OT: The FOFC Television Draft - Draft Thread

[kcchief19]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Here's a childhood favorite:

Moment, Other - The Muppet Show - Kermit sings "It's Not Easy Being Green".

There are so many awesome moments in that show, but I loved that song (and whenever Kermit sang), so there ya go.

I was going to take Kermit as a performer this round. Great pick.

[Johnny93g]

Originally Posted by ThunderingHERD

Moment, drama - Sam leaps in to Lee Harvey Oswald (Quantum Leap)

Awesome episode, the end was chilling, with Sam saving Jackie' life. Great pick, you may have stolen my vote with that

[oykib]

Originally Posted by Johnny93g

Awesome episode, the end was chilling, with Sam saving Jackie' life. Great pick, you may have stolen my vote with that

Totally disagree.

Are you saying that episode is one of the great moments in Television history?

Please.

I loved Quantum Leap. But I'm a sci-fi nerd. Ask ten Americans and nine of them have never seen or, probably, even heard of it.

When stacked up with the other moment picks, it'll be a clear flub.

[Johnny93g]

Originally Posted by oykib

Totally disagree.

Are you saying that episode is one of the great moments in Television history?

Please.

I loved Quantum Leap. But I'm a sci-fi nerd. Ask ten Americans and nine of them have never seen or, probably, even heard of it.

When stacked up with the other moment picks, it'll be a clear flub.

No, not one of the greatest moment in TV history, but one of my favourite shows of all time, and my favourite episodes (2-parter) from that show. Im not a sci-fi nerd, but i love Quantam Leap. Not really sure how you can critisize my own personal taste. To eaches own i guess. And it's a flub that stole my vote.

[kcchief19]

OK, so I'm out of contact with the Internet for 20 hours and all of you make selections like the Hattrick forum is on fire and spreading throughout the server, but I dutifully check in and nobody has done jack squat. Well done.

In case you can't tell I'm being sarcastic.

[WSUCougar]

Who's on the clock? What's the hold up?

Do you want answers???

I WANT THE TRUTH!!!

[sachmo71]

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

Who's on the clock? What's the hold up?

Do you want answers???

I WANT THE TRUTH!!!

you can't handle the truth?

[Schmidty]

Well, I have just recieved an email from Maple Leafs that he has had some real life events that are going to cause him to pull out of the draft. He has asked me to take over the draft, and to have someone take his spot in the draft.

Now that I'm in control, things might get a little more draconian around here.

[WSUCougar]

Shall we recruit someone to take Leafs' spot?

(I hope he's okay, by the way.)

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

Shall we recruit someone to take Leafs' spot?

(I hope he's okay, by the way.)

Yep. If someone has interest, please PM me ASAP.

Also, if things continue to crawl like this and people don't send in picks, I am going to institute a time-limit.

[WSUCougar]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Also, if things continue to crawl like this and people don't send in picks, I am going to institute a time-limit.

I'm in favor of that. They just continue to lose their slot until they pick. We can call it The Viking Rule.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

I'm in favor of that. They just continue to lose their slot until they pick. We can call it The Viking Rule.

Great idea.

There will be a 5 hour time limit for those that have not sent their picks in. It will be instituted by 8 pm PST tonight, but will not be in effect from the hours of 8 pm PST and 8 am PST (11 EST and 11 EST).

You can send your pick to others in the draft that aren't close enough to steal the pick or picks on your lists. Ideally, someone outside of the draft will volunteer to take the picks and post them if they are around.

[Schmidty]

Anxiety has agreed to take over ML's spot.

[Raven]

Schmidty, did Sean forward you my list?

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Raven

Schmidty, did Sean forward you my list?

Nope.

[Radii]

Where do we stand now? We're on JiMGA, then Crapshoot, then myself, correct?

[Raiders Army]

Man, I can't believe a classic, highly-rated, and probably most syndicated show hasn't been picked yet.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Radii

Where do we stand now? We're on JiMGA, then Crapshoot, then myself, correct?

