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TOP 1980’S TELEVISION SHOWS · Ultimate Rewinds Podcast

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Welcome back to the 38th episode of the
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new name of the show. Yes, I did change
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it. Is called Ultimate Rewinds because
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we talk about a lot about nostalgia,
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about the things we grew up with, but
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this is all-encompassing, right? We talk
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about sports, we talk about movies, we
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talk about TV, we talk about
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collectibles, we talk about everything
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that we have fond nostalgia for. So,
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that's what it is. And today, we're
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going to be talking about the top 1980s
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TV shows. And I welcome back, of course,
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my partner in crime, Nick. What's going
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on, brother? How you doing?
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>> Good. How are you?
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>> I'm good. You know, I got a lot of I got
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good ones here. I got We're going to do
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a top 10, but there's always some
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honorable mentions. I think you said you
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have about 12 or 13. I have a total of
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15 alto together.
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>> Okay. You want to you want to start off
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since you got more than me?
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>> Yeah, let's get into it. Right. You
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know, we we do a lot of top 10s, but
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we're going to start it off at my 15,
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which would be one of my first honorable
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mentions. I don't even know if you
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remember this show. It was called My Two
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Dads, and it was about two dads who were
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both dating this girl at some point. She
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died. They had a daughter and the woman
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actually ended up leaving uh the
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daughter to these two ex-boyfriends. And
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I gotta tell you, the reason why this is
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on my list at some point is because I
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was absolutely in love with this girl,
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the the daughter when I was a kid
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growing up. Stacy Keenan, I think her
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name is gorgeous. Back then, I had a
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huge crush on her. So, I could not put
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her on this list, but a fun show also.
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>> I do remember her. That was the one
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thing I remember. And that was um
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who was the guy that was Paul Riser?
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Yeah, it was Paul Riser.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. I I mean I remember that.
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Yeah, it was a good show.
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>> Yeah, definitely didn't make your top
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list. All right.
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>> No,
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>> I don't know if you remember watching
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this one either, but at my number 14
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spot is Moonlighting.
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>> You remember that show with Bruce
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Willis?
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>> Civil Shepherd. Oh my god. Two
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detectives uh to form their own agency
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and they were two opposites and you
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could tell they had such sexual tension
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between them. I love that show growing
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up as a kid though. That probably
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wouldn't make a lot of people's n 1980
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shows, but for me it was something I
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definitely had to put on the list at an
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honorable mention.
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>> That show catapulted Bruce Willis and he
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became huge after that show.
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>> He was he was of course he's a huge 80s
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star 1990s early 2000s. We all know what
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happened to him now, but to me he might
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be the star of the 1980s and that put
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him on the map.
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>> All right. So what do you have? That's
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that's two. I mean, uh, I didn't put it
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on the list, but since you have so many,
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this show started in the 70s as a
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spin-off of a an alltime epic show. Um,
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but it had its run in the 80s. I'm going
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with the Jeffersons.
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>> Mr. and Mrs. Willis has got a pension
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plan. You and Miss Jefferson have got a
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pension plan. What about me? What have I
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got?
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>> Crows feet.
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at scalp you, but nature beat me to it.
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>> Oh, wow. That That's a great show that I
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didn't even think to put on here.
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>> That was I was going to put it on there,
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but I I was I cut my list down a lot. Um
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but it did start in the 70s, a spin-off
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from All in the Family. Another epic
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show. Um but dude, George Jefferson, all
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time sitcom character. He was great. He
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was hysterical. Um, it just it showed
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at the time in the US that like there
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was a lot of like racial instability,
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you know, you had the blacks, the
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whites, and everyone else. And he was
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just like the like, you know, you had
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Archie Bunker who was the ultimate
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racist,
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>> but then you had George who was black
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and the ultimate racist like on the
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other side. And it was just a great
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show. Um, you know, you know, his wife
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was so easygoing yet he was a hotthead.
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You know, you had the maid who was like,
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you know, had a fast tongue and was like
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cracking jokes on them. And u
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>> you had the interracial neighbors, the
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Willises, you know, husband was white,
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wife was black, and they always had the,
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you know, like, and then you had the
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English neighbor upstairs, Mr. Bentley.
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Um, just a great show, funny show. Um,
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George Jefferson is like all time
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alltime TV character. He's just great.
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He
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>> He is. And to me that like that
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represented the time we were in back in
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the 1980s where
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>> yes
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>> yeah there there was racial tension
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>> to riches
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>> but but people also like they didn't
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take it as seriously as they do now. So
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like you can have a character like that.
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You could have a character like Argie
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Bunker and people thought it was funny
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as opposed to to being actually racist.
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So George Jefferson 100% top 10 alltime
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characters from from any era in my
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opinion. All right. So number 12 again,
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another show I don't know if you're
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going to have on your list because I was
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more into superheroes I think than you
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are my entire life. So
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>> and it was the greatest American hero to
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me
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>> the greatest superhero show of all time
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because he was also like not a great
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superhero. That's what made the show fun
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is he was like I don't want to say he
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was a buffoon. That's not the word I
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want to use. He was a good dude. He just
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didn't know how to be a superhero and I
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always got the biggest kick out of that
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show. He also had that curly blonde hair
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which made him look like ridiculous in
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my opinion. I also enjoyed that growing
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up as a kid. So, Greatest American Hero.
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Did that come on your list at all?
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>> It didn't, but I did love that show.
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Actually, I think I was I was him for
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Halloween once.
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>> I think everybody was back then.
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>> Yeah, I did love that show. It was a
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great show. It didn't have a long run.
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It was like four-year run, but it was
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just it was a it it great theme song.
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Every everything about that show was
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great. So yeah, I mean I'm I you know
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honestly I completely forgot about it. I
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would have I would have had it probably
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maybe low on the list maybe honorable
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mention.
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>> Yeah, definitely. That's what like why
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we do these lists because there are
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things that we forget about, right? We
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grow up, we love them as kids, but then
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you you don't forget about them about
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them as adults, but as you go through
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these TV shows or go through these
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sports events that we've done in the
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past, like they they want and it may pop
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in into one of our minds and that's why
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we talk about it. But another thing
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about that show which a lot of people
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don't ever talk about is like that was
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the really the first time anything
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superhero based was on TV outside of
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like a Marvel or a DC like show like a
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Wonder Woman show. Obviously we can talk
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about Wonder Woman but uh this being
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like a spoof on a superhero I thought
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was even better. So you go ahead give me
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your your next honorable mention.
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>> I mean I don't know if this made your
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list. It probably did knowing how much
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you like this show. Uh, it only had a
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four-year run, early 80s, 82 to 86. Um,
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but it was Nightrider.
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>> Of course, it made my list. You kidding
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me?
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>> Yeah. Uh, you got David Hasselhoff, his
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first big-time show. Um, he was an
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undercover cop. Uh, you know, like he
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had his face changed. He became Michael
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Knight, you know. Um, he was fighting
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crime for a special organization. He had
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the car. It was the, you know, the
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Pontiac Trans Am that had the light in
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the front was called Kit.
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>> Kit.
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>> Um, you know, everybody remembers that
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show. The song every I mean, like that's
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one thing about 80s shows. Every
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show had a great song to open up. Um,
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yeah, Night Writer was great. Not long
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enough. It just for me that's why I
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didn't make the top 10. Four year run is
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not long enough for me. Um but also I
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mean it was it was just a great show. I
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don't know where it was on your list but
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it was a good show.
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>> So believe it or not like we're on um
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number 13. So there's already like 13 on
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the list. So to me it was my next it was
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number 12. So I loved the show growing
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up as a kid and the fact that it was a
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black transm. The fact that he talked to
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his car through his watch when he wasn't
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near the car and he could just talk to
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the car when he's sitting inside it.
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That's every boy's dream growing up is
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to have a cool car, be able to talk to
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it, be able to do all the things. He
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could jump with the car and and don't
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forget like when he needed to like go to
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like home base, it was like a a rolling
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trailer. So like the trailer would load
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down, he would pull in the trailer and
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that was it. Like that show also being
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like almost like the detective show back
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then was fantastic. Like I'm shocked it
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didn't make my top 10, but it was right
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outside of it at number 12. Great show.
