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Frasier: The Seal Who Came to Dinner (1998)
A Favorite Episode
What are we wanting? Not every episode can be Mary Richards at Chuckles the Clown's funeral, now can it?
Funnier bit must be episode of WKRP, Turkey's Away, is holding up way more than any episode of Mary Tyler Moore or nearly any other comedy episode over the decades.
So I enjoyed the silliness, the quirkiness of this episode. The never-ending effort to get that dead seal off the beach so the Crane brothers could have their elegant seaside dinner.
One of the most amusing parts of the episode was truly the neighbor Gretchen Koontz.
It seems Maris was in Gretchen's falconry class and Gretchen became smitten with her and was now always dropping by.
The setup just amused me to absolutely no end. The frail, anemic Maris in a falconry class taught by this grinning garish woman who, when smiling, was reminiscent to the Joker.
February of 2017, this site did away with all these questioning boards on all these movies and actors.
There was endless, mindless page after page queries and threads on the soccer ball Wilson from Swept Away.
Even worse was people's discussions on the tv show Lost.
Someone chimed in they worked on the show and knew the outcome and there were just those who couldn't stand it and insisted they were being misled, going so far as to concoct bogus names and logging in under them.
The first commenter being "Lostasnwers" the next person (or TWO!) would call themselves "Lotsanswers" and so on offering totally made-up answers, whether the first commenter was telling the truth or not.
One of the last postings I made was about this very episode, entitled The Seal Who Came To Dinner.
With the boards slated now to vanish in a mere 24 hours, I saw where I had received a response. What oh, I thought.
So I clicked on the response to see what they had to say and was subjected to, "It wasn't The Seal Who Came To Dinner, it was. An Affair To Forget.
It wasn't Gretchen the falconry instructor it was Gunnar the fencing instructor.
Seems like there was probably one more little correction, probably like,
It wasn't season 6, episode 8, it was season 2, episode 21.
And now I submitted my very last IMDB response and told this person their conduct was why imdb was shutting down their commentary boards, because of little antics like he was displaying.
I've often wondered about that person over the years now. If he received that final message or not.
Bachelor Father: Kelly's Tangled Web (1961)
Bruce Ramsey
Kelly's desired date with the unseen Bruce Ramsey, who then backs out due to illness.
Ironically Bruce Ramsey was the son of Betty Ramsey (Mary Jane Croft) and Ralph Ramsey (Frank Nelson) on three episodes in the final, seventh season of I Love Lucy, as their Connecticut next-door neighbors.
It's it a small world?
Fantasy Island: Lady of the House/Mrs. Brandell's Favorites (1984)
ASTONISHGLY INCREDIBLE LAUGH FEST
Boy, talk about a message to put out there, whether it is based in truth about what young women did and do nowadays to make it in today's world.
What are Geoffrey Epstein and Carl Weinstein known for now? They did something bad?
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Polly Bergen portraying everyone's fave Ghislaine Maxwell. Deep down, she helped her girls understand who they are and what they could do.
That's right, listen to her sage wisdom and you could end up with a prince!
I gave up on Fantasy Island way back and decided to watch some episodes in reruns, now almost forty years old.
Lauren Tewes, Randi Oakes, Shelly Smith, Mark Shera, Ed Winter, Dick Gautier. It don't matter who they were; totally interchangeable. Dumb one, smart one, sad one.
But this couldn't have been some Stella Dallas or My Fair Lady sort where she gave everything up to make them into something?
I'm sure Fantasy Island did a similar storyline down the line somewhere.
She couldn't have been a reform counselor who helped them turn their lives around from street thuggery?
Without a doubt the biggest joke has to be some idea their previous life was "something to be ashamed of" yet it seemed like it helped their accomplish something in their lives.
But all that was missing was fundamentalist Bible-thumping church women showing up, or maybe that was supposed to be the estranged boyfriend's position.
It didn't matter. Everything was just totally off the wall in this episode. I'll give it three stars, one for each blonde.
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures: Snow White and the Motor City Dwarfs/Don't Touch That Dial (1988)
Hilarious Parody of Cartoons
Mighty Mouse becomes trapped within the television and finds himself in hilarious takeoffs of classic Saturday morning cartoons.
