Oh my
He didn’t just have the misfortune of scoring Daddy-O!
https://www.johnwilliams.org/compositions/television/who-goes-there
Ok, watching the show now.
Edit: The score to Star Wars or Superman this is not.
Edit 2: Of course it gets racist within the first few minutes.
I gave up after, “that heap big magic.” I can’t sit through that crap.
The landlord reminds me of Wattle Man from The Giant Spider Invasion.
There are so many unaired sitcom pilots on YouTube. Get ready for some doozies.
Currently watching:
Sitcom pilot about a big city cop who finds himself transferred to a small town, and partnered with an easy-going Sheriff.
Stars Michael Richards and Dana Carvey. So far in the first few minutes, Michael Richards has been harassing a Latino family with a chainsaw.
Ah, and they introduce a little person with a walk-on because… midget is funny?
Edit: And then he just made his dog jump out of an apartment window. The laugh track told us that was funny.
Also, the theme song is awful.
The writer of this dreck wrote 35 episodes of Bosom Buddies. That explains a lot.
Okay, can’t take the bad jokes, on to the next pilot.
I once made it through an entire episode of Goodnight, Beantown on YouTube. Still waiting on my medal, though.
At least the name helps explain how bad it smelled. [rimshot]
It’s tough to watch actors you actually like get put through that kind of ordeal for a paycheck.
There’s a running joke with poor Bill’s pants tearing as he has to break into his own building or something a bunch of times. Plus, a pre-teen girl walks around in a T-Shirt with “COMING ATTRACTIONS” plastered across the chest, but we’re not supposed to treat it as cringe comedy.
[sigh]
Next up… My Son Goggle and/or My Boy Goggle (it was apparently given both names), a backdoor pilot from an anthology series called Vacation Playhouse with Jerry Van Dyke. I really can’t find much more info.
This is nowhere near terrible enough. Moving on.
“Comedy was so great before it got all ‘P.C.’ Wahhhh!!!”
It wasn’t the “not-P.C.” thing that made for good comedy, though. It was having someone around like Mel Brooks or Stan Freberg. Someone who could actually write their way out of a paper bag, y’know…?
[sigh]
Ok, moving on to this Garry Marshall TV series where Bob Denver plays a very smart detective with a stupid, bumbling partner.
It better suck.
Edit: Yes, this definitely sucks. It had a laugh track with a sitcom style at the intro and now it’s like the NBC Mystery Movie. No laugh track.
Edit: Weird, Bob Denver is still the stupid guy despite being super smart.
This show is super weird.
It isn’t?
I think after twenty seconds of the tattling little girl, I was ready for her to be placed on Gamera’s back yesterday.
Just start the next one and say that.
Uh…
I kinda’ like Bob Denver’s Monkees hair.
Ram chip now?
The US one is quite good. I haven’t seen the British one yet. My friend who I’ve been watching the US one with did not care for the British one at all (which is a complete reversal of her normal tastes as she’s always quite strongly preferred British TV) so I haven’t been particularly enthused to try it. Since you’re saying you like it, maybe I’ll give it a try after all.
You might watch Yonderland first, which is made by the same people and has mostly the same cast. I thought it was funnier.
I DISAGREE!!!
I haven’t seen nor care in the slightest about Ted Lasso but this is the Internet and somebody’s gotta be difficult. ::juts out chin defiantly::
(There’s a reason I haven’t seen it though. It looks really plastic and try-hard, at least in the advertising that’s trickled down to my remote perch well away from mainstream comm channels.)
I’ve watched faaaar more documentaries and retrospectives on odd, forgotten, and/or failed TV than I have actual viable, commercially successful TV itself. It’s generally much more interesting.
Two words:
tax writeoff