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>> Yeah.
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>> All right. So number 11 for me. I'm I
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guarantee you this is higher on your
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list. There's no question in my mind
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that that this made your top 10.
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>> You're going to kill me numbering here.
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>> It's family ties.
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>> Well, how do I look?
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>> Middle-aged.
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>> Dad, recent studies show you can predict
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success by the way a person dresses.
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Alex, you're a young man. You shouldn't
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be worried about success. You should be
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thinking about hopping on a [ __ ]
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steamer and going around the world or
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putting a pack on your back and heading
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down to Mexico or South America.
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Anywhere.
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The 60s are over, Dad.
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Michael J. Fox. Uh, was it Michael
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Gross, I think, was the father's name. I
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forgot. B, not Burgess. Meredith. I
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forgot what her name. Meredith Baxter.
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Bernie is the mother. But,
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>> you know, such a great show that
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propelled Michael J. Fox's career.
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>> A little bit too serious at times like
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in the 1980s, but that's what we grew up
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with. A lot of these shows had like
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really serious episodes at some point,
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but a lot of them were just great family
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comedies, but it propelled a career of
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to me like uh an iconic movie star who
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went on to do one of my favorite movies
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of all time, Back to the Future.
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Obviously, the trilogy, and he's done
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other things, but that show in itself
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was fantastic. It's my number 11.
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>> All right. That actually was number
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eight on my list and and it was a
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seven-year run. It was it was a
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longunning show, 82 to 89.
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>> Uh but you had the two liberal parents,
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super liberal parents that were hippies
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>> and they're raising this
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ultra-conservative right-wing son and
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you know there was a clash and like it
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just like the whole show captured this
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like
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>> cultural shift in the country cuz it was
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Reagan, you know, this was Ronald
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Reagan's United States, right? So you
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have, you know, the cultural shift. You
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know, you went from the 70s with all the
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hippies and the liberals and and you're
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going into the 80s and everything's like
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you're making that switch over to
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conservativism and, you know, you have,
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you know, everything's in, you know,
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people living in excess and money. And
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so it was a changing in time in the
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United States and and this show kind of
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captured that, you know. Um, and you
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know, like you had the liberals and the
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and the conservatives bumping heads and
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it was just it just made for good
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comedy. Yeah, definitely. It was a
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change in American values and that's
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what that show kind of showed. It showed
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that you know the values of America was
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changing in in the 80s and um, you know,
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it was set in in Ohio, Columbus, Ohio,
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heartland of the country, you know. So,
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great show. I had it as number eight.
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So, but I get it was honorable mention.
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It's pretty good show though. Do you
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have any more honorable mentions or is
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that it?
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>> I have one.
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>> Okay.
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>> And that was Magnum PI.
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>> Yes. Yes. That
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>> that almost made my list, but I decided
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not to put it on it only because I I
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love the show, but I don't know. Yeah. I
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don't know if anybody else loved that
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show. So,
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>> it was a it was a really good show. And
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actually, we were young when it came
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out. It it ran from 1980 to 1988. It was
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a longunning show, but it had you got if
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you go back now and watch that show, you
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probably love it more, you know, like um
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you know, Tom Celich was like this uh
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you know, former Navy Seal like u you
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know, private detective and he was
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living in someone's like guest house in
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Hawaii and he's just you know, he's
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solving cases. He's, you know, asking
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friends for help and solving cases and,
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you know, he's just like he had the red
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Ferrari.
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>> Yes. you know, and and it's just like it
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was like, you know, it was cool. Like he
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was a cool dude and like you know, he
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went on to make, you know, have a big
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career, but that was a that was a great
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show. I love Magnum PI.
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>> Did you know that Tom Celich was
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supposed to be Indiana Jones, but he
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couldn't get out of the Magnum PI
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contract, so he he had to do it. So
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regardless, Tom Cull best mustache
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>> in the history of television or movies.
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So that's that's what made him a legend.
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Not just the stash, but his stature, the
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show itself was fantastic. Again,
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another great detective type show from
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that time period.
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>> And just as a little side note, if
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you're talking good stashes from the
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80s, you got
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>> Tom Celic, Keith Hernandez, Ron Jeremy,
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all time best.
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>> The third one there, I don't know if a
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lot of people know. I'm sure the people
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who are listening maybe they know. But
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my number 10 to start the list off as a
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one I know I think is going to make your
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list uh cuz I know you made fun of me
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for this show uh relating to this show
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in college and that's the facts of life.
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Mrs. Garrett
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and the girls home. Great show. Love
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Mrs. Garrett. She's everybody's
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grandmother. That's why I love that show
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because she reminded me of my
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grandmother between the voice outside of
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the accent. But uh just a great show. A
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lot of different personalities in that
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show between Tutti being the youngest,
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Joe being the butchest, I'll put it
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that. And then of course we had Blair I
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think who was everybody's favorite
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primadonna. But just a great dynamic and
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of course Natalie just your everyday
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all-American girl back then. So again a
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fun show. I I have fond memories of
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watching that show during the afternoons
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when I would come home from school I
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think. So I had to put it at least on
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the top 10.
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That didn't make my list. But, uh, it
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was a good show. It was a good show. Um,
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you know, I mean, listen, there's so,
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you know, TV is not like it was back
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then.
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>> Like, you can, there were so many shows
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to go and watch. It was, you know, um,
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but yeah, I mean, that show, it was a
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good show, but it didn't make my list.
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Actually,
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>> now that I think about it, I I I had one
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that I was going to put on the list and
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I completely forgot to put it on there
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now that you mentioned Mrs. Garrett.
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Well, tell you what. Let's talk. Can I
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say another honorable mention?
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>> I I I know exactly what you're going to
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say, and it's going to be Different
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Strokes. Correct. As you said, Mr.
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>> Oh my god, I loved Different Strokes and
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actually that would have been on my list
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had I not had too many. But Different
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Strokes was a great show.
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>> What you talking about?
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>> Fantastic. See, we're veering from the
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list here, which is fine. That's why
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we're doing a conversation. So, I I
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agree. Uh, again, great premise of, you
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know, a a white rich person taking in
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two African-American boys. Such a great
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dynamic. But you're right, Mrs. Garrett
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was their housekeeper and spin-off for
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Facts of Life. But there were so many
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great episodes of that show. Of course,
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the one famous one is, you know, the
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touching one, but
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>> yeah, the bike
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>> the bike. Everyone, everyone's scared of
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that bike episode.
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>> Such a great show. And again, another
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great character in Gary Coleman,
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>> you know, uh, what was his name?
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>> What you talking about, Willis?
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>> Yeah, what was the name on the show,
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though?
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>> Um, Arnold.
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>> Arnold. That was it. Arnold. That's what
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I wanted to say. Arnold, but I was like,
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that can't be right. It is.
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>> What you talking about, Willis?
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>> Great, great show. Great. And he never
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did anything after that, unfortunately.
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Gary Coleman, then he passed on early.
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So,
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>> yeah. Um, yeah, great show. Uh, I mean
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just it it was known more for the the
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troubles off off the air than on the
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air, you know.
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>> Of course.
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>> But uh
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>> but also was a great time alltime show.
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But um let me give you my number.
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>> What's your number 10? Yep.
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>> I don't know if this is on your list. I
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have a feeling it's on your list and
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it's much higher than where I have it.
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>> And that's MacGyver.
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>> It's not on my list, but I should get
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another show. I I totally forgot about
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>> had a 7-year run from 85 to92.
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>> Um, and it's about a secret agent uh
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named Angus MacGyver,
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right? And he worked for the Phoenix
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Foundation. Um, and he was best known
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for not using weapons
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and he used his scientific skills to
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solve issues, you know, you know, like
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instead of um I don't know, like he
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would use paper clips and a scotch tape
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and something would explode, you know,
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like it was that was what he would do.
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>> He make a bomb out of like [ __ ] a
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rubber band and and whatever like a leaf
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>> chewing gum.
