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Episodes you arent crazy about

posted 10 years ago by mamamiasweetpeaches
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I just watched an early Season One episode The Fight of Felix where Oscar and Felix get in trouble 'flirting' with some guys girl and the gy wants to fight Felix. Everytime I watch the show I wonder why I dont skip this episode. Its below average in my book.

I also dislike THE HIDEAWAY, in which Oscar wants the Eskimo guy to become a quaterback. I always skip that one.

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[–] JoeKarlosi 10 years ago

The fight with the hockey player episode is a good one in my book. I agree that the Eskimo "Hideaway" episode is poor, and I would also add "I Do, I Don't" from the first season as one of the worst.

I can't stand the episode with Marilyn Horne as the chubby opera singer who has a crush on Oscar. I'm also not fond of the episode "Where's Grandpa?".

[–] Qanqor 10 years ago

You didn't like the Marilyn Horne episode? But that episode contains one of my very favorite lines in the whole series. Wonderful just for the timing of it. At the end of the second scene, Felix is imagining turning Jackie into a great opera star, and he muses, "I wonder how she'll thank me?" Oscar bitterly replies, "Maybe she'll buy you a lint brush.", referencing the awful birthday gift Felix had given Oscar at the *beginning* of scene *one*. I love how the line references something so far back in the episode, that we'd forgotten and weren't thinking about-- but Oscar is clearly *still* annoyed by it. :)

[–] Eddysfitzboy 10 years ago

I don't really remember the episode but I do remember that line!

It's been a very long time since I've watched this show and since MeTV is showing it, I've seen it quite a bit lately.

Anyway, it's definitely a fun show and a great way to kill some time.

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[–] spayer27 8 years ago

I think The Hideaway might have been ground-breaking for the time, though now it smacks of high-level political incorrectness. It's hard to watch that in this day and age, but in a time when "Affirmative Action" and making those numbers bump up by adding people of...how to say this? Not the mainstream cultures of the US...this was a new concept at the time, and it was considered open and accepting. But the admission that the guy wasn't a good player,of either discipline, and that they were only asking him to play in order to bump up their AA numbers, THAT was quite a statement!

[–] mbell-14 8 years ago

Not like that doesn't happen now, of course.

[–] rhs6358 10 years ago

The one where Oscar, Felix and Nancy are trapped in the basement. Season one was probably the poorest year, but this was the worst episode to me.

[–] BiPolaRolla 10 years ago

Any of the ones that base the entire theme on a guest star (other than Deacon Jones). Opera stars, network guys, child stars, Bobbi Riggs, etc. I did like Penny Marshall in small doses, but they really went overboard with her in some.

[–] dart85 9 years ago

Paul Williams, ugh

[–] pepperdog61 10 years ago

Eskimo one for me too, plus a few of the celebrity ones, like with Edward Vilella. Could do without the one where Oscar dates the Greek girl with the old-fashioned family, too.

[–] tmaj48 10 years ago

I wasn't too crazy about "The Hideaway" either, but I did think the guy who played the Eskimo was cute. He later played Poppy on Seinfeld.
Most of the
episodes with special guest stars are kind of mediocre, although Klugman and
Randall manage to make them work. "The Fight of Felix" and "Oscar's New Life" with John Astin as Oscar's new boss aren't that great, either.

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[–] hariseldon59 10 years ago

"The Fight of Felix" and "Oscar's New Life" with John Astin as Oscar's new boss aren't that great, either.

At least "Oscar's New Life" featured Ed Platt (The Chief from Get Smart) as Oscar's editor. I wish he'd appeared in more episodes.

[–] BenjiCarver 10 years ago

I agree. "Yes, my nephew the housepainter" still cracks me up.

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[–] BiPolaRolla 10 years ago

Oscar's new life was one of my favorites as well. Buff Buffington as a take on Hugh Heffner (who later did a cameo of his own) was fun. I liked how he described football as erotic. Or him dropping his pipe and the weird handshake.

I saw a doc on Paul Williams and they mentioned the episode which featured him as, simply "Paul Williams." I really had no idea that his songs were done by major talents.

[–] brendanchenowith 9 years ago

"the guy who played the Eskimo...later played Poppy on Seinfeld."

GET OUT!!!

Wow, first he stinks on the cello, then he PEED ON THE COUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[–] jefgg 10 years ago

Reni Santoni is the name of the actor who played the Alaskan football player Oscar represented. I know Santoni for playing corrections officer Ramon Herrera in the 1983 drama "Bad Boys" starring Sean Penn.

[–] austinman 8 years ago

DAMN!
How did you stumble across that bit of trivia!

[–] jefgg 8 years ago

I am a big fan of both "Bad Boys" and "The Odd Couple" and recognized Reni Santoni's face.

[–] hoosiersfan2011 10 years ago

I dislike "The Exorcists" from season 4, in which Felix is convinced that the apartment is haunted and that the ghost resides in the window air conditioner. He also thinks he can talk to the ghost by conducting a seance. Maybe this episode was trying to capitalize on the popularity of The Exorcist, which had been released earlier that year. But it was just dumb. It seemed out of character for Felix to believe in ghosts.

[–] Qanqor 10 years ago

I'm not a fan of pretty much the entire first season in general. Also, pretty much any episode with Nancy in it, I really disliked her character. One that stands out in my mind as a least-favorite is the one where Oscar & Felix are supposed to go to some big affair and do the classic "Who's On First" sketch, but instead they play host to a baby that some woman left at Felix's studio. Not a funny episode, not a funny premise, and Nancy at her least funny and most annoying.

[–] steveburden-62192 10 years ago

I dont care for the one where Oscar marries Blanche and a honeymoon in the barracks.....

But I DO like the scene as they ate getting married..and the minister (love that guy)
And the little girl "Crystal" who couldn't play the piano well.

[–] fuggedaboudit 10 years ago

I agree with you. Not crazy about the episode but that part was really funny. I like when they tell Crystal to just play what she knows best and as Blanche is walking out she's playing scales, 

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[–] daverindone 10 years ago

The Old Chicago one and when Felix played his own Grandfather (of Father).

[–] lorraine1232 9 years ago

I dislike the one with Felix's daughter and Paul Williams.

[–] macasey66 9 years ago

Oh yeah, to me that's the worst episode EVER. What kind of teenage girl, even in the 1970's, liked Paul Williams?! What a nerd! He made John Denver look cool in comparison!!

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[–] brendanchenowith 9 years ago

I liked his songs back then...by others...Marvin Hamlisch is a nerd, Burt Bachrach was a nerd, Paul Williams was just...eeeewww. You're right - a teenage girl wanting to take off and follow him? Sounds a bit like CHARLIE to me.

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[–] dfw364-1 8 years ago

The ballet episode with Edward Villella. I'm a huge fan of the show but this one was unwatchable for me.

[–] brendanchenowith 8 years ago

I know - Poor Oscar had to step in, too. I felt bad for him.

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