By pure coincidence, I give a small shout out to David Lynch and my favorite of his, Mulholland Drive (I poke fun, but I truly love it). RIP to a legend and brilliant artist.
Thank you for posting, I needed some feel good JB Fletcher after hearing about David Lynch. I find it not a coincidence that the planets are currently going into alignment when he passed. 'Excuse me, Mars? My name is David, it's lovely to meet you.'
I absolutely love that there was an episode of Murder, She wrote up on youtube and it was filled with comments saying they were waiting for you to start talking and didn't realise it was just an actual episode!
I was one of those people! I don’t quite recall why I thought it was a Pushing Up Roses video nor how much of it I watched before realizing that it was actually a full episode but it happened! lol
The amount of times I've clicked on a Murder she wrote video thinking it was Rose's then feel disappointed and go back and watch a previous Rose's video to feel better.
I've noticed with actors who have multiple roles that some of them take turns being the bad guy, the detective, and the red herring character. I like to imagine that it was part of Mrs. Lansbury's process. "Hey, you were the smarmy toady last time, wanna be the victim?"
This also happens in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies! A bunch of actors take turns being villains, victims, witnesses, and red herrings.
The black and white TV shows I like frequently have actors who return in different roles. It can feel like playing a game of "Spot the B-list Actor". 😂
i'd love to see you do some reviews of Midsomer Murders... it's a UK cosy crime show that's been running since 1992. "that time when inspector barnaby caught a campire" or "that time when orlando bloom was in midsomer" could be really great, if only to see what you think of it.
I am totally on board with this idea. Midsomer has some of the most bonkers episodes and I love it so much. “Every time I go into any Midsomer village it's always the same thing: blackmail, sexual deviances, suicide, and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go and live in one of them?”
There are three kinds of Midsomer episodes - People killing each other over a gardening competition, the insane family drama of the lords of the manor, and an outbreak of death at the hippy commune.
ROSES! I blame you! Involuntarily, I shout, "Nice Lamp!". I can no longer be in the presence of succulent lamps with robust designs. Because of your subliminal mind games! Long time watcher, first time commenter. Thank you for bringing gloomy, spooky rainbows to us all.
I walked by a shop once, stopped in my tracks, looked in the window, said "nice lamp!" Then spent like 10 minutes trying to remember why that was a thing
@@lazyhomebody1356 Seemed more like revenge to me. Ryerson blackmailed the music teacher into harming his friend's career and the school he loved teaching at and he was threatening his life's work, so I think the resentment Mallow felt boiled over into uncontrollable rage.
Calling Ethan Embry a human puppy is quite possibly the most apt thing anyone could say. It's encapsulated what I've struggled to say for literal decades
Me, about to take my work break: "Man, I hope I can find a fifteen minute video that'll really brighten my spirits and make me forget the awful day I've been having..." The humble Pushing up roses video; *Blesses my feed*
I also love watching the passage of time through fashion and decor in this show. The veering off into the early 90's, where the hair gets smaller but the colours get louder, is great.
For a minute, I thought that crazy piano sound was the actual sound and had immediately made a story in my head that he resented his one hit wonder and was intentionally being sarcastic.😅😅😅😅
I absolutely love when PushingUpRoses breaks down some of my favorite Murder, She Wrote episodes! It's actually because of her that I went out and purchased the complete box set on DVD. 😄 I’d love to see her dive into more episodes where J.B. Fletcher has male characters smitten with her, like that one episode in Season 10, Episode 18-The Trouble with Seth-where Seth proposed marriage to Jessica. Such a great moment!
@@wordforger How about Longmire then. I really liked it, but most counties in Wyoming have less than 50,000 people it seems and they seemed to be mostly dealing with small towns.
I getchu! My roommate and I have both come to the decision we want typewriters (I used to have two typewriters and unfortunately chose to sell them both. Now I must find new ones) 😂 since I got her to start watching the show. I love me some antiques.
Big mood. I don’t know if it’s a midlife “stress and adulting are awful, I miss the carelessness of childhood and want to surround myself with its trappings”, or just a disgust with how valueless and disposable everything is these days… maybe both. But I too want robust lamps, and china cabinets full of “the good dishes”, and solid appliances that you knew would last for decades, and when they did finally wear out, you could just fix the part and it’d be good as new again. Grandfather clocks and quiet Sunday afternoons and those wooden things with three gauges in them (thermometer, hygrometer, barometer) that you hang on the wall. Yes pls.
Oh, these teenagers and their weird little fraternities worshipping Prometheus. Why don't they get into more wholesome activities, like Warhammer 40K. Also, if you're looking for bad episodes to cover, "Southern Double-Cross", "Nan's Ghost", "The Szechuan Dragon", "Death in Hawaii", "Kendo Killing", "Mrs. Parker's Revenge" and "Death by Demographics" are all winners.
The Szechuan Dragon is the worst one by far on that list to me. It is not just the plot but also the fact that Jessica goes to see Emma, and we don't even get to see her in the episode. I can not tell you how disappointed i was as a child when the next episode was not about what Jessica and Emma were doing while this bulls**t dragon story was going on.
I understand your grievances, though for me, the one that outranks all of these as my personal least favorite episode is "Reflections of the Mind" due to its mind-bogglingly terrible ending.
