Double Trouble Boned the Fish When...

[TMC]

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Double Trouble is an American sitcom that aired from 1984 to 1985 on NBC. The series stars identical twins Jean and Liz Sagal as Kate and Allison Foster, two teenagers living under the watchful eye of their widowed father.

[bliss]

Never boned. The show was solid throughout its short run.

[TMC]

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• Other Thoughts:
  
  Wasn't this the show with the twin teenage girls that were kind of cute but terribly annoying?
  I can remember seeing the Christmas episode of this series in syndication. One of the girls invites her arrogant art teacher to a Christmas party at her apartment but he turns her down, saying he doesn't celebrate Christmas. ("Some people have OUTGROWN Christmas!" --cold!) Later, this man shows up at the party anyway and continues to be unpleasant. The other characters try to explain that Christmas means a lot to them, if not to him. Finally, he walks out on the party while the guests are singing Christmas carols, with only an imperceptible wink showing that they may have gotten through to him. My problem with this episode? There was no MOTIVATION behind this man's behavior: He never gave any reason WHY he didn't celebrate Christmas, (i.e. he thinks Christmas is overcommercialized, he lost a loved one on Christmas and thereafter hates the holiday, etc.). I can understand that there are people in the world who don't celebrate Christmas, but if this is central to a story, they should at least explain the reason WHY.
  I love Liz and Jean! I wanted to be them but I could never decide which one. So I decided to be both. They could dance, they had cool clothes, and they could sing..."MaxiBurger MaxiBurger...yum yum yum! MaxiBurger MaxiBurger...makes you wanna hum!" They were truly goddesses.
  When the girls moved to New York to attend art school and lived at their aunt's (the writer's house. While a take-off on the old "Patty Duke - which girl did I talk to" story, this show did have it's moments. Also connected with 2 later famous TV Mom's - Pat Richardson played the Dad's girlfriend (and went on to Jill on Home Improvement) and the real life sister of the twins is Kate Sagal, know to all as Peg Bundy.
  This show was AWESOME! I loved these two broads from Grease 2! I used to pleasure myself watching them. I would imagine one dressed as Lucille Ball, doing a strip tease for me while the other was smothered in light sour cream feeding me bagel chips dipped in tabasco sauce! I think the music playing in this fantasy was usually White Lion or Cindarella...
  Ahhhh... Double Trouble and a box of tissues.
  When they moved to NY and they lived with Barney Miller's wife, who whined a lot. I loved these two wenches and their hot little bodies. I always thought the 'bad' one was secretly goody two shoes and the 'nice' one, in spite of the nerdy outfits, loved to be nasty (you'd sometimes see the spike heels protruding form her pants legs). The plots became repetitious after awhile--recycled Patty Duke schmaltz. And the addition of those two guys--pul-eeze!! They were the prototypes for Bill & Ted. Like those two lookers would date them or even have them as friends!
  Shark moment: The "irresponsible" twin, I think it was Jean, went upstairs to study, and when some adult authority figure (who can remember who?) asked her responsible sister, Liz, if Jean was studying, a sudden blast of music came down the stairs -- "Misled" -- and Liz goes sarcastically, "Yeah, studying Kool and the Gang." I was about 14 when this show aired, and Kool and the Gang was popular back then, but even I wasn't fooled into thinking a bad-girl twin could possibly be into Kool and the Gang. I'm 29 now, and was I the only girl in 1984 to pick up that these twins were a direct rip-off from Francine Pascal's long-lived Sweet Valley High series books? In the books, the good twin was Elizabeth Wakefield and the more-likely-to-be-bad girl was her twin Jessica. They were blond all-American types, and teen girls were eating those books up. I hope Pascal sued the pants off the Double Trouble producers.
