{"id":1720,"date":"2013-11-21T07:52:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T07:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/my-sonny-and-cher-tv-study\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:25:09","slug":"my-sonny-and-cher-tv-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2013\/11\/my-sonny-and-cher-tv-study\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sonny & Cher TV Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hopejacksons\"<\/a>I had a breakthrough last week on my survey of the Sonny & Cher television shows. The project all started when someone wrote in to Cher Scholar to ask about a particular Vamp episode (where the characters whine for Caesar). I've always felt bad that I've never attacked this huge oeuvre of work with any real scholarship. I had just watched all of The Mary Tyler Moore Shows<\/em> in a row this summer and given up cable for a while so this seemed like a good time to open out the Cher tome of television.<\/p>\n

I have to tell you, I've found so much to talk about: memes, subtexts, latter-day ironies. Look for this to be the centerpiece of Cher Zine #4. Not this year, maybe next year. But anyway, I finally found the episode my scholaring student was seeking. It was a Vamp skit from The Sonny & Cher Show <\/em>(which I'm calling the Yellow show as opposed to the Orange show), episode #9, starring Tony Randall as Caesar and Cher as Cleopatra. She's an unusual Cleo this time, however, doing either her Mary Hartman impression or rather more like a whiny Laverne Defazio. (Is there a non-whiny Laverne Defazio?) It's actually very funny but, sadly, not to be found on the youtubes or in any online stills.<\/p>\n

I also recently found outrageous evidence of Cher actually ordering a pizza! I was so shocked I captured it with my smartypants phone. As you may know, Cher and Kathy Griffin claim Cher does not, in fact, know how<\/em> to order a pizza. I'm surmising she may just not know how to look up the pizza parlor phone number. She should channel her inner Rosa.<\/p>\n

(Note: I really loved the King Kong hand skit when I was 7 in 1977).<\/p>\n