The Early "G" Rated "Wings"

[Krista2882]

Originally posted by pilotguy
Personally, I thing that the "Wings" cast member who was able to pull of physical slapstick humor the best was Crystal Bernard.....

Helen did a lot of counter-jumping and people-beating over the course of those 8 seasons, and for some reason she was always able to pull it off....probably because of her small stature, which made her physical tirades all the more funny!

would you really call that slapstick though? I don't really know what exactly would count as slapstick. I just know that in TV or movies when someone's falling on the floor or something, and it's done in an overly-flamboyant (for lack of a better word) way, it just seems stupid.
Because I think that's really funny on Wings when Helen leaps over the counter, and stuff like that. For example, I remember in the episode "Ladies Who Lunch" whe Helen got so ticked off at Gail, and she leaped over the counter at her, and Joe caught her in mid-air. I thought that was hilarious.
There have been a couple of other moments of physical comedy on Wings that I thought were really funny. Like one of the first episodes with Alex, Joe and Brian were both trying to get to her first and they both went running through the airport, and Joe tripped over something and went flying on the floor, and then got up and stepped on a row of chairs and leaped over them, and they went flying across the floor. Now I thought that was really funny.
and then there was that time in the episode "The Puppetmaster" after Joe and Helen kissed, Joe went to leave, and he tripped over the chairs behind him, fell on top of them and rolled off onto the floor. I thought that was sooo funny! hehehe I love that.
So if that stuff would count as slapstick, then it's done very well, and I think it's funny.

and someone mentioned Monty Python... the only Monty Python stuff I saw was the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", and I love that movie. Most of the slapstick in that is actually really funny.

so I guess I'd have to change my statement to: I hate slapstick comedy unless it's done very well.
lol!