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>> Yeah. Crazy stuff. That's what made this
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so fun. So, it was it was a great show,
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but what made it even better is the
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spoof that they did on SNL, McGruber,
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and they even made that into a movie.
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That McGrubber movie was pretty funny.
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>> But, you know, it's funny that you
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mentioned that show. I totally forgot
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about it. It's not on my list.
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>> Good show. It was a good show.
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>> Both us being in like the science field,
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that show kind of made me want to do
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something along those lines. Like, as a
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kid, I always wanted to get into
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robotics. So, like that's what I wanted
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to do. And and part of that is MacGyver
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because you could always build anything
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out of like scrap. So damn, I totally
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forgot about that. That's a good pick,
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man. That that's a really good one at
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number 10.
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All right, number nine is uh definitely
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I I don't I I'm pretty sure this is
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going to make your list, but I could be
17:44
wrong. And my number nine is Balky
17:46
Barakamoose and Larry Perfect Strangers.
17:50
>> Now we ARE SO HAPPY WE DO THE DANCE OF
17:52
JOY.
18:00
HEY,
18:02
>> that didn't make your list, bro.
18:05
>> Oh my god.
18:06
>> Didn't make the list.
18:08
>> But it's a great show. That's a great
18:09
show.
18:10
>> You could see where my humor was as a
18:12
kid. Meepos. Yeah. Uh I'm surprised
18:14
being Greek. I I I don't Were they Greek
18:16
in the show?
18:17
>> It was fictional. um his meipos. I mean
18:20
I mean it it was
18:22
>> they kind of made it him seem like he
18:24
was Greek but he you know there's
18:26
nothing there's nothing to it just like
18:27
all fictional. So
18:29
>> but that show about this foreigner
18:31
coming to America for the first time and
18:32
he was so wacky living with his cousin
18:34
who was like straight and narrow and
18:36
then you got these two
18:37
>> Yeah. then you got these two hot blondes
18:40
that there's no way in life that these
18:42
[ __ ] dudes would pull these two. It
18:44
just made the show fantastic. It was
18:46
just it was like the odd couple for the
18:48
1980s where the odd couple was the 1970s
18:51
but they had a you know a nice 1980s
18:53
feel for that show. So I always enjoyed
18:55
it. It made it number nine on my list.
18:57
So what do you think about that show?
19:00
>> Don't be ridiculous. That show was uh
19:04
that show is that was a good show. I'm
19:05
not going to lie. I did love Perfect
19:07
Strangers. I do love me some Balky
19:09
Bakumus.
19:10
Uh Kosin Li. Yeah, there was it was a
19:13
good show. I I you know what? Another
19:15
one that I just forgot about. There's
19:18
there's so many. I'm telling you right
19:19
now, I'm hoping you have one of the ones
19:21
I just forgot about on this list because
19:23
if it doesn't make a list, it's it's a
19:24
travesty. But
19:25
>> well, like I said, at at at the end
19:27
after we do number one, we can kind of
19:28
share.
19:29
>> See how we're going along and we're just
19:30
remembering more and more shows. This is
19:32
the
19:33
>> that's the that's the premise, right?
19:34
That's that's why we do it.
19:36
>> So, what's your what's your number nine?
19:38
H. Number nine is
19:42
as a young kid, this was probably one of
19:44
my favorite shows growing up. The
19:46
favorite show. I remember staying up and
19:48
watching it late at night. The Dukes of
19:51
Hazard.
19:57
>> Just a good old
20:00
never meaning no harm.
20:05
Beats all you never saw. been in trouble
20:07
with the law since the day they was
20:09
born.
20:12
>> Oh yeah.
20:13
>> And that was that was uh like a six-year
20:15
run from 79 to 85.
20:17
Um so like it took place in fictional
20:21
Hazard County in Georgia.
20:23
>> Yep.
20:24
>> And you had cousins Bow and Luke Duke
20:27
and um they were actually the whole
20:29
premise of the show is they were on
20:30
probation for running Moonshine.
20:34
So, and you know they they had this
20:37
awesome they had the most awesome car.
20:39
It was a 69 Dodge Charger, orange Dodge
20:42
Charger with 01 paint on the door and
20:44
they had the Confederate flag on the on
20:46
the roof and the doors never worked.
20:49
they used to climb through the windows
20:50
to get into the car and um you know
20:53
they'd always try to you know they
20:54
always get themselves into trouble
20:56
trying to do good and they'd run into
20:58
like the you know the corrupt officials
20:59
of Hazard County and you'd have boss hog
21:01
and the Rosco Pico train
21:03
>> train yep
21:05
>> well that was that was the thing about
21:06
the 80s like you had to have a good
21:08
villain and you had one in Boss hog
21:09
again a rich rich guy from the south and
21:11
you also had his lackey and Rosco Pigot
21:13
train who was a cop
21:15
>> so and then get these two yeah again
21:18
absolutely absolutely one a big huge
21:20
[ __ ] but that's what made the show and
21:22
then you had these two young guys who
21:23
were good-looking guys and of course
21:24
their cousin Daisy Duke who made that
21:26
show for any young
21:28
>> Daisy Dukes Daisy Dukes oh my they Daisy
21:32
Duke was the reason behind Daisy Dukes
21:34
the the jeans oh my god
21:38
>> she was hot
21:38
>> can I can't believe that the the two
21:41
that you just mentioned did not make my
21:43
list because it didn't even
21:44
>> I know that's what I'm saying I mean
21:45
perfect stone you said perfect I'm like
21:47
damn it man I missed Perfect strangers.
21:49
>> A lot of these 80s shows and they'll
21:51
probably repeat on some of the other
21:52
ones, but like Night Rider, Magnapi,
21:56
Dukes of Hazard, they're all like guys
21:59
living their dream basically growing up
22:00
to be like an action star or like you
22:02
know, as we're talking about Dukes of
22:04
Hazard, but just like rebels. That's
22:05
really what they were. Like that's what
22:07
we wanted growing up as a kid. It wasn't
22:09
all this [ __ ] that goes on now that have
22:10
kids like panicked about stuff. It was
22:12
just fun.
22:14
>> All right, I know this one has to be on
22:17
your list at number eight. It has to be
22:18
on your list. If it's not, I'm going to
22:19
be shocked. And that's my boy Tony Danza
22:23
and Who's the Boss? All right. So, it
22:25
did make your list. Don't tell me.
22:27
>> Number eight.
22:28
>> Yeah.
22:29
>> Okay.
22:29
>> Don't tell me yet where it was, but I
22:31
got to tell you,
22:33
>> iconic iconic TV show. Tony Danza being
22:36
a housemmaid for a woman who was an
22:39
executive and they end up falling in
22:42
love throughout the show. A lot of again
22:44
a lot of great sexual attention in these
22:45
1980s shows. He ends up having a
22:47
daughter who goes on to be obviously a
22:49
huge crush of mine growing up. Now she's
22:51
a little bit of a nut job.
22:52
>> And then of course the best part of that
22:54
show is the mother. Mona by far
22:58
>> the funniest part of that show was in
23:00
love with Tony as well. Like really just
23:01
wanted to jump his bones. But it's such
23:03
again great family TV show and the
23:05
character development for these shows
23:06
were were off the charts.
23:08
>> She was the original gilfar
23:12
of the 80s.
23:14
>> Yes. Mona Robinson. H she was hot. She
23:18
was hot. But um yeah, that was a great
23:21
show. It's actually six on my list.
23:24
>> All right. So,
23:24
>> you got Tony Tony Dan who played Tony
23:26
Melli, right? Former baseball player. Um
23:30
it's just another one of those 80s
23:33
changing in times type of shows. Uh
23:37
where you had the role reversal, right?
23:39
you have the the the woman, the
23:41
beautiful woman that's the bread winner,
23:42
and you got Tony who's like the
23:44
stay-at-home guy that takes care of the
23:45
kids and cooks and cleans.
23:47
>> Um, just it's just like one of those
23:50
it's, you know, the '8s was like a a a
23:53
shift in in culture. Like that's why
23:57
they what makes the 80s so great. It
23:58
just was it was such a great time to be
24:00
alive. I mean, I feel bad for people who
24:02
don't who didn't live through the 80s,
24:04
man. Like the '8s were so great. That's
24:07
why I said 1985 1985 was the peak of
24:10
civilization. After 1985, it slowly just
24:12
started to come down.
