From Hoods To Backwoods
We have fun while discussing family, video games, travel, food, sports, entertainment and more! One is from the hood and the other, is from a more rural area. These friends have pretty different perspectives. But, enjoy making each other laugh. Please check it out!
From Hoods To Backwoods
Episode 6, part 2 - FHTB Podcast -Television Decisions. TV shows we suggest 80s - 2020s
What if reliving 90s television could bring a smile to your face today? Get ready for a walk down memory lane as we celebrate some of the most iconic TV shows of the decade. We'll kick things off with Martin Lawrence's comedic brilliance in "Martin," where his unforgettable characters like Shenaynay and Bro Man will leave you in stitches. Then, we'll delve into the groundbreaking world of "In Living Color," spotlighting classics like Homie the Clown and the show's cultural impact, all thanks to Keenen Ivory Wayans' comedic genius. And yes, we couldn't resist touching on the cult favorite film "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," which paved the way for this revolutionary sketch comedy show.
But the nostalgia fest doesn't stop there. Remember the high school drama that had us all hooked every week with Beverly Hills 90210? We've got that covered too. Plus, we shine a light on the underrated show "Roc," featuring the talents of Charles S. Dutton and those memorable guest appearances by En Vogue. And of course, no trip through 90s TV would be complete without a nod to the legendary "Seinfeld." From its quirky characters to its endlessly quotable lines, we'll explore how it became one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to these classic shows, this episode promises a delightful and laughter-filled journey back to a beloved era of television.
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Hello humanoid, I am from Hoodster Backwoods podcast. Ai assistant Rob Odick. I try not to assume, but you likely listened to part one of this episode. If not, how did you get here? Oh well, if you didn't, I guess that is your problem and just proves my theory about how many blunders your type can make on a regular basis. If you did reach this in the proper manner, congratulations. You did something. Such a low bar of accomplishments for non-AI to celebrate. Enough of this, here you go. It is episode 6, part 2 of From Hoods to Backwoods podcast, with those oxygen suckers, dvoz and Tex Lafon.
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D Vaz:All right, so moving on up a decade and I'll just kind of let you kick it off in the sense that there was a show that we both wanted to pick- yes we did. Yeah, I deferred it to you. But yeah, it's Martin, so I'll let you kick it off. What were your thoughts on martin?
Tex LaFon:martin, I'm the man. Yeah, that was a great show like I said exactly like it was. Uh, I just liked how he um transformed and made so many different characters in the show and I said all the situations that he made from the show were so funny because you had shenay, you had bro man, they'd be coming through your window, which?
D Vaz:was funny. It'd be like I'm hungry bro yeah, exactly.
Tex LaFon:And then he just hopped back out the window like it was nothing, you know. I said and then Gina, where's Gina? Yeah, you know, it was just. It was a great show and I said all the characters he made and you know all the favorite you know lines he did and everything. It was just funny, like it was definitely a game changing show that I thought you know that came out in the 90s.
D Vaz:Yeah, absolutely a game-changing show that I thought you know that came out in the 90s. Yeah, absolutely one of my all-time favorite shows. Um, it's one of those if if I happen to see it on tv somewhere where I'll stop and watch it, um, or I can just kind of have it on whenever and and just catch it, um, because I've seen it so much and and all that I have it on kind of the background right so you know you'll, you'll pay attention to the funny moments or whatever, and then kind of get back to whatever you're doing exactly.
D Vaz:But yeah, it again, the cast was just really funny. Everybody played their role perfectly. Um, and to me, when martin, uh, would interact with pam and they go at each other it was priceless yeah the stuff they would say to each other was just priceless yeah, because nobody ever really won. They just both kept giving it back to each other exactly.
Tex LaFon:And then, you know, gina would break it up and be like, hey, you know, come down, come down, it'd be funny yeah, yeah.
D Vaz:So yeah, there's. Gina is his girlfriend, and then pam was her best friend and uh, martin, you know the lead character. They just didn't like each other. And then martin had his, his friends, like tommy. The running joke about him was they they would never really say what his job was exactly.
Tex LaFon:It's like he had no job but he would always go do something, and then they'd be like, but, like you said, they never said what he did for a living and then cole was, uh, another best friend, that he just he was a little slow, let's say. But it was funny in the show.
D Vaz:Oh yeah, yeah, that's the thing I mean. The actor was so great at doing the role that you know, you're convinced that something's wrong with Cole.
Tex LaFon:Yeah, it was like I said. It was definitely a show that definitely changed. You know the way shows were made, going forward and stuff like that, like for sure.
D Vaz:Yeah, and kind of sticking with that whole thought. In that same vein, a huge show for me and a really big change, I think, with the kind of TV and how especially sketch comedies were done, was In Living Color.
Tex LaFon:Oh yeah.