  Moving to New York changed the show from being a patty Duke clone to being a couple of young woman stretch their wings show. One other poster mentioned that they thought the Ladies were secretly acting against type IE mean twin really goodie two shoes and vis a versa. Well truth is I remember reading an interview and the sisters Segal stated that the producers asked them to play the twin more unlike themselves. So that may have been showing through the performances.
  The twins were just getting better and better as the show continued. The move to NY was a very good one. Some really outstanding TV......the movie episode, the Christmas episode, the camping episode, the time Billy and ? go out on a date.....Good stuff. I only began to appreciate it when it was on USA long after cancellation. I am surprised Liz and Jean have not been more active in on screen work since then.
  This show came closest to jumping when they started in Iowa....not that I have anything against Iowa! The move to NY was great. The Christmas show, the movie show.......they were all great......and the two guys were great too. A shame this show ended so soon.
  Greatest sitcom of the 80s! Loved the move to NY. Loved the whole fake family aspect....deserved at least a couple of seasons more.
  Twin's dad: "What do you do for a living?" Boyfriend; "I hang out, I work out and I think!" Dad: "What do you think about?" Boy: "Where to hang out, where to work out!" I remember this and those two girls were very hot!
  This show was awful. Writing - Bad. Acting - Bad. Physical appeal of the twins - Bad (C'mon, at least if you're gonna have twins, have 'em be hot! Don't have 'em built like 14 year old boys for Christ's sake!) This was just mindless crap. Nothing ever remotely clever. Just corny "jokes" and then que to the crappy laugh track. Sheesh!
  This show rocked! C'mon!! Anyone remember the Dance Off Competition - The Mean Blond who was the professional dancer... Allison dances for Kate because Kate breaks her ankle - Best Episode! These girls were great! Could have done without the annoying guys in NYC and the weird Aunt with that Bear... that didn't make much sense... But great show
  I used to not like this show because I felt she was not a real representation of a Hispanic female but when my daughter started getting excited when it would come on it grew on me. you know this show is not for us it is for our children, and if you don't want them to watch it then turn it on to something else. there are many shows that you can watch with them that are as enjoyable. (like Barney or the Teletubbies) by the way i don't let her watch those because I don't like them and feel that they are STUPID.
  I saw an episode of Super Sloppy Double Dare on the Nick GAS channel from 1989 in which Marc and Harvey traded in their host and announcer duties to become contestants. Marc and Harvey competed against each other (Marc wore the red uniform, while Harvey wore the blue one), because fans of the show wanted to see them get messy and sloppy. Guess who was the guest host in this episode? Actor/Comedian Jm J. Bullock. Marc's team came from behind to beat Harvey's team, 180 dollars to 130 dollars. The two young contestants on Marc and Harvey's teams kept the money that was won and split the prizes from the obstacle course, which was ran by Marc and Harvey. The funniest moment in this episode came during the obstacle course when Jm said while explaining one of the obstacles, "The **** are going to spill", instead of, The fiag is going to spew out". That comment had Marc and Harvey laughing deliriously. Marc and Harvey completed all eight obstacles in 57 seconds, but they missed two flags along the way. Filling in for Harvey at announcer were the shows' stage assistants Robin Marrella and Dave Shikar. Robin and Dave both did great jobs as guest announcers. But the ultimate match-up l would want to see would be Marc and Harvey versus J.D. Roth and Tiny from Fun House, the Double Dare knockoff that was also popular in 1989. And like Double Dare, I was also a huge Fun House fan. Double Dare Rocks.

