Is that Vicious Vinny Vermin show a potshot to Nickelodeon?
@amyv1143 Жыл бұрын
I'm assuming so! Double Dare, specifically. I also liked that show, though it was a bit gross at times...
@KarlBonner1982Ай бұрын
How are you supposed to accurately pull out 1,000 marbles when you're blindfolded?!?
@ScottNapolitan Жыл бұрын
I felt just about the same way when the Game Show Temple return channel got terminated in early 2021.
@detmstr3414 жыл бұрын
Fun fact- did anyone know Sam Salazar and Steve Freeman were real life L.A.P.D. officers at the time?
@jakebluethunder3 жыл бұрын
Yep.
@detmstr3413 жыл бұрын
@@jakebluethunder I'd prefer episode with those 2 officers over New York.
@kathyquinn86163 жыл бұрын
@@detmstr341 I'll Bet those two are old by now.
@detmstr3413 жыл бұрын
@@kathyquinn8616 They may even be up in that t.v. studio in the sky.
@ScottNapolitan Жыл бұрын
Dick Sargent was the second of the two actors to play Darrin Stephens on Bewitched. Dick York was the first.
@johnathanmonsen6567 Жыл бұрын
Finally found it. That ending scene was all I remembered from this episode, I had no idea it was this long--heck, I thought it was just a sketch series on The Electric Company, not its own show. I remember being confused at the joke with the policemen watching the kids' show on TV, as it didn't occur to me that it was unusual for grown police officers to watch children's programming (and of course, the point that nobody was supposed to be watching the show anyway went over my head; I might have only tuned in then and hadn't had the context).
@colleen4ever Жыл бұрын
Fun fact- in a Six-Degrees-of-Separation twist, when McLean Stevenson (who plays Mike Pliers) left MASH, his replacement was Harry Morgan, who played Bill Gannon, who was Joe Friday's partner in Dragnet, which is obviously what Mathnet is a parody of!! How's that for coincidence?
@DrCrow13 Жыл бұрын
Good Lord this show was SO GOOD! WHERE IS THE REBOOT?!?!
@cllewis16 жыл бұрын
The more of these I watch, 30 years later, the more I appreciate the one-liners. "the rhinestone cowboys on rodeo drive." And so on.
@zyzzy-ko4ww2 жыл бұрын
1:07:31 When you multiply zero by zero, you get what Vicious Vinnie is!
@KororaPenguin Жыл бұрын
"Oooh. Gonna need a medic for THAT one." -- DustyKatt, "Seven Nation Army Part III"
@yennisopheialestarish32723 жыл бұрын
I want Mathnet poster.
@discoweasel19777 жыл бұрын
If the Mike Pliers show is real, I would always like to watch it a zillion times more than the Vicious Vinnie Vermin Show.
@nylac1007 жыл бұрын
Disco Weasel1977 "I hate that show!" 6:15
@discoweasel19777 жыл бұрын
So do I, because it's so disgusting.
@seanadams35513 жыл бұрын
@@discoweasel1977 It's a parody of Mike Hammer.
@detmstr3413 жыл бұрын
So, would I. His show probably has those morals and values that kids needs to learn and not how to be a thug or criminal.
@JohnSmith-zw8vp2 жыл бұрын
Fax Headful: That's not even a real number!
@sunsetradioasmr73447 жыл бұрын
Basically the way George feels about Mike Pliers in this show is how we all feel about Mathnet being taken off the air. A little prophetic, haha.
@rebeccahowe89277 жыл бұрын
HA! I said the same thing when I first rewatched. George is All of Us.
@NDW857 жыл бұрын
I felt the same way when one of my favorite hangout spots here in Carbondale, Spinoni's pizza and pasta house, closed down a few years back.
@Ian165454 жыл бұрын
The same way _I_ feel whenever a restaurant near me goes under.
@kathyquinn86163 жыл бұрын
@@rebeccahowe8927 I would have to agree with my fellow KZbinrs, Because I too felt the same way when Netflix, Hulu, and Peacock took out most of my Favorite TV shows and Movies, also when CW Vortex TV goes off too.
@VahanNisanian12 жыл бұрын
And one last thing: At the time, this was the longest episode they had done, as well as the longest in the Los Angeles era. This was when, little by little, they were experimenting with over one-hour-long story arcs in season 2, and when they moved to New York City in season 3, it would become the norm.
