Category: US
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Some Becker Promos
As an excuse to metion the second episode of Comedy Is …, in which I talk about the sitcom Becker, and try and place it into some social context, while also looking at other examples of angry man sitcoms, here’s a few promos for the show itself that aired on CBS at the time.
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Comedy Is … The Best Medicine
Here’s the second installment of Comedy Is … a sort of audio essay that uses a show from the late 1990s line-up on the Paramount Comedy Channel as a springboard to talk about the history of television comedy, and explore the wider social context of these shows, and what they mean to me on a…
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Comes Up Peanuts
I just watched this advert from 1977 for the new flavoured Marathon. It has a weird wrapper, and features Keith Chegwin. but it’s boasting a new extra flavour – what does that mean? And what did Marathons taste like before I was born? People in adverts hold their Marathon bars in such a peculiar manner.…
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JodieVision
I have a vague, but completely made up memory of Jodie Foster making a cameo in a nineties sitcom. And yet, Jodie Foster never made any such sitcom cameo in the nineties. She did however begin her career in a sitcom. Mayberry RFD was the show that was re-worked from The Andy Griffith Show, when…
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Wanda’s DVD Collection
I like to think that Wanda is a massive sitcom bore, and that she forces all of the other Avengers to sit down and watch Hi-De-Hi, or Dharma & Gregg. We get a glimpse of her DVD collection in the latest episode of Wandavision. Here we see Who’s The Boss, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, Malcolm…
