Top 10 Saturday

This top 10 is about the best tv spin-off shows. I only picked shows that had a character that was established on another show, not show up for 1 episode (ex... Andy Taylor was on 1 episode of Make Room for Daddy, then they made the show Andy Griffith Show). I did find out one interesting thing, Trapper John MD is not a spin-off of MASH the tv show, but a spin-off of the movie (the tv producers tried to sue for money but the court decided they were not entitled to it). The show in parentheses is the show it came from.

1. Laverne & Shirley (Happy Days)
2. Facts of Life (Diff'rent Strokes)
3. Frasier (Cheers)
4. Rhoda (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
5. Lou Grant (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
6. Jeffersons (All in the Family)
7. Good Times (Maude)
8. Mama's Family (The Carol Burnett Show)
9. Family Matters (Perfect Strangers)
10. Fish (Barney Miller)
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Trip 1971

These pictures were taken on our trip to Yellowstone National Park. The picture taken with the snow was taken on June 29th.

Almost Famous

You probably didn't know this family was very talented. They went for alot of tv and film parts, but sadly they did not get the parts. Here are some of the roles they were up for.

TOP PICTURE: Dad went out for the role of Randy (Ralphie's younger brother in "The Christmas Story").

2nd PICTURE: Troy went out for the role of Fonzies little brother

3rd PICTURE: Becki & Justin went out for the new girlfriend & her son of J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"

4th PICTURE: Almost the new cast members of "Bad News Bears"

BOTTOM PICTURE: new family arrives on "Little House on the Prarie"

Today in history

50 years ago today, the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, & the Big Bopper crashed in Clear Lake, Iowa.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKAYLA!!!

Hope you have a great Birthday!!!

Top 10 Saturday

The Super Bowl is this Sunday, so I decided that this top 10 list is the best football movies. As sport movies goes, baseball movies are better in my opinion, but there have been a few good football movies. M*A*S*H* has probably the best football scene, but because it's a war movie, it's not on the list. And I still haven't scene "Jerry Maguire" so that is not on the list.

1. Friday Night Lights (2004)
2. Brian's Song (1971) tv movie
3. Rudy (1993)
4. Wildcats (1987)
5. Waterboy (1998)
6. Little Giants (1994)
7. Longest Yard (1974)
8. Knute Rockne - All American (1940)
9. All the Right Moves (1983)
10. Invincible (2006)
    

Trip 1961

These pictures were taken on a trip to northern Minnesota in 1961.

New in town

A new movie comes out this Friday. Rene Zellweger stars as a big town girl, and she has to move to a small town in Minnesota. well, I thought it looked pretty good. But after these reviews I think I changed my mind
"Good people of Minnesota: Stand up! Fight back! Take back your state and your culture and your accent"! (Assoc Press)
"Frozen Capracorn [that] will leave you cold...Minnesotans might legitimately want to sue for defamation". (Frank Swietek)
At RottenTomato.com they had 15 reviews...only 2 were good for the movie.

I did see "Nortorious" about the life of rapper Nortorious B.I.G. Even though I didn't know any of the songs in it, I thought the movie was good. On my top 10 list (for movies about singers), I would drop "Walk the Line" & put this at 10th place. At Rotten Tomato, it got 49 good reviews, 42 bad reviews.

Gophers vs Trojans

I know some of you don't follow the Minnesota football team, but I had to write about who they are going to play in 2 years. Usually the first 4 games of a Gopher schedule is soft (teams that are not that good). They have been criticized for doing this. Well, they decided to change this, and boy did they. They are opening their 2010 schedule at home with the USC Trojans. The next year, they play in Calf. USC has won the national championship twice in the last 6 years, finished 2nd three years ago, and 3rd last year. The last time Minn was national champions, was 1960. USC has won the championship 7 times since then. It might not be pretty, but it's going to be exciting to play them.

FUNNY PICTURES

Here are some photo's that I thought were kind of funny.

I don't think I liked my new ant farm.

The bottom picture looks like we are at the olympics (my friend Ross is on the right).

Top 10

This top 10 is about the best of the worst.

Well, worst is a bad choice of words, but this list is about shows that only lasted 1 year. I think we all had shows that we liked that only lasted a short time, and we get bummed about it, because it was a show we spent watching week after week. I left W*A*L*T*E*R off the list (Radar becomes a St. Louis cop) because only a pilot was shot, and then shown on tv later. So it is hard to say if it was good or not, after only 1 showing, but I wish it would have lasted longer. Suprisingly, most of them had some pretty famous people in them.I listed the famous person, but this does not mean they were the star of the tv show.

1. Freaks & Geeks (1999) Joe Flaherty
2. My So-Called Life (1994) Claire Danes
3. The Outsiders (1990) Billy Bob Thorton
4. Jack & Bobby (2004) Christina Lahti
5. Police Squad (1982) Leslie Nielson
6. Parenthood (1990) Leonardi DiCaprio
7. Safe harbor (1999) Rue McClanahan
8. American Gothic (1995) Shawn Cassidy (creator)
9. Lottery (1983)
10. The Byrds of Paradise (1994) Arlo Guthrie
11. other shows I liked....Dolphin Cove (1989),The Quest (1982), Condo (1983), Opportunity Knocks (2008), Family Man (1990)
    

Vacation 1973

To make this more of a Muehring page, I am going to add old photos. These are from a vacation we took in 1973. We stopped in Green Bay (yuck), Chicago, South Bend Indiana, Detroit Mich. On the back of the photo of Dana & Troy at the motel it says..."Dana had just jumped up and broke out the letter O in the word motel. p.s. nobody saw him. The picture of the 4 kids was taken at the Henry Ford Museum.

That's Cold!

This is a sign from Annandale last Thursday. They closed the school that day because it was -40 wind chill. I guess this is one reason we now live in Texas.

Movie review

I went to the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" on Sunday. It's about a poor 19 year-old who is on the India's version of "Who Want's to be a Millionaire." After every question is asked, there is a flashback to why he knows the answers. After a slow start, he goes on a role, and many people thinks he is cheating. There is some very funny parts (but it is not a comedy). I did not like the ending, it was ok, but not what I expected. But overall I enjoyed the movie. There is some subtitles, but most of it was english.I give it 7 out of 10.

FUNNY PICTURES