Guest The Upright Man Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 I didn’t like Trapper John M.D. at all, but I don’t think it was an official spin-off. W*A*L*T*E*R was a piece of shit. What the hell was Radar doing as a cop? After MASH was just as bad.
Guest AlwaysPissedOff Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Being from Alabama isn't an excuse for you to be illiterate. This thread is about Spin-Offs...Spiiiin Offff...not Rip-Offs. Married With Children had a SPIN-OFF starring one of Kelly's featured boyfriends and his father. They were these two grease monkey new jersey types and the boyfriend was played by Matt Leblanc. I put two shitty spinoffs and two good ones...so there's no claims of Futurama sucking coming from me. Fuck off, Toy. I was drunk last night. Many apologies for mis-reading what ye said.
Guest Fook_Hing_Ho Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Saved by the Bell - The College Years Just bad. Completely ruined all the good things the original series accomplished.
Guest El Satanico Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Being from Alabama isn't an excuse for you to be illiterate. This thread is about Spin-Offs...Spiiiin Offff...not Rip-Offs. Married With Children had a SPIN-OFF starring one of Kelly's featured boyfriends and his father. They were these two grease monkey new jersey types and the boyfriend was played by Matt Leblanc. I put two shitty spinoffs and two good ones...so there's no claims of Futurama sucking coming from me. Fuck off, Toy. I was drunk last night. Many apologies for mis-reading what ye said. heh...likely story. What about the Golden Girls spin off "Empty Nest", which starred Richard Mulligan as a doctor. It was a good show for several seasons.
Guest TheZsaszHorsemen Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Millenium was good. Highlander: The Raven wasn't. Kung Fu: The Legend Continues rocked the hizzy fo shizzy. What about The Green Hornet? That was made by the same guys who did Batman and the Hornet even teamed with batman for an episode.
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Just a couple odds and ends as I glance over the thread. Top of the Heap was a spinoff of Married with Children, while Vinnie and Bobby was technically as spinoff of Top of the Heap. The idea being that the first show didn't work, but they liked LeBlanc and wanted to give him another shot with a reworked premise. Soap was not a spinoff, but there were a couple of shows around that time that tried to emulate Soap and yes, Benson was a spinoff of Soap. Wings is part of the Cheers universe, but that's a crossover it's not a spinoff. Frasier once did a speech on Nantucket and flew Sandpiper air. St. Elsewhere is also part of the Cheers universe as the doctors were once seen in the bar and Dr. Auschlander used to have Norm for his accountant. Also, MASH is in the same universe as Dr. Craig on St. Elsewhere served in the Korean War with BJ Honeycutt before he joined the 4077, just try to wrap your brains around that one. And by the rules you're laying down here, St. Elsewhere could be considered a spinoff of the White Shadow as one of the orderlies was a character from that show. Although he wasn't a major character on either.
Betty Houle Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 The MTM Show had it's spin-offs. All in the Family and Happy Days had a bunch of them. Cheers had a few. How come the hugely successful Roseanne didn't (although it was at least twice talked about)?
Guest Zack Malibu Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Saved by the Bell - The College Years Just bad. Completely ruined all the good things the original series accomplished. Well, *I* liked it.
Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20 Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Don't worry, Zack... I liked it too. But it could be crap at times.
Guest starvenger Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 The MTM Show had it's spin-offs. All in the Family and Happy Days had a bunch of them. Cheers had a few. How come the hugely successful Roseanne didn't (although it was at least twice talked about)? MTM --> Rhoda and Ted Knight? All In The Family --> The Jeffersons, which led to...(can't remember)? Happy Days --> Laverne & Shirley --> Mork and Mindy wrt Rosanne I think that they threw around ideas at different of a spinoff with Tom Arnold or Laurie Metcalf, but no dice. Finally, I just thought of a very, VERY bad spinoff - "The Art of Being Nick", which I don't think went past the pilot. Yes folks, someone thought that Scott Valentine's character on "Family Ties" had enough staying power to be the lead in a sitcom...
