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July 4, 1977 - September 30, 1977
Syndicated Satire - 65 Episodes
Cast:
| Barth Gimble: | Martin Mull |
| Jerry Hubbard: | Fred Willard |
| Happy Kyne: | Frank DeVol |
Frequent Guests:
| W.D. 'Bud' Prize / Harold Mislap: | Kenneth Mars |
| Larry Guy / Terry Guy: | Terence McGovern |
| Virgil Sims: | Jim Varney |
| Merle Jeeter: | Dabney Coleman |
| Charlie Haggars: | Graham Jarvis |
| Tony Roletti: | Bill Kirchenbauer |
Fernwood 2-Night was a wild, and some say patently offensive,
parody on TV talk shows. The host, Barth Gimble, was natty
and egotistical, and Jerry Hubbard, a fatuous idiot. Martin
Mull had previously appeared on Mary Hartman, Mary
Hartman as Garth Gimble, a wife beater who eventually
impaled himself on an aluminum Christmas tree in the closet.
Barth was presented here as his twin brother, and there were
occasional visits by their father, Garth, Sr. The guests were
parodies of every mind-numbing act that ever paraded across
the Carson/Douglas/Griffin shows, from Vietnamese refugee
Mian Co Tiam, who had written a patriotic book titled Yankee
Doodle Gook, to a housewife who was campaigning to have
her late Aunt Dora made a saint because she made "remark-
able raisin bread," to a Jewish man named Morton Rose who
had been caught speeding through all-WASP Fernwood. He
was brought on because Barth was sure many of the local
viewers had never seen "a person of the Jewish persuasion."
Other guests included Linda Barry, owner of the Fernwood
Nudist Colony, mechanic Virgil Sims, Barth's aunt Edity,
a couple discussing the La Fromage method of childbirth,
and the Salvation Army Singers performing "Da Do Ron Ron."
Although this bizarre program was only marginally successful in
its summer 1977 run, Norman Lear brought it back in April 1978
as America 2-Night. Barth and Jerry had moved to Alta Coma,
California, "the unfinished furniture capital of the world," and hoped
to boost the show with appearances by major Hollywood stars.
65 Episodes of America 2Night were aired between
April 10 and July 7, 1978.
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