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1. Nell Carter played sassy nanny Nell Harper on the NBC sitcom "Gimme a Break". Do you remember what Nell was looking for in the opening theme song?
2. One of the worst sitcoms ever (which means, of course, that I watched it with a religious fervor normally saved for the second coming) was "Small Wonder" - about a family raising a robot as their daughter so as not to arouse the suspicions of the world in general (the world in general being very afraid at the time - this would be the mid to late '80s - of robot daughters). In short, it sucked. But I know I'm not alone. Go ahead and pull from the muck that is the remnants of your brain and complete this song lyric: "She's a miracle, and I grant you, she'll _______ you at first sight."
3. This series had a five-year-old boy in the body of a grown man and a theme song sung by Canadian chanteuse (don't make that face; look it up) Jane Siberry. What is it?
4. I once got my mouth rinsed out with Palmolive soap for telling my mom to "Kiss my Grits!" And then she made me eat some grits to further show me the error of my ways. "Alice" - when I was 8 - was brilliant and funny and I couldn't get enough of Flo. "Alice", now I am an adult, makes me mildly uncomfortable and a little protective of Vera, who I am sure was given frequent off-screen beatings by Mel. With that in mind, fill in this blank: "_______ ______ for nothing was my favorite sport."
5. I hate "The Andy Griffith Show". My grandma would make me watch it and it nearly led me to murder. I hated Aunt Bea. I hated Barney Fife. And I really was hoping that the little sleepy town of Mayberry would be visited by a serial killer or some kind of horrible pestilence. Of course, it never happened. Did the original song have lyrics? And if so, what were they?
6. Fat Englishmen in suburbia are always funny. That's why "Mr. Belvedere" stayed on the air for so long. We just couldn't get enough of watching a fat Englishman in suburbia. Which is why maybe forced sterilization based on television viewing may not be a bad idea. "Streaks on the china never mattered before. Who cares? When you drop kicked your ______ as you came through the door, no one glared."
7. Marla Gibbs was funny when she was the Jefferson's sassy maid. She became a menace to society when she introduced the world to the comedic stylings of Jackee. "227" smells worse than 227 never-washed gym socks. But can I forget the theme song? Nope. Can you? "When you know that you're loved ___ ____ ____ __ ____."
8. The funniest episode of "Bosom Buddies" involved either "Buffy" or "Hildie" pretending to be dead to avoid the amorous advances of a janitor at the womens' hotel. There was also a funeral with a puppet show. Instead of remembering trig, I remember this. Who wrote the theme song?
9. I hate science fiction. I hate "Star Trek". Who sang the theme (which was never actually broadcast)?
10. "My Two Dads". Three scarier words have never been uttered, I think. And yet, there they are. And they make up the title of a dreadful sitcom from 1987 until 1990. Like most shows that have run out of ideas, this one brought in a has-been "special guest star" to sing the theme song on one of the wretched episodes. Who was that special guest star?
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Hazel Motes
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