Brilliant depictions include the Jetstones, merging the Flintstones with the Jetsons and their pet amoeba. Proto.
Al Jetstone and his wife, Stella.
Then a very funny Scooby Doo imitation, with multi-racial ethnic teens and a size distorted car and dog.
The Bullwinkle and Rocky satire is just as funny with an entirely different Rocky, and finally we get the Ghostbusters cartoon parody with four guys, all sounding like Lorenzo Music, with new-wave metallic colored hair and outlandish guns.
The parodies of the classic cartoons was so much funnier than the plot involving the bratty kid, whatever it was about.
The Zombie Apocalypse in Apartment 14F (2019)
Unbelievably Bad
This is not Robo-Monster, Plan 8 From Outer Space bad, this is somebody's idea of being satirical toward zombie movies and doesn't know how to be.
If you don't like religious movies, just imagine the two guys reading the Bible as they believe the city is overrun with zombies.
Same effect achieved by the "defiant drug use" while they believe zombies are ruling the world.
It's incredible somebody thought this was a worthwhile movie to put together, that it would be so intriguing for being stupid, in a Jackass way or something.
But none of that is here.
Not a 'so bad it's good' movie, this thing is awful.
Day of the Animals (1977)
Cross Connections - Day of The Animals
Leslie Nielsen appeared as the doctor in Airplane (1980) and was here as the bear-wrestling maniac.
Michelle Stacy is credited as Little Girl here and she was also in Airplane as Young Girl With Coffee.
In neither movie did Leslie Nielsen and Michelle Stacy appear together.
Leslie Nielsen is the captain in Poseidon Adventure (1972) and again, here he is the bear-wrestling maniac.
Bobby Porter, who is the young boy, John Goodwin, is also in Poseidon Adventure, uncredited, as a boy at Gene Hackman's sermon.
Nielsen and the 24-year-old Bobby Porter did have scenes together here in Day of the Animals, but did not in Poseidon Adventure.
And a year after this movie, Leslie Nielsen and Lynda Day George would appear in the first season of Love Boat as a May-December married couple.
Joe and Sons (1975)
Joe and Sons or Joe's World?
The other reviewer may be confusing Joe and Sons with Joe's World, from about four years later, also cancelled after one year, with K Callan as the wife and mother of five kids (first time I saw her. You don't forget a woman with a one letter name) and Christopher Knight as the eldest son, and I do indeed recall his precious hair being touched or swatted and his reaction a la Travolta from Saturday Night Fever, tho Knight's hair was not all permed up like Travolta's
Even still, I do recall Joe and Sons and they mistakenly believed they had marijuana growing in a flower pot and Jerry Stiller began consuming it very quickly.
That makes three shows of "someone growing weed" - Sanford & Son, Three's company and here.
Both shows were not on very long. It might be cool sometime to see them back-to-back, as was done on one cable show with It's About Time and My Mother, The Car, or as Nickelodeon did with Mr. Ed and Patty Duke show.
Happy Days: Richie Fights Back (1975)
Before The Shark Was Jumped
While the first two seasons were not in front of an audience and that gives them a touch of authenticity, as well as the show was funny, the show was still delightful and funny when it ventured before the audience, as this episode clearly shows.
I have just now learned the second tough guy was the late Jeff Conaway, which I never knew. Doesn't matter. If he actually spoke, his lines were probably edited out now.
But this is the alltime hilarious episode with Richie wanting Fonzie to teach him how to be tough and Richie testing it out on Marion at breakfast the next morning.
It's also the episode with the bit about Joannie flipping Richie all the way home, and Richie doing the 'bong, bong' at the pinball machine.
But above all else, it is the unnamed extra who gets one of the biggest laughs in the episode; when Richie is mad and punching at the restroom stall doors and Fonzie comes in, we see the fellow who was in the stall go racing by to get out of the restroom with the madman.
Who was he? Nobody knows. He made the episode a winner.
For 1970s comedy, I'd give this episode more than ten stars if I could.
