20 Cases of Mutant Television...which one is your favorite?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/19/09 at 12:40pm

I will always have a fond spot in my heart for the first season of THE JOHN LARROQUETTE SHOW and NEWHART.

But wait....Seth Green and Juliette Lewis were regulars on THE FACTS OF LIFE??? The more you know...
From The Onion AV Club: 20 Cases of Mutant Television

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/19/09 at 1:23pm

Oh, how fun! I love this kind of stuff. I could read it all day. This really brings back some memories. I remember the early Charles in Charge. I wanted Charles in Charge of me. I stopped watching it for a while and then returned to the show and suddenly it was a whole new family and I wasn't sure if the cast had changed or if I simply didn't remember much about the show. And what happened to Jennifer Runyon? I remember really liking her on the show.

And I haven't thought of The Doris Day Show since I was little. My mother used to watch the reruns every day along with The Paul Lynde Show. I couldn't have been more than five years old.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 3/19/09 at 3:01pm

I only have seen 4 of those shows. When I first watched Saved By The Bell, and they aired the jr. high season, I didn't know it hadn't been the same show until later. I just figured that they weren't friends with Mikey and Nikki anymore, and Miss Bliss had been a jr. high teacher.

And I also liked Charles In Charge. For some reason, Sarah was my favorite out of all 6 kids. I didn't really like the Pembroke kids though. And I can't remember her name now (actress or character), but didn't Charles' girlfriend in season 1 go on to play Cindy Brady in A Very Brady Christmas?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/19/09 at 4:07pm

Yes! That was Jennifer Runyon! FML

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/19/09 at 4:18pm

Coco the gay cook weeps at his exclusion (he's the only one who wishes they left Ma in the home).

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/19/09 at 4:29pm

But that was only for one episode! It is definitely one of the gayest cases of Mutant Television, however.

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/19/09 at 4:32pm

That's true. Although the biggest case of mutant television spawned from that show was the episode that was the pilot for "Empty Nest." When David Leisure is the only element that survives (and not even as the same character), that's ninja-turtle-level mutation right there.

I think in the end both Park Overall AND Rita Moreno are glad how things turned out. Updated On: 3/19/09 at 04:32 PM

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/20/09 at 10:24am

Would "Nurses" be considered Mutant-Mutant spawn, then?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/20/09 at 1:24pm

But am I the only one who missed the FACTS OF LIFE with Blair as the headmistress? Did that even happen or is the Onion just joshin' ya?