Yeah, but I think Jim sent in a long list to ML, so I'm going to give him until tomorrow morning.

[WSUCougar]

Is anybody out there, anybody there?
Does anybody wonder, anybody care?

[Schmidty]

Via list JiGA chooses:

6.7 Moment, Drama, The Prisoner - Final episode "Fall Out" as Number 6 finally meets Number 1 ... and discovers that the enemy is us.

[Schmidty]

Since I can't edit ML's first page list, I'll just copy it here:

Team #1 - WSUCougar
1.1 Show, drama - MASH
2.10 Show, other - Star Trek
3.1 Moment, comedy - "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." (WKRP)
4.10 Actor, comedy - Kelsey Grammer (Frasier)
5.1 Show, drama - The Sopranos
6.10 Performer, drama - James Garner (Rockford Files)
7.1 Moment, drama - Final episode when it's revealed that the show was all an autistic boy's imagination (St. Elsewhere)

Team #2 - Radii
1.2 Moment, drama - Who Shot JR? (Dallas)
2.9 Performer, comedy - Bill Cosby (The Cosby Show)
3.2 Moment, other - Ali vs. Foreman, the Rumble in the Jungle (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
4.9 Show, comedy - South Park
5.2 Show, drama - Hill Street Blues
6.9 Performer, comedy - Billy Crystal (Soap)
7.2 Show, other - The Price is Right

Team #3 - Crapshoot
1.6 Show, comedy - Cheers*
2.5 Performer, comedy - Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
2.8 Moment, comedy - Dick wakes up next to Emily Hartley (Newhart)*
4.5 Show, drama - The Wonder Years*
5.3 Performer, other - Walter Cronkite (CBS Evening News)
6.8 Show, comedy - Friends
7.3 Perfomer, other - Michael J.Fox as Alex Keaton (Family Ties)

Team #4 - JonInMiddleGA
1.9 Show, drama - Gunsmoke*
2.2 Show, other - Hockey Night in Canada*
3.4 Performer, comedy - Dick Van Dyke (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
4.7 Moment, comedy - The brownie episode (Barney Miller)
5.4 Show, drama - Playhouse 90
6.7 Moment, drama - Final episode "Fall Out" as Number 6 finally meets Number 1 ... and discovers that the enemy is us. (The Prisoner)
7.4 Moment, other - Racer X identity revealed (Speed Racer)

Team #5 - ThunderingHERD
1.5 Performer, other - Johnny Carson (The Tonight Show)
2.6 Moment, other - Edward R. Murrow vs Joseph McCarthy (See It Now)
3.5 Show, drama - The Twilight Zone
4.6 Moment, comedy - Ellen comes out (Ellen)
5.5 Performer, comedy - Andy Griffith (The Andy Griffith Show)
6.6 Moment, drama - Sam leaps in to Lee Harvey Oswald (Quantum Leap)
7.5 Show, other - Meet the Press

Team #6 - kcchief19
1.3 Moment, comedy - The Outing (Seinfeld)*
3.3 Moment, comedy - Chuckles the Clown Dies (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)*
3.6 Performer, other - David Letterman (Late Night)
4.8 Show, drama - Perry Mason
5.6 Moment, drama - Love's Labor Lost episode (ER)
6.5 Performer, other - Carol Burnett (The Carol Burnett Show)
7.6 Show, drama - NYPD Blue

Team #7 - Maple Leafs / Anxiety
1.7 Performer, comedy - Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy)
2.4 Moment, other - Howard Cossell announces the death of John Lennon (Monday Night Football)
3.7 Moment, drama - Richard Kimble catches the one-armed man (The Fugitive)
4.4 Show, drama - Roots
5.7 Show, comedy - Monty Python's Flying Circus
6.4 Performer, drama - Keifer Sutherland (24)
7.7 Performer, other - Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers Neighborhood)

