Movies and TV shows Thread

[Poppa San]

• First Base: Who
• Second Base: What
• Third Base: I Don't Know
• Shortstop: I Don't Give a Darn
• Pitcher: Tomorrow
• Catcher: Today
• Left Field: Why
• Center Field: Because
• Right Field: Never named in the routine

Now you dunnit

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[rmontro]

I was going to post that myself, I liked their math routines.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Now you dunnit

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I have never seen that, thanks for sharing. Funny and clever.

 

[Poppa San]

I have never seen that, thanks for sharing. Funny and clever.

Ma & Pa Kettle do the same routine. There are a few others using different numbers too.

 

[milani]

Ma & Pa Kettle do the same routine. There are a few others using different numbers too.

Source: YouTube https://share.google/OcF2l6Y7ElWtgRgJ4

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Ma & Pa Kettle do the same routine. There are a few others using different numbers too.

Are they related to Mr. Coffee Maker and Mrs. Microwave? Never heard of them.

 

[Voyageur]

Are they related to Mr. Coffee Maker and Mrs. Microwave? Never heard of them.

Ma & Pa Kettle goes way back. The old $1,000 movie budgets on back lots but they gave us a lot of laughs. Marjorie Main, who starred in them was a great actress, and was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in The Egg & I, which I remember very well. I was just a small kid when I saw the show but when I saw the soft-boiled egg that Fred MacMurray had on a train, I ended up wanting them for breakfast. I still love them, and poached eggs as well.

 

[rmontro]

Ma & Pa Kettle goes way back. The old $1,000 movie budgets on back lots but they gave us a lot of laughs. Marjorie Main, who starred in them was a great actress, and was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in The Egg & I, which I remember very well. I was just a small kid when I saw the show but when I saw the soft-boiled egg that Fred MacMurray had on a train, I ended up wanting them for breakfast. I still love them, and poached eggs as well.

That's interesting, I also get interested in food watching TV and such. On The **** Van **** Show, Rob ate a sardine sandwich with tomato and onion that I just had to try (I didn't care for it - it was okay). Richie also made egg salad on that show, which I was well familiar with, but it always makes me hungry for it. The biggest influence on me was a comic book - Green Arrow makes some chili at a campfire with Green Lantern. He said the secret to his chili was to put mushrooms in it. From that point on, I wanted mom to put mushrooms in her chili, and I have never made chili myself to this day without putting mushrooms in it. I love it.

Speaking of boiled eggs though, there's a fairly famous Laurel and Hardy routine where Laurel brings Hardy boiled eggs in a bag in the hospital, where he's laid up. Hardy doesn't want them, so Laurel eats them himself.

 

[Voyageur]

That's interesting, I also get interested in food watching TV and such. On The **** Van **** Show, Rob ate a sardine sandwich with tomato and onion that I just had to try (I didn't care for it - it was okay). Richie also made egg salad on that show, which I was well familiar with, but it always makes me hungry for it. The biggest influence on me was a comic book - Green Arrow makes some chili at a campfire with Green Lantern. He said the secret to his chili was to put mushrooms in it. From that point on, I wanted mom to put mushrooms in her chili, and I have never made chili myself to this day without putting mushrooms in it. I love it.

Speaking of boiled eggs though, there's a fairly famous Laurel and Hardy routine where Laurel brings Hardy boiled eggs in a bag in the hospital, where he's laid up. Hardy doesn't want them, so Laurel eats them himself.

I like to listen to Sirius XM Channel 148 when I'm driving. They have old radio shows from the late 30s into the early 50s. The Green Hornet is one of them. I listened to it when I was a kid, before we had a TV, back in the 40s. We got our first TV in about 1955 if I recall correctly. Every evening, when I was through with chores, and had eaten dinner, I'd listen to the shows that were on. Since we had an old radio in the barn, on weekends when I was working out there, I'd have the shows on too. Real nostalgia for old guys like me.

Early on, when we got a TV, movies with Laurel & Hardy were big time. My favorite was, I believe called "Horn." When Oliver heard a horn, he'd go berserk. It was hilarious.

