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Good heavens! If they were seriously considering such a series finale, thank goodness they changed their minds.
Even very small comets are thought to have nuclei with a diameter of about a city block (500 feet / 150 meters). Something that size (even with a relatively low density) hitting Manhattan would presumably obliterate the entire island, at the very least.
If I've seen those episodes, it's been years, but we're currently watching straight through on the DVDs. When we get there, I'll let you know what I think, over on the "Rachel & Joey" thread: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0108778/Friends/58c76e4593cef4080d771eab/Rachel-and-Joey</url>
I've never seen the episode, but apparently it wasn't abandoned -- it's called "The Butter Shave," and you should be able to find a bunch of threads relating to it (or create your own) on the Seinfeld discussion page: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0098904/Seinfeld<url>
<blockquote>As great as the show is, they were definitely just making stuff up without a great deal of design or planning. This ain't no Tolkien work of grand fiction.</blockquote>
Quite true. They had a show to get out once a week, and you don't always have brilliant ideas on a regular schedule.
Glad to hear that Matthew Perry nixed that scene!
<blockquote>They learned that their mysteries on Ellery Queen were too hard for most audiences to SOLVE. The clues were too obscure....</blockquote>
At least in the early episodes, the EQ clues are generally presented as the victim's dying attempt to name the killer, but I find it hard to believe that a dying person would come up with those convoluted clues -- or that any investigator would understand them. They're just a bit too clever for their own good. I wouldn't say that the MSW clues are easy or obvious, but most of them are inadvertently left by the killer, and thus seem more plausible to me.
That's a darn good question! A number of actors played characters credited as "announcer" on individual episodes -- I wonder if the "In just a few minutes" guy might have been one of them?
The IMDb "FAQ" page has two answers:
<blockquote>If it wasn't William Conrad, it was someone with the same voice.</blockquote>
and
<blockquote>Harry von Zell (1906-1981)</blockquote>
It was clearly NOT von Zell, who played "announcer" in the pilot "Too Many Suspects." His voice (which I know well from his years on the Burn & Allen show) was entirely different, more of a mellow old-school radio announcer.
As for Conrad, Mike / VBartilucci disputes that in a comment on a MeTV page about Conrad, saying "The narrator of The Invaders was William Woodson, who performed the same function on Ellery Queen in 1975...." IMDb does list Woodson (uncredited) for The Invaders, but not for Ellery Queen. I believe that IMDb can be edited by members, though, like Wikipedia, so I have no idea how authoritative it is.
<blockquote>... it would be fun to see how many EQ actors also appeared on MSW....</blockquote>
Here you go:
<url>https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?roles=tt0072496,tt0086765</url>
These IMDB "collaboration" searches include crew members as well as cast, and of course there are a bunch of each in this case, for a total of 127 people (including David Wayne!).
Not generally enough to convict, no -- more of a clue than actual evidence. But hopefully enough to point the cops in the right direction to find good solid evidence.
Y'know, that's plausible. I hear that there's a new Beatles song coming out soon, based on studio work done some years back by the then-three, with Lennon's voice added by AI.
I'm wondering how much our choices are influenced (in a number of ways) by when we were born? For example, do people who first saw I Love Lucy on its network run tend to have a different opinion from those who encountered it later, in syndication? And what's the effect of the person's age when they first saw it?
I take it that is your own personal definitive list. It has some overlap with mine (which I won't bother posting because it keeps morphing).
Just curious -- which "The Office" are you referring to, the original British show or the American version of it?
That puzzled me for a while too (and I'm totally with Phoebe), but now I'm thinking he's a cop, right, and he seems to work the evening shift, so he gets to bed kinda late and likes to sleep in -- but then this darned bird wakes him up early every morning. I suppose that could get to a person. Kinda like the time the guy across the street started a garage band. (Of course I just asked if he'd be so kind as to close the garage door -- but you can't reason with birds.)
On a few other threads, yes. But this thread is for your favorite Chandler moments, not your least-favorite other threads.
There was nothing of that sort on this thread till you brought it up.
<blockquote>She said: "It's a network sitcom like, say, Friends, except instead of being about a group of friends, it's about a group of teachers.
"Instead of New York, it's in Philadelphia, and instead of not having black people, it does!"
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Do you find her criticism valid?</blockquote>
Well, to be fair, I don't see any criticism there. It's criticism of <i>Friends</i> only if someone thinks that teachers are better than friends, or Philadelphia is better than New York, or black people are better than non-blacks. I think they're merely different.
To me, <i>Seinfeld</i> is mean-spirited and therefore not funny (except for his monologues). Whereas, despite being older than the "friends" and not being a yuppie, I found <i>Friends</i> to be a genuinely funny show. Just depends on one's sense of humor and general taste, I guess.
Hear, hear!
And thank you for your open mind.
There was an audience of several hundred people in the studio during filming, so presumably most of the reactions are genuine, and different people laugh at different things. (although the crew might have "sweetened" the laughter a little at times). My own personal preference is for a show filmed without any audience (so I can react naturally), but I'll take an unaltered audience reaction over a blatant laugh track any day.
That's also not really a classic Indiana Jones type of hat -- the brim is way too narrow. You may have something with your first two points, though. I've never seen Bugsy (nor Bugsy Malone, which I just discovered is an unrelated comedy with an all-child cast), but Gould did wear that general sort of hat in it.
<blockquote>See this photo: <url>https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.virtual-history.com%2Fmovie%2Fphoto%2Fpr55%2Flarge%2Felliott_gould.jpg&tbnid=o3zW6mNyqC-_yM&vet=12ahUKEwiE68nLo6iBAxUvyMkDHcgeAeMQMygBegQIARBU..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.virtual-history.com%2Fmovie%2Fperson%2F365%2Felliott-gould&docid=-lSx7PrrVdPlgM&w=1000&h=667&q=bugsy%20%22elliott%20gould%22&hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiE68nLo6iBAxUvyMkDHcgeAeMQMygBegQIARBU</url> </blockquote>
... however that doesn't explain why the brim is squashed in the Friends scene.
Maybe that scene was some sort of inside joke (which could explain why it was in the DVD episode but not the aired version)? Hopefully someone who was there has explained it somewhere online, but if so I have yet to find it.