Favorite WKRP in Cincinnati episode?

[playahata1]

Mine is the one where Jennifer (Loni Anderson) has nude photographs taken of her without her knowledge, and Andy, Carlson, Venus, Herb and the others go after the pornographer and the pictures.

RIP Gordon Jump. Great actor, great show.

[KinkyDem]

1. The Phone police

when Johny is up at the tower broadcasting 'cause of no power at the studio and he destroys a phone.

Perhaps one of the funniest things ever on TV.

[mark0rama]

18. Some of the best paranoia I've ever seen expressed in a sitcom

eom

[Terwilliger]

41. from the same episode

"This is Les Nessman! Terrorists destroyed the WKRP radio transmission tower today..."

"Les...they blew up the transmitter..."

"I know! That's what I'm trying to report!" :-)

[ixion]

2. any one of them with Bailey

which would be many of them, I guess. ;-)


RIP Gordon Jump, you were a respected entertainer and will be missed.

[peacefreak]

3. you mean

turkeys don't fly?

[DianeK]

14. by far

that turkey show was one of the funniest i ever saw! hilarious!

[SaveElmer]

28. Oh the humanity

I couldn't stop laughing for hours after I saw that episode the first time. Everytime I thought about it I would start.

[GumboYaYa]

4. Not only the funniest WKRP, but IMO

the funniest single episode of any sitcom on TV ever, was the turkey drop at Thanksgiving.

"Andy, I swear I didn't know turkeys can't fly...."

[deutsey]

8. I thought my mother and I were going to die laughing over that

It's rare that I've laughed so hard over a TV show, but that one did it.

[GumboYaYa]

31. I'm laughing just reading this thread.

Just remembering that episode makes me cry from laughter.

[kodi]

27. the humanity!

best moment in tv history.

[rucky]

5. Turkeys!

R.I.P. Gordon Jump

[underpants]

9. "As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly"

There hitting the ground like bags of wet cement..

[kanrok]

11. Yep...flying turkeys was my fave

[LynneSin]

13. Definately the Turkeys

Gotta love the Turkeys flying through the air of Cincinnati!

[proud patriot]

34. I got to go with the turkeys

:hi:

[Lady Freedom]

39. OH THE TURKEYS!!!!!!!

hahahahhahahah! I hurt just thinking about it! Laughing so hard at the thought!

[Norbert]

42. "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

No doubt about it. It has to be that episode.

A friend of mine attended a trade show, I guess for household appliances. Gordon Jump was part of the Maytag booth. My friend got Mr. Jumps autograph, but it took a while. He had to wait in a fairly lengthy line. He said the man couldn't have been a nicer person and was a great ambassador for the Maytag Corporation.

Rest in peace, Big Guy.

[phillybri]

49. That's the one!

RIP

[mark0rama]

21. People I know who hate the show...

...make exceptions for "the one with the turkeys."

Me, I love the show. The turkey episode was just the icing.
After awhile, the show got kind of idiosyncratic/nearly surreal. I'm thinking of episodes like the one with Dr. Joyce Brothers as fashion designer Vicki von Vicki.

[efhmc]

36. I agree. I saw this right after my Mom had died and was definitely not

in the mood to laugh and yet I did. What a blessing that show was for me.

[spinbaby]

38. Definitely the turkeys

I fall over laughing just thinking of it.

[Don_G]

6. The Bomb In The Station

Johnny Fever got paranoid about the "phone cops", found the bomb and denied any other explaination. "See? They play hardball!"

[cmd]

7. Another vote for the turkey episode.

There were so many good ones to choose from.

[MrBenchley]

17. Oh, the humanity!

I'd also vote for the "reality show" episode, and the episode where Jennifer buys a house.....

[bowens43]

10. I have to go with the turkey episode too

[meegbear]

12. It wasn't funny but ...

the episode about the fans crushed at the Who concert. Very well done.

[BlueJazz]

15. There were several wonderful ones.....

1. The Turkeys

Also the one where Les put on blackface to see how the blacks lived....
....He stuck his head into Venus's office and said "I'm gonna' go down and boog-a-loo with the brothers...
Venus's look was pure horror! LOL!

Also the Butler was a riot....
He'd be sitting in the same room as his employer (Carlson's Mom)...
the doorbell would ring and ring and ring...
Carlson's Mom would say "Aren't you going to get that?"
He say "You're closer"
She'd get pissed and he'd say something like "Geez, if I have to!"

