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I keep meaning to post about My Two Dads, and be annoyingly enthusiastic about it, but I have been distracted. Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iceandstars pointing out that there are now innumerable episodes of Simon & Simon on YouTube, my productivity has fallen even further than usual, and I've been shirking my bouncy eighties sitcom duties. So I'll just have to be annoyingly enthusiastic about Simon & Simon instead.
Simon & Simon is a detective show that ran for most of the nineteen eighties, although annoyingly we only ever got season two in the UK. New rules about foreign imports in prime time scuppered our chances of getting any more, as the show was a bit too violent for the Saturday afternoon slot that The A-Team got shifted to. That doesn't explain why it was season two that we ended up with, rather than season one, mind. Although admittedly season two was better.
Your guide to Simon & Simon, then. Rick and AJ Simon are brothers, who run a detective agency in San Diego. They are, as all brothers on television are fated to be, complete opposites. Big brother Rick is laid back and cynical, tough and weathered; and little brother AJ is hot-tempered and intellectual, and a bit of a wide-eyed innocent. They live together in a house by a river (technically Rick lives in a boat beached in the back yard), and life throws them adventures every Friday night at half past seven. Usually accompanied by a fair amount of pyrotechnics, a great deal of screeching tyres, and a lot of arguing about Rick putting his boots on the furniture. They also have an awesome mother, an alarming tendency to get beaten up, and a rather endearing devotion to each other that's helped by a great screen chemistry. I love it, but then admittedly I am rather easily pleased. Especially where eighties American action shows featuring gunfights and explosions are concerned. I'm such an intellectual.
Pictures, then! I trawled the internet for literally seconds, but the results weren't terribly helpful, I must admit. To begin with we have a shot that makes them look more like father and son than brothers:
And then some weird 'running on a beach' scene, which is just plain peculiar:
Then there's this one which looks mildly gay:
And this one, which looks even gayer:
Anyways, that's Simon & Simon. If you have fifty minutes to spare, and feel your life is sadly lacking in car chases, cowboy hats and hairspray, I'd recommend clicking on this link, and choosing an episode at random. I've just come from watching "Who Killed The Sixties?", a season four adventure in which we not only get explosions and a gunfight, but also copious flashbacks - which in this instance is definitely a good thing. Mostly because it involves Gerald McRaney in a hippie wig, and Jameson Parker somehow managing to pull off a scarily adorable seventeen, whilst pushing thirty-seven. Nice motorbikes too.
I like the nineteen eighties. Stuff just doesn't blow up nearly as often anymore. I really ought to find somebody to write to and complain. In the meantime, though, have a bouncy theme tune. I've decided that I have to convert the internet to Simon & Simon fandom, and this is as good a place to start from as any.
*bounce bounce bounce*
iceandstars pointing out that there are now innumerable episodes of Simon & Simon on YouTube, my productivity has fallen even further than usual, and I've been shirking my bouncy eighties sitcom duties. So I'll just have to be annoyingly enthusiastic about Simon & Simon instead.Simon & Simon is a detective show that ran for most of the nineteen eighties, although annoyingly we only ever got season two in the UK. New rules about foreign imports in prime time scuppered our chances of getting any more, as the show was a bit too violent for the Saturday afternoon slot that The A-Team got shifted to. That doesn't explain why it was season two that we ended up with, rather than season one, mind. Although admittedly season two was better.
Your guide to Simon & Simon, then. Rick and AJ Simon are brothers, who run a detective agency in San Diego. They are, as all brothers on television are fated to be, complete opposites. Big brother Rick is laid back and cynical, tough and weathered; and little brother AJ is hot-tempered and intellectual, and a bit of a wide-eyed innocent. They live together in a house by a river (technically Rick lives in a boat beached in the back yard), and life throws them adventures every Friday night at half past seven. Usually accompanied by a fair amount of pyrotechnics, a great deal of screeching tyres, and a lot of arguing about Rick putting his boots on the furniture. They also have an awesome mother, an alarming tendency to get beaten up, and a rather endearing devotion to each other that's helped by a great screen chemistry. I love it, but then admittedly I am rather easily pleased. Especially where eighties American action shows featuring gunfights and explosions are concerned. I'm such an intellectual.
Pictures, then! I trawled the internet for literally seconds, but the results weren't terribly helpful, I must admit. To begin with we have a shot that makes them look more like father and son than brothers:
And then some weird 'running on a beach' scene, which is just plain peculiar:
Then there's this one which looks mildly gay:
And this one, which looks even gayer:
Anyways, that's Simon & Simon. If you have fifty minutes to spare, and feel your life is sadly lacking in car chases, cowboy hats and hairspray, I'd recommend clicking on this link, and choosing an episode at random. I've just come from watching "Who Killed The Sixties?", a season four adventure in which we not only get explosions and a gunfight, but also copious flashbacks - which in this instance is definitely a good thing. Mostly because it involves Gerald McRaney in a hippie wig, and Jameson Parker somehow managing to pull off a scarily adorable seventeen, whilst pushing thirty-seven. Nice motorbikes too.
I like the nineteen eighties. Stuff just doesn't blow up nearly as often anymore. I really ought to find somebody to write to and complain. In the meantime, though, have a bouncy theme tune. I've decided that I have to convert the internet to Simon & Simon fandom, and this is as good a place to start from as any.
*bounce bounce bounce*
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That show was always so much fun to watch.