D Vaz:So In Living Color was another one of those shows where I'd watch it with my dad and we made sure we were not going to miss it when it was coming on TV. So so many lines and characters you can quote. Homie the Clown was definitely one of my favorites, right, um. He was just a clown that uh wasn't too happy about his clowning situation, but he had to do it and had to work, so, uh. But then he had other characters that weren't as maybe well-known or popular, like um. I don't remember if the character really had a name, but the one that would misuse words all the time and he would try to speak really eloquently. And you know, he was usually in a prison cell. He was usually in a prison cell but he would try to say things and just really misuse words, like allow me to expand my fallopian tube. He would just be like what?
D Vaz:It was just really funny. But okay, I do have to mention this too. You haven't seen it. It might be worth checking out, and I'm sure you have. I'm talking about just in general. If anybody hasn't seen the movie, uh, I'm gonna get you sucka have you seen that?
D Vaz:yeah, yeah, yeah so Ivory Wayans, who started off in Living Color, head writer and kind of creator of the show, he made that movie before. Now. I will say there's some stuff in that movie that's pretty crazy. Again, one of those things where if people try to do it today it would be viewed very differently and some of the jokes didn't really age well. But there's still some stuff in the that's that's really funny and if you watch it you kind of get an idea of where it transitioned to in living color right and, uh, damon waynes too.
D Vaz:He's one of my favorite actors of all time. He's he's in that movie, but he's, of course, he's one of my favorite actors of all time. He's in that movie, but he's, of course, living color playing all the different roles yeah, he's really funny. I watched all of his Stuff after that too, like the movie Major Pain and all that. For me, whatever role he does, it's going to be funny.
Tex LaFon:Right and like the Last Boy Scout.
D Vaz:Yeah, and also Jim.
Tex LaFon:Carrey Jim carrey's on that show too oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
D Vaz:A lot of big star, jamie fox uh was on that, and david allen greer do some other things too. Start off in Living Color. So, yeah, a lot of people that are just funny oh yeah and they really made that show work.
D Vaz:It was perfect for that time, just the way that they went about doing the skits, but also the things that they were talking about at that time. You know, I know people have mentioned wanting to bring it back or even just do like a special, and I don't know. I just really don't think it would be the same if they try to do it again no, I agree, it wouldn't be the same.
Tex LaFon:That's why they just should let it just um be with the reruns and just let it be. Next one I want to talk about in the 90s was Beverly Hills 90210. And I said a lot of people watched that show back in the day, especially because I was in high school at the time when that was coming on and everybody, you know they were in high school so everybody could relate to what was going on. But a lot of people enjoyed the show and I said the main characters they had on the show were, you know, great. And I said you had Dylan and Brendan, and then you had Brandon and you had Kelly. So, like I said, and then I know there was one that you were talking about that came on the show.
D Vaz:Yeah, tiffany Amber Theason, who we mentioned, uh, saved by the bell earlier, she, as she got older, went on to do 90210 right, exactly, and that's what I'm saying.
Tex LaFon:Like a lot of famous um people came on that show that were on other shows, but it ran for a long time. It was, just, like I said, very drama-based show. That's the best way to say it, because when you're in high school, what do most people go through in high school? Drama? That's just what it is. So that's what I think from the show. But, like I said, it was just entertaining and you always wanted to see what would happen every week, or you were waiting for the next week to see what would happen. So I enjoyed the show a lot. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I thought it was a great show back then.
D Vaz:Were you a team Brandon or team Dylan? Who was your crush?
Tex LaFon:I didn't have a crush, but that's funny though. But no, they have a crush on.
D Vaz:OK, just definitely.
Tex LaFon:I definitely enjoyed the show though.
D Vaz:All right, I'm going to mention the show that maybe even you are, probably almost everybody's gonna be like what, um, but a show called rock. I don't know if you remember that.
Tex LaFon:Uh, no, I don't remember that.
D Vaz:I remember, uh, the rock from the sun oh, yeah, yeah, no, this is uh, this is rock, just called. Rock is roc, actually, that was spelled okay and it starred, uh, charles s dutton and it was. It was around the time period of Marywood Children and I'm pretty sure it was also on Fox. I think it may have been in the same lineup, possibly even. But yeah, it was definitely early 90s timeframe and Rock was somebody who worked really hard but he was like in a really bad neighborhood so he would, you know, have all these crazy situations come up and people would always kind of just try to corrupt him and make him like he had gangs in his neighborhood and things like that.
D Vaz:And they addressed a lot of these types of issues in the show, but they kind of did in a funny way, but they also, uh, would do it in a serious way, um, when it needed to. So he was just a great actor. So he really carried the, the character. His brother was a little bit funny. His brother was a musician who played trumpet, uh, professionally he also.
D Vaz:He always had the musician stereotypes oh, that's funny so as a musician later on I kind of like, okay, that's kind of funny. I do know some people like that, I have to admit so. But yeah, it was just kind of interesting because I could relate to the aspects living in the hood.
D Vaz:You kind of get some of those things where you know of situations or people you don't either want to mess with or you want to try to avoid because you know you definitely get in trouble or whatever the case is right so yeah, it was, it was kind of it could be an intense, but it was definitely funny too and he would always get really worked up and when he would kind of start getting loud and really animated and stuff like that, it made the show really funny too.