Now, my viewing habits have changed dramatically. Mostly foreign movies & TV, and some of the stuff I've been directly and indirectly involved on, as well as movies that are written and/or directed by friends and family. Lots of things lacking in today's American offerings, mainly because money gets in the way of being able to put together productions that are worth viewing, unless they are big budget.

My wife got me interested in watching food shows like The Great British Baking show. There are some interesting concoctions that novice bakers come up with in what's an inordinately short period of time to succeed. I have some friends who are also involved in British TV shows. One is Kris Marshall, who was on Death in Paradise and now Beyond Paradise. Many years ago, I had the opportunity of meeting Martin Clunes, who starred in Doc Martin in a British TV show. The British actors are so accomplished it's amazing. They can do character portrayals that boggle one's mind. Didn't really talk to Clunes, because we were in a group, and it was more of an introduction but not a meet and greet. It was a private party at the home of a mutual friend in London.

I have a 3rd cousin who was involved in Murdoch Mysteries out of Canada for a number of years, behind the scenes, and another who was a champion on Jeopardy, who won a lot of money. Lots of family involved in various show business activities. My work, behind the scenes, and as a consultant, helping to ensure police procedure is correct in offerings, along with helping formulate specific dialogue for scenes based on police involvement. You'd be surprised at how often mistakes are made because writers and those who are working as advisors miss things based on specifics related to geography.

It's been a fun journey. Not much I'd change along the way.

 

[milani]

I like to listen to Sirius XM Channel 148 when I'm driving. They have old radio shows from the late 30s into the early 50s. The Green Hornet is one of them. I listened to it when I was a kid, before we had a TV, back in the 40s. We got our first TV in about 1955 if I recall correctly. Every evening, when I was through with chores, and had eaten dinner, I'd listen to the shows that were on. Since we had an old radio in the barn, on weekends when I was working out there, I'd have the shows on too. Real nostalgia for old guys like me.

Early on, when we got a TV, movies with Laurel & Hardy were big time. My favorite was, I believe called "Horn." When Oliver heard a horn, he'd go berserk. It was hilarious.

Now, my viewing habits have changed dramatically. Mostly foreign movies & TV, and some of the stuff I've been directly and indirectly involved on, as well as movies that are written and/or directed by friends and family. Lots of things lacking in today's American offerings, mainly because money gets in the way of being able to put together productions that are worth viewing, unless they are big budget.

My wife got me interested in watching food shows like The Great British Baking show. There are some interesting concoctions that novice bakers come up with in what's an inordinately short period of time to succeed. I have some friends who are also involved in British TV shows. One is Kris Marshall, who was on Death in Paradise and now Beyond Paradise. Many years ago, I had the opportunity of meeting Martin Clunes, who starred in Doc Martin in a British TV show. The British actors are so accomplished it's amazing. They can do character portrayals that boggle one's mind. Didn't really talk to Clunes, because we were in a group, and it was more of an introduction but not a meet and greet. It was a private party at the home of a mutual friend in London.

I have a 3rd cousin who was involved in Murdoch Mysteries out of Canada for a number of years, behind the scenes, and another who was a champion on Jeopardy, who won a lot of money. Lots of family involved in various show business activities. My work, behind the scenes, and as a consultant, helping to ensure police procedure is correct in offerings, along with helping formulate specific dialogue for scenes based on police involvement. You'd be surprised at how often mistakes are made because writers and those who are working as advisors miss things based on specifics related to geography.

It's been a fun journey. Not much I'd change along the way.

That is great stuff! The one radio show that I loved to hear in reruns was the Great Gildersleeve, a spinoff from Fiber McGee and Molly. Old Throckmorton could not help but turn a boring day into a SB contest.

 

[Voyageur]

That is great stuff! The one radio show that I loved to hear in reruns was the Great Gildersleeve, a spinoff from Fiber McGee and Molly. Old Throckmorton could not help but turn a boring day into a SB contest.

Those are two of my favorites as well. Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, and the laugh. Love listening to Fibber McGee & Molly too. The closet.

 

[AmishMafia]

Jack Benny is my favorite with Fibber close behind. Fred Allen was very good along with Alan Young were very funny but I only heard a handfull of either of their shows.