24:13
>> Dude, the go like this country was
24:15
booming. Economy was great. People were
24:17
living in excess. People were having
24:20
fun. You know, you know, this is all
24:22
pre- AIDS obviously. So, uh, but yeah,
24:25
they, you know,
24:26
>> thanks for bringing that up.
24:27
>> Doing whatever the hell they wanted.
24:29
>> Um, but yeah, I mean that's such a great
24:33
show. Uh, you know, obviously Alyssa
24:35
Milano, everyone's crush growing up.
24:38
Obviously, like you said, she's a whack
24:40
job now, but you know, she still
24:42
actually looks pretty good if you look
24:43
at her now. She's not bad.
24:44
>> She's gorgeous. Always been gorgeous.
24:46
>> Um, you know, everyone goes a little
24:48
crazy. That's okay.
24:50
>> Um, but yeah, that was number six on my
24:53
list. So, you actually you grabbed six
24:54
and eight off my list, believe it or
24:56
not.
24:56
>> Yeah, I always thought like when we get
24:58
into the top 10, me and you would have a
25:00
lot of the same. It would just be
25:01
shuffled around.
25:02
>> Especially the top three are going to be
25:04
like uh
25:05
>> I don't know. I don't know. Maybe two.
25:08
All right. So, what's your number?
25:09
What's your number? Uh
25:10
>> well, my number eight was Family Ties,
25:12
which was your lower one, right?
25:13
>> So, you give me seven
25:16
>> and I'm going prime time soap
25:20
and I'm going Dallas.
25:22
>> Well,
25:24
it's amazing what a few thousand can do,
25:26
isn't it?
25:27
>> Oh, J. What a terrible thing to say.
25:29
>> Really? Well, what's next? Are we on a
25:31
capert?
25:32
>> Oh, see that that didn't come on my
25:34
list.
25:34
>> All right. But Dallas is an alltime
25:36
show. I mean, I don't know if you
25:37
watched it.
25:39
>> Never watch it.
25:39
>> Um, it ran from 1979 until 1991. Had a
25:44
long run. And it it's based out in
25:48
Texas, obviously. It's called Dallas.
25:50
Um, and it's based on t oil tycoons and
25:55
the major family being the Euings. And
25:57
you have good brother Bobby, bad Bobby,
26:00
a bad brother Jr., everyone knows JR.
26:03
Everyone loves JR actually. And um you
26:06
know they you know they had that sibling
26:08
rivalry and you also had the um
26:11
competing family
26:13
um what were their names? Damn it. Um
26:15
the Barnes, Cliff Barnes. I don't even
26:17
remember Cliff Barnes, but you know just
26:20
a great show. Um ultimate villain in JR.
26:24
Oh my god. I mean he slept with
26:26
everybody on that show. who who doesn't
26:28
make him a villain.
26:28
>> That's a great He slept wives. He's Oh
26:31
my god.
26:32
>> That makes him a hero in my eyes. He's
26:33
not a villain.
26:35
>> Yeah, but he was I mean just like just
26:38
the you know he had Goody Two Shoes
26:39
Bobby. You had the evil brother Bob uh
26:42
Jr. Cliff Barnes was another you know
26:44
animal. Just a great show. Um it had
26:48
such an an incredible run. Beautiful
26:49
women on that show. Uh um you know just
26:54
awesome. See that that Dallas did not
26:56
make my list. I obviously I heard of the
26:58
show. I I knew it growing up as a kid,
27:00
but I could not put it on my list
27:01
because I never really watched the show.
27:03
But I did hear from everybody back then
27:05
that it was a tremendous show. It was
27:06
almost like, you know, like you said,
27:08
like a soap for prime time, which which
27:10
you you didn't really have back then
27:12
outside of that show. So, I understand
27:14
why uh people fell in love with it. I'm
27:16
going to just I'll throw two other names
27:19
out there that didn't make my list, but
27:20
they were also big-time 80s like soaps,
27:23
like prime time soaps, and you had
27:24
Dynasty,
27:26
which was phenomenal
27:29
and Falcon Crest. Uh, neither one I
27:32
watched. Both I've heard of, neither one
27:33
I watched. So, all right, we're at
27:35
number seven, believe it or not. And
27:37
number seven is a classic. I don't know
27:38
if it made your list if I don't know if
27:40
you're into the show, but I was. But
27:42
what was weird about the show is that it
27:45
was I don't remember ever there being a
27:47
plot in the show. It was just like
27:48
people getting together and that's
27:49
Cheers. So Sam Malone owning a bar,
27:54
being a former, you know, Boston Red Sox
27:56
player made him a huge deal. But then
27:58
what made the show greater is all these
27:59
cast of characters that continuously
28:01
came through the bar. You had Cliff, you
28:03
had Norm, you had the people who worked
28:05
there and Woody Harlson, I forgot his
28:06
name. You had uh I think it was Mac, the
28:08
guy. Yeah, Woody, and then you had
28:10
coach. Coach, that was it. who yeah he
28:12
ended up dying and
28:13
>> yeah during the show and then of course
28:15
you had the women you had um Diane and
28:18
then you had um Kirsty Alley's whoever
28:20
she came in I forgot her name who she
28:22
played Rebecca that she came in later on
28:24
and played but
28:25
>> you show the best one
28:27
>> Rita what's her name
28:28
>> Carla
28:29
>> Carla that's it Rita she was married to
28:31
Danny Devito in real life
28:33
>> so to me like that show was just all
28:35
about the characters that came into the
28:36
bar and it was almost like a Seinfeld
28:38
for for for the 1980s were like
28:40
>> we'll see what happens when they come
28:42
into the bar today. But it was such an
28:43
iconic show and I think because of his
28:46
backstory as a former Major League
28:48
Baseball player.
28:50
>> All right, I'm going to comment on that.
28:52
You said I wouldn't have it on my list.
28:54
It was number one on my list.
28:56
>> Really?
28:56
>> The only the only the only reason I say
28:59
it and maybe it wasn't it wasn't like my
29:01
favorite show,
29:03
>> but I placed it number one because of
29:05
its all-time stature amongst the other
29:08
shows. you you know it ran from 82 to
29:11
93.
29:13
The the season the the series finale I
29:16
think had like 80 million viewers. It
29:17
was like something insane. Um so the
29:20
show obviously yeah you said Sam Malone
29:23
former Red Sox pitcher. Um you know owns
29:27
this cozy little bar in Boston. Uh has
29:30
you know basically the show is based on
29:32
his relationships. He had the
29:33
relationship with Diane when then when
29:35
she left he had the relationship with
29:36
Rebecca. So, like that was the center of
29:38
everything. But like you said, what made
29:41
the show was these cast of characters,
29:44
Frasier and Cliff and Norm, Carla, all
29:48
these like and Woody, I mean, all these
29:49
animals that are in the bar and uh
29:52
that's that's honestly what made the
29:54
show and and you know, spawned the
29:55
spin-off of uh Frasier, which was also I
29:59
mean wasn't an 80s show,
30:01
>> but it was an alltime show. So, I mean,
30:03
anytime you have a show that can create
30:05
a spin-off that's very successful, you
30:07
know, it's a good show.
30:09
>> Absolutely. For me, um, uh, I'm going to
30:12
ask you this question. If you had to
30:13
pick [ __ ] one, marry one, kill one,
30:16
>> Carla, Diane, Rebecca, who are you going
30:18
with?
30:18
>> [ __ ] Mary, kill.
30:20
>> Yes.
30:24
>> Okay. You ready?
30:25
>> Yeah.
30:26
>> I'm [ __ ] Rebecca. I love the curvy.
30:29
>> I love the Kirsty Alley.
30:32
She was she was beautiful, too.
30:34
>> Even even when she was a little bigger,
30:36
she was still cute. I thought she was
30:37
she was very sexy. And um I'm going to
30:41
go marry Carla because I think she'd
30:43
make a great wife. She's a spitfire. And
30:45
then I killed Diane. Diane Diane was a
30:48
[ __ ] pain in the ass.