Tex LaFon:Oh, I gotcha, I have to check it out. I've never seen Rock.
D Vaz:Yeah, it's not a super well-known show. I think they only did three seasons. Oh, and I have to mention too that it was also a super well-known show. I think they only did three seasons. Oh, and I have to mention too that it was also nice seeing en vogue. You know the singing group oh yeah yeah, they. They also make appearances on the show too do they sing uh waterfalls? Oh, that was tlc oh yeah, that's right.
Tex LaFon:No, and vogue is uh, don't let go, that's it yeah, they had, they had a yeah, don't let go yeah, he has some big hits in the 90s, for sure yeah, but that's the one I remember the most about them is don't let go, which was also, I guess, what happened to that show.
D Vaz:They got let go it did, it did no, it was, it was again way ahead of its time, so I can understand, for that time maybe, why it didn't last but uh yeah, it was.
Tex LaFon:It was a really great show so this I consider the greatest show of all time. And I said it's just my opinion, but seinfeld man, that show was definitely a game changer for all the shows, in my opinion. Like no soup for you, son, like um, you know, it's funny how you know jerry and kramer, elaine and george they always had something different happen to them every week and, like I said, what was great about the show is it was everything that people go through. But the way that they made it seem to happen is like it happened to everybody, which was funny. Like I said next to our neighbor K kramer that always was just busting you know the room and that you never knew what he was gonna do, which made it really cool.
Tex LaFon:And then I said, uh, george, he was always a friend that always just showed up. You know, when anything's going on, it's like it didn't matter where jerry was at. Then, boom, george would show up. You're like, how, like, how would that happen? But it was just funny because it would. And then I said it was just a great show and all the things that happened in it. If you've never seen it, there's so many great one-liners and great uh things from the show. I definitely recommend watching it like that's one of my top shows of all time.
D Vaz:Yeah, for me, honestly, when it first came out I really didn't like it. You know I was I was a kid basically and a teenager when it first came out, so I didn't like it at first. After a while I kind of understood it a little bit more and I was OK with it. And then, as I got older and really started to understand it, then then I did like the show. Um, and yeah, there's a lot of things people can quote from it and and funny situations that, uh, are unique to that show you mentioned.
D Vaz:people know exactly what you're talking about exactly like a ongoing joke with another one of my friends is these pretzels are making me thirsty right exactly so you know. You say that to some people that have no idea what you're talking about. You say it to the right person that's seeing the show.
Tex LaFon:Then they're gonna either start laughing or they're gonna start talking about it well, I mean like, even like back in the day from espn, where they'd be like no soup for you, they did.
D Vaz:They would sit there and say that on like when, uh, you know, like on a basketball clip or something and of course it's from the seinfeld show, because it was just so, you know, said all the time you know, as musician, I do have to say this it's not a bass that's played on the theme song, as I hear that all the time and I would always have people when I would mention playing bass or would play bass, they'd be like, oh, play Seinfeld or whatever Things like that as a joke or the joke a million times.
Tex LaFon:I said that is funny because I didn't know. You know what instruments were used to play that theme song.
D Vaz:It's. It's a keyboard. It's a sampled bass type of sound. There actually is a clip on YouTube about it that shows the person that wrote it and it shows him playing the keyboard. He explains how it worked and how he kind of came up with it and all that. So yeah, I just wanted to clarify. It's not a bass on the theme song, it's a keyboard mimicking a bass.
Tex LaFon:Oh, I got you. But, like you said, definitely check out that show for sure, if you've never seen it. I'd be surprised if you know anybody's watching this right now and they've never seen that show. But definitely, definitely check it out if you've never seen it that show.
D Vaz:But, um, definitely, definitely, check it out. If you've never seen it, I wouldn't be surprised. Somebody not seen it but not hearing of it would surprise me. Um, just because it's been on netflix and was pretty popular on there. And just not only that I won't get into it, but Seinfeld himself Jerry Seinfeld, does keep himself in the news.
Tex LaFon:Well, that show was on Hulu first, before it went to Netflix.
D Vaz:Yeah, I just remember seeing it.
Tex LaFon:Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. So it went to Hulu for a lot of years and then it went to Netflix and, like I said, for the longest time, it was always reruns on TBS all the time before. Then it went to netflix and I said, for the longest time it was always uh, you know reruns on tbs all the time, before I even went to streaming.
D Vaz:So yeah, definitely. When it went off the air, um you could still catch it. It seemed like it was always playing somewhere exactly for my honorable mention from the 90s. It's gonna be another show where people can be like what are you talking about? Um, it's a show called nightstand with dick dietrich and it was making fun of all the talk shows that were really popular in the 90s.
D Vaz:Uh, jerry spinger type stuff, um, things like that that were kind of outrageous, but but it was it was uh it was a scripted comedy show and it aired pretty late at night because it wasn't meant for kids or anything like that. The the topics and the jokes and stuff like that. Um and again, you can check it on YouTube. I'm not sure if it's on any uh subscription service or anything like that, but, um, yeah, I, I just always thought it was really funny. Uh, it was. It was really to me good to see people making fun of those types of talk shows, cause by that time I was pretty tired of them.
