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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: guidedbyboognish on May 05, 2009, 02:25:05 PM
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Just read part of the AV Club Random Roles interview with George Wendt weirded me out- felt like something from a Scharpling & Wurster call:
AVC: I have a hazy memory of seeing you on Friday Night Videos back in the mid-’80s, co-hosting with John Ratzenberger, and you each got to pick one video during the show. And if I’m not mistaken you picked “King Of The Hill” by the Minutemen.
GW: I may have. I was a big fan of the Minutemen. Unfortunately their career only lasted about a minute. D. Boon had that tragic auto wreck. But I still listen to various Mike Watt projects.
Any other unexpected music tastes from random celebrities?
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I think Conan O'Brien said in an interview that he's a big Radiohead fan.
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George Wendt is a great man. I wonder if he's a fan of Dos.
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The benchmark for unlikely celebrity music tastes, for me, has always been Sherman Hemsley: noted superfan of Can, Neu!, and Tangerine Dream.
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There was a 1988-1989 NBC sitcom called Day by Day that featured Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and a young Thora Birch. The family's son was played by the guy who played Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch feature films -- the show's most famous episode involved a The Brady Bunch fontasy sequence. Anyway, I recall an episode that had a guest spot from George Wendt, who, I think, played the Brady dude's uncle. There was a scene in which Wendt's character was telling him about The Replacements. He may have also referenced Husker Dude.
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This also explains the title of Wendt's forthcoming memoir: My Bar Stool Could Be Your Life.
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There was a 1988-1989 NBC sitcom called Day by Day that featured Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and a young Thora Birch. The family's son was played by the guy who played Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch feature films -- the show's most famous episode involved a The Brady Bunch fontasy sequence. Anyway, I recall an episode that had a guest spot from George Wendt, who, I think, played the Brady dude's uncle. There was a scene in which Wendt's character was telling him about The Replacements. He may have also referenced Husker Dude.
I remember that show, and yet, I have no memory of Julia Louis Dreyfus being on it. But I do recall that NBC (briefly) tried to position the Grey Brady Guy as a young heart-throb. He sorta ran away with the show after a while.
Can't remember his name, but I remember he went on to voice Peter Parker/Spiderman in one of his many animated incarnations.
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I remember that show, and yet, I have no memory of Julia Louis Dreyfus being on it.
She played the neighbor who would pop in the back door by the kitchen and riff for a few minutes.
But I do recall that NBC (briefly) tried to position the Grey Brady Guy as a young heart-throb. He sorta ran away with the show after a while. Can't remember his name, but I remember he went on to voice Peter Parker/Spiderman in one of his many animated incarnations.
Christopher Daniel Barnes.
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Christopher Daniel Barnes.
NEver woulda gotten that name in a million years (without IMDB, anyway).
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There was a 1988-1989 NBC sitcom called Day by Day that featured Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and a young Thora Birch. The family's son was played by the guy who played Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch feature films -- the show's most famous episode involved a The Brady Bunch fontasy sequence. Anyway, I recall an episode that had a guest spot from George Wendt, who, I think, played the Brady dude's uncle. There was a scene in which Wendt's character was telling him about The Replacements. He may have also referenced Husker Dude.
I remember the show, especially the Brady episode and thought it was hilarious at the time. It had most of the original Brady cast and they did great parodies of themselves.
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George Wendt sort of looks like D. Boon, after you've had a few drinks.
(http://images.broadwayworld.com/upload/11791/men7.jpg) (http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/boon85-721753.jpg)
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i would to think D. Boon was/is too cool for the turkey neck (even in old age)/
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i would to think D. Boon was/is too cool for the turkey neck (even in old age)/
You're fooling yourself. Wattle is nearly universal.
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i would to think D. Boon was/is too cool for the turkey neck (even in old age)/
You're fooling yourself. Wattle is nearly universal.
(http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/files/images/Paris-Hilton-Crying-Back-To-Jail-781853.jpg)
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Speaking of turkeys (real and figurative), I have THIS scheduled to record this week:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132888/
I can't wait. No way I watch the whole thing, but this sounds like the greatest plot ever.
It's on TCM.
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I wonder which video Cliff chose.