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Join us in this classic episode as we discuss the Star Wars holiday Life Day, the women behind it, and the absolute experience it is to watch the Star Wars Holiday Special. Also, Bea Arthur is a treasure.

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In the late 1980's and early '90s, the TV sitcom landscape was dominated by an unstoppable force known as Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions. It’s the creative juggernaut that brought us Soap and Benson in the late 70s, evolving into the force field behind The Golden Girls. A series so iconic, it launched the spin-offs, Nurses, The Golden Palace and Empty Nest, co-starring our guest, David Leisure.

This Saturday night lineup featured casts of characters who occupied the same imagined universe and often popped into each other’s shows. David was Empty Nest’s wacky neighbor and he also appeared as Charley Dietz on The Golden Girls, Nurses and another Witt/Thomas/Harris creation, Blossom.

Empty Nest, starred Richard Mulligan as Dr. Harry Weston, a widowed pediatrician, much sought after by all the Miami single ladies while riding the emotional waves of his grownup daughters who have refilled his Empty Nest.

David gives us an exclusive peek behind the scenes of this memorable time in broadcast television history. Was Bea Arthur really the only Earth human who hated Betty White? What did Bea Arthur hate even more than Betty White? How did David’s show attempt to fill the space left behind in their nest by Kristy McNichol? How did the cast and crew react to her emotional return?

David shares his origin story and how he landed two key roles. 1) “First Krishna” in Airplane. (He was willing to shave his head.) And 2) The Joe Isuzu commercials. (He’s an obsequious liar.)

We also learn why St. Jude’s hospital is so important to David, how he overcame childhood obesity and the truth about his secret, backstage divorce group therapy sessions with Loni Anderson and Richard Mulligan.

All that plus IMDB Roulette and Empty Nest Trivia! 

And Fritz shares his own personal run-in with Golden Girls Producer Susan Harris. (She’s probably still pissed.) 

Plus, in recommendations, we’ve got two great books: Blowback - A Warning To Save Democracy From The Next Trump by Miles Taylor and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

Path Points of Interest:

David Leisure on Wikipedia

David Leisure on IMDB

Joe Isuzu Commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMq_7alQpU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_1ASmweXYs

David Leisure on Facebook

Empty Nest on IMDB

St. Jude's Hospital

Blowback - A Warning To Save Democracy From The Next Trump by Miles Taylor

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Who doesn't want to spend a fun evening with Rose, Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia? Throw in a murder and things start to get real interesting. We talked with Traci Connaughton, founder of the Without a Cue theater company about how you go about making someone like Rose a cold-hearted murderer.

For more information about catching either the Golden Girls show, or any other the other shows they have  running in Pennsylvania, New Jersey as well as Delaware and Maryland, check out their website.

Dave and Ethan interview celebrity choreographer Vincent Paterson about working on the "Eat It" music video. Vincent shares what he kept from the video, what Michael Jackson said to him about the video, choreographing the iconic "Thriller" dance, and working with the likes of Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur and three of The Beatles.

Put on your glamest resort wear, pull up a wicker chair and dig into this cheesecake as we travel down the road and back again with The Golden Girls. Is any gushing tribute enough to honor the incredible Betty White? Will Dayna be in charge of preserving this lore in the apocalypse? Why did the live-in gay house-boy in the pilot get written out of this show? Do sitcoms set the tone for our real-life friendships? And can you listen to this theme song without singing along? We just want you to know that your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant. 

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Adrienne Barbeau began her career in 1963 with the San Jose Civic Light Opera. After graduating high school, she traveled with a musical comedy revue, entertaining our servicemen on Army bases throughout Southeast Asia. In 1965, she moved to New York where she made her Broadway debut as Tevye’s second daughter, Hodel, in Fiddler on the Roof. A Tony nomination and a Theatre World Award for her creation of Rizzo in the original Broadway production of Grease led her back to California and the role of Bea Arthur’s daughter, Carol, in the hit series Maude.  Since then she has become a best selling author, a recording artist, and the star of numerous features, films for television, concert performances, musicals and plays. Movie fans know her best for her performances in The Fog, Escape From New York, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, Back to School, and Cannonball Run. She appeared in the Academy Award winning ARGO.  Recently released are the golf comedy The Eagle and the Albatross with Dan Lauria and K-Pop star Amber Liu, and the ecological horror film Unearth, starring Marc Blucas. Adrienne has a Golden Globe nomination and over 450 screen performances to her credit. She starred as Ruthie, the Snake Dancer, on HBO’s fascinating series, Carnivale. She was Oswald’s mom on Drew Carey, Victoria Grayson’s mom on Revenge, and Venus’s mom on Sons of Anarchy. Daytime viewers know her as Suzanne Stanwyck on General Hospital. Her recent television appearances include Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy, the Netflix  series A.J. and the Queen, starring RuPaul, and American Horror Story. Having starred in over 25 theatrical productions in the U.S. and Canada, Adrienne spent most of 2015 playing Berthe, Pippin’s grandmother, in the National Tour of Pippin, singing “No Time At All” as she hung upside down from a trapeze. Off camera, Adrienne is the voice of Catwoman in Batman, The Animated Series, Ms. Simone in Scooby-Do on Zombie Island, and Scooter’s Mom in the 3-D animated film Fly Me To The Moon. She can be heard in a myriad of video games: God of War, Halo 4, and Fallout 76 among them. She also provides video description for the visually impaired on many films, documentaries, and television series; it’s one of her favorite forms of voiceover work. Adrienne is the author of four books: the best-selling memoir There Are Worse Things I Could Do; the urban fantasy Vampyres of Hollywood and its comedy romance sequels, Love Bites and Make Me Dead. Adrienne is currently at work co-writing Grease- Tell Me More, Tell Me More!  for release next summer to honor the 50th anniversary of the Broadway musical. Published by Chicago Review Press, proceeds from the book will go to The Actors’ Fund.  ©- Adrienne Barbeau

It's the most special and holy time of year, Life Day. So to celebrate this year, Your Generals have gathered friends around them to talk all over the top of The Star Wars Holiday Special. Where did Boba Fett get his start? What do wookies and E.T. have in common? What is the most unfortunately named music genre in the galaxy? All this and more comes up during this crazy holiday romp.

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Another Effin' Podcast About Sitcom is four friends, Mo Laikowski, Stan Laikowski, Luke Ward and Dan McInerney, going through "Golden Girls" carefully pulling all of the joy out of it.  

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The sound will be a little louder as we added a third mic to try to draw in more of the special in the background. I do apologize for that.  This episode works best as a riffing episode if you watch the special as you listen to the podcast. 

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