On this week's episode of "Who's Your Band?," comedian and actor Dave Juskow joins hosts Jeffrey Paul and Sean Morton for a lively discussion about the quirks of beloved television shows from the past. They delve into the cringe-worthy moments of classic TV specials, including the infamous "Do the Fonzie" dance from Happy Days and the equally bizarre "Do the Carmine" from Laverne and Shirley. The trio shares their thoughts on the absurdity of these moments and reflect on their childhood memories of watching these shows, highlighting how they shaped their comedic sensibilities. Along the way, they explore the intersections of nostalgia, humor, and the sometimes disappointing reality of celebrity encounters. Don't miss this hilarious episode of Who's Your Band!
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The Fonz, Disco Dances, and Bad TV: A Nostalgic Journey with Comedian Dave Juskow - Who's Your Band Episode 154
(upbeat music) - Welcome everybody to Who's the Band. - I am Jeffrey Paul. - I am joined by my co-host Sean Morton. How are you Sean? - I'm fucking old Jeffrey. I'm old. - I know you get a bit old and broken today. - Couple of things to discuss. We'll talk about your oldness. And before we bring it on, I guess. First thing I'll write off the list. We haven't been on in a couple of weeks because you have a summertime and there's a lot going on. One of the things that we kind of like built up to before we went on a little hiatus was Sean's special. And Sean's special turned out to be, I'm not just saying that because it's Sean. And trust me, I don't want to say something nice to him. Okay? - Very true. - But it turned out to be really, really just a beautiful special night. It was planned, perfect from head to toe. From like the show itself to I thought afterwards, the way Adam had set up that area for people to say a word and what the word at the end is going to be and who's going to say the last word. I don't want to give too much away for people going to see the special. But I just thought the whole thing was really done well. I thought it was handled with class, especially, you know, you showing. I mean, it was great. And thank you so much for having me be a part of it. - Listen, you know, it was, you know, like we talked, we did build it up a long time. It was 16 years in the making finally. And then we, you know, once you get everything locked in, then it's like a whole different, it's a whole different ball game. You know, it's the whole different ball game. But, you know, having you and Donna open it was fantastic. I think it came out okay. Not 100% sure 'cause Adam still has all the fucking video and I haven't watched any of it yet. I'm not going to say anything, but, you know, maybe I just did. - But Adam taking a long time to do something? No, that's not, that's not it. - It's not. - You know, Rush, we're going to have it out. It's going to be out between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's the whole goal. But, you know, again, it was nerve wracking 'cause we're doing it in one take. You know, and that was, that was my biggest thing. And look, we'll give him a shout out here. He's in front of the show. He's been on the show. I was picking Rich Voss' brain about two weeks before the taping. And he goes, what's your biggest fear? And I told him that I'm doing it in one shot because I'm a masochist. He goes, oh, I did one of my specials in one take. I did one joke four times. And I didn't know what he meant. He goes, yeah, you're paying a fucking editor. Use it for a reason. And once I had that, I was like, oh, all right. I can do that if I needed to. And there was a time. I did two jokes twice. I redid them. They were unhappy with the way they came out. And, well, we did good, man. We did 75 minutes, which we'll cut out. We'll cut down to about an hour. And then real work's going to start. Then it's getting on serious and getting the promotions and the podcast and the interviews and all that stuff. And then Adam buckle up or work on number two for the same time next year. So that was definitely good. That was good stuff. So the other thing before we bring it on, guest, is you and Adam, you two old thoughts went to go see Springsteen last night. And the two of you have been complaining about this for almost 24 hours now? Well, yes. And first of all, I have to give Adam credit. Because Adam went the day before. It was a two day festival, but the sea hearing out festival. Adam is nuts. Gattery and Sunday. I do outdoor festival to Jersey Shore. Never. I will-- listen, I may never go outside in general period ever again. Let alone go to an outdoor show like this ever. But it was an event. I got to tell you, we got there. I would say close to three o'clock. I think that's what I met at. Well, I texted Adam, took us an hour to get through. How was the show? How was Springsteen set? The show was great. The show was on-- they made it closed off fourth through seventh between an Asbury Park on Ocean Avenue. I parked somewhere in Barnagut and walked over. I mean, I felt like I walked for fucking seven days to get over there. But it did it really well, three stages. We walked in, cool, and the gang was playing. We heard some of them. Then we saw a tiny bit of Norah Jones, so Action Bronson took an hour break, watched Gaslight Anthem. They actually opened and had Springsteen play two songs at the very top of the show. His purpose was going on right after him. So they opened up a two song. Springsteen, they did a great set. Bruce played a set, dude. I mean, I don't know how deep you go, Jeff, as far as Springsteen. I only told him for two years. Yeah, I know. This comes up every three fucking episodes. Right, but I really don't know. I'm thinking about that one. It wasn't like a typical-- Bruce will always show you his set list up, which I think was great. But this was a catered set list for Asbury Park. I know he debuted a lot of songs on the tour on that show. He did stuff that he hasn't done in seven, eight years. He did Thundercrack. He did Sandy. Does this bus stop at 82nd Street? I mean, media across the river. He did so many things that he hasn't done in so many years, but he took out some of the songs that I love. But yeah, like "Prove It All Night," my favorite song. Oh, you know, it's one of my favorites, too. But like, and the song "Ghost" that I loved, too, if the new record he took out, which I was fine with, you know? But like, you know, you get to hear some growing-- he did, oh god, I was just looking at the set list. I mean, it was just, it was-- I've seen him over a dozen times. I mean, this was definitely one of the best shows I've ever been to as far as the set list goes. And what's the name of the event called again, "C" in here? "C" here now festival. So for years, it's about the fifth or sixth year that they've done it in the very beginning. They've never announced the headliners. They would just book this festival. You'd buy the tickets and you had no idea where you were going to go see. And then they started getting smarter. They were like, all right, we had Pearl Jam do it one year. They had Foo Fighters do it. So now they're announcing, but like, the way it happened with "Springsteen," you know, 'cause he had to cancel the shows 'cause of COVID and he had to put them on the back end of the tour. It just happened to be that it lined up where his last show was in Pittsburgh or Baltimore, at the Baltimore. And two days later, it was to see here now festival. So it would just wind up perfectly that he was able to do the festival. And I mean, that was a money cow. Let me just tell you, they made millions and millions of dollars off of that. - Well, Shawn's great, great insight into the festival. Listen, guys, we have