Thanks for another great episode! I would like to recommend The Days Dwindle Down. It has a great gimmick where they edited in an old movie. It meshed pretty well and the mystery was pretty good.
Sometimes I rewatch that time on murder she wrote rather than rewatch murder she wrote just for your commentary and the reminder there’s others like me who love this show so much. ❤ I’ve always wanted to see you cover the two part episodes at the beginning of season 3 where Jessica tries to help one of Frank’s relatives and ends up at the circus, I believe there’s another classic Jessica character in disguise moment with an amazing southern accent. Also the one other two parter at the end of season 5 I thought was pretty good. Also a special request for Appointment in Athens because I’m Greek. Thanks for making these videos Roses 🌹
The absence or presence of the "Tonight on Murder, She Wrote" montage is probably due to whether they need more padding to fill out the runtime of the episode.
Hearing a character in this with the last name Ryerson had my brain immediately jump to _Groundhog Day_ : "Ned?! Ned Ryerson?!" "Watch out for that first step, it's a dooooozie!"
I was beyond thrilled to see an actor pop up in this episode who is from my favorite insane 80s fantasy soap opera, Beauty and the Beast, with Linda Hamilton and Ron Pearlman. The headmaster in MSW is actor Roy Dotrice, who plays Father, the leader of the underground community, who funnily enough was also canonically a doctor before he left the world above. He is also the adoptive father of the Beast. Everyone here absolutely should check it out if they haven't already, its incredible.
My guess would be cutting the “tonight on murder she wrote” for time. I noticed a somewhat similar thing with Elementary, they had 2-4 different versions of the intro of different lengths to accommodate the lengths of the episodes.
2:00 when TV shows have a longer plotline they squeeze more time for it by cutting out things like they're "typical opener" to make room for the extra lines
One of the big changes on the show was Angela Lansbury and her family taking over the production of the show and her making the creative decision to get out of Cabot Cove and start making the shows more international. She talks about this in a video on YT. Her husband and son were particularly influential.
I like watching MSW with my dad, because he'll often look up from whatever he's doing and go 'Oh hey that Actor, I know him from 'this', 'that', and 'that other thing'" while I'm like "Cool dad, I wasn't alive when those things were popular." It's great, also happens when we watch Columbo.
I do the same with my kids all the time. My brother is even worse because he seems to remember even the most obscure actors, their names, and everything they were in. I don't mean just famous people - he'll recognize the valet in Columbo who was also the second policeman in an episode of Quincy. What makes it more amazing is he has never used the Internet ever. He has no mobile phone, no computer.
@@lazyhomebody1356It's great actually, I like learning about older actors and dad's the best source to learn from. The tone is just how we rub each other, all in good fun.
Haha this happens when I watch *any* movies from the 50s, 60s, and early 70s with my dad. He can rattle off like five different projects for every inconsequential actor.
I love Ethan Embry!! I was absolutely in love with him in “That Thing You Do!” He really is sort of a human puppy. I think that’s a great description 😊
Fun fact, Professor Harry is played by Robert Foxworth, who you'll likely remember as the voice of Ratchet in the Transformers movies, Professor Hamilton on Justice League, and the lead character in Gene Roddenberry's the Questor Tapes who would later be reworked into Data on TNG.
Maybe for another episode, S3.E19 "No Accounting for Murder"? It features Grady being accused of murder and Sheriff Metzgers actor in a side role! Also, a ghoooost :) I really liked it!
Cabot Cove has a prestigious prep school the same way that the tiny underside level of the Jupiter 2 in Lost in Space had enough room for another spaceship, a large land rover, a lab, an engine room and endless supplies and provisions for a large family on an intergalactic voyage.
For me, the big clue was Jessica digging out the old record. Whenever Murder, She Wrote made a point of having Fletcher do something random, along with a closeup, it typically meant this was either a major clue of the murder, a means of clearing the red herring, and/or both.
This is so wild like, my television has a dedicated Murder She Wrote channel that boots up whenever I turn it on and it seems like whenever I get wrapped up in a particular episode you end up talking about it! Fantastic video :D
To be fair to the people in this episode, there's like 1 million Grammy winners that I would have no idea who they were if they walked up to me in public lol awesome episode!😊
@@MaxOakland I think there's plenty of Grammy winners that you could put in a room and no one would recognize the,. It's not the Grammy's are the Oscars. Plus, this was decades ago, so way before social media and the internet being what it is today. It's perfectly plausible to no one would recognize him.
And no one who knew the real musician ever showed up? No friends or relatives kept in touch with him? No entertainment people ever wanted to book him for performances? It's believable that no one at the school would know what the real man looked like (especially in a time before the internet), but there had to be people who would show up who would know.
@@CalliopePony I don't think anyone in the episode knew who he was. I'm sure there would be people in that world who do know him, but I don't think they were in this particular episode.
I rewatched the first six seasons of MSW last year, as I recall they all had “Tonight on Murder She Wrote” intros except for the pilot episode. On the occasion they did two-parters the second half would have a “Previously on MSW” opening, which is basically the same thing. They were pretty standard for primetime TV dramas in the ‘70s and ‘80s, serialized storytelling wasn’t common outside of soap operas so shows liked to offer a quick prevue of what kind of story and guest stars viewers could expect that week.
