Comedy begets comedy, even when we typically neglect simply which laughs got here from the place. Positive, we keep in mind Frasier sat across the bar at Cheers and Younger Sheldon was a Huge Bang Idea character writ small. However nobody will blame you in the event you don’t keep in mind the origins of those eight comedy spin-offs, all of which sprang from unlikely sources…
Completely satisfied Days
Completely satisfied Days was the birthplace of a number of comedy spin-offs, from Laverne and Shirley and Joanie Loves Chachi to the little-remembered Out of the Blue and Blansky’s Beauties. However Completely satisfied Days itself was a spin-off, born out of a profitable episode of the comedy anthology collection Love American Type. Anybody who desires to argue that Completely satisfied Days can be a spin-off of American Graffiti gained’t get any pushback from me both.
The Simpsons
The longest-running comedy on tv has a fair longer historical past, originating as a collection of Matt Groening animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Present. Positive, the cartoons look a bit raggedy at the moment, however Homer and Marge needed to begin someplace.
Household Issues
Urkel and firm don’t appear to exist in the identical universe as Good Strangers, however that’s the place the sitcom obtained its begin. The tie was fairly tenuous, with Harriette Winslow working as an elevator operator in Larry and Balki’s workplace constructing earlier than being catapulted into her personal TGIF sitcom, one which outlasted Good Strangers by 50-plus episodes.
The Info of Life
Edna Garrett was the live-in housekeeper on Diff’lease Strokes earlier than touchdown a job at Kimberly’s prep faculty as a housemother. Quickly, she was just about operating the rattling place earlier than Blair, Natalie, Jo and Tootie graduated. Then the entire bunch of ‘em shaped a bizarre sitcom commune the place all of them baked collectively.
Daria
Daria was form of the anti-Beavis and Butt-Head, the present wherein she was a semi-regular earlier than getting her personal spin-off. Aside from promos, the adolescent idiots by no means confirmed up on Daria.
Mork and Mindy
Not like Laverne and Shirley, a Completely satisfied Days spin-off additionally set in Nineteen Fifties Milwaukee, Mork and Mindy has just about nothing to do with the present that launched Robin Williams’ goofy alien. However by advantage of being from Ork, producers had no drawback transporting the Mork character to Nineteen Seventies Denver, a number of time zones and a long time away.
The Colbert Report
One of the vital uncommon comedy spin-offs ever, with Colbert’s conservative blowhard character “Stephen Colbert” leaving The Each day Present to steal all its Emmy and Peabody Awards. But when we actually need to get technical, “Stephen Colbert” first appeared as a self-important journalist on an episode of The Dana Carvey Present. Spin off that!
The Honeymooners
Proto-sitcom The Honeymooners started as a collection of sketches on Calvacade of Stars, a spread present on which Jackie Gleason typically acted as host. After The Honeymooners’ single season on the air, Gleason would collect the gang to recreate the adventures of Ralph, Alice, Norton and Trixie as soon as extra on selection exhibits and specials.
