On this week's episode of "Who's Your Band?," comedian and actor Dave Juskow joins hosts Jeffrey Paul and Sean Morton for a lively discussion about the quirks of beloved television shows from the past. They delve into the cringe-worthy moments of classic TV specials, including the infamous "Do the Fonzie" dance from Happy Days and the equally bizarre "Do the Carmine" from Laverne and Shirley. The trio shares their thoughts on the absurdity of these moments and reflect on their childhood memories of watching these shows, highlighting how they shaped their comedic sensibilities. Along the way, they explore the intersections of nostalgia, humor, and the sometimes disappointing reality of celebrity encounters. Don't miss this hilarious episode of Who's Your Band!

Welcome, everybody, to who's your band?

I am Jeffrey Paul.

I am joined by my co host, Sean Morton.

How are you, Sean?

I'm fucking old, Jeffrey.

I'm old.

I know you get old and broken today.

Couple of things to discuss.

We'll talk about your oldness, and before we bring in our guests, first thing right off the list, we haven't been on in a couple of weeks because it was summertime and there's a lot going on.

One of the things that we kind of, like, built up to before we went on a little hiatus was Sean special.

And Sean special turned out to be.

I'm not just saying that because it's Sean.

I'm.

Trust me, I don't want to say something nice to him.

Okay.

Very true.

But it turned out to be really a really just a beautiful, special night.

It was planned perfect from head to toe, from, like, you know, the show itself to.

I thought afterwards, the way Adam had set up that area for people to say a word and what the word at the end is going to be and who's going to say the last word.

I don't want to give too much away for people going to see the special, but I just thought the whole thing was really done well.

I thought it was handled with class, especially, you know, you showing.

I mean, it was.

It was great.

And thank you so much for having me be a part of it.

Listen, you know what it was, you know, like, we talked.

We did build it up a long time.

It was 16 years in the making, finally.

And then we, you know, once you get everything locked in, then it's like a whole different.

It's a whole different ballgame.

You know, it's a whole different ballgame.

But, you know, having you and Donna open it was.

Was fantastic.

I think it came out okay.

Not 100.

Sure, because Adam still has all the fucking video, and I haven't watched any of it yet.

Not going to say anything, but, you know, maybe I just did.

But Adam taking a long time to do something.

No, that's not.

That's not.

We're in.

We're in no rush.

We're going to have it out.

It's going to be out between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

That's.

That's the whole goal.

Um, but, uh, you know, again, it was nerve wracking because we're doing it in one take, you know, and that was, that was my biggest thing.

And look, we'll give him a shout out here.

He's a friend of the show.

He's been on the show, uh, I was picking rich Voss's brain about two weeks before the taping, and he goes, what's your biggest fear?

And I told him that I'm doing it in one shot because I am a.

I'm a masochist.

And he goes, oh, I did one of my specials in one take.

I did one joke four times.

And I didn't know what he meant because, yeah, you're paying a fucking editor.

Use it for a reason.

And once I had that, I was like, oh, all right, I can do that if I needed to.

And there was a time I did two jokes twice.

I redid them.

They weren't happy with the way they came out.

And we did good, man.

We did 75 minutes, which we'll cut out.

We'll cut down to about an hour, and then real work is going to start.

Then it's getting on Sirius and getting the promotions and the podcasts and the interviews and all that stuff.

And then, Adam, buckle up or go work on number two for same time next year.

So it was definitely good.

That was good stuff.

So the other thing before we bring in our guest is you and Adam.

You two old farts want to go see springsteen last night?

And the two of you have been complaining about this, you know, for almost 24 hours now.

Well, yes.

And first of all, I have to give Adam credit because Adam went the day before.

It was a two day festival called the sea hearing out festival.

Adam is nuts.

Saturday and Sunday, stupid outdoor festival to Jersey shore.

Never.

I will never listen.

I may never go outside in general, period, ever again, let alone go to an outdoor show like this ever.

But it was.

It was an event, I gotta tell you.

We got there.

Well, I texted Adam.

Took us an hour to get through.

How was the show?

How was spring?

The show was great.

The show was on.

They closed off fourth through 7th between Asbury park on ocean Avenue.

I parked somewhere in Barnegat and walked over.

I mean, I felt like I walked for fucking seven days to get over there.

But I.

It did really well.

Three stages.

We walked in.

Cool.

And the gang was playing.

We heard some of them.

Then we saw a tiny bit of Nora Jones, saw action.

Bronson took an hour break, watched gaslight anthem.

They actually opened and had Springsteen play two songs, the very top of the show, because Bruce was going on right after them.

So they opened up a two song Springsteen.

They did a great set.

Bruce played a set, dude.

Like, I mean, I don't know how deep you go?

Uh, Jeff, as far as.

I only toured with him for two.

For two years.

Yeah, I know.

And this comes up every three fucking episodes.

But I really don't know.

It wasn't like a typical, you know, Bruce will always changes his set list up, which I think was great, but he.

This was a catered set list for Asbury Park.

I know he debuted a lot of songs on the tour.

On that show.

He did stuff that he hasn't done in 70 years.

He did thundercrack.

He did Sandy does this bus stop at 82nd street.

I mean, media across the river.

He did so many things that he hasn't done in so many years.

But he took out some of the songs that I love, but, yeah, like.

Prove it all night, my favorite song.

Oh, you know, it's one of my favorites too.

But like, that song ghost, that I love too.

If the new record he took out, which I was fine with, you know, but like, you know, you get to hear something growing.

He did.

Oh, God.

I was just looking at the setlist.

I mean, it was just.

It was.

I've seen him over a dozen times.

I mean, this was definitely one of the best shows I've ever.

I've ever been to as far as set list goes.

And what's the name of the event called again?

See and hear.

See here now festival.