Lancer: Devil's Blessing (1969)
Actually A Very Good Episode
Even Bonanza has its bad episodes, and Lancer was a show that ran for two years, had too much of a similar setup to Bonanza, Big Valley or even High Chaparral, as well as westerns were definitely on the way out by the late sixties. I'm watching episodes now for the first time, having heard of the show before, Andrew Duggan is the performer I'm most familiar with, so new what to expect there, as well as I'm aware of the fate of James Stacy (even saw the skiing movie he did with Lee Majors), but this episode in which Lancer has no money or ID, so must make his way in the criminal town, was very good, mainly for the other performers, especially Campanella. When he threw Lancer out of the building, I was thinking, oh, here's someone he's going to go after later on, definitely.
Noah Beery Jr made a suitable sidekick of sorts (rather apparent how he ended up on Rockford Files, watching him here) and Beverly Garland was not in cahoots with Campanella, but had no way to escape him or his town.
Tayback was Tayback, so you knew what you were getting there. Definitely Campanella and Beery who brought it all home.
Very good episode. Was going to give it a nine, but changed my mind. As far as tv westerns go, it was really one of the best.
Supertrain: Superstar (1979)
William Holden in Sunset Boulevard?
I'm not sure then if Sylvia Sidney was supposed to be Gloria Swanson or not, but it didn't matter. Like all the other episodes, this one was an odd concoction as well.
Hired goons (Mills Watson and Timothy Carey) are on the Supertrain after Dennis Dugan, but don't realize he isn't on board. Wait! He wasn't on board, but he is now!
That was something truly to be seen to be believed. He wasn't on the train, with the goons, but now he was.
And then enter Sylvia Sidney in an equally incredulous manner. After Joyce Dewitt and Isabel Sanford in Pirouette, as well as Rue McLanahan and Barry Gordon in Billy Boy, it shouldn't be any surprise to see Dennis Dugan paired up with the unlikliest of Sylvia Sidney here. You can't help but think Judy or Audrey Landers would have been preferred, to give some hint of romance.
But never mind all that. Bo Hopkins works his bit pretty good here, and kudos to Timothy Carey for almost saving the episode! But no luck. This was still a clinker like all the rest, made only worse by the odd narration placed over it.
So Dick Van Dyke sought to re-create Hitchcock in his episode, Billy Boy had canned laughter and this episode had narration. Out of nine episodes, for such an "expensive" show, this program sure did resort to some odd choices.
Supertrain: A Very Formal Heist (1979)
Once again, Not Sure Of Everything Going On
So it seems Zsa Zsa had her necklace stolen and Abe Vigoda is the investigating officer. I have never seen so many 'officers' and detectives running around on as unlikely a show as this.
Peter Lawford is there as well, but don't recall much he did. Same for Lyle Waggoner, now that I think on it. Don't even recall when Sally Kirkland turned up. Might have to go back and watch it again.
This is just an incredibly strange show all the way around, with no reason for it being on that train.
This episode's notable clunker; Ilene Graff, added in the Julie McCoy position, sings a slow piano medley version of the Beatles' I Wanna Hold Your Hand, as tho she is Debby Boone or something. Incredible!
Graff, by the way, went on to play the mother on Mr. Belvedere.
Supertrain: Where Have You Been Billy Boy (1979)
All Else Fails, Let's Add A LAUGHTRACK!
Incredible. I actually stopped and looked when the 'laughter' was first heard, to make certain I heard what was going on.
Barry Gordon is a criminal being transported by Rick Hurst. Why are you going to transport a dangerous criminal on a passenger train?
Rue McLanahan is the unlikely activist who champions his cause, insisting he is innocent, and other potential hostages, Nick Hammond, Hans Conreid, Elaine Joyce, all join in, as was the typical reaction, supposedly.
In comparison, James Coburn's short-lived Dark Room, about a year later, was a better watch than this thing. Character usage, performers and so on.
By all accounts, it is as tho the train was supposed to be that stellar, you'd watch the show, but truth be told, you keep forgetting they are on a train, or supposed to be on one.
Supertrain: Pirouette (1979)
Just More and More Bizarre
The concept of this show just keeps getting stranger and stranger, for its nine episodes, or however many.
