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I don’t like sitcoms, especially sitcoms with laughtracks, but boy do I love 1987’s “My Two Dads,” 
a sitcom about a teen whose dead mom was just slutty enough throw said teen’s parentage into question. (The series was widely known among its cast and crew as “Whose Sperm Is It Anyway?”)
Chuck Lorre, who went on to create “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory,” wrote the most episodes.
Comic Paul Reiser, still fresh from stellar turns in “Diner,” “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Aliens,” played the funny dad; Greg Evigan, the “B.J. and the Bear” star whose filmography is not as impressive, played the handsome dad. Staci Keanan was cute and funny as the daughter. A tiny Giovanni Ribisi, billed in those days as Vonni, was hilarious as the nerd who pined for Keanan’s character.
The sole bonus feature is “A Look Back At My Two Dads” (16:29) with 33-year-old Keanan (now a blonde) and 55-year-old Evigan (who looks a lot like Jon Voight now) reminiscing in directors chairs. Learn that Evigan originally wanted to turn down the role because he didn’t like the idea of playing a dad. Learn that the network wanted to recast Keanan post-pilot, but was overruled by series creator Michael Jacobs. Learn that Keanan, who found the rewrites stressful, was in a fatherless household when the series was shot, and fantasized that the then-childless Reiser would adopt her. Learn that Ribisi and his guitar were inseparable.
All reality shows are fake, but some are a lot faker than others. When a hot girl gets bopped in the head by a mallet during a “Survivor” competition I can tell when it hurts. On the “The Hills” the dullest girls in Los Angeles yammer endlessly about their boyfriends’ perceived level of fidelity but never talk about their recent magazine cover and talk show appearances, or the fact that they make a lot more money from cell-phone commercials than their “jobs” in the fashion industry. I don’t root for shows to die, but I am heartened to hear the ratings for this useless vanity exercise are plummeting.
Nash Bridges was the series that first teamed “Lost” showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. Is true. So if you like those episodes with Hurley's dad you should maybe give this a look.
ER’s 10th season was, for me, the season the series began its descent into the mawkish, unfunny sitcom it is today. It was the first season since the departure of key creative force and longtime showrunner Jack Orman and the first since Mark Greene’s final death rattle. (Susan Lewis and Deb Chen were briefly brought back during this period to shore up linkage to the show’s earliest days and help fill the vacuum left by Anthony Edwards’ departure.) It was the first season for Neela and Sam and the last for Rocket Romano and the Carter/Lockhart romance. Oh, and it was the season that replaced hospital watering hole Doc Magoo’s with a JumboMart. How better to underscore the idea that the good times had ended?
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It does.
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Anyone remember her on Step By Step? Yes, sir.
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not while on My Two Dads you sick weirdos.
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Mar 03, 2009 12:55:35 AM CST
Also to clarify, Paul Reiser's never been doable.
by spifftacular squirrel girl
Ever.
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Also, they're releasing season 7 on dvd a lot earlier than normal. I guess it's because of the long delay between seasons 6 and 7.
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the chick from Step By Step is pretty hot. We need 24 on Blu-Ray already Fox!!
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I'm still waiting patiently for this release. The first release is just gorgeous on Blu Ray. Great show, too bad another reality show will most likely take its spot.
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may not have ever been doable, but Helen Hunt was during the Mad About You years. Now, not so much.
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It's called planting the seeds, Paul.
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I'm not judging anybody who is annoyed by laugh tracks. I remember watching ALF as a kid and thinking: "What's up with these people laughing?" But over the years I got over it and these days I don't even notice it anymore! A few weeks ago I watched 'How I Met your Mother'* and suddenly I heard the audience laugh and thought: "Hey, wait a moment, has there always been a laugh track?"
