Vote for why you think it jumped
Ted McGinley
Exit... Stage Left (Julie)
New Kid In Town (Vicki)
Day One
Charo!
Shark Bytes
I never understood why Lauren Tewes got fired for being a cokehead.
Let's see...super-skinny, extremely perky '70s actress turns out to like nose candy. Gee, how unusual. C'mon, this was common as mud in Hollywood of the late '70s and early '80s. I say there's some other reason they gave her the boot. Something sinister. Bob Woodward needs to ditch whatever pansy-ass subject he's investigating this week, and dig up the dirt on The Firing of Julie. Instant bestseller.
Let's see...super-skinny, extremely perky '70s actress turns out to like nose candy. Gee, how unusual. C'mon, this was common as mud in Hollywood of the late '70s and early '80s. I say there's some other reason they gave her the boot. Something sinister. Bob Woodward needs to ditch whatever pansy-ass subject he's investigating this week, and dig up the dirt on The Firing of Julie. Instant bestseller.
Hey! Danno, watch what you say. What's wrong with collecting bugs as a hobby? I did it when I was a kid...it's a great way to learn about our little friends.
I don't agree with you completely about a show like LB being 'better' for people to watch -- lowering your standards to avoid seeing anything remotely related to reality is not a healthy way of dealing with your insecurities.
As for Horatio -- well, yes, he's a wooden prop that they just keep around the backlot until they need him for a shot.
I don't agree with you completely about a show like LB being 'better' for people to watch -- lowering your standards to avoid seeing anything remotely related to reality is not a healthy way of dealing with your insecurities.
As for Horatio -- well, yes, he's a wooden prop that they just keep around the backlot until they need him for a shot.
This show was pure camp. But let's be fair, the Love Boat was more suitable for a TV audience than the current fare of sick cop shows (CSI-L&O).
Better to see bland, campy characters than strange, creepy guys like Gil Grissom and Horatio Caine. At least Capt. Stubing never kept a collection of bugs in his office or tilted sideways at the camera with dark sunglasses making goofy one-liners. LOL
Better to see bland, campy characters than strange, creepy guys like Gil Grissom and Horatio Caine. At least Capt. Stubing never kept a collection of bugs in his office or tilted sideways at the camera with dark sunglasses making goofy one-liners. LOL
I always hated that the ever-cool and wonderful Murray Slaughter morphed into the boring and soulless Captain Stubing. When the show originally debuted, I almost cried when I saw what they did to my Murray. Yecchhh.
I hate to say it, because I really do despise this show with all of my soul, but the Love Boat is pretty much the sum total late-seventies experience. That's pretty sad and says a lot about us as a society.
I hate to say it, because I really do despise this show with all of my soul, but the Love Boat is pretty much the sum total late-seventies experience. That's pretty sad and says a lot about us as a society.
The main thing I remember about Julie was her hairstyle - it was a true tribute to the hot roller feathered style of the 70s.
Reading these posts it seems like everyone watched The Love Boat with their grandparents, as did I (on a B&W TV, no less, but maybe I would otherwise be blind from the "fashions" featured). I would love to watch it today while puffing on a mary-juana cigarette. P.S. Poor Lauren Tewes became a complete cokehead and was subsequently fired. In some of the episodes just before she was canned you'll notice the sparkly eyes and not-quite-there expression. Did she and McKenzie Phillips have the same dealer?
When I was just a little kid in '78 and '79, I used to watch this with my grandma and grandpa in their den and it was the highlight of their primetime-TV enjoyment. I would like to find out if it airs at all on cable now, because back then I was too young to relate to most of the conversations.
I was just amazed by this big glamorous ship, and figured you had to be fabulously wealthy or A-list to get on it at all. Now I'd like to watch it so I could laugh about Charo, cheesy plots, and Seventies cruise apparel.
I was just amazed by this big glamorous ship, and figured you had to be fabulously wealthy or A-list to get on it at all. Now I'd like to watch it so I could laugh about Charo, cheesy plots, and Seventies cruise apparel.
Will you ,for the love of humanity,stop picking on Vicki???? If anything, she , along with the gorgeous Lauren Tewes, added years to a show that really wasn't any good. BTW, check Vicki out in that '84-'85 uniform! That sight was the only reason to endure this show!
LOVE THIS SHOW FOR ITS FROTHY, MINDLESS ESCAPISM,BUT GOT CHEATED ON THE DVD SET, 1/2 OF A SEASON FOR $30, WHAT A GREEDY RIP-OFF
Carmen said: "I found the Love Boat to be very informative. Let's face it, before Love Boat I never really knew that all it took to run a major cruise ship was
1) a Captain
2) An assistant pursor
3) A bartender
4) A Dr.(marginal)
5) A entertainment director
6) A cute kid"
Carmen, don't forget that it also taught us that, in order to be a TRUE success, a cruise ship should also have:
7) A guest list comprised of washed-up actors
8) The same situations occurring on every cruise
9) A crew of employees constantly on the make
10) Extras paid union scale wages to sit around the pool in bikinis (okay, I admit THAT one does help!)
1) a Captain
2) An assistant pursor
3) A bartender
4) A Dr.(marginal)
5) A entertainment director
6) A cute kid"
Carmen, don't forget that it also taught us that, in order to be a TRUE success, a cruise ship should also have:
7) A guest list comprised of washed-up actors
8) The same situations occurring on every cruise
9) A crew of employees constantly on the make
10) Extras paid union scale wages to sit around the pool in bikinis (okay, I admit THAT one does help!)
I found the Love Boat to be very informative. Let's face it, before Love Boat I never really knew that all it took to run a major cruise ship was
1) a Captain
2) An assistant pursor
3) A bartender
4) A Dr.(marginal)
5) A entertainment director
6) A cute kid
1) a Captain
2) An assistant pursor
3) A bartender
4) A Dr.(marginal)
5) A entertainment director
6) A cute kid
The Love Boat was the type of show that could only have been hatched in the seventies. Where else could you get then-current day TV stars and an endless parade of has-beens working together??
Cheesy comedy and ridiculously overdone musical sequences = prime time gold. At least back then, anyways.
A few years ago, TV Land reran a Christmas episode where Jack Jones (singer of the show's theme song) played a singer on the cruise. He launched into a relentlessly cheery rendition of "Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland" than sent me into utter hysterics! I laughed for ten minutes straight. It was just so over-the-top with this big, smiling doofus singing so happily. You have to see it to understand.
Yes, I must admit, I watched it too. And it got worse when ABC began airing daily repeats Monday-Friday in the afternoons. I would watch those during the summer, as if seeing them once wasn't enough.
Cheesy comedy and ridiculously overdone musical sequences = prime time gold. At least back then, anyways.
A few years ago, TV Land reran a Christmas episode where Jack Jones (singer of the show's theme song) played a singer on the cruise. He launched into a relentlessly cheery rendition of "Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland" than sent me into utter hysterics! I laughed for ten minutes straight. It was just so over-the-top with this big, smiling doofus singing so happily. You have to see it to understand.
Yes, I must admit, I watched it too. And it got worse when ABC began airing daily repeats Monday-Friday in the afternoons. I would watch those during the summer, as if seeing them once wasn't enough.
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