Why was bosom buddies cancelled

We give our best guess and prediction. From matching Louis Vuitton purses to wedding-day glam. It was the midfield that dominated, for a change. Read full article. More content below. Tom Hanks. Peter Scolari. November 27, , PM. In this article:. Story continues. Lifestyle BuzzFeed. Sports Nittany Lions Wire. Sports AFP. Politics Business Insider.

Sports The Oklahoman. Style Bravo. Paired with Peter Scolari, Hanks turned a dicey premise into a beloved cult sitcom.

In the meeting, the duo referenced Billy Wilder as an influence. The ABC suits asked what they meant by that. The executives suddenly jumped on that idea, remembering Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag. Miller and Boyett went with the idea, even though it was not their original intention. This was blatantly obvious from the opening credits, which had Hanks and Scoleri splashing through puddles past palm trees. Kip's and Henry's are two long-standing college hangouts on Durant Avenue, just south of the Cal campus.

Image: Google Maps. He recalled developing a crush on her when she popped up as a cheerleader a decade earlier on The Brady Bunch. The budding comic and future Full House star warmed up the audience before the cameras rolled. When it originally aired, Billy Joel's "My Life" served as the opening theme. Though it was singer Gary Bennett belting the tune, not the famous piano man. An urban legend arose that it was Hanks himself singing the song.

Alas, not true. Hanks had clear admiration for Scolari, not just as a friend but as a collaborator, recalling the ways that he and Scolari would frustrate the production staff by coming up with new material on the fly. We had to stay on the set, and say every line over and over and over again. So we started screwing around, monkeying around with the script and playing around with props and whatnot.

And the directors were up in the booth doing a line cut We're making up new lines, we're playing things around. I'm sure people didn't know where or when to find new episodes, and then you combine that with the fact that the original premise men in drag was all but done away with, and I'd say it's understandable why ratings declined. It's too bad, I actually think the second season had some of the funniest episodes, and I agree with you on the acting, but the writing was kinda hit or miss.

ABC's sitcom ratings were slipping when "Bosom Buddies" was on the air. The show was generally paired with "Mork and Mindy," which had steadily declining ratings beginning in the second season, when they dropped the bulk of the cast and tried to moralize the show. Season 2 of "BB" bounced back and forth on Thursday and Friday nights