[mark0rama]

22. Also, the "drunk promotion"...

...where the state trooper gives Johnny and Venus shots of JD and tests their reaction time, and Johnny gets faster instead of slower. Meanwhile, rival station WPIG's pig mascot is vandalizing the station lobby.

[ronzo]

43. Venus: Cop's got a hat, I want a hat. eom

[playahata1]

26. VEE-NUUUS! OH, VEEEE-NUUUUUS!

CLASSIC!

[Susang]

16. I vote for the Thanksgiving Turkey episode as well

They're hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Oh, the humanity......

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

20. The tornado espisode

Where Les doesn't have a severe weather warning, so he uses the one for a Soviet invasion, transposing all the way:

"Cincinnati has been invaded by the godless...tornadoes"

I live in Cincinnati, and whenever we have severe weather, I think of that episode and laugh all the way to the storm cellar!

[CO Liberal]

23. Andy Travis: "Has Anyone Seen My Dog?"

:-)

[noonwitch]

19. The turkeys

But the tornado one, with Les changing the word "russians" to "tornados" on the CD announcement was pretty funny, too.

[skippysmom]

24. the one where

one of their djs was doing coke, and johnny found the coke on him and passed the package onto Carlson, telling him it was foot powder. the dj asks johnny what carlson will do with it, and johnny replies, "carlson's no fool. he'll put it on his feet." cut to carlson hopping up and down, screaming, "I've got a monkey on my foot."

also the turkey episode, and the one where the christian right jerry falwell looking guy wanted them to stop playing certain songs, including "imagine."

God i loved that show! funny and smart and timely. long live gordon jump.

[Submariner]

25. Turkey WAVs

http://www.cpol.net/tuneman/turkeysfly.wav

http://www.cpol.net/tuneman/leswetcement.wav

from

http://www.cpol.net/tuneman/wkrpwavs.html

enjoy

[electricmonk]

29. The stereo store remote

They were taken hostage but the hold-up guy wouldn't mess with the union electrician. He told him to do something and the union guy said I'm on my break and you don't the union mad at you.

[kmla]

30. The ones where Johnny pokes fun at Les and hid pronunciation...

....
LN "the golfer, Ch-eye Ch-eye Rodra-gweez"

JF "... and what are those funny little Mexican dogs, Les?"

LN "You mean the Cha-hoowah-hoowahs?"

And Les always had a band-aid somewhere. Too funny.

[MaineDem]

33. To this day

My husband and I still call him Chy Chy . :D

[library_max]

32. The one where Herb was in the hospital during a promotion concert

So Carlson pretended to be Herb, and then Les had to pretend to be Carlson. A loan shark was after Johnny, who pretended to be Andy, who was presented as Johnny's brother "Randy Travis." Bailey had a wonderful moment when she wasn't sure if it was okay for her to just be her.

[KamaAina]

35. The one where Les got a rug

the rugmaker was a station sponsor, so Les went out and got one of their bird's nests.

Filled with newfound confidence, he asks out Jennifer, who accepts, 'cause she knows it'll piss off Herb reeeeeeeeeal bad.

Then on their way out the door, Jennifer gently lifts the rug right off Les' head...

K-A
third generation rug spotter!

[AWD]

37. I'm surprised...

....that nobody has mentioned the softball game versus WPIG.

Les has his moment in the sun...greatest episode ever.

[efhmc]

40. I answered my favorite show but just thinking about the entire series

made me happy. It was a cute, funny, lovely show and I miss that type of entertainment.

[ronzo]

44. Jenifer buys a house in the suburbs... one of the last great ones. n/t

[Fight_n_back]

45. Dropping the Turkeys from the 'copter

was pretty funny.

[dbt]

46. Definitely the Cocaine Episode!

"I've got a monkey on my foot!" is priceless.

Except for the constant stream of profanity and the inescapable air monitor that one would get in a real station, Hugh Wilson captured the very soul of radio with "WKRP In Cincinnati."

Gordon Jump's character was the epitome of clueless General Manager who was constantly bailed out by the secretary at the front desk!

Revel in your newfound freedom, Sir!

:loveya:
dbt

[HEyHEY]

47. Venus Flytrap the deserter was good

That was good!

[mac56]

48. That episode is probably my favorite.

Slightly edging the turkeys episode.