Static stops this by showing Dwayne that his stepbrother is just taking advantage of him. It has been suggested that the character is an homage to Dwayne McDuffie, who co-created the characters out of his imagination, and who ( at the time ) lived in a different state from the show's producers, and thus communicated with them only by phone.

Richardson discovered that the show's phone number accidentally spelled out the phrase " sad goat ", and the concept was elaborated on ever since.

" That same year, he also made a cameo in the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York hosting the game show " Ding-Dang-Dong ", where he mentioned that the show's contestants stayed at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, and also gave the phone number for reservations ( which allowed Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, to check in ).

However, his most famous bit was as a used car salesman, inviting callers to call an older 5-digit phone number, BR-549 ( in the show's later years, the number was changed to BR-1Z1Z ).

This fact was underscored by decreasing phone votes and ratings, which were released after the show's final.

In some early episodes, Carolla got so carried away with his rants that he forgot to take any phone calls from home viewers, and so the show's producers invented this segment in which Carolla attempts to answer 10 calls in three minutes.

* 14K-He was the show's producer for several years, and served as phone screener, public liaison, technical support, and peanut gallery.

Another factor in the show's decline was the trend of fewer households having stay-at-home members available to answer the phone during the day.

The show's format had the host presenting simple puzzles which viewers could attempt to solve over the phone.

refers to the English word itself, the Japanese word for five ( the Mach 5's car number ), and the name of the show's main character, Go Mifune.

"', a single based on the show's theme song, reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997 and remained in the Top 75 for 32 weeks, selling over a million copies.

The show's winner, Bobby Banhart, claimed that he never saw Ms. Tequila again after the show finished taping, and that he was not given her telephone number.

Although the show's name has always ended with the number " 0 ," the soundtrack album, released in the late 1960s, used the letter " O " instead of the number zero.

When the show's run was threatened by disappointing reviews, Burton and co-star Julie Andrews appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show to perform the number What Do The Simple Folk Do ?.

In the first season, a number of unbilled children were also used on-camera with the show's cast, as on Sesame Street, but this concept was very quickly dropped.

Starting with Season Three, a show's number would be presented in the sketch-of-the-day teaser segment, a parody of soap-opera teasers, which would highlight a particular sketch that would be shown during that episode.

features a number of musical games, which feature one or more of the show's resident musicians playing live backing music.

For most of the show's run, there would be one vocal number by The King's Men ( a vocal quartet: Ken Darby, Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, and Bud Linn ), and an instrumental by The Billy Mills Orchestra.

In the show's final season, NBC doubled the number of episodes ordered, despite the fact that they would have to re-sign the entire cast to new contracts in order to film them.

During the interview, Chung poked fun at her show's low ratings, referring to the musical number as a " private joke for our two viewers.

Though his main job was to be the show's comedian, he has had a number of other roles on The Muppet Show.

Riff Raff, Magenta and Columbia ( a groupie ) speak briefly of an unlucky delivery boy named Eddie before performing the show's signature dance number (" Time Warp "*).

The band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in the Festive Fifty that year, with " Dreams Burn Down " and " Like a Daydream " at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and " Taste " at number 25.

Guiding Light has had a number of plot sequences over the show's long history, on both radio and television.

" on the show's intro ( when he usually states the episode number ), and had a Yankees logo purposely displayed upside-down on his drumset.

Despite introducing a large number of new regular characters, the show's second season brought in only two new actors.

The show's theme song, " On the Inside ", sung by Lynne Hamilton, reached number one in Australia in 1979, and peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart in 1989.

During the first 3 seasons, cast members were transitioned during the show's catchy production number which introduced the new cast members to the remaining cast members.

References to them were made in a number of other Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager episodes but they were not seen onscreen until the 1996 Deep Space Nine episode " Indiscretion ", which aired as part of that show's fourth season.

He received a number of his major characters early in the show's run, including the Sherlock Holmes parody Sherlock Hemlock ( 1970 – 1995, 2010 ), a hapless magician named The Amazing Mumford ( 1971 – 2012 ), and the overly strong, but sensitive Herry Monster ( 1970 – 2012 ).

" The Dean of the United States Military Academy, Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, visited the set of 24 in February 2007 to urge the show's makers to reduce the number of torture scenes and Sutherland accepted an invitation from the U. S. military to tell West Point cadets that it is wrong to torture prisoners.

The show's choreography by David Toguri included a large-scale tap dance number of the " Guys and Dolls " finale, performed by the principals and entire cast.

The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

In 2010, his character was involved in the show's dramatic 50th anniversary tram crash storyline, which was recorded live.

Claire was the main focus of the show's first story arc, featuring the popular catchphrase, " Save the cheerleader, save the world ".

The show's production team was tested when many core cast members left the programme in the early 1970s.

In 1983, antihero Len Fairclough ( Peter Adamson ), one of the show's central male characters since 1961, was killed off, and in 1984, Stan Ogden ( Bernard Youens ) died.

Kershaw was also a script writer for the programme and the show's producer between 1962 and 1971.

Bill Podmore was the show's longest serving producer.

The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear.

Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.

Anderson moved to the BBC in 1996 and the show's name changed to Clive Anderson All Talk and was aired on BBC One.

She had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.

The producers of Diff ' rent Strokes did not feel that a pregnancy would fit the show's wholesome image, so Plato was let go.

The act that appeared most frequently through the show's run was the Canadian comedy duo of Wayne & Shuster, making 67 appearances between 1958 and 1969.

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

She was a special guest at the 70th Academy Awards, where the show's host, Billy Crystal, introduced her as the " Beauty who charmed the Beast ".

During the initial episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston.

Upon the show's American debut in 1999, it was an instant hit and became a regular part of ABC's prime time lineup until 2002.

The show's name was coined by show business talent manager and producer Bernie Brillstein and derives from a common English onomatopoeia used to describe the braying sound that a donkey makes.

During the summer of 1992, a decision was made to end first-run production, and instead air highlights of the show's earlier years in a revamped program called Hee Haw Silver ( as part of celebrating the show's 25th year ).