So for years, they expect the fifth or 6th year they've done it in the very beginning.

Never announced the headliners.

They would just book this festival.

You'd buy the tickets and you had no idea who you were.

Go see.

And then, like, they started getting smarter.

They were like, all right, we had Pearl Jam do it one year.

They had.

So now they're announcing.

But, like, the way.

The way it happened with Springsteen, you know, because he had to cancel the shows cause of COVID and he had to put them on the back end of the tour.

It just happened to be that it lined up where his last show was in Pittsburgh or Baltimore at the Baltimore, and two days later was the see here now festival.

So it would just lined up perfectly that he was able to do the festival.

And, I mean, that was a money cow, let me just tell you.

They made.

They made millions and millions of dollars.

Off that episode of that great, great insight into the festival.

Listen, guys, we have a bunch of great shows now that we are back for the fall, into the winter.

And know when it starts right now.

Right now.

Because I want to bring in our guest.

I've been wanting to rebook this guy for the longest time.

He is a comedian.

He's an actor.

He has a podcast.

Let's give it up for return guest, Dave Juskow.

Hello, everybody.

Mister just.

I love this guy.

He's so fun.

You know, he's funny because he kind of gets it, you know?

And, Dave, this is what I found out after the last time you gone here.

You do a podcast on Billy Joel.

Yeah, we just finished it, actually.

We went through every song he's ever written, and we.

We, you know, we did Zanzibar, and we wrapped it up.

You write the new song?

Yeah.

Love it.

Yeah, absolutely love it.

And I went to the last concert at Madison Square Garden, and he didn't play it.

Let me tell you something.

I'm not a big Springsteen fan, but at least that guy mixes up his sets, you know?

So you're going to hear something fresh or different.

Billy Joel never does anything different.

It's really annoying.

He'll change the opening because I've seen him a couple of times on the residency, and one time he opened up with the, you know, I saw the lights go down in Broadway, you know, the Miami song last night.

Right.

And then he'll also open up, I think, with a matter of trust.

Yeah, that sucks.

And, I mean, that song blows.

And when he opens with it, it blows even more.

We were sitting there the last night, people were paying, and we saw online there were, like, $20,000 tickets, which is ridiculous, but let's just say there were, like, you know, thousands of dollars.

People are waiting for something special, and nothing happened.

He wouldn't even play the new song, and that's completely unacceptable.

And.

And like I said, nothing was different.

There was no.

The only.

The celebrity guest or whatever was Axl Rose, and he stinks where he does now.

You know, I saw him there 30 years ago, and he would.

When he was terrific, and now he can't sing, and he.

I mean, it might as well just have me up there.

We're the same weight and height, and, you know, it just.

Our voices are going.

I mean, it was just.

It was bad, and that was not cool.

We were expecting Paul McCartney to come out or anything.

Anything different.

You would think, right?

What you would think.

You would think.

I don't even.

I agree about it.

We obviously did a podcast right after, and I was just.

I'm just done with him.

I'm really angry about it.

It's not cool to not, you know, he says it's like, oh, I'll just come.

I'm.

It's for the fans.

It's for the fans.

But it's clearly not for the fans.

The fans.

The people that go to the residency are going multiple times.

It's not like you're just getting people their first time to a Billy Joel concert.

I understand you got to play scenes from italian restaurant and all that crap, but, you know, just hit us with something you haven't played before or something different, because most of us have been to that residency a hundred times.

When you go to a Springsteen concert and, you know, you're somebody like Ross Zapan.

I don't know if you know him.

He's like the hugest Springsteen fan who's been more than anybody I know.

And, you know, at least you get to see a different show every time, right?

You get this.

Sean, you just said he played this.

He played this.

He didn't play this.

I mean, that's what you want to talk about, Billy Joe.

You know, you're going to get the same.

Say you're going to get the same encore every time.

That's true.

It's the exact same encore in the exact same way, the same list.

How many times can you hear Crystal Sing river?

Deep mouth speaker one.

Oh, my God.

And there it is.

And that's the perfect time that.

That stupid river dream song we shouldn't play anyway.

The time we go to the bathroom, and this time we're like, no, maybe somebody will come out in the middle.

He can't possibly have crystal play that stupid fucking song again.

This last night, a special night at the guard let this how bad it was.

They raised a banner saying, you know, he did, whatever, 150 shows, and it's next to the banner of Harry Styles doing five shows there in one week.

Are you fucking kidding me?

They're just throwing up jerseys out of the rafter now.

It doesn't matter.

Was pathetic.

Yeah.

Taylor Swift got one for doing, like a good 20 minutes set.

Yeah, exactly.

So it meant nothing.

It just made it even worse.

But like he's saying, live and let die with Axl Rose, right?

Which was cool.

That's good.

I've not seen him do it.

But then we were like, why isn't Paul McCartney.

We know their friends.

Why isn't he coming out and say, guys, that's my song, you know, and then go into something?

I mean, that would have just.

That little thing would have been worth the ticket price of $2,500.

But no, you have to hear Mike Del Judas do.

What?

Which one?

Whole lot of love.

He does Zeppelin, that one.

And they did that.

The nessus stupid Dora.

He does that.

Yes.

The stones won again, right?

Oh, yeah.

Stop me up.

And here's the worst part.

I don't know if you guys know.

I mean, Sean, I guess you don't know, but I clearly, Jeff, you been in this stupid show.

I went to.

I went to the show right before you, the second to last one.

Okay, but you guys are comics, right?

So you'll get this.

That stupid innocent man bit.

He does.

Yes, yes.

Oh, my God.

He's like, hey, you guys.

God, I've never done this before.

Well, I'm going to give it a try and see what this was on tv.

He put it on, on CB's.

So it's like, you know what's, that's the new comic rule.

