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Boy, for surreal, mind-blowing, what-the-fuck-were-they-thinking weirdness nothing tops the BBVH. I urge anyone who’s never seen this thing to do so post-haste. Along with the Star Wars Christmas Special, it’s the standard to which I compare any desperately wrongheaded quick-buck entertainment. The Simpsons of course did a great parody of this in the “Spin-off Showcase” episode, but nothing beats the real thing.
You can see Robert Reed almost willing himself to disappear onstage. I just want to see the development meetings that led to this series. Who knew Bruce Vilanch weilded so much awesome power…
July 28, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Boy, for surreal, mind-blowing, what-the-fuck-were-they-thinking weirdness nothing tops the BBVH. I urge anyone who’s never seen this thing to do so post-haste. Along with the Star Wars Christmas Special, it’s the standard to which I compare any desperately wrongheaded quick-buck entertainment. The Simpsons of course did a great parody of this in the “Spin-off Showcase” episode, but nothing beats the real thing.
July 28, 2010 at 5:50 pm
You can see Robert Reed almost willing himself to disappear onstage. I just want to see the development meetings that led to this series. Who knew Bruce Vilanch weilded so much awesome power…
July 28, 2010 at 6:35 pm
oh. my. god.
(cringing too much to make it all the way thru, genuinely horrifying. those poor souls)
i’m a ‘partridge family’ girl all the way, the brady bunch made me want to throw up in my mouth a little, even as a kid
July 29, 2010 at 11:06 am
I think I blocked this show out of my mind. I always found 70′s variety shows the height of cheap tacky show biz horror. I had to leave the room.
July 30, 2010 at 9:33 pm
What about those suits?
* faint *
August 1, 2010 at 10:13 am
That’s what Robert Reed was thinking.
August 1, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Good comeback! Bravo * bows *