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Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

Title:	The TV Chatter Notes Conference
Notice:	Welcome to TV Chatter :-)
Moderator:	PASTA::PIERCE

Created:	Wed Dec 16 1992
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	498
Total number of notes:	5416

219.0. "The George Carlin Show" by MILPND::J_TOMAO (Life's a journey not a destination) Wed Jan 19 1994 10:51

    George Carlin - one of my all time favorite stand up comedians has
    thrown his hat into the half_hour_sitcom ring!
    
    Unfortunatly it wasn't the best first episode I've seen.  The basis is
    this....George is a cabdriver in New York (I'm pretty sure it was NY)
    and in this first episode it opens on him in a neighborhood bar with
    your token 'moron' (the bartender - why does every show have one of
    these?).  Seems George owes the local bookie $2,700.00 but since he
    just quit his job he can't pay off the money.  He quit his job since he
    wouldn't cut off his ponytail.  Later he meets a financially well-off
    bar patron and he makes a bet with the guy - George wins the bet and
    the guy has to pay George $3,000.00.  The guy has to go get the money
    so George keeps the guy's dog as collateral.  The dog is this really
    cute, itty bitty thing that doesn't weigh more than 10 lbs (Yorkie I
    think)....The guy doesn;t come back when he is supposed to so George
    has to keep the dog and becomes emotionally attached to it.  Fianlly
    the guy shows up with the money but now George doesn't wantt oi give
    the dog back so he forfits the cash and keepos the dog...now the bookie
    wants to know where he'll get the $$ to pay the debt.  George keeps the
    dog, cuts off the ponytail and goes back and gets his old job back as a
    cabbie and makes a payment plan with the bookie.
    
    Some great George Carlin one-liners but other than that a pretty lame
    storyline.
    
    Good enough to tape and I'll give ity some time to grow on me.
    Jt

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
219.1	I'll watch it again	SLOHAN::FIELDS	Strange Brew	`Wed Jan 19 1994 11:29`	5
	yeah it was OK, but its George, and I can see lots of good in this show so it has a very good chance to make it ! it was a lot better then Monty....I didn't even make it to the 1st break ! Chris
219.2		TROOA::DIVITO		`Thu Jan 20 1994 07:38`	12
	I liked the show. I agree it could have been funnier but I am a long standing Carlin fan so any Carlin is goodness. But alas my wife figured out the dog was staying right after the petfood store scene. I wonder if he will use any of his album material as background info for the character. ie. Irish Catholic, etc. There were some good one liners. I'll watch as long as it's on. Let's hope it stays for a while. Rocco
219.3		MILPND::J_TOMAO	Life's a journey not a destination	`Thu Jan 20 1994 08:54`	8
	RE: album material as backround.....Irish Catholic... you bet! The scene in the bathroom where he is barganing with God to help with the game.... "Toledo Windowbox" is my favorite Carlin album. Jt
219.4		TROOA::DIVITO		`Fri Jan 21 1994 08:57`	7
	>> "Toledo Windowbox" is my favorite Carlin album. That's a good one. My fav is Class Clown. Rocco
219.5		MILPND::J_TOMAO	Life's a journey not a destination	`Tue Jan 25 1994 04:06`	4
	O.k. - not that its anything earth-shattering but what happened in the last 10 minutes of the show? The 1/23 episode. Thanks Jt
219.6	Interesting World	HURON::PETERS	Be nice or be dog food	`Tue Jan 25 1994 05:27`	12
	a few thing. The waitress came in and shows every one in the bar an article on a emergency landing by a small plane reported by several people as a UFO. George say it maybe a goverment cover up of the alien sightings. They all tell geoge he is a flake and crazy. Then Greorge made a great speach about how that he may live in a different world one that may have aliens and and may have lots of other interesting things but aleast in his world there is a chance of something interesting or unusual happenning. He would want to live in a world without the change for thses interesting things to be real. Jeff Peters
219.7		MILPND::J_TOMAO	Life's a journey not a destination	`Tue Jan 25 1994 06:09`	3
	Oh... thanks Jeff Jt
219.8	use that word in a clean sentence....!	SLOHAN::FIELDS	Strange Brew	`Tue Apr 26 1994 08:06`	6
	last nights show was a scream ! I loved all the references to some of George's old bits like the Hippy Dippy Traffic man and 7 words... the part from the Cab and the endding was priceless FOX TV.... Chris