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24!! ER!! WHO!! HILLS!!
DADS!! UNCLE!! MOD SQUAD!!
STARGATE!! HercVault!!
I am – Hercules!!
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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Reader Talkback
Also to clarify, Paul Reiser's
never been doable.
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12:55:35 AM | When will 24 be on Blu-Ray?
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MUTE and whack it to Audrina
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audience
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