30:50
>> Forget her, man.
30:51
>> She was a whack job. Forget her. Get rid
30:53
of her. I go, that's that's in my order.
30:56
And I'm sure that's pretty much your
30:57
order, too.
30:58
>> I I agree. Like Diane would the
31:00
character herself was beyond annoying.
31:02
Miss Chris, everything bothered her.
31:04
Like forget that. Carla would probably
31:06
drive me nuts though as my wife as well
31:08
because she was like wild. Her husband.
31:10
>> Yeah. But I I feel like she make a good
31:12
wife, you know, like you know,
31:13
entertaining wife, you know. You know,
31:15
>> entertaining.
31:16
>> Yes.
31:17
>> 100%. I agree with that. All right. So,
31:19
my number six I I know it's got to be on
31:21
your list. It has to be. Here we go.
31:23
It's one of the all I'm surprised it
31:25
wasn't in the top three because that's
31:27
how much I enjoyed this show. And that's
31:29
the 18.
31:30
>> We're not going to the airport. VA,
31:32
>> isn't Murdoch kind of crazy?
31:33
>> If he's flying, then we are dying.
31:36
>> The 18 for me was honestly the best
31:40
action show from the 1980s. Four
31:42
tremendous characters that all came from
31:44
four different backgrounds. All, you
31:46
know, army vets, all wanted by the
31:48
government. Yeah. All whatever.
31:50
Hannibal, the leader, comes up with the
31:52
plans, the smart guy. Ba Barackus, Mr.
31:55
T, he's the the brute, the force. Uh,
31:58
howling man, Murdoch, again, one of my
32:00
favorites, absolutely out of his
32:01
freaking mind, but they needed him to to
32:03
fly the choppers. And of course, another
32:05
favorite is Face. Could do anything.
32:07
Everybody believe what he says. And of
32:09
course, always fallen for all the
32:10
chicks. And the chicks are falling for
32:12
him. So, it was just a great set of
32:13
characters. And every week was like
32:14
something new. They always you go into a
32:17
town, they need them, they'd win in the
32:18
end, and then they disappear. That was
32:20
that was the MMO for the entire show.
32:21
But it worked, man. It was such an I was
32:23
hooked on that show.
32:25
>> It wasn't a longunning show. Uh I wanted
32:27
it on my list, actually. I was going to
32:29
put it on my list.
32:30
>> It's not on your list. Jeez, it's
32:32
>> not the time. No, it can't be top 10. I
32:34
mean, I loved it, don't get me wrong. In
32:36
fact,
32:38
the show I don't know if it was the show
32:41
that put So, all right. So, the best
32:44
cameo on that show was Hulk Hogan by
32:47
far.
32:48
>> And because of the cameo, Mr. T made it
32:51
to Wrestlemania 1. So, I mean, it has a
32:54
lot of cultural significance. That show
32:55
was great.
32:57
>> Best opening, I think, for a show.
32:59
>> The theme. We're going to we're probably
33:01
going to do another episode of just
33:03
another podcast just on themes.
33:05
>> Oh my god.
33:06
>> Yeah. But that I agree that that it's it
33:08
it might be number one. That's how good
33:09
it was.
33:10
>> This may be on your list. I'm not 100%
33:13
sure. I did love the show. It's I have
33:16
them back to back because they're very
33:18
similar shows in their dynamic.
33:21
Growing pains.
33:24
>> Okay.
33:24
>> It's on my list.
33:25
>> Ran from 85 to 92,
33:28
>> right? Based in Long Island. You had
33:30
Jason and Maggie Siver. And um you know,
33:34
their three kids,
33:36
uh Maggie, not Maggie, I'm sorry, Mike,
33:38
Carol, and Ben, right? And it's
33:43
basically another one of those role
33:44
reversal shows. You have the wife going
33:46
back to work. You have the husband
33:48
working out of the home and taking care
33:49
of the kids. It it's just a, you know,
33:52
and it was a just a wholesome comedy.
33:55
They they tackled like social issues and
33:57
stuff like that. And um just a great
34:01
show all around. Um, you know, you had
34:05
uh
34:07
the um I guess the last season even Leo
34:10
DiCaprio got his start in in in in
34:14
Hollywood from this show. But um I love
34:17
the show. Had some great characters. I
34:20
love the uh the friend Boner Stabone.
34:22
Great great character on on any show. Um
34:26
little known fact as a Mets fan, but do
34:28
you remember who the neighbors were for
34:30
the Severs?
34:32
I don't.
34:33
>> They're from Long Island, New York. It
34:35
was the Kuzzman. So, you had Severs and
34:37
Kman.
34:38
>> The creator of the show was a huge Mets
34:40
fan.
34:40
>> So, little known fact.
34:42
>> What's great about that show, again,
34:44
another great dynamic with the children.
34:45
You had Ben who was the youngest one who
34:47
was almost like the more normal out of
34:48
the three kids. And then you had Mike
34:50
being the oldest who was like a
34:51
complete,
34:52
>> you know, he he was a cool kid.
34:55
Everybody loved him, but at the same
34:56
time, he wasn't into school. He was like
34:58
almost like more of a
34:59
>> until he became a Jesus freak.
35:01
>> Yeah. in real life. But then of course
35:03
you had um
35:04
>> the the middle one and Carol who was
35:06
like straight A's, straight whatever,
35:08
your perfect daughter and they just
35:10
meshed well together. The father was
35:12
like a therapist from his home. So it
35:14
was just such a great
35:15
>> Yeah. such a great family dynamic which
35:18
I think really resonated back in that
35:20
time that 1980s where you can have
35:22
different types of families like we saw
35:24
like different strokes we saw the family
35:25
ties we saw the growing pains who's the
35:28
boss and all different type of family
35:30
dynamics which you don't see a lot now
35:32
>> so like I was saying it just showed the
35:35
change of time
35:37
>> the 80s like things were were changing
35:39
in the 80s and it was just stuff that
35:42
people weren't used to they weren't used
35:43
to their mom going to work you They
35:46
weren't used to their dad staying home
35:47
and taking care of the kids, you know,
35:48
and changing diapers.
35:50
>> Um,
35:52
you know, and it's just another example
35:53
too of an 80s show
35:56
where,
35:58
you know, off the air stuff affects the
36:01
show, right? So, you had the daughter
36:04
Carol, she had bulimia or anorexia or
36:07
something and she looked like she was
36:08
dying almost on the show. And then you
36:09
had Mike became a Jesus freak and
36:12
completely changed his character on the
36:13
show. They went from him being, you
36:16
know, funny in an animal to like a goody
36:19
two shoes, which just it didn't like
36:20
that's why that show like towards the
36:22
end just kind of like faded.
36:24
>> So, you know what? That was my number
36:26
two show. Number two show.
36:29
>> Wow.
36:30
>> I I had such a fondness for that show as
36:31
well. Great characters.
36:32
>> I really hope you have another show on
36:33
here because I left it off and I
36:36
remembered it at the end and I'm like,
36:37
damn it, that was such a great show. And
36:39
>> well, me just mention it now. Mention it
36:42
now. The Wonder Years.
36:44
>> Oh, it was a great show. Wasn't didn't
36:45
make my list though.
36:46
>> The Wonder Year Years was such a good
36:48
show. Everyone's favorite. Winnie
36:50
Cooper.
36:51
>> I didn't like her growing up. That
36:52
wasn't wasn't for me. Give me Stacy
36:54
Keenan anytime, man.
36:58
>> Was hot, man.
36:59
>> She was in another show after that which
37:01
didn't make my list, but it was um Step
37:03
by Step, I think, was the name with with
37:05
the parents. It was also Suzanne Summers
37:07
was in that show.
37:08
>> Yeah, that was 90s though. That was 90s.
37:10
to the three all three daughters in that
37:12
show were [ __ ] gorgeous. All three of
37:13
them. So
37:14
>> I I don't think this made your your
37:16
list. I'm actually shocked. It's the
37:17
Cosby show.
37:19
>> Bill Cosby.
