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trnsocial · 5 months

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Remember That Show? Ep. 4: Parker Lewis Can't Lose

Adam and Will synchronize swatches for a joyous discussion of the 1990 FOX teen sitcom, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and revel in the wackiness of this early 90’s time capsule. Plus, they settle the decades long debate as to whether Parker Lewis is just a rip-off of Ferris Bueller.

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#90&039;s Sitcoms #90s #Abraham Benrubi #Corin Nemec #Forgotten 80&039;s Cartoons #Forgotten TV Shows #FOX TV Shows #Larry Kubiak #Maia Brewten #Melanie Chartoff #Miss Musso #Parker Lewis Can&039;t Lose #Parker Lewis TV Show #Remember That Show podcast #Troy Slaten #TV History #William Bruce West #William Jayne

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greensparty · 1 year

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2023 Northeast Comic Con Spring Edition Wrap-Up

Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to cover the Northeast Comic Con (read my coverage here), a fun cool convention for lovers of comics, pop culture, and collectibles. Last Summer, I attended their 2022 Collectibles Extravaganza and it was my first convention since 2019. Felt good to be back!

Here is my lightning round of guests I got to speak with at this year’s con:

Roger Kabler is a funny comedian and in the last few years he has been doing the Robin Williams Experience, where he does his excellent Robin Williams impression. I spoke with him last Summer and he had just finished making an independent film Being Robin about his experience of returning to comedy after Robin Williams died. His film is doing some screenings and it’s worth checking out. See details here.

Cowboy Mach Bell is another celebrity I spoke with last Summer. He was the singer for the Joe Perry Project from 1982-1984 among many other bands and he has written some books about his experiences as well. Since last time I saw him, he has suffered some health issues, but I’m happy to say he’s back singing and his new band Mach Bell Experience are playing Geno’s Rock Club in Portland, ME this Sat. 3/18.

Melanie Chartoff is someone who has popped up in all corners of pop culture: acting, voiceover, author, coach, theater, TV, and film. I was a big fan as a teen of TV’s Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and she was so good as Principal Musso. A decade earlier she was a cast member on the sketch show Fridays along with Larry David, Michael Richards and more. But probably the funniest thing she did IMHO was the episodes of Seinfeld as Robin, George’s single-mom girlfriend. In “The Fire” episode, George attends the birthday for Robin’s son and upon the fear of a fire, he pushes everyone out of his way. I asked Melanie how she managed to keep a straight face in that episode and she replied “well, you know, I’m an actress, right?”. Well put! Robin later returned for the finale when Jerry and his friends were on trial.

Charlie Schlatter has been a highly prolific actor and voiceover since the 80s. I first became aware of him when he was the lead in 1988′s 18 Again, where he and his grandfather (played by George Burns) switch brains. It was actually one of my favorite brain-switcher movies of that era. I asked Charlie about making that film and he said “working with George Burns, to this day (I’m an old man now), but it was one of the best experiences of my life. He was the most generous and gracious human being you can imagine. It was like working with my true Grandfather everyday.” In 1990, Schlatter played the title character in the TV adaptation of Ferris Bueller. I told him I was a big fan of that TV show (it lasted 13 episodes) and he said “You were the one?” [laughs]. I was a big fan of the John Hughes movies Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was showing the character on a day off, but it was cool to have a TV series that showed what the character was like in school on a typical day. He was very appreciative I enjoyed that show.

I first met Samantha Mathis at the 2015 Rock and Shock festival. She and I have a mutual friend in common and I reminded her at the Northeast Comic Con. In 2020, when I tweeted about the anniversary of Pump Up the Volume, which she starred in, she liked it on Twitter! She has appeared in tons of gems including that great episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, where she sat next to Larry on the plan. This time I saw Ms. Mathis, I was excited to talk to her about working with John Woo on his 1996 film Broken Arrow. I mentioned that I actually made a film To Be John Woo (a tribute and parody of John Woo films). She was congratulatory when I told her Mr. Woo sent me a Christmas card the following year after he saw it! On working with Mr. Woo, she said “I was in awe of being in John Woo’s presence. It’s no secret that Quentin Tarantino heavily lifted from John Woo in the beginning of his career. So, I was just in awe of watching how he shot things. There was a sequence where he must’ve set up ten different cameras at different angles. I had just never seen someone use the camera that way before.” That movie was one of Woo’s early Hollywood movies and there’s some phenomenal action sequences in it.

This convention is always a fun time! Big thanks to Gary Sohmers and his team as well as my friend comedian Ken Reid of the TV Guidance Counselor podcast (I was a guest in 2015) who hosted several panels at this year’s fest.

For info on Northeast Comic Con and there other events: https://necomiccons.com/

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falsenettleland · 1 year

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i’d much prefer to sleep with magazines… instead i slept with him and benzedrines… and a knife… which pretty much defined my life… as the perfect wife…..

#real #i live this version of im breaking down #trina i love you #falsettos #SoundCloud

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lukeevansgirl22 · 4 months

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The Rugrats movie is comical!

