Station receives a bomb threat so its evacuated. Johnny and Venus are sent to broadcast from the transmitter. Johnny's rantings about the "phone cops" ring especially true today.

Hide me Andy, I'll play the Carpenters, I'll play Barry Manilow....It's the phone cops man!

I'll add it to the list above.

Its amazingly close to reality as far as the main characters were written.

I showed this to my son a couple years ago when he was a 6th grader. He loved it.

Thanks for the clip.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

C'mon, no contest.

I thought that episode would do well in the poll; but i never dreamed it would do this well


Les Nessman's Live On-Air broadcast was hilarious!

"Something just came out of the helicopter...it may be a skydiver... and there's another one, and another,....I don't see any parachutes........It can't be skydivers"

"OH MY GOD, THEY'RE TURKEYS!"

"People are running for their lives!"

"The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!"

"One just crashed through the windshield of a parked car!"

Right up there with Mary Richards bursting into peals of laughter at the funeral of Chuckles the Clown.

"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants...."

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2014/10/27/wkrp_in_cincinnati_finally_lives_on_in_dvd_format.html

snip....

Wilson looked at the butchered shows and had to agree. Things turned around, however, when Shout Factory hosted a Paley Center WKRP reunion this May in Los Angeles (included on the box set as a bonus feature). Shout Factory president Garson Foos told Wilson he had already negotiated clearances for 65 per cent of the music used on the series. That eventually inched up toward 90 per cent and the DVD box set was a go. (One hold out: Pink Floyd, spoiling a gag in the classic “Turkeys Can Fly” episode.)

and defected. The scene in the INS office is a classic.

Andy and Bailey looking around the clerk at the wall saying "Excuse me sir, why do you still have a picture of Richard Nixon on the wall?"

Clerk: "They never sent us a Carter."

Another funny line "No sir, you can't defect here in Cincinnati. There's a lot of things you can't do in Cincinnati and that's one of them."


I know it didn't age all that well-but it was damn funny for it's time.

Stephen King once (semi-jokingly) said you could determine all you needed to know about an American male of a certain age with his answers to three questions:

Ginger or Mary Ann? (Mary Ann for me)
Betty or Veronica? (Veronica)
Jennifer or Bailey? (Bailey)

The one in which Herb painted his daughter's frog (named Greenpeace) pink.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27mrc1_wkrp-57-frog-story_shortfilms

It's also the one where Les convinces Johnny he's got "schistosomiasis."

Thanks for the link

It deserves a vote.

One of my favorite exchanges from the episode:

I would love to see the out takes from this episode - though they may have used everyone's reactions to a pink frog for the show.

Thanks

Never really watched that show.