4 TV Shows You Loved That Were a Nightmare Behind the Scenes

[TMC]

Language warning: http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-tv-sho...behind-scenes/

#4. Star Trek: The Next Generation Was Terrorized by a Dying Despot and Body Odor

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Post by blackoutcreature on 3 hours ago

Roddenberry was very much like Stan Lee. They had a really good grip on 60's pop culture and delivered a product that appealed to that generation. Their biggest problem was the 60's ended and they were never able to move on from it. Look at those early TNG episodes - the original depiction of the Ferengi's, having the ships psychiatrist as a member of the Bridge crew, the portrayal of those people in "The Neutral Zone". The whole thing is a perfect example of a dyed-in-the-wool 60's hippie trying to make sense of 80's pop culture.

Post by BorneAgain on 3 hours ago
Its been interesting reading Shatner's books about ST in conjunction with Bob Justman and Herbert Solow's book about the making of TOS, and how tricky it was getting the show on the air. One of the big conclusions I've come away with is there seemed to be two Gene Roddenberrys.

The one from the original run of the show, who could be a bit d***ish in rewriting stories and a touch money obsessed (him writing unused lyrics to the theme to get half the royalties and awkwardly inserting the IDIC pin in episodes to sell to fans), but still a fairly talented producer, showrunner, and script supervisor, and one who still understood good tension between characters for drama.

I'm really curious what exactly happened to him in the 70s that turned him into the guy obsessed with maintaining the absolute utopic vision where crewmembers don't fight over anything, people don't grieve for loved ones, Starfleet is in no way a military organization, and a story with the crewmembers having assassinate JFK to fix the timeline makes for the ideal Trek film. Because while Gene wasn't exactly a saint during the original show as noted above, he still seemed far away from the almost dogmatic zealot constantly demanding writers place stories in the Roddenberry box.

#3. The Power Rangers Crew Was Full of Raging Homophobes

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-tv-sho...ind-scenes_p2/

#2. The A-Team Had a Strict "No Girls Allowed" Policy

#1. The Cast of Saved by the Bell Had to Constantly Deal With Screech's ********* Antics

[MrCleveland]

I heard "Alf" was a nightmare when the cameras were off.

[70s show watcher]

snl is well known for cast members not always getting along but one thing about them is at least they have always been honest with the fans about it

[MrCleveland]

Here's two more..."Gimme a Break" and "I Love Lucy"...

Despite Nell Carter getting along with the supporting cast...she didn't stand the 1st Director, when Hal Cooper stepped-in she felt comfortable since he had her sing more on the show, which she (Nell Carter) wanted to do in the 1st place.

Vivian Vance gave a lot of grief with the cast of "I Love Lucy", she even didn't want to perform with William Frawley (Fred Mertz) and Frawley was VERY upset when Vance would backbite him...he even said "I wish she could stay in Kansas)!

If William Frawley was alive in 1969, he'd say THIS song is about Vivian!...



Oddly enough...Desi STILL loved Lucy after divorce and remarriage.

[installLSC]

"All In The Family" and "Sanford and Son" have to be up there, mainly due to personality conflicts and power struggles between Norman Lear and the lead characters.

[ThomasE]

Two And A Half Men
Roseanne
Grace Under Fire
A Different World, Season One

[RetroGuy2000]

"Alice" was no picnic to work on, with Linda Lavin always upset for being "upstaged" by the rest of the cast.

[Tubehead]

I always heard that the lady who played aunt bee on The Andy Griffith Show was mean in real life not sure if its true or not .

[MacLeaper]

The A-Team Had a Strict "No Girls Allowed" Policy

That's not really true- Amy Amanda Allen (aka "AAA") was a regular character throughout the first season. And there were certainly plenty of female guest stars on The A-Team. That doesn't mean the show was troubled behind the scenes. It's just that The A-Team was made as a man's show, according to interviews with one of the stars, Dirk Benedict, and they were unabashed about that. And I feel it's okay to have some shows like that. I mean, I don't see anyone complaining that "Girls" has a "No Boys Allowed" policy.
Anyway, I generally take most all of Cracked's articles with a huge grain of salt. I'm not saying that any of them are necessarily untrue; but I do think some may be blown out of proportion.

[treky]

my cousin used to work on COMMUNITY and quit because he said the cast was really mean and not very nice to work with, especially Chevy Chase who he called "a real son-of-a-*****"
He also used to work on THAT 70s SHOW and 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN and he says some of the 70S cast was the same way, but the 3RD ROCK cast was the complete opposite.

[treky]

Originally Posted by MacLeaper

That's not really true- Amy Amanda Allen (aka "AAA") was a regular character throughout the first season. And there were certainly plenty of female guest stars on The A-Team. That doesn't mean the show was troubled behind the scenes. It's just that The A-Team was made as a man's show, according to interviews with one of the stars, Dirk Benedict, and they were unabashed about that. And I feel it's okay to have some shows like that. I mean, I don't see anyone complaining that "Girls" has a "No Boys Allowed" policy.
Anyway, I generally take most all of Cracked's articles with a huge grain of salt. I'm not saying that any of them are necessarily untrue; but I do think some may be blown out of proportion.

yea, I feel the same way about CRACKED.

[Yong Fang]

On Sanford and Son, it was common knowledge that Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson used and abused cocaine. I recently read from a writer that Redd would miss days from the set, and hated rehearing, and was high when he was there. However, on Fridays when the shows were taped, Foxx had his A game on, and put on a brilliant performance. Demond Wilson basically went nuts on the cocaine and would get violent. For whatever reason, Wilson refused to rejoin Foxx when NBC rebooted the show (which became just 'Sanford') for whatever reason.

Both Foxx and Wilson killed the golden goose. Wilson got sober and became a minister, while basically I think Foxx just liked to get high and party and was functional. In the end, Foxx was broke and owed the IRS everything. Eddie. Murphy stepped in and paid for Foxx's funeral.

Finally about Sanford and Son, basically all the older black actors have worked with each other for decades since the so called "chitin circuit". Foxx and Lawanda Page ( Aunt Esther) were best friends and Foxx was the one to get her on his show. The guys who played Bubba, Grady, Skillet, others have been with each other a long time which made a tight unit, which kept things going as long as it did.

[comedyfreak]

Good Times-John Amos had battles with Lear or producers over the JJ character.
Laverne & Shirley-Penny and Cindy didn't get along after the show took off, it was the reason Betty Garrett left the show.

[MrCleveland]

Originally Posted by treky

my cousin used to work on COMMUNITY and quit because he said the cast was really mean and not very nice to work with, especially Chevy Chase who he called "a real son-of-a-*****"
He also used to work on THAT 70s SHOW and 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN and he says some of the 70S cast was the same way, but the 3RD ROCK cast was the complete opposite.

So he's Chevy Chase and we're NOT! I can be an *******, but if Chase is that bad...I'll say I'm NOT Chevy Chase, but he is...dumb-****!

But does your cousin think that Kurtwood Smith thought that some of the cast members were dumb-asses?

[BigManMike]

Three's Company-Suzanne Somers didn't get along with the producers or the rest of the cast when she wanted more money and eventually got fired. This went on long after the show ended.