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OK fellow sitcomers, here's a fun little topic to lighten the mood a bit.
Who's your favorite tv show character(s) that we (the viewer) never actually got to meet?
Here's my top 3
Marris - Niles' wife in Frasier
Mrs Columbo
Vera - Norm's wife in Cheers.
Sure I'll think of more, what about you?
J
Anthony33
10-19-2006, 02:44 AM
OK fellow sitcomers, here's a fun little topic to lighten the mood a bit.
Who's your favorite tv show character(s) that we (the viewer) never actually got to meet?
Here's my top 3
Marris - Niles' wife in Frasier
Mrs Columbo
Vera - Norm's wife in Cheers.
Sure I'll think of more, what about you?
J
:lol: The funny thing is those 3 are at the top of my list as well. I'm not even a big Frasier fan either. Off the top of my head, I'll go with Shawn Hunter's sister mentioned in a first season Boy Meets World episode who is then never seen or mentioned again. There was just this one episode where Shawn was on the phone with her. I love that one Thanksgiving episode too on Cheers where Vera shows up, but a pie hits her face just before she walks on camera. They even got George's Wendt's real life wife to play her too :lol:
I love that one Thanksgiving episode too on Cheers where Vera shows up, but a pie hits her face just before she walks on camera. They even got George's Wendt's real life wife to play her too :lol:
That's right! I forgot about that :lol: , I didn't know it was his real life wife though.
Now that I think of it, I seem to remember Marris making a brief appearance, or at least her silhouette, in a funny bedroom scene.
J
Lamont
10-19-2006, 07:19 AM
Charlie from Charlies Angels
and Carlton Your Doorman
heard, but never seen
(PS they did do a spinoff/animated pilot for Carlton, it aired once and never again!)
loren
10-19-2006, 09:29 AM
robin masters the estate owner on magnum pi
nary tyler moore on the pi show back in the early 60s, they just showed her legs when she was on the ohone
cheers, norms wife vera
lordsmurf
10-19-2006, 09:38 AM
Niles' first wife on Frasier. I forget her name.
Anthony33
10-19-2006, 09:38 AM
robin masters the estate owner on magnum pi
nary tyler moore on the pi show back in the early 60s, they just showed her legs when she was on the ohone
cheers, norms wife vera
The Mary Tyler Moore one? Oh yeah, I think that's Richard Diamond which David Janssen did a few years before The Fugitive.
Anthony33
10-19-2006, 09:40 AM
That's right! I forgot about that :lol: , I didn't know it was his real life wife though.
Now that I think of it, I seem to remember Marris making a brief appearance, or at least her silhouette, in a funny bedroom scene.
J
I didn't know either, until I read it in TV Guide. I think it was one of those greatest episodes or greatest TV moments issues they do sometimes.
Peanutbutter
10-19-2006, 09:40 AM
Mrs Columbo
J
Didn't Kate Mulgrew play Mrs. Columbo? Or Am I thinking of something else?
Anthony33
10-19-2006, 09:40 AM
Niles' first wife on Frasier. I forget her name.
Maris.
Anthony33
10-19-2006, 09:46 AM
Didn't Kate Mulgrew play Mrs. Columbo? Or Am I thinking of something else?
Yeah she did a show called Mrs. Columbo. I think the name was later changed though to Kate Columbo and then they changed her last name to something else and called the show Kate Loves A Mystery. Richard Levinson and William Link, the Columbo creators, weren't involved with the show at all so it's not really part of the continuity of the original show at all.
Come to think of it, that reminds me of a great Columbo episode in the later revived series on ABC called Rest In Peace, Mrs. Columbo, where the wife of a guy that Columbo caught in the past, was convicted and later died in prison tried to kill Mrs. Columbo and then Columbo himself as revenge. The funny thing was they didn't even show her in that episode. :lol: They did kind of tease it though when they show a picture of a woman in the living room, but then it's later revealed when the killer is arrested (she didn't end up killing Columbo or the Mrs. but did kill a co-worker) that it's actually a picture of his wife's sister or something and that they weren't even in Lt. Columbo's real house.
BrownEyedGirl523
10-19-2006, 10:45 AM
Stan, Karen's husband on Will & Grace.
jennymcc
10-19-2006, 02:48 PM
My favorites:
Juanita - Barney Fife's girlfriend on Andy Griffith Show
Consuela - Suzanne's maid on Designing Women
Lars - Phyllis' husband on MTM show
Not a favorite...but still a character we never (really) met:
Ugly Naked Guy on Friends
I guess it's obvious why we never got to meet him :lol:
janeydoll
10-19-2006, 05:34 PM
I have one, on Married with Children, Peggy's fat mom that lived upstairs for a while.
RedWhine56
10-19-2006, 07:57 PM
IIRC, you never saw Fang (I think his name was?) on Soupy Sales...only his paw...
Yes, I know this dates me but so be it.
Regarding non-full-frontal viewing...Wilson on "Home Improvement".
Buffyboy323
10-19-2006, 08:22 PM
Steve Urkel's Mom and Dad on "Family Matters."
