Grendel
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
But ... why is all the rum gone?
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Post by Grendel on Nov 21, 2009 16:35:45 GMT -5
Growing Pains sets up Just the 10 of Us...a show about Mike Seaver's gym coach. How can ya not put that on the list? That's So Raven turns into Corey In the House...Raven's brother & dad move into the White House, where the dad becomes the president's Chief Chef & has a friendship form with the president...WTF!?!? Did they ever mention what happened to Raven? Or did she just "grow up" and therefore cease to exist in the prepubescent Disney universe? I'll admit, it'd be kind of awkward having a character with D-cups running around a kid's show. Kind like when Annette Funnicello...awwww, forget it. No one here is old enough to remember her anyway. Yes ... Yes I am. Those sweaters she wore on the old Mickey Mouse Club reruns they showed when I was a kid ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2009 16:43:41 GMT -5
Wasnt Arliss a spinoff as well? I swear I remember it being so
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Nov 21, 2009 17:51:26 GMT -5
Did they ever mention what happened to Raven? Or did she just "grow up" and therefore cease to exist in the prepubescent Disney universe? I'll admit, it'd be kind of awkward having a character with D-cups running around a kid's show. Kind like when Annette Funnicello...awwww, forget it. No one here is old enough to remember her anyway. Yes ... Yes I am. Those sweaters she wore on the old Mickey Mouse Club reruns they showed when I was a kid ... "Ahh yes, from those peanut butter commercials" The Alan Thicke MWC spin off was an episode in which a studly (but dumb like Kelly) delivery man drops a package off at the Bundy household where it appears some sparks are flying between the delivery guy and Kelly but he has to leave. We then get a look at the guy's home life in his apartment with his girlfriend (who like him is physically attractive, kind of dumb, and isn't good with the whole fidelity thing), his sister, and their lazy, pretty boy, unemployed leach of a rommate (essentially Jefferson in his 20's). There's a big fight between the couple which causes them to date other people. Delivery Guy takes out Kelly, his GF with a wealthy walking mid-life crisis in the form of Henry played by Alan Thicke. The date is in a working class diner in the south side os Chi-Town (which is visited by the Darcys looking for street cred). Eventually the couple gets back together after a game of one upmanship in trying to make each other jealous. With their dates back in each other's embrace Henry offers Kelly a ride home and it ends back at the Bundy residence.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Nov 22, 2009 20:29:22 GMT -5
Evan Almighty
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2009 20:36:11 GMT -5
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Jay Peas 42
El Dandy
Totally flips out ALL the time.
Is looking forward to a Nation of Domination Kwannza Special.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Nov 22, 2009 20:42:55 GMT -5
You can't really use back door pliots spin-offs for this. I mean, they are spinoffs, but not examples of things audiances like and demand a spin-off of.
I go with SPC2C's spinoffs, largely because nothing about the shows makes any sense, unless you are stoned.
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Post by Sero on Nov 22, 2009 21:03:16 GMT -5
Mario and Sonic finally face of! In Bejing...at the olympics.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Nov 22, 2009 23:34:31 GMT -5
The first Cheers spin-off was The Tortellis, which followed the adventures of... Carla's ex-husband Nick. Seriously, it was a bizarre choice, considering he was probably one of the most unlikeable reoccurring characters, and not even in a "I love to hate him" kind of way. He was just grating.
Wings wasn't spun-off from Cheers, but it was produced by the people who worked on Cheers and later went on to create Frasier, so it kind of occupies this weird corner pocket of the Cheers universe. Frasier and Lilith, Norm and Cliff, and Rebbecca would all eventually appear on it.
And Harry The Hat wasn't the same character as Judge Harry Stone. They were all just based on Harry Anderson himself, who in real life is a magician. They stopped using Harry The Hat when Anderson got the job on Night Court, but he did return in the last season to help them finally defeat Gary's Old Town Tavern.
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Bub (BLM)
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Nov 22, 2009 23:37:22 GMT -5
Archie Bunker's Place. Usually it's supporting characters who get spin-offs, not the main character.
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El Pollo Guerrera
Grimlock
His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Nov 23, 2009 1:12:27 GMT -5
Just trying to remember spin-offs...
Richard Mulligan's "Empty Nest" was a spin-off from "The Golden Girls", wasn't it?
I just did a bit of a read-up on the connection between "M*A*S*H" and "Trapper John, MD"... there's some legal mumbo-jumbo about it being taken from the MOVIE and not the TV series...
I do remember "Lou Grant", a newspaper drama, being from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", a comedy, with Ed Asner in both.
Oh, and about 'cross-overs'... I remember that "Magnum PI" had two two-part cross-overs with other detective shows... "Murder Whe Wrote" and "Simon & Simon".
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Nov 23, 2009 3:33:48 GMT -5
Archie Bunker's Place. Usually it's supporting characters who get spin-offs, not the main character. I've always considered that more of a re-tooling then a spinoff. Gloria, Maude, The Jefferson's and 704 Hauser were the real spin-offs of All in the Family. Hell, even 704 Hauser is kinda sketchy as a spin-off seeing as how it came 20 some years later
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Post by jamofpearls on Nov 23, 2009 8:09:01 GMT -5
MWC actually had 2 other attempted spinoffs, but I don't think it even got an actual pilot. There was an episode where Bud was attempting to win back some girl via his college's radio station, this was supposed to set up a show called "Radio Free Tremaine" I forget what the other show was supposed to be about, but I think it had Allan Thicke in it. I remember 'Radio Free Tremaine' and the plans for the pilot, but that never materialized. That's why I didn't mention it. The Alan Thicke one, though, I never heard about. It was on actually the other morning...on the superstation. It was pretty damned horrible. It was like a slutty version of friends.
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Post by jamofpearls on Nov 23, 2009 8:12:50 GMT -5
Wasnt Arliss a spinoff as well? I swear I remember it being so The Larry Sanders Show? That's the first one that popped to mind.
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Post by jamofpearls on Nov 23, 2009 8:17:06 GMT -5
Detective Munch of Homicide: Life On The Street and Law & Order: SVU is the king here. Yeah, he's appeared on nearly every show ever, but there are a few that have hilarious consequences for the Law & Order universe. Remember when Munch appeared on The X-Files? I sure hope the New York City police department is ready for the massive alien apocalypse that's due in three years. According to IMDB, you can add in Sesame Street, The Beat & Arrested Development.
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