WKRP poll

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best cast of characters ever?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Bailey Quarters 12
Dr. Johnny Fever 9
Les Nessman 9
Venus Flytrap 5
Herb Tarlek 3
Jennifer Marlowe 2
Andy Travis 0
Arthur Carlson 0


hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Friday, 27 March 2009 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

Hmm, wonder who I should vote for...

Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

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

Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

Les or Venus.

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

moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

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

unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

Bailey! So cute.

WmC, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

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

stank pony (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

^^ dittos, but Les Nessman was pretty quality.

unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)

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

Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:10 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

^^ 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.

unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:19 (sixteen years ago)

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

laying | (goole), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

I love this show. Venus Flytrap.

kate78, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

Great poll.

Gonna go with Les and his invisible office.

tits akimbo (kenan), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

hueg crush on Bailey Quarters

now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

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

unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:38 (sixteen years ago)

wgn still shows this on sundays

stank pony (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)

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

Eazy, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

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

Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:44 (sixteen years ago)

I loved the bra-optional 70s...

WmC, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

^^

hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

Lots of nip on prime time.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

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.

tits akimbo (kenan), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

I guess there are ways around it.

tits akimbo (kenan), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:52 (sixteen years ago)

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

Eazy, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

Holy ghost of Tony Danza!

unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

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

hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Friday, 27 March 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

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

tits akimbo (kenan), Friday, 27 March 2009 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

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

Eazy, Friday, 27 March 2009 21:02 (sixteen years ago)

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

tits akimbo (kenan), Friday, 27 March 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

voting for Chi Chi Rodriguez.

WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 March 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

loooool

BADGES DON'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO WALTZ OFF WITH A BABY (HI DERE), Friday, 27 March 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Dan Seals Memorial Nickname (Jenny), Saturday, 28 March 2009 00:32 (sixteen years ago)

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?

tits akimbo (kenan), Saturday, 28 March 2009 00:49 (sixteen years ago)

voting for Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

tits akimbo (kenan), Saturday, 28 March 2009 00:53 (sixteen years ago)

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

unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:07 (sixteen years ago)

Voted for Gordon Sims.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:32 (sixteen years ago)

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

Hubie Brown, Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:33 (sixteen years ago)

voted for Herb and his Arkansas Razorbacks mug

Hubie Brown, Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:35 (sixteen years ago)

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.

10 out of 10 for the rich dry tatse (james k polk), Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:48 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:09 (sixteen years ago)

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

tits akimbo (kenan), Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:16 (sixteen years ago)

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.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 28 March 2009 14:29 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Hubie Brown, Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

no love for johnny fever?

m coleman, Saturday, 28 March 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

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.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 28 March 2009 22:29 (sixteen years ago)

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

Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 28 March 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

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).

Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 28 March 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Poor Mr. Carlson.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

haha waht

I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

lol horny nerds

now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

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.

tits akimbo (kenan), Friday, 17 April 2009 10:26 (sixteen years ago)

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

tits akimbo (kenan), Friday, 17 April 2009 10:59 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

i voted for bailey

omar little, Friday, 27 January 2012 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

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

pplains, Monday, 8 September 2014 18:32 (eleven years ago)


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