{"id":8816,"date":"2023-09-15T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2024-03-01T23:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T06:19:15","slug":"rewind-diagnosis-mortar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8816","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Diagnosis Mortar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re still rummaging through our archives and we discovered a fun little photo-toon series that we called Super Neato TV Trivia Rumors. Unfortunately, we only produced a couple pieces but the possibilities for hijinx are endless given that the Internet is the rumor mill on steroids, so we may try resurrecting it in the near future . . . that is if we don’t become a fascist authoritarian nightmare after the 2024 election. The intro for this schtick was as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s more fun these days than trivia . . .especially trivia about America\u2019s favorite pastime. No, it\u2019s not baseball trivia. And no it\u2019s not trivia on the sex life of Paris Hilton. It\u2019s the boob tube, the idiot box . . . TV trivia! Yes, and what\u2019s even more peachy keen is this trivia may not even be true; dare we say gossip, because you know, checking sources takes a lot of time and we\u2019ve got TV to watch. So we present to you Super Neato TV Trivia Rumors!<\/strong> Yes, we\u2019re talking seconds of entertainment all in one feature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this photo-toon from our March 29. 2007<\/strong> issue, we explore the completely not made-up authentic rumor that the original title of Diagnosis Murder<\/em> was actually Diagnosis Mortar<\/em>. Now that would’ve been an exciting TV show, amirite? Dick Van Dyke as a doctor moonlighting as a masonry advisor for Hollywood celebrities? Why, the jokes write themselves!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rumor has it that this show was named Diagnosis Mortar<\/em><\/strong> when it was originally conceived by Hollywood writers. The show would revolve around a respected L.A. doctor, who moonlights as a masonry advisor for celebrities. Fortunately, television legend, Dick Van Dyke, realized the lameness of the premise and suggested that his character, Dr. Sloan, moonlight as a detective solving some of L.A.’s toughest murders. The result was a classic television series that lasted from 1993 to 2001. This despite having Scott Baio on the show for two years. The idea for Diagnosis Mortar<\/em><\/strong> was resurrected in 2004 by Fox with star Bob Villa, but was cancelled half way through the show’s first commercial break.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of … Continue reading “Rewind: Diagnosis Mortar?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,2472,35],"tags":[2449,959,2470,849,2471,1826,98,2469,2421,2468,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9005,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}