a bunch of great shows now that we are back for the fall into the winter. And no one starts right now, right now, because I want to bring it on a guest. I've been wanting to re-book this guy for the longest time. He is a comedian. He's an actor. He has a podcast. Let's give it up for return guest, Dave Juskeau. Hello, everybody. Mr. Juske, I love this guy. He's so fun. You know, he's funny 'cause he kind of gets it. You know, and Dave, this is why I found out, after the last time he was on here, you do a podcast on Billy Joel. - Yeah, we just finished it, actually. We went through every song he's ever written. And we, you know, we did Zanzibar and then we wrapped it up. - Do you like a new song? - Yeah, I love it. - I absolutely love it. And I went to the last concert at Madison Square Garden and he didn't play it. Let me tell you something, I'm not a big Springsteen fan, but at least that guy mixes up his sets, you know? So you're gonna hear something fresh or different. Billy Joel never does anything different. It's really annoying. - He'll change the opener because I've seen him a couple of times on the residency. And one time he opened up with the, you know, I swear the lights go down and Broadway, you know, the Miami song. - That's what we did last night. - Right. And then he'll also open it up, I think, with a matter of trust. - Yeah, that sucks. And I mean, that song blows. And when he opens with it, it blows even more. And it's fun to open with Miami 2017, which he did in the last night. We were sitting there in the last night. People were paying, and we saw online there were like $20,000 tickets, which was ridiculous. But let's just say there were like, you know, thousands of dollars. People are waiting for something special and nothing happened. He wouldn't even play the new song. And that's completely unacceptable. And like I said, nothing was different. There was no, the only, the celebrity guest or whatever was Axel Rose and he stinks where he does now. You know, I saw him there 30 years ago when he was terrific. And now he can't sing. And he, I mean, it might as well just me up there were the same weight and height. And you know, it just, our voices are going. I mean, it was just, it was bad. And that was not cool. We were expecting Paul McCartney to come out or anything, anything different. - You would think, right? - What? - You would think. You would think that you would-- - I don't even, I was so angry about it. We obviously did a podcast right after. And I was just, I'm just done with him. I'm really angry about it. It's not cool to not, you know, he says, it's like, oh, I'll just come, it's for the fans. It's for the fans. But it's clearly not for the fans. The fans, the people that go to the residency are going multiple times. It's not like you're just getting people their first time to a Billy Joel concert. I understand you got to play scenes from Italian restaurant and all that crap. But, you know, just hit us with something you haven't played before or something different because most of us have been to that residency. A hundred times when he'd go to a Springsteen concert and, you know, you're somebody like Ross Zapin. I don't know if you know him. He's like the hugest Springsteen fan. He's been more than anybody I know. And, you know, at least you get to see a different show every time. - Right. - You're going to go, wow, I can't believe we played this. Sean, you just said he played this. He played this. He didn't play this. I mean, that's what you want to talk about. Billy Joel, you know, you're going to get the same set. You're going to get the same encore every time. - That's true. - It's the exact same encore and the exact same ways. Same list. How many times can you hear Crystal sing River Deep Mountain? - Oh my God. And there it is. And that's the perfect time that stupid River of Dream song we shouldn't play anyway. - I hate it. - As soon as the time we go to the bathroom and this time we're like, no, maybe somebody'll come out in the middle. He can't possibly have Crystal play that stupid fucking song again this last night, a special night at the garden. Look, this is how bad it was. They raised a banner saying, you know, we did whatever 150 shows. And it's next to the banner of Harry Styles doing five shows there in one week. Are you fucking kidding me? They're just throwing up jerseys out of the rafter now. It doesn't matter. It was pathetic. - Yeah. Tell Swift got one for doing like a good 20 minutes set. - Yeah. - Exactly. And so it meant nothing. It just made it even worse. But like he's saying live and let die with Axl Rose, right? Which was cool. - Yeah, that's good. I've never seen him do that. - That was good. But then we were like, why isn't Paul McCartney? We know their friends. Why isn't he coming out and saying, "God, that's my song." You know, and then go into something. I mean, that would have just, that little thing would have been worth the ticket price of $2,500. - But no, you have to hear Mike Dell Judas do whole lot of love. - What, which one? - Whole lot of love. He does Zeppelin. - That one. - They did that, the Nessus, stupid Dora. - Yes, he does that, yes. - The Stones one again, right. Oh my God. - Oh yeah, stop me up. - And here's the worst part. I don't know what you guys know. I mean, Sean, I guess you don't know, but clearly Jeff, you've been to this stupid show. - I went to the show right before you, the second to last one. - Okay, but you guys are comics, right? So you'll get this. That stupid, innocent man bitty does. - Yes, yes! - Oh my God, he's like, hey you guys. God, I've never done this before. I wrote this song in 1983 saying, well this will be the last time I hit the high notes. Well, I'm gonna give it a try and see what happens. - Yes, yes! - This was on TV. He put it on on CBS. So it's like, you know, what's that's the new comic rule ever since Louis Eke ruined everybody's life. You can't do the same material anymore. And then this guy just can't stop doing it. And it's been on television already. - A hundred, a hundred and 10% right. - You remember how it used to be with comedy? Like, I don't know how old you guys are, but I mean, you used to go to a comic to see them do the material you loved. And now nobody does that anymore. I used to go see Roddy Dangerfield. Well, he would do, of course. You just want to hear all the old ones. But like somebody like Richard Klein, it's his Richard Klein that's from Three's Company. Of Richard Lewis-- - Robert, you think of Robert Klein? - No, I was thinking of Robert Klein, yes. Or, but Robert Klein originally, we would see Robert Klein. You're like, oh, I hope he does. I can't stop my leg or whatever, right? You're hoping he does that stuff. Nowadays, nobody gives you what you actually want. I mean, it's fine to hear the new stuff, but I kind of miss, like, sometimes I want to hear the old jokes, just sprinkle them in. - I'm working with a guy who does that. Next month, I'm working with Bob Nelson. - Oh, no, that's a whole nother story. That's different. He should never do the same thing over and again, sorry. - No, he will do Jiffy Jeff. - Oh, I know. - No, he'll do the bird. - End of time, yes, yes. That's different. I, we were just talking. We were wondering if he was still around. So now you've answered my question. - Yes, I'm not-- - I mean, that guy. - Do the arms bit too? - He'll do the on bits. - Do the on bits. - Do the on bits, do the mannequins. - I don't know, what's the mannequin one? - And the mannequins kiss each other and stuff like that. He doesn't do that, but either. - No, Bob Nelson's bit is the bird bit. He'll do Jiffy Jeff, which is the boxer and he does the football player names. - Now, I mean, there's a guy. That's an interesting