
(27,866 posts)I thought that episode would do well in the poll; but i never dreamed it would do this well
Les Nessman's Live On-Air broadcast was hilarious!
"Something just came out of the helicopter...it may be a skydiver... and there's another one, and another,....I don't see any parachutes........It can't be skydivers"
"OH MY GOD, THEY'RE TURKEYS!"
"People are running for their lives!"
"The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!"
"One just crashed through the windshield of a parked car!"
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Right up there with Mary Richards bursting into peals of laughter at the funeral of Chuckles the Clown.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants...."
Tripper11
(4,338 posts)snip....
Wilson looked at the butchered shows and had to agree. Things turned around, however, when Shout Factory hosted a Paley Center WKRP reunion this May in Los Angeles (included on the box set as a bonus feature). Shout Factory president Garson Foos told Wilson he had already negotiated clearances for 65 per cent of the music used on the series. That eventually inched up toward 90 per cent and the DVD box set was a go. (One hold out: Pink Floyd, spoiling a gag in the classic Turkeys Can Fly episode.)
Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)and defected. The scene in the INS office is a classic.
Andy and Bailey looking around the clerk at the wall saying "Excuse me sir, why do you still have a picture of Richard Nixon on the wall?"
Clerk: "They never sent us a Carter."
Another funny line "No sir, you can't defect here in Cincinnati. There's a lot of things you can't do in Cincinnati and that's one of them."
I know it didn't age all that well-but it was damn funny for it's time.
easychoice
(1,043 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Stephen King once (semi-jokingly) said you could determine all you needed to know about an American male of a certain age with his answers to three questions:
Ginger or Mary Ann? (Mary Ann for me)
Betty or Veronica? (Veronica)
Jennifer or Bailey? (Bailey)
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)csziggy
(34,138 posts)The one in which Herb painted his daughter's frog (named Greenpeace) pink.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27mrc1_wkrp-57-frog-story_shortfilms
It's also the one where Les convinces Johnny he's got "schistosomiasis."
red dog 1
(27,866 posts)Thanks for the link
csziggy
(34,138 posts)It deserves a vote.
One of my favorite exchanges from the episode:
Les: Herb, podiatrists take four years of medical training.
Bailey: Oh, call him, Herb, the frog is dying. Just pick up the phone and say, "Hi, my pink frog is dying and I would like you to come up here and take a look at his feet." I am sorry, I could not resist it!
I would love to see the out takes from this episode - though they may have used everyone's reactions to a pink frog for the show.
red dog 1
(27,866 posts)Thanks
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Never really watched that show.