Sunday 9 May 2021

show dna or presque vue

In what looks to be (for now) a one-off investigation into sitcom set recycling from the always excellent Poseidon’s Underworld into the earlier cameo appearance of the Golden Girls’ kitchen in a short-lived show with Richard Crenna, Helen Hunt, Patty Duke and Billie Bird—It Takes Two (1982), which became the focal point of the long-running series. No other screen memories seemed to be shared under that particular tag but I for one would like to see more comparisons—recalling myself (though this like the term screen memory might be a false one—though the former was notoriously popularised in support of suppressed trauma) an interview with Margaret Cho after her show All-American Girl (1994) was cancelled and her being a bit miffed that her kitchenette was recycled wholesale into the apartment of Rachel and Monica on Friends. Cho herself was a regular on The Golden Palace, a spin-off where Blanche, Rose and Sophia run a hotel, with the help Don Cheadele and Cheech Marin.