Favorite TV moments
Cheers has just opened. Norm is at one end of the counter with a beer reading a newspaper. Sam is at the other end wiping it down when an old timer walks in.
He tells Sam that he has just moved back into the area and hasn't been in the bar for 25 years. He starts pointing out a few of the things that have changed since the last time he was in it. The last detail is "Oh and they've changed the paneling on the wall behind Norm." (Followed by quiet fade out music.)
Possum Lodge has been hit hard by a $5 city fee and Red Green and 2 of his buddies are trying to figure out how to pay it. They have less than $3 between them. They lose that when a product they want to sell door to door turns out not to be candy due to an incorrect Chinese translation.
They are wondering what to do next when one of them suggests taking the beer cans in the shed in for a refund. "They've been piling up for years. There has to be more than $5 worth." They take them in, pay off the city bill and have $835 left over.
Red says "See? I wasn't drinking, I was investing."
A defensive football player described getting a really hard blind side hit on quarterback John Elway. He said that after John slowly picked himself up off the ground and turned his helmet to face the front again he asked: "Are you OK?" 
This was a comment I enjoyed from a forum. "My favorite episode of anything is the Christmas episode of Family Guy. The family is heaping all the work on Lois and she ends up going Rambo and climbs the town Christmas tree. The local police shoot her down with a tranquilizer gun.
At the end of the show the family is sitting in the living room and wishing the audience a merry Christmas and Lois is draped in a chair drooling and mumbling. It's the most hilarious thing I have ever seen on TV."
I was trying to remember if I have ever seen one of those guns used on a human being even on TV, and don't think I have. It would be a bit hard on dignity, especially when it's (I suppose) a butt shot. I will be keeping an eye out for that show.
And a line from the Friends' living room. "Nice camouflage. I almost didn't see you."
An attractive woman walks into Cheers and Sam is immediately interested. Unfortunately she isn't. She spends her time trying to get to know Norm and another capacity load on a bar stool. Finally Sam gets to talk to her for awhile and wonders what she sees in them. It turns out she is a chubby chaser.
She looks at Norm at the other end of the bar. He has a beer in one hand and a donut in the other, and he is trying to decide which one to put in his mouth next. She says "Man, does that guy know how to fill out a suit."
Doctor Groucho Marx is telling his patient: "You have appendicitis. But if you'd like a second opinion, I'd say you have a stomach ache."
Hardy (from Laurel and Hardy) is behind a dog sled, trying to get the dog team going. He cracks the whip over their heads and yells "oatmeal." Nothing happens. He tries again and yells "porridge." Same results. He tries again and yells "mush," and they take off. (Mush is the traditional command for anyone who might not have run a dog sled before.)
A flying saucer lands in a rural community. They aren't space invaders. They just want to hang out and meet people.
With hardly any practice at the social situations here, things get off to an awkward start. The locals don't really like them.
"Worse than city folk."
Things start to get a bit nasty and they even get bullied. Finally they have enough of this place and they decide to leave.
The flying saucer rises about 30 feet off the ground then starts shaking and sputtering, and then it clunks to the earth. They start it again, same result.
Finally the space ship handyman gets it going with parts from an old farm tractor.
Obviously not a big budget scifi thriller, but more memorable than most of them. Enjoyed that but just saw parts of it as I was passing a room where some housemates were watching it, and I don't know the name.
