Okay. Burgess Meredith loves to read. Some sort of catastrophe happens (nuclear attack?) while he's in a library basement, or something. He comes out, the only one (on earth?) alive, with "all the time in the world" to read his precious books. Then he breaks his glasses.
Indeed. The first quote was from Alex Karras during a broadcast from Detroit or Green Bay. He cleverly caught himself in mid-cliche. Of course, it wouldn't raise an eyebrow today.
While I can't rule out that Granny might have said that at one point, that's not the show I have in mind. This line (or a variant of it) was used a number of times on my intended show.
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Wow. This one's been dormant for a while... "Uh I've just been handed a news flash. The word "Canada" is unrhymeable. It's easier to - I don't know - get drunk and try to climb a bull
waysider
I'm pretty sure Mrs. Howell(Lovey) said that,so I'm going to toss in a new one.
"I gotta kill that boy, I just gotta!"
Bonus clue:"Now cut that out!"
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Dobie Gillis
quote one-Dobie's father about 3 times an episode
quote two-Dobie reacting to Zelda 'scrinching' her face at him-which he reflexively does in return
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You betcha!
Now if you will excuse me I have to catch the early show over at The Bijou.
(Their playing "The Monster That Devoured Cleveland")
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hiway29
"Time, time, time. There's time enough at last".
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GeorgeStGeorge
Sounds like the Twilight Zone episode about the watch that could stop time.
George
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hiway29
it is the Twilight Zone- but not that episode
think of the Penguin
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Okay. Burgess Meredith loves to read. Some sort of catastrophe happens (nuclear attack?) while he's in a library basement, or something. He comes out, the only one (on earth?) alive, with "all the time in the world" to read his precious books. Then he breaks his glasses.
George
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hiway29
that's it, George
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GeorgeStGeorge
There are about five Twilight Zone episodes I remember fairly well, and that was one of them.
"It's colder than a witch's -- uh -- elbow in here, Howard!"
George
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hiway29
let's see-which Howard are we talking about here ?
Howard Cunningham on Happy Days ? The joke seems a bit 'risque' for that show.
Howard Borden on the Bob Newhart Show ? Could be-that sounds like a Newhart stutter
Howard Stern on the E Show? Nah
I'm guessing Howard Borden-and I'm guessing it's from the episode where Bob and Emily get locked in the basement
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GeorgeStGeorge
No to all. If it helps, Howard is the person's real name.
George
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WordWolf
Then it's not Happy Days, either-Tom Bosley is not a Howard.
(Unless he chose the stage name "Tom Bosley",
which would run counter to this being a clue.)
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wasway
Coach
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GeorgeStGeorge
Still no
Thsi will make it pretty easy:
"Are you ready to RUMBLE?"
George
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wasway
oh shoot its howrd Cosell
ABCMNF
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GeorgeStGeorge
Indeed. The first quote was from Alex Karras during a broadcast from Detroit or Green Bay. He cleverly caught himself in mid-cliche. Of course, it wouldn't raise an eyebrow today.
Go, Wasway!
George
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GeorgeStGeorge
Uhh.. Wasway?
George
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All right, then. Here's another one (not too hard, I think):
"I ain't gettin' on no plane!"
George
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hiway29
Granny on Beverly Hillbillies ?
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GeorgeStGeorge
While I can't rule out that Granny might have said that at one point, that's not the show I have in mind. This line (or a variant of it) was used a number of times on my intended show.
George
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Sanford and Son?
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WordWolf
No,
that's BA Baracus from the "A-Team."
They always had to trick him to get on a plane,
usually by drugging him, occasionally by hypnosis ("Eclipse!") or something else.
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ah-I never watched 'the A team"-not once
was I missing something ?
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Raf
Good, goofy fun.
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