Tom Holmberg

Now Coke is putting out Spiced Coke (apparently it tastes like raspberries, so I don't really get the spiced part). I do like Vanilla Coke (as well as, Cream Dr Pepper).

This coming Thurs., Feb 15, is the first episode of the last season. Just a reminder.

We had a relative whose cabinet looked like that.

Yes, St. John is often pronounced as SinJin or SinJun.

They're nut so good (credit to Futurama).

I wonder if it isn't the ad agency producing these who reuse the same "actors" in ads for different products and services. I notice the same people in widely different ads.

I caught an episide of MST300 on ZLiving Sat. night and they were showing "Eegah" with Richard Kiel.

Yep, I mentioned that once before. Don't really want to go to the beach in Europe.

One of the best "Maverick" episodes ran today on H&I (1/26), "The Cats of Paradise." Bret becomes a cat wrangler when he's conned into collecting cats to sell to miners in a distant, rat-infested mining town run by evil sheriff Buddy Ebsen. At one point he meets up with a Paladin parody, who wants to kill him.

R.I.P. Gary Graham, of "Alien Nation" and "Star Trek" https://deadline.com/2024/01/gary-graham-dead-1235802196/

Oddly, the "Route 66" episode playing on Jan. 24 (on ZLiving) has Ed Asner. Tod and Buz are on a Louisiana oil rig with a nazi hunter (also has Bruce Dern's first TV appearance). IMDB lists 413 Ed Asner appearances in TV or movies.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: A Cultural History MATT FOY AND CHRISTOPHER J. OLSON This book examines the cultural impact and creation of the cult-hit television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It looks at the most famous episodes, creators involved, and analyzes why the series has resonated with so many viewers. ISBN: 9781538173480 __________ Hanna and Barbera: Conversations Edited by Kevin Sandler & Tyler Solon Williams Hanna and Barbera: Conversations presents a lively portrait of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, the influential producers behind Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, the Smurfs, and hundreds of other cartoon characters who continue to entertain the world today. Encompassing more than fifty years of film and television history, the conversations in this volume include first-person accounts by the namesakes of the Hanna-Barbera studio as well as recollections by artists and executives who worked closely with the pair for decades. It is the first collection of its kind about Hanna and Barbera, likely the most prolific animation producers of the twentieth century, whose studio once outflanked its competitor Walt Disney in output and influence. Bill Hanna fell into animation in 1930 at the Harman-Ising studio in Los Angeles, gaining skills across the phases of production as MGM opened its animation studio. Joe Barbera, a talented and sociable artist, entered the industry around the same time at the wild and woolly Van Beuren studio in Manhattan, learning the ins and outs of animation art before crossing the country to join MGM. In television, Hanna’s timing and community-oriented work ethic along with Barbera’s knack for sales and creating funny characters enabled Hanna-Barbera to build a roster of beloved cartoon series. A wide range of pieces map Hanna and Barbera’s partnership, from their early days in Hollywood in the 1930s to Cartoon Network in the 1990s, when a new generation took the reins of their animation studio. Relatively unknown when they made over one hundred Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoons at MGM in the 1940s and 1950s, Hanna and Barbera became household names upon entering the new medium of television in 1957. Discussions here chart their early primetime successes as well as later controversies surrounding violence, overseas production, and the lack of quality in their Saturday morning cartoons. With wit, candor, insight, and bravado, Hanna and Barbera: Conversations reflects on Bill and Joe’s breakthroughs and shortcomings, and their studio’s innovations and retreads. ISBN: 9781496850447

I also saw the first two episodes of the show last week and Fess Parker sang in both, which I don't recall him doing in later episodes.

I didn't take his statement about "machines" to be robots, but it would be him with machines to do the necessary work like harvesters, etc. The mooks might be saved as his servants since he had the vaccine.

I like the earlier ones because their seemed to be more actual outdoor footage while later they seemed to have the outdoors take place on sets, or the back lot.

I like Daniel Boone, it had a decent cast and the stories were interesting, even though they jumped around in time from the Seven Years War to the War of 1812, without being chronological. It's the kind of show that we'll never see again. It is one of the better theme songs, but Car 54 Where Are You? is still the best. "What a Boone, what a doer, what a dream come a truer was he."

There's a number of shows like that, the top one being Gunsmoke, which has got to be on at least 8 or nine different channels. When you consider the shows not running on any of the retro channels, you have to wonder what's the deal with this one?

Any ad with Speedos is disgusting

Minnesota nice wins again!

Godammit, Dot, you should have finished him off when you had him down!

ZLiving is running the "Jack Benny Show" on Thurs. One of the episodes this week is about the vault under Benny's house where he keeps his money. I remember seeing this as a kid I it always stuck with me. I thought it was hilarious.

The "Rosey Grier Show", a variety show, ran for three seasons from 1968-1970. I think it was a time when there was a push for more diversity on air.

Uber is shutting down Drizly https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/business/uber-is-shutting-down-drizly/index.html

R.I.P., Joyce Randolph, "Trixie", last of the "Honeymooners." https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/joyce-randolph-dead-trixie-the-honeymooners-1235871316/

Sad. The show is still funny, despite some un-PC elements. Quite different from the other sitcoms of that era.