Poor old Ted Buckland.......
You'd have to feel sorry for the lawyer representing Sacred Heart
Hospital... if you weren't too busy laughing at him.
In the 'Cougar Town' episode "A One-Story Town", Ted was passing through
Gulfhaven with his a cappella homies, on their way to an audition with Disney.
And while crashing at Jules' house (since they met last season in Hawaii), Ted
suddenly had an attack of "deja view"......
It certainly dramatized a question that has plagued televisiologists over
the decades - how come TV characters don't recognize when other characters look
exactly like people they've met before?
Actors were always being re-used on TV shows, sometimes several times over
in the same season. Back in the early days, the producers probably didn't pay
much attention to such a detail. (The same with trivial details and script
continuity.) At the time they had no conception of the future in DVDs and
syndicated reruns.
But it could make you question the eyesight of 'The Rifleman' - how could
Lucas McCain be so blind not to notice how so many visitors to North Fork looked
like Dabbs Greer or Royal Dano or John Anderson?
And why didn't 'Columbo' ever notice that a good percentage of his murder
suspects looked like Robert Culp, Jack Cassidy and Patrick McGoohan? And that's
not even taking into account all those characters who looked like Vito Scotti or
my buddy John Finnegan!
And yet they don't notice such things overall. So when a character like
Ted Buckland comes along who can see the resemblances, it must be due to them
having a touch of tele-cognizance - the knowledge, sometimes only a
sub-conscious level, that the world they live in is being televised.........
BCnU!
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