The Wonder Years

smuckers · 26-02-2005 9:55pm #1

Paramount 2 are showing Wonders Years at 6 everyday. They are currently in the fourth season.

celticfc · 27-02-2005 2:21pm

Think I noticed it on Paramount at 4:30 too.

OLDYELLAR · 27-02-2005 7:04pm

Oh my god i used love the wonder years ,...i dont have that channel though
is it just me or is oliver beane fairly similar to the wonder years ?
you know the way the guy talkin about situations and stuff, but not half as good.

smuckers · 27-02-2005 7:44pm

Beene is terrible not a patch TWY.

byte · 27-02-2005 7:48pm

Yeah, I watched a bit of Oliver Beene yesterday. I also thought it was trying to copy TWY, though as smuckers says, TWY is/was much superior.

OLDYELLAR · 27-02-2005 7:53pm

Oh hell yea I know , just wondering did anyone else find it similar , but jeez it aint half as good as the wonder years!

samo · 27-02-2005 8:04pm

Loved the wonder years too...dont make programmes like that anymore thats for sure - what happened to the little kid - was his name Fred Savage or something??/

Havent come across him in anything since...

irishgeo · 27-02-2005 8:23pm

loved the show but how did it end?

weemcd · 27-02-2005 8:30pm

I heard once that Marilyn Manson was the milhouse style friend

Yay or nay?
I'm too young to have any accurate memories of the show but I can vaguely recall watching it

ixoy · 27-02-2005 10:57pm

irishgeo wrote:

loved the show but how did it end?

Taken from epguides.com here's a description of the final episode:

After Kevin loses all his money and his car in a poker game, he decides he has to leave the resort - there's nothing to keep him there now. The next day he says goodbye to Winnie, punches Eric and storms out. Hitchhiking out of town, he runs into Winnie who has been fired from her job. They begin to argue and lose the ride they had flagged down. Later, sheltering in a barn they talk about how much has changed between them. Winnie thinks it's just inevitable - that everyone grows up. Kevin doesn't want to believe it and neither does Winnie, not really. They kiss, passionately. The next day they both return to Kevin's hometown for the last 4th of July he will ever spend there. Karen has returned home and she is pregnant.

In the end, the narrator tells us that Paul went on to study law at Harvard, that Karen has her baby and that he looks like Kevin, that Norma goes on to become a board chairman and that Wayne takes over the family furniture business after Jack passes away two years later. Kevin and Winnie write to each other every week for the eight years after she leaves for France to study art history. When she returns, Kevin is married and has a son. Kevin realizes that nothing turns out how you plan, but that his memories of childhood will be with him forever.

smuckers · 27-02-2005 11:16pm

no idea what Fred Savage (Kev) is up to now, but Winnie (Danica Mckellar) went on to star in a good few eps of West Wing. What annoys me about Paramount is that they are skipping certain eps and it loses the continuity. It did lose its edge slightly when they introduced the new circle of friends for Kev with Chuck etc, him and Paul began to drift which was natural.

OLDYELLAR · 27-02-2005 11:55pm

That programme used to rock though!

sinjin_smythe · 28-02-2005 12:00am

well was it Manson yes or no i heard it too

smuckers · 28-02-2005 12:02am

It wasn't him.

OLDYELLAR · 28-02-2005 12:02am

wow i neverhad that before , thats be mad!ha manson in the wonder years
oh my boyfriend just told me he thinks it was`nt

bringitdown · 28-02-2005 2:45pm

FYI: Savage directed several episodes of Oliver Beene :eek:
Pfiefer was/is not Manson: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767606/bio

Mossy Monk · 28-02-2005 3:17pm

hahahaha Marilyn Manson in The Wonder Years

makes me laugh every time i hear it
Brian Warner doesnt appear on the credits so nay

Tusky · 28-02-2005 7:16pm

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/marilyn.htm

OLDYELLAR · 28-02-2005 7:23pm

bringitdown wrote:

