Last weekend was like 80's week in jail. How is this for freakishness. I am going back in my mind here, but I believe that prior to Three's Company on the ABC schedule was Laverne & Shirley. It may have been Joanie loves Chachi, but I think it was Laverne & Shirley. Anyway on Saturday, Joyce DeWitt was arrested for suspicion of DUI and I wrote about that on Monday. Well, it turns out that on Friday, Eddie Mekka was arrested in Las Vegas for the same thing. Who is Eddie Mekka you ask? Well he was Carmine on Laverne & Shirley. He played the The Big Ragoo.
Just like his ABC cohort, Eddie also found himself drinking in the middle of the afternoon. According to TMZ, at around 1230pm, Eddie was arrested after he got into an accident with another car. Police at the scene administered some tests, and arrested him for suspicion of DUI.
LOL OH DAMNNN who's next, Potsi?
ReplyDeleteDAMN, CARMINE! How's that for not aging too well.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly wasn't it:
ReplyDelete8:00: Happy Days
8:30: Laverne & Shirley
9:00: Three's Company
9:30: Soap
That means someone from Soap is next. I'll put my dollar on Jessica Tate/Mona from Who's the Boss? Katherine Helmond.
ReplyDeleteI am too young for this stuff. I mean, Soap? What the heck is that?!
ReplyDeleteOMG, I loved Soap.
ReplyDeleteHe used to be so hot. This must be what Madge looks like under all that surgery.
ReplyDeleteLOVED Soap...hysterical....even today in rerun its still funny
ReplyDeletei put money on a DUI from Billy Crystal's dummy from Soap.
ReplyDeleteSoap was BRILLIANT! And the dummy was Chuck's...Bert's biological son.
ReplyDeletesings " He'll never go from rags to riches..... "
ReplyDeleteMr. Ray, you are right. But in the Midwest, prime time started at 7:00pm. What was on after Soap? Starskey & Hutch? My bedtime was 9pm, so rarely got to see Starskey & Hutch OR Charlie's Angels. Alas...
ReplyDeleteAudrey...I think Charles Angels was on after Soap...or maybe it was Starskey & Hutch. I don't remember because 10p was my bedtime! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI believe it was Hart To Hart
ReplyDeletewasn't MASH in the mix there somewhere?
ReplyDeleteTotally forgot about that show.
ReplyDeleteMash was CBS not ABC.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Shirley dump the Big R when she moved to LA with Laverne?
ReplyDeleteNo wonder he took up the bottle.
Well at least we know he doesn't use botox.
ReplyDeleteHe's a good competitor, but I think Nick Nolte's record setting mugshot is safe.
ReplyDeleteAnd it took me several seconds to realize it wasn't Frank DeFazio.
Oh, man, I hope Boo Boo Kitty wasn't riding with him!
ReplyDelete@jax...
ReplyDeleteIt was Jay Johnson who had the dummy Bob... BC was the gay son
also, MASH was CBS on Mondays at 9.00
@Sue Ellen Mishkey... you MUST try to see this soap opera parody (youtube? netflix? video store?)-- it was absolutely hysterical!
ReplyDeleteI'll put $20 on Jennifer Salt for next... maybe Diana Canova...
ReplyDeleteWas it Bert who got into a fist fight with the dummy?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to order Soap DVDs from Amazon.com.
It was either Bert or Danny that got into the fist fight with Bob (dummy).
ReplyDeleteBigMama...He'll never go from rags to riches....I SWEAR TO GOD THAT SONG WENT THROUGH MY HEAD WHEN I HEARD THIS!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's hysterical it went through yours, too...damn, I love L&S. In my top 5 sitcoms fo'sho.
Stick to milk and Pepsi!
ReplyDeleteAw man, is Soap on DVD? My bedtime was at 9:30, so I never saw it.
ReplyDeleteAnd whoa! Carmine isn't aging well. I loved when he'd come in the room and just belt out some tune. I never got why he wanted Shirley. I always thought Laverne was cooler.
@ BigMama you took the words right out of my mouth.
ReplyDeleteI loved SOAP. The chemistry between R.Guillaume who played Benson and K.Helmond was great.
It seems the "Big Ragu" needs to lay off the sauce.
Soap was hilarious! They need to run it again...
ReplyDeleteAnd MAN! The Big Ragu ain't so cute anymore....
Mr. Ray, that's exactly how I remembered it! Well done!
ReplyDeleteI'd go to rags to riches....
Sad, I loved his character.
Nice look, Eddie. Hair by Nick Nolte?
ReplyDeleteI keep thinking that he bears an unfortunate resemblance to Ron Jeremy.
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