Hobo Radio 134 – Where’s my sexy voice?
- Introduction
- Remembering Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper and Rue McClanahan
- The state of sitcoms
- James Cameron saves BP
- Top 100 characters of the past 20 years
- Donald Glover as Spider-man
- Contractually-obligated Batman discussion
- “Happy Ending” by The Atomic Love Bombs
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Most people, when they are under the weather, get a smooth Barry White-esque sick voice. It’s the one silver lining when you aren’t feeling well. Unfortunately though for Joel Murphy (and for you listeners), he’s sick this week and his voice is far from Barry White-esque.
Still Murphy soldiers on. He and Lars share their thoughts on current state of The Office and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (click that link for the video mentioned on the podcast), James Cameron’s plans to stop BP’s oil leak and Donald Glover’s chances of being the first black Spider-man. They also remember Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper and Rue McClanahan, who all sadly passed away this past week.
What is the best way to fix American sitcoms? Why is Rachel from Friends ranked so high on Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 100 Characters of the Past 20 Years poll? Will Joel make it through the show without collapsing or losing his voice? The answers to these questions and more are in this week’s podcast.
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Fawlty Towers is a fantastic show! And you’re right, Lars, Are You Being Served sucked towards the end… and then they had that reunion show where they all ran a Bed and Breakfast and tried to make it like Fawlty Towers. It was just terrible. FT ran for 2 seasons, with 6 episodes each. And it’s bloody brilliant. The people involved in The Office (as well as The Young Ones, another one of my favorite British TV shows) didn’t want to make more than 2 seasons and one of their primary reasons was that FT was so successful because it only ran for 2 seasons.
And to bring it all back to Betty White, she was in a pilot for an American version of the show in 1978, which never got picked up, thank goodness. As much as I love Betty White, I don’t usually like American remakes of British shows.
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I said there would be one person interested in Lars’ discussion of old British TV shows. I should have known it would be you.
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Of course! Someone’s got to class up the joint a bit.
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