90s Sitcoms Second Tier or Undefeated Cavalier? Play the New Game
Actually, it’s called “Undefeated Cavalier or 90s Sitcoms Second Tier.” Gotta make sure we get the name right before we continue. Let’s also give you a peek behind the curtain…
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Actually, it's called "Undefeated Cavalier or 90s Sitcoms Second Tier." Gotta make sure we get the name right before we continue.
Let's also give you a peek behind the curtain while we're at it. Toucher & Hardy is on weekdays from 6-10 a.m. on 98.5 the Sports Hub. After the show wraps at 10, Toucher, Hardy, Wallach, 12, Nick, and Beaton all adjourn to the conference room to plot out the next day's show.
Recently, Fred had to skedaddle early from our post-show planning sesh. He left us with this task: come up with a bit or game for tomorrow. We decided to take advantage of his absence to devise a game for Fred to play the next day.
Undefeated Cavalier or 90s Sitcoms Second Tier? Listen
Thus, the aforementioned game was born. With the Celtics hosting the 15-0 Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night at TD Garden, the green is on everyone's mind. Will the Cs hand the Cavs their first loss of the 2024-2025 season on the parquet?
Jon Wallach went deep into the Cleveland bench to pull names of lesser-known players. I dug into the world of Fred's most beloved form of entertainment--the sitcom--to find supporting actors with names that sound like they could be NBA players.
Undefeated Cavalier or 90s Sitcoms Second Tier? Play
No such thing as "Too Many Cooks" here, with Hardy, Nick, and Beaton all pitching in on the production side to bring the bit to life on air and online. We really are like one big, happy, dysfunctional TV sitcom family, aren't we?
Listen to the segment at the 30:00 mark above, see if you can name the undefeated Cavs and 90s sitcoms semi-stars, then scroll down for some classic TV clips. Here's hoping by the time you see this, the Celtics will have ended Cleveland's win streak.
A Different World
Darryl Bell played Ron Johnson Jr. on A Different World. He also played Big Brother X-Ray Vision in Spike Lee's School Daze.
227
Stoney Jackson had a ton of work in the '80s and '90s: Travis Filmore on 227, dancing in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video, acting in The Jeffersons and the movie CB4.
The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch was off the air by the '90s, but it inspired so many of that decade's sitcoms. And is there a more legendary second-tier character than Robbie Rist's Cousin Oliver?
Living Single
T.C. Carson kept it smooth as as the secondary character Kyle Barker on the '90s Queen Latifah vehicle Living Single.
Seinfeld
The king of all '90s sitcoms. And Steve Hytner's cameos as Jerry's comedy nemesis Kenny Bania were always worthwhile scenes.
