Christine
attempts to do a take of her introduction when Kevin
Somers and Jono burst through the picture. When TV
Producer R. Sole is auditioning kids to be on his
new show, a desperate mother (played by Ruth Buzzi)
tries to get her reluctant son, Kevin (who, of course,
starred in a commercial for "Glitto soap pads")
to audition for R. Sole, but when they are rejected,
she finds other means of finding a way for him to
get on, including bribing Ross and forcing Kevin onto
the stage to play music with Trooper. Eventually,
she gets what she's allways wanted when she gets on
the show herself, forgetting all about Kevin.
Meanwhile,
Ross tells Kevin Somers and Jono that they only need
one 14-year-old boy on the show. This pits the two
boys against each other, leading Kevin to make Jono
wear a white "John Travolta" outfit ...
but you can't wear white on TV, can you?
Continuing
a long-running joke that began in the 1979 season
of YCDTOTV, Marc tries to think of ways to date Christine.
Kevin Somers shows Marc the "Moose Horn",
which he blows into, which causes Christine to run
immediately over to Kevin ("How did you know
my favorite song?!"), and they go off together.
Unfortunately, with Christine out of the picture,
all Marc gets when he blows the horn is the large,
stuffed variety of moose you find in a hunter's den.
Christine continues to try to get a complete take
of her intro, but she keeps getting interrupted. Ross
blames it on her, concluding that kids can't make
a TV show (as he said in the opening scene).
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DID
YOU NOTICE?
- This
episode exists in it's entirety, thanks to the original
studio master still existing.
- Though
this is the Whatever Turns You On pilot,
the format and the air date is closer to the 1979
season of YCDTOTV.
- This
is the only episode that uses a live, studio audience
for the entire program. The link set sketches of
this episode were taped in front of a live audience
on March 24, 1979, and the musical performances
were taped two days earlier, on Thursday, March
22. You see an audience in the Whatever
Turns You On series because they had
all the musical guests perform for that one audience.
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CLASSIC
QUOTES
(After
being pied by Boy Wonder Fraction)
Mathman: That was ... VULGAR, Fraction.
Liz:
Daaaaad, can I watch the hockey game?
Senator Prevert: No! I wanna watch
Liiiiittle House on the Prarie!
Liz: Awwwwww, but DAAAAD!
Christine:
Sorry, I'll *never* get used to not going live!
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Airdate:
May
12, 1979
s:
Ruth
Buzzi, Les Lye, Marc Baillon, Jono Gebert, Christine
McGlade, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers, Rodney Helal,
Elizabeth Mitchell
w:
Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby
d:
Geoffrey Darby
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STAGE
POLLUTION
PIE:
Les (2), Christine (3), Kevin Somers
WATER:
Jono (4), Les (3), Kevin Somers
HOT
CHOCOLATE: Jono |
MUSICAL
NUMBERS
- Trooper,
with live performances of We're Here
For A Good Time (Not A Long Time),
Round, Round We Go and
Raise A Little Hell
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