Pushinguproses, please can you do Season 6 Episode 11 (Town Father) from Murder she wrote. The episode goed off the rails and it does not disappoint! With Sam Booth accused of being a no good father and Eve running for mayor, it has all the drama you need!
0:50 That's one of the reasons I love watching ER. It ran from I think '95-2010. As someone born around the same time the show started airing it's so interesting to see the world change from an episode in season 1 or 2 where they are talking about how crazy it is for someone to have a cell phone because they are so expensive and unnecessary, to season 15 where people have IPhones. From this dreamy sort of antique aesthetic of the early to mid 90s to the late 2000s/ early 2010s world I went to highschool in. Even seeing (outside a few big name like George Clooney) actors I don't really know from anything else because they were before my time in early seasons, then when you get to late seasons you see people who have been orln recent shows now and think "WOW, they made a cameo on ER!? That's crazy!".
Roses, I am always overjoyed when you put out new content. Your wit, dad jokes and comedic timing are *chef's kiss*. You make each piece of media you examine more interesting.
Three things today - 1. even though you didn't ask, I ask for about the 35th time that you review "Jessica Behind Bars", one of the best episodes 2. I want a ruling from Roses - is a group of thefts now officially "a rash" 3. had not heard about David Lynch's passing - I'll have to go back and watch his best film "The Straight Story". (sorry "Mulholland Drive"
Oof yes, I called that one out a while ago. I'm still really kind of bothered by the ending, it feels very, hm, dubious. But it also has Ronny Cox and he is always great.
Ah, Roy Dotrice! I loved him in The Cutting Edge as a Soviet ice skating coach. Also I couldn't hear Ryerson without thinking of "Ned... RYERSON!" from Groundhog Day
I am once again requesting on bended knee you do Season 2 Episode 15 The Powder Keg. Ft confederate flags, country bar singing, the actor who played Phil on Murphy Brown, Texas accents and *drama*. I love Murder She Wrote and TTOMSW, and I'd love you to cover this one.
Thank you for being just as upset as I was about the drunk driving it was driving me nuts, also ‘death stalks the big top’ haunts me in a similar way and I want validation that I’m not insane
I just recognised the Elvis bust, it's in a season 2 episode of Friends! When Joey moves into his own apartment, you can see he has an Elvis lamp by his sofa that looks exactly the same! I wonder if these were mass produced or just a prop that was randomly shared round. Anyway, just a random observation 😅
This plot actually reminds me of an episode of Inspector Morse which also featured competition for the headship of an Oxford College involving a bunch of extremely sleezy middle-aged men, all of whom were being blackmailed by somebody.
Petition for “nice lamp!…anyway” merch! A collection of t-shirts, each with the phrase and a selection of different lamp designs to choose from (taken from the show), would be GOLD! 😋🤩
Hey Roses👋 I just wanted yo thank you for this series. I finally got around to watching an ep for myself and now I'm hooked! I needed something wholesom to help pull me out of this depressive state, and my newfound love of Jess is just the light in the dark I needed❤
I binge-watched all the other videos in the last three days and have bought the DVDs of the first season to watch it with my mistery-lover 10 yo! So happy to see this one popping up! Jessica is is the ultimate role model. You are doing good in the world. Keep it up.
When I watch old tv shows with my mom, she consistently goes 'you know where that actor got their start?' And 9 times out of 10 the answer is a soap opera lol
I love these sooooo much! I frequently rewatch them and I'm always happy to see a new one. Your videos have actually made it so that when I watch an actual episode and I don't hear "Soooo.... THIS guy's dead" I think something is wrong with the episode. Thank you for another banger and also for your service to humanity. 🤘
Great episode! I had to go look up Robert Foxworth and Roy Dotrice; one of those "I know I've seen them somewhere". They were both on Babylon 5 for a few episodes, and I probably recognized Foxworth from either that or Stargate SG-1. Dotrice, though, I'll remember best for his really excellent voices on the Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks (with the glaring exception of Arya's voice suddenly aging about 60 years in the middle...can't imagine what happened there).
I'm pretty convinced that this was an episode set in a boarding school in the UK or something but they had the Cabot Cove locations and actors locked so they had to Springfield it.
Yet another fabulous episode of your MSW series! Thank you for these! Also, the "Tonight on Murder, She Wrote" intros were the majority with only a few sporadic outliers until about season 10-11. No clue why...just wanted to let you know you were right!
They can't let Harry be headmaster! He'll groom a group of elite students and use them to declare martial law on Earth! (For the non-Trekkies in the audience, I suggest watching the DS9 two-parter "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost".)
My wife told me that the Murder She Wrote books that are out now (a YA series) that deals with a teenage Jessica Fletcher, but it set in modern times, and some stuff takes place in this private school.
Loved the new episode, as always 💖 One of my favorite so bad it's good episodes is J.B. as in Jailbird. Michael Hagarty being awful, Grady being hilariously incompetent and Jess making friends everywhere she goes, even when shes in jail 🤣
I miss the opening "tonight on Murder, She Wrote" and then they would play snippets of the episode which normally ended with Jessica being either smug or in trouble. And then the titles began.
There is a channel on my Samsung Smart TV that plays Murder She Wrote 24/7, and I've been watching it for the first time really (I'm 53). It's great to see all of those wonderful (many now lost) actors.