Ever since Louis CK ruined everybody's life, you can't do the same material anymore.

And then this guy just can't stop doing it.

And it's been on television already.

Hundred a 110%.

Right.

You know how it used to be with comedy?

Like, I don't know how old you guys are, but I mean, you.

I'm very young to a comic to see them do the material you loved, and now nobody does that anymore.

I used to go see Roddy Dangerfield.

Well, he would do.

Of course, you just want to hear all the old ones.

But, like, somebody like Richard Klein.

Richard Klein, that's from three's company.

Richard Lewis, Robert.

You think of Robert Klein?

No, I was thinking of Robert Klein.

Yes.

Or, but Robert Klein.

Originally, we was thinking of Robert Klein.

You're like, oh, I hope he does.

I can't stop my leg or whatever.

Right?

I.

You're hoping he does that stuff nowadays, nobody gives you what you actually want.

I mean, it's fine to hear the new stuff, but I kind of miss, like, sometimes I want to hear the old jokes just sprinkled in.

I'm working with a guy who does that.

Next month, I'm working with Bob Nelson.

Oh, no, that's a whole nother story.

That's.

That's different.

He should never do the same thing over and again.

Sorry.

No, he will do Jiffy Jack.

Oh, I know, I know.

He'll do the bird end of time.

Yes, yes, that's, that's different.

I.

We were just talking.

We were wondering if he was still around.

So now you've answered my question.

Yes, I'm.

I mean, that guy did the arms bit, too?

He don't do the armpits.

Do the arm.

Does he do the mannequins?

I don't know.

What's the mannequin one?

The mannequins kiss each other and stuff like that.

He doesn't do that bit either.

No.

Bob Nelson's bit is the bird bit.

He'll do Jiffy Jeff, which is the boxer.

Uh, and he does the football player names now.

Oh, my God, he was on top of the world.

That, that shows you that, you know.

What was that?

The Rodney Dangerfield special, those young comedy.

Comedy specials.

The young comedian specials, they really used to be effective back then.

Now, obviously, they're unnecessary.

Well, of course.

I mean.

I mean, everything has changed, but.

Yeah, he was, I think, on the same one as innocent and dice.

Yeah, I think so, too.

I think.

Yeah, that was a crazy special that had those three guys.

Yeah, that was nuts.

And he was the guy.

I mean, everyone was talking about him.

Yes.

That next week.

It was incredible.

Yes.

And then he.

I think he did it tonight show that he.

Yeah, he was on fire for like a year.

And then he did the boxer thing and everybody was like, that's all right.

But nothing beat that football player thing, you know, in a moment in time in comedy, it was incredible.

But he never kind of got, you know, kind of to that next thing.

I guess he never became like a Seinfeld, you know?

I mean.

Well, yeah, if you're.

If you're in comedy, like, you kind of know who Bob Nelson is.

If you're not, you probably forgot about him, right?

You saw him in kindergarten cop or something, right?

But speaking of tv, and Adam, queue up this first one.

Um, speaking of tv, um, you're like me where you love terrible television.

Okay?

Like, in fact, I think bad television makes us happier than good television.

Like, you know, anyone, anyone could put together a Game of Thrones or a sopranos, but we're talking eighties version of happy Days after they jumped the shock.

Adam, can you play the happy days clip and I'll set up once, once we get it up on the screen.

Okay, yeah, you know what I'm talking about, Adam.

Well, I know what you're talking about already.

Okay.

Are you going to show Joni loves Chachi?

Because I know.

I hope that you remember.

I can go to bed right now.

Dave, that was.

Okay, hold it right there and I'll.

Okay, so this.

What we're about to see is we're going to see a brand new sensation.

This is when happy Days has done everything, but they're still doing pretty good in the ratings.

You can see Fonzie's not wearing the white t shirt anymore.

He's wearing the black t shirt.

Okay.

He's clearly in his forties, but he's still dressing like he's 19 years old.

All right?

And he's going to introduce a band and a new dance craze.

Okay?

And this is going to be called do the Fonzie.

Do you guys remember this?

I remember, I do.

Jeffrey, Sean, you remember do the Fonzie?

I was a huge happy days fan growing up, and I wound up getting the dvd's and watching the whole series, like, four times.

So, yeah, you can queue this.

I came across this, and I was like, I cannot believe this actually made it on television.

Oh, yeah.

And I was like, you know, I have to get Jusko on this.

Cause there's a couple of things that we have to watch.

Adam, let's see a little of this.

Do the Fonzie.

Which one's my camera?

This one here?

Yeah.

Look how cool he is.

How you doing out there?

You want a new dance?

I got a new dance, and it's gonna be done by a friend of mine.

Soon to be a friend of yours.

That's right.

Leather Tuscadero right now.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Here she comes.

Later, brother.

He didn't.

Fucker.

Leather is being backed up by some more friends of mine.

Banned.

That was holding for a second there, Adam.

Yeah, that was the joke, and it's a running joke.

He refers to the band as band and listen to the crowd laughing like.

Like you would think this was, like, the debut of Jim Carrey.

I don't know why there was, you know, after the Pinky Toscadero Fidasco.

The leather was the big.

The next big thing, supposedly.

Well, you know what happened with Pinky Tuscadero, right?

I do.

That's right.

For those of you who don't know, she was supposed to be a regular on the show, but supposedly, she was such a bitch to work with, and I.

A mess.

Yeah.

You see her on the Poland Halloween special?

Of course I saw that.

Did you ever see kiss on the Poland?

Yeah.

Isn't that incredible?

I can't believe that.

Ladies and gentlemen, kiss.

And he's kind of, like, teasing them a little bit, too, like, come on, Paul.

And, you know, and I didn't know he was gay.

Oh, really?

No, I had no gay.