So now we have Joyce Dewitt as an heiress who is attempted to be kidnapped by her family's former assistant (Isabel Sanford), gardner (Mako) and chauffer (James Gregory).
Amazingly, once again, none of these people show any chemistry together.
Vic Tayback and Jamie Farr are the detectives out to protect DeWitt, Bernie Kopell (from Love Boat!) is in love with her, and an amazingly wasted Tony Danza is a reporter after her story, whatever that may be.
Most amusing bit would have to be DeWitt channeling her Three's Company Janet Wood antics when she is trying to awaken and move out of those two chairs. You expect John Ritter and Susanne Somers to show up.
Isabel Sanford with a gun. That was rich.
We get indications here of an elevator to 'the second floor' and a mention of 'the stairs' and all I can think is how impractical such a setup would be. I've actually meant to point out the sliding doors in various locations, like Star Trek, and how that would really be a safety hazard if there was a malfunction. Trapped because the door wouldn't slide open.
Even with the disco, swimming pool, gym and an upstairs on the train, it doesn't seem like there could be fifty passengers on this thing at a time. Where would they all go?
Supertrain: The Green Girl (1979)
Something About A Poker Game
I'm not really sure what this episode was supposed to be about either, same for the Queen and Knight episode.
There's a poker game going on with a Texan (Huddleston), an African-American (Little), a Brit (McDowell) and an Asian (Kusatsu, tho he was born in Hawaii). Belding in turn seems to be the female token.
It was supposed to be a big to-do and televised, so once again, not sure why it is on a train.
Catch a totally wasted Henry Jones as well. This episode was closest to being like Love Boat. Not entirely, but closest.
Supertrain: The Queen and the Improbable Knight (1979)
I Just Can't Believe So Much of This Show Was Green-Lighted
I couldn't spoil reviews for this episode because quite honestly I'm not sure what all took place.
Paul Sands falls for a woman who turns out to be a queen to a foreign land, and she has hired assassins after her.
Of the show's nine episodes, this makes about the fourth or fifth one with an assassin-kidnapping plot, after Express to Terror, Cup of Kindness, Pirouette and even Hail To The Chief.
What on earth was this show being sold on? How many abductions or assassinations were there on trains back then?
Sands does ham it up a bit here as a guy nobody wanted to believe when he saw a body or was held at gunpoint.
Once again, my number one gripe, is how spacious everything seems to be on this train.
And it seems there really is nothing else for these people to do but sit in that bar. We haven't seen dining quarters or scenic anything as would be on a regular train.
And how many times can Harrison Page be walking with a tray of drinks and someone runs into him?
Supertrain: And a Cup of Kindness, Too (1979)
For Such A Heavy Promotion and Investment, . . . . .
These episodes really are bad! They are awful.
These things are Mystery Science Theatre 3000 bad!
In this instance, we have Larry Linville and Dick Van Dyke doing the Strangers On A Train bit, except they don't meet up on the train. Instead they meet up at the train station, and the ending all but puts an odd twist on that deduction!
So Linville helped Van Dyke, now Van Dyke is going to help Linville by giving him the impression he will kill Linville's wife, Barbara Rhoades, on board the train. Linville isn't on the train.
Linville pretty much spends the entire episode running after the train, and in truly odd ways, such as phoning in a bomb threat to make a plane come back.
Worth noting here, Linville is sitting on the plane next to a rambunctious southern-type, and there was a Texas cowboy on the train at the bar who got boisterous with Rhoades. What was it with these cliches?
Now focusing on the Texan at the bar, he is still a "PASSENGER ON THE TRAIN" yet crew members of the train behave as tho he has just wandered into the bar. He had a ticket. Find out who he is.
So as if Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train wasn't enough, there is a follow-up with Van Dyke imitating Cary Grant in Rebecca, with the glass of milk.
So all this homage to Hitchcock found no audience in 1979? Go figure.
Once again, on a train, large spacious hallways and this time, lo and behold, Van Dyke and Rhoades actually step out onto a balcony or something to 'enjoy the view.'
On a train.
