Movies that Predicted Trump: The Campaign (2012)
Feb 13, 2017
Well, this is it! The penultimate episode, and the only one to air outside of March 1980. You know, it seems easy to judge Pink Lady and Jeff. After all, it was a dying format, based around music that people didn’t listen to anymore, featuring an obscure comedian as a host and older pseudo-celebrities taking part in corny sketches involving lame puns. No wonder it only lasted a few episodes.
Well…
I can see where you would think that, but I’m reminded of another show. A game show, matter of fact, that came out in the early ‘90s (when game shows were out). It also starred an obscure comedian as host, who regularly did silly sketches with an older actress who was best known for a bit part in a cult classic from over a decade earlier, and which had a doo-wop group as the house band.
Same basic concept, right? Except Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? ran for five seasons, had almost three hundred episodes, won a Peabody Award, and was the second longest running children’s game show of all time. To say nothing of the fact that it was what inspired me to become the successful internet comic I am today.
So, really, Pink Lady and Jeff have nobody to blame but themselves. And everything else that went wrong. Still, NBC was bound and determined to get their money back somehow, whether that meant whoring the girls out to another of their failed variety shows…
…Or by pulling out all the stops. Trust me, you’ve never seen stunt casting this bad.
Red Buttons, Alice Cooper, Jerry Lewis, and fucking Robby the Robot!
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