Hopefully, none of these things will happen to you this turkey day. And if they do, at least you’ll have your BLACKISH spec script halfway written.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks for reading this blog.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Happy (sitcom) Thanksgiving
Hopefully, none of these things will happen to you this turkey day. And if they do, at least you’ll have your BLACKISH spec script halfway written.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks for reading this blog.
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Hey, tofu turkey substitute was the star of a great EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND scene! "Kinda starts out with an aftertaste."
Happy Thanksgiving Ken! The only one that matters is WKRP...
Happy Gobbl-ing Up Massive Amounts Of Food Day to everyone! (GUMAoFD to everyone!!)
Hey Ken
I listened to the "How Did This Get Made?" minisode from July in which Stewart Raffill talks about Mannequin 2. It's later mentioned that they're gonna talk to you the following week about the movie but I can't find it on their website. Did your interview take place?
One more reason this writer is happy to focus on features.
But, most of all, may nobody in a helicopter drop 20 live turkeys on your head.
So this morning, my European talent agent sends over a script for an awards show and the deadline is tonight. Then, I get a note from them apologizing for not being aware that this is an American holiday. My response:
"Yes, this is a national celebration and we will have a house full of relatives. And yes, I will record it for you today...because we have a houseful of relatives."
:)
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
What? No lonely person sitting alone watching a crappy local parade on TV while eating a Swanson's turkey TV dinner?
Big family Thanksgiving gathering. Women cook all day, men watch football, not helping at all. Dinner is finally ready and wife serves husband her special dressing. Husband take one bite, spits it out and says: This tastes like gasoline. Wife in rage gets up, goes to the bedroom and slams the door. We all sit in stunned silence until finally our cousin says: SO, how about those 49ers?
That was 20 years ago and we tell the story every Thanksgiving and laugh.
That's why you get paid the big bucks: to endlessly come up with an infinite number of creatively plausible but totally ridiculous variations on the exact same themes decade in and out. And I'm betting you could do it for 100 years. This year, I'm giving thanks for your wonderful writing. And I'm Canadian. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
You could write the same piece for Christmas shows. Why do networks think it is necessary to do these types of shows.
PROGRAMMING ALERT
At 8:30 Eastern, FXX will be broadcasting Dancin' Homer.
A Canadian tradition for (last month's) Thanksgiving is a take on "thawing frozen turkey last minute", but hilarious nevertheless: Dave Cooks the Turkey. There's even a sequel of sorts: Dinner at Tommy's.
The children enter the kitchen to find their mother waterboarding the turkey. Is she attempting to learn the location of the stuffing or is she practicing for when the children are older?
Even if you don't like writing holiday episodes, I still say "Frasier" never skipped a beat on the holidays. The writing was so good there was even an episode for February 29th ("Take A Leap").
The fresh turkey the characters have won / purchased sight unseen / have been promised by a guest turns out to be a live turkey. I think I've seen this story line dozens of times, most recently on "Brooklyn 9-9." Some Hollywood turkey wrangler must get lots of work this time of year.
The WKRP IN CINCINNATI thanksgiving episode was amazing, but it's also one of the most frustrating episodes of TV to me, period. Not by any fault of its own, but because it seems to be the only episode of that show anybody remembers.
It's a pity, because WKRP IN CINCINNATI is an excellent show all around, yet it's largely ignored. I understand this is mostly because of music licensing issues, similar to THE DREW CAREY SHOW, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating.
My mother always told a story of that Canadian Thanksgiving Day dinner when her grandmother brought out the turkey and her grandfather started to carve and passing along plates before finally tasting a piece and saying it was undercooked and on picking up gigantic turkey platter tossed it with 20+ pound bird out what was a previously open dining room window on a particularly mild Sunday but one of those seated at that end of table had just closed window a minute before ... This was around 1920 when enormous glass windows were extremely expensive so this was mentioned almost endlessly for my entire lifetime until my mother died when I was 52 ... By the way, |I have that 5 pound turkey platter which with 12 varieties of turkey bird plates is worth a few thousand dollars so at last it was not smashed way back when.
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