FYI: Savage directed several episodes of Oliver Beene :eek:
Pfiefer was/is not Manson: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767606/bio

Heh no wonder there so similar

Jonathanpbk · 01-03-2005 11:28am

fred savage was "the mole" in "austin powers - goldmember". FYI: his brother (ben savage) was in "boy meets world" as cory matthews! there ya go!

segadreamcast · 01-03-2005 11:40am

Just for those of you who are saying they don't have the channel - small compensation comes in the form that apparently ntl are to begin airing Paramount on their basic cable package in the near future.

P.S. The Wonder Years danced all over Oliver Beene. I think this is exemplified by Oliver Beene being - you know - ugh, cancelled.

smuckers · 01-03-2005 11:43am

They should have ended Boy Meets World when the kids graduated from high school. They went from the 6th grade to the 9th grade in a year. It had its moments but too many recycled plotlines.

Mossy Monk · 01-03-2005 12:33pm

NoelRock wrote:

The Wonder Years danced all over Oliver Beene. I think this is exemplified by Oliver Beene being - you know - ugh, cancelled.

cancelled eh?

now i wish Sky would stop showing it

ixoy · 01-03-2005 12:48pm

And it was fun to see Fred Savage as an unrepentent evil paedophile in 'Law & Order: SVU'. I wonder how the voiceover for that might've gone if it was the Wonder Years...

FatherTed · 02-03-2005 9:54pm

Fred Savage was the main actor in a comedy series on TV over here in the US about 5-6 years ago. The first season was pretty good but the second was terrible and the show was cancelled. I forget the name of it....

irishgeo · 02-03-2005 10:49pm

Who is Karen?

smuckers · 03-03-2005 7:35pm

She was Kevin's older sister.

OLDYELLAR · 06-03-2005 2:29pm

Oh my god , i watched it yesterday it was brilliant , just like i remembered

smuckers · 06-03-2005 2:40pm

Haha Wayne and Kevin fighting over the room as a terrific ep. Its almost into Season 4, when he reaches high school.

OLDYELLAR · 06-03-2005 2:42pm

yea its brilliant!

smuckers · 12-03-2005 9:46pm

Watched it today, the transformation Paul made from Junior High to High School is mind boggling, he was the first to change big time, Looking back on my days in school, there was a Stuart Parpanoza somwhere, an annoyning little bastard.

OLDYELLAR · 12-03-2005 9:49pm

There was a guy in my class that always reminded me of Kevin Arnold , I wish i had the station they show it on here though , I have to keep going home home to watch it

smuckers · 12-03-2005 10:21pm

Sorry its now into Season 5 not Season 4, my mistake. Its good till they introduce Chuck and his whiney gal Alice, still has its moments like the poker game but doesn't recapture the past eps.

Peter Griffin: you could get a desk job buddy, you know you could become a desk.

Ruu_Old · 12-03-2005 10:48pm

saw it last week where Kevins mom went to work in the school and he was embarassed and all. When the fire drill went on, she saw him in the bunch of kids and yelled "Hi Kevin honey!!!" and all the kids looked and laughed at him, funny

smuckers · 12-03-2005 10:52pm

When he graduated from Junior High, before that he was forced to drive the pregnant Mrs Hiemer to the hospital hehe.

Creature · 12-03-2005 11:10pm

FatherTed wrote:

Fred Savage was the main actor in a comedy series on TV over here in the US about 5-6 years ago. The first season was pretty good but the second was terrible and the show was cancelled. I forget the name of it....

Could it be Working?

Ah TWY was great. I used to watch it religiously when I was younger though eventually I saw less and less of it till it drifted off into obscurity.
Though a few years ago I remember seeing an episode out of the blue one day. It was one of the later ones (I think) where David Schwimmer was Kevin's sister's boyfriend. Brought back a lot of memories!

The Wonder Years

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