Happy Days - Friends

I love Friends, I can’t believe it’s been 8 years since it went off the air. And now I feel really old.
I was just watching “The One Hundredth” episode, where Phoebe has the triplets; her doctor is a Fonzie/Happy Days fanatic.

I never watched Happy Days though; Friends talks about that show a lot so I looked up its air dates.

This episode aired in 1998, 14 years ago. At that time, it was 14 years after the ending of Happy Days (1984).

It always seemed that Happy Days was such an old show, so to realize this makes me feel old! No wonder it's on Nick At Night now...

I also noticed that Happy Days began in 1974, ended 10 years later in 1984. Friends debuted 10 years after HD ended, in 1994 and also lasted 10 years, till 2004. I never knew that; I think that’s pretty cool!

Mad About Lisa

I’ve been (re?)watching the ‘90s NBC show MAD ABOUT YOU. Why? Because I wanted to see Lisa Kudrow’s Ursula Buffet portrayed on its original show.

What I’ve found is this show is like a time capsule full of interesting 20 year old gems!

For starters, Ursula wasn’t the only character Lisa played on that show. She was actually the last bad date ‘Paul’ had before beginning a relationship with Jamie, his wife.

Plus, Lisa was a brunette! See:

I’ve also seen Steve Buscemi be a lowly toll both operator, according to IMDB “Before Buscemi began acting, he tried his hand at doing standup. One night he bombed so badly that another comic had to take his place. That comic was Reiser and the episode pokes fun at the incident.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103484/trivia?tab=tr&item=tr0659805

How ironic, given that now he’s a very successful actor (SOPRANOS and BOARDWALK EMPIRE!! Plus I absolutely love him in CON AIR and AIRHEADS, even though most people hate those movies).

Plus it’s cool to see how vital Jerry Lewis and Regis Philbin were, given that they both retired this year.

I just finished the Season 1 DVDs; I’m hoping I’ll find more gems as I finish the series.