7 Bizarre Moments From Bizarrely Long-Running TV Shows
On this week's episode of The Cracked Podcast, Alex Schmidt is joined by the incredible Andy Daly, star of Review and all of the rest of TV. This podcast is inspired by Dalton Wilcox's long-simmering project 'Bonanas For Bonanza', a rewatch podcast (theoretically) tackling all 431 episodes of the 1959-1973 Western adventure TV show Bonanza. It turns out even the earliest Bonanza episodes are quite odd -- which begs the question, how weird can a long-running show get? Alex & Andy answer that with examples (and audio!) from Gunsmoke, One Tree Hill, Lassie, and more surprising pillars of American television history.
Footnotes
Andy Daly - Four More Sweaters: Monsters Take Your Questions
1 Way To Make An Emoji Podcast
11 solid gold facts about 'Bonanza'
12 surprising facts about 'Gunsmoke'
John Wayne in Gunsmoke/YouTube
Lassie - Episode 24 - "The Well"/YouTube
Lassie - Episode #123 - "The Ring"/YouTube
Dog ate Dan's new heart/YouTube
An Oral History of the Time a Dog Ate a Heart on 'One Tree Hill'
Dallas-Season 14 (Final Scene)/YouTube
E.R.- Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano Dies-Helicopter/YouTube
LITTLE HOUSE GETS BLOW'D UP/YouTube