TV Q and A: The Incredible Inman
Question: There was a sitcom with Bronson Pinchot, but it wasn't "Perfect Strangers." He was a guy trying to get his ex-wife back. It only ran for a few weeks. Any ideas?
Answer: That was "The Trouble With Larry," which ran on CBS for a few weeks in 1993. Pinchot played a guy who had been abducted by apes while honeymooning in a jungle. Years later, his wife (Shanna Reed) had remarried, thinking Larry was dead. But he wasn't. And he came back (with a few apelike mannerisms) to win her again even though she was married to good-looking Boyd Flatt (Perry King). Courteney Cox played Reed's sister.
Q: OK, I know there used to be a show in the mid- to late-1980s about three kids who lived upstairs from an ice-cream shop they ran on the beach. I believe their parents were deceased. It used to be on TBS but when I mention it people act like I'm crazy! Help me prove I'm right!
A: "Rocky Road" was one of several sitcoms produced by TBS in the mid-1980s (one of the others was "Down to Earth," about an angel-turned-nanny). These shows were distinguished by cheesy production values, untalented cast members and lousy scripts.
The no-star cast of "Rocky Road" included Jim Menza, Marcianne Warman and Hope North.
Take my word for it - you've never heard of them and never will again.
Q: Please help! My husband, who thinks he knows everything and is just a truck driver, swears that John Schneider and Tom Wopat were not the original stars of "The Dukes of Hazzard."
No matter what I say or have shown him, he thinks he is right. My proving him wrong has become an obsession. Will you please tell him to leave the sitcoms to me and just drive the truck?
A: Hey, I'm the son of "just" a truck driver, Missy, so watch your mouth.
But you are right.
Schneider and Wopat were Bo and Luke Duke from the get-go. (That is, 1979.) When they left the show in a contract dispute in 1982, they were replaced for a season by Coy (Byron Cherry) and Vance Duke (Christopher Mayer), but things were settled by 1983 and Schneider and Wopat came back for two more seasons.
Q: I recently heard a movie quote in which the character was telling another person about how unintelligent his/her comment was and in fact it was so dumb that he was now dumber for having heard it. What movie is this from?
A: It's from the Adam Sandler movie "Billy Madison," spoken by a principal, played by James Downey, to Billy:
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