Re: It Got By The Censor/In Jokes
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:16 am
Loved your Ankara story. Gotta be careful with them easter eggs.Luther's nephew Dobie wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:00 amZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan) wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 5:56 amI hope you didn't get this in-joke from another one of your in-laws. I hope this one's legit.Luther's nephew Dobie wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 5:37 am In the tongue in cheek, season 12 Bonanza episode "The Trouble With Trouble", Hoss is pinch hitting as sheriff in the rough and tumble town of Trouble, California.
At one point his deputy is sitting at his desk and on the wall behind him is a wanted poster:
REWARD $2000
WANTED FOR MAIL ROBBERY
BRONCO LAYNE
The outlaw pictured on the poster is of course actor Ty Hardin, from the Warner Brothers Western "Bronco".
Many Westerns on TV and in the movies had joke Wanted posters featuring writers or directors, family members, actors from competing TV series or even baseball players from the Dodgers.
This episode premiered on October 25, 1970 when Dan Blocker was 42 years old. Tragically he had only 17 more months to live, dying on May 13, 1972 from complications after gallbladder surgery.
Going by Hollywood "Q Scores", at the time of his death Blocker was among the most beloved actors ever as Bonanza had become more than a TV series, a veritable cultural touchstone that was shown
in scores of countries around the world.
Not to worry Ivan. I saw the episode myself tonight and spotted the Wanted poster with Bronco Layne. I always note any kind of list of names, signs in windows, wanted posters etc. as the set
designers put them there for a reason, it isn't random.
99% of the time it's just dressing for what the set is supposed to be but then you have, as in any workplace people who joke around and do things to amuse each other and the cast.
If I worked on a TV series and was told to make up a list of names of international men of mystery who are catnip for the ladies, for Tom Selleck to read out loud as possible suspects,
why not put Ivan and Pahonu at the top, as well as Doc Ibold. Who else, after all?
As for verifying the information I post here almost all are items I found myself. I don't fully trust imdh, I have found quite a number of errors there over the years.
When I watch the Hawaiian Eye episodes, the beguiling Connie Stevens will sing a song as she does in most every episode and if I don't know it's title I look it up on imdh.
A few times they cited the wrong song title.
There used to be a site online about 20 years ago where people traded "easter eggs" and in jokes and such, but I left as it started getting deeply weird.
One of them, from Turkey, noted that if you used the frame by frame advance on your VCR tape, on a specific episode of McHales Navy where Captain Binghampton is in his shorts,
his John Thomas makes an unbilled appearance. Okayyyy.
They must have a lot of time on their hands in Ankara, I think I will scratch Turkey from my bucket list.
"I could just scream"...Captain Wallace Binghampton(Joe Flynn)
I don't blame you Wally.