Weekend Viewing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5MU7CPMtqE

The show I was thinking of writing about appears to have been banished from YouTube (that happens), so here’s something else I found today, the pilot of a show I loved as a callow, or at least callow-ish youth. Though oddly enough, despite being a geek, I didn’t identify with the geeky kids; I identified with Howard Hesseman’s teacher, Charlie Moore. (This was the first thing I had ever seen Hesseman in, and even now I instinctively think of him as a career teacher who happened to play a bunch of hippie types on the side.) And as I said in an earlier Weekend Viewing post, the name “Arvid” is just fun to say. But to this day, I don’t know if Charlie Moore is named after the mediocre Milwaukee Brewers player. The creators of the show, Rich Eustis and Michael Elias, were veteran comedy writers; you may recognize Eustis’s name from the credits of Scrubs, where he was a consultant for a while and scripted one episode.