guy who had a moment in 1985 or whatever year that was. Oh my God, he was on top of the world. That shows you that, you know, what was that, the Rindy Dangerfield special, those comedy specials, the young comedian specials. They really used to be effective back then. Now, obviously they're unnecessary. - Well, of course, I mean, everything has changed, but yeah, he was, I think, on the same one as Henderson and DICE. - Yeah, I think so too. I think, yeah, that was a crazy special that had those three guys. Yeah, that was nuts. And he was the guy. I mean, everyone was talking about him. - Yes. - That next week, it was incredible. - Yes, and then he, I think he did it tonight's show that he, yeah, he was on fire for like a year. And then he did the boxer thing and everybody was like, that's all right, but nothing beat that football player thing. You know, in a moment in time in comedy, it was incredible. But he never kind of got, you know, kind of to that next thing, I guess. - He never became like a Seinfeld, you know? I mean, and well, yeah. If you're in comedy, you kind of know who Bob Nelson is. If you're not, you've probably forgot about him. - Right. - You saw him in kindergarten cop or something. - Right. - But speaking of TV, and Adam, you're like you up this first one, speaking of TV. You're like me where you love terrible television. Okay? In fact, I think bad television makes us happier than good television. Like, you know, anyway, anyone could put together a game of thrones or a sopranos. But we're talking 80s version of Happy Days. After they jumped the shock, Adam, can you play the Happy Days clip? And I'll set up once we get it up on the screen. Okay. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about, Adam? - Well, I know what you're talking about already. - Okay. - Are you going to show Joni loves Joshi? - Oh, no, no, no, no. I hope that you-- - I could go to bed right now, Dave. That was a good one. - Okay. Hold it right there. Okay. So this, what we're about to see is, we're going to see a brand new sensation. This is when Happy Days has done everything, but they're still doing pretty good in the ratings. You can see, Fonzie's not wearing the white T-shirt anymore. He's wearing the black T-shirt. Okay. He's clearly in his 40s, but he's still dressing like he's 19 years old. All right. And he's going to introduce a band and a new dance craze. Okay. And this is going to be called Do the Fonzie. Do you guys remember this? - I remember. - Fortunately, I do, Jeffrey. - Sure. And you remember Do the Fonzie? - I was a huge Happy Days fan growing up, and I wound up getting the DVDs and watching the whole series like four times, so you can do it. - I came across this, and I was like, I cannot believe this actually made it on television. - Oh, yeah. - And I was like, you know, I have to get just got on this, because there's a couple of things that we have to watch. Adam, let's see a little of this Do the Fonzie. - Which one's my camera? - Oh, this one here. - Yeah? - Look how cool he is. - How you doing out there? You want a new dance? I got a new dance, and it's going to be done by a friend of mine, soon to be a friend of yours. That's right. Let her just get there till right now. - Oh, yeah. Yeah, ain't you guys. Let her brother-- - Is he fucking? - He didn't fuck her. - And I'd say so. Leather is being backed up by some more friends of mine. Band. That was-- hold on a second there, Adam. - This is going to be-- - Yeah, that was the joke. And it's a running joke. He refers to the band as band. And listen to the crowd laughing. Like, you would think this was like the debut of Jim Carrey. - Yeah. - I don't know why-- - There was, you know, after the Pinky Tuscadero Fadesco, the letter was the big-- the next big thing, supposedly. - Well, you know what happened with Pinky Tuscadero, right? - I do. - That's right. - If for those of you who don't know, she was supposed to be a regular on the show. But supposedly she was such a bitch to work with. - And I'm the mess. - I'm the mess. - Yeah. - You were on the pole in Halloween special? - Of course I saw. (laughs) - You would name it. (laughs) - Did you ever see Kiss on the pole in Halloween? - Yeah. - Isn't that incredible? - I can't believe that you-- - Ladies and gentlemen. Kiss. (laughs) I'm kind of like teasing them a little bit too. Like, come on, pole in. You know? And I didn't know he was gay. - Oh, really? - No, I had no gay. I just thought he was like funny and fluent boy. And then he was uncle-author. - I love the fact that, you know, he was gay. And he was just-- that's why I felt like he was always laughing. Like, everything he said had a gay overtone to it. So it's like, uh, listen, boys. You know? You see the Paul Lynch show where he plays a dad married to a girl. It's just like, every line is like, "Are you saying my daughter?" He's saying, "My daughter is--" And a total-- (laughs) He was so gay. And that's what made me so-- - He was so gay. But he-- (laughs) - A good fall in. - I mean, if you can tell, the Pauline Halloween special has both witchy poo and the Wicked Witch of the West and one of one-- - That's right. It had an old-- - The gay, like Margaret Hamilton. - Margaret Hamilton. - Now look, Mr. Lynn. You know, very well, today's Halloween. (laughs) - You know, the thing is, like, out of the camera, Paul Lynch supposedly was like a raging anti-Semite. - Who, Pauline? - Yes. - Yeah, well, he was just a drunk. - Yeah, he was a drunk. But that was, like, supposedly the room. He was a big anti-Semite. All right, Adam, play a little bit more of "Do the Fonz--" We gotta see the dance. - It's called "Do the Fonzie!" - He's a Fonzie. Guys, this was on TV. 60 million people would watch this on a Tuesday night. (upbeat music) Watch, watch "Do the Fonzie" dances. (upbeat music) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (laughs) - Do you think he wanted to do this? - Uh, I don't know. - Do you think we kind of put him up to it? (upbeat music) (laughs) Those were the kids. They were supposed to be into it. And the next day, you were supposed to go to school. I say, "Oh, we gotta do the Fonzie." - Do the Fonzie. - Yeah, this is so cool. Look how cool Fonzie just stand there. (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) - Oh my God. (singing in foreign language) - This was on TV. Let's remember that. This guy. (singing in foreign language) Now all the kids, they can't control themselves and they gotta come out and slap dance and do the Fonzie. They're supposed to be the big dance craze. (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (laughs) (singing in foreign language) (laughs) (singing in foreign language) Even his jeans suck. (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) - Oh, God. - I'll tell you, though. Adam, let's stop it. - Adam, let's stop it. - He's so cool. Like, he really is good. Like, he's just so good at what he does in that character that although that's the stupidest thing ever, he still looks cool in it. Like, he's still found a way to, like, move and he moves well. And he's just, he's into, like, he was never complaining. You know, from what you hear about people talking about him, he was a joy on the set. And obviously, he could have been the biggest dick ever and, you know, they wanted to call it Fonzie's Happy Days after this second season. And he's like, "No, I don't want that." And Ron Howard was upset about it even. You know, Ron Howard was the star. He kept, he made sure Ron Howard was still first, even though Fonzie moved up to the second credits. He was apparently a real team player, which is amazing. But when he's moving in that and he's in character, he's the best. I mean, when we were kids, he was the greatest. Adam, I've got