Word: sitcomic
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...times, Wilkins sounds like a Pollyannaish sitcom mom, regaling readers with the pleasures of life without TV. It might just be that many TV-liberated adults would fail to make profitable use of their new free hours and indeed find life unendurably dull without their daily electronic fix. Released from the video cocoon, children will not necessarily emerge as articulate and considerate, scoring perfect 800s on their SATs. In fact, television in small doses may enhance learning and understanding. A study conducted by the California state department of education revealed that although students who watched The Dukes of Hazzard scored...
...those who can't wait for Porky's 2, the requisite Nude Dancing at a Wild Party scene. This devious comic contraption is set in motion by a husband (Bartel) and wife (Mary Woronov) so decent and affectionate that they could star in their own sitcom. They have dreams no grander than to open a gourmet restaurant called Chez Bland-and the willingness to kill a gaggle of Los Angeles swingers in order to finance their scheme...
...neat magazines and newspapers, not to mention major cool calendars, coloring books, beach towels, T shirts and lapel buttons. Two books on the Valley Girl's way of life are to be published in the next few weeks. CBS's fall lineup even has a sitcom called Square Pegs featuring...
...Southern California suburb. When he confronts the fugitive, the youth is disappointed by the old man's accent: "It didn't sound . . . well, authentic. Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes sounded more like a Nazi than Dussander did." Perhaps a teen-ager might find a TV sitcom more vividly real than a phenome non that predated his birth. But members of his immediate family are judged in the same way: "Dick Bowden, Todd's father, looked remarkably like a movie and TV actor named Lloyd Bochner." When Todd finds himself in a dilemma, he mentally goes...
...script co-authored by a man named Babaloo Mandel can be without its patches of agreeable whimsy. But Ron Howard, who has been acting in sitcoms (The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days) for most of his 28 years, should know more about shaping comic characters, situations and moods than he shows here. Winkler, the Fonz on Happy Days, is pleasantly put-upon here; Michael Keaton, also from TV, is mildly manic; and Shelley Long so resembles Pam Dawber in her squeaky cuteness that one wonders why the producers didn't raid Mork and Mindy for the real thing. Sitcom...