*EXTRA SQUEE!* I used to love WKRP - I watched every episode repeatedly (back in the days of 5 tv channels and old fashioned syndication.) I'd forgotten about this scene, thank you for this!
Now I've got so many great moments popping back in my head.
I think it's one of those shows I don't see critics talk about when they mention landmark tv shows (like Mary Tyler Moore or All in the Family) but I'm hard pressed to remember any other show of that era that was as consistently funny.
Oh I never thought about the library! Boy, the internet has made me lazy (I used to go to the library for everything.) I'll have to give that a try. thanks for the suggestion!
Possibly too much humor for people to consider it landmark?
Maybe not a "landmark" but damn it was funny all the way through, and the whole ensemble was aces (I think the quality might have waned a bit in the last season - it felt "tired" - but that's my memory from years ago and may not be accurate.)
We don't have comfy couch alas. We used to get DVD's from Netflix and watch from the bed, but we don't keep a computer upstairs since the fire in 2013. And our computer has a nice screen.
I thought it might be Monty Python at first but the only person I recognized was Michael Palin, and they actually have an old woman playing the old woman. MP always had the men playing old women.
That is Monty Python, actually. I'm surprised you didn't know it. In my mind it's one of their better known bits.
They did often play old women themselves, but not always. Maybe they wanted a real woman to make her seem more normal in comparison to the other characters.
Is it? My brothers and I watched as much Monty Python as our PBS station woulld broadcast back in the day (1980's) but I'm sure we missed a lot. We saw the Blue Parrot sketch, the mattress sketch, the lumberjack song - some of the classics. even had an audio tape at one point (which I preferred because they actually completed their skits and so the jokes really had a chance to "build" organically rather than breaking the skits up and having them bleed into one another.)
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Date: 2015-11-12 03:51 pm (UTC)I think it's one of those shows I don't see critics talk about when they mention landmark tv shows (like Mary Tyler Moore or All in the Family) but I'm hard pressed to remember any other show of that era that was as consistently funny.
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Date: 2015-11-12 08:09 pm (UTC)Possibly too much humor for people to consider it landmark?
Maybe not a "landmark" but damn it was funny all the way through, and the whole ensemble was aces (I think the quality might have waned a bit in the last season - it felt "tired" - but that's my memory from years ago and may not be accurate.)
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Date: 2015-11-12 08:48 pm (UTC)But basically, I got lazy.
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Date: 2015-11-13 07:25 pm (UTC)I thought it might be Monty Python at first but the only person I recognized was Michael Palin, and they actually have an old woman playing the old woman. MP always had the men playing old women.
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Date: 2015-11-13 08:34 pm (UTC)They did often play old women themselves, but not always. Maybe they wanted a real woman to make her seem more normal in comparison to the other characters.
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