Ahem.  The greatest usage of Ohio ever:

 

The Brady Bunch AND the Partridge Family BOTH going to Kings Island in the 70's.  Utterly classic.

 

The Kings Island episode of The Brady Bunch was called "The Cincinnati Kids"!  It was my favorite one where they took a trip.

 

In another episode of The Brady Bunch Alice said, after the "bunch" had come in with a bunch of groceries, "This is enough food to feed Cleveland, Ohio!"  I think it was from the episode "The Grass Is Always Greener" where Carol and Mike switched roles for a day, with Carol helping the boys with baseball practice and Mike helping the girls with their (mostly Marcia's) cooking project.

<i>Anyone hear of this guy(kid)? I like the look.</i>

 

<b>Chris Brown, Ne-Yo set co-headlining tour</b>

 

July 12, 2006 11:36 AM

by Tjames Madison, LiveDaily Contributor

 

Fans of R&B stars Chris Brown and Ne-Yo will have a chance to see both of the performers on the same stage this summer when the pair join up for their co-headlining "Up Close & Personal Tour."

 

The trek, which also features Lil Wayne, Juelz Santana and Dem Franchize Boyz, kicks off Aug. 17 in Cincinnati. The 29-city tour will run well into October, with stops in most major US markets.

 

"It's gonna be a lot of screaming girls there, a lot of fans in general," Brown said in a press release. "It's gonna be a great all-around show that everybody, including myself, can have fun with."

 

http://www.livedaily.com/news/Chris_Brown_NeYo_set_coheadlining_tour-10371.html?t=97

I think he did a concert at NKU earlier this year.

Cincinnati's name was just dropped on the T.V. show 'Jericho'.

Apparently, we were one of the cities that got nuked.

Damn it.

It seems like Ohio cities always get portrayed as the typical average American city...

i just saw a preview for that show on CBS, looks interesting (some how it reminds me a little of LOST--major disaster and people isolated from the outside world) anyway, has it started yet or does it have yet to start? 

It airs on Wednesday's at 8:00p.m. on CBS.

 

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I've never heard of the TV show Jericho.

ya, i never heard of it until i read this post.  How many episodes have I missed?

You've missed 5 episodes.

if anyone happened to see Ellen today (dunno if it was a repeat or not, not a regular watcher) anyway......Tina Fey was practicing to fill in for Ellen one day and they were doing a practice 'talk to the audience thing' with all empty seats(the bit was obviously pre-recorded, it wasnt in front of an audience.)  Anyway, Tina was acting like she was talking to an audience member and Tinas like "where are you from" and Ellen, in a side voice pretending to be an audience member said "Cincinnati."  Tina was like....."Cincinnati....thats in Ohio.  Theres a lot of Germans in Cincinnati isnt there."  Ellen kinda gave a look like, wow you suck at this.  And then it ended.

<b>HBO To Produce Show Based In Cincinnati</b>

 

Reported by: 9News

Web produced by: Candice Terrell

First posted: 10/25/2006 5:26:21 PM

 

HBO is producing a new series called John from Cincinnati.

 

The cable network announced Wednesday they will air the show's 12-episode first season next summer.

 

No word yet on who will play "John" but the show does star <b>Rebecca De Mornay.</b>

 

Christ.  Not REBECCA DE MORNAY!!!

<b>HBO To Produce Show Based In Cincinnati</b>

 

Wow you know what would make the show even better?

If it were the '80s...

Tina Fey is a no-talent goon.  I have to admit I was oddly attracted to her for about 30 seconds when she first burst(?) onto the SNL scene 8 or so years ago, until I realized she's one of those "ironic" liberal arts girls.  They all have clear skin and straight hair and a bony physique and always make pop culture references and have a certain way of not being able to maintain an honest eye contact.  They also usually wear pretty straightforward professional clothing but then always have a dash of 50's retro, like horn rim reading glasses or something, which gives away their suppressed yearning for traditional domestic life but when it comes down to it they are too awkward and self-conscious to join the ranks of the truly fine women.  Once a dork, always a dork.         

 

It's like, there's a certain kind of dude who shows up to college and the first week freshman year spots one of those kind of girls in the cafeteria and immediately develops a ridiculous crush on them, thinking like that that chick is so smart looking and I bet she'd dig a smart dude like me.  Like wow, I can't believe I found the girl I was meant to marry the very first week of school!  Maybe he starts playing his roommate's guitar when he's at class, practicing the song that he's going to swoon her with when he gets her back to the room.  And then at some point a month or two into school he works up the courage to go talk to her and he freaking blows it.  He tries to be all nice and maybe drop some hip jive reference when he would have been way better off just snapping her bra strap while she was taking a sip at the drinkng fountain.

