Bort

I’m only just catching up, I was laughing my ass off at their jobs at the “Amatron” warehouse, where they were just eating spray cheese, while some upper management bozo is being interviewed about how idiot proof their AI system is. The robots learned to keep bringing spray cheese to them and you can see cabinet after cabinet of it going by in the background. *dying*

Attorney General of Wisconsin (impressive!) What was wrong with the dress Roz’s sister gave her?

Is it Niles’s pet cockatiel, Baby?

[Timber] What was the code word for Roz and Lizbeth for if the introduction to Frasier didn’t go well?

Is it bigger than a breadbox?

Leonard Bernstein. Somebody can correct them but we’ll just let the game flow anyway. What was the name of the tv show Daphne starred in as a child?

It would’ve been four total! For season 8 they already got rid of Gates and Tori. Granted, Tori was a recurring character but for the previous couple of seasons, she was still practically in every episode.

You don’t need the question asker to say you’re right, you can go ahead and ask the next question.

Thought this could also be fun: come up with a random trivia question. Whoever gets it right asks the next question. What is the name of Niles’s Maris-like dog?

Did he date someone in the main cast? (Which basically is asking if he dated Roz or Daphne)

Meh, more like hopeful. I don’t blame them for trying. And it was successful anyway, X-Files still kept chugging along. But I wasn’t talking about spin-offs, The Lone Gunmen was a spin-off of secondary characters. Those can be hit and miss. Because for every The Lone Gunmen and The Ropers, you also have The Jeffersons and Frasier. None of which are applicable here, I brought up Three’s a Crowd because it was the same concept as Castle: cut the expensive leading lady to save the budget, which kills the show entirely. It’s been years so my memory is fuzzy, plus it’s hearsay, but from what I remember, the network gave them a budget cut, the show runners came back to say that their budget cut solution was the Beckett thing, the network said no way, no one will watch that, and cancelled it.

Well, not really, because for X-Files, it was David Duchovny’s choice to leave. In that case, it was the show trying to eke by when someone quit. I’m talking about shows where TPTB think it’s feasible to push out one half of a popular screen duo against their wishes and then are surprised when the audience bails. At least for Castle, the network killed the show before letting the show runners do it. Isn’t that why the network cancelled it? Because the show’s idea to budget cut was to fire Stana and kill off Beckett? At least someone at the network had a brain.

Did nobody learn anything from the Three’s Company/Three’s a Crowd debacle*? It’s not just the male lead people like, it’s the two of them together. I had heard that was the plan for subsequent seasons of Castle and I’m glad the plug got pulled before such a big mistake was made by killing off Beckett. Seriously, what were they thinking? Season 8 was a window into what that would kind of look like and while it wasn’t totally unwatchable (largely credited to Beckett), it was definitely not what I signed up for and I kind of wander off when Lifetime gets to that season in the reruns. That season had already jettisoned Gates and Tori, and added whoever Toks played (I can’t remember the character name). *After having already replaced Suzanne Somers, which Three’s Company managed to survive, they thought spinning off a new show with John Ritter but not Joyce Dewitt would actually work and be a big hit. It was not.

Did one of the Crane men work there?

Does this place serve food and/or beverages?

Is it edible?

Is it mind/mood altering?

Is it bigger than a breadbox?

I love that Esposito talked Ryan out of that because a little Irish boy named Javier would get some side eye.

Is it Bebe Glazer?

Did she work at KACL?

Did she date a Crane man?

Each glyph at the commercial break represented a particular letter of the alphabet and would spell something out that was a hint about the next episode. Fringe glyphs explained.

Is it Cam Winston’s mother?

Did she play the piano?