It's interesting to me that the possibility that no one in the movie knows what they're talking about doesn't even occur to most viewers. I'm with you that it doesn't make the movie any more entertaining.

Thanks, but I'm lost - I don't see what that has to do with my comment.

I don't know what that is.

I'm convinced this movie is about paranoia and people's willingness to accept whatever authority figures tell them. At no point in the film is evidence presented that the plants are doing anything; there are just people saying so. The movie came out not long after 9/11 and the Iraq War, and I think it's about…

I'm old and remember this. Johnny was gone a lot, but Ed was gone almost as much. He had a lot of outside projects, especially Star Search in the later years. Of course, they're not showing the Johnny-less shows. Doc was also gone sometimes. I only remember once or twice when both Ed and Doc were gone (and Tommy…

She's the new Connie Francis.

Agreed, but nothing could be worse than "It's Pat". If you've never seen the movie and are just imagining how terrible it is - well, you can't.

He was also a singer on the short-lived revival of "Your Hit Parade" in 1974.

Those people think New York State ends at Westchester.

Obama didn't win the nomination because he won Iowa. He won the nomination because he had a tremendous ground game and had the better strategy for maximizing his number of delegates.
Iowa and New Hampshire are a tiny, tiny speck of the total delegate picture.

And it's been going on for 23 years. Really, you'd think they could find something after 23 years if there was anything.

Watching it at the time, one could tell the glory days of SNL were over. It was a rapid downhill slide from there.

Good for Lorne. I'd been blaming him for that movie as well as the other terrible SNL movies. "It's Pat" was easily the worst studio movie I've ever seen.

That was what certain people had a problem with, yes.

I'm glad you explained about them coming to the US in the late '90s. I never heard of this series until sometime into the 2000s and wondered how I had missed it if it was so ubiquitous.

Last time we showed a repeat of the Leicester bypass our ratings gave us
97,300,912, and ITV naught.

NBC did use the name "Radio Central" for their Monitor studio for 20 years (another Pat Weaver idea), so that lasted a while.

"Well, not really, but maybe if we keep saying it enough, people will believe it."

Will it be a weekly show or a strip?

Lin Bolen made him grow his hair out in the '70s, and I imagine he wasn't happy about it.