  Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1373 Registered: 09-2007 |
Were there any Sitcoms that referenced Detroit in a good or bad way? I'm specifically was looking for the good on sitcoms from the 50s and 60s. I do know the Big 3 provided the automobiles featured on these shows. However, any Sitcom from any decade in any way will surely be appreciated. | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1396 Registered: 06-2005 |
There was Martin in the 90's | ||
Jasoncw Member Username: Jasoncw Post Number: 474 Registered: 07-2005 |
Home Improvement of course. | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1397 Registered: 06-2005 |
Home Improvement Sister, Sister I didn't see anything relating to the 50's or 60's I will search a little deeper and post on the forum | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4341 Registered: 02-2005 |
On Seinfeld George had to go to a funeral in Detroit. No negativity came into that funny event. However, when Jerry and George wanted to make one of George's girlfriends fall asleep, they said that they would show her a home video of George's boyhood trip to Michigan. The hilarity of this makes up for the slight towards the state of Michigan. | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 1603 Registered: 02-2006 |
There was also the Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Newman tried to drive to Michigan with a mail truck full of cans to return. | ||
Mcp001 Member Username: Mcp001 Post Number: 3198 Registered: 11-2003 |
You might have some problems finding what you're looking for, Detroitrise From what I've read about TV at that time, one of the things that they did was to make them as "universal" as possible, and didn't really specify where a particular show took place. But the person to ask about all things TV, would be Ed Golick. If he hasn't responded to this thread, you can find his website is here. | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 80 Registered: 08-2006 |
There was a sitcom in the late 70's about a guy who worked construction with his son ,then there's "Rhythm & Blues"-set in a Detroit rap radio station debuted same time as Martin, "8 Simple Rules", "Freaks & Geeks"-as far as these shows go it's not really bragging rights-I mean when I take visitors around Seattle we'll go to the basement of the Elliot Bay Book Co. because that's the prototype of where Niles & Frasier Crane go to lunch but there's nothing like that in a Detroit sitcom, frankly http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01 03525/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8 _Simple_Rules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C ategory:Television_shows_set_i n_Michigan | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1779 Registered: 03-2006 |
8 simple rules for dating my teenage daughter a lot of these shows take place in royal oak. sister sister was g.p. | ||
Tayllik Member Username: Tayllik Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2007 |
In the 70's there was short lived show called "joe's world" set in Detroit. the show was on there air for a very short time I remember the guy that played Peter Brady was on this show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00 78632/ | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 1006 Registered: 11-2003 |
Just one episode, but The Munsters had one called "The Fregosi Curse." The Munsters fly to Detroit to meet with Henry J. Fregosi, the CEO of Amalgamated Motors to break the Fregosi curse. http://www.tv.com/the-munsters/the-fregosi-emerald/episode/12855/recap.html (Message edited by rjk on January 14, 2008) | ||
Krapug Member Username: Krapug Post Number: 74 Registered: 12-2003 |
In "Good Times", Louis Gosset, Jr. played a Cousin from Detroit of Esther Role's. This was after John Amos left the show. Ken | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1356 Registered: 11-2003 |
Also, on the show Sister Sister they went to U of M and stayed on campus | ||
Cmubryan Member Username: Cmubryan Post Number: 513 Registered: 11-2003 |
Throughout the Mary Tyler Moore show, Lou references how he worked in Detroit at the Free Press. | ||
Mdoyle Member Username: Mdoyle Post Number: 309 Registered: 10-2006 |
Freaks & Geeks took place in some un named suburb but was based on the writers experiences at Chippewa Valley High School in Clinton Twp. | ||
Kslice Member Username: Kslice Post Number: 263 Registered: 04-2007 |
In South Park after Satan kills saddam, Satan asks, "how did you get back here", to which Saddam replies "where was I gonna go, Detroit?" I know, I know too much about South Park. | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 243 Registered: 11-2006 |
Not necessarily a sitcom, but the female lead (I can't remember her name right now) on Northern Exposure was from Grosse Pointe. One episode had her taking the good Jewish doctor there to meet her WASPish family. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1374 Registered: 09-2007 |
Thanks everyine fir the comments. I would definitely love to watch that episode of The Munsters, and see how they pictured Detroit at that time. Oh, and I know of 2 other shows. Good Times referenced Detroit several times, but in sort of a competitive manner (we were in the same league at the time). Then, on Family Matters, Harriet had a younger cousin from Detroit who came to visit, but she sent him back because of his "disrespectful" ways and how he got Eddie and Steve into some mess. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 906 Registered: 10-2003 |
There's one more Munsters episode that references Detroit, "All-Star Munster" with Pat Buttram. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6132 Registered: 08-2004 |
Detroitrise... all Munsters episodes were filmed in sound stages... no on site locations, even when Detroit references were included. Now as for the Fregosi Emerald... that curse is real!  | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1379 Registered: 09-2007 |
Gistok, I know that. I'm sure they had scenes of the city though during the episodes. | ||
Blksoul_x Member Username: Blksoul_x Post Number: 119 Registered: 06-2007 |
On the sitcom 'Sanford and Son'...Lamont and Rollo pretended to be bourgeois to impress a couple of coquettish women that flew in from Detroit...As it turned out, the women where not impressed by Lamont and Rollo's fallacious and highfalutin act. I recall, later on__in one scene the two Detroit girls 'diss'n' the imported wine that Rollo offered...I think is was pronounced 'Bour-zo-lay', but becoming very excited when Fred(Lamont's Father) offered them a glass of Ripple__(funny stuff!) blksoul_atcha! | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 291 Registered: 02-2006 |