And Nash Bridges. What a great show. Not groundbreaking or "dark & edgy", like the kids love it these days, but I will be damned if this show didn't have some of the greatest character chemsitry in the history of Television! I never watched the show for the cases that had to be solved, but for all these great b-stories about the private life of the characters. Oh, and is Season 2 the one with the episode thathas guest stars Philip Michael Thomas and Tommy Chong? (And Meat Loaf)
*which is BTW still pretty lame whenever Barney isn't saying or doing anything. So screw you, people who promised me that it becomes a great show in season 2! -
In that show she had this sister who was supposed to be the prettiest girl in school, that every boy wants to date and so on. I always thought that Keanan was hotter than her (despite her annoying Lisa Simpson-attitude in the show.)
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The pic of Scooby seriously bothers me.Wanna know why? I know a picture of Velma, that looks exactly the same! It's the same pose and even the expression on her face is the very similar. It's like someone took this picture and just painted a Scooby over Velma. Maybe there is one of these for every Member of the gang...
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i remember that program
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Mar 03, 2009 6:50:11 AM CST
COUNT DUCKULA season 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by soylentmean
Where are you?
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'nuff said!
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I think the release of 24 season 7 is wrong because when it is released there is still the finale left to go on the 25th of May. I could see the 26th, but not the 19th unless Fox is making another episode or 2 a 2 hour special.
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Me-Ow!
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The finale is always 2 hours , making the final episodes the 18th.
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according to imdb the scheduled 2 hour finale is the 25th, but going by the weeks you're right it should be the 18th
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is Claptrap von Spillderbeans. When Cosgrave hall distributed thier iconic show Chorlton and the wheelies over seas. Palestinians thought that the image on the cover of the MAgic book looked similar to the star of david. and according to Brian Trueman they werent very happy.
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..wildfire...!
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or at least don't let them get to me. I've been watching The Big Bang Theory since it began and this week's episode drove me nuts. I suddenly became very aware of the laugh track to the point I cringed every time anyone said or did anything as I knew that grating noise would immediately explode from my speakers right after. A laugh track, if one is going to use it, should be used like a music track - it should compliment the scene, not overpower it.
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...the fact that Parker Lewis s1 clocks in at nearly $50, even from Amazon? Great show, but...$50? It's like they purposely want to eliminate justification for releasing the rest of the series.
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...taped straight to crappy VHS coutesy of PBS, circa 1987. OLD SCHOOL GEEK BABY! Grainy quality and bad tracking...that's how I roll.
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I watched this show when it was on in the 80s. I was a sitcom junkie at that time. It is not a memorable sitcom. Was it better than Perfect Strangers? Yes, but what wasn't? You have just lost a lot of credibility with me over this comment.
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I am always willing to pay more for the sets to be as unaltered as possible.
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Never watched more then 60 seconds of it and never will. A Hills fan is exactly the type of chick I strive not to date. The Soup's spots on The Hills are hilarious though!
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Fun fact: The German dubbing of Married With Children features for any reason an unbelievable amateurish laugh track. Not in terms of sound quality, but you hear always the same few soundclips when the audience laughs. In every single episode! BUT this is one of the things that made the show popular in Germany. Meanwhile it's very unthinkable for any German to watch this show without the guy who yells "YayYAAAY!" two or three times per episode. :)
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Where's The Power of Kroll DVD Herc? Any man-eating two mile wide swamp dwelling squid god who's actually the fifth segment of the all powerful key to time must be acknowledged!
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Mar 03, 2009 7:01:20 PM CST
I admit I watch the Hills on MUTE and whack it to Audrina
by tylerdurden3395
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Who is the actress in the lower left corner of the Caprica dvd cover? I looked on imdb and nobody seemed to match.
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I believe is Deadwood's Trixie, Paula Malcomson.
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Was is it true that creator Reinhold Weege was the annoying, smoky guffaw that was in each track?
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That show was gold.
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Most or all laugh track shows were filmed in front of a live studio audience. Laugh tracks are used to punch up the applause. Night Court had an audience, but a laugh track was used as well.
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They didn't go all George Lucas on the original footage, did they?!
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You don;t know how good it makes me feel to finally that listed here! Its about damn time!
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In the UK M*A*S*H was broadcast without laught track, making it a wry and sometimes black comedy. Freaked the crap out of me when I first saw it in the US.
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