37:20
>> I did like the Cosby's. I kind of left
37:22
it off because I'm kind of tinned off by
37:23
that guy now. So
37:24
>> I get it. He's a sexual predator. We all
37:27
get it. But back in the 1980s, Bill
37:29
Cosby, I think, almost owned the 1980s,
37:31
everything he had going on. That show
37:32
was actually
37:33
>> really good show.
37:35
>> It was great. um him being a doctor um
37:38
African-American doctor which there were
37:40
a lot of talk unfortunately about them
37:43
taking those type of roles so he brought
37:45
that into the show. It was a funny ass
37:47
show him uh them with their their four
37:49
children. Theo obviously being the
37:51
funniest out of all of them in my
37:53
opinion. Claire to me was held that show
37:56
together her being a lawyer
37:59
>> really dominant. She owned him. Yeah, I
38:02
used to love her as well. Yeah, I used
38:03
to love her as well. their dynamic uh
38:06
their relationship living in New York
38:07
City. It was such a great dynamic that
38:10
again very powerful couple,
38:12
African-American couple to boot. Kids
38:14
were all funny, all good kids, all like
38:16
they got in trouble here and there, all
38:18
smart kids as well. So there was a great
38:20
family dynamic in that show. But I
38:21
remember always sitting down at the time
38:23
that show came on just to watch it.
38:25
>> But it's again, it's just showing you
38:27
cultural shift in the in the country at
38:28
the time, right? So
38:30
>> you know, very successful family, upper,
38:32
you know, upper class. Um, you know, all
38:36
the kids were good kids going to college
38:38
and everything. Just, you know, just
38:41
your 80s just like feel-good show, you
38:43
know, like that's a lot of that stuff
38:45
from the 80s and and it just it just
38:47
showed you how well the country was
38:49
doing at the time, you know?
38:51
>> It's not even that. Like 1980s
38:54
television taught kids how to be, you
38:56
know what I mean? They taught you how to
38:57
grow up. They taught you to dream, but
38:59
they also taught you, you know what, I
39:01
could do this with my life. I could make
39:02
myself, you know, prosper. You don't get
39:04
that [ __ ] from now on television. It
39:06
really is is sad for where we've gone.
39:09
But
39:09
>> what's your what's your number four?
39:13
>> This is I think this is on your list
39:16
unless you put if you didn't consider an
39:18
80s show. I consider an 80s show cuz
39:19
that's when it started. And that's
39:21
Married with Children.
39:24
>> Let's rock.
39:27
>> So dude, let me tell you something. To
39:28
me, that that was always a '9s show. Oh,
39:30
so if this is an 80 show,
39:32
>> listen, it had a 10-ear run.
39:34
>> It would be number two on my list.
39:37
>> If it was if it was if I had considered
39:40
this a 1980 show, this would be number
39:41
two on my list. There's no question to
39:43
me. This is like this change television,
39:45
the show.
39:46
>> Yes. See, this is this is me, right? I I
39:48
I was torn. I'm like, is it an 80s or is
39:51
it a N? But it started 1987 and it ran
39:54
for 10 years. So, it was it was a
39:56
10-year run. So it it it again another
39:59
no plot, you know, it's it's Al Bundy.
40:02
It's the Bundy family, right? And it's
40:03
basically a dysfunctional family and
40:06
it's actually it's a satire for what
40:09
whatever the idealic '8s sitcom was.
40:11
Like you go from Who's the Boss, Growing
40:13
Pains, The Cosby's, and then you get the
40:16
Bundies, right? The Bundies are
40:19
completely the opposite. The neighbors
40:22
are completely the opposite of every
40:23
neighbor on the show. So, you have the
40:26
Bundies. You got Al Bundy. He's a shoe
40:28
salesman. Former football, high school
40:29
football star who's a loser and his wife
40:32
is like a, you know, this big, you know,
40:34
waste of a space. She sits on the couch
40:36
all day, bon bonss. You got Bud who's
40:39
like this big hornball loser. And then
40:41
you have Kelly who's like a [ __ ] and a
40:44
[ __ ] you know, like. And then you get
40:45
the neighbors. You have Marcy and Steven
40:48
Rhodess, right? You got Marcy and Steven
40:50
Rhodess and she's uptight and they're
40:53
all about money and everything else. and
40:54
the Bundy's are broke. Like, which I
40:57
don't get how they live next to each
40:58
other if the Bundies were broke.
40:59
>> Exactly. Exactly.
41:00
>> Um, you know, I mean, that show was
41:02
great. Uh, and then later on you had
41:05
Jefferson Darcy. Oh my god, that was her
41:07
name changed to Marcy Darcy.
41:09
>> If if this show, if I thought to put
41:12
this on the list, it would have been
41:13
number two. I always consider it more of
41:14
a 90s show, but it did start in the 80s.
41:16
>> Al Bundy to me is what every man has
41:20
become in this world nowadays. Yeah.
41:23
>> Yeah. It really is because most men hate
41:25
their jobs. They hate what they do. They
41:27
come home to their wife who may may or
41:29
may not be working, but she's an
41:30
[ __ ] She takes advantage of him.
41:32
Maybe maybe deep down she loves him. But
41:35
you could see how [ __ ] miserable he
41:37
is. And his kids are just rotten to the
41:40
core. But this was a funny ass show.
41:42
Like Bud Bundy was tremendous. They they
41:45
really, you know, weaponized women in
41:47
this show, which I absolutely love
41:48
growing up because I was a big horror
41:50
master.
41:51
>> Yeah.
41:52
And then you had Kelly Bundy. Kelly
41:54
Bundy was the ultimate sexual idol for
41:58
all icon I should say for all.
41:59
>> She was hot. She was hot
42:01
>> for that time frame. There was nobody
42:03
better than Kelly Bundy.
42:04
>> She's still very beautiful by the way.
42:06
Very beautiful.
42:06
>> The Bunny Bounce. I mean, she was But
42:09
you also take like all the what I just
42:11
said and then you add the neighbors.
42:14
Marcy was probably the typical most
42:16
annoying neighbor you're going to find
42:17
and her being a woman, her being a
42:19
lesbian, her being like, you know, very
42:22
liberal. And then of course she she's
42:23
married to Steve who's kind of almost in
42:25
between Al and her. And then all of a
42:27
sudden towards the later before he left,
42:28
he started shifting to more oral. And
42:31
then of course we have the great
42:32
Jefferson who really added something
42:33
different to that show.
42:35
>> Uh and then you had No Man where they
42:37
start forming the group. It was just
42:39
>> it's just liberating for men. That that
42:41
show was really what that was. It was
42:42
like liberating for man. I mean, great
42:44
ideas. Like I remember one episode where
42:46
Al goes on vacation and all he wanted
42:48
was like four Daves sitting on the couch
42:49
without being bothered and he puts up
42:51
the baby gates and and you can't talk to
42:53
him while he's on vacation. To me, there
42:55
was just it was it was for that time
42:58
frame, nothing had ever been done like
43:00
that. And like I said, if I considered
43:01
it, it would have been number two.
43:03
>> Hooters. Hooters. Yum. Yum. Yum.
43:06
>> Hooters. Hooters. And a girl that's
43:07
dumb.
43:10
>> Iconic show. the Dodge, the legendary
43:13
Dodge.
43:14
>> Oh boy.
43:16
>> That show was more Americana. And that's
43:18
where, you know, we talk about 80s to
43:19
90s shift. That's where that show like
43:22
>> that show that's why I mean I that's why
43:24
I put it cuz it's like it's contrasting,
43:26
right? So it it begins in the 80s at the
43:29
late 80s
43:30
>> and like you've had an 80s run where
43:33
everything is wholesome, everything is
43:35
great and then up, you know, here comes
43:37
Al Bundy and he's like, you know what,
43:39
no it's not. you know, it's a big it's
43:42
like big FU, you know, like we're not
43:43
nothing's great. Um, it was a
43:46
groundbreaking show. It really was
43:48
because I I mean
43:49
>> I think around that same time, right,
43:51
didn't you have um Roseanne, too,
43:54
>> which is also that same type of mold
43:57
where it was just like, yeah, nothing is
43:58
great. Everything is [ __ ]
44:00
>> All right. So my number four is a show
44:02
that I think would be on your list, but
44:04
again like Married to Children where it
44:06
was ' 80s to '90s. This was 70s to 80s
44:09
and I think it would be like number one
44:10
on your list knowing you but maybe
44:12
number two cuz you already told me what
44:14
number one was or maybe it didn't make
44:15
it cuz you thought it was 70s but that
44:17
of course is Thre's Company.