Guest Ravenbomb Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 it's more like Love American Style --> Happy Days --> Laverne & Shirley --> Mork and Mindy and how could I forget about Daria? Daria was awesome
Guest El Satanico Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Daria sucked I still don't get why people like that show. Daria was a decent at best character in B&B.
Guest Big_Jay101 Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 I thought Family Matters was it's own show it was just made by the same people as Perfect strangers. Step by Step Had Urkel on it. What was 3's a crowd about
Guest El Satanico Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 I thought Family Matters was it's own show it was just made by the same people as Perfect strangers. The mother was in Perfect Strangers. It was later in the series when they had jobs at a newspaper I believe and she was a secretary or security guard. I remember the episode where she left.
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Three's a Crowd was about Jack meeting a girl and wanting to marry her, but she says no and instead they just live together in an apartment over Jack's newly bought restaurant. The girl's dad, who hates Jack and doesn't approve of them living together, buys the restaurant out from under him and keeps dropping in to annoy them. Family Matters was a spinoff of Perfect Strangers as Harriet was the elevator operator when the guys worked at the newspaper. Urkel appeared on Full House once too, but again these are just cross overs. MTM had spinoffs in Rhoda and Lou Grant. All in the Family had spinoffs in Maude, Gloria and the Jeffersons. Then Good Times was spun off of Maude and Checking In was spun off of the Jeffersons. Happy Days (which started as an episode of Love, American Style) spun off Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, Joanie Loves Chachi, Blansky's Beauties and Out of the Blue.
LaParkaYourCar Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Nevermind someone beat me to it. I'll go with Angel.
Guest El Satanico Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Three's a Crowd was about Jack meeting a girl and wanting to marry her, but she says no and instead they just live together in an apartment over Jack's newly bought restaurant. The girl's dad, who hates Jack and doesn't approve of them living together, buys the restaurant out from under him and keeps dropping in to annoy them. Didn't they start the spinoff during Three's Company with the last few episodes of the series finishing the change over?
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted July 11, 2003 Report Posted July 11, 2003 Yeah, Jack met his girlfriend and her father in the last couple episodes of Three's Company to work the change over and a couple of the last episodes were based on them. The thing was that Joyce DeWitt was not informed of the coming spinoff for Jack until they basically kicked her off the set one day to film the segments involving the cast of the new show.
Guest EdwardKnoxII Posted July 12, 2003 Report Posted July 12, 2003 Here's a spinoff that I hate with all my heart. Pretty much all the Scooby Doo spinoff cartoons after the original. I liked the original Scooby Doo but, all the crappy spinoffs have much or less killed my likeness for it. The only spinoff I liked was A Pup Named Scooby Doo. And add to the fact that at one point that Cartoon Network played so much Scooby Doo it wasn't even funny. And lets not get into all the cookie cutter crappy cartoons that H-B made that was based Scooby-Doo.
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted July 12, 2003 Report Posted July 12, 2003 I love "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo." Vincent Van Ghoul was awesome. True, that little Mexican kid was about as atrocious as Scrappy-Doo, but meh. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is pretty underrated. It was a pretty smart, fun and quirky show actually. I liked the tone of it and it's a lot better than those other cartoons that turn established characters into kids.
Guest Vern Gagne Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 Was Blossom a spin off of Fresh Prince? I seem to remember the Fresh Prince and Blosoom dancing once.
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 I think that might have been a promo when the show came on, but it wasn't a spinoff to my knowledge. NBC used to do promos crossing shows all the time back in the day to help promote new programs. I remember a series of Quantum Leap promos where Sam leaped into various NBC shows (including Betty White of the Golden Girls) to promote the show it's first season. I also remember a Fresh Prince promo where Will goes into a fancy restaurant and winds up getting a table with Jed Clampett.
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