Shark Bytes

Ah, thanks for reminding me of the Racoon episode. Now can someone explain the logic of this, they hit the racoon during the day. From what I know, racoons are a nocturnal creatures and if they are out during the day, they are either sick or injured. Also, they were in a van driving on a freeway, I doubt a small-medium racoon would have survive and if it did, it wouldnt let humans pick it up, those things will fight to the death when injured. Poor excuse of an episode not to purchase time of a rock concert and having scene of gramps sitting out in the van during the concert....

I LOVED the show and want it to come out on DVD so I can buy it. I adored Gus Witherspoon and thought the sugary sweet drama was wonderful.

This show jumped the shark after the Wilford Brimley character was sent to a remote Artic outpost with Kurt Russell and a couple of other guys...then it REALLY jumped when Brimley got possessed by an Alien way out there in the artic and started to kill some of the guys...after that episode they had to rename this show "The Thing"......

This show jumped from day one.

The reason - it was an hour long! Family comedy dramas are best half an hour long, not a whole hour!!!

No one mentioned too many specific episodes, but the one that really gave me hope that this show was going off the air soon was the earthquake episode. I think they were desperate for a story. I still have painful flashbacks of watching this boring show whenever I see that old guy in one of his health care or medication commercials.

I vaguely remember certain plots and actions that happened on the show. I might be mistaken, but in the episode when they gave up modern technology for the week, and there was that world crisis going on, I'm pretty sure they found out about it through the old man's friend. When he found out that they didn't know what was going on, the look on his face was pure disdain. It was like "How in the hell do you not know what's happening?" He was almost pissed at them. And then for a Halloween episode, the old man took the mom aside and said, "I heard that Kris is going as the Madonna, and I think it would offend a lot of people." He was confusing the biblical figure for the pop singer. It was moments like these that make you furrow your brow and think, "what?!"

I remember watching a little bit of "Our House" but I left quickly to play some Nintendo. I didn't recognize who that old man was until a couple years ago then I remembered him when I first saw him on the diabetes commercials. It was Wilford Brimley, the guy who made "Our House" the sappy 1980s "Leave it to Beaver wannabe" it became. As a child, I thought Wilford Brimley was so boring because he always talked about doing "the right thing" or "eating oatmeal." Now 15 years later, I still don't watch "Our House" but Wilford Brimley has become a cult icon with the young people. He's been in underground video games like "Wilford Island" and "Wilford Kong" and "Wilford Brimley Battle". However, I have never been brave enough to give "Our House" a second chance, and I'm happy that way.

OUR HOUSE was a mercifully short-lived NBC drama which featured a pre-90210 Shannen Doherty and Deidre Hall, during one of her attempts to break away from Dr. Marlena Evans on DAYS OF OUR LIVES. The show also featured Wilford Brimley, a gifted character actor who was probably the most interesting thing on the show. Bland stories and weak writing made this show jump from day one.

In several episodes during the second season something outrageous would initially happen to the family, only to result in a bittersweet ending. For example Gus and Kris won $10,000 on the game show Dual Duel, but got disqualified by the producers. David's band thought they were discovered by a famous record producer, but it turned out that this person was only impersonating the record producer. Also I think that the Hawaii episode fits this category as what was supposed to be an exciting vacation nearly resulted in tragedy. I thought that it was lame that so many episodes were like this during the second season.

See.....You all have been fooled by what you think was a sappy, 80's family melodrama. But what you don't remember and haven't been privy to is the series finale. Everyone wonders what happened to Shannon Dougherty between Our House and 90210, what happened to Deidre Hall's career and why did Chad Allen go on to star in one of the worst Horror films of all time called "Terror Vision"? The answer which is revealed in the never aired series finale is that Wilford Brimley was playing the same Character he played in John Carpenter's "The Thing", and was actually the flesh devouring monster in disguise!! That is the only reason I can come up with for the even mild success this visual cornpone show enjoyed.

Our House officially jumped the shark when Wilford Brimley drove his grandkids and their friends to a rock concert....they ended up running over a raccoon and missed the concert so they could nurse it back to health. This entire episode had so many JTS moments....for starters, I don't care how cool the concert is, no kid is going to allow their grandfather to drive them, and especially not in a van! And after running over the raccoon, who would allow the old dude to stop and render aid to a possibly rabid animal...causing them to ultimately miss the concert? It should have ended with the old man getting his eyes scratched out by the foamy mouthed critter, then the kids have a good laugh and take off in the van, leaving gramp's carcass by the roadside...next to the raccoon, of course.

I'm really sorry that I vaguely remember this show, but I watched it for the entire two years it was on. The reason I don't really remember it was because it came on right before I turned 4, and was gone by the time I was about 5 1/2. I know I liked it though. I caught an episode about 2 years ago on PAX, the Halloween one where Molly and Bertha got chicken pox. Pretty good stuff. There aren't too many shows like this now, aside from 7th Heaven, which is a decent family show that is sadly one of the few of a dying breed...seems people don't want to see happy families any more, in a world of reality-based programs that only pollute the airwaves. There aren't enough quality programs anymore. It's sad that something like this, amidst the turbulence of the 1980s, were everyone knew someone who had an abysmal homelife (I can't relate to that figure, I've had a blessed homelife) couldn't find its voice. Besides, it was before Shannen Doherty became the equivalency of Satan's spawn (seriously, she went from a decent person to evil in a span of 4 years--that's pretty bad). Blame it on Aaron Spelling's influence, I guess. Anyway, this was a decent cast of characters. I liked Molly. She was cute and funny, despite the fact that she stole that music box (or was it a jewelry box?) from the store. David looks alot like Simon from "7th Heaven"), Kris was a good big sister (it was the prequel to Doherty's over-the-top b***hiness), the grandfather, who was cranky but lovable, and a mother who truly loved her children, no matter what. She wouldn't take her kids any other way, which how most parents SHOULD feel about their kids. This was a nice show. PAX should bring it back.

They tried a bit of everything...even replaced with theme song with the early 80s ska hit, "Our House" by Madness. But even this wasn't enough to make Wilford Brimley interesting.

OUR HOUSE was one of my all-time favorite family shows. Coming from a VERY dysfunctional family, I wished I could have lived with a family like the Witherspoons. Yes, the stories were corny at times, but I liked that. We need more positive shows like OUR HOUSE on TV today, and I was very sorry to see the series end after only 2 seasons. I had a HUGE crush on Shannen Doherty at the time (this was way before she became a "bad girl" on 90210). All the actors and stories were wonderful..at least in the first season-and-a-half. The series started to go downhill when son David (Chad Allen) began singing with a band. Suddenly, the focus seemed to shift from the Witherspoon family and ther relationships to David and his teeny-bopper friends trying to become rock stars. The absolute WORST episode was when David and the band investigate some local car thefts and wind up getting kidnapped, then get rescued from the crooks by the elderly neighbor--who drives a car right through the garage where the crooks are hiding! Then they had the Witherspoons getting mixed-up with diamond smugglers while vacationing in Hawaii! The Witherspoons suddenly went from being a nice, normal family to a band of crimefighters. As sorry as I was to see OUR HOUSE cancelled after the second season, it was probably for the best, as the writers were clearly running out of family stories to tell and the series was degenerating into nonsense.

Oatmeal. I can't stop thinking of oooatmeal.This show was on when I was, like, ten, and remember watching it, but it must have had little substance, as nothing stuck with me. Which is almost the exact opposite of oooatmeal. Brimley seems like a real curmudgeon, like the kind of grandpa that would give you indian burns to 'toughin' ya up'.