 

>HBO said it will be the story of a dysfunctional surfing family's encounter with contemporary American culture.

 

Surfing family?  Man, I really wish I had taken up the invite from the OU surfing club to photograph their 2003 spring break in Florida.  I've been wanting to do a photo project on Ohio's obsession with Florida for awhile, photographing tanning booths, mall palm trees, Jimmy Buffet crap, all that.   

 

so i was watching Faimly Guy re-runs last night and Brian had worms but was too embarassed to tell Lois and Peter but Stuey found out so Stuey gave Brian money for medicine if he would work for him.  It was some fake job in Stueys room, calling people and trying to sell things, it was funny.  There was a part where Brian and Stuey were discussing Brians abilities and Stuey said "oh the rep from Cincinnati was impressed with you" then it did a flashback of Stuey dressed up in a suit pretending to be some rep and hes like "brian, you seem very qualified we could use a guy like you down in cincinnati."  I thought it was funny.  That whole show is hilarious.

Tina Fey is a no-talent goon.  I have to admit I was oddly attracted to her for about 30 seconds when she first burst(?) onto the SNL scene 8 or so years ago, until I realized she's one of those "ironic" liberal arts girls.  They all have clear skin and straight hair and a bony physique and always make pop culture references and have a certain way of not being able to maintain an honest eye contact.  They also usually wear pretty straightforward professional clothing but then always have a dash of 50's retro, like horn rim reading glasses or something, which gives away their suppressed yearning for traditional domestic life but when it comes down to it they are too awkward and self-conscious to join the ranks of the truly fine women.  Once a dork, always a dork.       

 

It's like, there's a certain kind of dude who shows up to college and the first week freshman year spots one of those kind of girls in the cafeteria and immediately develops a ridiculous crush on them, thinking like that that chick is so smart looking and I bet she'd dig a smart dude like me.  Like wow, I can't believe I found the girl I was meant to marry the very first week of school!  Maybe he starts playing his roommate's guitar when he's at class, practicing the song that he's going to swoon her with when he gets her back to the room.  And then at some point a month or two into school he works up the courage to go talk to her and he freaking blows it.  He tries to be all nice and maybe drop some hip jive reference when he would have been way better off just snapping her bra strap while she was taking a sip at the drinkng fountain.

 

Whoa, did this topic hit a nerve, JMeck? :lol:

 

It's like, there's a certain kind of dude who shows up to college and the first week freshman year spots one of those kind of girls in the cafeteria and immediately develops a ridiculous crush on them, thinking like that that chick is so smart looking and I bet she'd dig a smart dude like me.  Like wow, I can't believe I found the girl I was meant to marry the very first week of school!  Maybe he starts playing his roommate's guitar when he's at class, practicing the song that he's going to swoon her with when he gets her back to the room.  And then at some point a month or two into school he works up the courage to go talk to her and he freaking blows it.  He tries to be all nice and maybe drop some hip jive reference when he would have been way better off just snapping her bra strap while she was taking a sip at the drinkng fountain.

 

 

Lemme guess, this happened to a "friend of yours"?

^I was gonna say that sounds personal haha

so i was watching Faimly Guy re-runs last night and Brian had worms but was too embarassed to tell Lois and Peter but Stuey found out so Stuey gave Brian money for medicine if he would work for him.  It was some fake job in Stueys room, calling people and trying to sell things, it was funny.  There was a part where Brian and Stuey were discussing Brians abilities and Stuey said "oh the rep from Cincinnati was impressed with you" then it did a flashback of Stuey dressed up in a suit pretending to be some rep and hes like "brian, you seem very qualified we could use a guy like you down in cincinnati."  I thought it was funny.  That whole show is hilarious.

 

I remember this. This should be a YouTube clip.

Regarding John in Cincinnati:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814164/

 

In Imperial Beach, California, the dysfunctional Yost family intersects with two new arrivals to the community: a dim-but-wealthy surfing enthusiast (Nichols) and man spurned by the Yosts years ago.

 

Doesn't sound like it'll have anything to do with Cincinnati...

 

>Lemme guess, this happened to a "friend of yours"?

