WKRP poll

Hmm, wonder who I should vote for...

(Actually, I might go for Herb, but I'm not sure.)

Les or Venus.

Just came across this book the other day
http://www.tomdreesen.com/images/tim_and_tom_cover.jpg

this show was also pretty educational as far as sitcoms go.

Bailey! So cute.

tough call but i really looked up to johnny fever as a kid

^^ dittos, but Les Nessman was pretty quality.

In the end I had to be true to myself and choose The Dr.

I worked in small-market radio at the time WKRP was on the air. Other than Venus Flytrap, we had a staff member who mirrored each character closely: clueless GM, hip PD, druggie DJ etc. But best of all we had (and I think almost every advertising sales staff has) a Herb Tarlek.

I actually didn't get into WKRP until after it was syndicated in the 80s. When I started watching, I only knew Tim Reid as being "Downtown" Brown from Simon & Simon.

^^ same here, but I think I started watching it the year before Simon & Simon began, and was like "Hey it's Vee-nus!" To this day, I still have this dopey joy from watching actors in movies or tv and envisioning them as other characters they've played in that movie or show.

http://i41.tinypic.com/bhwums.jpg

I love this show. Venus Flytrap.

Great poll.

Gonna go with Les and his invisible office.

hueg crush on Bailey Quarters

I know I worked with the Providence version of Herb Tarlek.

wgn still shows this on sundays

Funny how Loni Anderson was the biggest star on this show but is maybe the most forgettable in this great cast of characters.

If MTV2 can go back and re-air old B&B episodes with the original videos, somebody ought to get their shit together and include the original music in the syndicated eps/dvd sets. I know it will cost a lot, but not having it in there chops the show up and the substitute music is so poor.

in the syndicated eps/dvd sets...of WKRP, that is. Bad wording.

I loved the bra-optional 70s...

^^

Lots of nip on prime time.

Apparently on some versions on DVD and in syndication, they had to change dialogue based on song lyrics, or overdub anyone singing.

You may have also noticed some dialogue changes, as in one episode that now has a nonsense line ("Hold my order, terrible dresser") replacing a quote from Elton John's "Tiny Dancer."

"Hold my order, terrible dresser" is pretty funny, though, I have to admit.

I guess there are ways around it.

Were there other "social issues" episodes other than the one with selling high-schoolers speed and the one after the Who concert?

Holy ghost of Tony Danza!

there was the episode where venus taught that gang member about molecules

http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2008/07/wkrp-episode-venus-and-man-aka-venus.html

Interesting - Wikipedia says that Hugh Wilson (WKRP creator/showrunner) also directed Police Academy.

I would not put that on my resume if I were him.

voting for Chi Chi Rodriguez.

loooool

Were there other "social issues" episodes other than the one with selling high-schoolers speed and the one after the Who concert?

Well, there was the episode where they made Johnny Fever take period reaction tests while getting progressively shit hammered to demonstrate that booze is bad for you and the more he drank, the better his reaction time got. From this I learned that driving while intoxicated is good.

I think you were supposed to learn that... wait... I don't really know. Booze makes you superhuman, provided you're a MASSIVE fuck-up?

voting for Chi Chi Rodriguez

Favorite dog breed: the Chi Hoo-ah Hoo-ah.

there was the "black like me" episode - I don't remember whether there was more "social issue-ness" to it or not.

Voted for Gordon Sims.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

voted for Herb and his Arkansas Razorbacks mug

I was about to say throwing turkeys was a social message.

There was also the music lyrics censorship episode. Some of the same songs that Clear Channel censored decades later during some war.

Look, I crushed out on Bailey as much as the rest of you guys but

"Citizens of Cincinnati, we are being attacked by the godless tornadoes"

and

"Funny peculiar or funny ha ha?"

give this poll to the five-time winner of the Buckeye News Hawk Award.

and, of course, "The turkeys are hitting the pavement like bags of wet cement!"

voted for Herb and his Arkansas Razorbacks mug

― Hubie Brown, Friday, March 27, 2009 11:35 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Frank Bonner's from Little Rock (as you may know), and suffice to say, we historically haven't had a lot of celebrities who have blossomed from our muddy banks.

So in the early 80s, I distinctly remember a local television station publicizing an event called "Brown Bag It with Herb Tarlek". You were invited to bring your own lunch to the library or somewhere and take the opportunity to eat a bologna sandwich with an honest-to-God network television actor.

Even at ten-years-old, the imagined sight of a roomful of Arkies munching on potato chips while Frank Bonner sat front-and-center on a dais, watching his countrymen.

All that said, I'd still rather kiw Herb Tarlek than Mary Steenburgen.

yeah, I'm an Arkansas native. All the best notables are music people from Eastern Arkansas. As a kid, some relative of Conway Twitty's lived across the street and a couple of times a year I'd see his tour bus outside on the street (with the Looney Tunes "Twitty bird" on the side). As an adult, I've discussed the merits of Ray's Kool Freeze in Marvell with native Levon Helm.

no love for johnny fever?

I dig him, i do. Always loved the sobriety test. Always appreciated that he was the one dude in the place that didn't get all Tex Avery on Jennifer whenever she walked by.

But still. The guy got fired for saying "booger". He thought playing Pink Floyd in the middle of the day was far out. He wore sunglasses all the time. Dude was Hyde from the 70s show all grown up and living in Cincinnati. And I guarantee you that he sold out, stayed in the business, and is probably a marketing consultant in Tulsa these days.

I have no idea why as a 15 year old boy I was slightly obsessed with this programme.
http://www.strangecelebrities.com/images/content/103511.jpg

Aw, that picture! Jennifer v. Bailey was a new generation's Ginger v. Mary Ann. So . . . LONI ANDERSON (such a crush I had on her).

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Poor Mr. Carlson.

haha waht

lol horny nerds

Horny nerds are just a baseline; I'm v happy the second place vote was split between Fever and Nessman. Definitely the more accurate ILX barometer.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/herb-hip.jpg

i voted for bailey

I've already posted this in two other threads, but this one's appropriate too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSTF1Z9i7Y