tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post1381623741978317236..comments2024-02-22T17:59:50.213-05:00Comments on in so many words...: Fifty Years Ago Today: CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?Yvettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-48717217914754002372011-09-19T12:20:39.659-04:002011-09-19T12:20:39.659-04:00Pat: I never completely cottoned to The Munsters t...Pat: I never completely cottoned to The Munsters though I watched it and to this day I can hum the title song. :)<br /><br />I mean, it was okay, just not my favorite.<br /><br />Thanks for alerting me to the link mistake. I've corrected it.<br /><br />Jeez, that will teach me to double-check everything!Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-45075106580897510832011-09-19T11:10:12.548-04:002011-09-19T11:10:12.548-04:00Yvette, when I click on the highlighted words whic...Yvette, when I click on the highlighted words which you say will bring me to Ivan's post about Car 54 I am taken to only a photo --could you check it again? Thanks!Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoritihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08922525910685129822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-21210158805051216472011-09-19T11:05:38.329-04:002011-09-19T11:05:38.329-04:00I was really young when Car 54 was on TV but I do ...I was really young when Car 54 was on TV but I do remember loving Muldoon's puppy dog face. "The Munsters" was the show where I really began to love Fred Gwynne!Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoritihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08922525910685129822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-66160055228354610592011-09-18T12:04:37.028-04:002011-09-18T12:04:37.028-04:00Hal: You'll definitely love Ivan's post. I...Hal: You'll definitely love Ivan's post. It's pretty special - about a show a lot of us love/loved.<br /><br />Bruce Gordon was a hoot. :)<br /><br />Didn't he play Elliot Ness's nemesis? Against Robert Stack?Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-25124189721182824182011-09-18T11:39:07.462-04:002011-09-18T11:39:07.462-04:00Been out of pocket for much of the weekend but can...Been out of pocket for much of the weekend but can't wait to read this. Circa 1988-1990 you couldn't tear us away from Nick at Nite around 10:30 our time to watch Toody and Muldoon.<br /><br />My favorite episode: "Toody Undercover", but special guest star Bruce Gordon having a ton of fun spoofing his image (4 years before he would do it weekly, albeit briefly, on RUN, BUDDY, RUN.Halhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291930694234773688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-35902808668334882012011-09-17T16:16:54.469-04:002011-09-17T16:16:54.469-04:00Oh Becky, what can I say? You can't out-run us...Oh Becky, what can I say? You can't out-run us, you can only keep at a mild trot. We'll eventually sweep you up and turn you into one of us.<br /><br />Resistance is futile.<br /><br />Ha!Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-15924505548977637012011-09-17T16:15:11.474-04:002011-09-17T16:15:11.474-04:00Ivan: You're very welcome. And thank YOU for s...Ivan: You're very welcome. And thank YOU for shining the light on our two favorite funny cops. :)<br /><br />I do remember that episode with Sylvia wanting the wedding ceremony and the whole works. What a funny, funny woman. And I must admit I also loved Beatrice Pons as Lucille. <br /><br />I lived in lower Manhattan for many years and I always felt this show captured that loony-toons NY vibe to a T. Many of the 'types' captured by Hiken and the other writers were people I ran into all the time. :)Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-80202335966612435962011-09-17T15:55:21.686-04:002011-09-17T15:55:21.686-04:00Keep hopin' Ivan! It's good for the soul....Keep hopin' Ivan! It's good for the soul. Just don't hold your breath! LOL<br /><br />I feel like I'm hallucinating. I'm in the Twilight Zone. Car 54 is everywhere, all over the web! Help! I'll take help from anybody at this point. <br /><br />CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?ClassicBeckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03591715859057540467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-43266782024825641072011-09-17T15:19:28.072-04:002011-09-17T15:19:28.072-04:00Bless you, Yvette, for the shout-out and your magn...Bless you, Yvette, for the shout-out and your magnanimously kind words. I share your opinion of <b><i>Car 54</i></b>, of course, but I agree so strongly--to the point where my pistol is at the ready--on your evaluation of Charlotte Rae. She has so many wonderful moments on that show that I start tearing up with laughter when I think about them.<br /><br />The cookie eating episode was in Season 2 (so I hope they get it out on DVD with all deliberate speed because while my copy is watchable the screen caps were sub-par) but one of the delights in Season 1 is "The Courtship of Sylvia Schnauzer." Sylvia catches the bouquet at a wedding and, remembering that her ceremony consisted of going down to City Hall with Leo on her lunch hour, demands that her husband not only give her a proper wedding but that he go balls-out in courting and proposing to her as well.<br /><br />Leo asks Toody if Lucille will talk to her...and in the next scene, Lucille is fussing with Sylvia's wedding gown, having been absorbed into Sylvia's fantasy. Toody tries to resist but when Sylvia asks him if he'll "give her away" he gets hooked, too...insisting that Leo is "not good enough for my little girl." That's when things just get even funnier -- Sylvia moves in with the Toodys and begins to act like their teenage daughter...the sight of her skipping down the hall when she learns that Leo has finally broken down and is there to pay her a call is absolutely hysterical.<br /><br />Maybe someday the folks who disagree with us about the show will get the chance to see this outing and beg our forgiveness for their disloyalty. We can only hope.Ivan G Shreve Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.com