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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 443271" data-attributes="member: 57984">Prissy&#039;s in Burnett&#039;s famous &#039;Went With The Wind&#039; sketch from 1976, too, airing the very week that GONE WITH THE WIND was broadcast for the first time in America. The scene when Carol descends the stairs in her new &quot;gown&quot; became one of the most celebrated moments in all of TV comedy, causing the studio audience to collapse in several minutes of hysterical laughter such that most of those laughs had to be cut out in order to avoid the episode running too long -- in fact, nearly all the audience reaction is gone in the final edit:[MEDIA=youtube]-8wVvGQ0P4Y[/MEDIA]BTW: Eve Arden&#039;s black-and-gold striped party outfit from MILDRED PIERCE was recycled nearly two decades later and worn by Bette Davis&#039; dive lounge jazz keyboardist (Perry Blackwell) in DEAD RINGER. (Miss Blackwell was also manning the piano bar in PILLOW TALK with Rock &amp; Doris).<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/c4/33/25c433041fa785b7225ef01608dce9bb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGZhYWYzMTgtZDA3Ny00YWU2LWExYzAtNmI3OTNmY2RjNzk3XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 542px" />Even then. The ratings for FRESNO were great for its first night in 1986, but the numbers collapsed pretty quickly because people found it just really boring. Frankly, that kind of comedy needs a live audience. Not only that, but FRESNO was played almost straight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 443271, member: 57984"] Prissy's in Burnett's famous '[I]Went With The Wind'[/I] sketch from 1976, too, airing the very week that GONE WITH THE WIND was broadcast for the first time in America. The scene when Carol descends the stairs in her new "gown" became one of the most celebrated moments in all of TV comedy, causing the studio audience to collapse in several minutes of hysterical laughter such that most of those laughs had to be cut out in order to avoid the episode running too long -- in fact, nearly all the audience reaction is gone in the final edit: [MEDIA=youtube]-8wVvGQ0P4Y[/MEDIA] BTW: Eve Arden's black-and-gold striped party outfit from MILDRED PIERCE was recycled nearly two decades later and worn by Bette Davis' dive lounge jazz keyboardist (Perry Blackwell) in DEAD RINGER. (Miss Blackwell was also manning the piano bar in PILLOW TALK with Rock & Doris). [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/c4/33/25c433041fa785b7225ef01608dce9bb.jpg[/IMG][IMG width="542px"]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGZhYWYzMTgtZDA3Ny00YWU2LWExYzAtNmI3OTNmY2RjNzk3XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg[/IMG] Even then. The ratings for FRESNO were great for its first night in 1986, but the numbers collapsed pretty quickly because people found it just really boring. Frankly, that kind of comedy needs a live audience. Not only that, but FRESNO was played almost straight. [/QUOTE]

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