I gotta say it! "Perhaps you should forget logic, and devote yourself to motivations of passion, or gain. THOSE are reasons for murder." (Star Trek "Journey to Babel" Season 2, ep 15)
Oh my God, I think that’s the same Elvis bust from Screech’s house in Saved by the Bell. I wonder if both shows had the same prop master, even if they were on different networks or if it’s just a really common bust lol 😂
Always enjoy your videos! Keep up the great work. Don't know if you like Star Trek but I'm watching TNG for the first time and was thinking some of the episodes would make great reviews for you to do. 😊😋
Love watching your older Let's Plays with LGR with those classic PC games, which I still play those even today. Glad to see you're doing ok! Keep up the great work!
Omg this was posted today! You rock, keep up the good works your channel is more entertaining than 99.99999% of the hundreds of millions of shows on all the streaming services.. big fan. Thanks for the new content!
By pure coincidence, I give a small shout out to David Lynch and my favorite of his, Mulholland Drive (I poke fun, but I truly love it). RIP to a legend and brilliant artist.
I've never been this early for a PUR vid!!!
Thank you for posting, I needed some feel good JB Fletcher after hearing about David Lynch. I find it not a coincidence that the planets are currently going into alignment when he passed.
'Excuse me, Mars? My name is David, it's lovely to meet you.'
I'm not saying it IS...... but your Script may be a Death Note
Indeed. 😢
The sleeper must awaken
I absolutely love that there was an episode of Murder, She wrote up on youtube and it was filled with comments saying they were waiting for you to start talking and didn't realise it was just an actual episode!
I was one of those people! I don’t quite recall why I thought it was a Pushing Up Roses video nor how much of it I watched before realizing that it was actually a full episode but it happened! lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I did that too 😂
Which episode?
The amount of times I've clicked on a Murder she wrote video thinking it was Rose's then feel disappointed and go back and watch a previous Rose's video to feel better.
I've noticed with actors who have multiple roles that some of them take turns being the bad guy, the detective, and the red herring character.
I like to imagine that it was part of Mrs. Lansbury's process. "Hey, you were the smarmy toady last time, wanna be the victim?"
This also happens in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies! A bunch of actors take turns being villains, victims, witnesses, and red herrings.
This definitely happens on Columbo, too :D
The black and white TV shows I like frequently have actors who return in different roles. It can feel like playing a game of "Spot the B-list Actor". 😂
Try watching Dragnet. This week's offender just puts on a wig and some hippie beads and he's next weeks victim. Its like a stage touring company.
Perry Mason as well as I remember (but I last saw it 30 odd years ago)
I love that you refer to this episode from 30 years ago as "newer" 😂
The mid-nineties were only like 5 years ago...
Well, newer than one from 40 years ago
Yes, some of us would say "Later" but Roses knows it's all relative.
don't make us feel old! haha
i'd love to see you do some reviews of Midsomer Murders... it's a UK cosy crime show that's been running since 1992.
"that time when inspector barnaby caught a campire" or "that time when orlando bloom was in midsomer" could be really great, if only to see what you think of it.
It's also one of the many British whodunnits that they make fun of in Hot Fuzz - the gory murders in HF are nothing compared to some kills in MM. XD
Agree. My mom was huge fans of both.
I am totally on board with this idea. Midsomer has some of the most bonkers episodes and I love it so much.
“Every time I go into any Midsomer village it's always the same thing: blackmail, sexual deviances, suicide, and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go and live in one of them?”
The episodes are also available here on youtube if people want to watch along.
There are three kinds of Midsomer episodes - People killing each other over a gardening competition, the insane family drama of the lords of the manor, and an outbreak of death at the hippy commune.
The “avoid a copyright strike” piano number…😂
Thank you. I'm not fully awake yet, so I thought the jangliness was passive-aggression because he's sick of being asked to play the same song.
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😂 didn’t understand till I heard it😂
Yeah well played Roses! (I'm not sorry)
I genuinely thought that was his playing and thought part of the resolution would be "a famous piano player played THAT badly??"
ROSES! I blame you! Involuntarily, I shout, "Nice Lamp!". I can no longer be in the presence of succulent lamps with robust designs. Because of your subliminal mind games!
Long time watcher, first time commenter. Thank you for bringing gloomy, spooky rainbows to us all.
I heard the first few words of this comment in my head as though they were being spoken by a Pokemon trainer! 😂😋
I walked by a shop once, stopped in my tracks, looked in the window, said "nice lamp!" Then spent like 10 minutes trying to remember why that was a thing
I say it all the time too and no-one gets it. 😢
Same! And when someone dies (in anything!) "so that guy is dead"
"succulent lamps"
you're a moth aren't you? A moth wrote this comment.
Quite the timing on the David Lynch reference, RIP 😢
wait, so the episode basically starts with a lecture on motive, but the actual motive is kinda incomprehensible? Amazing
The motive is Art. Maybe they're saying murder is an art?
Seemed more like power to me.
@@lazyhomebody1356 Seemed more like revenge to me. Ryerson blackmailed the music teacher into harming his friend's career and the school he loved teaching at and he was threatening his life's work, so I think the resentment Mallow felt boiled over into uncontrollable rage.
