Members ChitHappens Posted November 22, 2012 Members Share Posted November 22, 2012 OMG! That was absolutely hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted November 22, 2012 Members Share Posted November 22, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab9plpNU3tE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted November 22, 2012 Members Share Posted November 22, 2012 LMAO! Ned The Whino? Woodrow? Same character, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted November 22, 2012 Author Members Share Posted November 22, 2012 Basically! He is a perfect example of an actor playing the exact same character but with two different names.on two different shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members VirginiaHamilton Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 My issue with the new class (save for Gina, who the writers cared enough about to flesh out beyond the fun-loving and partyhopping chick who debuted in Season 4) was the fact that they were stock renditions of better characters are taken too far in a certain direction. I found Dorian to be a bootleg version of Dwayne without the humor that the latter character had, while Terrell was a bootleg version of Ron (who I never liked). While I did like Lena in Season 5 (and still have a special place in my heart for Jada because of that role, as well as the burgeoning movie career that she sadly set aside to be Mrs. Will Smith), I thought that the writers reinvented her as a Sister Souljah stereotype to the detriment of whatever natural growth the character could've had. Charmaine was my favorite of Pam's gang of friends on The Cosby Show (I seem to be the only one who not only liked the later seasons, but appreciated the kids from the hood) and I hated how the ADW writers turned her into a screeching stereotype. On the subject of the original gang, while I agree that Season 1 was a mess in part because of Denise Huxtable being such an unengaging lead (as opposed to Whitley from Season 2 on forward), I loved her character in general because she was the first Black female character of her kind (an artsy chick who wanted to 'discover the world' and wasn't afraid of falling flat on her face while figuring things out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Damn. Sister Souljah has entered the building. Haven't heard of or thought about her since I was a kid watching talk shows in the mid 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Didn't Sister Souljah make a cameo appearance in "Honeymoon in L.A."? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Echoing what I've said before, VH, I definitely can see where you're coming from on all counts. Meanwhile, I'm surprised no one has brought up the episode S6 (of ADW) where Tupac played Lena's ex-boyfriend from the 'hood. Do y'all think that ep qualifies as a VSE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 I liked Pam and her friends. I have a certain limit for the amount of cute kids and Bill Cosby funny faces, and some of the relationships started to push my buttons in a bad way (like Sandra/Elvin, which seemed to become some marathon of, "Let's point out how unenlightened Elvin really is"). I guess I could see where Pam felt grafted onto the show, but I didn't mind a new perspective and I thought Erika Alexander did well enough with the role. I mostly missed Denise. Vanessa was so high-strung and as she got more airtime I missed seeing Denise as some type of balance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 The Family Ties episode you are talking about is yes... where Tom Hanks plays elyse's brother, and he has a really big drinking problem, they remove all the liquor from the house to help him sober up, and he gets desperate and downs a whole bottle of vanilla extract. I'll never forget watching that, as I watched it at the Sears store in Columbia, Mo... when I was on a field trip for FFA state contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 (Edit) found the eppy in one piece instead of 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members London Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Oh.... was she the one that was taking Whitley to Church with her comments regarding the riots? Well.... the more you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted November 24, 2012 Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 Nell Carter was mentioned earlier in this thread... and words can't describe how much I adore that woman. Such comedic timing, just incredible talent in so many arenas. And Gimme A Break was my favorite show as a teenager, but I got to say... did anyone else find this episode disturbing as hell? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM8DLIeCJsI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted November 24, 2012 Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 No idea, but Roseanne and Tom Arnold did. I guess it was the Carsey-Werner connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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