a question for you. We can carve out, like, maybe two or three hours where me and Jeff can just get together. You can bring some equipment and we can have Jeff re-enact the font. That's actually the direction I want to go is the new intro for my special. I would love to have Jeff do in the region. You can move that way. I don't know if I can move like Fonzie. I know. He looks pretty good. I mean, I can press your jeans, though, to make them look like Fonzie's jeans. Those are pretty horrific. Unfortunately, I have those jeans. What is so funny, Jeff? I still wear those jeans. You know, you know the story of him that I always used to have this joke that saying he must have had the greatest agent because if you ever read up on Happy Days, they did not want him. They wanted like a Sylvester Stallone type. And I hit this picture of his agent going, well, we don't have that. But we got a Jewish guy with a winning smile. You're going to like. I mean, it's amazing when you think about, because I, you know, I teach at this university, right? So I teach this kind of stuff and try to explain to the kids how popular he was. You can't explain it when you're watching it. If you're any, if you're in a 20, you can't possibly imagine when he did that motorcycle jump. I remember when he was about to do it and hit the jukebox and it didn't go on. I remember my dad going, he lost his power. Like everybody was all in. It's a, you can't explain it. He was definitely a hero of mine growing up as a child. Like it was always a man. Me too. I'm in Rocky. So when they went to, I went to one of those autograph, horror conventions. The chiller. Yeah. And I'm not a huge fan of, you know, paying for pictures and autographs and stuff like that. But I was like, you know what? This is Henry Winkler. This is definitely a hero of mine growing up. So what? I'm doing it. And I get up there and I don't get starstruck. You know, we've all, we were all in this business a long time. We have all met some really huge fucking people. You know, it's not a big deal anymore. I was definitely a little starstruck when I met him. And the second he opened his mouth, he was no longer the fawns. He was a Jewish grandfather. Yeah. Isn't that funny? He was the night. It's just the nicest, sweetest, like most caring down-to-earth man. And in a way, a kind of ruined fawncy for me. Well, you know, it's funny. They have this thing where they do all these interviews for the, like, Emmy or TV, you know, whatever, the archives. And he was explaining the character. And it's kind of funny because, you know, we forget it's a character sometimes until what you just saw, you know, you're like, oh, wait, it's a character. Which shows he was a really good actor. Yeah, exactly. So he was telling the story, how when they first became really successful, they were at a mall, him and Richie and Patsy and Ralph. And there was so many crowds and they had to get to this limo. So he said he just went into the character. And then he does. He goes, okay. Everybody's got to move like the potting of the sea. And when he did it, like when you heard it, you're like, it's a character. It's like, you just, I don't know why we didn't think of it. We're like, I mean, he was just so fucking good at that. But then when you hear the difference, like you said, he's like a Jewish grandfather. But then when he goes into the character, it's, it takes you back. And it's incredible. Like even now, if he did that character for you and said one line in that you would have been like, oh, I'm back. I'm watching this documentary on the Sopranos, the two-parter one. That's on HBO Max. And you can have a look with him with that. I want to see that too. Yeah. It just came out. So I just watched the first episode. So it's kind of like the same kind of thing with James Gandolfini. Oh, right. Everybody kind of looks at him now as he's one of those few actors where no matter what he's done in his career, either before or after, he is Tony Soprano. And I think they're kind of falls into that category too. Like he's done a tremendous amount of things in his life, but he's always going to be remembered as the Fox. So we would have had that call. Sorry. I think the only other thing that he was not the Fonzin was probably water boy. Right. Exactly. But that's why he was so, that's why he was so beloved and Barry. And that's why people wanted him to win, you know, because it's just like you just, we all worship the funds. Adam Sandler clearly worshiped them. Which is why Adam and multiple movies. Right. He just meant so much to us as kids. You know something. It really wasn't supposed to be Henry Winkler. You know who went out for the part. I believe he turned it down was Mickey Dolan's. Oh, that's right. I heard about that too. And you mentioned riding the motorcycle. He never rode the motorcycle. That was always a dull. He never, he rode it. Yeah, he only maybe rode it for a couple of feet in a scene, but he never really rode the motorcycle. Oh, that's really funny. Yeah. Okay. So if you think do the Fonzie was cringe and get the next one up. This one, I don't, I don't know, Dave, if you even saw this one. Okay. But do you remember the companion show to Happy Days was Lou Vernon Shirley. Yes. And there was, there was a guy who left after like people started to leave. I don't even know if Shirley's in the show anymore. Yeah, she, I think it ended up, well, her and Penny Marshall didn't seem to get along at the end. Right. Okay. So I don't think Lenny was a squeaky state. Lenny, I think, is gone. And they tried to have a breakout star. And do you remember who that who? You got it. And this one, and get it up. Because this one is called do the Carmine and look and look at who. Is that Jay Leno? It is a young blackhead Jay Leno. Remember that. Did you see this one? Yeah, of course. Yeah, I've seen, I've seen all of Jay Leno's earlier. You've seen, you've seen this bit. I've seen this bit and I've seen the Jay Leno on one day at a time as well. Sure. You've never seen this, right? Yes, I've not seen it. Okay. Tour audience, we have this is Jay Leno as the host. Okay. And this is going to be the newest dance sensation. Do the common show. You hit it at him. We have a new dance making its world premiere. Yeah, everybody. When the history boats. We're going to rock and roll. He's going to be chapter one. Here's Carmine doing do the Carmine. I'm holding for a second. Okay. Now, if you look over onto the left side of the screen, you see, you know, the woman in the red, that's Leverne. What? Yeah. She looks pretty hot. Don't you think? I do. One of my friends slept with her and said she had a very big vagina. Really? Sorry. Go ahead. Yeah. I would say that is something I would have known. No. No, that's worth interrupting. Yeah. To know that Penny Marshall had a big vagina. Yeah. I'll tell you the story after. Okay. Yeah. I met her once. She wasn't the front. I met her actually more than once. I met her twice. Better too. Very nice. She wasn't the first time she was okay. Second time. I met her twice. I was lucky. I was lucky. I talked about her about sports. So we got along pretty well. But, but look at her in this. I mean, her legs and her body looks pretty good. I know. I didn't know it was her. Exactly right. I was like turned on by her and now I'm not. All right. Also that big vagina, you know. And now someone... I used that polite word. It's big vagina. Okay. Let's see. Let's see. Do the common. Also, they spent a lot of money on that set. What are these her? She looks pretty good. It looks like the stage at your comedy club. It looks like the stage at your comedy club. Do you think you can do the common? He could do it, but maybe not in those pants. People were supposed to go