I just thought he was, like, funny and fluent, buoyant, and he was Uncle Arthur.

I love the fact that, you know, he was gay and he was just.

That's why I felt like he was always laughing.

Like everything he said had a gay overtone to it.

So it's like, uh, listen, boys, you know, you never see the Paul Lynn show where he plays a dad married to a girl.

It's just like, every line is like, are you saying my daughter is an adult or something?

I mean, he was so gay, and that's what made him.

He was so gay.

But he.

I mean, if you could.

The Pauline Halloween special has both witchy poo and the wicked witch of the west in one.

One.

That's right.

Margaret Hamilton.

Hamilton.

Now, look, Mister Lynn, you know very well today's Halloween.

You know, the thing is, like, off of camera, Paul Lynn supposedly was like a raging anti semite.

Who?

Oh, Paul Lynn.

Yes.

Yeah, well, he was just a drunk.

Yeah, he was.

He was a drunk, but that was like, supposedly the room.

He was a big anti semite.

All right, Adam, play a little bit more of do the Fonzie.

We got.

We got to see the dance.

It's called do the Fonzie.

Do the Fonzie.

Guys, this was on tv.

60 million people would watch this on a Tuesday night.

Watch the way funsy dances.

Do you think he wanted to do this?

I don't know.

Kind of put him up to it.

Like, those were the kids.

They were supposed to be into it.

And the next day you were supposed to go to school and say, oh, we got to do the Fonzie.

Do the Fonzie.

Yeah.

This is so cool.

Look how cool Fonzie.

Just stand there.

Oh, my God, this was on tv.

Just remember that.

Look at this guy.

Now all the kids, they can't control themselves, and they gotta come out, dance and do the Fonzie.

Both do the big dance craze.

Even his jeans suck.

Oh, God.

I'll tell you, though, Adam, stop it.

He's so cool.

Like, he really is good.

Like, he's.

He's just so good at what he does in that character that, although that's the stupidest thing ever, he still looks cool in it.

Like, he still found a way to, like, move, and he moves well, and he's just.

He's into, like, he was never complaining.

You know, from what you hear about people talking about him, he was a joy on the set.

And obviously, he could have been the biggest dick ever.

And, you know, they wanted to call it Fonzie's happy days after this second season.

And he's like, no, I don't want that.

And Ron Howard was upset about it even, you know, Ron Howard was the star.

He kept me, made sure Ron Howard was still first.

Even though Fonzie moved up the second credits, he was apparently a real team player, which is amazing.

But when he's moving in that, and he's in character, he's the best.

I mean, when we were kids, he was the greatest.

Adam, I got a question for you.

Do you think we can carve out, like, maybe two or 3 hours where me, you, and jeff can just get together, you can bring some equipment, and we can have jeff reenact the fonzie that way?

That's actually the direction I want to go, is the new intro for my special.

I would love to have jeff.

You could move that way.

I don't know if I can move like fonzie.

I know he looked pretty good.

I mean, I could do the.

I can press your jeans, though, to make them look like, make them look like fonzie's jeans.

Those, those are pretty horrific.

Unfortunately, I have those jeans.

What a surprise.

I still wear those jeans.

I do.

You know the, the story of him that I always used to have this joke that, saying he must have had the greatest agent, because if you ever read up on happy days, they did not want him.

They wanted, like, a sylvester stallone type.

And I picture his agent going, well, we don't have that, but we got a jewish guy with a winning smile.

You're going to like.

I mean, it's just, it's, it's amazing when you think about.

Because I, you know, I, you know, I teach at this university, right?

So I teach this kind of stuff and try to explain to the kids how popular he was.

You.

You can't explain it when you're watching it.

If you're any, if you're in 20, you can't possibly imagine when he did that motorcycle jump.

I remember when, when he was about to do it and hit the jukebox and it didn't go on.

I remember my dad going, he lost his power.

Like, he.

Everybody was all in.

It's.

You can't explain it.

He was definitely a hero of mine growing up as a child.

Like, it was always me too, him and rocky.

And so when they went to, uh, I went to one of those autograph, uh, horror conventions, like chilling chiller.

Yeah.

And the one in Jersey.

Yes.

And I'm not a huge fan of, uh, you know, paying for pictures and autographs and stuff like that.

But I was like, you know what?

This is Henry Winkler.

This is definitely a hero of mine.

I'm doing it, and I get up there and I don't get starstruck.

You know, we've all.

We were all in this business a long time.

We have all met some really huge fucking people.

You know, it's not a big deal anymore.

More.

I was definitely a little starstruck when I met him.

And the second he opened his mouth, he was no longer the fonz.

He was a jewish grandfather.

Yeah.

Isn't that funny?

He was the nice.

It's just the nicest, sweetest, like, most caring, down to earth man.

In a way, it kind of ruined Fonsi for me.

Well, you know, it's funny, they have this thing they.

Where they do all these interviews at were the, like, emmy or tv, you know, whatever, the archives.

And he was explaining the character.

And it's kind of funny because, you know, we forget it's a character sometimes until what you just saw.

You know, you're like, oh, wait, it's a character.

Which shows he was a really good actor.

Yeah, exactly.

So he was telling the story how when they first became really successful, they were at a mall, him and Richie and Potsy and Ralph, and there was so many crowds, and they had to get to this limo.

So he said he just went into the character, and then he does.

He goes, okay, everybody's got to move.

Like the parting of the sea.

And when he did it, like, when you heard it, you're like, it's a character.

It's like you just.

I don't know why we didn't think of it.

We're like.

I mean, he was just so fucking good at that.

But then when you hear the difference, like you said, he's like a jewish grandfather.

But then when he goes into the character, it's.

It takes you back, and it's incredible.

Like, even now, if he did that character for you and said one line in that, you would have been like, oh, I'm back.

