He always condemns people for drinking, using drugs or sleeping late. While we know he does all three.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
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shareHe's the morning man, how does he sleep late? Yeah, he goes to Snookies(?) for a beer, but it's not as if he's drunk all the time, and how much was he doing drugs. He did do them when he was younger, but I don't recall him being stoned. And when did he admonish others to not do those things?
shareRemember the episode when they thought a bomb was planted in the building? Venus pointed out to him that the cops would search the office, including his desk. And he ran. So he must have had something he didn't want them to find.
shareThere was also the time that Carlson torpedoed Herb's ad deal with a pipe shop because he said it was just a front for selling drug paraphernalia. Johnny asks Herb just where this shop was.
Also, there was the one where they find Herb hiding out in the porno theatre, rather than having heart tests at the hospital. When the police raid the theatre, Johnny empties the contents of his pockets on the floor across the aisle.
I don't really remember him admonishing anyone for doing drugs. The closest I can think of is when he's giving Doug Winter a hard time about the coke he got from Murray Gressler. Even then, it was about it being payola, not it being drugs.
"Hogs have futures, I don't."
Dr. Johnny Fever
Les: What about your joints? (meaning bodily joints)
Johnny: (Looks weird at Les) ...Johnny was a real hypocrite, even though he thought he had schistosomiasis.
When Johnny's daughter visited with her boyfriend, Justin suggested getting high.
Johnny made a face then too.
At one point on another episode, Venus gave Johnny a recipe for his health. Johnny said, "No matter how much I continue to abuse my body, THIS (recipe) will keep me alive?"
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
On a tangent - Howard Hesseman himself is a hypocrite. I saw interviews with him during his time as on WKRP, and he couldn't wait for the show to be over.
Yet, he gladly came back to do the new show. And, this was after doing several movies and Head of the Class.
Even though I love Howard Hesseman, I really don't like when actors turn their backs on the characters that made them the most famous.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
I agree. Some of the classier actors, when approached by an individual praising them for a role the actor hated will simply say, "I'm glad you enjoyed it."
They are also pretty careful about how they criticize those roles in interviews.
I do have to wonder why he came back to the New WKRP later on. He had to have made a lot of money from Head of the Class.
Well, "Johnny" must have blown his stash so he was VERY excited to get a chance to refurbish his pharmaceuticals.💊🍄😲
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. Yogi Berra
After Johnny quits being Rip Tide, he comes back to his dressing room and steals about five bottles of hard liquor, and the TV audience applauds.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
Hesseman was even big enough of a man to join the reunion cast for a quick Q & A on a supplemental DVD on the Shout! Factory release of the show. I think I will watch that again today.
"'Extremely High Voltage.' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer SimpsZZZZXXXXSSSSS--" - Frank Grimes