out and go to clubs and do this. I can't believe Penny Marshall is actually doing it. Adam, can you hold it for a second? Did she have an executive credit on this? On the show in general? Yes. Well, her brother was the producer, so I think towards the end she must have gotten some sort of thing. But I'll tell you the really interesting part about the weird part about this is that this... Besides the big vagina? Besides that. This guy, I think his name is Eddie Mecca, was a really good dancer. And the funny thing about this do the comedy is not really dancing that much unless he pulls it down later. Well, the whole thing is supposed to be the new dance craze. Yeah, exactly. And the great part about this is, and this is the part you and I like, is that when Penny Marshall directed a league of their own, she had him in it in the big dancing with Madonna. And I can't tell you when I was in the movie theater and I'm like, "Oh my God, it's the big ragu!" Maybe he was almost unrecognizable. Well, it was almost 20 years later. Yeah, but he was still a great dancer and he's dancing with Madonna. And I love the fact that Penny Marshall and him were clearly still friends like, "Hey, you got to be in this dancing." I'm saying he's a really good dancer and he's not really dancing. It's supposed to be that, because this is like-- Where's the carmine? Do you understand what's supposed to be happening here? Mr. Linn, I don't know if I have to call you Linn. Mr. Jessica. What's supposed to be happening here is that you're supposed to watch this and then as a kid, you're supposed to go out and go, "Listen, Friday night, guys, we got to go out and do the carmine." But what is the carmine? It's very confusing. It's not like he hasn't really done anything to cause it to be the carmine, except going just kick here and a kick there. You kick, you know, he's explaining-- Let's watch a little bit more of it. Let's see if he explains the dance a little bit more. Yeah, let's see if it's like a, like a hoe down. Take your part. All right. Let's see if I can figure this out. You got to, you got to spread your legs. That's exactly what the Fonz was, the going down, the crouching and then coming up. That was the fucking Fonz bit. That was it. And the big, remember the big Fonz dance thing when he did like that kind of Russian dance? Oh, my God. After he walked his motorcycle, like all those miles? That's right, because he-- We were for our dance competition. That's right. And do you remember who the antagonist in it was? She was kind of famous in the dance. I know he was in one of them. No, no, he fought Tom Hanks almost. Yeah, who was the antagonist in that one? Charlene Tilton. Oh, really? Oh, my gosh. She was like the bitchy girl. What was that? She had a big rack, right? He did it if she was a little girl with a big rack. Yes. And, you know, she maybe she was big on Dallas. You'll never go from rags to riches. That was Carmine's thing. He wanted to, like I said, he's kind of like a little bit of a sissy. You know, he's going to, you know, he's a dancer. But he'll kick your ass, because he's a gold gloves champion of Milwaukee. Yeah, that's right. Meanwhile, the story, it's a comic. I don't know. Well, I guess I can-- he's dead now, so it doesn't really matter. It's Dan Vitaly. Did you ever know him? No. You guys? No. No. Living Legend of New York Comedy. He was on Saturday Night Live for a year. Living Legend at the Improv, he was amazing. He just died two years ago. And so he was a mess, you know, drug-wise and stuff. And he went, Lauren Michaels loved him. So he took him to the Yankee game with Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel. And him and Art Garfunkel got into a fight. And I finally had found out, like, only five years ago that the fight was the fact that they were both dating Penny Marshall at the same time. I guess. And they got into, like, a fight. And he punched Art Garfunkel and Art Garfunkel punched him. And he threw up on Art Garfunkel. And it was all over Penny Marshall and her flappy vagina. That's a great story. Well, if you like the combine and you like Bonsie, then this last clip that we hear is going to put both those things to shame. Okay? All right. And can you do this up, please? All right. Now, I'm sure I know both of you guys were big fans of the Brady Bunch. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Of course. Well, this is after the Brady Bunch. Okay. They tried to bring the Brady Bunch back. Okay. And I don't know if this one was from a variety hour show or if this was one of the one off specials, but here they are doing a disco medley. Oh, then that's from the variety hour. Okay. You got it Adam? You know, the same people that did Donnie Marie and all those guys. Yes. Yes. And I think Donnie Marie was it on ice? Yeah. They definitely had ice. All those shows on ABC had ice after a while. Well, I think this is very important to the audience. Yes. And some had water. Okay. And this had a very gay Mike Brady. Okay. So let's see this one Adam. Well, we're ready to do the introduction to the finale. Where are the kids? They're not coming out for this one, honey. We're going to do this by ourselves. We always do this with the kids. Well, the kids are going to be singing. Why are they even doing this? And they didn't think they'd have enough energy for the introduction. Is this supposed to be in the Brady Bunch universe? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. It makes the kids think we've got the energy to do this. How do they get on TV then? Well, I think we can have six of them. No, no, no, no. The whole Brady Bunch are in the show. I mean, they're in the whole show. But they're in character. They're not, you know, it's not for our senses. It's Brady. You've got to see the choreography on this. I must have watched this over the weekend. Oh, no. I think there's about ten episodes in every week. There's a dance number. And I mean, Christopher Knight had said he does not dance. Oh, none of them dance. Yeah. Okay. I must have moved a little bit. I'm telling you, I must have watched this probably a thousand times this weekend. It's embarrassing if you were black in watching this, you'd be really upset. This is it. You saw the choreography, right? This is it. It doesn't change. You turn your hand and your point. See, they're letting her sing because that's the new jam. Right. She's the only one that really can sing. Right. She had some talent. Yes. Eve Plump said there's no fucking way she's dealing with this. And Greg can sing, too. Kind of. He thought this was going to break him out. Oh, I know that. Now, he thought this was going to go on and have this big singing career. Bobby and Cindy, they can't do it. They can barely keep up with us. Oh, Barry McGregor song. Those were the days, but disco style. Did you ever see the Christmas special? Oh, of course. Look at him. Is she answering her voice back? Yeah. It's so nice, Chris. But look at him. Look at my brain. He can't sing. Oh, he hates being there in general. He wanted to be taken serious. All right. Adam, Adam, what's that? So now we have Carol Brady, or do you take Carol Brady, or do you take the mom from one day at a time, Bonnie Franklin? Who do you bang first? Good question. Well, it's funny you weren't at that way because the mom from one day at a time used to be, I thought she was repulsive. However, in the pilot, she's very cute. And she just aged really horribly right after. I think right after the pilot. Yeah. In the pilot, I might take Bonnie Franklin. But as far as the series goes, it's definitely going to be Florence Henderson, but both of them. Nobody holds a candle up. Maureen McCormick really truly is the hottest girl I ever, just those bedroom eyes and the