Team #8 - Schmidty
1.8 Show, comedy - All in the Family
2.3 Performer, comedy - Jackie Geason (The Honeymooners)
3.8 Performer, drama - Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
4.3 Show, other - 60 Minutes
5.8 Show, drama - The X-Files
6.3 Moment, other - Kermit sings "It's Not Easy Being Green" for the first time (The Muppet Show)
7.8 Moment, other - Bill Clinton plays the saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show (The Arsenio Hall Show)

Team #9 - Raven
1.4 Moment, other - The Beatles make their first televised appearance in America (The Ed Sullivan Show)*
2.7 Show, other - Sportscenter*
3.9 Moment, other - Johnny Fairplay lies about the death of his grandmother (Survivor)
4.2 Performer, other - Kurt Cobain (MTV's Unplugged)
5.9 Performer, comedy - Redd Foxx (Sanford and Son)
6.2 Moment, comedy - Moment, Comedy - Al 's dream sequence reliving his 4 TD game from Polk High (Married... with Children)


Team #10 - sachmo71
1.10 Show, comedy - The Simpsons
2.1 Show, comedy - Saturday Night Live
3.10 Show, drama - CSI
4.1 Moment, other - Ken Jennings loses in his bid to win his 75th game (Jeopardy!)
5.10. Performer, comedy - Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple)
6.1. Moment, other - "That would be in the ass, Bob." (The Newlywed Game)

*via trade

Shows that have been taken:
24
60 Minutes
ABC's Wide World of Sports
All in the Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The Arsenio Hall Show
Barnie Miller
CBS Evening News
The Carol Burnett Show
Cheers
The Cosby Show
CSI
Dallas
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
Ellen
ER
Family Ties
Frasier
Friends
The Fugitive
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hill Street Blues
Hockey Night in Canada
The Honeymooners
I Love Lucy
Jeopardy!
Late Night
Married... with Children
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
MASH
Meet the Press
Monday Night Football
Monty Python's Flying Circus
MTV's Unplugged
The Muppet Show
Newhart
The Newlywed Game
The Odd Couple
Perry Mason
Playhouse 90
The Price is Right
The Prisoner
Quantum Leap
Rockford Files
Roots
St. Elsewhere
Sanford and Son
Saturday Night Live
See It Now
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
Soap
The Sopranos
South Park
Sportscenter
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Survivor
The Tonight Show
The Twilight Zone
WKRP
The Wonder Years
The X-Files

[Schmidty]

Crapshoot is now on the clock

The time-limit rule is in effect.

[Crapshoot]

Show - Comedy - Friends

In later years, it became almost a parody of itself, but at its top it gave us a (slightly unbelievable) cast of characters. I really don't need to take a comedy show given my draft, but this is too long to leave it on the board IMO.

[Schmidty]

I despise Friends, but that was excellent value this late in the draft.

[Schmidty]

Radii is on the clock

The time-limit rule is in effect.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Due to a big-time major league real-life crisis of my own, I'm totally & completely lost ... well, almost anyway

I found the post where ML was called away & handed things off to Schmidty, so I'll address this to him (although if somebody else wants to take a crack at answering, please feel free): When would my next pick likely be up? I mean, my next pick +/- whatever time limit you're working with?

If possible, I'd like to continue (my brain & my nerves could use a pleasant break) but it's going to be at least several hours before I can start working up a revised draft list that would keep me within in category limits AND still have enough choices so that I'm not the one holding things up.

So ... ballpark timeline/timetable please?

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Radii is on the clock

6.9 - Comedy - Performer - Billy Crystal on Soap



(you can go ahead and use my list right away when you've got a list from me Schmidty)

[Radii]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

So ... ballpark timeline/timetable please?

My next pick will be made fairly quickly, Schmidty has a list with one pick on it, as long as WSUCougar doesn't take that If he does, I'm checking the board at worst every 30 minutes or so.

