Shark Bytes

What really set this lame sitcom apart was the psychotic inanity of its fans that thought it was "intelligent" and high art. Their pretensions and antics were the entertainment, and the fin was sighted with cancellation when they tried to storm the Bastille/AMC website. They still show up on sites like To Be DIScontinued! spouting their conspiracy theories, and the rehash is classic JTS behavior. Nostalgia tinged with pity.

This show quite frankly never jumped the shark. In fact, it was getting stronger despite a couple of weaker story lines (e.g. Hilary and Jeff divorce).
No, the issue here was simply this. A new executive came into power at AMC. He said "I'm in charge". He couldn't take control while admitting that his predecessor had made a great decision to create 'Remember Wenn". So he just basically said. "I'm in charge!!! and cancelled it. I always wondered if he stayed in charge for long. I mean his big replacment show for RW was "The Lot". Hey" That show did well.

Overall, a fine show – sort of WKRP, the prior generation. Quality uneven Some episodes good – some forced. The show jumped when program director Victor Comstock was invited to cover the London blitz – was killed – then turned up as a spy in Germany undercover as a Nazi propaganda broadcaster – then snuck back into town because he missed his perky assistant (Mary Richards – also the prior generation). All downhill from there. The show had run its course and Rupert Holmes had run out of ideas and was resorting to anachronisms (WENN went all news briefly in 1940). The show did deserve better from ABC – and from its creator, who only did a half dozen or so episodes each year.

This show was treated terribly by AMC, who cancelled it without warning, leaving several cliffhangers up in the air. They still refuse to syndicate it. It's too bad I never appreciated it while it was on the air, but I inadvertently captured one episode on tape and that has become one of my most prized possessions. Great ensemble work (no "stars" in this cast), and classic comedy suitable for the whole family. Rupert Holmes is a genius in just about every medium (he also wrote and performed "The Pina Colada Song," and wrote the book, music, and lyrics for the Broadway musical "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," not to mention several mystery plays [one of which won the Edgar] and he's just published a novel too). AMC's abysmal treatment of this show foreshadowed their fall from a great network to the travesty they are today (showing less-than-classic movies cut and with commercial interruptions, and running promos over the endings).

This show never jumped the shark or came even close! Rupert Holmes was (and is) a genius! The show had everything going for it... incredible scripts, great music with brilliant lyrics, and the most adorable cast ever.

Priceless stuff, indeed. For me, this show was appointment television every Saturday Night. I enjoyed the way that the jokes were sidled in on many episodes. Take, for example, the episode where Molly Ringwald guest starred as a blind person who was a fan of the Vagabond. There were sentences that sounded like the crew was doing mob work. Even when the show took a dramatic turn after the second season (such as the episode with Jeff Singer's SECOND wife), it was good television. Rupert Holmes made this show work on all levels, and I really miss it. I am glad to see, from the above posters, that I am not the only one who remembers this excellent show. As bad as today's television has become, I wish that we could have a show like this one. I too make the tradition of watching the Christmas episode every Christmas Eve. I feel bad for those who did not take advantage of buying the "Best of" episodes on video. That was a good buy. AMC jumped the shark after unceremoniously canning the show on a TRIPLE cliffhanger. That was painful. If anyone at AMC is reading this, I ask you to either renew the show, even if it is for one last season, or put all the shows that you have on DVD, since nearly-forgotten television shows on DVD has become a trend lately. This was one of the best cable series on cable television EVER, and the awards that this show has earned is credibility within itself. Truly a show for those who enjoy quality television without stooping to levels that television today has gone to.

In the age of reality shows, I truly miss "Remember WENN". Every show was fresh and new, with truly talented actors. I loved every episode and so looked forward to the next. My favorite was the one which featured Howard Rollins, Jr. in what was his final role. They don't make them like this any more.