fucking sluttiness now knowing she would fuck guys for Coke. That's so hot. Let's get back to this, because this is, now this is supposed to be, you know, was Greg Bray's real name. Barry Williams. Yeah. I just saw him on TikTok yesterday. He took his daughter to the old set. It was really cute. Okay. He's a good guy. You know, he used to do a thing in Branson. Yeah. I know. Because he's been on Broadway and stuff. I was trying to make it. And for some reason, just, you know, wait, he was on Broadway. Yeah. Yeah. He was, I think he was in City of Angels, like in the 90s and stuff. He, I think he might have done Joseph in the amazing Technicolor dream code. Donnie Osmond did that. Who? Donnie Osmond did it. Yeah. Donnie Osmond did that for sure. That's right. But then they would have people that, like he never originated a role. He would come in later. And he would get like a little juice, whatever is left of the show and bring in, you know, the guy from the Brady Bunch. Now, yeah. Now here you see him. Okay. And he really thinks he like, you know, hey, look, this is going to be the next part of my career. Yep. And I'm going to blow up. I'm going to be the next Michael Jackson. Play that Adam. Oh. White is dancing Emma. Yeah. John, do you think this is a good dancing? Not bad. Well, like I said, he's not awful. He didn't make the choreography. Can you believe this was on network television? Yeah. Well, I remember it. I think Bruce Philanche wrote on it. He comments on it all the time. There you go. I think Bruce Philanche, you know, yeah, Bruce Philanche. I think he wrote on it. So he comments on it all the time. Oh, do you think this is? Is that Freddy Prince? No. You'll know it is a second. I had a number one record. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. They brought out on this special. The worst song ever. I think he tried to do other animals in his disco song. That makes sense. Oh, Tangerine. I love it. I love it. I love it. It's all gay. It's all gay. Oh, look who this is. The cast of What's Happening. That's right. Never Fred Berry? Of course. Everybody like watching him dance. You see a fat guy who can move like that? He's awesome. Loved it. And it's funny that the other black guys can't dance at all. You know what Dee is doing now? No. I know she went to college only because I talked to Ernest Thomas about her. Yeah. She's a veterinarian. Yeah, right. She became a doctor. Yeah. Yeah. This is a theme song to Lucy, right? Yeah. So why is this in the disco medley? I don't know. Lucy, is Lucy a ball on the show? No. ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ ♪ Dancing out of weight ♪ This was my weekend. This is what I was doing. I was watching this. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked. I must have walked down the rabbit hole with this kind of stuff. Holy. No, no, no. Me and Adam saw a Springsteen with a hundred thousand people on a beach at Vad'sbury Park in a beautiful summer day. Well, Jeff was listening to fucking show tunes, apparently. I went down this rabbit hole. I went to the Spring. I was watching a little bit of college football before I had it go to my show in Saturday. And then Sunday I came back to revisit this. I'm watching the NFL. I'm watching Red Zone. But I'm really watching different episodes of the Brady Bunch. But not the Brady Bunch show. Like these different specials. I know the whole trajectory. This variety show. Then they bought the Brady Brides, which was Marcia and Jan getting married. Then they had the Brady Bunch Christmas special, which got renewed interest. A one-off, which got him into the Brady's, which was supposed to be like 30-something. And then it just all ended, finally. Yeah, the Brady's didn't last very long, and it was supposed to be serious. Nothing lasted long, right? They were trying to make it more like 30-something. That show was very successful at the time. That's right. But the Brady Bunch Christmas special was very good. I actually spoke to Martha Quinn, who was in it who played Bobby's girlfriend in it about it. And she said that she was at that. I said, what is it? She got to be in the house and be a Brady. She's like, it was so surreal. Because this was in the '80s. So it was 20 years later. And being a member. Do you remember Ken Ober? Ken Ober? Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was on MTV. He used to do the radio show with Susan Olson, you know, with Cindy in California. So he told me he went to her wedding. And I said, was that fun? Who did you sit with? Because I sat with the entire Brady family. It was wow. Was Mike Brady there then? I assume he -- I don't know whether he was dead at that point or not. He might have been dead. But he would be because he loved the kids. He hated the show, but he loved the kids. So he definitely would have been invited. But I feel like he might have been dead by them. Was Robbie Rist there? No, I don't think they cared for him. But I got to meet him once, too, because he does voiceovers. And it was exciting. You know, I'm with you. You know, Sean, I'm meeting these people like this. I'm friendly now, and you know this, Jeff, with Richard Klein, you know, Larry from Three's Company. Right. And that's bigger than meeting anyone else in my world. I am the same. I was not nervous talking with Pacino and De Niro. You know, but if I was to run into Henry Winkler, you'd get it. What's the matter with us? I still think this is one of my favorite episodes, too. We had Donnie Most on the show. And Sean and I spoke to Donnie Most. Oh, you got to speak with him on the show? Oh, yeah. We loved him. Yeah, that's exciting. He wants to be taken seriously as this. Yeah. Well, that's cool. I'm Don. See, that's the worst. That's what sucks. So, um, Naderman, you know, Dan Naderman? Yes. He told me, you know, they have the comedy solo show and they had Isaac from the Love Boat on Ted Lang. And he would not talk about the Love Boat. Why are you on the show? That's why I say he goes, I want to talk about this new play I'm doing. And I'm like, what an asshole. And I said, you should have just told him to leave. Because I was furious. I mean, what do you do? Does he really think anyone gives a shit about anything he's done? And if he had done, that's the thing. If you're not okay with yourself 40 years later, you suck. I mean, 40 years later, really, you can't just be grateful that you were on anything. Yeah. You think you watched the Love Boat, right? You think about the Love Boat. Of course. And it's a cruise ship. How small was that pool? I don't know. I mean, that set must have been incredible. Was it a settle where they action on a ship? I believe it started where they filmed on a ship. And then it just, when it became a series, they moved to a set. Oh, you can't do that. Besides, like, you know, the Alaska version or something, you know, like the special ones. The two hour specials. Right. Right. There was also nothing worse in the 70s. And, you know, the match I know was more in the 80s. But there was nothing worse on these shows doing a special, serious episode. Yeah. Well, again, mash, you could let go because, you know, you had to. And even I just watched it before I came on here. The old ones from the 70s with, you know, Frank Burns, everything when it was fun. And Wayne Rogers. But they still had, yeah. And they still had, you know, some of the stuff was really serious, but in a good way. They did that. That's perfect. That was done on purpose, though. Yeah. Exactly. It was the facts of life episode where Tootie became a prostitute. There was not an episode of that. There is. She gets taken into human trafficking. Yeah. That's true. No, I swear. You have to make the one black cast member a prostitute. Yeah. Yeah. She runs