Oddly enough, for as little as they are together, Rhoades and Linville do seem to manage some believability that they are divorcing but still care for one another.
Also in this episode is one incredibly unnecessary sub-plot about two mischievous children. That's not even worth talking about.
Supertrain: Express to Terror (1979)
Beyond All Realms of Clumsy
The pilot? You have got to be kidding me? This was the selling spot for this show?
1979 and this was the introduction to the disco audience?
Someone is trying to kill Steve Lawrence? Really? Who was Steve Lawrence in 1979? Mr. Las Vegas? What appeal or likability did Steve Lawrence have to the rest of America? Why didn't they cast Anson Williams for this part?
But that's just the start.
Steve Lawrence and Don Meredith. There's a duo. Not two guys known for scene-stealing acting, and they are paired up here.
And then we got Don Stroud, who we are never really sure what he is about until the silly thing is almost over. He just broods and grimaces for the entire thing, yelling at Char Fontanne. And who could love her?
And once again, it is a train, so what do we have? Stroud and Fontanne in the luxury suite from the looks of things; big sprawling room with entry hallway. Nothing compact here.
One whole hour into this thing before we see Vicki Lawrence, Stella Stevens, Ron Masak and George Hamilton. We see Masak so he can die, for crying out loud!
Fred Williamson shows up, then he's gone, and same for John Karlen. You'd think it was a murder mystery the way these people are there, then they are gone.
But now we come to two characters (okay, I won't directly spoil who) riding on top of the train. You'd expect hair to be flattened out, but no, it holds its body.
But the solution to 'rescue' the guys on the train, or what is even the order given to the conductor?
Speed up! To do what? Kill them? Save their lives? How does that save them?
And amazingly, one of the people here actually manages to hang on. When the other one sails through a window, which at least was called out for supposed to have been shatter-proof, someone says, oh, he's been shot. Who shot him? The other person didn't have a gun.
The train goes through a tunnel and is plunged into darkness. You want to be standing around drinking at the bar and suddenly can't see?
And finally, it is 1979, this is the pilot, and what are the choices of music Robert Alda plays at the piano? California, Here I Come and Me & My Gal. Wow, who sang those songs in '79?
Compare this to the first episode of Love Boat, since that is what we are doing, and who was present there?
An unknown Suzanne Somers, Meredith Baxter and Jimmie Walker, who at that time was such a scene-stealer, they left him off the ship. And it worked.
And here we get Steve Lawrence and singing Me & My Girl?
You want gunfire in your pilot episode? On a train?
It's no wonder this show bombed so badly. I can't imagine someone watching this and going, hey, can't wait for next week!
Supertrain: Hail to the Chief (1979)
First Gripe, Unbelievably Slow
Roy Thinnes is a Presidential candidate who is replaced by his look-alike twin brother, by an assortment of crooks, among them Victor Buno and Billy Barty. Loretta Swit boards as Thinnes estranged wife, who realizes he is an imposter.
In the end, all guilty parties attempt their escape, leaving others to try to explain themselves.
Supertrain was the infamous late seventies disco bomb, which forty years on is amusing to watch, if not out of curiosity above all else.
Love Boat truly managed to pair people up in episodes that would work well together, such as the jewel thieves of Harold Gould, John Shuck, Larry Storch and Karen Valentine.
Buono and Barty here have zero chemistry, which is bizarre for two performers who could definitely click with others.
Amazingly, this seems to occur throughout this entire show's short-lived run.
First thing I noticed about this episode was how slow it moved.
Second clunker has to be there is virtually no indication of their being on a train.
Even The Big Bus gave indication of characters in passenger seats and the confined spaces of a compact kitchen or dining area, even the swimming pool.
It is peculiar how there isn't any "T&A" such as on Love Boat" in bikinis and "Fantasy Island" with the Hawaiian dancers, especially with a disco on the train, but there just doesn't seem to be many young ingenue guest stars on this thing either.
Yea, they are only worth watching as an oddity, that's for usre.
Our Miss Brooks: Two-Way Stretch Snodgrass (1954)
He Didn't Feed Me No Poppycock, It Was Succotash
Due to a technicality, star athlete Stretch Snodgrass might be taken by a rival school, so Miss Brooks must devise a way to prevent such an undertaking.