I'm watching this documentary.

I don't know if you saw it.

Jeff on the Sopranos, the two parter one that's on HBO, Max and I.

Would love to see something like that.

I want to see that, too.

It just came out.

I just watched the first episode, so it's kind of like the same kind of thing with James Gamble Feeney.

Oh, right.

Everybody kind of looks at him now as he's one of those few actors where no matter what he's done in his career, either before or after, he is Tony Soprano.

And I think Henry kind of falls into that category, too.

Like, he's done a tremendous amount of things in his life, but he's always going to be remembered as the fonts.

So you're going to have that car.

I think the only other thing that he was not the Fonzon was probably water boy.

Right, exactly.

But that's why it was so.

That's why he was so beloved in Barry, and that's why people wanted him to win, you know, because it's just like, you just, we all worship the funds.

Adam Sandler clearly worshiped them, which is why he had him in multiple movies.

Right.

He just meant so much to us as kids.

You know something?

It really wasn't supposed to be Henry Winkler.

You know, who went out for the part, I believe he turned it down, was Mickey Dolenz.

Oh, that's right.

I heard about that, too.

And you had mentioned riding the motorcycle.

He never rode the motorcycle.

It was always a dough.

He, he wrote it.

Yeah.

He only maybe rode for a couple of feet in a scene, but he never really rode the most.

That's really funny.

Yeah.

Okay, so if you think do the Fonzie was cringe and get the next one up, this one, I don't.

I don't know, Dave, if you even saw this one.

Okay, but do you remember the companion show to happy days was Laverne and Shirley?

Yes.

And there was, there was a guy who after, like, people started to leave.

I don't even know if Shirley's in the show anymore.

Yeah, she, I think, ended at.

Well, her and Penny Marshall didn't seem to get along at the end.

Right, okay.

So I don't think Lenny was a squiggy state.

Lenny, I think, is gone.

And they tried to have a breakout star.

And remember who that.

You got it.

And this one, and get it up because this one is called do the Carmine.

And look.

And look at who the Jay Leno.

It is a young blackhead Jay Leno.

Remember that?

Did you see this one?

Yeah, of course.

I've seen all of Jay Leno's earlier.

You've seen this bit?

I've seen this bit.

And I've seen the Jay Leno one day at a time as well.

Sean, you've never seen this, right?

Yes, I have not seen.

Okay, to our audience, we have.

This is Jay Leno as the host.

Okay.

And this is gonna be the newest dance sensation.

Do the comment show.

Hit it, Adam.

We have a new dance making its world premiere.

Hey, everybody, when the history books right, the story.

Rock and roll.

Brio.

Got it.

Chapter one.

Here's Carmine doing to the.

Carmine.

Adam, hold it for a second, okay, now, if you look over onto the left side of the screen, you see, you know the woman in the red?

That's Laverne.

She what?

Yeah, look, she looks pretty hot, don't you think?

I do.

One of my friends slept with her and said she had a very big vagina.

Really?

Sorry, go ahead.

Yeah, that is something I wouldn't have known.

No, that's worth interrupting.

Yeah.

To know that.

That Penny Marshall had a big vagina.

I'll tell you the story after.

Okay.

Yeah, I met her once.

She wasn't the friend.

I met her actually more than once.

I met her twice.

Very nice.

Yeah, she wasn't the first time she was okay.

Second time, not.

Not the nicest.

I heard that.

I was lucky.

I talked about her, about sports.

So we got along pretty well.

But look, in this, I mean, her legs, her body looks pretty good.

I know.

I didn't know it was her exactly.

I was, like, turned on by her, and now I'm not.

All right.

Also, that big vagina, you know, now use the polite word.

This big vagina.

Okay, let's see, let's see.

Do the carmine.

Also, they spent a lot of money on that set.

It looked like the stage that you accomplished.

Comedy club.

Sean, do you think you can do the combine?

He could do it, but maybe not in those pants.

People were supposed to go out and go to clubs and do this.

I can't believe Penny Marshall is actually doing it.

Adam, can you hold it for a second?

Did he have.

Did she have an executive credit on this?

On the show in general?

Yes.

Well, her brother was the producer, so I think towards the end, she must have gotten some sort of thing.

But I'll tell you, the really interesting part about the weird part about this.

Is that big vagina.

Besides that, this guy, I think his name's Eddie Mecca, was a really good dancer.

And the funny thing about this dude, the Carmen, he's not really dancing that much unless he dumbed it down later.

Well, the whole thing is supposed to be.

It's supposed to be the new dance craze.

Yeah, exactly.

And the great part about this is, and this is the part you and I like, is that when Penny Marshall directed a league of their own, she had him in it in the big dancing with Madonna.

And I can't tell you, when I was in the movie theater, and I'm like, oh, my God, it's the big ragu.

Yes.

He was almost unrecognizable.

Well, it was because he got old almost 20 years later.

Yeah, but he was still a great.

Dancer, and he's dancing with Madonna, and I love the fact that Penny Marshall and him were clearly still friends.

Like, hey, you got to be in this dance scene.

What dancer?

And he's not really dancing.

Well, it's supposed to be that, because.

This is a Carmine.

Do you understand?

Do you understand what's supposed to be happening here?

Mister Lennon just got.

What's supposed to be happening here is that you're supposed to watch this, and then as a kid, you're supposed to go out and go, listen, Friday night, guys, we got to go out and do the carmine.

What is the carmine?

It's very confusing.

It's a very, it's not like he hasn't really done anything to cause it to be the carmine, except going, just kick a kick here and a kick there.

You kicked like, yeah, he's explained.

Let's watch a little bit more of it.

Let's see if he explains the.

Let's see if it's like a, like a hoedown.

Like we're.

