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May 22, 2008

Remember This?: Our House Starring Wilford Brimley And A Basset Hound

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Our House was an intensely wholesome family drama that aired on NBC from 1986-'88 and starred Wilford Brimley as Gus, a curmudgeonly WWII vet who takes in his widowed daughter and her three kids and teaches them Valuable Lessons every week. Whenever I remember Our House, which is about once a year in the middle of the night, I remember Wilford Brimley being grumpy, Shannen Doherty being pre-Brenda likeable, and, for some reason, the family's basset hound. This 1986 promo for the show put equal weight on the dog's character.

It's kind of no wonder this show was canceled -- it was just too preachy, even for the '80s, which is probably why I was allowed to watch it. This line from the Our House Wikipedia page is funny, though: "In a scene of subtle humor, Gus then claims the teddy bear for himself."

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I remember an episode where Brenda was going as Madonna for Halloween and Brimley was concerned because he thought she was going as The Madonna. I still don't get why one was more cause for alarm than the other.

Posted by: mtobey profile link at 05/22/08 1:13 PM | Reply
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This shit was my JAM!

Posted by: Dave at 05/22/08 1:32 PM | Reply
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Don't ask me how I remember this, but when this show was on the air, Chad Allen was in an issue of one of those girly magazines (you know, Tiger Beat or whatever) and said that his favorite band was Depeche Mode and he had posters of men wearing leather pants all over the walls of his bedroom. I didn't understand what that meant at the time, but you have to give the kid credit, as he basically came out to the world as a teenager in the mid-80s, which, looking back on it now, was incredibly balllsy.

Posted by: Stella at 05/23/08 8:54 AM | Reply
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