[rcbrad]

Originally Posted by TMC

https://web.archive.org/web/20070225...ptheshark.com/

• Other Thoughts:
  
  Wasn't this the show with the twin teenage girls that were kind of cute but terribly annoying?
  I can remember seeing the Christmas episode of this series in syndication. One of the girls invites her arrogant art teacher to a Christmas party at her apartment but he turns her down, saying he doesn't celebrate Christmas. ("Some people have OUTGROWN Christmas!" --cold!) Later, this man shows up at the party anyway and continues to be unpleasant. The other characters try to explain that Christmas means a lot to them, if not to him. Finally, he walks out on the party while the guests are singing Christmas carols, with only an imperceptible wink showing that they may have gotten through to him. My problem with this episode? There was no MOTIVATION behind this man's behavior: He never gave any reason WHY he didn't celebrate Christmas, (i.e. he thinks Christmas is overcommercialized, he lost a loved one on Christmas and thereafter hates the holiday, etc.). I can understand that there are people in the world who don't celebrate Christmas, but if this is central to a story, they should at least explain the reason WHY.
  I love Liz and Jean! I wanted to be them but I could never decide which one. So I decided to be both. They could dance, they had cool clothes, and they could sing..."MaxiBurger MaxiBurger...yum yum yum! MaxiBurger MaxiBurger...makes you wanna hum!" They were truly goddesses.
  When the girls moved to New York to attend art school and lived at their aunt's (the writer's house. While a take-off on the old "Patty Duke - which girl did I talk to" story, this show did have it's moments. Also connected with 2 later famous TV Mom's - Pat Richardson played the Dad's girlfriend (and went on to Jill on Home Improvement) and the real life sister of the twins is Kate Sagal, know to all as Peg Bundy.
  This show was AWESOME! I loved these two broads from Grease 2! I used to pleasure myself watching them. I would imagine one dressed as Lucille Ball, doing a strip tease for me while the other was smothered in light sour cream feeding me bagel chips dipped in tabasco sauce! I think the music playing in this fantasy was usually White Lion or Cindarella...
  Ahhhh... Double Trouble and a box of tissues.
  When they moved to NY and they lived with Barney Miller's wife, who whined a lot. I loved these two wenches and their hot little bodies. I always thought the 'bad' one was secretly goody two shoes and the 'nice' one, in spite of the nerdy outfits, loved to be nasty (you'd sometimes see the spike heels protruding form her pants legs). The plots became repetitious after awhile--recycled Patty Duke schmaltz. And the addition of those two guys--pul-eeze!! They were the prototypes for Bill & Ted. Like those two lookers would date them or even have them as friends!
  Shark moment: The "irresponsible" twin, I think it was Jean, went upstairs to study, and when some adult authority figure (who can remember who?) asked her responsible sister, Liz, if Jean was studying, a sudden blast of music came down the stairs -- "Misled" -- and Liz goes sarcastically, "Yeah, studying Kool and the Gang." I was about 14 when this show aired, and Kool and the Gang was popular back then, but even I wasn't fooled into thinking a bad-girl twin could possibly be into Kool and the Gang. I'm 29 now, and was I the only girl in 1984 to pick up that these twins were a direct rip-off from Francine Pascal's long-lived Sweet Valley High series books? In the books, the good twin was Elizabeth Wakefield and the more-likely-to-be-bad girl was her twin Jessica. They were blond all-American types, and teen girls were eating those books up. I hope Pascal sued the pants off the Double Trouble producers.
  Moving to New York changed the show from being a patty Duke clone to being a couple of young woman stretch their wings show. One other poster mentioned that they thought the Ladies were secretly acting against type IE mean twin really goodie two shoes and vis a versa. Well truth is I remember reading an interview and the sisters Segal stated that the producers asked them to play the twin more unlike themselves. So that may have been showing through the performances.
  The twins were just getting better and better as the show continued. The move to NY was a very good one. Some really outstanding TV......the movie episode, the Christmas episode, the camping episode, the time Billy and ? go out on a date.....Good stuff. I only began to appreciate it when it was on USA long after cancellation. I am surprised Liz and Jean have not been more active in on screen work since then.
  This show came closest to jumping when they started in Iowa....not that I have anything against Iowa! The move to NY was great. The Christmas show, the movie show.......they were all great......and the two guys were great too. A shame this show ended so soon.
  Greatest sitcom of the 80s! Loved the move to NY. Loved the whole fake family aspect....deserved at least a couple of seasons more.
  Twin's dad: "What do you do for a living?" Boyfriend; "I hang out, I work out and I think!" Dad: "What do you think about?" Boy: "Where to hang out, where to work out!" I remember this and those two girls were very hot!
  This show was awful. Writing - Bad. Acting - Bad. Physical appeal of the twins - Bad (C'mon, at least if you're gonna have twins, have 'em be hot! Don't have 'em built like 14 year old boys for Christ's sake!) This was just mindless crap. Nothing ever remotely clever. Just corny "jokes" and then que to the crappy laugh track. Sheesh!
  This show rocked! C'mon!! Anyone remember the Dance Off Competition - The Mean Blond who was the professional dancer... Allison dances for Kate because Kate breaks her ankle - Best Episode! These girls were great! Could have done without the annoying guys in NYC and the weird Aunt with that Bear... that didn't make much sense... But great show
  I used to not like this show because I felt she was not a real representation of a Hispanic female but when my daughter started getting excited when it would come on it grew on me. you know this show is not for us it is for our children, and if you don't want them to watch it then turn it on to something else. there are many shows that you can watch with them that are as enjoyable. (like Barney or the Teletubbies) by the way i don't let her watch those because I don't like them and feel that they are STUPID.
  I saw an episode of Super Sloppy Double Dare on the Nick GAS channel from 1989 in which Marc and Harvey traded in their host and announcer duties to become contestants. Marc and Harvey competed against each other (Marc wore the red uniform, while Harvey wore the blue one), because fans of the show wanted to see them get messy and sloppy. Guess who was the guest host in this episode? Actor/Comedian Jm J. Bullock. Marc's team came from behind to beat Harvey's team, 180 dollars to 130 dollars. The two young contestants on Marc and Harvey's teams kept the money that was won and split the prizes from the obstacle course, which was ran by Marc and Harvey. The funniest moment in this episode came during the obstacle course when Jm said while explaining one of the obstacles, "The **** are going to spill", instead of, The fiag is going to spew out". That comment had Marc and Harvey laughing deliriously. Marc and Harvey completed all eight obstacles in 57 seconds, but they missed two flags along the way. Filling in for Harvey at announcer were the shows' stage assistants Robin Marrella and Dave Shikar. Robin and Dave both did great jobs as guest announcers. But the ultimate match-up l would want to see would be Marc and Harvey versus J.D. Roth and Tiny from Fun House, the Double Dare knockoff that was also popular in 1989. And like Double Dare, I was also a huge Fun House fan. Double Dare Rocks.

You do make some good points and have a good memory of the show, but...
Is the show awful or awesome? (you state both) You also mention that they were goddesses and then you say later they have bad physical appeal. You are all over the place with your thoughts.

[Fallon97]

Never boned.