Take your partner.

All right, let's see if I can figure this out.

You got to spread your legs.

That's exactly what the Fonz Washington, the going down, the crouching and then coming up.

That was the fucking Fonz bit.

That was.

And the big.

Remember the big Fonz dance thing, when he did, like, that kind of russian dance?

When he.

Oh, my God, after he walked his motorcycle, like, all those miles.

That's right, because our dance competition.

That's right.

And do you remember who the antagonist in it was?

She was kind of famous.

I know he was in one of.

No, no, he he fought Tom Hanks.

Who was the antagonist in that one?

Charlene Tilton.

Oh, really?

From Dallas?

Yes.

She was, she was like the bitchy girl.

Was that.

She had a big rack, right?

Yep.

She was a little girl with a big rack.

Yes.

And, you know, she.

Remember, she was big on Dallas.

You'll never go from rags to riches.

That was Carmine stank.

See, they want to, like, listen, he's kind of like a, he's kind of like a little bit of a sissy.

You know, he he's gonna, he's, you know, he's a, he's a dancer, and.

But he'll kick your ass because he's a Gold Gloves champion of Milwaukee.

Yeah, that's right.

Meanwhile, the story.

It's a comic.

I don't know.

Well, I guess I can.

He's dead now, so it doesn't really matter.

It's Dan Vitaly.

Did you ever know him?

No.

No.

Living legend of New York comedy.

He was on Saturday Night Live for a year.

Living legend at the improv.

He was amazing.

Just died two years ago.

And, uh.

So he, uh.

He was a mess, you know, drug wise and stuff.

And he went.

Lorne Michaels loved him.

So he took him to the Yankee game with, uh, Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel.

And him and our Garfunkel got into a fight.

And I finally had found out, like, only five years ago, that the fight was the fact that they were both dating Penny Marshall at the same time, I guess.

And they got into, like, a fight, and he punched Art Garfunkel, or Art Garfunkel punched him, and he threw up on our funkle, and it was all over Penny Marshall and her flappy vagina.

That's a great story.

Well, if you like the calm line and you like Bonzi, then this last clip that we hear is going to put both those things to shame.

Okay.

All right.

And can you queue this up, please?

All right.

Now, I'm sure I know both you guys were big fans of the Brady bunch.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, well, this is after years after the Brady bunch.

Okay.

They tried to bring our.

They tried to bring the Brady bunch back.

Okay.

And I don't know if this one was from a variety hour show or if this was one of the.

The one off specials, but here they are doing a disco medley.

Oh, then that's from the variety hour.

Okay, you got it.

Adam, you know the same people that did Donnie Marie and all those.

Yes, yes.

I think Donnie Marie.

Was it on ice?

Yeah, they.

They definitely had ice.

They.

Every.

All those shows on ABC had ice after a while.

Well, ice is very important to a tv audience.

Yes.

And some had water.

Okay.

And this had a very gay Mike Brady.

Okay, so let's.

Let's see this one.

Uh, Adam?

Well, we're ready to do the introduction to the finale.

Where are the kids?

They're not coming out for this one.

Honey.

We're gonna do this by ourselves.

We always do this with the kids.

Well, the kids are gonna be singing.

Why are they even doing this?

And they didn't figure they'd have enough energy for the Internet.

C is this supposed to be in the Brady Bunch universe?

Yeah.

How do they get on tv then?

If they were the Brady bunch?

Wait, no, no, no.

The whole.

The Brady Bunch are in the show.

They're.

I mean, they're in the whole show.

But they're in character.

They're not.

You know, it's not flora sensors.

Miss Brady.

What?

You got to see the choreography on this.

I must have watched this over the weekend.

Oh, no, I think there's about ten episodes.

And every week there's a dance number.

And, I mean, Christopher Knight has said he does not dance, and it's.

None of them dance.

Yeah.

Okay.

I must move a little bit.

I'm telling you.

I must have watched this probably a thousand times this weekend.

It's embarrassing.

If you were black and watching this, you'd be really upset.

This is it.

This.

You.

You saw the choreography, right?

This is it.

It doesn't change that.

You turn your hand and.

Your point.

See, they're letting her sing because that's the new jamden, right?

She's the only one that really can sing, right?

She had some talent.

Yes.

Eve Plum said there's no fucking way she's dealing with this.

And Greg can sing, too.

Kind of.

He thought this was gonna break him out.

Oh, I know that now.

He thought this.

He was gonna go on and have this big singing career.

Bobby and Cindy, they can't do.

They could barely keep up with us.

Barry McGregor song.

Those were the days.

But disco style.

Did you ever see the Christmas special?

Oh, of course.

Look at.

Look.

She gets her voice back.

Yeah, it's so.

That's great.

But look at him.

Look at my face.

He can't sing.

Oh, he hates being there in general.

He want to be taken serious.

Here comes Greg.

Adam, Adam.

Hold it for one sec.

So now we have Carol Brady.

Or do you take Carol Brady?

Or do you take the mom from one day at a time, Bonnie Franklin?

Who do you bang first?

Good question.

It's funny you word it that way, because the mom from one day to time used to be.

I thought she was repulsive.

However, in the pilot, she's very cute.

And then she just aged really horribly right after.

So I think right after the pilot.

Yeah.

In the pilot, I might take Bonnie Franklin, but as far as the series goes, it's definitely going to be Florence Henderson.

But both of them, nobody holds a candle up.

Maureen McCormick really, truly is the hottest girl I ever.

Just those bedroom eyes and the fucking sluttiness now, knowing she would fuck guys for coke.

That's so hot.

Adam, let's get back to this, because this is now, this is supposed to be, you know what's Greg Bray's real name.

Barry Williams.

Barry Williams?

Yeah.

This.

He just saw him on.

On tick tock yesterday.