Homer Simpson's half-brother Herb Powell. Herb Powell, who looks just like Homer, except taller, slimmer and with more hair, is the head of eponymously-named automobile manufacturer Powell Motors, which is in danger of being taken over by the Japanese because of otherwise poor management. He is very rich, but is quite unhappy not knowing who he is and where he comes from. He is overjoyed upon hearing of his half-brother and invites the entire Simpson family to stay at his mansion in Detroit.  | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 82 Registered: 08-2006 |
Tayllik, yup that's the show-"Soul Man" took place in Royal Oak for some reason; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01 18473/ | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6143 Registered: 08-2004 |
Detroitrise, maybe you will understand this... NO scenes, NO aerial shots, NO photos, NO footage of Detroit were ever shown on The Munsters... NONE! | ||
Daf Member Username: Daf Post Number: 43 Registered: 02-2007 |
On Alf, there was some (recurring?) bit about a place on his home planet called Detroit. All the best R&B bands came from there. Good old Alf. | ||
Frumoasa Member Username: Frumoasa Post Number: 103 Registered: 03-2007 |
In reference to the Sanford and Son episode...I believe it was pronounced "bo-jo-lay" and Fred wooed the ladies with not just ripple, but a pot of onion stew as well | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1362 Registered: 11-2003 |
Is that ONION- STOO-OOH-OOH lol... Fred came in and showed the ladies a good time. I remember one of the chicks being named Della lol. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1384 Registered: 09-2007 |
Gistok, well thanks for bursting my balloon. I will be highly disappointed now if I ever saw that episode. | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 777 Registered: 08-2006 |
The Simpsons have countless Detroit references some of my favorite are when the family spend a lot of time in the country they become like laid back country folk. When they are ready to leave you see Homer leaning on the car and comments harshly on the rich people by the fence and their fancy fur coats. Marge tells homer that they are Moose. Homer then yells at the Moose"Go back to Grosse Pointe" Then there is the time Marge shows her ability to toss a drunk out by throwing Homer which Homer responds " Ah yes! Detroit style very nice" There is also when Homer says "We have a saying around here....let Michigan handle it!" | ||
14andhayes Member Username: 14andhayes Post Number: 8 Registered: 06-2007 |
That would be Farmington Hills native Al Jean's influence with the Detroit/Michigan references on the Simpsons (Message edited by 14andhayes on January 16, 2008) | ||
Tk65 Member Username: Tk65 Post Number: 10 Registered: 12-2007 |
I think this Home Improvement spin off was Detroit based also. Thunder Alley http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01 08957/ | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4469 Registered: 10-2003 |
Does "City Council" on local cable count? Not picking on Detroit either, almost all metro city councils are on local cable. | ||
Crash Member Username: Crash Post Number: 5 Registered: 12-2007 |
The TV show Scrubs has a character Dr. Cox who often wears a Detroit Red Wings hockey jersey or a Cheli's Chili shirt. Sometimes, he'll make all his residents wear Red Wing stuff too. | ||
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc Post Number: 112 Registered: 12-2007 |
Crash, thats because John is a friend of Chris Tselios | ||
Daf Member Username: Daf Post Number: 44 Registered: 02-2007 |
Robocop: The Series was in Detroit. /wait, INTENTIONALLY comedic? //got nothing else then. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6983 Registered: 02-2004 |
Sister Sister is probably filmed scenes in Grosse Pointe, MI. And Home Improvement film scenes in Keego Harbor, MI. | ||
Qdaddy77 Member Username: Qdaddy77 Post Number: 60 Registered: 05-2007 |
"Soul Man" with Dan Aykroyd was a failed Home Improvement spin-off. He was a widowed motorcycle driving priest in Royal Oak.... | ||
Goldensunshine Member Username: Goldensunshine Post Number: 61 Registered: 11-2005 |
I got a speeding ticket in 2001 on that corner they show between scenes on Martin - over on Jefferson & Rivard I think it is. . . (the apartment where his lives on the show is in the "River Place Apartments) | ||
Ericdetfan Member Username: Ericdetfan Post Number: 250 Registered: 02-2007 |
Dale on king of the hill once mentioned a double murder in Detroit while reading a newspaper. | ||
Alan55 Member Username: Alan55 Post Number: 1190 Registered: 09-2005 |
One of Lily Tomlin's characters, an uptight society matron, is "the Grosse Pointe Lady". | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 917 Registered: 10-2003 |
...who is a takeoff of WXYZ-TV's Lady of Charm, Edythe Fern Melrose. | ||
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage Post Number: 174 Registered: 08-2007 |
I don't know if it was the same Sanford and Son episode mentioned before but there was one where Fred mentioned a stripper named Lottie The Body. I am sure many here know more about her than I do but she was working in the 90's at Bomac's jazz club at the foot of Gratiot. She was very funny and acted like she was still "the body". | ||
Postbop Member Username: Postbop Post Number: 69 Registered: 09-2007 |
Not a sitcom, but "Animal Cops: Detroit" | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 665 Registered: 08-2007 |
Aunt Lottie: http://webhome.idirect.com/~km aitland/thebody.html | ||
Living_in_the_d Member Username: Living_in_the_d Post Number: 36 Registered: 01-2008 |
Yeah, Ms. Lottie was and still is Cool. | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 658 Registered: 05-2006 |
Not a sitcom, but there was a short lived drama back around 1995 or so called Easy Streets that was at least partially filmed in Detroit. I remember it had some great shots of downtown. It starred Ken Olin, and was cancelled mid season. | ||
Renfirst Member Username: Renfirst Post Number: 175 Registered: 12-2006 |
I think the WB had a short lived show called Grosse Pointe... |
