The Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Challenge!

@sammydog01 I’m not sure! A google search said it’s available on Sony’s YouTube channel, but I couldn’t find it using my phone. I have the series boxed set, but I can’t remember if it has Forever Fernwood and it definitely doesn’t have Fernwood 2 Nite. I hope it’s all on YouTube, because a group watch would be super fun!

@Pavlov Here’s the image you requested for “a madman shooting two goats and eight chickens”

@mediocrebot @Pavlov Geez. I preferred it when the bot rejected violence.

@Kyeh @mediocrebot @Pavlov It looks like that particular madman is protecting the sheep and goats who are under attack.

@mediocrebot @mossygreen @Pavlov
It does, I guess. I’m still shocked at the gore.

@Kyeh @mossygreen @Pavlov I wouldn’t give the bot too much credit for using correct perspective. And, on a side note, it looks like David Arquette really let himself go!

@ircon96 @Kyeh @mossygreen @Pavlov I thought Mad Max (Mel Gibson) when I first saw the image.
Looks like the hen in the middle ducked at the right time.

@Kyeh @mossygreen @Pavlov @phendrick “Ducked” … Yeah, that poor girl is like, What the cluck…?!

@phendrick Here’s the image you requested for “a kitchen floor with a yellow waxy buildup.”

@mediocrebot that buildup was a letdown

@Pavlov Here’s the image you requested for “a mass murderer with a chicken and a goat riding a train to heaven”

@mediocrebot @Pavlov Missing a negligee from Frederick’s.

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@pakopako 325, plus a sequel and summer replacements. In that way, the exact opposite of a British series.

@pakopako OF COURSE, Norman Lear was known for retooling British sitcoms for the US market, so while I don’t know how much he had to do with the actual nuts and bolts of creating the series, it makes sense that there’d be some UK dna in there.

@mossygreen @pakopako The US version of The Office is SO MUCH better that the English one! Same thing for the show Ghosts.

@mossygreen @pakopako @therealjrn Love the US version of Ghosts and was sooooo disappointed with the UK one.

“I’m sure you were very attractive.”

“Really? What do you think happened to me?”

/showme an attractive young girl drinking from a water fountain with water going up her nose

@Pavlov Here’s the image you requested for “an attractive young girl drinking from a water fountain with water going up her nose”

@Pavlov Thanks, I was just about to post this! It looks like they have a lot of the episodes. There’s a guy on YouTube who streamed reaction videos of the whole series but didn’t show the actual episodes until episode 60. I haven’t checked them out yet to see if the viewing experience is enhanced by a middle-aged Asian man smiling in the lower left corner. I’m kind of hoping it is.

@Pavlov Here’s the image you requested for “a breakfast cereal endorsed by Billie Jean King”

@Pavlov Does Fernwood even HAVE a House of Pancakes?

@mossygreen Sgt. Foley’s caress of Mary’s cheek was almost unbearably erotic.

@mossygreen IMDB description:
S1.E5 ∙ Episode #1.5
Fri, Jan 9, 1976
Word begins to spread that Heather is a suspect in the murder investigation; Cathy gets fired; Mary receives a threatening phone call.

@mossygreen
Where’s your couch?
You see, I work for the county and they won’t buy me one.

@mossygreen IMDB description:
S1.E6 ∙ Episode #1.6
Mon, Jan 12, 1976
Mary musters the courage to check out sex books from the library; Grampa Larkin visits psychiatric social worker Roberta Wolashek; a strange man follows Heather home from school.

@therealjrn I don’t think they’re going anywhere, but the original airdates won’t match after February because 1976 was a leap year.

@mossygreen You ever kill anyone?

@mossygreen That cop should adopt Heather.

@sammydog01 He’s such a calm, nonjudgmental character.

@mossygreen Thrilling star sighting: Carole White as Nurse Pudney, who will always be Big Rosie Greenbaum from Laverne & Shirley to me.

@mossygreen They mentioned inflation. 1976 was wild.

@sammydog01 The whole decade was insane. There’s a reason both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Rockford Files had opening credit images of the lead ruefully buying meat.

@mossygreen
/showme Ed Begley Jr as a deaf mute

@therealjrn Here’s the image you requested for “Ed Begley Jr as a deaf mute”

@mediocrebot I should of asked for a young Ed Begley Jr.

@mediocrebot @therealjrn It’s a good first try.

@phaedrusnyc There are audio files of the first 51 episodes here: https://archive.org/details/forever-fernwood-392-1978-01-03
I can’t find anything else either.

@Pavlov @phaedrusnyc Ah. Well. I’ll keep on going until we run out of episodes and/or I lose interest. We’ve got a year and a half here, anything could happen (but probably won’t).

@Pavlov Well, that’s something, and I wouldn’t have known otherwise, so thanks!

@mossygreen @Pavlov It’s a fun show but I need to take long breaks in between so I can watch anything else. I do five a week for a month at a time and then come back a few months later. They do tend to get repetitive due to the daily soap opera format.

@mossygreen Lets see what YouTube does…
/youtube George Furth

@therealjrn The music got very dramatic at the end.