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<blockquote data-quote="bmasters9" data-source="post: 240568" data-attributes="member: 77">Not a problem, [USER=82]@Toni[/USER]-- thanks for your interest!As to what you asked:1. No, I have not been to Spain, or Barcelona (in fact, all of my travels have been within my home country [the United States]).2. Yes, there is-- I think you might like The Bob Newhart Show (a 1972-78 CBS comedy that had the titular star as Chicago psychologist Dr. Robert &quot;Bob&quot; Hartley, who specialized in group therapy sessions [the late Suzanne Pleshette was his wife, Emily]; that show also starred the late Bill Daily [who, I believe, was also in Jeannie, IIRC] and the late Marcia Wallace, et al.; I have Shout!&#039;s all-in-one DVD release thereto, and that comedy is one of the finest I&#039;ve seen).[ATTACH=full]23138[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]23139[/ATTACH]3. Yes, there is a favorite film of mine to that effect-- it is called Rookie of the Year, and it&#039;s from 1993; it starred Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, et al.; it had Nicholas as 12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, who (and I don&#039;t know if you&#039;ve seen it or not, so these might be spoilers to you) suffered a freak accident and hurt his right arm when he slipped on a baseball and fell (the accident did a strange thing to his arm, in that it caused some of the muscles to fuse in such a way that his arm could throw a baseball at practically superhuman speed; the Chicago Cubs saw something in that, and signed him up as their newest pitcher in an effort to start winning). I won&#039;t say anything more about it, because, as I said, you probably haven&#039;t seen the film, and you might like to see how it all plays out.4. That last one might be a difficult question to answer, because I&#039;ve only seen Sesame Street sporadically (not at all since I was a child), and have not seen The Muppet Show at all, so I don&#039;t know if I could pick a specific Sesame Street character or Muppet (albeit I do appreciate Miss Piggy&#039;s interest).Thanks again for asking, and to you, [USER=82]@Toni[/USER], have a good weekend too!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bmasters9, post: 240568, member: 77"] Not a problem, [USER=82]@Toni[/USER]-- thanks for your interest! As to what you asked: 1. No, I have not been to Spain, or Barcelona (in fact, all of my travels have been within my home country [the United States]). 2. Yes, there is-- I think you might like [I]The Bob Newhart Show[/I] (a 1972-78 CBS comedy that had the titular star as Chicago psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley, who specialized in group therapy sessions [the late Suzanne Pleshette was his wife, Emily]; that show also starred the late Bill Daily [who, I believe, was also in [I]Jeannie[/I], IIRC] and the late Marcia Wallace, et al.; I have Shout!'s all-in-one DVD release thereto, and that comedy is one of the finest I've seen). [ATTACH type="full" alt="bobnewhartshow1.jpg"]23138[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="bobnewhartshow2.jpg"]23139[/ATTACH] 3. Yes, there is a favorite film of mine to that effect-- it is called [I]Rookie of the Year[/I], and it's from 1993; it starred Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, et al.; it had Nicholas as 12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, who (and I don't know if you've seen it or not, so these might be spoilers to you) suffered a freak accident and hurt his right arm when he slipped on a baseball and fell (the accident did a strange thing to his arm, in that it caused some of the muscles to fuse in such a way that his arm could throw a baseball at practically superhuman speed; the Chicago Cubs saw something in that, and signed him up as their newest pitcher in an effort to start winning). I won't say anything more about it, because, as I said, you probably haven't seen the film, and you might like to see how it all plays out. 4. That last one might be a difficult question to answer, because I've only seen [I]Sesame Street[/I] sporadically (not at all since I was a child), and have not seen [I]The Muppet Show[/I] at all, so I don't know if I could pick a specific [I]Sesame Street [/I]character or Muppet (albeit I do appreciate Miss Piggy's interest). Thanks again for asking, and to you, [USER=82]@Toni[/USER], have a good weekend too! [/QUOTE]

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