{"id":9777,"date":"2011-10-20T17:44:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T21:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2011-10-20T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T21:44:32","slug":"explain-yourself-newhart-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/explain-yourself-newhart-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain Yourself, Newhart Supporters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9779\" title=\"newhartcast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/newhartcast-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/newhartcast-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/newhartcast.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please explain how in the world the cast of the original\u00a0<em>Bob Newhart<\/em> is beating <em>Welcome Back Kotter<\/em> in the \u201cWho Would Have Made the Best Band\u201d poll?<\/p>\n<p>First let me acknowledge that the original <em>Bob Newhart<\/em> show is a stone cold classic and the second one had its moments as well, while <em>Welcome Back Kotter<\/em> wasn\u2019t even funny in a turd-in-the-urinal kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>But what kind of band is going to come out of either Newhart show? All I can envision for the first one might is a <strong>Steely Dan<\/strong> meets <strong>Kraftwerk<\/strong> scenario with Mr Carlin and Bob on the synths and Jerry and the receptionist on drums and bass. As for the second, maybe some condescending, too-smart-for-its-own-good, purposefully trashy send up of hillbilly music, like a third-rate <strong>Southern Culture on the Skids<\/strong>. And those are the best case scenarios as I see it.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it doesn\u2019t require much imagination to see Vinnie Barbarino as Joey, Arnold Horshack as Dee Dee, Juan Epstein as Johnny, and Freddy \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Washington as that other guy.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I love Bob Newhart. I have two of his albums. I\u2019m a big fan of the Grace L Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company. But for a band? Explain yourselves, Newhart supporters, or stop voting with your hearts and use you heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please explain how in the world the cast of the original\u00a0Bob Newhart is beating Welcome Back Kotter in the \u201cWho Would Have Made the Best Band\u201d poll? First let me acknowledge that the original Bob Newhart show is a stone cold classic and the second one had its moments as well, while Welcome Back Kotter <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/explain-yourself-newhart-supporters\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}