Took his daughter to the old set.

It was really cute.

Okay.

He's a good guy.

You know, he used to do a thing in Branson.

Yeah, I know.

Cuz he's been on Broadway and stuff.

I mean, he was even trying to make it.

And for some reason, just, you know.

Wait, he was on Broadway?

Yeah, yeah, he was.

I think he was in city of angels, like in the nineties and stuff.

He might have done Joseph in the amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Donnie Osmond did that.

Who?

Donnie Osmond did it.

Yet Donnie Osmond did that for sure.

That's right.

But then they would have people that, like, he never originated a role.

He would come in later, they would try to get like, a little juice, whatever's left of the show, and bring in, you know, the guy from the Brady bunch.

Now.

Yeah.

Here you see him.

Okay.

And he really thinks he like, you know, hey, look, this is gonna be the next part of my career, and I'm gonna blow.

I'm gonna be the next Michael Jackson.

Uh, play it, Adam.

Whitest dancing ever.

Yeah.

Sean, do you think this is good dancing?

Not bad, Jeff.

Like I said, he's not awful.

He didn't make the choreography.

Can you believe this was on network television?

Yeah, I remember it.

I think Bruce Blanche wrote on it.

He comments on it all the time.

Say it again.

I think Bruce Blanche.

Oh, yeah, Bruce.

I think he wrote on it.

So he comments on it all.

Do who this is.

Is that Freddie Prince?

No.

You'll know it in a second.

I had a number one record.

Oh, my God.

Rick D's.

Oh, my God.

Look who they brought out on this special.

The worst song ever.

I didn't hear, like, I think he tried to do other animals in his disco song.

That makes sense.

So gay.

Ah, look who.

Look who this is.

The cast of what's happening.

That's right.

Never.

Fred Berry, of course.

Everybody likes watching him dance.

Yeah.

You see a fat guy who can move like that?

He's awesome.

Loved it.

And it's funny that the other black guys can't dance at all.

Do you know what Dee is doing now?

No.

I think I know.

She went to college.

Only because I talked to Ernest Thomas about her.

Yeah, she's a veterinarian.

Yeah, right.

She went.

Became a doctor.

Yeah.

Now, this was what.

This is a theme song to Lucy, right?

Yeah.

So why is this in the disco medley?

I don't know.

Lucy.

Disco, maybe?

Is lucille ball on the show?

No.

Why do you put Fred Berry off the side?

He should be front and center.

Yeah, agree.

All right, Adam.

Goofy.

Stop it.

That's incredible.

This was my weekend.

This is what I was doing.

I was watching this.

I must get caught down the rabbit hole with this kind of stuff.

Holy.

I don't know.

Me and Adam saw Springsteen with a hundred thousand people on a beach at Raspberry park in a beautiful summer day while Jeff was listening to fucking show tunes.

Apparently.

Again, I went down this rabbit hole.

I would take Jeff's side on that one.

I guess, between.

I was sitting on the couch watching, like, I was watching a little bit of college football for him.

I had to go to my show on Saturday, and then Sunday, I came back to revisit this.

Okay.

I'm watching the NFL much in red zone, but I'm really watching, like, different episodes of the Brady bunch.

Like.

But not the Brady brunch show, like these different specials.

Well, so they had.

I know the whole trajectory.

You know, it was the.

The Brady.

This variety show.

Then they.

Then they bought the Brady brides, which was Marsha and Jan getting married.

Then they had a.

The Brady Bunch Christmas special, which got interest.

A one off, which got him into the Brady's, which was supposed to be like 30 something.

And then it just all ended finally.

Yeah, the Brady's didn't last very long.

And it's supposed to be serious.

Nothing lasted long.

Right.

They were trying to make it more like 30 something, that show that was very successful at the time.

That's right.

But the Brady brunch Christmas special was very good.

I actually spoke to Martha Quinn, who was in it, who played Bobby's girlfriend in it, about it, and she said that she was at that.

I said, what is it?

You know, like, she got to be in the house and be a Brady.

You know, she's like.

It was so surreal, you know, because this was in the eighties, so it was 20 years later, and being a member, like.

Do you remember Ken Ober?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He was MTV, right?

So he used to do the radio show with Susan Olsen, you know, with Cindy in California.

So he told me he went to her wedding, and I said, was that fun?

Who did you sit with?

Because I sat with the entire Brady family.

It was.

Wow.

Was Mike Brady there?

I assume he.

I don't know whether he was dead at that point or not.

He might have been dead, but he would be, because he loved the kids.

He hated the show, but he loved the kid.

So he definitely would have been invited, but I feel like he might have been dead by then.

Was Robbie wrist there?

No, I don't think they cared for him.

But I got to meet him once, too, because he does voiceovers, and it was exciting.

You know, I'm with you.

I, you know, showing up, meeting these people like this is.

I'm friendly now.

And you know, this Jeff with Richard Klein.

You know, Larry from three's company.

Right.

And that.

That's bigger than meeting anyone else in my world.

I am the same way.

I was not nervous talking with Pacino and De Niro, but if I was to run into Henry Winkler.

Right.

Get it.

What's the matter with us?

I.

One.

I was.

I still think this is one of my favorite episodes, too.

We had Donnie most on the show, and Sean and I spoke to Donny most, and we.

Oh, you got to speak with him on this show.

Yeah.

We love how fun.

Yeah, that's exciting.

He wants to be taken seriously as this.

Yeah, well, that's got to call him Don.

Uh, see, that's.

That's the worst.

That's what sucks.

So, um, Naderman.

You know Dan Naderman?

Yes, he told me, you know, they have the comedy seller show, and they had Isaac from the love boat on Ted Lang, and he would not talk about the love boat.

Then why?

You're on the show.

That's why I say.