@@hew2356 But, ultimately! About the necessity for art classes. I got that from Roses, really. Both can be reasons
I thought the motive was anger maybe
Calling Ethan Embry a human puppy is quite possibly the most apt thing anyone could say. It's encapsulated what I've struggled to say for literal decades
Me, about to take my work break: "Man, I hope I can find a fifteen minute video that'll really brighten my spirits and make me forget the awful day I've been having..."
The humble Pushing up roses video; *Blesses my feed*
I also love watching the passage of time through fashion and decor in this show. The veering off into the early 90's, where the hair gets smaller but the colours get louder, is great.
Having an HD transfer just adds to that experience. I still can’t get over how dated-yet-crisp it all is.
Murder She Word Processed
All I can imagine is the paperclip giving Jess writing advice 😂
@ Jessica Fletcher most certainly does NOT need help Clippy
@@MimiJaneBeeOmg that bloody paperclip haunts my nightmares! 😂
@@MimiJaneBee that’s hilarious! 😄
"It's like it was directed by David Lynch."
I am sad now.
😓
For a minute, I thought that crazy piano sound was the actual sound and had immediately made a story in my head that he resented his one hit wonder and was intentionally being sarcastic.😅😅😅😅
I absolutely love when PushingUpRoses breaks down some of my favorite Murder, She Wrote episodes! It's actually because of her that I went out and purchased the complete box set on DVD. 😄 I’d love to see her dive into more episodes where J.B. Fletcher has male characters smitten with her, like that one episode in Season 10, Episode 18-The Trouble with Seth-where Seth proposed marriage to Jessica. Such a great moment!
"as there is only so many people they can kill in a small town"
**midsommer murders shifts awkwardly**
That's an entire county with several small towns.
@@wordforgerAnd Causton seems to be a small city, when you look at the buildings in some shots.
@@wordforger How about Longmire then. I really liked it, but most counties in Wyoming have less than 50,000 people it seems and they seemed to be mostly dealing with small towns.
Honestly watching murder she wrote makes me want lamps, typewriters and all these things from the past. Just a certain charm to it
Lamps are from the past? _stares at the lamp on my desk_
🙂jk. That particular kind of lamp is often called a banker's lamp, fwiw
I getchu! My roommate and I have both come to the decision we want typewriters (I used to have two typewriters and unfortunately chose to sell them both. Now I must find new ones) 😂 since I got her to start watching the show. I love me some antiques.
Big mood. I don’t know if it’s a midlife “stress and adulting are awful, I miss the carelessness of childhood and want to surround myself with its trappings”, or just a disgust with how valueless and disposable everything is these days… maybe both. But I too want robust lamps, and china cabinets full of “the good dishes”, and solid appliances that you knew would last for decades, and when they did finally wear out, you could just fix the part and it’d be good as new again. Grandfather clocks and quiet Sunday afternoons and those wooden things with three gauges in them (thermometer, hygrometer, barometer) that you hang on the wall. Yes pls.
@@skloak I ordered an old Ethan Allen furniture catalol from Amazon. It's from the early 80s. I sometimes just stare at the rooms.
Oh, these teenagers and their weird little fraternities worshipping Prometheus. Why don't they get into more wholesome activities, like Warhammer 40K. Also, if you're looking for bad episodes to cover, "Southern Double-Cross", "Nan's Ghost", "The Szechuan Dragon", "Death in Hawaii", "Kendo Killing", "Mrs. Parker's Revenge" and "Death by Demographics" are all winners.
The Szechuan Dragon is the worst one by far on that list to me. It is not just the plot but also the fact that Jessica goes to see Emma, and we don't even get to see her in the episode. I can not tell you how disappointed i was as a child when the next episode was not about what Jessica and Emma were doing while this bulls**t dragon story was going on.
@@ZephyrusSage Given what the murder weapon in that episode is, I'd love to hear in what context PushingUpRoses inserts her trademark "Nice lamp!"
In the Szechuan Dragon, every time “The Cambodian” came on screen they played this music that made me think, is this okay?
@claudiabarillas5618 Yes, the music is questionable, and it sounds like no other music in the series.
I understand your grievances, though for me, the one that outranks all of these as my personal least favorite episode is "Reflections of the Mind" due to its mind-bogglingly terrible ending.
Thanks for another great episode! I would like to recommend The Days Dwindle Down. It has a great gimmick where they edited in an old movie. It meshed pretty well and the mystery was pretty good.
Sometimes I rewatch that time on murder she wrote rather than rewatch murder she wrote just for your commentary and the reminder there’s others like me who love this show so much. ❤
I’ve always wanted to see you cover the two part episodes at the beginning of season 3 where Jessica tries to help one of Frank’s relatives and ends up at the circus, I believe there’s another classic Jessica character in disguise moment with an amazing southern accent. Also the one other two parter at the end of season 5 I thought was pretty good. Also a special request for Appointment in Athens because I’m Greek. Thanks for making these videos Roses 🌹
A "Murder She Wrote" video by Pushing up Roses on a Friday? What a perfect way to start my day 😊
The absence or presence of the "Tonight on Murder, She Wrote" montage is probably due to whether they need more padding to fill out the runtime of the episode.