44:19
>> Good morning Mrs. Roer.
44:20
>> Oh, good morning.
44:20
>> Oh hi Jack. How have you been? I haven't
44:22
seen you for a while.
44:25
>> Here's your wallet. You left it in my
44:26
bed.
44:29
Oh my god.
44:31
>> Did they This is This made my list at
44:33
number three. I mean, this is my
44:35
all-time favorite show.
44:36
>> My favorite show, but I put it at three
44:39
for a reason.
44:41
>> Okay. So, I Yeah. Go ahead.
44:44
>> You want to talk about characters? You
44:45
want to talk about character
44:46
development?
44:48
A dude who's living with two female
44:50
roommates in the late 1970s, early 80s,
44:53
which was, you know, god forbid anybody
44:55
do that. And not only that, how many
44:58
great characters came into the show for
45:00
like cameos like Mr. Furley who was
45:03
their landlord who would never approve
45:04
of such a living arrangement. Then later
45:06
on there's Mr. Roer and his wife and
45:08
again another another instance of a man
45:10
hating his wife right there and Mr.
45:11
Roer. Times have not changed regarding
45:13
that. But then you had guys like Larry
45:15
Dallas who added like color to the show
45:17
as Jack's best friend who lived upstairs
45:19
or wherever he lived and all the great
45:21
sexual endos that that went along with
45:23
that show. And then of course you had
45:24
Jack's career. You had the Rico Beagle.
45:27
Phenomenal show for the time frame. But
45:28
I'm going to let you speak on this
45:29
because I know it is your favorite show.
45:31
>> Well, you know, I know everything about
45:34
this show. So, this show was based on a
45:37
British comedy called Man about the
45:39
House, right? They bring it here. It's
45:42
they base it in Santa Monica,
45:44
California. And it's two girls, two
45:47
girls that their roommate moved out cuz
45:49
she had a baby. And so, they need to
45:52
find a roommate. They had this party.
45:53
And you know, um, this guy, they find
45:56
him in the bathtub, sleeping in the in
45:58
the in the bathtub. And it's John
46:00
Ritter. He's, you know, Jack Tripper,
46:02
the Jack Tripper. Um, and the rest is
46:06
history. It's, you know, they wanted,
46:08
you know, like he made them breakfast.
46:10
She they wanted him to stay. So,
46:13
you know, they had to pretend he was gay
46:15
because there was no way they would let
46:18
a man live with two women because it was
46:20
a just a different time in this country,
46:22
right? Um
46:24
just you know the the whole show I mean
46:26
it like talk about the original show
46:28
about nothing. This was the show about
46:29
nothing. It's just it the all it had a
46:32
basis. It was two girls living with a
46:33
guy pretending to be gay. That was it.
46:35
Everything else was just there was just
46:37
fl there was no story line. It was just
46:41
misunderstanding double entandra
46:44
you know slapstick comedy. It was just
46:47
good feelgood comedy. you know, all the
46:50
sexual stuff, you know, all the the gay,
46:54
you know, hidden gay jokes and, you
46:56
know, the um you know, like just the the
47:00
the
47:02
um homophobia of the of the landlord and
47:07
everyone else too, as as a matter of
47:09
fact. But, um just such a great show.
47:12
Larry Dallas, the the pimp of the show.
47:14
Like, it's just such a funny funny show.
47:17
Again, as a young boy growing up to have
47:19
all these very good-looking women there,
47:21
not just obviously, you know, Joyce Dit
47:24
and
47:24
>> Suzanne Summers was hot.
47:25
>> Yeah. Yeah. But that they were there
47:27
every show. It's it's almost like later
47:28
on when Suzan was left, you had Terry
47:30
who was also very good-looking. And they
47:32
all these Jack's girlfriends and Larry's
47:34
girlfriends that they'd bring over all
47:35
the time. That's what made the show
47:36
great as well. But
47:37
>> wearing bras.
47:39
>> Yeah.
47:40
to me like this is like one of the first
47:42
shows that almost broke the fourth wall
47:44
because everything every time something
47:45
funny would happen either Mr. Roer would
47:48
kind of look at the camera, Jack would
47:49
look at the camera or Mr. Furley would
47:51
look at the camera and but like almost
47:52
like smirk a little bit like they're
47:54
breaking that fourth wall. So like that
47:55
also like it made something special
47:58
about that show that we didn't have
47:59
before in in 1980s television.
48:02
>> Yeah. He had it was Mr. Roer and he
48:04
would do the wife crack about his wife.
48:06
>> Yeah. And uh you know you just you turn
48:09
and look at the camera real quick and
48:10
then here you did Tinkerbell. Um yeah.
48:13
No, I love I mean I loved I mean I I to
48:16
this day I still watch it. I mean it's
48:18
like my favorite show,
48:19
>> you know. So for the you don't have to
48:21
think you just don't have to think. It
48:22
has doesn't there's no you could you
48:25
know like you can miss like five
48:26
episodes and go in and it's a fresh
48:28
episode. It's kind of like Seinfeld you
48:30
know in that sense where you you don't
48:31
need there's no story line. I mean,
48:34
Stein Seinfeld had more of a storyline
48:36
than Thre's Company to be honest with
48:37
you because you do have like things that
48:39
they remembered and and went off of. But
48:42
>> so if you know this guy when we were in
48:44
college together when he was just have
48:46
some downtime, he would put on episodes
48:48
of Thre's Company. That and The Karate
48:50
Kid. Those are the three things that I
48:51
and wrestling. Wrestling, Thre's
48:53
Company, and The Karate Kid were the
48:54
three things I saw you watch over and
48:56
over in college. But uh so I knew was
48:58
going to be on your list. There's no
48:59
question. That's your number two.
48:59
Honestly, I wanted it number one, but I
49:01
I couldn't I could not put Cheers not at
49:04
number one. That was my thing.
49:05
>> So, my three is Full House to me. A
49:08
great show.
49:09
>> A lot of great characters. Another
49:11
different family dynamic where you had,
49:13
you know, uh Bob Saget who in real life
49:16
is a [ __ ] animal. God rest his soul.
49:19
One of the best comedians. If you ever
49:20
haven't watched Bob Saget standup, it is
49:23
so funny if you like dirty comedy. But
49:25
to me, his wife dies. He invites his
49:28
brother-in-law to live with him, invites
49:29
his friend to live with him, Dave
49:30
Kouier, and of course the great John
49:32
Stables. And it's such a great family
49:34
dynamic because now he has these three
49:35
girls. He has the neighbor Kimmy Gibler.
49:39
He's got uh Jesse's girlfriend, of
49:41
course, I forget her name, but just a
49:43
great family dynamic. Again, different.
49:45
What was great about the 1980s, you got
49:47
every different type of family dynamic
49:49
there was in a television show almost.
49:51
So, like such a great show. Um, you see
49:54
these two manly men, especially Uncle
49:56
Jesse, being, you know, soft, kind, and
49:58
you see him go through all the things
49:59
that he's gone through in his life, and
50:01
then for him to change to become the man
50:02
he was because of these three girls. It
50:04
was just a great show. You know,
50:06
something I watched continuously growing
50:08
up as a kid.
50:10
>> I didn't put it on the list.
50:13
I believe it may have started in 1988,
50:16
and I think that's why cuz I feel like
50:18
it had more of a run in the 90s. It was
50:19
more of like for me it was more of a '9s
50:21
show.