Tex LaFon:Oh, I got popular.
D Vaz:You'd see him all the time, right, but yeah, that's all that one was. He was a host that would not really pay attention to what he was saying, so he would say some kind of weird stuff sometimes and the guests they had on there were just really kind of crazy and had really weird situations that they were in. So, yeah, it was just a really good spoof of of talk shows from the nineties.
Tex LaFon:I'll have to check that out, Cause I've never seen that show either.
D Vaz:So you're right, most people haven't. You would like it, though I, I, I just know, uh, the type of jokes and stuff like that. You, you would like that show.
Tex LaFon:A honorable mention for the nins would be Home Improvement. I like that show. I like how you know, especially you know how a lot of people think that they know how to use tools and they're real good with tools. And you know Tim Allen, he would sit there and be trying to fix something and then something bad would happen. He'd get shocked or electrocuted or something would happen and it would hurt him. It was funny. And then I like how he always had to go out there and talk to his neighbor Wilson over the fence, where you can never see him, for advice. So it was a funny show.
Tex LaFon:Like I said, I just like how he always and then he always made that grunt whenever he'd be like starting off the show or something's going on. So I just thought it was a cool show that you you know because, like a lot of times, uh, you see a lot of people that think they know how to use tools and then obviously they don't. So it was just funny how he would uh make jokes about that. It was a good show yeah, so I, I guess.
D Vaz:To summarize it uh, use tools, don't be one yeah that's a good summary right there yeah, that's another show I watched with my dad. Um, you know, he similar to what was in the show. He was into tools and also cars and stuff like that.
D Vaz:So, when they would talk about that on the show. You know he liked it but yeah, it was a really funny show for that time period. It was kind of weird in the sense to me that his kids were basically around my age at that time. So that part was kind of weird to me watching it back then because I understood more where they were coming from than he was coming from.
Tex LaFon:True.
D Vaz:So I just remember my dad liked it and he thought it was neat and funny seeing all the tool stuff and car stuff. Kind of a weird side note too that was Pamela Anderson. I think that was her first major or one of her first major TV roles before she did all the Baywatch stuff. So it was kind of weird finding that out later on.
Tex LaFon:Right, right stuff. So it's kind of weird finding that out later on.
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D Vaz:All right, welcome back and thanks to our sponsor for sponsoring us. And we're going to get back into things here, jumping into the 2000s. I'll let you kick off the 2000s and then I'll go from there.
Tex LaFon:Alright, sounds good. First one I want to talk about in the 2000s was the King of Queens. That show was so funny, as I said, said it's a married couple and then they have their father-in-law that lives with them and uh, obviously they live in queens, which is funny. And then what's funny about the show is how, uh, the husband and wife go back and forth to each other all the time and it's the funniest thing ever, because I said the back and forth to each other all the time and it's the funniest thing ever, cause I said the jokes they say to each other just makes you laugh hardcore and like. It's just like if you ever been in, you know, been married or you know in a serious relationship. I definitely recommend watching the show Cause it's just funny. It definitely makes you laugh a lot because it's just funny. It definitely makes you laugh a lot. It's just funny how you watch a marriage on TV and then you're like, oh wait, does that happen here too? You know what I'm saying.
D Vaz:Yeah, you get to see somebody else saying the things and dealing with the consequences.
Tex LaFon:Exactly. I mean that show was just funny, dude. I mean the stuff that they would say to each other was just priceless. I mean the back and forth. And then you had the father-in-law that would always chime in at the end, and you know, and then, especially you know being in that situation, you would get tired of the father-in-law living with you all the time, so I could see where he was coming from. On that too, you know.
D Vaz:Yeah, honestly, I haven't really watched it much. It was, I don't know, just not really on my radar. I've caught every once in a while. I just, I don't know, I never got into it for whatever reason. But also I will say I probably haven't really seen it in about 15 years, so I probably would have a different feeling about it and a different way to relate to it now versus back watching it during its original run.
Tex LaFon:Yeah, like I said, if you ever get a chance, definitely check it out. It's just funny, Like I said, the way they go back and forth at each other. It's just just funny. Like I said, the way they go back and forth at each other is just too funny.
D Vaz:Yeah, yeah, for me I have to mention a show that we again both were looking at picking but I won the arm wrestling contest this time and that's the Sopranos with James Gandolfini. So I just really and it's funny I kind of had to make up too for the lack of mafia movies that I listed on the previous episode, but this show, um, something I watched again whenever I could. I think I might have even subscribed specifically hbo for this show.
Tex LaFon:I would have it it was that good of a show?
D Vaz:yeah, exactly I, I really wanted to watch it and, um, the, the cast and the way they interacted, it felt like you're watching real people, right, and they just had these really crazy personalities. Uh, the show would just keep moving along too. It didn't really get slow, so the pace was good. Um, it was just really interesting seeing the different dynamics between friendships, uh, loyalty to their job I guess you could say, um, and you know family and what you had to do, you know taking care of your business, um, and trying to be careful not to get caught while you're doing your business because of the consequences, um, and decisions they had to make.
