Frank, over at PCGuyIV, helped out Pensitivit101, and posted this list last week. Your best lies, please.
1. Why is he called “Dr. Who”?
Because we first met him 50 years ago, when we were all young and curious. Now that we’re all old farts, it’s more like “Dr. Whuh???!”
2. What happened after the final episode of M*A*S*H was aired that made it newsworthy?
Thirty million toilets flushed simultaneously, crashing the water supply systems in New York, L. A. and other cities for half an hour, until straining pumps could refill reservoirs. Firemen had to improvise.
3. What do The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show all have in common?
The titles all start with the word “The” and end with the word “Show.”
4. What 1990s’ sit-com is about a group of six acquaintances living in Manhattan?
That was “Seinfeld,” with Gerry, Elaine, George, Cosmo Cramer, Neman the postman, and the Soup Nazi.
5. What is the TV show, NCIS, about?
About six years too long. It’s hard to chase down criminals when you’re pushing a walker, and wearing support hose.
6. What does CSI stand for?
That is a secret network code that means, ‘If the original was successful, and made boatloads of money, we will continue to present spin-offs until the suicide rate rises significantly.’ “Coming next season, CSI: Kankakee, and its British cousin, CSI: Tynemouth.
7. The TV show, Bull, though dealing with court cases, isn’t about a law firm. What kind business or organization does the show center around?
It is a high-interest, mob-owned bail-bond service. If you don’t pay off the charges, there are two chances that you’ll end up in hospital – selling a kidney to make the payment, or from injuries sustained, falling down a flight of stairs – three or four times. No bull!
8. What planet were they searching for in the original Battlestar Galactica?
Tau Ceti 16. The crew had had enough of battling Cylons, and wanted at least a temporary respite, on the world that Barbarella landed on. Who could forget Jane Fonda in the nude – or the Orgasmatron?? I originally watched it in French, and never noticed the dialogue.
9. What was the inspiration for the animated show, The Flintstones?
To make as much money with a cartoon, as the first James Bond movie, Dr. No. Oh, do you mean, What was it based on?? The Honeymooners. Bam! POW! To da moon, Alice – or was that The Jetsons??!…..
10. In the original Star Trek, what exactly was the 5-year mission of the USS Enterprise?
To foist Canadian, William Shatner on an unsuspecting American audience. Shatner, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Shania Twain – Americans just never seem to get the joke. How else to explain T J Hooker, or Boston Law??

