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Don't Believe the Hype
Derry Herrera
Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
Scarlet
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
SnoopyStyle
Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump) runs the failing radio station owned by his feared overbearing mother. He hires young program director Andy Travis (Gary Sandy) who promptly changes the format to Rock. This fun wacky group includes DJs Dr. Johnny Fever (Howard Hesseman) and Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid), clueless newsman Les Nessman (Richard Sanders), sleazy ads salesman Herb Tarlek (Frank Bonner), shy Bailey Quarters (Jan Smithers), and hot blonde Jennifer Marlowe (Loni Anderson) receptionist.They are a great group of lovable characters. That's the charm of this show. They had some of the funniest bits in TV history. Who else could come up with flying turkeys? The only disappointment is that it only lasted 4 seasons. It's a great part of my TV childhood.
Maniac-9
The turkey drop episode to this day is one of the best and funniest episodes of sitcom TV I've ever watched, it still makes me bust out laughing. "As god is my witness I could've sworn that turkeys can fly", still makes me laugh. One of my favorite sitcoms of the late late 1970's, it's a show that has aged very well. Whatever the big laughs back when it originally aired still hold up today.The show had a great group of characters with Dr. Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap as the disc jockeys, Andy Travis as the programming director, Arthur Carlson as station manager, Jennifer as his secretary, Herb in charge of sales, Les as the News guy and Bailey as the do it all. A nice collection of madcap hilarious characters.
sbmcvp
This was simply one of the best sitcoms ever made (along with Barney Miller). Even when the episodes were centered around characters that I did not particularly find appealing, the show always had heart. Never in WKRP did the show become formulaic or repetitive. The stories were written with feeling and a depth that is long since vanished in any sitcoms since. I believe that the best episode (not the funniest) was "In Concert". It is the one that centers around the tragedy at the 1979 Who concert, where 11 people were trampled to death outside the stadium trying to get the best seats. This show was a far cry from the current trend of having character-A insult character-B to the sound of the laugh track!!
peejhunt
I wouldn't say that it was a religious experience, but it was a series that planted the seeds of my future. Today, I work in Radio, in part because I wanted to be Dr. Johnny Fever. I loved the way the characters worked together and played off of each other. It was a rare series.Even today, I would like to program a station like Andy Travis, do mornings like Fever, write like Bailey, and sell like... OK, I still don't want to be like Herb. Shows like WKRP and News Radio have one thing in common, They were both written by people who know what real radio is like. I think its that touch of reality that made WKRP so memorable to me.