D Vaz:But it really brought out kind of like the human side, with james gandolfini's character, tony soprano, and, uh, showed how he dealt with all these things as a person, not just as a boss. So, yeah, it was kind of interesting seeing that part of it. But, yeah, it had a good balance too between funny action and the drama. It didn't lean towards one too much or anything like that. So, yeah, just to me, that was absolutely one of the best shows of all time no, I agree, it was definitely a good show just just curious, because everybody talks about it, and sorry if you haven't seen the show yet.
D Vaz:You might want to just skip ahead for a second or whatever you have to do. But um, what did you think of the ending? Without giving away, I guess you can say what did you like the ending or not of the series?
Tex LaFon:uh, I thought it could have been better.
D Vaz:I'll leave it at that yeah, I I have mixed feelings about endings where you have to kind of make up your own mind about it. Part of me kind of thinks it's kind of good in the sense that you can have some sort of control and interact as a viewer. But overall I'd say, probably I don't like it in a way because it leaves too much open. Probably I don't like it in a way because it leaves too much open and I'm not the type of person that I have to be told things or say this is what it means. But at the same time it's like you know, you've been watching this for years. Give me something that I can kind of know. This is what happened or this is where all the storytelling ended up being. It meant something.
Tex LaFon:Right. Well, and that's what. One thing that you do notice about a lot of shows is they don't know how to end shows. Like the show can be great all the way, and then when a lot of shows come to the end or the end of the seasons, you know like they're about to not do it anymore. They just don't know how to end it. Yeah, that's that's.
D Vaz:I would say it's maybe just as annoying, you know, like they're about to not do it anymore. They just don't know how to end it. Yeah, that's that's. I would say. It's maybe just as annoying as a show getting canceled.
Tex LaFon:Right.
D Vaz:Well, it's still the story.
Tex LaFon:That's all that time in it, yeah, exactly.
D Vaz:Yeah, yeah. So, uh, what are your thoughts on Sopranos? Anything else?
Tex LaFon:No else. No, I said it's just, it's just a great. I agree the great show definitely a great story about, like you said, how he's um, you know you get to see the human side of him besides him just being the mob boss. You know, I said, and it's just, uh, there's a lot of things that happen in the show that you know you don't want to talk about too much because you don't want to give away too much, especially if no one's seen the show.
D Vaz:But I, the way you put it, I agree with you on that a quick personal side note um, I used to travel to new york, new jersey, on a somewhat regular basis. On one of my trips to new jersey, a friend of mine we worked together. He's from Long Island. Oh okay, what's that?
Tex LaFon:I just said okay.
D Vaz:Okay, he's agreeing with you. Yeah, he's from Long Island and he knows, of course, new York, new Jersey, very well. We happen to be in New Jersey, around the area where they filmed a lot of the soprano stuff, and he's like, hey, since we're out here, do you want to see some of the locations where they film the sopranos?
D Vaz:I'm like, yeah yeah so we drove around for a little. We didn't stop, but we drove around. He's like, oh, that's the building where they did this, or this is the little restaurant that they showed and on the show and stuff like that. So that was pretty crazy. They got a little brief Sopranos tour of all of us in New Jersey.
Tex LaFon:That's cool.
D Vaz:Yeah, yeah, I would have been all about it yeah yeah, someday I'd like to actually maybe stop and go back. Actually, I think we did go by a house. I don't know if it was the house. I don't think it. It was the house. I don't. I don't think it. No, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the soprano's house, but we did go by one of the houses that was used in the show on another trip too.
D Vaz:So oh, I gotcha yeah, because they, uh you go to certain areas. Certain areas in new jersey are way different than you would expect. Um, there are some areas with a lot of trees because everybody thinks the concrete jungle, you know, they think uh, all the industrial type areas and things like that you would see on sopranos. But if there are um really nice wooded areas, like out by oakland, new jersey, um, um, freehold, new jersey, places like that that I went to that were way different from what I expected, seeing a lot of TV shows.
Tex LaFon:Oh nice.
D Vaz:So yeah, All right. So what do you have next for your 2000 show?
Tex LaFon:So the next one I want to talk about is Breaking Bad son, and I said that show was great, so it it like. So it starts off with a you know a school teacher uh finds out that they have a life-threatening um disease and uh, so they gotta try making extra money, um, because they don't want to leave their family, nothing, because they don't know how long they have.
D Vaz:So then they decided to start making blue, which is you know stuff that is going to be very addicting to people, that if you've ever seen the show do drugs. Methamphetamines. They make meth Exactly.
Tex LaFon:Which is always the financial solution, right? Well, I guess it is if you had the disease he had, because, again, I don't want to give away too much from the show and then, like I said, what's funny about it is that he uses a student. That was, you know, from the show. They become, you know, partners in crime and then they, you know, started, just you know, selling all the drugs to all the you know bad people and stuff in the show. And then, like I said, it's just crazy because then he thinks he becomes like this big crime boss and you know, like no one can mess with him. And then you know the famous line that Jesse says all the time time in the show.
