Your Felix comparison to Sheldon was on my mind too when i was watching the pilot.
On Feb 25, 2015, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 11:53:41 PM UTC-5, MelissaP wrote: >> >> They didn’t do gay jokes back in the 1970s. Felix was just assumed >to be >> straight. >> >> >> >> Of course, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the series, so my >memory >> could be faulty. But it does contain one of my all time favorite >sitcom >> episodes – the one where Oscar and Felix win a car and find it >impossible >> to find a parking space for it in New York City. >> > > >Your memory is correct. In fact, in his intro to the show's blooper >reel - >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHLr3kmXT04 >- Jack Klugman states that the spoken narration used in the opening >credits >the first few seasons, which explained the premise, was added because >the >network was afraid casual viewers might think Felix and Oscar were gay >otherwise. >(BTW, the blooper reel - which was included in a bonus disc in >Klugman's >book "Tony and Me" - is hilarious, though it does include a few gay >jokes >that are far from p.c.) > >But to address Kevin's original query - I don't think you were reading >too >much into it, because the question of whether Felix seemed >stereotypically >gay was brought up (briefly) in the second act. I think they addressed >it >because it was on viewers' minds. Whether they return to that well will > >have a big impact on how successful this new version is. > >I caught the end of an old Odd Couple episode Friday night on MeTV. One > >thing that struck me, after seeing the new version just one night >before, >is how much Randall smiled. You could tell how much his Felix loved >hanging >around with Oscar. Lennon, however, plays Felix almost completely >deadpan; >it works, but it almost strikes me as an impression of Jim Parson's >Sheldon >from "The Big Bang Theory." As I said, I am hopeful... > >-Tim -- Sent with K-@ Mail - the evolution of emailing. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
