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When a crooked car dealer on another episode was perceived by real-life Los Angeles car salesman Cal Worthington as being a send-up of him, he sued the studio (Hanna-Barbera), the sponsors and the five NBC-owned stations that carried the show. After a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood, Ralph calls a meeting on how to deal with the problem and it immediately turns into a recruitment rally for his vigilante group. Unfortunately, another burglary takes place during the meeting and Harry becomes a suspect not only due to the fact that he left the meeting early, but that he was seen the next morning rummaging through one of the neighbor's windows while looking for Julius. Now he must clear his name before Ralph and his vigilantes put him in front of a firing squad.
This situation family series illustrated the generation gap between old-fashioned father Harry Boyle, president of Boyle Restaurant Supply Company, and his modern-day children who have difficulty accepting their father's golden-day methods and philosophies of life. The series aired on the USA Network's Cartoon Express block from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s and onCartoon Network from 1993 until 2000, when it along with most of the network's classic animation library was moved from Cartoon Network to the new Boomerang network. Unfortunately, his efforts fail when Chet calls for a recall of several perfectly good pots made at Harry's plant. However, Harry's anger at his son turns to concern as Chet gets his draft notice.
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The 48 episodes feature Tom Bosley as Harry Boyle, a long-suffering suburban everyman dad and restaurant equipment dealer. Harry often bickers with the more liberal Alice and Chet over various social issues of the day, with Irma endeavoring to remain neutral while Jamie is more sympathetic to his father's beliefs. The series stars Tom Bosley as Harry Boyle, a long-suffering suburban everyman dad and restaurant equipment dealer. The Boyle family consists of father Harry; wife Irma; pretty-faced teen feminist daughter Alice who is amply contoured but usually okay with her figure; lazy and perpetually unemployed long-haired post-adolescent son Chet; and precocious, yet rather greedy, younger son Jamie.
Especially with the "Ralph" character, played by Jack Burns, who's always been so great at playing comical loudmouths, and sometimes bigoted ones (as in the famous Burns and Schreiber "Taxi" routine). The Ralph character was almost closer to "Joe" than to Archie Bunker, because he was an actual vigilante , who was on the lookout for minorities as much as Communists. One of the best episodes was about Chet getting drafted, and planning to leave the country, which is STILL a touchy subject. Even though it had a sort of "tidy" ending - he gets a deferment - it was still a pretty bold thing to do with a REGULAR character on a show (as opposed to a ONE-TIME character, that no one's going to see again). And Alice (played by Kristina Holland, who played the "ditzy" secretary on "Courtship of Eddie's Father") was far from a stereotyped "fat girl" - instead of being worried about her having no social life, Harry always seemed to be worried about her fooling around with too many boys. And of course, Tom Bosley as Harry - some time before Happy Days, he was already playing the put-upon father very well.
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Chet then shocks his father by announcing that he will avoid the draft by escaping to Canada. Now Harry must try to not only try to delay Chet's induction, but try to keep him out of prison for draft evasion. When Harry and Irma plan their vacation at a beach house, they get more than they bargained for. A conservative father butts heads with his family on various social attitudes of the day. Other "guests" on the series included thinly disguised versions of celebrities who did not provide their own voices, such as guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Following the success of Norman Lear's All in the Family sitcom, Hanna-Barbera created the show at a time when their cartoons started to get outnumbered by the sitcom's realism. Whereas their two previous sitcoms—The Flintstones and The Jetsons—were set in fantastical time periods, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home set itself apart by taking place in the then-current, modern world. Taking a page from All in the Family, the show also focused on topics such as the generation gap, sex, and bigotry; topics that were seldomly brought up in TV animation prior. In the fast-paced, modern age there will always be a generation gap between parents and their children. Despite being classified as an adult animated program, this show is considered tame in today's standards, unlike the newer prime time animated shows with even edgier adult themes, such as Family Guy and South Park. This program was made during the Seal of Good Practice, as several themes were limited for television until 1983.
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
In addition, their neighbor Ralph Kane is an anti-conspiracy theorist and prejudiced extremist. Even though he and Harry are friends, Harry is clearly against his opinions. Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is an American comedy animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974. The show originated as a one-time segment on Love, American Style called "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father".
The show was the first primetime animated sitcom to run for more than a single season since fellow Hanna-Barbera show The Flintstones more than ten years earlier, and would be the only one until The Simpsons seventeen years later. The show features Harry Boyle, wife Irma, daughter Alice, and sons Chet and Jamie. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio.
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Jamie brings home a mouse that he intends to not only keep as a pet, but to train so he can charge admission when it performs. However, this doesn't sit well with Irma and Alice who are both deathly afraid of it. Harry, behind Irma's back, tells Jamie he can keep it as long as it stays in the garage.
For this show, the studio added a third belly laugh to add a little more "variety" (the only TV series made by Hanna-Barbera to have this added laugh). Many of the stories revolve around the generation gap between Harry and his children which causes both the friction and drama in their household; in which the series' sympathy is typically on Harry's side, leading him to usually win his arguments with miniscule exceptions. B-stories are usually more comedic involving Ralph's shenanigans of creating war-time experience and military-obsessed loyalism against minorities and conspiracy theorists Like most cartoon shows of the period, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home contained a laugh track. For this series, the studio also added a third belly laugh to add a little more "variety" (the only TV series made by Hanna-Barbera to have this added laugh). Much of what I have to say about it, I've already said on "Jump The Shark," but, this was a show that tried to be a cartoon answer to ones like All In The Family, without being a COPY of them, and it actually succeeded in a very big way. (It was a syndicated show, and in my area at least, came on before prime time, so it probably "flew beneath the radar.") In some ways, it actually OUTDID the Norman Lear kinds of shows.
Unfortunately, when the mouse turns up missing, Jamie blames Harry and decides to run away from home. Chet announces that he finally has met "the one" and announces that he intends to spend the rest of his life with her. However, Harry and Irma are shocked when they find out that spending the rest of his life with the girl doesn't necessarily mean getting married when he tells him that he will be living with her and that he still won't go to work, but will live off the system. Jaimie was included after test audiences of the series complained that Harry was too embattled by his family's haranguing and the producers decided that he needed someone who agreed with his opinions. On June 5, 2007, Warner Home Video released Season 1 of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home on DVD in Region 1 for the Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection.
Harry Boyle—a middle-aged conservative suburbanite—must deal with the problems his family presents him, which includes wife Irma, and their three kids; the outspoken feminist, yet boy-crazy daughter, Alice, long-haired and unemployed first son, Chet, and second younger son, Jamie. Despite his old-fashioned values, he also has to deal with his next door neighbor, Ralph Kane; an ultra-right wing, anti-communist conspiracist. Along with the Boyle family the cast also includes their neighbor Ralph Kane who is a military-obsessed anti-conspiracy theorist obsessed with an extremist government that makes the John Birch Society look conservative in comparison. He is the opposite of a conspiracy theorist in that he is prejudice against all minorities whether they be race, jobs or idealists and is an avid follower who is obsessed with military might, the Country of America, and Christian Segregation. Following Ralph with his cause is senior citizen Sara Whittaker, whom he addresses as "Sergeant" or her last name. Harry buys a "lemon" from a used car lot and returns to humiliate the car dealership by posing as a satisfied customer during a live TV telecast.
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