My Mother the Car: Difference between revisions

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[[File:MyMotherTheCar.gif|frame|Mother.]]

In 1965 [[NBC]] put a show on opposite ''[[Combat]]'' and ''[[Rawhide]]'' about the antics of lawyer Dave Crabtree (Jerry Van Dyke ~~from~~ ''[[Coach]]''), a typically hapless sitcom family man who discovers that his mother has returned from the grave as a 1928 Porter open touring automobile (a Ford Model T modified by the then-ubiquitous George Barris, who also did the [[The Monkees (band)|Monkeemobile]] and the '60s [[Batman (TV series)|Batmobile]]).

In 1965 [[NBC]] put a show on opposite ''[[Combat]]'' and ''[[Rawhide]]'' about the antics of lawyer Dave Crabtree ([[Jerry Van Dyke]] who would later be more famous for ''[[Coach]]''), a typically hapless sitcom family man who discovers that his mother has returned from the grave as a 1928 Porter open touring automobile (a Ford Model T modified by the then-ubiquitous George Barris, who also did the [[The Monkees (band)|Monkeemobile]] and the '60s [[Batman (TV series)|Batmobile]]).

It (the ~~show)~~ was critically lambasted and caused NBC to be something of a laughing-stock for greenlighting it in the first place. The [[Ratings]] were horrid. (Except in what we now call the young-adult demographic. Back then, they didn't track that sort of thing.) In spite of all that, NBC left the show on for an entire season.

'''''My Mother the Car''''' was critically lambasted and caused NBC to be something of a laughing-stock for greenlighting it in the first place. The [[Ratings]] were horrid. (Except in what we now call the young-adult demographic. Back then, they didn't track that sort of thing.) In spite of all that, NBC left the show on for an entire season.

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* [[And Starring]]: Miss Ann Southern

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* [[Dead Person Conversation]]

* [[Old Shame]]: [[James L. Brooks]] wrote two episodes before hitting it big. Naturally, he doesn't boast about his involvement in this. (A ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' [[DVD Commentary]] joked that mentioning said involvement around the studio is cause for being fired.)

** The co-creator of the show was Allan Burns, who went on to create ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' with Brooks.

** The co-creator of the show was Allan Burns, who went on to create ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' with Brooks. If you look closely at the program grids hanging on the Station manager's wall in ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' you'll see that WJM showed ''My Mother the Car'' quite frequently.

** If you look closely at the program grids hanging on the Station manager's wall in ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' you'll see that WJM showed ''My Mother the Car'' quite frequently.

* [[So Bad It's Horrible]]

* [[Temporal Paradox]]: How does a dead mother get reincarnated into a car that ''already exists?''

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