 

[milani]

Jack Benny is my favorite with Fibber close behind. Fred Allen was very good along with Alan Young were very funny but I only heard a handfull of either of their shows.

Benny had great shows with so many hilarious characters. The feud with Fred Allen was so entertaining. Dennis Day, Rochester, Mel Blanc. Even Benny's wife, Mary, was on his show in the early days. Phil Harris appeared as well. Called Benny, JACKSON! And who could forget announcer, Don Wilson. WELL!

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

I'm going to need to find a vaudeville playhouse to be able to understand what you guys are talking about.

 

[gopkrs]

I'm going to need to find a vaudeville playhouse to be able to understand what you guys are talking about.

Some of it sounds like my parents stuff. And I'm pretty old.

 

[milani]

I'm going to need to find a vaudeville playhouse to be able to understand what you guys are talking about.

It is OK. A different time. A different generation. Our parents and grandparents knew all those characters. They did radio and old comedy movies. It was passed on to us when these perennials of the time transcended to the new modem called television. Rudimentary, but so much laughter.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Some of it sounds like my parents stuff. And I'm pretty old.

My parents were crazy about Beetles. I never understood that, they talked about them all the time. Personally, I prefer Butterflies.

 

[Voyageur]

Since I'm pushing 86 and we didn't have a TV at home until the mid to late 50s, I had radio shows that I constantly listened to during the evenings and on weekends. Being raised on a farm, I'd have the barn radio on with shows whenever I was out there working and had a radio in my bedroom. Outside of school itself, it was baseball, basketball, and football in school, listening to the radio, and reading. One year, in grade school, I think I did something like 80 or 90 book reports. I thought nothing of reading a book in a day, maybe two.

To be candid, we weren't rich, and I didn't have transportation to get out and about until I turned 16, and had a $50 car, believe it or not. I bought it with money I saved by working parttime for several farmers in the area baling hay one summer. At about $4 to $5 a day doing that work, it was hard earned cash. Once I got the car, I found side work on free time when it wasn't sports season and saved it for gas and insurance money.

My radio listening really started when I was very young. On Sunday morning, before we moved to the farm (I think it started when I was 4) I'd take the funnies from the newspaper and sit by the radio where they read them with sound effects, making what was on those pages come to life. By the time I reached first grade I could read and print words and put together sentences on my own. I had to learn cursive because that's not what was in the funnies. It was all block letters.

My favorites in the beginning were The Phantom and Terry & The Pirates. Both were fighting Nazis constantly. Those were the days when people had imagination. We didn't have to see a movie, or view something in detail to see it in our mind's eye.

You won't find too much I don't remember, including Big John & Sparky, which my little brother enjoyed listening to.

 

[Poppa San]

My parents were crazy about Beetles. I never understood that, they talked about them all the time. Personally, I prefer Butterflies.

Beatles before they got big.

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[Poppa San]

It is OK. A different time. A different generation. Our parents and grandparents knew all those characters. They did radio and old comedy movies. It was passed on to us when these perennials of the time transcended to the new modem called television. Rudimentary, but so much laughter.

Sirius XM has at least one old-time radio programs channel

 

[gopkrs]

The Shadow knows Bwaaaaaa

 

[milani]

Beatles before they got big.

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Anyone around at the time recalls that first night early in 1964 when they debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show. Girls screaming. Parents eyes popping out. And kids heading to record stores the next day.

 

[milani]

Those are two of my favorites as well. Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, and the laugh. Love listening to Fibber McGee & Molly too. The closet.

LEROY! OH LEROY!

 

[rmontro]

Anyone around at the time recalls that first night early in 1964 when they debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show. Girls screaming. Parents eyes popping out. And kids heading to record stores the next day.

I was just a tot, but that is one of my earliest memories actually. I was a Beatles fan from then on.

 

[weeds]

Anyone around at the time recalls that first night early in 1964 when they debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show. Girls screaming. Parents eyes popping out. And kids heading to record stores the next day.

My sister's gathered around and were screaming at the TV. I was about 5 but I remember it clearly. My Dad called them The Beatle Bugs. I don't think he was recovered from Elvis and my two older sisters.