And the reason it was not always on in later episodes was probably more time for commercials, unless, as you said, the episode needed more padding..
They did a similar thing with elementary, multiple different lengths of the intro.
Hearing a character in this with the last name Ryerson had my brain immediately jump to _Groundhog Day_ : "Ned?! Ned Ryerson?!" "Watch out for that first step, it's a dooooozie!"
I was beyond thrilled to see an actor pop up in this episode who is from my favorite insane 80s fantasy soap opera, Beauty and the Beast, with Linda Hamilton and Ron Pearlman. The headmaster in MSW is actor Roy Dotrice, who plays Father, the leader of the underground community, who funnily enough was also canonically a doctor before he left the world above. He is also the adoptive father of the Beast. Everyone here absolutely should check it out if they haven't already, its incredible.
I saw the show a few years ago
My guess would be cutting the “tonight on murder she wrote” for time. I noticed a somewhat similar thing with Elementary, they had 2-4 different versions of the intro of different lengths to accommodate the lengths of the episodes.
Ah, Murder She Wrote, how I love these. What a way to start the new year, good/bad puns, editing PUR, Schitt’s Creek memes. Let’s go! ❤❤❤
2:00 when TV shows have a longer plotline they squeeze more time for it by cutting out things like they're "typical opener" to make room for the extra lines
"your eyes are like 2 shining stars, they are as bright and as far away of each others"
One of the big changes on the show was Angela Lansbury and her family taking over the production of the show and her making the creative decision to get out of Cabot Cove and start making the shows more international. She talks about this in a video on YT. Her husband and son were particularly influential.
These videos are so wonderfully funny; the piano gag really got me giggling.
I like watching MSW with my dad, because he'll often look up from whatever he's doing and go 'Oh hey that Actor, I know him from 'this', 'that', and 'that other thing'" while I'm like "Cool dad, I wasn't alive when those things were popular."
It's great, also happens when we watch Columbo.
I do the same with my kids all the time. My brother is even worse because he seems to remember even the most obscure actors, their names, and everything they were in. I don't mean just famous people - he'll recognize the valet in Columbo who was also the second policeman in an episode of Quincy. What makes it more amazing is he has never used the Internet ever. He has no mobile phone, no computer.
That sounds annoying,lol. But old stuff is the best- not existing yet is no excuse!
@@lazyhomebody1356It's great actually, I like learning about older actors and dad's the best source to learn from. The tone is just how we rub each other, all in good fun.
Haha this happens when I watch *any* movies from the 50s, 60s, and early 70s with my dad. He can rattle off like five different projects for every inconsequential actor.
@TonyMichaels166 I admire that type of brain.
I love Ethan Embry!! I was absolutely in love with him in “That Thing You Do!” He really is sort of a human puppy. I think that’s a great description 😊
Yes, you just want to hug him! I was kind of upset that he didn't get a name in "That Thing You Do,"
Fun fact, Professor Harry is played by Robert Foxworth, who you'll likely remember as the voice of Ratchet in the Transformers movies, Professor Hamilton on Justice League, and the lead character in Gene Roddenberry's the Questor Tapes who would later be reworked into Data on TNG.
And Falcon Crest. Also Elizabeth Montgomery's partner at the end of her life.
He also played memorable characters on 70's crime dramas, specifically "Barnaby Jones", "Hawaii Five-O", "Cannon" and "Quincy M.E."
I thought I recognized him: he's Admiral Leyton in DS9, and I guess he was also a Vulcan in Enterprise.
Oh. He's Hamilton? That's where I've heard him.
I know him as General Hague from Babylon 5.
Maybe for another episode, S3.E19 "No Accounting for Murder"? It features Grady being accused of murder and Sheriff Metzgers actor in a side role! Also, a ghoooost :) I really liked it!
Cabot Cove has a prestigious prep school the same way that the tiny underside level of the Jupiter 2 in Lost in Space had enough room for another spaceship, a large land rover, a lab, an engine room and endless supplies and provisions for a large family on an intergalactic voyage.
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The piano key mashing 💀, now that's fun copyright-strike-avoiding editing.
For me, the big clue was Jessica digging out the old record. Whenever Murder, She Wrote made a point of having Fletcher do something random, along with a closeup, it typically meant this was either a major clue of the murder, a means of clearing the red herring, and/or both.
No "Ned Ryerson" joke from Groundhog Day? Roses, you seem to be slipping my dear.
That's all I could think of every time she said his name. Actually, I did more than think it. I kept repeating that line out loud 😂
This is so wild like, my television has a dedicated Murder She Wrote channel that boots up whenever I turn it on and it seems like whenever I get wrapped up in a particular episode you end up talking about it! Fantastic video :D
To be fair to the people in this episode, there's like 1 million Grammy winners that I would have no idea who they were if they walked up to me in public lol awesome episode!😊
But NO ONE recognized him??? No one??
@@MaxOakland I think there's plenty of Grammy winners that you could put in a room and no one would recognize the,. It's not the Grammy's are the Oscars. Plus, this was decades ago, so way before social media and the internet being what it is today. It's perfectly plausible to no one would recognize him.
@@MaxOakland A bunch of people in a small town in Maine in the 1980s didn't recognize a man whose face they've never seen?
