As part of "special segment week", we have Let's Look at The IMDB Page Of!, a pretty self-explanatory title where we see what's going on with people we shouldn't care about.
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Quick Reminder:
A PBS kids show where they taught famous tale, legends, folklore, and popular literature by means of a dog imagining it, and that sentence isn't as cool as it sounds thanks to them trying to be educational. The dog was Wishbone, and he drew parallells to his owner's pre-teen problems. The owner, Joe, ONLY had a mom, 2 friends (one girl, one black), and a wacky neighbor who Wishbone would make the fool.
Glance over the IMDB page:
For seasons, it lists 1 2 and 4, and then unknown. Further prying shows there is no mention of a third season, and that Wishbone in its 3rd year simply ended the second season and started the 4th. Also, there were only 47 episodes of Wishbone and only 3 cast members- Joe, his mom, and his friend who is a girl (while the black friend only managed 45) played in them all. Wishbone's voice was only in 46 episodes and no explanation of the one episode without him is there, which is weird because he narrates each episode and is the title character to the show. 4 different dogs have gotten credit to play Wishbone, all with cute names: Soccer the dog, Bear the dog. Phoebe the dog, and Slugger the dog. The page later tells us Soccer was the star, and the rest were simply sunt dogs. So that shows us Soccer was too much of a primadonna to do his own stunts of digging up the garden or ringing the bells of Notre Dame (both of which Wishbone has done).
Let's look at the careers of:
Joe Talbot played by Jordan Wall - Moralistic teen Joe proved to be Jordan's albatross. He has only been in 3 non-Wishbone credits. They in included 'Teen' in Fact-based story about a woman's fight to get her rodeo star husband freed from a false murder conviction, and 'Straight Laced Teen' in Anarchist's Cookbook (which shows us that there is so little straigh lacedness in this movie that the straight laced characters don't even get a name). His character has a name in The President's Man: A Line in the Sand, whichs is the made for TV sequel to the made for made for TV movie The President's Man starring Chuck Norris.His short bio informs us that he won the role of Joe "after competing against some 2,300 young actors in an open casting call." Some 2,300! I also am not sure you counted! It also informs us that he played Free Safety for his High School Football Team in Texas.
Samantha 'Sam' Kepler played by Chritie Abbott - She ran with it after Wishbone, appearing in 5! credits afterward! My guess is because she is because she got hot and knows how to use photoshop. Christie is from Hawaii and modeled when she was a 3-year old.
Ellen Talbot portrayed by Mary Chris Wall - Mary Chris Wall Lady's and gentlemen, a somewhat veteran actress who had it, and kind of still has it, going on. She has appeared in on such hits as 24, Dexter, Saving Grace, Ghost Whisperer, Monk, and Corey in the House. My personal favorite credit though: UPN Blockbuster Shockwave Theater where she was the voice of Syndra. She looks a lot like Jordan Wall and they have the same last name, but there is no mention that they are related.
Larry Brantly as the voice of Wishbone - Larry continued with four other voice acting credits until he found the 2nd role of a lifetime as a bear named Boz. Boz is green and Christian. STATE REFERENCE: I, WANT, TO, BE, BOZ'S BITCH.
Adam Springfield (David Barnes (last names right?)) - Poor, ol' black friend. 2 other credits. One was JAG, the other was the Harry Hamlin vehicle Movie Stars, co-starring former cute 'n christian kid turned hottie teenage daughter Marnette Patterson- who I have discussed previously. Full circle. Oh, Harry Hamlin was in LA Law, but you should know that.
The most prevalent Wishbone, Soccer, is not the most succesful. That would happen to be Bear. Bear was also a dog named Dreyfuss across three different sitcoms: Empty Nest, Nurses, and The Golden Girls. He even has a credit as himself on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.
The most successful person from the cast: Amy Acker, who went on to be in Angel.
Funniest Name: Chamblee Ferguson. Here's where I put together that there has been a lot of Wishbone/Walker Texas Ranger-crossover. I attribute this to both shows being filmed in Texas, and needings local extras.
