Ronnie Cox can even make a clip show good
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"Clerks: The Animated Series" did a parody of clip shows as their second episode.
Nah, clip shows were a by-product of longer seasons and needing to meet deadlines and or save on budget. Plus, back in the days when the only means of watching shows was through the broadcasts or syndicated reruns, clip shows provided a means of getting new viewers up to speed on the show. These days, seasons are shorter making it rather wasteful to spend an entire episode just recapping previous episodes, and with virtually all TV shows available on DVD or streaming services, new viewers can get caught up with a show on their own time.
That wasn't a clip show. The previously on recap at the start of the episode included those fake scenes and then cut to Carter's "that didn't happen" reaction.I particularly liked the one where they had the "fake" clip show showing the "Furlings" for the first time.
[Carter]"Wait...That never happened!"[/Carter]
I really miss that show.
Ah, ok...I stand corrected. Been so long since I saw it.
And I still miss it!
And I still miss it!
Just saw "Cupid's Dagger", very entertaining episode although they telegraphed the ending about 20 minutes in.
Does Mercer swing both ways, or was it all the pheromones?
Does Mercer swing both ways, or was it all the pheromones?
Up to about 1967 - the standard TV Season was 30 episodes. Enough for repeats over the summer, and also left a couple that WOULDN'T be repeated until (and if) the show was sold into syndication later. Counting the originally unaired "The Cage" pilot - TOS S1 WAS 30 episodes.
I'd say the pheromones.
Unless they ran two episodes here and there, how did they not get their fall premieres pushed further and further back?
26 episode was iffy for that reason, if there were preemptions along the way.
I agree, although there was a very "not that there's anything wrong with it" mood surrounding it.
"MacGyver" had a good clip-heavy episode, where Pete was in the hospital. In real life actor Dana Eclar has developed glaucoma, and they wrote it into the show so Pete had it, too. So it's was not only touching, but it really connected the friendship of Pete and Mac, which the clips reinforced.
I imagine that's deliberately left open.
It's possible that in Orville's century the sorting-into-boxes isn't taken quite as seriously.
Although, based on Gordon's reaction Ed swooning for Darulio, I'd guess Ed has not previously displayed an attraction to men.
Yeah,...OTOH they kind of calibrate that conversation - they never say anything specifically about gender. On the other, Mercer's defensiveness, does suggest that the tendency to categorize still exists: "But it's like, why do we have to be so rigid? You know, why do we have to have all these rules and labels and things? It's like, why-why do we have to put people in boxes? You know? Why-why even call a box a box?"
While he was under the influence of the pheromones.
This is exactly why the 26 episode season was devised. 26 weeks is literally half a year (26 weeks is 1/2 of 52 weeks), so every episode will run once, and if there is a preemption somewhere along the way, one of the potential filler episodes will be dropped from the rerun sequence, with no gaps.
"one of the potential filler episodes will be dropped..."
This makes no sense at all. Studios don't produce shows that they plan to be "potential filler episodes" and networks don't program that way.
None of that has a thing to do with "why the 26 episode season was devised" - because it wasn't. There was a time when some shows produced more than 26 episodes per season, and they've eventually cut that way down mainly for economic reasons. Most shows weren't doing 26 any more at the time that TNG was. 26 episode seasons were just one stop along the way.
This makes no sense at all. Studios don't produce shows that they plan to be "potential filler episodes" and networks don't program that way.
None of that has a thing to do with "why the 26 episode season was devised" - because it wasn't. There was a time when some shows produced more than 26 episodes per season, and they've eventually cut that way down mainly for economic reasons. Most shows weren't doing 26 any more at the time that TNG was. 26 episode seasons were just one stop along the way.
I think there may have been a bigger issue if one network preempted a show for some reason and the other two didn't.
They sure didn't want to start behind the other networks come September, so they'd either run a double dip, or skip an episode in the rerun half.
It's been so long since this was the model, I can't actually remember what they did. I do remember summers were boring as hell for TV.
They sure didn't want to start behind the other networks come September, so they'd either run a double dip, or skip an episode in the rerun half.
It's been so long since this was the model, I can't actually remember what they did. I do remember summers were boring as hell for TV.
Glad to hear you like "The Orville." While I'm also watching DISCO now and looks forward to its first finale, I think the former best represents the original vision of the Trek universe as envisioned by Gene Roddenberry, while so far DISCO is a show set in Star Wars or BSG universe masquerading as a Trek series....
I’m guessing LaMarr’s new permanent replacement on the bridge.