Wednesday, August 15, 2007

All I Know Is What I Read on the Internet

I never met a blog I didn't like.

Yep. You guessed it. Today we're paying homage to Will Rogers, who died 72 years ago today.

Suprisingly, his quotes aren't immortalized in TV ep titles. Maybe they just have too many words.

What about his filmography? Well, I chose two of his flicks — Boys Will Be Boys (1921) and Life Begins At Forty (1935). Why these two? I wish I could say something significant. Historical. Maybe even amusing. But I can't. I chose them only because TV ep titles are likely to have multiple variations of these two phrases. Maybe not even homages, but at least they'll be similar.

Some say Life Begins At Forty, but when else does life start? And what about death?
  • Death Begins at Forty (''Home Improvement,'' 10/4/1994)
  • Death Begins at Seventy (''Adam Adamant Lives,'' 2/18/1967)
  • Life Begins at 65 (''Bridget Loves Bernie,'' 1/13/1973)
  • Life Begins at Dinner (''Nurse,'' 4/23/1981)
  • Life Begins at Thirty (''The Stockard Channing Show,'' 4/28/1980)
So if Boys Will Be Boys, what else will be?
  • Bots Will Be Bots (''Daigunder,'' 10/4/2003)
  • Bots Will Be Boys (''Rolie Polie Olie'')
  • Boy Bands Will Be Boy Bands (''Totally Spies!,'' 8/21/2003)
  • Boys Will Be Boys
    • ''Any Day Now'' (2/17/2002)
    • ''Babar'' (5/28/1990)
    • ''Baywatch'' (2/6/1999)
    • ''The Donna Reed Show'' (3/4/1959)
    • ''Just William'' (11/19/1995)
    • ''Kraft Television Theater'' (1/26/1955)
    • ''Law & Order: Trial by Jury'' (5/6/2005)
    • ''Meerkat Manor'' (7/7/2006)
    • ''The Real World'' (9/21/2004)
    • ''Road to Avonlea'' (1/31/1993)
    • ''Room by Room''
    • ''Safe Harbor'' (11/28/1999)
    • ''Save Us from Our House''
    • ''Silver Spoons'' (10/2/1982)
    • ''Step by Step'' (12/11/1992)
  • Boys Will Be Eds (''Ed, Edd 'n Eddy'')
  • Boys Will Be Girls (''Wings,'' 4/7/1994)
  • Boys Will Be Girls (''Chicago Hope,'' 2/3/2000)
  • Boys Will Be Men (''Fireside Theatre,'' 4/25/1950)
  • Boys Will Be Men (''Matinee Theatre,'' 7/30/1957)
  • Boys Will Be Playboys (''The Smothers Brothers Show,'' 11/26/1965)
  • Girls Will Be Boys
    • ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' (3/3/1965)
    • ''Full House'' (4/28/1992)
    • ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' (2/13/1962)
    • ''Punky Brewster'' (1/12/1986)
    • ''Zoey 101'' (1/29/2006)
  • Girls Will Be Ghouls (''The Girls Next Door,'' 10/15/2006)
  • Guise Will Be Guise (''Angel,'' 11/7/2000)
  • Men Will Be Boys
    • ''The Bad News Bears''
    • ''Jack & Jill'' (11/21/1999)
    • ''Little House on the Prairie'' (11/13/1978)
  • Men Will Be Men (''Christina Cooks'')
  • Toys Will Be Toys
    • ''Fantastic Max''
    • ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy''
    • ''Grim & Evil'' (11/12/2004)
    • ''The New Three Stooges''
    • ''Tom and Jerry Kids''

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