Name I clicked on randomly: Jeanne Simpson, who memorably portrayed Joan of Arc, on Wishbone. Wishbone didn't play it himself as the role was for a woman and Wishbone could not simply see a woman's perspective. Jeanne is actually doing awesome appearing in 4 episodes of Mad Men and most recently Parks and Recreation.
I had to see: The guy who played Buddha- John William Galt. Not much karmic success lately. But some nice credits including the obligatory Walker T. Ranger, the voice of Lyndon Baines Johnson in both JFK and Forrest Gump, and the Warden in Problem Child.
15 Minutes into the page:
Wishbone is a unique page in that amongst its writing credits of unknown children's show writers are William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bill Maher writer Adam Felber, and the great Mo Rocca. I recommend checking out the gallery where we see many WishboneVHS home video covers. They not only show us such hilarious pictures, but let us in on hilarious titles like: the too accurately costumed Frankenbone, the weapon-rearing Paw Prints of Thieves, and the what the fuck is going on in Hot Diggety Dawg. A listing of the full episodes gives us such magnameneous titles as: Shakespaw, The Entrepawneur, Pup Fiction, and mildly racist pun intended Roamin' Nose. Wishbone actually has won all 4 Day-Time Emmy Nominations it received- 2 for costumer designer Stephen Chudel. It also has won a Peabody Award, back-to-back Critic's Choise Awards, but lost the heralded Kid's Choice Award for Favorite Animal. Also- Wishbone has an astounding 9.4/10 rating from 377 females who have voted. If anything, if you take the time to seek out Wishbone on IMDB and vote on it, you might as well vote high.
People are the BEST:
B Head 556 uses the message board to ask about the episode that "SCARED THE SHIZ out of" him, TacosRdelicious tells him it is the HG Well's Time Machine episode, while SweeneyLovesLovett uses the forum to admit to not being able to fall asleep without the TV on. Another users uses the message board for the personal use of asking everyone "Where is Baravelli_the_ice_lad_y????" I assumed she posted this all over IMDB message boards, but found out only through Wishbone has she tryed finding someone.
The least helpful user review was from samcracc who says "There was a place called Oakdale and there was a Jack Russel Terroir named who tells the stories in his imagination from a book. Bruno Nusen's dog is a very nasty dog that messes up peoples area. It was in an episode called Hercles Unleashed when Wishbone's bone is missing. Larry Brantley has done a great job of Wishbone's voice. These are very perfect characters for every story in every episode of Wishbone. Soccer the dog, Bear the dog, Pheobe the dog, and Slugger the dog are perfect dogs for Wishbone. This show is excellent you will like this show, Oakdale, the stories, and even Wishbone the dog." Looking at the rest of his reviews, he gives a lot of 10 stars out: Family Guy ("Why does Drew Barrymore can't do new episodes anymore"), I Now Prounounce You Chuck and Larry("o Chuck and Larry went to a costume party and need to find Alex Mcdonough. Chuck was dressed as a Vampire and Larry was dressed as an Apple. So Chuck found a person in a playmate costume (Davide Spade). They found her wearing a costume of the cat."), Random Children's Shows (such as Wee Sing in the Big Rock Candy Mountain), and an episode of Mad Money with Jim Kramer. His most helpful was one where he says he loves Homer Simpson, while his least helpful review was about the Star Wars Family Guy episode. Which means Simpsons users aren't dumb enough to use IMDB as a forum. He says 'Hilarius' a lot, and my favorite review of his is one of The Girls Next Door, which he gave a 10 to and says in the title "Kendra had a big butt when she was on a motorcycle in the Playboy shoot for the calendar".
Final thoughts:
Looking at the IMDB page one last time, I still feel no strong emotion toward anything that ever went on with the show, making me feel no guilt whatsoever for making fun of people on my blog on the internet. I do however remember most of the theme song, so they beat me in that regards.
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