@petermay60973 жыл бұрын
14:14 Watching: Have you ever been on television? Frankly: No... [glances at camera] but-
@detmstr3413 жыл бұрын
I loved the music when those 2 police officers arrived at the studio at 1:10:16. It sounded like official business was going to take place.
@NickCMedia12 жыл бұрын
About 4: I compared the bit with the one from Passing Parade, and they're a little different. Chief Green said "good luck" in different shots.
@Nabinut12 жыл бұрын
How the heck did they get McLean Stevenson to make an appearance on a children's show? I think it was pretty cool how they would get at least one B-D list star to appear on Mathnet.
@colleen4ever Жыл бұрын
And in a Six-Degrees-of-Separation twist, when McLean Stevenson left MASH, his replacement was Harry Morgan, who played Bill Gannon, who was Joe Friday's partner in Dragnet!! How's that for coincidence?
@JMFabiano5 ай бұрын
That's It Was A Thing On TV Hall of Famer McLean Stevenson!
@NDW8511 жыл бұрын
I am only guessing but this must have been one of the last roles Dick Sargent (Darren number 2 from Bewitched) did before he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
@cllewis16 жыл бұрын
But could Dick York have done a better job?
@robertdubs94665 жыл бұрын
@@cllewis1 Not in 1988, he couldn't have. He was bedridden from a back injury (that he actually obtained before he was even on Bewitched, but it ended up being the reason he left the show), and dying of emphysema by that time, and he passed away in 1992.
@tanyagarcia37214 жыл бұрын
I thought he was familiar. I watched that show when I was a kid back home every summer because the reruns were on before I got out of school during the rest of the year
@Isolder742 ай бұрын
Well he did appear on an episode of Columbo, as himself. Uneasy Lies The Crown.
@rebeccahowe89278 жыл бұрын
"George and I arrived at the office at the same time" no way that's a coincidence. Methinks someone had a sleepover. Dick Sargent is so delightful in this role. RIP. And finally, the whole brief scene capped by Leech's take at 59:58 ("what kind of stuff") is comedy gold. I can't watch it without laughing. She is so good.
@wishingstar2211 жыл бұрын
YES. I remember this episode, thank you!
@Mr.Chatterly7 жыл бұрын
Vicious Vinnie is bad enough to entertain people on TV to give out bad lies!
@zyzzy-ko4ww2 жыл бұрын
Vicious Vinnie: Are you finished? George Frankly: No, YOU are!
@jonacme5 жыл бұрын
1:07:47: And George, Any number plus or minus zero is the same!
@Garrettk4112 жыл бұрын
Well, Stevenson has done at least one children's movie. Namely, "The Cat From Outer Space". In an interesting coincidence, that movie also featured Ronnie Schell, who appeared in the Mathnet episode that came directly before this one.
@jasonpp1973 Жыл бұрын
Harry Morgan as well, also from MASH
@Garrettk41 Жыл бұрын
I was thinking of actors who've been on "Mathnet", but yes.
@colleen4ever Жыл бұрын
@@jasonpp1973 Harry Morgan replaced McLean Stevenson on MASH, and he also played Bill Gannon, who was Joe Friday's Partner on the 60's Dragnet, which as we all know Mathnet is a parody of! :D
@NickCMedia12 жыл бұрын
2. Not quite. There are a few others, such as The Case of the Willing Parrot (part 2), and the Swami Scam (part 4).
@JohnSmith-zq9mo Жыл бұрын
Kate looks really different. Looks much more feminine than usual? On a more substantive point: it really got the basic idea of sampling across.
@colleen4ever Жыл бұрын
Check out her in New York! Got a real makeover and she;s a knockout there.
@yennisopheialestarish32723 жыл бұрын
Please, add to television in Jakarta.
@trevorbrown_artist5 жыл бұрын
13 people knowing a password sort of makes it useless. #🔐
@NickCMedia5 жыл бұрын
trevor brown Not if they are all sworn to secrecy. Remember, the ratings company was security conscious. If it was divulged, they would be forced to change it and give it to those who didn't divulge it, with a warning.
@nylac1004 жыл бұрын
Computer security was different in the 80s.
@Isolder742 ай бұрын
@@nylac100 Dialing into a computer was more complicated back then. You had to dial the computer's actual phone number before you could even try anything.