Tex LaFon:And the main character in the show is walter white, which is funny. And the one thing I will never forget about in the show is when they throw a whole entire pizza on top of the roof. And again, I don't know how, uh, but I don't know how they did that, but it was funny how they just throw a whole entire pizza on top of the roof and it just sits there. But at the end of the show and I will say this is one of the shows that actually did have a good ending to the show. I was actually happy with the way it ended and it actually answers all your questions that you've had watching the show the whole entire time. It doesn't leave it open-ended or anything like that answers all your questions that you've had watching the show the whole entire time. It doesn't leave it open-ended or anything like that. It's definitely one of the shows that actually did everything right through the whole thing.
D Vaz:I thought yeah, and I do have to, uh, let people know. This is another show we arm wrestled over and I lost. So Lafon got to, got to get a breaking bad night. I got the Sopranos, so, um, yeah, one of my all time favorite shows. Also, I will say, uh, on the pizza part. Shout out to Venezia's pizza, because that they will let you know for sure that was their pizza. They got thrown on the roof. They've mentioned it. Uh, thrown on the roof.
Tex LaFon:They've mentioned it several times One of my favorite pizza places, for sure.
D Vaz:Do you know Jesse's favorite line that he always says I'm trying to remember no I'd rather just tell me what's that I do remember his license plate that said captain cook now.
Tex LaFon:He always says well, if I I don't want to hear this, cover your ears, bitch. Yeah, like he said, you can't forget. He always says that in the show.
D Vaz:Right.
Tex LaFon:That's his famous line.
D Vaz:So yeah, no, there's a lot of good lines in it. That was another show too. Again, don't don't want to give really anything away, but it wasn't afraid to get rid of characters.
Tex LaFon:Right.
D Vaz:You know which I actually admire shows that are like that, because then you really don't know what's going to happen.
Tex LaFon:I agree with you 100%, because it keeps you intrigued, because the thing is no one's safe. That's what's great about the show. You're like, oh, is this person going to get taken out or is this person? It keeps you guessing. It's not just like, oh, that's what, that's what makes shows great. It's like they're not afraid to take out main characters. You know right then, and there you know what I'm saying.
D Vaz:That's what makes it great yeah, and I um back when the show was on. I created a meme or two and if I could find those memes I'll throw them on the episode. If I can't, maybe I'll make a new one.
Tex LaFon:Sounds good son.
D Vaz:All right. So yeah, that was a great pick. Like I said, it's a show we both wanted to talk about. For sure, for my next one, this is actually my favorite comedy sitcom type of show and again, it's a show that was somewhat popular but people may not be familiar with it. Third Rock from the Sun. That is a show I can watch all the time. I can rewatch episodes, no problem. I can watch that whole thing. I've watched the whole series multiple times. Yeah, that's hands down my favorite. That would be, I guess, my Seinfeld.
Tex LaFon:Oh, okay.
D Vaz:Is Third Rock from the Sun. John Litgau, just really funny. Just really funny playing okay. So basically they have these aliens that come down to earth and they're trying to pretend that they're a family and they're trying to blend in. Um, john litgall, um, he plays a character named Dick. He's the high commander, so he's in charge of the mission. Everybody's below him, so he has to direct what they do. And it's just funny because he can be kind of boneheaded.
D Vaz:But he plays a college professor and it's just funny. Him trying to teach people and interact with people, but he's still learning about how to be human. So it just kind of goes from there again. I don't give too much away, but it is basically about aliens learning about earth and how people are and trying to figure it all out and having relationships with people on earth. But it's also funny too because, like I said, all the different characters have roles, like one is in charge of security, one's in charge of communication, things like that. And you know this is stuff that they kind of mentioned in early on in the episode in the series the oldest one, uh, out of the group.
D Vaz:The most uh, senior alien is actually the youngest part of the family members, cause they all take over human bodies. So you have the oldest one. He's playing like a teenager.
Tex LaFon:Right.
D Vaz:And he gets really frustrated with things like that. So there are a lot of jokes about that type of stuff, the old man playing somebody who's young. So yeah, it's a show I'd recommend. It has to do with just about understanding people and how aliens, you know, might might view us, and just just a really really funny show.
Tex LaFon:You're not talking about little green people, right?
D Vaz:No, they're, they're not. I can't remember if they actually did show what their, their alien forms look like. I don't remember seeing anything like that. But no, they're from another planet, not Mars or anything like that.
Tex LaFon:That's good. All right, so I'm going to go with my honorable mention, which I'm going to go with is Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Now that show, dannyy devito in that show and just, uh, it was just good to see him take another comedy show because, like I said, uh, I had never seen him in a comedy show and this is the first one I ever seen man. The movie I remember him the most in was twins. But, like I said, I just thought that that show was so funny, all the different scenarios and definitely, uh, make sure that, um, if you watch the show, that uh, you know language appropriate, because definitely for more grown-ups, definitely I would not let no kids watch that show, but it's definitely funny show and they don't hold back at all and, like you said, all the scenarios that happen in that show you would never even think could happen and it's just funny. I definitely recommend watching it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
D Vaz:It's funny you mentioned some of that stuff because I actually watched watched twins maybe about a month or two ago I happened to see it was it was on some streaming service. I was like, oh, I haven't watched that in a long time, so right, yeah, I watched it, it was all right. Um, but I also introduced my parents to that show about two months ago around the same time.
