Movie Quiz 76

[caffeinated]

The thread title lied!! It's not a movie quiz at all: This week, it's a TV Show Quiz!

Since TV shows are episodic by nature, I tried to make things easy-ish by choosing extremely identifiable scenes or characters for the screenshots. That way, it's unlikely that you won't be able to get a particular show just because you didn't see "that episode."

So, let's see how this one plays out, shall we?

In sticking with the new movie quiz posting plan, I'll let the thread run its course for a week or so. As usual, I'll bump it with hints and whatnot as needed, and I'll post the answer key sometime next weekend.

There are eight screenshots below. Most of them should be fairly recognizable if you've seen the shows. So, which of these TV shows can you identify?

Good luck!

Please answer with show numbers only, not titles..

 

[vaporgalinfla]

Thanks Caff! So far, I know #7. I loved that show!

 

[vaporgalinfla]

#4 looks familiar. hmm...

 

[rodjar]

1 ?
2 pretty sure
3 yes (just re watched recently. hilarious!)
4 yes
5 yes
6 yes
7 yes
8 yes

 

[williebb123]

1 and 6 dont know maybe i get out too much lol

 

[williebb123]

oh now im down to #1

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Pretty sure I got 'em although I've never actually seen #1. Thanks, caff.

 

[beckyblue]

I don't know 1, 6, or 8. I kinda have a guess on number 1, and I think maybe I could use google to figure out 8 (but I'll only resort to that after the hints). 6 looks interesting, like the frog scene from Magnolia, but with people! The action being performed in 3 is still one that helps me cope from time to time to this very day!

 

[MoonLit_Water]

4,5 & 7 for me

 

[Mowgli]

I'm glad I don't know #1
I'm not sure about #8

 

[Susan W.]

I only know #7

 

[Izan]

2,3,5,7
Thanks

Good luck to all
I

 

[caffeinated]

Time for a few hints, perhaps?

#1: This early/mid 1990s Nickelodeon show was ostensibly geared towards tweeners and early teens, but had a lot of elements aimed squarely at adults. The show featured a huge list of unlikely guest stars, many of whom were musicians, and they all played character roles, (as opposed to being featured on the show to play a song). Some highlights included: Iggy Pop, Kate Pierson (The B-52s), Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), LL Cool J, Debbie Harry, and Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes).

#2: That's Henry Bemis sitting amid the rubble and remains of a library in a post-apocalypse American city. He's arranged his future of reading in the stacks of books surrounding him, and while the world around him lays in ruin, he's excited about having the free time available to get some serious reading done. This was a classic episode, (one of several starring Burgess Meredith), from a ground-breaking sci-fi show that originally ran in the late 1950s and early `60s.

#3: Pictured is a recurring character from a late 1980s/early 1990s Canadian sketch comedy show. The five-man troupe, and the show's name, was said to have originated from a line often used by old-time comedian Sid Caesar: "I got that (joke) from the (aspiring joke writers always hanging around outside his office)". The guy in the screenshot is Mr. Tyzik, and he's crushing your head.

#4: The characters on the right are twins Dennis and Dee Reynolds. That's their dad, (maybe... sort of), emerging naked from the couch at a company Christmas party. They are three members of "The Gang," with Charlie and Mac rounding out the horribly misanthropic, completely dysfunctional group.

Hope these help!

 

[vaporgalinfla]

Thanks Caff! I know #2; it looked familiar, but I couldn't place what show it was in. Now I know. I'll try to figure out the others that I haven't seen.

 

[vaporgalinfla]

I figured out #5 although I've not seen the show.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

For what it's worth, #6 and #8 are both taken from their pilot episodes.

 

[OptimusPrimerib]

i know 4 5 and 6 lol

 

[caffeinated]

Here, have some more hints:

#5: The screenshot is from one of the areas of the Head Museum, a frequently visited locale from this very, very recently cancelled Matt Groening cartoon show. "Pizza deliver for, uh, I.C.Wiener? Aw, crud!"

#6: This series is about to start its fourth season next month. Most of the main characters spent the majority of the second season on Herschel Greene's farm, but they left there shortly after cleaning out the barn. For most of the third season, they made their home in a prison, which kept them reasonably safe from the hungry, shambling hordes of would-be assassins.

#7: This sci-fi series originally ran for three seasons, 1965 to 1968, with reruns still being aired to this day. During its first season, which was broadcast in black and white, the show was mostly presented as a serious space adventure. For the last two seasons, broadcast in color, the show took a sharp turn into the realm of things campy and goofy. That's Dr. Zachary Smith in the screenshot, with Tybo the giant talking carrot standing just behind.

#8: That's Q in the screenshot. You know, Q, from the Q Continuum? In this episode, which was the series premier, he's putting humanity on trial to determine whether the human race is worthy of continued existence.


I'll post the answers in a couple of days.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Thanks, caff.

I was going to say #8 was only an occasional recurring character who's kind of like a Mr. Mxyzptlk, if you know who that is. But, I would imagine most people already got that one by now.

 

[vaporgalinfla]

Thanks for the hints Caff! I'm determined to figure out the rest of them.