Favorite Episode…?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — WKRP in Cincinnati
tagster — 20 years ago(March 19, 2006 12:23 PM)
Mine is 'The Consultant,' where Mama Carlson hires a consultant (David Clennon - or 'Miles Drentell' to those who loved 'thirtysomething') to observe the station and report back to her about changes that needed to be made. The crew back at the station decides to make the consultant look like an idiot to Mama Carlson by having everyone behave in a manner exactly opposite to their true personality, thereby ruining the credibility of the consultant. So, Herb was dressed tastefully, and was all-business Bailey was an airhead ('n-e-s-t-l-e-s make the very best..chocccccc-late!'), there was racial unrest between Johnny and Venus (the consultant happened upon them in the hall, and Venus had Johnny by throat, against a wall, and waved a switchblade at him, like 'I'll get you later, Johnny').
Other favorites are: 'Fish Story' and the one where Les drops the turkeys from the heliocopter.
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RipCity — 20 years ago(March 21, 2006 07:54 PM)
The turkey episode, by far. BTW, it's Carlson and Herb who drop the turkeys from the helicopter, Les is reporting it from the ground, in a great Hindenberg take-off.
Carlson's final line, 'As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly', is one of my all-time favorite tv comedy moments.
Veni, vidi, vermicelli
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tagster — 20 years ago(March 22, 2006 12:16 AM)
Ahhhhh! I got it into my head it was Les it's been a while since I've seen this one. Thanks for the clarification. My family still quotes the 'As God is my witness' line every Thanksgiving!
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goleafs84 — 20 years ago(March 30, 2006 01:43 AM)
There have been many favorite episodes. "Turkey's Away was great and others that stick out in my mind:
"A commercial Break" The WKRP staff writes the jingle, and produces a radio commercial for Ferryman's Funeral Home. I love the lyrics:
Hey, you're young and swingin'
No time to think about tommorow
But someday, you can't deny it
Someday you're gonna buy it
Ferryman, Ferryman, He's the man with the plan
A man you can trust; Ferryman, Ferryman.
Ubnfortunatley, that's all I can remember, since it's been years since I've seen it. Anybody else remember it??? And it ends with thwm singing, "bye bye".
"Real Families" Another one of my favoeites. ait didn't seem like a typical episode, since they were making it look like Real Families, is an actual show.
If I remember correctly, the turkeys from the "Turkeys away" episode comes backs and haunts Herb in this episode and when they talk about the dancing ducks Herb set up at business storefront and the ASPCA guy describes the ducks jitterbugging and how the ducks did it can have me on the ground rollling. -
Sam_Owens — 20 years ago(April 01, 2006 09:05 PM)
I like the one where they come up with an idea for a contestA money giveaway and the cram five songs that no one would ever guess into a really short montage and someone almost guesses it on the first try..Can't recall much more but I think someone guessed it.
The turkey episode is great and I like when Jennifer moved into her house and the piano gets away.
I always thought the shows title kept it from being a bigger hit. It was too much like crap of course and 1978 was a different time. Today with a title like that it would have got more attention cause pop culture is such trash these days -
thompsontrash — 17 years ago(May 23, 2008 08:58 PM)
the same guy who lived below monica and rachael onfriends in the first couple of episodes of friends played the guy who tried to steel the the prize money but "knew less about music than" you 'herb & carlson'
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PeaceChild — 19 years ago(August 12, 2006 01:05 PM)
The jingle goes:
Hey, you're young and swingin'
No time to think about tomorrow
But there ain't no way to deny it
Someday, you're gonna buy it
Plan today for a Ferryman tomorrow
Ferryman, Ferryman
He's the man with the plot, the man with the plan
Ferryman, Ferryman
He's the mortician man who loves you a lot
Oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh
Bye bye
LOL, and that's off the top of my head.
You can find the jingle (and the second version Herb used to land the Morrison Tire Company account) on this site with lots of other sound clips. Near the bottom of the page.
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goldfish77 — 15 years ago(January 27, 2011 08:11 PM)
The jingle goes:
Hey, you're young and swingin'
No time to think about tomorrow
But there ain't no way to deny it
Someday, you're gonna buy it
Plan today for a Ferryman tomorrow
Ferryman, Ferryman
He's the man with the plot, the man with the plan
Ferryman, Ferryman
He's the mortician man who loves you a lot
Oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh
Bye bye
LOL, and that's off the top of my head.
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efs2 — 15 years ago(January 30, 2011 11:39 AM)
The Ferryman jingle is genius. You can hear it at the link below:
http://www.littleshopofvoices.com/ferryman.wav
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kristinaknight — 10 years ago(August 14, 2015 06:03 PM)
I can't tell you how many times, random time during the day, that jingle pops into my head.
The only line that you didn't write down that I can remember is a take off on "the man with the plan""he's the man with the plot, the man with the plan"
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yingeryang — 19 years ago(December 29, 2006 09:41 PM)
Turkey's Away- without a doubt.
Besides the 'As god is my witness, I.." the other great line includes:
Les: (with apologies to the Hindenberg) They're hitting the ground like bags of wet cement.. Oh the humanity of it.."""
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jeff_the_dj — 16 years ago(October 07, 2009 05:46 PM)
Wow! I can't believe only a few people have named Tornado as they're favorite! I've seen all 90 Episodes and think Tornado is the best!!! It has comedy and it has drama (with the little girl on the phone who's home alone) it's a very good episode!! LOL
WKRP is truly one of the best sitcoms of all time!
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Inky_Binky — 20 years ago(April 04, 2006 11:06 PM)
"Turkeys Away" is my favorite too. Another favorite that had me laughing hard was "An Explosive Affair (Part 1 & 2). This is the episode where the radio station gets a bomb threat from a terrorist group, forcing Johnny and Venus to broadcast their show safely from a transmitter. What I loved about this episode was Johnny's paranoia that the "Phone Cops" was out to get him. lol.
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tagster — 19 years ago(April 06, 2006 06:31 AM)
I also liked the one where some scummy photographer took naked pictures of Jennifer when she was changing clothes and Johnny and Bailey ('Ginger Grigg') had to go get the photos back.
I loved the interactions between Mama Carlson and her butler Hersh.
I always laugh when I hear 'Chances Are' by Johnny Mathis, because in the one where Les takes Jennifer out, and they end up at his place, he asks her if she would like to hear a record and he goes over to his turntable, and there's a big wire record rack with only 'a record' in it. and his one record was Johnny Mathis.
Some memorable quotes:
'Soap you can see through!'
Q: 'Where do these stairs lead?' A:'Up.'
'Community Green Belt'
'Silver Sow Award'
'attle-minded and obtuse'
'He's a hard worker, loyal family man, and all-around great guy!'
'Disco is.'
AND, I totally remember that funeral home episode, and the 'Hey! You're young and swingin' - no time to think about tomorrow' song.
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StevenMars — 19 years ago(May 02, 2006 04:41 PM)
Wow! You guys are amazing. It's been a quarter of a century since many of those episodes aired and you remember them in greater detail than I would have thought possible.
I had the great fortune of working on the show and writing some of the episodes you've talked about hereAn Explosive Affair and Filthy Pictures. (How do you know the titles since we never broadcast them?)
It's really too bad that there will never be a legal DVD collection because of the music rights issue. There would be a real demand for it, I believe. Notice I said a "legal" collection because there are bootleg ones all over e-Bay. No residuals for us in those, but at least people can still see the show.
Thanks for the memories!