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Good lord. You mean somebody went and found the two most talentless people in the history of radio and gave them a TV show? You've got to be kidding. I've never seen this show and I never will. I can't stand their radio program. Why would I watch them on TV? They are so bad, in fact, that I have a theory that anyone who likes them has to have a major personality defect. Probably the same sick individuals who think Rush Limpballs is amusing.
Back in 1986, in my 7th grade Creative Writing class, we learned about characterization and were assigned to create some characters and write stories about them. Mine was about two guys from Los Angeles named Max Freeway and Matt Headlight. They were disc jockeys by day and surreal adventurists by night. I got the names from the Coke commercial spokesman Max Headroom and the guy who portrayed him, Matt Frewer. I combined the two names together, thus creating the names.
Anyway, when my teacher, Mrs. Bell, read, graded and handed back our stories, I asked her where mine was since everyone else in my class received theirs. She told me that she submitted my story to NBC and that I received an "A." So for the rest of the year, Mrs. Bell hounded this alledged "suit" at NBC to see if my story would be made into a TV series. The suit always kept giving her the runaround saying, "We're looking into it." So, when 1987 rolled around, she gave up and forgot about it.
Fast forward to 1991-92, we learn that NBC decided to produce a show about...you guessed it...two disc jockeys from L.A. name Mark and Brian. I've never heard of Mark and Brain up until then, primarily because I lived in the Texas Panhandle. As it turned out since neither I nor Mrs. Bell pattened my intellectual property. The story she submitted became property of NBC for them to do whatever they liked.
Needless to say, when the first show aired, I was pissed. It was nothing like what I had written. For this bozo executive who decided to jack with my story and stick it in a time slot opposite "60 Minutes" on CBS, "America's Funniest Home Videos" on ABC, and "The Simpsons" on Fox, poetic justic was served when NBC quickly canceled the show and probably that "suit" was fired and never worked in the TV industry again. Serves him right.
As for me, I still write from time to time, but I've pursued other interests. However, the memories of "the show that was wasn't" will forever remain.
Anyway, when my teacher, Mrs. Bell, read, graded and handed back our stories, I asked her where mine was since everyone else in my class received theirs. She told me that she submitted my story to NBC and that I received an "A." So for the rest of the year, Mrs. Bell hounded this alledged "suit" at NBC to see if my story would be made into a TV series. The suit always kept giving her the runaround saying, "We're looking into it." So, when 1987 rolled around, she gave up and forgot about it.
Fast forward to 1991-92, we learn that NBC decided to produce a show about...you guessed it...two disc jockeys from L.A. name Mark and Brian. I've never heard of Mark and Brain up until then, primarily because I lived in the Texas Panhandle. As it turned out since neither I nor Mrs. Bell pattened my intellectual property. The story she submitted became property of NBC for them to do whatever they liked.
Needless to say, when the first show aired, I was pissed. It was nothing like what I had written. For this bozo executive who decided to jack with my story and stick it in a time slot opposite "60 Minutes" on CBS, "America's Funniest Home Videos" on ABC, and "The Simpsons" on Fox, poetic justic was served when NBC quickly canceled the show and probably that "suit" was fired and never worked in the TV industry again. Serves him right.
As for me, I still write from time to time, but I've pursued other interests. However, the memories of "the show that was wasn't" will forever remain.
Hi I'm not sure if this is the right way to send you guys an email or not, but I'll do it anyways. My husband David is a big fan of your show and is always talking about the movie clips section of your show (which I dont listen so I dont know). There are 2 particular movie clips that are in question. Willie Wonka, The Mumbler scene and Walk the Line,the teasing Reese with candy scene, and laughing dumb. Is it possable for you guys to get these scene's, if not could you tell me how to get them off the computer to send to you guys. In dyer need to silence a husband. Thank You very much,Jessica
I loved the old Mark and Brian shows, and the radio shows as well. Always started my mornings laughing........
This show was a bad idea from the word go. I saw this on Armed Forces television overseas back in the early Nineties. I am willing to die for my country, but not by watching this tripe. They played up the aspect of two wacky guys willing to do outrages stunts and fullfil fantasies (that's a quote). Watching two guys plan a wedding (really, I am not making this up) is not what I consider a good investment of 30-60 minutes. I don't believe that all episodes were broadcast stateside, but they aired them all overseas. Another episode had them learning to drive a tank. One or the other was told to get a haircut, so he got a buzzcut hairpiece. Ha-ha, hilarity ensued. It made me want to go down to the armory, check out a rifle, and end it all there. Those are the only two episodes that I clearly recall, but twelve years later, I am still carrying the mental scars inside. Phil hartman is dead, yet these two are allowed to exist. No one ever said that life is fair, and there goes your proof.
These two no-talent clowns have a well-known morning radio show in L.A. on KLOS FM. Back in 1991, they decided to star on their own prime time series where they would do all sorts of stupid things like go sky diving or deliver a baby. The sad thing about it, is I used to actually listen to their radio show way back before Howard Stern's show came to L.A. Now, I can't stomach them at all.
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