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6/10
dancing? Boxing? ho hum but better than thought would be
mikeholmes-480122 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I'd like to point out, i think dancing is the stupidest thing one can do. Also boxing is a dying sport though i like it more than a lot of the others (golf, tennis, etc). So Al from Happy days (fun fact, he is somehow still alive and will be 100 in 4 years from my research) is a boxing coach who desires to coach a champ. Seems like last weeks of the Mel guy from Alice ( who caused a lot of guessing who he was and i even said AL from happy days) who wanted to be a manager. anyhow the guy he picks turns out to be concussion prone and could die accoring to Blanche from Golden Girls. From NFL concussion stories, i thought people in the 1970's were totally unaware of concussion stuff. brief thoughts of this story arc include 1. Imagine punching Al in the face with that huge honker of his.

2. When Rue starts mock punching, everyone notices at the eating dinner place, most episodes you can scream at someone and no one notices.

3. Tattoo was the money holder for the boxing match and greedily eyes the money. Is he like Cartman on south park for this show, the center of all that is evil and bad? whats he need the money for, wheres he go?

4. what kind of manager is he anyway,(besides no signs of a broken from fighting nose) his advise ringside was "jab" "use combinations" "block block". Know why he threw in the towel, he stopped giving such great advice and was thinking about feeling bad and all that leaving his boxer lost as what to do.

5 Tattoo got off the phone with Roaurke and goes "ahhh wah-er" i think it's French. its funny.

6. Special effects were extra extra terrible this episode. when boxer has a big hit showing concussions, it sounds like that Bionic Woman noise but less chachee cha chee and more DOng dong dong dongy..

The other arc was a lady who wants to dance like Ginger Rodgers and gets this powder she puts on her feet and does. So she goes to a tryout and a highly skilled blond who worked her whole life training is her competition (and thus really bad) but this lady amazes all. what amazed me is a bunch of women were competing to dance to some old white guys expertise. Seemed far fetched. So i thought, its not really her dancing so is it really a fantasy. then she runs out of powder for a stupid reason and i realized they would say it was love that made her dance that way. She fell in love with a guy she barely danced with or got to know (though they did make out during the last one, does that count?). guess what, now shes flying home with him. hope they live nearby or otherwise she has a big bed or guest room. (the boxers all left together too, stupid) \ other observations

1. Tattoo was told by Gaylord he could use him for finding show girls for him, which got Tattoo doing his perverse desperate laugh.

2. the guy testing out the women dancers was very prancey. prance prance prance.

3.When Gaylord meets the lady and dances on the dance floor, music is coming from where? also shes wearing a dress that shows a lot of side boob through a red see through dress .

4.Besides Gaylord Perry, this is the second Gaylord i have heard of in my life. All are from the 70's/ with gay rights, marriage fashionable now, you think we would see that name coming back.

overall decent episode considering the subject matter at hand.

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6/10
Acceptable
VetteRanger3 April 2023
The interesting thing in this episode was seeing a credit for "Billy R. Moses". Not long after he'd join the cast of the Perry Mason movies as "William R. Moses". It's interesting he chose to use his middle initial with the nickname ... you don't often see that.

He plays a boxer with some talent who has already suffered a head injury. The fantasy is a boxing manager who'd like to manage a Champion, for a change. But will he risk the young boxer's health for his own fantasy?

The other fantasy is a woman who wants to dance like Ginger Rogers. The interesting thing about that plot is Ken Berry and a dancer recreating a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance on a movie screen behind them, attempting to match the screen move for move. They generally succeed, but aren't nearly as polished and crisp, of course. Also, we get to see a couple of short numbers from an aged Ray Bolger, who still had some moves to show. :-)
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2/10
A bore of repeat, boring fantasies. The beginning of the end? Looks that way!
imdb-252887 May 2023
The descent into mediocrity has started. We have 2 repeat fantasies here: yet another idiotic boxing match, whose boring scenes had me looking at my laptop and wondering when it was going to be over, and another dance fantasy (how many have they done by now, 8? 10?) with yet another recreation of the "old Hollywood" film projected behind the island guests. Cyd Charisse did it a lot better.

There is no horror elements here, no fun Tattoo/Roarke exchanges and the whole episode is wasted. The Fantasy Island Theater has changed: instead of a small sign and modest entrance, it now is a huge building complete with substantial marquee with lights and red carpet. (Same building shown in the following episode). And the intro music, that which plays after the theme, while they get in their Rovers and go the quay, has a lot more harp.

That's about it. Nothing special, no highlights, boring actors, boring repeat fantasies. And Rue MacLanhan wasn't even funny, this time!
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