Never jumped. Jeeze, AMC missed the boat here. Not only were the cast members excellent, the show consistently drew wonderful guest stars (although I'm at a loss for Bob Dorian). Jason Alexander was great as a radio psychic, especially with the card trick that TV viewers could also play. Julie Hagarty as Mackey's wife, Peter Noone as a visiting British journalist, to name a few. Also, using the name Mister Foley was a wonderful idea. A foley artist is a sound effects man, and that was the only way he communicated on the show. The hour-long Christmas show is my favorite. I've been in radio for 20-some years, and the shut-down scenario has been played over in my life several times. The music in that show was all original. I watch it every Christmas Eve. Priceless stuff!

This show was the best way to spend my Saturday Nights. This was one of the BEST cable shows that ever graced the medium. It was very engaging, the cast was very good, and the premise was top notch. I even bought some episodes on tape when AMC began promoting them in 1997. . The Web of complexity was very well woven by Rupert Holmes, and I for one could not be sadder when the show ended. It was THE WAY IT ENDED that hurt me, on a triple cliffhanger. Now, thanks to AMC, it will be left unresolved, left to linger in my head with an ending that I have to come up with on my own. If anything, it was AMC that JTS! But that is for another time, another page.

Jump the shark?? This show didn't know how! Exceptional writing by Rupert Holmes made the show a cut above everything else on network television, and the icing on the cake were the members of the cast who only proved talent isn't determined by a bank account the size of the Gross National Product of some nations. They were a joy to watch every time they graced the screen. I truly miss it not being on any longer.

NEV-UH! This show was great from the first episode to its last <sniff>. Of course, ending it on a cliffhanger kind of sucks, but that was the fault of AMC rather than the creators of the show itself. That said, I'm kind of partial to the later episodes, after Carolee Carmello arrived.

Remember WENN was consistently brilliant comedy with writing consistent with the late 30s- early 40s era it was saluting. Compared with current TV standards, Remember WENN was much more sophisticated and literate in its humor. The ensemble cast reminded me of the Dick Van Dyke Show and Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. The series was poised to enter WWII and would have had plenty of wartime homefront material to work with for many more episodes. Sadly, Remember WENN was cut short on a triple cliffhanger. It cries out for renewal before it is too late.

Remember WENN never jumped, although the fourth season episodes did go more for slapstick. However, this was AMC's fault--they told Rupert Holmes he couldn't use any more continuing storylines and to cut back on the serious material. I thought it just added further depth to the characters. The characterizations were spot-on, the verbal humor was wonderful, and so were all the inside jokes. That's why they had a character do the Heimlich maneuver--it was a joke that someone in WENN's time knew about it. Characters on WENN also came up with ideas for the Weather Channel, live radio talk shows, etc. Also, the pizza in the episode wasn't delivered. Eugenia bought it from a pizzeria. They were just starting to move into cities in the late 1930s. The box might have been an anachronism--but how else would they have taken it home or to work, on a plate? The bakeries where I grew up had been using boxes like that since before I was born; probable that they might go back to 1941!

I adored this show, and actually the later episodes are much better then the early ones with Celia Melon. I adore Scott. He's the ultimate scamp with a heart of gold. That it was cancelled at all sucks, but could they have picked a worse time? I watched in Re-runs unfortunately, so maybe I missed it, but the last episode they would ever show, before starting again with the first one, was the cliffhanger, with Betty about to choose between Victor and Scott. Does anyone know what was supposed to happen? She was going to choose Scott, I hope, but the fact that my favorite characters ever were just left hanging is a source of constant torment to me.

I liked the show fine, but it annoyed me when they did two things that weren't done in those times. First, one episode has this circa 1940 group ordering pizzas delivered to the station! Pizzas weren't even known then, and if they were, they weren't something you could order and have delivered in the standard flat cardboard boxes like today! The writers should have known better. Second, there was a scene at a dinner table and some character started choking. Right then another character swung the choking person around and started giving him the Heimlich maneuver! (Correct spelling on Heimlich?). That wasn't discovered until either the 1970s or 1980s. Maybe I'm too finicky, but I am growing more annoyed at shows that have such mistakes of historical/cultural inaccuracy.