July 4, 1977 - July 7, 1978
Syndicated Satire - 130 Filmed Episodes
Cast:
| Barth Gimble: | Martin Mull |
| Jerry Hubbard: | Fred Willard |
| Happy Kyne: | Frank DeVol |
Frequent Guests:
| Garth Gimble, Sr.: | Robert B. Williams |
| Verne Taylor: | Verne Rowe |
| Virgil Sims: | Jim Varney |
| Aunt Edity: | Irma Seigel |
| Linda Barry: | Barrie Youngfellow |
| 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."
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