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Too bad TV Land doesnt add soaps to their schedule. Wouldnt that be so much fun. Classic 80's soaps.

Jane Lynch: "I'm giving an award to Welcome Back Kotter for their 35th anniversary since they were on television in 1974."

Somebody can't do math and didn't do their research.

That housewives montage was pointless...they had like seven or eight shows thrown in there and that's it. Not even a June Cleaver.

Come on sing...She's gone.....

Welcome Back Kotter was one of my least favorite comedies...That said..I need to get season 1 on dvd..and the favorites one too..lol

Ellen Travolta just made people think that Ron Pallilo is dead.

The WBK cast was the most enjoyable, followed by FOL. Family Ties and Cosby Show were too cringe-worthy for me.

Is it just me or has Ellen Travolta morphed into Charlotte Rae?

What do Hall & Oates have to do with television awards? I thought they were going to play at the end the way other bands have done. Half the audience was dancing, the other half had this look on their faces like "who the heck are these guys and when is this over???"

The audience looked like it was made up of people who had never attended the TV Land Awards before and the regulars were all MIA.

I miss when they used to honor more shows, characters and performers with those silly tv dinner awards.

Guess Robert H never cut his hair. Marcia Strassman, otoh, looked fantastic. They forgot to mention the late Debralee Scott.

What was the point of the Cindy Brady lisp "film"? I thought Susan Olsen was going to pop up or something.

Well, back to Antenna TV now.

Edited April 18, 201114 yr by applcin

EW NO. I hate you SFK. Hatchu. You're bringing your own p'tata salad to the homegoing celebration.

I can't breathe!

Whewww, between you and Soapsud's pic, wow. Thank y'all, I needed that laugh. Me and my dad are here, we were eating this show up, Puerto Rican Jew dude from Kotter, oof, now there is a story to be told.

Okay, I thought Ellen Travolta was everyone from Rhea Perlman to Frau Farbissina offa Austin Powers.

Liza still getting invited to stuff is precisely why reality TV is what it is today.

What was the point of the Cindy Brady lisp "film"? I thought Susan Olsen was going to pop up or something.

I think that was supposed to be the big spoof that they do every year. They used to spoof the Future Classic TV show by using appropriate classic TV stars. For the Grey's Anatomy spoof, they had people who played doctors and nurses like Diahann Carroll, Chad Everett, Richard Chamberlain, Leonard Nimoy, and I think Bernie Kopell. For the Desperate Housewives one (which I think was the first), they had Marion Ross, Abe Vigoda, and others. For Ugly Betty, they did Ugly Betty White, etc.

I wish they had thrown a mention at Debralee Scott, too, as well as John Sylvester White (maybe they did and I missed it, though) and Vernee Watson. It would have been hilarious and awkward if they'd had the guy who played Barbarino's replacement up there with them!

Okay, I thought Ellen Travolta was everyone from Rhea Perlman to Frau Farbissina offa Austin Powers.

Ellen Travolta was all right! I love seeing random faces like hers pop up. Her and Marcia Wallace must have the same evil hairdresser, though.

I.FORGOT.ABOUT.IT. </3

Don't worry, they will replay it all this week, they always do. Hell, they are probably replaying it as we speak.

The Facts of Life tribute was surprisingly touching and captured a lot of what is true but not mentioned very often - that the show was derided and it was always fan support and popularity which kept it going (even if the show has not aired anywhere in years), and that the show was created for Charlotte Rae and her strength was a major factor in the show's success. I also thought it was classy of Cloris Leachman to say little, and keep the focus on Charlotte.

I wish the first season girls had been there.

They all looked good, better than they did in the photo I saw of one of their interviews.

I just wish I knew nothing about Lisa Whelchel, as she was always my favorite character.

I had to laugh at Baba Wawa walking out after a piece on speech impediments.

Edited April 18, 201114 yr by CarlD2

I know Brian Bonsall has had all sorts of problems, but what about the guy who played Mallory's boyfriend?

The NY Housewives had no screen presence and seemed to be shouting all their lines woodenly...

Edited April 18, 201114 yr by CarlD2

Is Ron Pallilo ill? I actually thought he was dead, based on how they were speaking, so I had to look it up.

Seeing Lawrence Hilton Jacobs makes me wish they'd do a tribute to Alien Nation.

Ellen Travolta being there was kind of random.

Marcia Strassman was always my favorite part of Welcome Back Kotter, and she still looks great!

Overall the show seemed empty to me, but then TV Land doesn't have a lot of classic shows now. But I'll take empty over too much of the smugness and faux-cleverness of some previous years.

The awards show will never be as good as it was in the first years when classic shows abound. The first year was a salute to Dick Van Dyke and they brought out Gloria and Meathead, Laverne and Shirley and so many others to sing classic themes. Now they trot out reality stars. Still, it was great to see Joyce Randolph.

I liked the salute to Family Ties the most. The Kotter reunion made me sad because Epstein has turned into an old, broken down hobbit with a cane. I didn't understand why Hall and Oates were featured, was there a TV show I am forgetting?

The TV Icon thing for Hall and Oates was so ridiculous. And they drained any life out of Rich Girl. Aside from some of the camera whore "reality" stars, a lot of the audience seemed too bewildered to dance around to that mess.