[WSUCougar]

Need to get a couple key weaknesses shored up, so here goes nothing:

6.10: Performer, drama, James Garner (Rockford Files)

and

7.1: Moment, drama, St. Elsewhere's final episode when it's revealed that the show was all an autistic boy's imagination.

[Schmidty]

Jim, I still have a list (from ML) with a few picks, so if you aren't around, you should still be ok.

[Schmidty]

Via list (thanks), Radii picks:

7.2 Show - Other - The Price is Right

[oliegirl]

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

Need to get a couple key weaknesses shored up, so here goes nothing:

6.10: Performer, drama, James Garner (Rockford Files)

and

7.1: Moment, drama, St. Elsewhere's final episode when it's revealed that the show was all an autistic boy's imagination.

GREAT moment - amazing show!!! Good pick

[Abe Sargent]

I have pick 7.7 in this round, right?

-Anxiety

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Jim, I still have a list (from ML) with a few picks, so if you aren't around, you should still be ok.

Thanks Schmidty, I'm looking it over & believe I still have
#5, #7, and #8 as alive/available/valid picks
and #6 appears to be alive as my "wildcard" pick (even though I've used up the "show" category).

Hopefully that'll hold me through at least two more rounds, and then (real-life permitting) I'll try to PM you with a refreshed list sometime tonight.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Anxiety

I have pick 7.7 in this round, right?

-Anxiety

Yep.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Thanks Schmidty, I'm looking it over & believe I still have
#5, #7, and #8 as alive/available/valid picks
and #6 appears to be alive as my "wildcard" pick (even though I've used up the "show" category).

Hopefully that'll hold me through at least two more rounds, and then (real-life permitting) I'll try to PM you with a refreshed list sometime tonight.

Well, Crapshoot is in the thread, so if he makes his pick before you leave, you can go ahead and pick (in case you change your mind about a pick on your list).

[Schmidty]

Just to stay consistant:

Crapshoot is on the clock

The time-limit rule is in effect.

[Crapshoot]

woops - sorry. I'll try to get a pick in 5 min or so.

[JonInMiddleGA]

And I'll stay in the thread for 5-10 minutes, I believe I've got something that isn't on my list but would fill a slot for me.

[Crapshoot]

7.3 Perfomer - Other - Michael J.Fox as Alex Keaton - Family Ties Sentimental pick, and I think it was more than a comedy - but not quite a drama.

[Schmidty]

I like that pick Crapshoot. I also really liked the Price is Right pick.

[JonInMiddleGA]

6th round pick
Moment, Other, " I saw it in the window and just couldn't resist it." -- Carol Burnett Show -- of all the moments of this incomparable variety show, none is more remembered than this classic line from the spoof of Gone With the Wind.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

6th round pick
Moment, Other, " I saw it in the window and just couldn't resist it." -- Carol Burnett Show -- of all the moments of this incomparable variety show, none is more remembered than this classic line from the spoof of Gone With the Wind.

Unfortunately Jon, The Carol Burnett Show has been picked.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Unfortunately Jon, The Carol Burnett Show has been picked.

Dammit, I checked the list twice & didn't see it
edit to add: Naturally, I was checking the list on the first page, not the one just a couple of pages back. My bad, I saw your updated list but forgot about it when I was checking.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Dammit, I checked the list twice & didn't see it

Shit happens

[JonInMiddleGA]

Updated 6th round pick --

Moment, Other, "Racer X identity revealed" -- Yeah, it's a kids show. Yeah, it's a cartoon. And I still believe this reveal from Speed Racer is one of the more memorable moments in TV history.

[WSUCougar]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Moment, Other, "Racer X identity revealed" -- Yeah, it's a kids show. Yeah, it's a cartoon. And I still believe this reveal from Speed Racer is one of the more memorable moments in TV history.

Awwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhawww! <---Speed Racer's "shocked" noise

[Schmidty]

So, who was racer X??

[WSUCougar]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

So, who was racer X??

*tsk*

Speed's brother!

[Schmidty]

ThunderingHERD is on the clock

The time-limit rule is in effect.