Not only does this require Miss Brooks imitating Stretch's mother and Mr. Conklin posing as the father, but Walter having to be Stretch.
The arrival of Harriet Conklin seeks to disrupt the masquerade, but Brooks and Conklin weather things rather amusingly, but then the real Stretch shows up as well.
How about the recruiter from the other school being named . . . . Mooney?
And Stretch's phrase in this episode; when told he doesn't live in the other school's district, he replies, "I usen't to, but I do now."
Earthlings (1984)
I Thought I'd Already Posted A Review For This
I remember this thing, mainly for Mike Conners in a comedic role. It was basically striving for what Richard Benjamin had previously done with Quark, but this one was to look more on a stage or before an audience or something, not so much on a set.
The three standouts were Conners in the lead, Frey was an alien who in one sequence drops his pants and he is invisible underneath.
Cromwell may have been about the most striking. He was a scientist, as my brother described him, he's the Carl Sagan of the show.
The episode's ending had everyone leaving, but Cromwell says he is staying, whatever the predicament was, to encounter whatever the new situation was that was causing everyone else to leave. He wanted to witness the circumstances.
This reminded me of when sidekicks or companions would depart from Doctor Who.
Would the show have been any good? I think so, especially if it took that approach as Cromwell did in the pilot.
As it is, I think even the pilot would be fun to see again. What a loss.
The Andy Griffith Show: Three Wishes for Opie (1964)
Must Be The Harmonic Convergence Crowd That Thrills Over This Episode
No episode that begins with Helen Crump baring her teeth with her steely eyes all lit up chewing out our beloved sheriff because of what 'somebody else said' (which she has done before) is outstanding or definitive of the show. Far from it.
Oh, it might be a good episode, but hardly the show's best. Even still, I didn't find the episode that grand anyway.
Fan favorites always seem to be Pickle Story, Aunt Bee The Warden, Barney and the Choir, Cow Thief, Convicts At Large, Bank Job and the alltime biggie, Loaded Goat.
While Three Wishes does have an interesting one-second attention-getter with Andy dragging Barney back into the courthouse (all I can say is watch the elastic man), supporting townsfolk by this time are Goober and Floyd, who are far from Gomer's contribution or even Otis.
And as far as "flashbacks" go, they hardly drove this episode, but in the episode, Andy Saves Barney's Morale, when Barney's girlfriend Hilda Mae tells about sweet-talking him on the date until she mussed up his hair, that was a bigger contributor to the episode than the fingerprinting kit scene in Three Wishes was. That bit could have just been present-time dialogue.
All I can think is the hocus pocus voodoo crowd like this episode for some early depiction of soothsaying.
But still, it's far from the best episode in the series.
Happy Days: Because She's There (1974)
Gas Pouring Out of The Tank?
The first two seasons of Happy Days are marvelous. In this one, Richie is dating a much taller blind date.
They run out of gas and have to use a watering can to carry gas back to the car. When Richie says the spout is too big to go into the tank opening, Diana Canova, as the tall date, offers her torch (she's dressed as Miss Liberty for a costume party) as a funnel.
"Hey, it works," Richie exclaims, while you can see liquid shimmering across the car beneath the tank, obviously pouring out everywhere.
It's been years since I watched this episode.
Still fun to see stuff like this, but don't tell me no one has caught it until now?
The Hunt (2020)
Misguided; Tried To Slap All Faces And Thought It Subtly Condoned Hate Crimes
Absolutely pointless. The whole thing. Saw meets Hunger Games meets Purge meets Fantasy Island meets Kill Bill?
I suppose what we are subjected to for about the first near-thirty minutes was to set up what was going on, so that in essence was thirty minutes of pointless development, considering what happened to everyone in those first thirty minutes or so.
Only when we do finally get a central character are we able to focus on someone, but we know nothing about her, what motivates her or anything. She's just 'smart' so there's that.
From there, we are subjected to more people who it's irrelevant to try to focus on them. So we got a central character? But we still don't understand why this is happening to her.
