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Best knock off TV show.

CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 21, 2019 11:19AM in Sports Talk

Munsters.

*knock off of the Addams family.

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    craig44craig44 Posts: 13,198 ✭✭✭✭✭

    parks and rec. sort of a knock off of the office

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

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    LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Frasier

    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
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    SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 13,203 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Joannie Loves Chachi?

    Spin off from Happy Days.

    The Jeffersons?

    Spin off from All in The Family.

    The Bionic Woman?

    Spin off from The Six Million Dollar Man.

    Mayberry RFD?

    Spin off from The Andy Griffith Show.

    And many more.

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Knock offs and spin offs are two different things. Current generation of talent shows are knock offs.

    All entries are welcome though!

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    AC000000AC000000 Posts: 267 ✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:
    Knock offs and spin offs are two different things. Current generation of talent shows are knock offs.

    +1

    A spin off is taking a piece from one show and making a whole new show from that one piece: like “Rhoda” is a spin off from the “Mary Tyler Show”, or “Maude” is a spin off from “All in the Family.”
    A knock off is a “copy cat” of an original show, like “The Outer Limits” was a knock off of “The Twilight Zone”, or “The Flintstones” was a knock off of “The Honeymooners” or “Fridays” a knock off of “Live From New York”. Or every other late night talk show is a knock off the “Tonight Show”.

    But “all entries are welcome”! 😃

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    AC000000AC000000 Posts: 267 ✭✭✭

    But back to the topic:

    Best knock off TV show:
    “The Monkees” from The Beatles

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll give Gomer Pyle a nod as both a spin off (Andy Griffith) as well as a knock off (Sgt Bilko.) Al Melvin was a character actor in both.

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    stevekstevek Posts: 32,749 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @AC000000 said:
    But back to the topic:

    Best knock off TV show:
    “The Monkees” from The Beatles

    John Lennon once said about the Monkees (paraphrase), "They are the Marx Brothers of rock music." Actually, that's a pretty good analogy.

    Micky Dolenz of the Monkees was asked about what Lennon said, and Dolenz took it as a compliment. But I'm not so sure that Lennon really meant it as a compliment.

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    abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bravo's "Real Housewives of New Jersey" when everyone here knows "Real Housewives of Beverley Hills" is so much better and the true original.

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:

    @AC000000 said:
    But back to the topic:

    Best knock off TV show:
    “The Monkees” from The Beatles

    John Lennon once said about the Monkees (paraphrase), "They are the Marx Brothers of rock music." Actually, that's a pretty good analogy.

    Micky Dolenz of the Monkees was asked about what Lennon said, and Dolenz took it as a compliment. But I'm not so sure that Lennon really meant it as a compliment.

    Lennon was the Karl Marx Brother.

    :/

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    garnettstylegarnettstyle Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭✭

    SWAT

    knockoff of The Rookies

    IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED

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    garnettstylegarnettstyle Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭✭

    The Ropers

    Knockoff of Three's Company

    IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED

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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    according to the "knockoff" explanation every Western series except the first one ever made is a knockoff. I'm not so sure I follow that line of thinking.

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bonanza was the best.

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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Beverly Hillbillies was a "knock-off" of The Real McCoys.

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