{"id":90377,"date":"2022-05-16T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T07:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90377"},"modified":"2022-05-16T00:17:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T07:17:58","slug":"the-bundys-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/05\/16\/the-bundys-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bundys Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone thinks reboots are new.&nbsp; But when I was a kid, there was a strange phenomenon \u2013 cancelled live-action shows would come back as cartoons!&nbsp; We had <strong><em>Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>The Brady Kids<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>The Partridge Family<\/em><\/strong> and even <strong><em>Laverne &amp; Shirley<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Many of them featured the original stars doing the voices, with a notable exception being <strong>Tina Louise<\/strong>, which led to <strong>Dawn Wells <\/strong>voicing both Mary Ann and Ginger!&nbsp; I bring up this little bit of nostalgia because another series is doing the same thing.&nbsp; <strong><em>Married\u2026with Children<\/em><\/strong> left the airwaves in 1997 (and was <em>FOX<\/em>\u2019s first real bona fide hit).&nbsp; But it\u2019s coming back as an animated series\u2026with the four original leads!&nbsp; They aren\u2019t alone \u2013 <strong>Norman Lear <\/strong>is planning an animated version of <strong><em>Good Times<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone thinks reboots are new.&nbsp; But when I was a kid, there was a strange phenomenon \u2013 cancelled live-action shows would come back as cartoons!&nbsp; We had Gilligan\u2019s Island, The Brady Kids, The Partridge Family and even Laverne &amp; Shirley.&nbsp; Many of them featured the original stars doing the voices, with a notable exception being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90386,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90377\/revisions\/90386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}