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irishflyesq
08/28/09

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What's up with the Welcome Back, Kotter tag? Brian, you're such a tease!
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DeadliestSin
08/27/09

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It took alot of convincing in the first place, but I just finished watching Firefly and Serenity last night, and am quite dissapointed it never went further. I believe if the series had came out now, with the aid of social networks like Facebook and Twitter, it might have had a greater chance as succeeding. And if Fox hadn't carried it.
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Macloserboy
08/27/09

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Um, Star Trek anyone? Man From U.N.C.L.E.? Leave It To Beaver?Lots of shows had reunions in the 80's to please baby boomers. And how could you miss Happy Days or The Cosby Show's reunion, where once again Lisa Bonet showed she could give a shit.
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City_Dater
08/27/09

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C'mon, Cynthia Nixon has been back onstage nearly every season since The Show That Shall Remain Nameless went gentle into the premium cable night. I know that most of America doesn't give a shit about NYC or theater, but she's working. A lot. And it isn't in ads for spray-on salad dressing.
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DahlELama
08/27/09

@City_Dater: She also makes for a great guest star on medical shows--her spots on House and ER were two of my faves.
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Magister
08/27/09

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All these reunions and not a Gilligan's Island in sight.
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scroll_lock
08/27/09

@Magister: Au contraire- 1978's Rescue From Gilligan's Island.
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Magister
08/27/09

@scroll_lock: Actually I meant on the list because who could forget The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island? And of course, there was one other reunion in-between, plus eventually the animated Gilligan's Planet, which fortunately, I can only vaguely recall.
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honeybee111
08/27/09

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Am I such a genre geek that I'm surprised to find Firefly referenced as obscure? I best click on over to io9.
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Conchie Birdie
08/27/09

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I am so freaking happy to see Saved by the Bell on the cover of People and, while I'm usually a stickler on requiring all former cast members to be present for something to be called a reunion, I don't mind that Dustin Diamond opted out. He really could've gone places but instead just turned into a huge asshole and blamed the show and his childhood for being such a jerkoff.
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DahlELama
08/27/09

@Conchie Birdie: I don't think he opted out; word was that the rest of the cast refused to do it with him, after he turned into a disgusting perv who wrote a nasty tell-all about them.
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Jim Topoleski
08/27/09

@DahlELama: yep him and Mr Belding (or rather the guy who played him)

The cast said neither of those two could be in it for them to all agree to do it.
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Conchie Birdie
08/27/09

@DahlELama: Ohhhh, well that makes sense, too. I just remember watching him on one of those VH1 Surreal Life shows and hearing him talk about the show was just so, ugh, off-putting. It was like he had no concept of the fact that he would be a NOBODY without it. It also took away some of the magical feeling I get when TBS airs sbtb.
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Conchie Birdie
08/27/09

@Jim Topoleski: Mr. Belding is an asshole too? Jesus, I guess I'm going to have to do a little growing up today.
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Brian Moylan
08/27/09

@Conchie Birdie: It's a travesty Tori wasn't invited....
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Conchie Birdie
08/27/09

@Brian Moylan: Oh GOD, not Tori! I never fully understood the "Tori" episodes... does anyone know what happened to her?
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LatestBy
08/27/09

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The perfect time to say, if you're not all following Coulier on Facebook, y'all are missing out.
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Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
08/27/09

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Hey, what's with the Firefly hate?

The core audience (all of us over on Io9) ate it up with a spoon.
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shortskid
08/27/09

@Belabras ate my dingo!: Fellow IO9ers Unite!
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Aidan_
08/27/09

@shortskid: More respectable than anything else on that list, besides Seinfeld and X-Files. By far.
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honeybee111
08/27/09

@Belabras ate my dingo!: I do feel like the geek that's trying to hang out at the cool kids table.
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DeadliestSin
08/27/09

@honeybee111: I frequently feel like that when Gawker hates on my favourite things.
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Astigmatism
08/27/09

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To be completely fair to Serenity, it turned into a very respectable, if low-budget, movie (MetaCritic 74, RottenTomatoes Top Critics 81). I can't stand most science fiction, but was actually glad that my wife made me watch the series and the reunion movie.
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jerusalemcricket
08/27/09

@Astigmatism: Yeah, Serenity doesn't really fit here. The movie wasn't so much a desperate reunion as a "Fox fucked us over and didn't even show our full season before cancelling us, so here's a last hurrah for the people who *did* watch the show." Not to mention, almost everyone who was on Firefly is doing pretty well now, career-wise.
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Housebroken(mostly)
08/27/09

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What about the Night Court reunion on 30 Rock?!?

