General TV trivia
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Which filmed comedy show featured the line of dialogue: "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith."?
Frank Drebin, (Leslie Neilsen), working undercover, in response to the question "Who are you? How did you get in here?".
Correct, (Police Squad! ).
Frank Drebin, (Leslie Neilsen), working undercover, in response to the question "Who are you? How did you get in here?".
Gidget, starring Sally Field, talked to the audience all the time
Dobie Gillis (The Many Loves of), introduced and commented to the audience throughout.
Ozzie Nelson and other characters in the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Frankie Howerd in Up Pompeii was always trying to do the 'prologue' to the audience but kept getting interrupted by other characters.
It might have been more common back in the 50's/60's
Which two sitcoms featured actors 'breaking the fourth wall' all the time?
I never watched Gidget, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, nor Up Pompeii. I forgot about The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
I do remember The Frankie Howerd Show, (1976), mainly because it aired on weekends and CBC was the only English TV station we could get at the cottage.
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I never watched Gidget, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, nor Up Pompeii. I forgot about The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
I do remember The Frankie Howerd Show, (1976), mainly because it aired on weekends and CBC was the only English TV station we could get at the cottage.
What's his name?
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I bought a large high definition TV in 2009, and the 'Steve French' episode of Trailer Park Boys was one of the first things I watched on it. My cat, (RIP 2019), looked really afraid when he saw Steve French nearly life size, but after a few seconds he realized it was only a video.
Harmon didn't pay much attention to TV. He liked Formula One racing, when they had the helicopter view, but there was one show that he watched intensely - the HBO prison series OZ. He kind of lost interest after the end of season 4, when Adebesi was killed.
What show was a spin-off of Welcome Back, Kotter ?
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Answered correctly by bluebro69.
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I don't know...Harmon killed another cat in a fight, according to the teenage gang bangers who lived across the street about twenty years ago. I didn't see the fight, but I heard one of them say 'there's that cat who killed Smokie!' when he saw Harmon. He didn't have a scratch on him. He might have liked the OZ music soundtrack... It was bizarre, the way he only paid attention to THAT specific TV show...
Harmon was the cat equivalent of Bo Jackson when he was young. He was 6.5 kilograms of all muscle. He had a cat girlfriend who lived up the street. Her owner let her go out on the second story porch, and he got there by literally running up the wall. Seriously! He used to catch mice, outside, at night, and bring them home alive, to play with them like toys. I usually killed the mouse, then Harmon got a plate of tuna. One mouse got away from him in the house, and when he caught it two weeks later, he ate it, then regurgitated a few minutes later, so that one was personal. One time when he was hunting that mouse, he used a mirror that was on the floor beside one of the living room walls, so he was definitely smarter than the average cat. He was a ginger mackerel tabby, with darker orange tiger stripes.
Harmon was born with fully functional internal testicles. His original owners didn't have him neutered because they thought that would be redundant, but he was 'all male'. I'll never get another cat because I know I would be disappointed. The only reason why I had him in the first place was because he came to my second floor porch door looking for a new home.
His original owners gave him up to an animal shelter because he didn't get along with their other cats. He was adopted by the Chinese guy who used to live one floor up. That guy was schizophrenic, and had never had a pet before. The cat was happy to have a new home, and he followed his new owner around their apartment, wherever he went. In his twisted sense of reality, the guy concluded that the cat was 'spying on him', so he put him in a harness and tied him to a chair in his kitchen. If you're a cat, pretty much the last place in the world where you'd want to be is tied up in a Chinese guy's kitchen.
He managed to escape, and sought asylum one floor down. A few days later, the guy from upstairs knocked on the door to see if I had seen his cat. He took the cat back, and the next day, Harmon escaped again, and came back to my porch. I offered the guy $100 for the cat, but he said 'No!' It went on like that for about six months, until the guy upstairs asked me if I still wanted to buy the cat, and he asked for $40.
Harmon had a great life, but when he was sixteen, he got a cancerous tumor in his cheek. I noticed it on March 8, 2019, and exactly a month later he was euthanized. Cats stop eating and start to hide when they don't want to live anymore.
Nine days after the theatrical release of Brian De Palma's Carrie in November, 1976, John Travolta appeared in his first starring role in a, (made for television), movie.
What was the name of the movie?
Hint: "Oh, no...I'm so sorry, it's the Moops.".
What was the name of the movie?
Hint: "Oh, no...I'm so sorry, it's the Moops.".
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Two TV shows won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series in each of their first five seasons.
Name both.
Answered correctly by Valcazar.
Name both.
Answered correctly by Valcazar.
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