And no one who knew the real musician ever showed up? No friends or relatives kept in touch with him? No entertainment people ever wanted to book him for performances? It's believable that no one at the school would know what the real man looked like (especially in a time before the internet), but there had to be people who would show up who would know.
@@CalliopePony I don't think anyone in the episode knew who he was. I'm sure there would be people in that world who do know him, but I don't think they were in this particular episode.
I got my friends to all start watching Murder, She Wrote because of your videos. Thank you for that.
3:18 That Elvis has seen unspeakable things.
I rewatched the first six seasons of MSW last year, as I recall they all had “Tonight on Murder She Wrote” intros except for the pilot episode. On the occasion they did two-parters the second half would have a “Previously on MSW” opening, which is basically the same thing. They were pretty standard for primetime TV dramas in the ‘70s and ‘80s, serialized storytelling wasn’t common outside of soap operas so shows liked to offer a quick prevue of what kind of story and guest stars viewers could expect that week.
Nursing a flu, sipping on hot tea bundled up and cozy, and I have this video to watch. Other than the flu part, it's a wonderful start to a day 🖤
Feel better soon!
The flu part makes it 100% okay to not do anything!
What a great way to start a Friday with PushingUpRoses Murder She Wrote video.
Yeaaaaa
Pushinguproses, please can you do Season 6 Episode 11 (Town Father) from Murder she wrote.
The episode goed off the rails and it does not disappoint!
With Sam Booth accused of being a no good father and Eve running for mayor, it has all the drama you need!
It also has Holland Taylor playing one of the series' most obnoxious rich women. The whole thing is like a bonkers soap opera.
It’s PushingUpRoses time!
Everything’s coming up ROSES,
0:50 That's one of the reasons I love watching ER. It ran from I think '95-2010. As someone born around the same time the show started airing it's so interesting to see the world change from an episode in season 1 or 2 where they are talking about how crazy it is for someone to have a cell phone because they are so expensive and unnecessary, to season 15 where people have IPhones. From this dreamy sort of antique aesthetic of the early to mid 90s to the late 2000s/ early 2010s world I went to highschool in. Even seeing (outside a few big name like George Clooney) actors I don't really know from anything else because they were before my time in early seasons, then when you get to late seasons you see people who have been orln recent shows now and think "WOW, they made a cameo on ER!? That's crazy!".
Roses, I am always overjoyed when you put out new content. Your wit, dad jokes and comedic timing are *chef's kiss*. You make each piece of media you examine more interesting.
omg yippieh, new episode! I recently visited my parents and we watched like 15 episodes in 3 days, it was glorious :D
A joint and “that time on murder she wrote”. Great start to my Friday 😌
Three things today - 1. even though you didn't ask, I ask for about the 35th time that you review "Jessica Behind Bars", one of the best episodes 2. I want a ruling from Roses - is a group of thefts now officially "a rash" 3. had not heard about David Lynch's passing - I'll have to go back and watch his best film "The Straight Story". (sorry "Mulholland Drive"
"Jessica Behind Bars" is great!
I will continue to request the episode of Murder She Wrote, Death Stalks the Big Top.
Oof yes, I called that one out a while ago. I'm still really kind of bothered by the ending, it feels very, hm, dubious.
But it also has Ronny Cox and he is always great.
@@Jokie155 I know, the ending is wild. I hope she covers it.
0:27 When you order Gary Busey from temu...
😂😂😂
I thought the same thing!
Haven’t even watched this yet and I already love it. Temu Gary Busey. 😂
Describing Ethan Embry as a human puppy is the most accurate description I’ve ever heard.
Ah, Roy Dotrice! I loved him in The Cutting Edge as a Soviet ice skating coach. Also I couldn't hear Ryerson without thinking of "Ned... RYERSON!" from Groundhog Day
It kinda bums me out to see she’s abandoned that beautiful Royal typewriter to a PC in the later seasons.
I am once again requesting on bended knee you do Season 2 Episode 15 The Powder Keg. Ft confederate flags, country bar singing, the actor who played Phil on Murphy Brown, Texas accents and *drama*. I love Murder She Wrote and TTOMSW, and I'd love you to cover this one.
Your videos are as cozy as the show, thank you!
Thank you for being just as upset as I was about the drunk driving it was driving me nuts, also ‘death stalks the big top’ haunts me in a similar way and I want validation that I’m not insane
7:44 the look on Jessica's face at the piano playing absolutely sent me.
I just recognised the Elvis bust, it's in a season 2 episode of Friends! When Joey moves into his own apartment, you can see he has an Elvis lamp by his sofa that looks exactly the same! I wonder if these were mass produced or just a prop that was randomly shared round. Anyway, just a random observation 😅
You got me with the piano overdub.
For a moment I was like, wait... is that his hit song?
10:05 why is that man doing up his shirt? What happened be for that clip started?
This plot actually reminds me of an episode of Inspector Morse which also featured competition for the headship of an Oxford College involving a bunch of extremely sleezy middle-aged men, all of whom were being blackmailed by somebody.
"Hey, nice lamp! ....anyway."
Literal laugh out loud. Love these videos! Much fun always, and (hopefully) forever!