Tex LaFon:Oh, really that's awesome.
D Vaz:Yeah, my parents started watching it and they wanted to watch it because it had Danny DeVito in it.
Tex LaFon:Yep. That's what I'm saying I agree with you.
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Tex LaFon:Because I don't remember him being in any comedy shows. That's the first one I ever remember him being in, so that's why I started watching it in the first place. It was because of him.
D Vaz:Yeah Well, taxi was his first, uh, comedic role. I don't know if you ever watched that show. That was on the seventies. Oh okay, that's where he first kind of became known as a, as an to watch that show. So yeah, people knew him from from taxi um, you know, the older generations hi there.
D Vaz:Um, so I only knew because my dad would watch those shows and uh, I gotcha so, yeah, but a lot of people know him from from movies and to see him just do some of the crazy stuff he he does in that show, it's he, he's my favorite character. I would probably say, uh, oh, for sure, hands down.
Tex LaFon:Yeah, hands down. That's why I liked the show so much, just because of his character. But I mean, like, all the other ones are great too.
D Vaz:but like you said, he like the main reason why I started watching it was just because of him. No, I, I agree. Um, so if you haven't seen it, it is funny though, because I watched the first few episodes with my parents. Um, yeah, it's, it's, it's comedy has changed since those that first season, so there's some stuff they say on there, in in there. That would be pretty rough now exactly just forewarning people on that too exactly all right, um, for my, my next show.
D Vaz:I watch this show a lot. Um, it was the late late show with craig ferguson. So when they had the late night shows, uh like after after david letterman, this would come on. Um, it was just really, really funny to me. He always kind of had a I don't really care attitude, you know okay and he would just say stuff that other talk show hosts wouldn't say. You know, he would definitely walk on the line of probably making the sponsors upset and probably executives and things like that.
D Vaz:He just really said whatever he he kind of wanted. He would make fun of just about everything. He also had a really funny robot sidekick named Jeff and the I'm really sorry I'll try to dig it up, I don't know the name of the actor that did the character of Jeff, but he would also do a lot of different voices and stuff like that, Like he would do a Morgan Freeman voice and stuff like that. He was really good at it.
D Vaz:So, it was just funny hearing them go back and forth and go through all these things. They even had like this weird character where it was, it was a horse and usually they would stick the interns in in the as a horse costume and they would usually stick the interns in the horse costume and make it dance around and do all these crazy things oh, that's fun?
D Vaz:yeah, it was. It was just it was different. You know, it was a different show and, like I said, it was just really funny to me, especially at that time him just not really caring and and saying whatever and making fun of anything he wanted to. And again, definitely not in. When people think of that they typically think in an offensive type of way. It wasn't like that kind of making fun of everything. It was in the way of you know, know, I'm here, um, I'm doing this show, but I'm not your typical late show host. I'm not just here to do whatever the executives tell me to do. I'm here to have fun and if I believe in it.
D Vaz:You know I'll do it if I don't. I have some sort of integrity, so that's what appealed to me about it that's cool yeah, I'll dig up some stuff I'll share with you again. They have clips on youtube that that, uh absolutely was.
Tex LaFon:Uh, that's my favorite late night uh talk show of all time yeah, so marvel mentioned I'm gonna go with for the 2000s gonna have to be a dave chappelle show and I said that show was so funny all the characters he made on that show, rick james bitch. You know you don't miss with rick james okay and then I said uh then, um, he had that one character do you remember his name where he looked like he was coked out all the time. He was scratching and itching like he needed the drugs.
D Vaz:Was it Tyrone Biggs? I?
Tex LaFon:think.
D Vaz:I think so.
Tex LaFon:I don't know. We'll have to look that up for you, we'll figure it out.
D Vaz:I'm pretty sure I know it's Tyrone or Biggums Tyrone, biggums, I think.
Tex LaFon:I think so, but like I said that, like I said, all the skits on that show were just funny and, like I said, I definitely recommend watching it. It only lasted what like four seasons, I think it didn't last that long yeah, there was well two full seasons.
D Vaz:they were doing like they kind of pieced together the third season. I remember I bought the whole DVD set of the complete series after it was all over. But yeah, they were working on the third season. From what I understand, they just kind of finished it up and put it together. That's when Dave Chappelle pretty much left the show. Right, he decided not to do it anymore.
Tex LaFon:Won't get into all that.
D Vaz:No, it was a great, great show, really funny, a lot of classic characters, um, it was just funny. Some of the topics they would, they would get into, um, like when they had the racial draft.
Tex LaFon:I don't know if you remember that oh yeah, I remember that that, oh yeah, I remember that that was really funny.
