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Finally revealed! Where JMS got the "B5" idea

Re: Finally revealed! Where JMS got the \"B5\" idea

Is Get Smart the show where the guy has a telephone in his shoe? If that's it, that show was hilarious!
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Oh my God!!! I remember that show,I remember watching it when I was four,I only realized the show was Get Smart when Nancy and Joe said they had a telephone shoe,so cute /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: Finally revealed! Where JMS got the \"B5\" idea

they also had a cone of silence just like in the gathering.
 
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"Hello Chief this Max." /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Re: Finally revealed! Where JMS got the \"B5\" idea

they also had a cone of silence just like in the gathering.
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Exactly! JMS cut it out of the re-edit for fear of a lawsuit! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Regards,

Joe
 
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*Actual dialogue taken out of the "Z'Ha'Dum" script*

"I know there's a lot that you don't know. I know there's a lot that you don't understand. I'm here to fix that. Don't you want to know what's it all about? What's it really all about? I can do that. All you have to do is come with me."
"Where? (cut out) No, don't tell me."
"Where else, to Z'ha'dum."
(cut out) "I told you not to tell me that."
-Anna and Sheridan

"Thermal Detonation Sequence Armed.
(cut out)...And loving it."
-The White Star
 
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"A billion years ago, beings prowled around the galaxy more powerful than any of us could imagine"
(cut) "Would you believe 10,000 years ago?"
(cut) "No? Would you believe an ill-tempered Drazi expedition last March?"
 
Re: Finally revealed! Where JMS got the \"B5\" idea

JD:

You may be on to something here. With dialogue like:
Sheridan: Delenn, that's the second-biggest Vorlon I've ever seen!
Delenn: Where did you see a bigger one?
(punchline deleted)

Or poor Kosh suffering his innumerable migraines and nursing his butter milk after another discussion with Sheridan...

Yet TV Land offers us so many possibilities to see proto-B5 programs. Consider:

Leave it to B(eaver)abylon
Ward Cleaver: Kosh
June Cleaver: Delenn
Wally Cleaver: Zathras
Eddie Haskel: Mr. Morden
...and John Sheridan as the Beaver...

or what about Dennis the Menace?
Mr. Wilson: Kosh
Mr. Mitchell: Sheriden
Mrs. Mitchell: Delenn
Margaret: Lochley
Dennis: Londo
Joey: Lennier

I would dare say the influences are endless!
 
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Broadcast version:
*Shadow ship fires, misses White Star*
Delenn: They missed! They never miss...

Original version:
*Shadow ship fires, misses White Star*
Sheridan: Missed it by *that* much!

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--mcn
 
Re: Finally revealed! Where JMS got the \"B5\" idea

Okay folks, I remember Get Smart, but for the life of me I can't remember the name of the actor. Help!!
 
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BTW, Joe, thanks for reminding me about Get Smart. I've since started watching the late night reruns on cable. Still funny after all this time /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Thx,
--mcn
 
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That's great, but there's one flaw: There was no TV Land channel back in 1987. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: Finally revealed! Where JMS got the \"B5\" idea

Joe DM, you've really outdone yourself. Kasidy Yates, freighter captain, is going to take this one around to her favorite B5 sites and spread the laughs (or moans, as the case may be). /forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: Finally revealed! Where JMS got the \"B5\" idea

Was there someone who stopped JMS before he was completely taken over by the vision like in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"? *chuckles*
 
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Ivanova! Hi! Long time no see! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Hey RW!! :-D I know!! School is over for the moment. *does a dance*
 
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Good for you! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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