 

Heh.  Luckily as a youngster I had a lot of unsolicited advice from my uncles who relish nothing more than telling college drinking/party/burn-out stories, so I had some sense to avoid common pitfalls.  It was hilarious watching people do *exactly* what they predicted, though.     

There was a Simpsons episode where a bag of mail went undelivered for 30 years.  When the grade school music teach got a letter 30 years later informing him he got in to Julliard, he exclaims "I could have been the second violinist for the Cincinnati Pops!"

Haha Sweeet :]

Tina Fey is a no-talent goon.  I have to admit I was oddly attracted to her for about 30 seconds when she first burst(?) onto the SNL scene 8 or so years ago, until I realized she's one of those "ironic" liberal arts girls.  They all have clear skin and straight hair and a bony physique and always make pop culture references and have a certain way of not being able to maintain an honest eye contact.  They also usually wear pretty straightforward professional clothing but then always have a dash of 50's retro, like horn rim reading glasses or something, which gives away their suppressed yearning for traditional domestic life but when it comes down to it they are too awkward and self-conscious to join the ranks of the truly fine women.  Once a dork, always a dork.         

 

It's like, there's a certain kind of dude who shows up to college and the first week freshman year spots one of those kind of girls in the cafeteria and immediately develops a ridiculous crush on them, thinking like that that chick is so smart looking and I bet she'd dig a smart dude like me.  Like wow, I can't believe I found the girl I was meant to marry the very first week of school!  Maybe he starts playing his roommate's guitar when he's at class, practicing the song that he's going to swoon her with when he gets her back to the room.  And then at some point a month or two into school he works up the courage to go talk to her and he freaking blows it.  He tries to be all nice and maybe drop some hip jive reference when he would have been way better off just snapping her bra strap while she was taking a sip at the drinkng fountain.

 

>HBO said it will be the story of a dysfunctional surfing family's encounter with contemporary American culture.

 

Surfing family?  Man, I really wish I had taken up the invite from the OU surfing club to photograph their 2003 spring break in Florida.  I've been wanting to do a photo project on Ohio's obsession with Florida for awhile, photographing tanning booths, mall palm trees, Jimmy Buffet crap, all that.   

 

 

that reminds me, you know miss tina won't talk about her scarface. that topic is strictly verboten. typical comedian - skeletons in her closet. hehehaha.

 

 

There was a Simpsons episode where a bag of mail went undelivered for 30 years.  When the grade school music teach got a letter 30 years later informing him he got in to Julliard, he exclaims "I could have been the second violinist for the Cincinnati Pops!"

 

I'm convinced someone on the Simpson's writing staff must have Cincinnati connections. I can think of at least one Bengals reference, the fact that Springfield was revealed to be in N KY... LincolnKennedy can no doubt provide more.

^Well, the voice of Bart Simpson is from Dayton so perhaps she has her input as well?

I forgot about the whole scar thing.  Here's what the internet has to say about it, and I like this story even if it's not true:

 

>I know what happened that resulted in Tina's scar. She

>was going out with the singer of a band in LA in 1992.

>She was actually attacked by a girl that she thought

>had slept with her boyfriend. This fight took place at

>Chuck Landis's Country Club in Reseda California

>sometime in the summer of 1992. The band was called

>'dead & bloated' I think. Anyhow, this is a very

>pervasive rumor in LA.

 

 

 

'Underground,' on top

Once a city hall worker, College Hill native now on cable sketch comedy

 

BY JOHN KIESEWETTER | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

Jerry Springer isn't the only person to go from Cincinnati City Hall to prime-time TV.

 

Cincinnati native Gabrielle Dennis, a performer on Damon Wayans' "The Underground" sketch comedy series, worked for Vice Mayor Minette Cooper in 2003, before moving to Los Angeles.

 

The former College Hill resident graduated from the Hughes Center in 1996, after seven years at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. As a child she appeared in two movies shot here: "A Mom for Christmas" and "A Rage in Harlem," and in "Fences" at Playhouse in the Park.

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061109/LIFE/611090312/1025/LIFE

^Well, the voice of Bart Simpson is from Dayton so perhaps she has her input as well?

 

Nancy Cartwright is from Dayton?

^Well, the voice of Bart Simpson is from Dayton so perhaps she has her input as well?

 

Nancy Cartwright is from Dayton?

 

Yes (technically, Kettering).

On last night's Simpsons, Homer was goofing off at the nuke plant playing a game of Cincinnati Time Waste.

And apparently, Carl is from Cincinnati.

Have you guys ever watched the movie, The Sentinel?