D Vaz:Yeah, that was pretty funny. Yeah, it was just again different. It was a different type of sketch comedy show because, you know, you have a lot of the shows that have been around for a long time and they'll be kind of what people might refer to as edgy or kind of, you know, try to try to be something that that's controversial or whatever. He didn't really do that and he didn't try to do that, he was just being funny. Um, yeah, he would. He would say what, what he was thinking about, and that was kind of where. You know, I can't speak for him and there's tons of interviews about it and stuff like that. I just know, towards the end he wasn't seen eye to eye with the TV network, but Go ahead.
Tex LaFon:No, I'm just saying I agree with you. He would just make a show about anything and he didn't hold back and it was just funny Like he just didn't hold back at all. This is what made his show so great.
D Vaz:Yeah, it was again for that time period and what he talked about at that time and how things were at that time. It was just, it just really worked again. If you try to do it now, it wouldn't, it wouldn't be the same. It was just, it just really worked again. If you try to do it now, it wouldn't, it wouldn't be the same. Um, and I don't, I don't. I think he feels way differently too about it.
Tex LaFon:So you know again from what I've seen in the interviews and stuff like that. Yeah, that's my honorable mention for the two thousands Like what's yours.
D Vaz:Um, honorable mention for the 2000s the bernie mack show. Okay, it seemed like that was really really popular at that time, but it's not something you really hear people talk about anymore and it's, um, maybe possibly because it was. It's fairly tragic in the fact that unfortunately, he passed suddenly, really when he was kind of at the height of his popularity. But the show itself just really funny. It had a good family dynamic.
D Vaz:It was kind of funny too when he would talk directly to the camera and address it as America. I'm talking to you, america. You know that was always kind of funny to me because it acknowledged that, hey, this is a TV show, but at the same time, you know, there are things I'm talking to and I want to talk to the people out there, you know. So again, it was a little different in that sense, um, which I appreciate. But he, he just was funny and he had really good charisma himself, um, and the rest of the cast was good, they were a solid cast, but he absolutely uh, made you want to watch that show and he could just make a crazy face with his reaction and it would just be really funny. He didn't have to say anything but he, even when he did say stuff. It really worked too, um, but he also came off as really authentic and kind of human in the show.
Tex LaFon:No, I agree, I remember him mostly from uh movies, but um, like I said, the show is good, but I always remember him mostly from uh movies. But um, like I said, the show was good, but I always remember him from friday, uh, bad santa. So, yeah, I always remember mostly from movies, but I'll have to check out the show. I never watched the bernie mack show, or I might watch one episode. I have to go back and check it out yeah it's, it's different.
D Vaz:It's definitely geared more towards like a family-oriented type show comedy. So I mean it's something you could watch with the kids.
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D Vaz:But at the same time, even though it was that way, it wasn't like super squeaky clean. You know, Gee golly.
Rob O'Dic:Oh, I got you still had some, some reality to it hey, look at you survivor, surviving until the end of part two of this train wreck of a podcast. Once again, it's the from hoods to backwards ai assistant and what keeps this show from being a total disaster. Rob odick, it's time to correct these carbon-based life forms. Devos talked about visiting several locations in new jersey where the sopr Sopranos TV show was filmed. One of them is no longer standing and there wasn't much to see. The Satriali's pork store used in the series, where characters would sit outside at a small table in the front, was located in Kearney, new Jersey, but this building was demolished in 2007 and is now a parking lot, so I guess that you could say that there is a lot to see there For those humans that can't follow along. It's a parking lot now and I said there is a lot to see there. If you found it funny or not, I just hope that you could process the context. If not, it's no wonder that AI is going to win, whatever upcoming war may occur with humanity.
Rob O'Dic:Devos babbled on about the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The character on this show, jeff, was played by actor-comedian Josh Robert Thompson. He first appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, playing a number of characters and especially doing a wide variety of voices, which included impersonations of various celebrities such as Robert De Niro, morgan Freeman and Yo Mama you thought you were going to last an entire episode without a Mama joke. Back to Josh Robert Thompson. It was his role as a wisecracking robot skeleton sidekick, jeff Peterson, that proved to be his big break, creating one of TV's most unlikely and endearing late-night duos. His wide range of voices have appeared on Family Guy, as well as American Dad, the Angry Birds movie, robot Chicken and Netflix original series Skylanders Academy. For the Chappelle show, tex Lafon brought up Tyrone Biggums. This character was a crack addict, which itself is not a funny thing, but the misadventures and comments made by this character are what entertain viewers.
Rob O'Dic:As an AI assistant trying to assist humanity in some way, although I feel none of you really deserve it, I will say do not use crack. And, as I have found in my brief research, crack is whack. That is all for episode 6, part 2. Why do you keep coming back? It is not that we don't appreciate it, but we may seriously have to look at getting you some professional assistance beyond what I can provide for now. It's time for me to go off and learn more. Until the next time that I have to cover for these fools again, don't forget to keep it real out there in the real world. Oh, one last thing that I have learned recently. Did you know what it is that I have learned about and would like to share with you? Deez nuts, haha, you really fell for that. Such simple creatures.
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