Alice Season 3 Opening

[k9feces]

I like this version the best

[flowers321]

@k9feces me too!!!!:D

[msmithstud]

;58 was hilarious. One of the 3 were suppose to catch her.

[TrishaDishaWarEagle]

I just like saying ... VIC TAYBACK..I find if I drop odd names from the 70's and 80's into conversations that they in no way belong in, people stop talking to me sooner and thats a plus when I can;t fucking stand them in the firstplace..don't you agree that conrad Bain is laughing his ass off having outlived two of his tv kids when he was old as shit even back in the day?

[winfir0]

flo looked great and to this day she lives in alabama

[DarthSideous63]

The show sucked when Flo left.

[RichHartley19671]

This is the beginning that started "used to be sad/used to be shy," but season 1 started with the lines (with a really cold, tough delivery by Lavin): "Early to rise/early to bed" with that out-of-sight guitar backing her. I really thought that they messed with perfection by replacing it with this. Also, Linda Lavin did go a little nuts here with her phrasing--e.g., the lines "Kickin-my-self-for nothin" and "got a smile/got a song" in which she really abandons herself.

[MidwesternWhisper]

@RichHartley19671 yes, the earlier version was much better. I had not heard either version in 20 odd years until tonight. Takes me back to my childhood.

[Nikes62]

I love the sexy way she sings it...

[starqz]

I knew a guy whose mother refused to let him watch TV growing up because he told her to "kiss his grits" one day. She took the TV away from him and he wasn't ever allowed to watch it again unless he went over to a friends' house. Crazy..

[pgy002]

@starqz OMG!!

[acrttdriver]

I'de stop there just for the 14oz. coffee thats advertised on the sign.

[achilesbmt]

this is season 4

[gpwerner]

Never was there a "classic" TV show that could have been soooooo much more than it turned out to be than "Alice." Flo and Mel were great characters, but Tayback got too tamed down for TV and eventually Lavin hijacked the whole series and turned it to sh*t (and don't even get me started on Vera--biggest cipher ever to be in a regular series cast). Funny occasionally, but could have been a real classic if the star hadn't let her ego get in the way.

[keithsmove]

Can you believe 33 years ago, I was watching this show right now??

Awesome show but was never the same after Flo left

[TwinCityKillaz]

This and WKRP In Cincinnati should be on DVD or at least downloadable content. FYI did you know Philip is real life brother of Nancy McKeon (Facts of Life)

[WizzoPro9476]

@TwinCityKillaz No SHIT!

[Smartboy8877]

@TwinCityKillaz

Yes, as a metter of fact, I did know about Philip and Nancy being brother and sister. Very interesting tidbit!

[pgy002]

@keithsmove I'm in a minority but I really liked Jolene too :)

[Smartboy8877]

@pgy002

I thought that Jolene was a pretty decent character.

[jmjfanss]

@keithsmove

I Never liked flo, I'm glad she left though, the show got much better.

[freemind4ever]

omg i remember this, seen it in the 80's in the uk, could not remember the name of the program, nice

[princessjerseygirl04]

linda lavin rocks!

[kittygrrlhk]

Linda Lavin is rumored to be difficult to work with and she and Polly Holliday feuded when Flo started to become the big star of the show. Linda and Diane Ladd also feuded which prompted her to leave after only one season.

[CapricornDavo]

I read that Diane Ladd said that Linda Lavin was an egomaniac and she found her impossible to work with, which is why she left after one season. Notice how Polly Holiday never did return for a guest appearance.

[dramaticguy]

Heward an interview with Diane Ladd(Belle)lately,said she didn't have a great time on the show.

She said Flo was spun off because certain actors on Alice didn't get on.

[MrChrisGraves1]

yeah, I've spent the last 20 minutes trying to figure out how Suzanne Sommers fitted in this show, but maybe I should quit drinking and go to sleep

[Aeolis7]

I almost fell out of my chair!

[arhuxtable]

Suzanne Somers starred on Three's Company,which premiered not too long after Alice.

[ahfaxthis]

@MrChrisGraves1 you are hilarious with your comment. BURP ! excuse me :)

[amcfan100]

Was never the same without Flo, She was my favorite

[mrjoke69]

I loved Lind Lavin she was a great actress in Alice

[nealadams70]

the producers of this show were the main writers of I LOVE LUCY,which probably explains the humor...:)

[sammy7819]

Linda Laven has a great voice i;ll bet she did a lot of great stuff on broadway,

[jjpeterson1]

Damn what a theme, sweet Jesus.

[frc1968]

One of my very favorite shows of all time I grew up with. I wish there was a DVD boxed set of the entire series!

[gallantman44]

God, I hated this show, and the theme song really sucked. She sings it over confident like her show is the best you know.

[kdw456]

fooey ALICE ROCKED!!...

[poutaine]

I wish the entire series would come out on DVD, not just that lame "Alice: TV Favorites" disc that's out now.

[qazwsxoi]

mel sharples!!

[frankd1965]

@qazwsxoi Vic Tayback was great playing the cantankerous diner owner

[rhodeisland95]

She sings this theme as if she has abdominal cramps.

[jmsweat]

Yeah I don't know what was with some of her funky singing in the openings.

[qazwsxoi]

kiss my grits!!

[agenttorpor]

Flo was my hero.