into this girl and she's getting into prostitution. And you're like, what the fuck is this? Are you kidding? You like popsicles, Tootie? I like some money. But then, but then I say, again, it's called the, I mean, that's extreme, but it is called the facts of life. And of course, that's the joke of the very special episode is always like that, but it is called the facts of life. Maybe that was their plan. But well, like you're saying, when you're on a comp, does the love boat ever need to be serious ever? It was great. It was great. No, it was awful. That's all we had. We had no other choices. It was totally in the, in the. Oh, my God. Right. Oh, that's a great one. That's my favorite one. It goes like, and they took my shirt off, then he tried to touch me. Do you remember who that just makes me laugh when I see it with double funny. Do you guys remember who played the perv? Yeah. Good job. That's right. The station manager from WKRP. Gordon. Yeah. I think Arnold was over the house, but I mean, why did, why did he molest Arnold? Why did he go after Dudley? Well, I think Dudley stayed because like Arnold seemed to know something was up and Dudley stayed because he had, you know, said, I'll give you some ice cream or something. Arnold was probably like, we should get out of here and he's like, no, it sounds cool. And then he gave me something to make me sleepy, and then he tried to touch me. What was this? Like a young Jim Florentine? Did you? Oh, there it is. See, narrowly escapes being recruited as a hooker. Yeah. Tony. He flouts the rules when she sneaks off to the hook and chaperon, and then this keeps beating the grid to be a hooker. And it's really funny when Mrs. Garrett comes in and everybody applauds like, hey, you're doing speaking of huge vaginas. Did you come in like the scene in lesson zero, Robert Downey was about to blow the guy and then Andrew McCarthy comes walking in, was it like that? Tootie's about to go down on the guy and Mrs. Garrett, she's like, Tootie, it's exactly like that. No way. No, I got to see this episode now. Yeah, because the girl, the girl who was trying to recruit her, I think her name was Tammy Lauren, and she was on a lot of shows in the 70s and 80s. I used to find her attractive. I assume we were the same age at the time. So she was kind of sexy as a child prostitute. That is great. I never saw that one, but it also, I didn't, I kind of sought to lose interest in facts of life. When they started bringing in Jerry became teenagers. Yeah. You want to tell Mrs. Garrett to tell Tootie? Yeah. I mean, did you ever see this one, she, she, she can come like a semi-regular, she had cerebral palsy. Cousin Jerry. Cousin Jerry. Yeah. Jerry Joel. Cousin Jerry. Fucking great. I love Cousin Jerry. She says stand up. Yeah, that's right. And she ended up in Deadwood. She actually got work after the facts of life, which is incredible. Did you still have cerebral palsy? No. That's the funny thing. I met her and I go, hey, I really like what you do. And she goes, thanks a lot, you know, character like that is not easy. You know, you know, what's in it, the one who played Blaire, she actually aged pretty good. She looks great. She's on that show collector's call on me TV and she looks really good. Yeah. She's, I'd be like early 60s, I think. Yeah. I think we're probably about the same as she was on the Mickey Mouse Club when she first starred in. She was hot back then. I was pretty. I was teen Joe Paul in the check. I was all about, I was all about Nancy McKee and really could see you. I could see that. I mean, there was something sexy about her, obviously, you know, she kept getting death threats because she wouldn't marry Michael J. Fox because they used to work together and go out. They were in like three things together. She was in a lesbian? I don't think so. No. She gave up a very lesbian vibe. I didn't think she was sexy. And then of course she wanted to be taken seriously. So she got some other show on like the USA Network or something, but like she won't come back and do the, you know, these people that just don't seem to get it. Don't get it. I don't know. You got it. That what? Said, you take the good. You take the bad. I guess. There you have. Do you guys remember who her brother was? Phil Mc-- Phil, Phil, McKean. Yeah. Phil, the guy from Alice, the-- yeah, the son on Alice? Yes? Yes. Adam. Adam, is there-- Adam, is there any way you can find the theme song to Alice? I can sing it for you. Early to bed, early to rise. You think you got to be more effective? There's a new girl in town with a brand new style. She was just passing through. And if things work out, she's going to pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, oh, wow. Okay. What you did there, you only did the second verse. Yeah. True. Yeah. It was early to bed, early to rise. You know. I couldn't remember the-- Adam, play it. Play it. I keep people watching this. Early to rise. Early to bed. Very jazzy, baby. Get it backwards. She gets-- as the season's progressed, she got more and more obnoxious than it was. I hate to feel McKean. I hate to feel McKean. I had to get up, get out from under, and look for-- Okay, now she's getting really get into this. There's a new girl in town, and she's looking good. There's a new girl in town with a brand new star. She was just passing through. But if things work out, she's going to stay a while, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Adam, can you go back a bit? With a show flow? I used to sing that song on stage. Did even if you guys find flow attractive in anyone? No. She's only 29 years old in this episode. What? You're joking. There's a thing that was floating around. I mean, I was laughing at it because a lot of them were my age. It was like, they would show it like Wilbur Brimley when he did "Cacoon" was my age now. I saw that. I couldn't believe it. And that was one of them. I think she was like your 29. Maybe maybe even 39. And not a bit. Even if she did not get cast in Greece. Yeah. Oh, my God, right? Yeah, I think I'm stuck at a Chinese age now. She was 37 years old. She was supposed to be in a school. Yeah. I thought she was 57. Oh, my God. Yeah. I mean, flow was supposed to be like the hot one, and going out at night after her shift, and gang banging a fucking old guy. She was supposed to be so sexual and provocative, and she was just like, "Ugh." She seemed like a little musty and everything. Now, that was a tough show because there were no hot girls on that show. Yeah, but not like Beth Howard wasn't pretty. No. She was hot. And Al is probably like the best looking one. And she's not. I never found her attractive until actually I saw her in this play with Tony Roberts and Michelle Lee, the tale of the allergist's wife. And I remember she was such a good actor by the intermission I found her attractive. I'm like, "Hey, how do you like that?" Speaking of plays, I once went to go see Em Butterfly and BD Wong was in it, and he chose like he fought something new. Well, I think he originated the role, didn't he? I think he did. Yeah. Him and John Lithgow. Yeah. You saw the original production you're saying? I did. Like in the, was it early 80s or that had to be 70s? No, mid 80s. Mid 80s? Yeah. I was taking a theater class in college and they would, we would go like to see like off Broadway plays. We went to go see all types of different plays and one of the things we got to do was see Em Butterfly. Good deal. Oh, it was great. And it was so good. But, but the best part of it, you got to see BD Wong, like complete completely naked. Yeah. It's funny when you see those things when you're in high school, I saw George Song trilogy when I was in 1980. Obviously. Yeah. I mean, we yipes, we didn't know what we were