William Hootkins also got to yell "GREAT BOOZE-UP, EDMUND!!!" in Blackadder.
 
Other American expats who lived and worked in the UK: Bruce Boa (General Riekaan in The Empire Strikes Back, also appeared in Fawlty Towers, The Omen, and Full Metal Jacket), and Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister in Red Dwarf, also had bit…

I honestly don't get why Frasier has a reputation for being supposedly so "highbrow" and intelligent. OK, it had verbose characters and it threw around some highbrow references, but other than that, the show seemed to rely on pretty standard sitcom plots. I mean, it was a good, serviceably-amusing show - at least…

I read somewhere that Lorenzo Music lost his Real Ghostbusters gig after Bill Murray asked why Venkman sounded like Garfield. He didn't mean it as a criticism, but the network didn't take it that way, and replaced Lorenzo Music with Dave Coulier doing a Bill Murray impression.

One of Jim's best moments is in the episode Fathers of the Bride, when Alex finds out that his daughter is getting married and he never received an invitation to the wedding.

As far as I know, all the fill-in music was by Bob James - maybe there were some one-off cues that weren't his, but the majority of the incidental music was excerpted from tracks that were later released on Touchdown and The Genie. Both albums are good to have on when you're driving late at night.

Jim Ignatowski. What an amazing character he was. Beautifully written, amazingly performed. I get how the makers of Taxi felt the need to introduce another "wacky"character, given that Andy Kaufman was only contracted to appear in half the episodes per season. But I love how they weren't content to leave Jim as a…

Kirk Cameron became pretty hilarious after Growing Pains, though.

Get the Bob James albums Touchdown and The Genie. Most of that smooth and funky music is on them.

True.

It was the 70s, man. We can't even begin to understand what was going on back then.

I read somewhere, probably in the Taxi: The Official Fan's Guide book, that Randall Carver was dropped as it was difficult to write for John Burns, given that the show already had a thick-witted but kind-hearted character in Tony Banta.

That could work.

That was one of the best musical parodies on The Late Show. I'm also partial to the D-Gen's parodies of Frente's "Accidentally Kelly Street" and The Sharp's "Scratch My Back."

Buddy Hodges (Fall-Out Boy) later showed up, I think in the fourth-season episode "New Kid on the Block," as a real estate agent. Although I don't know if it was intended to be the same character or they just re-used the same model sheet/voice.

"I am sure I don't know, but I did just finish playing Rum Tum Tugger in the second national touring of Cats. Did anybody see it?"

Willem Dafoe was Jesus, now he's Buddha?

"SCHMILE!!!"

"Dirk Richter was a beautiful man! CAN'T YOU LITTLE VULTURES LEAVE HIM ALONE?!" *sob*

I still can't get over the fact that Elvis was a massive "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" fan, and he owned a print of the film and would quote it to his buddies. Maybe if he didn't die in 1977, he would've met the Pythons and gotten a part in "The Meaning of Life." I could see him as the guy who sings "Christmas in…

Did she make it after all?