Hey guys! I’m here to do a review for the movie “The Rugrats Movie!” I loved watching “Rugrats” growing up! It was so interesting to know how babies interacted with each other! The movie is about the babies getting lost in the forest after Tommy Pickles gets a new baby brother. With the cast of Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugh, Kath Soucie, Melanie Chartoff, Phil Proctor, Cree Summer,…

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brookstonalmanac · 4 months

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Birthdays 12.15

Beer Birthdays

Chuck Noll (1958)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Alex Cox; film director, actor (1954)

Gustave Eiffel; Frech engineer (1832)

Stan Kenton; jazz bandleader (1911)

Helen Slater; actor (1963)

Ludwig Zamenhof; linguist, Esperanto creator (1859)

Famous Birthdays

Maxwell Anderson; playwright (1888)

Bapu; Indian artist, film director (1933)

Henri Becquerei; French physicist (1852)

Adam Brody; actor (1979)

Nick Buoniconti; Miami Dolphins LB (1940)

Melanie Chartoff; actor (1948)

Dave Clark; pop singer (1942)

Buddy Cole; jazz pianist (1916)

Tim Conway; comedian, actor (1933)

J.M. DeMatteis; comic book writer (1953)

Charles Duryea; automobile pioneer (1861)

Freeman Dyson; physicist (1923)

Niels Ryberg Finsen; Danish physicist (1860)

Alan Freed; disc jockey (1922)

J. Paul Getty; gazillionaire businessman (1892)

Lew Grade; film producer (1906)

Friedrich Hundertwasser; artist (1928)

Don Johnson; actor (1949)

Nero; Roman emperor (37 C.E.)

Edna O'Brien; Irish writer (1930)

George Romney; artist (1734)

Muriel Rukeyser; poet (1913)

Kurt Schaffenberger; comic book artist (1920)

Betty Smith; writer (1896)

Paul Simonon; rock bassist (1955)

#Birthdays

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duecredits · 1 year

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Melanie Chartoff

Fridays (1980-1982)

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paulvaillancourt · 2 years

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This #flashbackfriday #improvtip is from one of my earliest comedy crushes; the one and only Melanie Chartoff. "Let us feel you, not just hear and see you, let us know what’s going on between the words, between the lines, not just between your ears." Check out the whole tip at: https://youtu.be/LOJ2pkqJP3Y

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in-his-autumn-before-the-winter · 3 years

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#larry david #michael richards #richard lewis #jerry seinfeld #kenny kramer #fridays #andy kaufman #Melanie Chartoff

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dailynicknews · 3 years

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A Conversation with Melanie Chartoff Odd Woman Out - August 10, 2021

#melanie chartoff #didi pickles

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jamieroxx · 4 years

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Happy Birthday. Today, Dec 15, – Melanie Chartoff, American actress and comedian was born. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Chartoff)

#Melanie Chartoff

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theliterateape · 3 years

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La Fin du Monde Cafe & Denial

by Melanie Chartoff & Joe Janes

Greetings! Welcome to La Fin du Monde Cafe, which is French for “We’re screwed…Cafe.” The apocalypse sounds way cooler in a romance language. Is this your first time dining with us? Well, it might also be your last. No need to wear a mask. All of our dining is considered “outdoors” since the roof collapsed during the hurricane. Allow me to go over our specials as we’ve dispensed of tree-squandering menus. The few trees that are left are also on fire.

For your appetizer, we have seasonal cicada crisps. Sun-dried locust corpses with a hint of exhaust fumes from gasoline-powered automobiles. I highly recommend them. We won’t have them again for another 17 years. We also probably won’t be around to try them.

Feeling adventurous? Of course, you do! You’re eating out. Try our Mystery Meat Paté. Recycling isn’t just some fanciful idea with a nice logo. We believe in using and re-using all the parts of all the animals on our menu. Who the heck knows what leftovers comprise this savory medley flavored with fine wine backwash salvaged from wasteful entitled customers.

For your entre, may I point out that it is still wildfire season. As long as people have explosive gender-reveal parties or insist on boiling their bear urine, it’s wildfire season. We give two-dollar-an-hour convicts fighting forest fires an extra buck to salvage any animals that have been scorched and smoked to (Chef’s kiss) perfection. Today we have what looks like part of a deer fused with raccoon and leg of firefighter–a mixed grill. C’est magnifique!

If you prefer seafood, we are fresh out of dolphin jerky. However, we have over-farmed salmon riddled with hull-scraped zebra mussels served with a side of Asian carp ceviche featuring mutant eleven-legged octopi. The whole dish has been marinated in crude oil from a leaking pipeline.

Our other entre is a tribute to science. I-Can’t-Believe-It-Was Ever-Chicken. Headless fowl bred with all breast, no wings, no drumsticks, no neck, roasted on a spit, basted in spit, sprayed with chicken-flavored reduction broth. If you are watching your waistline, this dish creates negative calories because it will fight you as you chew.

Make sure you save room for dessert! Our house specialty is the Three Mile Meltdown Fruit Compote. Malformed peaches grown in compost on the site of our local nuclear disaster, pulverized by centrifuge into sweet, inhalable foam, served on a gluten-free, sugar-free, fat-free, substance-free—nothing-but-air pseudo crust that makes a joyful crunch when you pantomime nibbling it. Not recommended if you are pregnant. Not recommended you be pregnant, period…Just sayin’.

Here is your bill. Oh, let me explain. I leave you your tab now with an estimate of what your dinner will cost. Before you order, you need to debate whether or not climate change is real and how you will pay for it if it is. By the time you are done doing that, it will be too late to order. Bon appétit!

#Melanie Chartoff #climate change #comedy #satire

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mygrowingcollection · 3 years

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