A Girl Named Sue (8.7)
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Turf roller scene was hilarious, even though it objectively makes very little sense and you can see the set up coming a mile away. I still enjoy it!
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Re: A Girl Named Sue (8.7)
Meh... I could do without this one. Not a Burnett fan at all.
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I was a Carol Burnett Show fan (syndicated "& Friends" skit show anyway) back in the 80's, but I concur on her as a guest on the show. Kind of a throw away episode in some ways. The previous one was marginally better, but still clunky by the show's typical standards.brianw wrote:Meh... I could do without this one. Not a Burnett fan at all.
It still surprises me that a show that had such quality (in so many ways) could really make some uninspiring decisions too. Hindsight may be 20/20, but the contrast in decision-making seems incompatible.
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Kevster wrote:I was a Carol Burnett Show fan (syndicated "& Friends" skit show anyway) back in the 80's, but I concur on her as a guest on the show. Kind of a throw away episode in some ways. The previous one was marginally better, but still clunky by the show's typical standards.brianw wrote:Meh... I could do without this one. Not a Burnett fan at all.
It still surprises me that a show that had such quality (in so many ways) could really make some uninspiring decisions too. Hindsight may be 20/20, but the contrast in decision-making seems incompatible.
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I agree with you it was a bad episode! And no I have never seen a carol burnett that I likedJay-Firestorm wrote:Phew – I didn’t like this one and thought I was going to be in a small minority, but it seems this one didn’t go down that well with most other members either.
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Magnum is hired by a woman to find the missing will of her late father, recently killed in a boating accident. But he finds himself working against Susan Johnson, now a P.I. herself, who has been hired by the girl’s brother, in a family feud. Annoying…
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As soon as I saw the opening trailer for this episode, I instantly knew I wasn’t going to enjoy it. And how right I was!
The episode opens vaguely amusingly with Magnum trying to avoid a subpoena over an incident he has witnessed. However, this potentially enjoyable idea (it could have at least rounded out the final story as a b-plot) is soon forgotten as the main story gets underway.
Carol Burnett returns as Susan Johnson, first seen in the fourth season episode ‘Rembrandt’s Girl’. We find that since that appearance, Susan has become a trainee Private Investigator. As I said with my review of ‘Rembrandt’s Girl’, not being American, I wasn’t really sure who Carol Burnett is (until I read up on her), but I found her rather annoying in ‘Rembrandt’, and here, I find her downright terrible!
I’m sure Burnett can be funny with the right material (I’ve never seen any of her other work, so I can’t compare), but in this episode all she seems to do is talk loudly and wave her arms a lot and pull silly faces.
Even beyond Burnett, I find the whole plot of this episode uninteresting. Although there are some good episodes in the eighth, final season, often when watching them I can’t help but wish that they would stop going for so many half-hearted plots and give Magnum a case that both he, and us the viewers, can really get our teeth into.
Not much more to say on this one. I find it very annoying (mostly due to Carol Burnett, I’m afraid), and as such, it is one of my least watched episodes – I hadn’t seen it in YEARS until I came to review it – and it hasn’t got any better with age! I’d say this is the weakest episode of the final season.
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Other notes, bloopers and misc.:
* On the DVD version, listen carefully to the opening theme, around the spot where Larry Manetti’s credit comes up – the music ‘slips’ and goes wobbly for a moment. (I haven’t had time to check my broadcast version yet to see if it does the same thing).
* Another episode presumably produced before Pete Carpenter’s death, as it again credits both Mike Post and Carpenter as scoring the episode.
* Rick only appears in one scene in this episode, at the Club near the beginning.
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I always thought Tim Conway and Harvey Korman were a lot funnier that Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence. Vicki Lawrence is pretty good in the new show "Kool Kids" but she has great support in her co-stars.ez14. wrote:I agree with you it was a bad episode! And no I have never seen a carol burnett that I likedJay-Firestorm wrote:Phew – I didn’t like this one and thought I was going to be in a small minority, but it seems this one didn’t go down that well with most other members either.
[rating=6.0]
Magnum is hired by a woman to find the missing will of her late father, recently killed in a boating accident. But he finds himself working against Susan Johnson, now a P.I. herself, who has been hired by the girl’s brother, in a family feud. Annoying…
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As soon as I saw the opening trailer for this episode, I instantly knew I wasn’t going to enjoy it. And how right I was!
The episode opens vaguely amusingly with Magnum trying to avoid a subpoena over an incident he has witnessed. However, this potentially enjoyable idea (it could have at least rounded out the final story as a b-plot) is soon forgotten as the main story gets underway.
Carol Burnett returns as Susan Johnson, first seen in the fourth season episode ‘Rembrandt’s Girl’. We find that since that appearance, Susan has become a trainee Private Investigator. As I said with my review of ‘Rembrandt’s Girl’, not being American, I wasn’t really sure who Carol Burnett is (until I read up on her), but I found her rather annoying in ‘Rembrandt’, and here, I find her downright terrible!
I’m sure Burnett can be funny with the right material (I’ve never seen any of her other work, so I can’t compare), but in this episode all she seems to do is talk loudly and wave her arms a lot and pull silly faces.
Even beyond Burnett, I find the whole plot of this episode uninteresting. Although there are some good episodes in the eighth, final season, often when watching them I can’t help but wish that they would stop going for so many half-hearted plots and give Magnum a case that both he, and us the viewers, can really get our teeth into.
Not much more to say on this one. I find it very annoying (mostly due to Carol Burnett, I’m afraid), and as such, it is one of my least watched episodes – I hadn’t seen it in YEARS until I came to review it – and it hasn’t got any better with age! I’d say this is the weakest episode of the final season.
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Other notes, bloopers and misc.:
* On the DVD version, listen carefully to the opening theme, around the spot where Larry Manetti’s credit comes up – the music ‘slips’ and goes wobbly for a moment. (I haven’t had time to check my broadcast version yet to see if it does the same thing).
* Another episode presumably produced before Pete Carpenter’s death, as it again credits both Mike Post and Carpenter as scoring the episode.
* Rick only appears in one scene in this episode, at the Club near the beginning.
Re: A Girl Named Sue (8.7)
Surprised nobody has mentioned when the father who faked his own death says its interesting walking around after everyone thinks you're dead to see how everyone behaves. Clearly Magnum can relate to this, after the events of "Infinity & Jelly Doughnuts" !! Great moment there.
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I do not like the episodes with Carol Burnett...too campy. This one was especially bad with the plastic trench coats and knock-off Remington Steele investigator kit. Dopey.
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This is another episode I’m seeing for the first time and after a gut load of Baldwin in the previous episode I was quite easy to please.
Yes the plot looked a bit rehashed from time to time ( I still liked the thinking out loud from both PI’s while working on the case, namely “I know what you’re thinking…” from CB then TM) and a lot of all round goofiness but I had a chuckle and did find Shelly Smith pleasing to the eye - particularly in her final scene.
Yes the plot looked a bit rehashed from time to time ( I still liked the thinking out loud from both PI’s while working on the case, namely “I know what you’re thinking…” from CB then TM) and a lot of all round goofiness but I had a chuckle and did find Shelly Smith pleasing to the eye - particularly in her final scene.