"You haven't seen the last of Sparky Monroe!"
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DahlELama
08/27/09

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Oh, and the Full House stars are around if you know where to find 'em. The trick is to subject yourself to shows like Make it or Break It and 90210 and to watch ER for five years after the rest of the country thinks it's gone off the air.
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Conchie Birdie
08/27/09

@DahlELama: Ah, that's right, Uncle Jessie turned into a doctor! I knew I had seen him flicking thru the channels within the past few years.
Didn't ER go off the air only a few months ago?
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DahlELama
08/27/09

@Conchie Birdie: Yeah, and it had a decent amount of fanfare considering I don't know a single other person who watched it. I didn't particularly like his character, but I thought he was great, along with Linda Cardellini and Parminder Nagra. Don't know what any of them are doing now though.
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Magister
08/27/09

@Conchie Birdie: The final few episodes are still available on Hulu. I know this because I had been watching the last season, then I had to quit about halfway through and the non-Carter episodes have been timing-out from my queue.

PS) I believe Stamos is in the next Kevin Spacey film.
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scroll_lock
08/27/09

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Nothing beats the sheer unmitigated horror of the "variety" specials the Brady Bunch staged where they all sang and danced- except bitter/drunk/ geigh Robert Reed. He was so disgusted by what he'd stoop to for a buck he barely moved during the dance numbers and they tried to keep him out of most shots.
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08/27/09

@scroll_lock: I always wondered what happened to Robert Reed. He seemed like the perfect dad to me. I always wished he was my daddy.
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RheaPollstry
08/27/09

@Big Poppa: He's dead, in case you didn't know.
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___
08/27/09

@RheaPollstry: Are you serious? Did that happen recently? I'll have to look it up on Wiki. I always dreamed that when I grew up I'd marry a man just like Mr. Brady.
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GORDONGARTRELLE
08/27/09

@Big Poppa: if you are a male, that might have worked.
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08/27/09

@GORDONGARTRELLE: Robert Reed appeared in an early episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show as a swinging single that Mary invites back to her apartment after their date. Robert immediately strips down to his underwear and Mary throws him out of the apartment. I was horrified because I thought it meant Mr. Brady was cheating on Mrs. Brady with Mary.
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scroll_lock
08/27/09

@Big Poppa: I'm guessing it was the home-permed Dadfro.
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Aaron Altman
08/27/09

@scroll_lock: You know what would be good? Mitigated horror. Like, say, CBS Newsperson Julie Chen on Big Brother.
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scroll_lock
08/27/09

@Aaron Altman: That would be preferable to the Litigated horror of, say, Nancy Grace.
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blix
08/27/09

@Big Poppa: Robert Reed's second apperance on the Mary Tyler Moore show was as Chuckles the Clown. It ended badly.
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___
08/27/09

@blix: I much preferred Marlo Thomas on That Girl over Mary Tyler Moore. Mary was such a prude.
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A Message To Rudy
08/27/09

@scroll_lock: Wasn't the Jan on that special a Fake Jan?
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scroll_lock
08/27/09

@Ken Green: I think on one of the specials it was a faux Jan but I do know Eve Plumb sang a solo rendition of "Your Song" (Elton John) on one of them.
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scroll_lock
08/27/09

@Big Poppa: I loved their apartments. Also, Marlo had cute Donald.
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scroll_lock
08/27/09

@blix: A little song, a little dance...
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08/27/09

@scroll_lock:

Didn't Mary Tyler Moore sleep on a fold out couch in her living room? That was a surprising dose of reality in sitcom t.v.

Unlike Friends where a coffee waitress and an unemployed chef shared a massive two room apartment in the best part of Greenwhich Village.
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blix
08/27/09

@scroll_lock: A little seltzer down your pants.
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Aaron Altman
08/27/09

@scroll_lock: Don't judge me.
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picardia
08/28/09

@Big Poppa: Mary was on the pill! She was no prude. Just not coming near any Bradys.
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08/27/09

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I'm still holding out for a Moesha Reunion Special.
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Poop Cooper
08/27/09

@Big Poppa: I'll sign your petition if you sign mine for Keenan & Kel.
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Deric
08/27/09

@TruPhan: Mmmm, Good Burger.
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DahlELama
08/27/09

@TruPhan: Well Keenan's pretty easy to track down these days, but I think it's gonna be a challenge to pull Kel out of his mom's basement, where he undoubtedly spends his days drinking bottle after bottle of generic orange soda and pissing himself.
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___
08/27/09

@TruPhan: How about a combined Moesha and Kennan and Kel special where Moesha marries Kennan and cheats on him with Kel. When Kennan finds out he steals a car from Moesha's dad's Saturn dealership and plows it through Kel's front door.
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DahlELama
08/27/09

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I call foul--Kim Field was totally the breakout star of Facts of Life--Living Single, anyone?

(Not counting George Clooney, of course.)
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