50:22
Um, and a lot of things like um, yeah, I
50:27
think it was more of a for me it was
50:28
more of a 90s show. I did like it. I did
50:30
like it. Um, you know, and obviously the
50:33
the savages that that were the three the
50:36
three guys in real life, you know. Um,
50:39
not so much John St. John St was a
50:41
ladies man. He did have a lot of
50:42
beautiful women, but uh, you had Bob
50:45
Saget, who's a complete freaking animal.
50:48
And then Dave Kouier, by the way,
50:51
Atlantis Morsette was wrote that song
50:53
about him. He was that dude that she was
50:55
talking about in the elevator,
50:57
you know.
50:58
>> I didn't I did not know that.
51:00
>> Yeah, Dave Koulier was was the angst
51:02
behind Alis Alanis Moriceette, believe
51:04
it or not.
51:05
>> Who who knew that? That Dave Kouier has
51:07
got it. I don't know.
51:08
>> When you're when you're done, go look it
51:09
up and and you'll see she freaking
51:11
torched him, man. But like he he and he
51:14
was at the time he was married and he
51:17
had Alanis Moriceette and she was
51:20
writing all this song all these songs
51:21
about him. It's crazy.
51:23
>> Crazy. All right. So Full House is my
51:26
number three. Did we cover your number
51:27
three already?
51:28
>> Three is Company.
51:30
>> All right. So what's your number two?
51:31
>> You want me to go two?
51:33
>> Go two because my two we already covered
51:34
it.
51:34
>> You want me to go two?
51:35
>> So your your number two I guarantee you
51:38
is my number one. But my number two for
51:40
me was growing pains which you already
51:42
covered. So, I think this is it. I think
51:43
this is going to be it. So, what is your
51:45
number two?
51:46
>> My number two, and I can guarantee is
51:48
your number one, ran from 1985 to 1992
51:53
and is an alltime classic. It is The
51:57
Golden Girls.
51:58
>> Had the money, I could have been living
51:59
in a swinging condo instead of with I
52:02
better not say anything till I've had my
52:03
coffee.
52:05
A [ __ ] and a [ __ ]
52:08
>> 100%. My number one show. I'm going to
52:11
let you speak and then I'll go on it.
52:12
But to me, and the best show ever,
52:14
>> you know, obviously takes place in
52:15
Miami. You have the four older women.
52:18
So, you have Blanch who owned the I
52:20
think it was a condo. Blanch owned the
52:22
condo.
52:23
>> I think I think it was a house. I don't
52:24
think it was a condo.
52:25
>> The house. Okay. So, Blanch owned the
52:27
house. And basically, she was looking
52:30
for roommates and um
52:33
you had Rose
52:36
from uh I'm going to hold on. I'm
52:39
drawing a blank now. where she was from.
52:40
I know she was from Minnesota.
52:42
>> Minnesota.
52:43
>> Yeah. But what was the town? St. Olaf.
52:45
>> She was from St. Olaf. So, you know,
52:48
back in St. Olaf. No. Um, so yeah, Rose
52:52
was like the dimwit of the group. Uh,
52:55
she she comes in to be a roommate from
52:57
St. Olaf. Um, and you have Dorothy. I
53:00
think they were they were I think what
53:02
it was was they were she was trying to
53:03
find one roommate, ended up getting two
53:06
cuz she couldn't choose between her and
53:07
Dorothy. Dorothy was with the fast
53:09
tongue and she was from New York and she
53:10
was you know she was very sarcastic and
53:13
you had Blanch the owner was the you
53:16
know the trolop and the flooy and so the
53:18
you know they end up all living together
53:20
and then they bring in
53:22
the iconic the iconic Sophia Petrillo
53:27
>> the home burned down
53:29
>> her home burned down yes the home burned
53:31
down and um Dorothy's mom comes to stay
53:36
with
53:37
And you know, the rest is history. It
53:40
was just a great show. It was a good
53:42
meshing of all the characters you had.
53:44
You know, just like I explained now, Be
53:46
Arthur to me made that show.
53:50
>> Her her sarcasm was just on point.
53:52
She's, you know, if if if there was a,
53:56
you know, a picture in the dictionary
53:57
for sarcasm, it'd be Be Arthur. Like her
53:59
picture would be right there. She was
54:01
just so funny. And I mean there was a
54:04
lot of, you know, you know, you also had
54:05
Stanley's Borneack, her ex-husband, who
54:07
always used to make appearances. He was
54:08
funny, too. And and who doesn't remember
54:10
them always sitting in the kitchen
54:11
eating cheesecake,
54:13
>> of course.
54:13
>> You know, funny little side note is I I
54:15
used to watch that on a
54:18
portable like radio TV as I fixed
54:21
newspapers for Sunday. I think it was
54:23
Saturday night. So, I used to make
54:25
newspapers and deliver them.
54:26
>> It was Saturday used to sit up and
54:28
watching
54:28
>> I used to watch it Saturday nights while
54:31
I made the newspapers to deliver on my
54:32
paper route. But it was literally
54:36
>> I love that show. I mean I I mean I
54:38
could you know like I I the show could
54:40
come on now. I could tell you exactly
54:41
what happens in it. Oh like oh they're
54:42
in a jail cell. Oh they were caught for
54:44
prostitution. Like I I know exactly
54:45
what's going on and I can even quote I
54:48
haven't seen it in years. I can still
54:49
quote it. That's how good I am.
54:51
>> That show to me was everything. Like I
54:54
grew up watching that show. again,
54:55
Saturday night. I think it was like
54:57
9:30, 10:00, 10:30, whenever it was on.
54:59
I watched it with my grandmother. God
55:00
rest her soul. I had honestly like the
55:03
best relationship with growing up. So
55:05
like that show, the four characters in
55:08
that show and and you you touched on
55:09
this before. It was Blanch looking for a
55:11
roommate. She put it on a supermarket
55:13
like like hanger board like looking for
55:15
roommate and you know, Rose got it and
55:18
then Dorothy got it and they both you
55:20
know contacted her and that's how the
55:21
show was formed. like the car all four
55:23
characters had such a unique take on
55:27
everything. Rose being from St. Olaf and
55:29
all the stupid St. Olaf stories. Dorothy
55:31
being from New York and being hard and
55:33
being divorced. Her husband cheated on
55:34
him and and just irked by Rose, you
55:37
know, continuously throughout the show
55:39
that made that show great. But, you
55:41
know, you had Blanch who was who was the
55:42
[ __ ] but she was hysterical because
55:44
she would say all these stupid things
55:46
and like do all these stupid things and
55:47
they would just make fun of her. And but
55:49
the the the real glue that kind of held
55:51
that show together was Sophia with with
55:53
sitting in the kitchen telling the
55:55
stories, eating the cheesecake, gets her
55:57
all the important moments had and and
55:59
you know when you heard these words,
56:01
picture it, Sicily, 19, whatever, like
56:04
something great was about to happen and
56:06
and it was just a great show about four
56:09
older people. How many people out there
56:10
would say that you grew up as a kid and
56:12
you watch four woman women in their 60s
56:15
talk about [ __ ] about life and that you
56:17
were interested in it being like a eight
56:19
or nineyear-old kid. It's just it's not
56:21
going to happen anywhere else. That show
56:22
was just unbelievable.
56:25
>> That was a good show. I loved it. That's
56:26
why it was my number two. And like I
56:28
said, I put Cheers number one only
56:31
because of its longevity and its its
56:33
lasting. I mean, listen, thop three for
56:37
me, those those shows are in syndication
56:40
to this day, like non-stop, you know.
56:43
Um,
56:45
you don't find many shows like that.
56:48
It's just it's,
56:51
you know, Golden Girls has been on
56:53
>> multiple. I still watch it. It's still
56:55
on all the time,
56:57
>> you know,
56:57
>> and it's still funny.
56:59
>> Yeah,
56:59
>> it's still funny. Like, you could watch
57:01
us, sit down right now, and it still
57:02
applies. It's still funny. It's it's a
57:05
th those four actresses and the way that
57:07
show was it it still to this day holds
57:09
up. Like there are certain TV shows you
57:11
can go watch and be like, "Oh wow, like
57:12
how the [ __ ] was I into this when I was
57:14
younger?" That show still holds up
57:15
perfectly. No, no qualms. All right, so
57:18
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57:19
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