 

Kim Basinger's code name is "Cincinnati". She is the first lady and instead of saying "the president's wife is on her way to where ever ...", they say "Cincinnati is on the way to the beach house", or whatever.

 

 

Have you guys ever watched the movie, The Sentinel?

 

Kim Basinger's code name is "Cincinnati". She is the first lady and instead of saying "the president's wife is on her way to where ever ...", they say "Cincinnati is on the way to the beach house", or whatever.

 

 

 

*Heres me being symbolic

First Lady--->Queen of America--->Queen City--->Cincinnati

 

*And heres me not being that

 

They didnt mention anything about Wilmington or Ohio... but Lost in Yonkers was filmed in parts of Wilmington... they liked the Murphy Theatre

On last night's Simpsons, Homer was goofing off at the nuke plant playing a game of Cincinnati Time Waste.

 

LOL, I noticed that too... what does scooting around in office chairs playing hockey have to do with Cincy???

There was a Simpsons episode where a bag of mail went undelivered for 30 years.  When the grade school music teach got a letter 30 years later informing him he got in to Julliard, he exclaims "I could have been the second violinist for the Cincinnati Pops!"

 

I'm convinced someone on the Simpson's writing staff must have Cincinnati connections. I can think of at least one Bengals reference, the fact that Springfield was revealed to be in N KY... LincolnKennedy can no doubt provide more.

 

I suspect that as well, though their may have been a serious of writers from the Tri-State area over the course of the show. 

 

There's the scene from Homer touring with Lolapolooza where the tour bus comes from a highway to a fork in the road, one which has a sign pointing toward Cincinnati, the other pointing toward Cleveland.  The bus heads down the Cincinnati road, stops, then backs out and turns onto the road pointing to Cleveland, and then stops and goes back the way it originally came.

 

As for Bengals references in the Simpsons I can think of two: when Homer is betting on football he watches pre-game shows that describe the Bengals as either the "Lock of the Week" or the "Shoe in of the Week", and he calls a 900 number betting tip hotline, where the pre-recorded voice drags out the length of the call by slowly enunciating each syllable of Cincinnati, between syllable each Homer says, "Cincinnati".  Also Krusty is at a USO tour during the first Gulf War in Kuwait where he introduces the Cincinnati Bengals cheerleaders to a crowd of soldiers who proceed to boo, saying, "This is offensive to our Muslims hosts."

 

That's all I can recall off-hand, and it's pretty much limited to pre-2000 Simpson's episodes.

 

As to other instances of Hollywood name dropping Cincinnati, there is of course the movie The Cincinnati Kid, starring Steve McQueen, Ann-Margaret, Edward G. Robinson, and a virtually unrecognizeable Rip Torn.  In recent memory (though I am afraid to mention it as it may exite the wrath of jmeck) Cincinnati was mentioned three different times in Good Night and Good Luck, which I found excessive but enjoyable.  And of course there's Traffic.  And Airborne.  And Rain Man.

 

Anyone else think it's funny that jmecklenborg's trying to pick up women in cafeterias?

 

 

^I did in fact pull it off back when I was a freshman.  Never heard of that one movie, I haven't seen any of the Cincinnati movies except part of Airborne because someone told me they were in the crowd in the final scene but I couldn't spot them and have never watched WKRP.  I've still never rented a movie and only go to them once or twice a year.

Well I suspected that this was a chick flick, insinuating that you actually got a girl to go to the movies. But it appears this movie is about how Communism really never got the chance it deserved.  Tragically, the technical notes say that it was filmed in color and then desaturated digitally.  Desaturating color is not the same as true B&W, partly because you cannot use the same filters (specifically red) and achieve the stunning appearance of this old commie flick:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwLZOpxAFQ

 

"...The first story shows the destitute Cuban masses contrasted with the splendor in the American-run gambling casinos and prostitution in Havana. The next story is about a farmer burning his sugar cane when he learns he is going to lose his land to United Fruit. Third story describes the suppression of rebellious students at Havana University (featuring one of the longest camera shot). The final part shows farmers joining the rebels in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, ultimately leading to triumphal march into Havana to proclaim the revolution..."

A crazy scientist in the Muppet Movie, when having Kermit strapped to an electric chair, tells him there will be enough electricty passing through his froggy brain to light up "Zinzinnati!"

 

That's hilarious! There is even a song called "The Lights of Cincinnati" ... referring to downtown of course.

