BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Matt_R
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 11:44 AM

Ah yes, the Oasis Cafe! Then we could gather round and sing the best Oasis pub sing-a-long ever...Bonehead's Bank Holiday! (see my 2nd tape).

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 11:29 AM

Yes, I remember the Oasis sign with palm tree was only seen on the wall as the moose walked past in the opening credit sequence!
There'd also have to be a beauty parlour so all those finger pickers can get their false nails done!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Matt_R
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 11:26 AM

Oh I can DEFINATELY see Mudcat as the Northern Exposure sort of thing. But we'd have to have One Who Waits and Graham Greene as Leonard! I LOVE those guys!

I'd be the dopey neighbor kid, who likes taking pictures, carving katchina dolls (and other wooden things) and playing guitar. Hey, last night I was sitting here in a USMC shirt, shorts, with my head shaved and and my beard half gone and crooked, wearing a felt kepi I've had since I was 12, and playing acoustic versions of Travis song on my guitar. See, I can be a crazy Cicely-esque character too!

And of course we'd HAVE to have EJ as the barman! With Gizmo as his bar helper! And we can have Seamus whip up a batch of his world famous Irish Chili...mmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 11:18 AM

RtS, The town where the show, Northern Exposure, was taped had an Oasis Cafe, but not Cicely, Alaska. Cicely's main watering hole and purveyor of fine cuisine was "The Brick", run by Holling and his lovely lady, Shelly. I think Peter T. would be Chris' brother, Bernard.

The NYCFTTS could be run by Maurice, who could be played by Banjer, maybe. Of course, Maurice would also own the condom factory, the Amish moustache factory, the clay possum ocarina factory, etc...

I think Ebbie would be Ruth Anne. And maybe Little Hawk would be Ed. Hesperis could be Shelly, but she's too smart.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 11:01 AM

There would have to be a harbour as we have so many old seadogs, a paddle steamer on the river for Art. Who would be the kindly local cop/sheriff? Would Peter T be the Thoreau type in a cabin in the woods? Could we avoid the staple soap plots involving long-lost children and multiple intermarriage?
I suspect kat has already worked up a treatment to offer to the major studios!
RtS (scuttling back to the basement boilerhouse at the NYCFTTS)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 10:43 AM

For the benefit of those of you who are saying, "What the hell are they talking about?".........Tiples, possums, the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed (NYCFTTS).......Read this thread for a few of the explanations. Also, this guy is Cleigh O'Possum, an ass blown possum ocarina who lives with me. He was made by 'Catter Barbara Blessing and lives for other 'Catters to give him a blow up the bum. Big Mick is still the keeper of the gertility rites and the pursuer of alison the Fair One although he has been caught stuffing his thong with a spud. Sadly he stuffed the back instead of the front and looked like Lassie dropping a load. And if you have never read it, to see the importance of tiples to the joint, HERE is the infamous tiple thread.

Also you older 'Catters need to remember that the FIRST business set up was the "Condom Factory" the idea of which started here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Big Mick
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 10:17 AM

Right..............love the concept............I still get to be "Keeper of the Sacred Fertility Rites", eh?. I got a little seniority here. Where's the spud patch in this friggin' place?? How about the thong factory? Just make sure you don't let that damn gorilla on the set.........she scares the hell outta me.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: GUEST,Pseudolus
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 09:22 AM

I think it would be like the Wizard of Oz. Max would be the wizard, perhaps Spaw as the scarecrow, and since this was Kat's idea certainly she should be the lead Dorothy type character. Still need a tin man and Lion (I'd volunteer for the Lion!!!*g*) and of course we cast all of the flamers and trolls (not our own troll of course) as the wicked witches and flying monkeys!! OK it's more like Mudcat, the Movie but it's the first thing that popped into my head! It could work.....

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 09:20 AM

..and the wetbacks smuggling in tiples...( a guest spot for Jennifeer Lopez or Ricky Martin!)
Cicely already had an Oasis Cafe, didn't it , Matt?!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 09:16 AM

Don't forget the factory making the Amish moustache tuners and clay possum ocarinas!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: MMario
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 09:13 AM

Set in a town like Cicely - that's good, with the MudCat Cafe the 'downtown hangout' - and the major industry in town being the NYCFTTS. Fundraisers for the NYCFTTS having to be constantly run - gives an excuse to bring in folkies from all over. And of course there would have to be someplace to eat. And Radio MudCat - and the annual Mudstock festival, and then you could have this recurring character who runs around trying to get all this folk music down into some sort of an archive, and ...

naw, no one would believe it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Chip2447
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 03:45 AM

Welcome to the biggest, small town in The World. We like ta make ya feel ta home here in Mudcat Flats. There's Bluegrass in the town square, and Gospel over at the Church. We've got Blues playing down by the river, and Celtic over at the pub. Ya might find some boys and girls harmonizing over ta the Barbershop. The Coffeehouse is a good place at night. If'n ya get a chance ya oughta wander on over bt the railroad tracks. The trains keep pretty good time to a strumming guitar. C'mon back any time ya like, ya always find good music right here in Mudcat Flats...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: wdyat12
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 02:29 AM

Kat, I would start watching TV again if Mudcatters had a sitcom. Max, this might be a new outlet for your creative talents. I hear your grumblings from time to time on the show. Just think of the resurgence of Folk and Blues into the mainstream consciouness. These may be hard times coming and we may need all the laughs and sympathy this music gives us. A TV sitcom format for Mudcat as a mirror and barometer of real people may be the next horizon beyond Survivor. There is a lot of need out there for people to identify with something positive. We have all the resources right here on Mudcat, not to mention such a great cast of true characters. What was I thinking?

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 02:08 AM

Sit coms, I don't know from page four......is that like that family in West Virginia or some place on a mountaain and they got this stoopid kid named John Boy? If that's the one, then I want to be Grampa, cuz i'm the oldest. But i don't want that kid hanging around me all the time, oozing sacharine and platitudes. I jes wanna go up onna mountain and shoot a bar.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 01:40 AM

It would be like Cicely, (sp?) Alaska. Only with Mudcatters. And music. The tavern threads would be the Brick. Max would be Chris, I think. Dunno about anyone else.

Subject: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 01:21 AM

Which Mudcatters would be neighbours, which work together, what would the show be like. Would the focus be an actual pub/coffeehouse with Max holding court and us all living within a few blocks? Would Jenellen have a petting farm (animals, only!) just west of town; would Spaw and his crew open their big house up for potluck; would Big Mick have a hill just out back of the pub/coffehouse to climb up and play for us. Or, would we all be in silly situations, i.e. which two of us would be in a Dick Van Dyke show, as Dick and Mary and they go "folk" with all us entertaining with them?

This idea just came up and I thought I'd post it and see what we come up with. You know? Let's write a few episodes, dialogue and all, and see what fun we can have. Take it away, 'Catters...