From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!teklabs!tekmdp!azure!randals@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: Young Docs in Love (slight spoiler) - (nf) Article-I.D.: azure.1096 Posted: Fri Jul 30 10:31:21 1982 Received: Mon Aug 2 01:15:48 1982 On the contrary, Young Doctors in Love is *NOT*, repeat *NOT* done by the people who did "Airplane". YDiL is a cheap, ripoff, imitation of the Airplane-style spoof that Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and (somebody else, sorry!) made so popular last summer. They also did the "Police Squad" series, which started out great and went downhill (I never laughed so hard at a T.V. show). YDiL has its (few) great gags, such as the (very humorous) timely reference to E.T., and some interesting refs to video games. But overall, you have to wade through quite a bit of dead time to get to the funny stuff. And then, the funny stuff didn't seem quite worth the wait. I was amazed at the fact that they didn't do any real "canned" jokes, I mean that most of the stuff were jokes that I hadn't heard before. At least Airplane and Police Squad # 1 were continuously-hot material. On a 1 to 10 spoof rating, with Airplane being a 10, I'd give YDiL a 4. (I'd give Student Bodies, done by yet-another group, a 6, just FYI.) Randal L. Schwartz Tektronix Microcomputer Development Products Beaverton, Oregon, USA UUCP: ...!{ucbvax or decvax}!teklabs!tekmdp!randals (ignore return address) CSNET: teklabs!tekmdp!randals @ tektronix ARPA: teklabs!tekmdp!randals.tektronix @ udel-relay