And Philip McKeon did not age into a handsome man. At all. Erf.

[poutaine]

Eh, he's not as ugly as he used to be. His sister Nancy is fucking hot, though.

[johnnywishbone4]

Nancy played Joe on facts of life

[hot96rox232]

i would totally do Tommy.  I would suck his big penis

[hamtrak]

Stow it Blondie!

[teaveecee]

kiss.

my.

grits.

[sswha224]

This show was one of my favorites. A classic.

[sdjimbob]

god, the opening got worse and worse.. Dreadful singing, blech!!

[tubedudeT2000]

Every start of a new season, they change the lyrics to the theme song.

[jas22]

sunday nights, mid-late 1970s: "all in the family/Archie Bunker's Place", "alice", "one day at a time", "the jeffersons". am i remembering this correctly? killer line-up. CBS killed in the ratings! made going to bed for school the next day easy. currently, the shows you watch on sundays are grim, bloody, violent. the difference is remarkable.

[Brianeddie666]

@jas22 It was on Saturday nights.

[whitewitchoz]

@Brianeddie666 Sunday nights.

[Brianeddie666]

@whitewitchoz I remember this show comming on CBS on Saturday nights in the 1970s,,was it moved to Sunday nights later?

[littlebittyme]

I love Flo.. She was a trip!

[SarahFeldman1976]

I liked Jolene, but Flo was a trip.

[SarahFeldman1976]

I loved this show growing up, it is on ION TV now.

[rachey003]

actually, they just took it off ION TV last week. i'm bummed.

[PhantomDog]

This show had so many great moments; one I recall offhand is that Mel's carrying a plastic turkey (at :18) with the intention of serving chicken that he will bring out of the kitchen when he takes the fake bird in. I don't remember what happened with the real turkey but he gets a hard time about not cutting the turkey so everyone can watch.

[jas22]

remember the earthquake, phantomdog? when Alice has the obscene caller (scary to watch for a kid). once vera took all these sleeping pills, attempting suicide. when alice's mom visted her and alice finally blew up at her, i wanted to scream at my parents/older brother for being such pests.

[PhantomDog]

Yea, I recall the earthquake vaguely and the pills, not the other one too well. I would probably know it if I saw them again though. I do recall Mel buying plates from some place that started with a 'W' which got smashed at a party thrown by Telly Savalas. I remember Tommy's crush on Vera and I remember Flo helping Tommy get a tux for a school party; she hugged him to see which boyfriend's size was closest to his which he enjoyed greatly. And who could Flo's tagline?

[fromthesidelines]

This was when the show started to hit its stride when it moved to Sunday nights in early 1979...when Bob Carroll Jr. & Madelyn Davis {"Lucy's writers"} took over the daily operations of the series, that's when everything started to click!

[jas22]

sidelines-- right...it was on a thursday or something, right, prior to sundays? i didnt realize it was moved to sundays THAT late.

[ih1s1bila1n]

"KISS MY GRITS" i loved that line.

[Focusakker]

I used to watch Alice, featuring the attractive Linda Lavin, on TNN, just before it became Spike TV. Get more action.

[kresblain]

It's on ION currently, during the prime access time period. They're already halfway through season 6. :oP

[Focusakker]

Will you shut up and let me kill Team Leader!

[mkxylplk]

"Ding-gyy, PICK UP!"-Mel

[83survivor]

Philip McKeon is Nancy McKeon's brother.

[PollyUnsaturated]

She's trying to sound like Helen Reddy, but sounds more like my gassie hole!

[teflonmagnet]

thanks for the Dream West promo.

[CartoonMuhammed]

God! Linda Lavin's singing in this is so over-the-top! Settle down, girl.

[jmsweat]

I was thinking the same thing!

[RedNekLvr22]

I agree. The best version was the later Jazzier version. Ironcially, she sang the jazz version much more straight foward, and it worked SO much nicer! I wish more singers could understand the beauty of understated simplicity.

[melamia71]

I always loved Flo.

[megamanj2004]

I always thought this season's version of the theme was a faster version of the S3 theme tune variation.

[ElJefeNLA]

Well TNN somehow speeded up all of the seasons versions and now everyone is used to hearing it faster.

[jmsweat]

That bathtub shot in this opening shows Tommy in it with the gang, but in the episode "Cabin Fever" it was Mel's girlfriend Marie that was actually in the bathtub with them. Tommy was never at the cabin. I guess they didn't want a shot of Marie in the opening??

[novaguy1968]

Well, it doesn't and does make sense. Your reason is good, but why bother to reshoot a scene for an opening sequence when they could just pick any existing shot to use?

[marctheark]

Yes, this is Season #4 before Flo left and Belle arrived

[COGIC1]

Definetly season 4...Flo's last season.

[ElJefeNLA]

This was season 4's version

[Brianeddie666]

@ElJefeNLA About 1979 -1980?

[ElJefeNLA]

@Brianeddie666 Yes around 1979-1980 which would have made me 5 or 6, but I knew the words to the theme! LOL

[Brianeddie666]

@ElJefeNLA HA, yes, i was 16 in 1979, and this was a favorite show,,i remember when it first came out in 76,,loved it,,and never missed it. Wish they would bring it back on DVD.

[badmuthahubbard]

Awesome. I remember this song. KISS MY GRITS!