in for. It's three and a half hours of just gayness and me and my friend just went like our theater teacher said, Oh, you got to see it. And we were like, what the hell is happening? Who else was in it when you saw it? I don't think we saw it with Matthew Broderick. I think we saw it with Doug McKeean who was in the golden, the one with the Henry fondant. On Golden Pond. On Golden Pond. I think he was the one in it, but otherwise it was a hybrid hybrid fire. So he was by himself in the first, you know, 45 minutes and then there's there's three different things. I never saw the play by saw the movie. Yeah. The movie's not very good. No. No. But I could watch. That's why it was crazy that Matthew Broderick in the play played his son. But in the movie, played his lover with his son David. I don't remember the name, David, no, I'm thinking of, I'm thinking of, Oh, what's that? Sure. You're going to judge her. I'm thinking to judge her in. It wasn't David. Yes. Oh, and that right in the Will Smith movie. Yeah. My David, right. No, nothing that went to my David. Nobody's perfect. That's you ever in a movie or the worst, you can go either way. He was so Jewish and that we just kind of funny because in taxi, you never knew what he was. No, but supposedly, okay, and we had her on, on the radio show on one point five. Yeah. We had Mary Lou Henner on and supposedly she was dating just about everybody. Yeah. She was real whore. Yeah. It's great. And like, not because she was a whore. She just like, she just had a good time. So she was dating Bobby and Judd Hirsch. Yeah. And she'd get her because she's like Sarah Silverman. She just likes guys for their talent. Yeah. I mean, she dated Travolta. Yeah. Well, she's so hot. So hot. Absolutely. Yeah. Especially. Yeah. And she has total recall too. Did you know that? Yeah. What does that mean? She can remember dates and where she was. If it was raining, you know, like that, it's, it's insane. Is that a form like autism? I feel it is. Right. Sure. I think like if I said, Jeff, where were you on, you know, June 13th, 2007, you'd be like, how the fuck do I know? And she would go, Oh, that's the day where we were in Mystic Connecticut. So we got up early. We had bagels, but we didn't get them from the place that was down the road that we used to go to. We always go to now we went to this new place on Main Street and it was great. They had like, you know, scallion cream cheese on the table was really like that's total recall. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's something else. Every little minutiae of everything. Yeah, that'd be, that'd be like, it would suck to get into an argument with somebody like that. Yeah. Like they would. Yeah, everything. No. It's full of what we can't. Yeah. Um, Dave, I got to tell you, man, I got to thank you so much once again for coming on and doing this. It's so much fun. Like you'd tell her made the show for me today. Well, like I said, there's certain people you can, you can go down this road with. And you are always like the first person I think of when, like, when it comes to like a bad television and this type of, like, I know you're going to get it and yeah. So, you know, I told you, I teach at this university in New Jersey and I was teaching, I'm teaching an 80s class. So last week was my lecture on the 80s and at the end, I get to television and I was talking about the syndicated shows in the 80s, like out of this world where the girl has the, the alien mom who has done a pescow from Saturday night fever. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was in the box that opened up and that's right. That's right. And, uh, what was the one with her? Small one. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. The girl was a robot robot. So I had them guess. What do you think? What do you think the show's about after they looked at some like, uh, she's a robot. Correct. Uh, Alf, of course, I was just showing every time I loved that bad TV from that decade. Let alone the 70s. I've got a network television though. What? Alf was on network television. I was on network. I know. But I was just talking. Small one that I think was on like channel 11. Yeah. Yeah. That was syndicated. That was syndicated. But I showed a madam's place with whaling flowers and madam. There were a hundred episodes of that stupid puppet show. I don't think I've ever seen one episode of that show. I never thought he was entertaining. It's not. But, uh, Audrey Landers or Judy Landers, one of the Landers sisters is in it and it makes it worthwhile. That was the reason I was watching as a kid. That makes sense. No, but small wonder was just like, who the fuck thought of this show and the worst acting you've ever seen? I guess on purpose. So the girl looked like a genius. I am in two drugs. She was terrible. She was better than everyone on that show. Yeah. It was like a brother on the show. Yeah. A horrible actor. Jamie was her brother. I just know because I saw the episode. They were busting a drug dealer and, uh, the girls lifting up the drug dealer by his belt and they're like, what's going on? And then the brother goes, that's as high as you're going to get buddy. That's good writing right there. Yeah. Sure is. That is some good. The 80s and how everybody was high on cocaine and I showed them the 86 Mets and Lawrence Taylor from the 86 Giants and then the guy who wrote out was on heroin. So I was trying to explain how it works because it comes into play later. Are you a baseball fan? Me? Yeah. I like the Mets. Well, next time we have you on here, we got to do, um, the Mets video of, uh, let's go Mets go. What's that? I don't know. Oh, yeah. We'll say that for the next time. David Crainpool just died last week. And the funny thing is I had seen him like two weeks earlier. Uh, here, wait, you know, you'll appreciate this one thing. Uh, you know, I made that movie about the cars, right? Yes. Yeah. I heard about this thing. So me and my friend, Kevin Cash, who played Ben Ore in the movie, I played Rick O'Kasek. What we wanted to do, but you played Rick O'Kasek? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got fatters. The movie goes on, but that was not in the script. Um, that was turned out to be the gag. That's what David tells us. Hey, Rick, Rick O'Kasek. On the pasta. And I'm like, that's not the line in this. Um, but anyway, we're, uh, we wanted to appear on Kiner's corners, the Africa case. They can better appear on Kiner's corners. They're like Ralph Kiner's show that games with Ed Crainpool, like that was, that was our dream. But we're like, who's going to get that and get the movies already stupid enough as it is. Did Ed Crainpool ever look young? I don't think so. Not as far as I know, even as a kid, he looked really old. Yeah. He looked like he was 40 when he was playing. He looked 40. He didn't look like he had a muscle on him. Like he looked like, if you told me, you know, his brother is, it's Fred Gwen. I would have believed it. Shut up. Oh, if you said, okay. I thought you were, this was a revelation. I would just go crazy. Yeah. I would have blown you my, that would have been a great way to end this show. Yeah. And we start that room with that, that Ed Gwen, his brothers was, yeah. That'll really take off. Yeah. If this was like 40 years ago, anyways, they go up on TikTok with the kids, Dave. Thank you so much, man. This was so much fun. Thanks for having me as always. Oh, always a pleasure, always a pleasure. And like I said, folks, you know, please continue to watch and subscribe. And we have some great shows coming up in the fall. And we started off with a great one. Thank you so much, guys. Bye. Thank you. We'll see you next time. 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