He goes, I want to talk about this new play I'm doing.

And I'm like, what an asshole.

And I said, you should have just told him to leave because I was furious.

I mean, what do you do?

Does he really think anyone gives a shit about anything he's done?

And if he had done that.

That's the thing.

If you're not okay with yourself 40 years later, you suck.

No, I mean, 40 years later.

Really?

You can't just be grateful that you were on anything.

Yeah.

When you think you watch the love boat, right?

You think about the love boat, and it's a cruise ship.

How small was that pool?

I don't know.

I mean, that set must have been incredible.

And was it a settle?

Were they actually on the ship?

I believe it started where they filmed on a ship, and then it just.

When it became a series, they moved to a set.

Oh, you can't do that.

You got.

Besides, like, you know, the Alaska version or something, you know, like the special.

The two hour specials.

Right, right.

There was also nothing worse in the seventies.

And Matt, you know, Mash, I know, was more in the eighties, but there was nothing worse, on these shows, doing a special serious episode.

Yeah, well, again, mash, you could let go because, you know, you had to.

And even I just watched it before I came on here.

The old ones in the.

From the seventies with the, you know, Frank Burns and everything, when it was fun, Wayne Rogers.

But they still had.

Yeah, and they still had, you know, some of the stuff was really serious, but in a good way.

They did that.

That was done on purpose, though.

Exactly.

And if I got a show facts of Life episode where Tuti became a prostitute.

There was not an episode of that.

There is.

She gets taken into human trafficking.

That's not true.

Get the.

No, I swear.

I just saw.

You have to make the one black cast member a prostitute.

Yeah.

She runs into this girl and she's getting into prostitution.

And you're like, what the fuck is this?

You like popsicles, Tootie?

But.

But then.

But then I say again, it's called the.

I mean, that's extreme, but it is called the facts of life.

And of course, that's the joke.

The very special episode is always like that, but it is called the facts of life.

Maybe that was their plan.

But like you're saying when you're on a comp, does the love boat ever need to be serious?

Ever for real?

It was trite.

No, it was awful.

And that's all we had.

And we had no other choice.

Oh, my God.

Right?

Oh, that's a great one.

That's my favorite one.

He goes like.

And they took my shirt off.

Then he tried to touch me.

Do you remember who.

That just makes me laugh when I see it with Dudley.

Do you guys remember who played the perv?

Yeah, Gordon jump.

That's right.

The station manager from WKIP.

Gordon jump.

Yeah, I think Arnold was over the house.

But, I mean, why did.

Why didn't he molest Arnold?

Why did he go after Dudley?

Well, I think Dudley stayed because, like, Arnold seemed to know something was up.

And Dudley stayed because he had, you know, said, I'll give you some ice cream or something.

And Arnold was probably like, we should get out of here.

And he's like, no, it sounds cool.

And then he gave me something to make me sleepy.

And then he tried to touch me.

Who was this?

Like a young Jim Florentine?

Did you?

Oh, there it is.

See?

Narrowly escapes being recruited as a hooker.

See?

Toady to die flouts the rules when she sneaks off to New York in chaperone and escapes beat to be a hawker.

And it's really funny when Misses Garrett comes in and everybody applauds like, hey, what are you doing?

Speaking of huge vaginas.

Did she come in?

Like the scene in lesson zero?

Robert Downey was about to blow the guy, and then Andrew McCarthy comes walking in.

Was it like that?

Tuti's about to go down on the guy.

Misses Gary.

She's like, Tootie.

It's exactly like that.

No way.

No.

I gotta see this episode now.

Yeah.

Cause the girl.

The girl who was trying to recruit her, I think her name was Tammy Lauren.

And she was on a lot of shows in the seventies and eighties.

I used to find her attractive.

I assume we were the same age at the time.

So, you know, she was kind of sexy as a child prostitute.

That is great.

I never saw that one.

But also, I didn't.

I didn't.

I don't know.

I kind of start to lose interest in facts of life.

When they started bringing in Jerry, they became teenagers.

Yeah.

You wanted to tell misses Garrett to tell Tutti.

Yeah, I mean, come on.

Did you ever.

Do you ever see this one show and she comes like a semi regular?

She had cerebral palsy.

Cousin Jerry.

Cousin Jerry.

Yeah, Jerry Jewel.

Cousin Jerry.

Fucking great.

I love Cousin Jerry.

She's a stand up.

Yeah, that's right.

And she ended up in Deadwood.

She actually got work after the facts of life, which is incredible.

Did you still have cerebral palsy?

No, that's the funny thing.

I met her and I go, hey, I really like what you do.

And she goes, thanks a lot.

You know, character like that is not easy.

You know.

What's the name?

The one who played Blair.

She actually aged pretty good.

She looks great.

She's on that show collector's call on me tv.

And she looks really good.

Yeah, she's got to be like early sixties, I think.

Yeah, definitely.

I think we're probably about the same as she was on the Mickey Mouse club when she first started.

And she was hot back then, I thought too, dude.

Pretty.

I was team Joe Paul in the check.

I was all about.

I was all about Nancy McKee.

Really?

I could see you.

I could.

I mean, there was something sexy about her, obviously.

You know, she kept getting death threats because she wouldn't marry Michael J.

Foxenhe.

So because they used to work together and go out, they were in like three things together.

She wasn't a lesbian?

I don't think so.

No.

She gave a very lesbian vibe.

I didn't think she was sexy.

And then, of course, she wanted to be taken seriously, so she got some other show on, like the USA Network or something, but, like, she won't come back and do the re.

You know, these people that just don't seem to get it.

Don't get it.

I don't know that.

What.

So you take the good, you take the bad, I guess.

There you have.

Do you guys remember who her brother was filming?

Philip McKeon.

Yeah.

Yeah.