"TV.Garden"
April 17, 2025
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I don't know if this will help but it is a question I've occasionally had.
I would have voted "The Trouble with Tribbles" number one (instead of 5th) and "A Piece of the Action" number two.
Argument that a key to SNL's success is the chance that on any given night the show might bomb. In other words, unpredictability.
All these examples of badness highlight the dynamism that powers SNL: the sense of real risk, the constant threat that a show won’t work.
Which is interesting because years ago I read a piece that claimed what made Johnny Carson so successful what the perception that on any given night there was a small chance that something wild and wonderful would happen. Examples: Ed Ames and the tomahawk, Burt Reynolds and shaving cream down the pants, and Carson finding out that Rickles broke his cigarette box.
And I also read a piece that claimed that the success of the Rat Pack in the 60s was its unpredictability. (I can't find that piece now but this Washington Post piece references the Pack's "unpredictable performances".)
I score it 21 of them are (multiple times) laugh-out-loud funny. (But how they missed both Fernando, and Hans and Franz, is mystifying.)
I don't know that there's a lot of competition for the title, but it made me laugh.
I enjoyed Tulsa King, especially the first season. I liked Mayor of Kingstown although it is certainly the darkest thing I've ever watched on TV. And I really enjoyed Landman. Billy Bob Thornton is terrific in it and the "anti-woke" monologues are simply outstanding.
So, yeah, I think Taylor Sheridan is awesomely talented and I hope he lives long and (continues to) prosper.
The Wire and eight others.
Argument for the things that made Star Trek work.
Doesn't include Hans and Franz, the Church Lady, and Fernando's Hideaway, but otherwise it surely includes some all-time greats. (With videos.)