I read an interview with Fred MacMurray in which he said that the only two films he appeared in that required any acting ability on his part were the ones directed by Billy Wilder.

Yep, they were notorious, as was Quizno’s for over franchising an area, and leaving the franchisees to fight it out.  I also remember reading where both Subway and Quiznos’ franchisees had incredibly high suicide rates, right behind dentists and cops.

I’m glad I’m not the only person who saw that episode.  My Brother and I were watching it, howling with laughter when my nephew, who was about 8 at the time walked in the room.  His repsonse was, “This is better than Monster House!”

I’ve read where Al Franken contacted her to tell her to stop treating her staff like garbage, as a lot of them were his former staffers, who contacted him about her behavior. The general takeaway from the conversations between Franken and his former staff is that the word, “Nuts” came up a lot.

As an Ohioan who lives across from, and works in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, I call shenanagans on Bao Buns being WV’s most popular takeout. If I were to guess Yelp got their information from the Morgantown area, which is pretty much the only place you can find Bao Buns in the freakin’ state.

“My name is Tanya.  One day, we will clean all the carpets!”

https://www.newsfromme.com/2020/05/23/set-the-tivo-79/  Blogger Mark Evanier was hoping that the one night stand sketch with Fred and Laraine would make the cut, as he liked the sketch, and she is a friend of his who has done voice work in several things he’s produced.

All three of the stainless cars used to turn up every year in the late 90's-early 2000's at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix’s auto show, which was the day before the race on Saturday.  They are something to see up close.

Olde Froshingslosh was the brainchild of Pittsburgh 50's and early ‘60's radio personality Rege Cordic, now best known as the guy with a shock of white hair and dark framed glasses who always played a distingushed second tier character in a lot of ‘70's dramatic television. It was made by the same company that brewed…

I didn’t read Needham’s book. IIRC, I read the story in a piece about the history of the movie someplace online a few years ago.

I remember reading where Hal Needham got a call from Gleason in his hotel room the night before the first day of shooting, asking him to meet up at the hotel bar to “Discuss the script.” Long story short, both men wound up getting incredibly loaded, and what was discussed was promptly forgotten. The next morning,…

Was that the Dana Carvey interview in which he discussed his early standup bit of classic movie stars doing porn movies? The Cary Grant line was a classic, with Costas falling out of his chair laughing, and crew collectively howling.

The second I finished watching the Seattle episode, I ordered Lanagan’s Bubblegum CD.

I’d add Jeselnik’s “Thoughts & Prayers” to the list as well.

Drop John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch, which to me was as funny as a migraine, and add John Mulaney’s New In Town.

One of my favorite Gatlinburg candy memories is when my family and I were driving though the Great Smoky National Park to Cherokee,NC, when traffic stopped dead, which usually meant a bear sighting. Sure enough there was a cub by the side of the road, which a nitwit was approaching, holding a giant lollypop which were…

Another weird thing is that the Big Mac was “invented” by a McDonald’s franchisee in suburban Pittsburgh, who had worked at a Bob’s Big Boy in California after World War II. Also, Pittsburgh’s Eat & Park was a Big Boy franchisee at the time, and nearby Wheeling,WV was the home of Elby’s, another Big Boy franchisee. …

Walter Reuther was also the pride of Wheeling,WV, which is where he was born, and lived to the age of 19, until he left for Detroit for better job opportunities. Wheeling was quite the union town at the beginning of the 20th century, and was the only city in America to turn down the funding for a Carnegie Library, due…

If I were Seinfeld, I would have taken Bob to an Acura dealership and bought him the damned NSX.  He deserved it.

Besides the Richards and Larry David episodes, I’m a big fan of the episodes with Letterman, Garry Shandling, and Bob Einstein. And the Eddie Murphy episode was amazing, on how Murphy described how Bill Cosby was actively trying to screw with his career, and Seinfeld’s amazement at that fact.