Peg Bundy's Mom on "Married...With Children."
treky
10-20-2006, 01:25 AM
That's right! I forgot about that :lol: , I didn't know it was his real life wife though.
Now that I think of it, I seem to remember Marris making a brief appearance, or at least her silhouette, in a funny bedroom scene.
JThat was also George Wednts real wife who did Veras voice on the CHEERS episode where she became the coat-checker at Melvilles. Not sure if it was her legs though in the scene where she was sitting on the steps of Cheers. It was also her voice in that episode where Sam locked his keys in the bar, and he's going around looking for a place to spend the night.
Michael72581
10-20-2006, 01:43 AM
TV Characters We Heard About, But Never Got To Meet
Bob Sacamano (Seinfeld)
Sheridan Bucket (Keeping Up Appearances)
James
10-20-2006, 02:13 AM
I do not ever recall seeing the Dittmeyers, who lived next door to the Bradys on The Brady Bunch.
Of course, we never got to see Walter Meany, the Army medic Shirley married during the last season of Laverne and Shirley beyond his bandages (I guess ABC was too cheap to find a guest star! :mad: ).
Kristen
10-20-2006, 02:23 AM
Stan, Karen's husband on Will & Grace.
I always wondered if we ever saw him! I didn't think so.
I'd also like to add Lars, Phyllis' husband on Mary Tyler Moore. Oh, and Dorothy's brother, Phil, on The Golden Girls. There was a running joke about him being a cross-dresser, lol!
Kristen
treky
10-20-2006, 02:43 AM
Sara, the phone operator on THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
Sara, the phone operator on GREEN ACRES (when I used to watch those shows when I was growing up, I used to think they were both the same :lol: )
Kramers friends that he used to mention every once in a while on SIENFELD
there was an early season 1 episode of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES where Mr. Drysdale mentioned the Drysdales neighbors, the Millers
comedyfreak
10-20-2006, 05:15 AM
Kotter's Uncle Max on Welcome Back Kotter
Carol Brady's friend Martha on The Brady Bunch
Ugly Naked Guy on Friends
Ah, but we did kind of, there was an episode where they made a long stick out of chop sticks, and we saw them poknig him in the stomach with it. Never saw his face though.
J
88survivor
10-20-2006, 07:50 AM
The Gooch on Diff'rent Strokes...:lol: never seen him at all.
Charles' Dad on Charles In Charge.
Ant-Lox
10-20-2006, 10:36 AM
^Wilson did reveal his full face in the Series finale..
but Stan From Will & Grace, Maris from Frasier....
Edison
10-20-2006, 09:51 PM
The Mary Tyler Moore one? Oh yeah, I think that's Richard Diamond which David Janssen did a few years before The Fugitive.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective - Sam's gams !
Pete Porter's wife, Gladys (December Bride) - Harry Morgan played Pete.
Ol' Brownie (Barney Miller).
Anthony33
10-20-2006, 09:53 PM
IIRC, you never saw Fang (I think his name was?) on Soupy Sales...only his paw...
Yes, I know this dates me but so be it.
Regarding non-full-frontal viewing...Wilson on "Home Improvement".
True. I think they did finally show the actor's face after the series finale was shown during the curtain call. Earl Hindman had a paper picket fence in front of his face and then he pulled it away to finally reveal his full face, which I thought was pretty good.
treky
10-21-2006, 12:15 AM
the other DJs at the station on WKRP IN CINNCINATTI
Col. Potters wife Mildred on MASH. The picture of her on his desk was a picture of Spring Byington, who starred in the series DECEMBER BRIDE where he costared in the 50s.
JuicyCoutureGirl
10-21-2006, 01:22 PM
Kenny a.k.a "Bud"'s brother-The Cosby Show
Mr. Warner(Blair's dad)-The Facts of Life
Consuela(Suzanne's maid)-Designing Women
friendsfan77
10-21-2006, 03:24 PM
Ah, but we did kind of, there was an episode where they made a long stick out of chop sticks, and we saw them poknig him in the stomach with it. Never saw his face though.
J
There's also an episode where Ross met him when UNG was moving. Though he never spoke and I dont think that we saw his face on that ep either.
Anthony33
10-22-2006, 03:59 AM
Now that I've seen most of the episodes in reruns on My Network TV, I don't think they ever showed Judy and Linda's dad on Still Standing. Maybe he passed away :(
Swoosie Kurtz is great as the mom though (Mrs. Michaels) in the episodes I've seen her in. :)
Speaking of reruns I've been watching lately, I just thought of another one. They never showed Margaret's husband Louis on Becker, not even in the episode where Margaret and Louis visited Becker's apartment when Chris was having Thanksgiving dinner there. In the episode, he was watching TV in John's bedroom and Margaret mentions Louis in one scene when he spills beer on his pants and for some reason, he and John don't get along. They did show Margaret on the phone with Louis sometimes, when they were having problems. Come to think of it, they never showed Linda's boyfriend Gil either, even though he was the most long term relationship she had in the series.
Heather987
10-24-2006, 12:07 AM
Iola's mom on Mama's Family (they always referred to how obese she was)
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