When we DO get some understanding as to why all that has transpired has done so, what it basically comes down to is texting, tweeting, emails, if you don't like what was said, well, it was a joke. But you're taking it too seriously.
This then means it is unfair to penalize someone for what they posted online, yet we still do, and often under the pretense it is a 'hate crime'.
"But it was only a joke!" one character bellows.
From there, you're able to look at everything that has transpired and you are half-going, so was all this really necessary? Really? That is supposed to be the reason?
Clearly wanting to take the concept of Saw-Hostel-Hunger Games and apply it to today's politics. For me, it missed, big time.
Gunsmoke: The Wiving (1974)
You Could Critique These Reviews More Than You Could Critique The Episode
Obviously a knock-off of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, a light-hearted one at that. The biggest gripe surely must be the sons and the saloon girls were not as isolated as the Pottipee brothers and their brides in 7B47B, who were snowed in, in the mountains, so everyone must be thinking the farm is oh, just on the outskirts of town, down passed the Dollar General.
The insinuation was supposed to be they were a bit further out, but still not as closed off and distant.
Yet we have to think again, and this will be difficult for people today to comprehend, THERE WERE NO PHONES!
Even if the girls had started walking back to town, it could be quite the hike for them to make and who knows if they would make it safely back or not. The roads weren't paved, nor were they patrolled. A bear or a mountain lion or a wolf could just as easily turn up to greet them.
Main thing I have always taken from this episode is the three brides were saloon girls. Being married to a 'devoted man whose heart she has captured' was better than contending with drunkards in the saloon.
School was not an option for them, so really all they had to look for was marriage and these guys were supposed to be as good as any. John Reilly as the totally disagreeable son who didn't want his bride was actually very amusing, and Karen Grassle handled the spurned bride rather well, too.
And as for it being Fran Ryan's first episode to air after Amanda Blake left, Ryan had more than proven herself on Green Acres, having to take over there after the passing of the first Mrs. Ziffel.
No, she wasn't a 'stunning' beauty like Blake, but Blake was over forty by this time. She wasn't getting any younger. As other shows have done, all efforts to let the show go out quietly are resisted by the studio, who probably insisted Miss Kitty be recast with Ryan, instead of a younger miss. The show was already running on empty with countless episodes like this one, sporting guest stars galore, leaving me often wondering, where's Matt? Festus? Doc?
As for the sons and brides being recast in the 'sequel' it was only Karen Grassle and John Reilly who didn't return. The episode might have been able to handle Grassle not returning, but recasting John Reilly with David Soul just wasn't the same at all. The other two brothers and their brides were the same performers.
But I don't know if people nowadays think they are holding the mindset of this episode and its neanderthalism up against today's intellect of consideration or whatever we think we have today.
Chalk this mentality up to Stockholm syndrome; where the ones kidnapped develop feelings for their abductors. Same thing we've had even in our times with Elizabeth Smart (which that seems to be a situation that insists on continuing a bit longer than it should), or even Steven Stayner, who never fled his abuser.
You're a young woman, working in a saloon, no family, no idea what women's rights might be and here comes the Brawny paper towel man to take you away to his farm. And they only had one hour to delve into a 'happy ending' for the couples.
It was tv. Not a lesson anyone was being given back then on how to live life.
Fantasy Island (2020)
Anybody Recall The Very First Fantasy Island movie?
There were actually two movies before the tv series, but the first one was basically very similar to this one.
A famed hunter wanted to be hunted, a woman wanted to attend her own funeral and a WWII vet wanted to relive his lost romance.
In some way, the fantasy worked, in another way, things didn't, or, as happened in the movie, the fantasy ended.
I really didn't enjoy the tv show giving way to Love Boat on land as it did, with each person finding romance in the end as well.
I think only one time on the show did the fantasies crossover.
Granted, there seemed to be some bits that were a tad clunky, but in the end they all came together, . . . . somewhat connecting.
Hardly the worst movie, as all the other posts seem to think, and they did seem to be along the lines of what the people on the show always wanted.
Won't give away what happened to anybody, but it was together as a movie. Do I think a sequel would be possible?
Possibly.