Petition for “nice lamp!…anyway” merch! A collection of t-shirts, each with the phrase and a selection of different lamp designs to choose from (taken from the show), would be GOLD! 😋🤩
Hey Roses👋 I just wanted yo thank you for this series. I finally got around to watching an ep for myself and now I'm hooked! I needed something wholesom to help pull me out of this depressive state, and my newfound love of Jess is just the light in the dark I needed❤
I binge-watched all the other videos in the last three days and have bought the DVDs of the first season to watch it with my mistery-lover 10 yo! So happy to see this one popping up! Jessica is is the ultimate role model. You are doing good in the world. Keep it up.
In the later seasons, Angela supposedly wanted LESS screen time, so that might explain why a lot of plot with Jess happens off screen.
10:01 With this "Nice lamp! Anyway" running gag, I'm now wanting Roses to do a crossover with Linkara to review lamps.
When I watch old tv shows with my mom, she consistently goes 'you know where that actor got their start?' And 9 times out of 10 the answer is a soap opera lol
I love these sooooo much! I frequently rewatch them and I'm always happy to see a new one. Your videos have actually made it so that when I watch an actual episode and I don't hear "Soooo.... THIS guy's dead" I think something is wrong with the episode. Thank you for another banger and also for your service to humanity. 🤘
Great episode! I had to go look up Robert Foxworth and Roy Dotrice; one of those "I know I've seen them somewhere". They were both on Babylon 5 for a few episodes, and I probably recognized Foxworth from either that or Stargate SG-1. Dotrice, though, I'll remember best for his really excellent voices on the Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks (with the glaring exception of Arya's voice suddenly aging about 60 years in the middle...can't imagine what happened there).
That Elvis bust was also in Saved by the Bell
It's hideous, so it would fit perfectly on that show.
I’m so happy to see another installment in this series!
it always makes me happy when a new episode appears. TY Pushing
Thank you for introducing me to Murder She Wrote! Been watching it and Columbo recently, very fun shows!
I'm pretty convinced that this was an episode set in a boarding school in the UK or something but they had the Cabot Cove locations and actors locked so they had to Springfield it.
Yet another fabulous episode of your MSW series! Thank you for these! Also, the "Tonight on Murder, She Wrote" intros were the majority with only a few sporadic outliers until about season 10-11. No clue why...just wanted to let you know you were right!
They can't let Harry be headmaster! He'll groom a group of elite students and use them to declare martial law on Earth!
(For the non-Trekkies in the audience, I suggest watching the DS9 two-parter "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost".)
Oh, I knew I'd seen him before! Excellent episodes, I remember really hating that character.
@misfire33 As you should. At or near the top of the list of Badmirals.
My wife told me that the Murder She Wrote books that are out now (a YA series) that deals with a teenage Jessica Fletcher, but it set in modern times, and some stuff takes place in this private school.
I have so missed your Murder She Wrote videos! Another banger here
Please do a special on Corrine!!! I feel like she's a super interested back ground character who randomly shows up with a weird story!!!!
An episode where you get to ask “what the hell is going on” every minute is always a treat!
Please do the Amish episode Murder, Plain and Simple please! 💕
Roy Dotrice (headmaster) brilliantly played Mozart's father in AMADEUS.
The actor who played Professor Matthews (the one from Falcon Crest) also appeared in a Columbo episode as the murderer
Loved the new episode, as always 💖
One of my favorite so bad it's good episodes is J.B. as in Jailbird. Michael Hagarty being awful, Grady being hilariously incompetent and Jess making friends everywhere she goes, even when shes in jail 🤣
I miss the opening "tonight on Murder, She Wrote" and then they would play snippets of the episode which normally ended with Jessica being either smug or in trouble. And then the titles began.
There is a channel on my Samsung Smart TV that plays Murder She Wrote 24/7, and I've been watching it for the first time really (I'm 53). It's great to see all of those wonderful (many now lost) actors.
@petebondurant58 what's your favourite episode
@@jonathanfurzeland4740 So far, it's the two parter with Jean Simmons as a fellow mystery writer. Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1989)
@@petebondurant58 great episode. Reflections of the mind is my favourite
I gotta say it!
"Perhaps you should forget logic, and devote yourself to motivations of passion, or gain. THOSE are reasons for murder." (Star Trek "Journey to Babel" Season 2, ep 15)
I heard "David Lynch" and audibly sucked air through clenched teeth.
"Sometimes a cigar ash is just a cigar ash." -Freud, probably
okay, so...that cigar ash was obviously not cocaine. "Tell us you didn't do drugs or smoke, or have friends who did" without telling us!
7:39 🤣🤣🤣 I thought this was some avant-guard jazz piece for a second...
The piano playing absolutely got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh my God, I think that’s the same Elvis bust from Screech’s house in Saved by the Bell. I wonder if both shows had the same prop master, even if they were on different networks or if it’s just a really common bust lol 😂
Always enjoy your videos! Keep up the great work. Don't know if you like Star Trek but I'm watching TNG for the first time and was thinking some of the episodes would make great reviews for you to do. 😊😋
Love watching your older Let's Plays with LGR with those classic PC games, which I still play those even today. Glad to see you're doing ok! Keep up the great work!
Omg this was posted today! You rock, keep up the good works your channel is more entertaining than 99.99999% of the hundreds of millions of shows on all the streaming services.. big fan. Thanks for the new content!
I love these. So glad you're back with a new one.