{"id":9003,"date":"2024-03-02T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T02:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9003"},"modified":"2024-03-02T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T02:04:55","slug":"akron-instead-of-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9003","title":{"rendered":"Akron Instead Of Dallas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During our 20th anniversary retrospective last year, we reposted a couple of photo-toons from our Super Neato TV Trivia Rumors<\/strong> feature we had from 2003-2009, postulating that we would resurrect the light hearted feature in the future when we needed a palate cleanser from the dirty world of politics. We’ll here’s our latest installment, just in time to take a break from TFG and his corrupt pals in the joke that is the Roberts’ Supreme Court.<\/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

Today’s completely not made-up authentic rumor is that the smash ’80s TV show Dallas<\/em> was originally named Akron <\/em>and set in the rubber capital of the world, Akron, Ohio. The show was to revolve around the exploits of the Ewing family who were a clan of rubber robber barons. Wow! Does that sound exciting or what? If this show would’ve taken off, people would have flocking to Akron during the ’80s instead of Dallas. Oh, what could have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rumor has it that Dallas<\/em><\/strong> was originally named Akron<\/em><\/strong> when it was first conceived by Hollywood writers. The show would revolve around the Ewing family who were rubber robber barons living in the rubber capital of the world, Akron, Ohio. Fortunately, veteran actor Larry Hagman suggested that the Ewings be a family of oil tycoons who lived on a sprawling ranch in the Texas city of Dallas, which was experiencing massive growth at the time. The result was one of the most popular television series of all time. The third season cliffhanger episode of “Who shot J.R.?” was one of the most watched episodes ever and made Larry Hagman a megastar. We can only imagine at how quickly the show would have been cancelled had it stayed in Akron.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During our 20th anniversary retrospective last year, we reposted a couple of photo-toons from our Super Neato TV Trivia Rumors feature we had from 2003-2009, postulating that we would resurrect the light hearted feature in the future when we needed a palate cleanser from the dirty world of politics. We’ll here’s our latest installment, just … Continue reading “Akron Instead Of Dallas?”<\/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":[2491,2493,2492,98,2494,2469,2421,1274,2468,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003"}],"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=9003"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}