Margo Smith (a country singer and yodeller from the mid-1970's through mid-1980's) has a song called "Apartment Number Four, Sixth Street In Cincinnati" - I've never heard it, though one of these days I'll pick up the single on eBay...

 

Aren't the kids who get stuck in the snowstorm in the movie "Babes in Toyland"(1986) suppose to be from Cincinnati? They even sing a song about how great the city is.

 

That was pretty much my favorite childhood movie... I was probably 7 when I last watched it... so I didn't really know that I lived near cincinnati... but heres what I got from a site:

 

 

This charming traditional tale set in Cincinnati, Ohio on Christmas eve. When a girl bumps her head and wakes up in a fantasy toyland her adventures begin. 11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary is about to marry mean, old Barnaby Barnacle, despite the fact that she loves Jack Be Nimble. Lisa tries to stop this terrible wedding and, together with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie ask the Toymaster for help, but he can't help them as long as Lisa doesn't truly believe in toys.

 

Poor Lisa... not believing in those toys... it was epic, lol

 

Turns out a guy I played on soccer and baseball teams with is on the HBO series "Entourage".  I've barely watched TV in the last 10 years and probably have never watched HBO so I didn't know about this until it showed up in the LaSalle High School alum news.  His name is Josh LeBar, I can still remember the coach calling out our names and positions before the game and hearing that now semi-famous last name.  I had some great coaches as a kid with the great "Pete Rose" accents, twisty moustaches, and giant personalities, I wish I had tape recorded some of their motivational speaches, it was poetry. 

 

 

I went to St. Xavier with this next guy, he graduated one year ahead of me.  I was in the same productions of "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Into the Woods" as him, I remember he played the husband of the third daughter in Fiddler and I can't remember what he did in the other one.  I played in the band, I didn't act.  I know I mentioned this guy somewhere on this site but I looked back and it wasn't on this thread.  Anyway he has had bit parts in a number of movies like Super Troopers and most recently was in a made-for-VH1 movie called "Totally Awesome", which I saw the last 20 minutes of and thought was terrible.  Here is the promo shot:

 

 

And here's another fun shot:

 

 

>>Also not directly Ohio-related but a friend of mine from college is putting together a documentary film about police brutality in Chicago:

 

http://www.spokefilms.com/trailers/trailers.html

 

 

Second season of Scrubs:

 

JD: You know know Turk always says "Hey playa" when he means hey buddy.

Elliot: Yeah

JD: Well, Jamie's from Cincinnati, and in Cincinnati they say "Hey slut."

Elliot: Oh, neat!

Comically, Airborne has been on HBO seemingly 20 times this month.  It cracks me up that they portray high school hockey as being big at that time, and the whole race at the end is so out of whack in the order of streets and places.  It did remind me of all the movies filmed here around then and that a scene was filmed at Krohn Conservatory - at the time I lived about 3 minutes away.

Yeah, it's funny to see kids go for a stroll and just waltz from, oh, Price Hill to Eden Park...

 

Damn...I wish I had HBO.  I moved to Cincinnati from Canada right before that movie came out.  I was one of the few kids playing hockey in Cincinnati at that time, so I thought it was hilarious for Cincinnati to be portrayed as a hockey town.  Regardless, I wish the movie were out on DVD.

So the Semester is drawing to an end and I don't have all thout much to do so I decided to finally start watching Jericho.  OK, not the best show in the world but I am board.  There is one character who seems to know an aweful lot about nuclear fallout and he's the new guy in town.  hmmmmmm. 

 

<spoiler>

 

seems this guy is part of government conspiracy to change the world by nuking the US.  Government turning against their own people kinda thing.  So anyway, before they go to leave to blow up various cities within the country they recieve there assignments.  The before mentioned character was handed his assigned target and in clear black and white was the great city of Columbus, OH.  My beloved city was to be the target of a Nuclear Terrorist Attack!  Gasp!  Anyway, I just thought I would share that.  BTW, the guy kinda defected and decided not to nuke Columbus and instead decided to move his family to Jericho, KS.

 

<possible spoiler>

 

Ok, so in the next episode we learn that since Columbus was not bombed it acctually became one of six capitols of what is now the former United States Federal Government.  Columbus is now the new capital of a small nation.  Hmmm, this is like a dream come true!  I just didn't think it would take a nuclear war to do it.

 

<spoiler> 

 

 

 

So I am pretty certain that this was not the result of a foreign country attacking the US or the result of terrorists infiltrating our borders but the result of our very own government turning against us (or members of it).  I think this is actually very interesting.