TV Trivia: Name three vacs that appeared on "Friends"
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Rhoda Episode......
I remember a wonderful episode of the Rhoda comedy series in the 1970's which featured a classic Hoover upright from the 1950's. Rhoda's mother Ida Morgenstern, a little lady played by Nancy Walker, was shown pushing this monster brown upright with a really loud noise. When Rhoda came onto the set to talk to her, Ida turned it off and they both watched as the vacuum slowly turned off and the bag slooooooooowly deflated! It was hysterical! If anyone can find the clip on YouTube, it's a great vacuum moment in TV history.
I remember a wonderful episode of the Rhoda comedy series in the 1970's which featured a classic Hoover upright from the 1950's. Rhoda's mother Ida Morgenstern, a little lady played by Nancy Walker, was shown pushing this monster brown upright with a really loud noise. When Rhoda came onto the set to talk to her, Ida turned it off and they both watched as the vacuum slowly turned off and the bag slooooooooowly deflated! It was hysterical! If anyone can find the clip on YouTube, it's a great vacuum moment in TV history.
shag
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I remember that episode. Wasn't vacumming that helped Ida relax?
Yes....vacuuming DID make Ida relax!
Kinda the way vacuuming makes me relax too. Better than smoking or eating junk food.
Okay Vac Fans, here's a real TV Trivia mystery for you:
On "That 70's Show", there was always a canister vacuum stowed away centre stage in the back of the room in the basement where the gang always met. It is definitely a Eureka / JCPenney / Montgomery Ward / Eaton Viking "Sweet Sixteen" "Ironside" Power Nozzle canister with on-board Tool Pak.
One thing that has bugged me ever since I found this vac on this great show - if the show was set in the 1970's would the Eureka Tool Pak look as it does on the machine that they have placed in the set? Eureka's canister Tool Paks changed when they introduced a floor brush with an attached elbow. This kind of floor and wall brush was provided on canisters in the 1950's, but when the company started offering three floor attachments (regular carpet nozzle, Vibra-Beat nozzle, floor and wall brush), they moved to "elbow-less", "neckless" attachments which were attached with a separate curved steel wand. These neckless attachments stored on large round "buttons" on the Eureka Tool Paks for years without any elbows or curved wands.
Then, at some point in the 1980's, the company returned to offering a floor and wall brush with a neck. This forced a change in design of the Tool Pak. I think the first Eureka Power Team to offer the floor brush+neck was the Silver "Quiet Kleen" with special sound muffler. The power nozzle had also changed by then to offer a "belt view" window on one side of the nozzle. This newer power nozzle is also stored next to the canister on the set of "That 70's Show."
Okay....now with that background in mind, did the producers of "That 70's Show" not make a mistake in placing a 1980's Eureka canister in a show set in the 1970's? The canister shown has a Tool Pak designed for the newer floor brush+elbow. The question I have is: "When did Eureka change their on-board Tool Pak, and did the art directors get this wrong?
Am I obsessed with Eureka vacs or what?????????
Kinda the way vacuuming makes me relax too. Better than smoking or eating junk food.
Okay Vac Fans, here's a real TV Trivia mystery for you:
On "That 70's Show", there was always a canister vacuum stowed away centre stage in the back of the room in the basement where the gang always met. It is definitely a Eureka / JCPenney / Montgomery Ward / Eaton Viking "Sweet Sixteen" "Ironside" Power Nozzle canister with on-board Tool Pak.
One thing that has bugged me ever since I found this vac on this great show - if the show was set in the 1970's would the Eureka Tool Pak look as it does on the machine that they have placed in the set? Eureka's canister Tool Paks changed when they introduced a floor brush with an attached elbow. This kind of floor and wall brush was provided on canisters in the 1950's, but when the company started offering three floor attachments (regular carpet nozzle, Vibra-Beat nozzle, floor and wall brush), they moved to "elbow-less", "neckless" attachments which were attached with a separate curved steel wand. These neckless attachments stored on large round "buttons" on the Eureka Tool Paks for years without any elbows or curved wands.
Then, at some point in the 1980's, the company returned to offering a floor and wall brush with a neck. This forced a change in design of the Tool Pak. I think the first Eureka Power Team to offer the floor brush+neck was the Silver "Quiet Kleen" with special sound muffler. The power nozzle had also changed by then to offer a "belt view" window on one side of the nozzle. This newer power nozzle is also stored next to the canister on the set of "That 70's Show."
Okay....now with that background in mind, did the producers of "That 70's Show" not make a mistake in placing a 1980's Eureka canister in a show set in the 1970's? The canister shown has a Tool Pak designed for the newer floor brush+elbow. The question I have is: "When did Eureka change their on-board Tool Pak, and did the art directors get this wrong?
Am I obsessed with Eureka vacs or what?????????
turbo500
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eurekaprince...
..much appreciated prize!
Same to you too
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And lest we forget the Eureka Boss upright on "The Nanny"?...
"Is that the best you could come up with?..At least Niles pretends to be vacuuming"
..much appreciated prize!
Same to you too
.And lest we forget the Eureka Boss upright on "The Nanny"?...
"Is that the best you could come up with?..At least Niles pretends to be vacuuming"
ericaustin
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Roseanne
On Roseanne there was a Hoover Dial A Matic sometimes in the laundry room by the water heater and then sometimes in Roseanne's budoir (gross) closet.
On Roseanne there was a Hoover Dial A Matic sometimes in the laundry room by the water heater and then sometimes in Roseanne's budoir (gross) closet.
methodistbill
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Hazel
Some of us are old enough to remember the sitcom Hazel with Shirley Booth. What was her vac of choice?
Some of us are old enough to remember the sitcom Hazel with Shirley Booth. What was her vac of choice?
I am so glad someone brought up "Hazel".....
I distinctly remember an episode where she was using a monstrous canister vacuum cleaner. I was so young, that I now do not remember the details. But it sticks in my mind to this day. I can't remember if this was some fictional monster vacuum that some door-to-door salesman "sucked" her into buying, or some other fancy-shmancy machine. I think I remember it blowing up on her, or maybe just smoking or burning. But I can swear there was an episode like this.
Am I dreaming this, or can someone fill me in on the details of this fictional canister monster machine? I think it was a very boxy shape about waist high....with a canister hose and many attachments.
I distinctly remember an episode where she was using a monstrous canister vacuum cleaner. I was so young, that I now do not remember the details. But it sticks in my mind to this day. I can't remember if this was some fictional monster vacuum that some door-to-door salesman "sucked" her into buying, or some other fancy-shmancy machine. I think I remember it blowing up on her, or maybe just smoking or burning. But I can swear there was an episode like this.
Am I dreaming this, or can someone fill me in on the details of this fictional canister monster machine? I think it was a very boxy shape about waist high....with a canister hose and many attachments.
I don't remember that episode, but I have one on a DVD where she's using an Electrolux from the early '50s, and it's a 1962 episode.
Maybe that's the one? Maybe I saw that bulky Lux with all the tools hanging off the unit and thought that it looked like a monster? I should go and buy that DVD set and see for myself.
You may have solved a life-long mystery, arh.
Any others know of other vacs that they saw in Hazel?
You may have solved a life-long mystery, arh.
Any others know of other vacs that they saw in Hazel?
briankirbyclass
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Eurekaprince, i remember the Hazel episode you are talking about,no you not dreaming it up,,where Hazel buys a monsterous cannister vac from a door to door salesman, and lives to regret it,,im sure it wasnt a Lux.
It was some sort of monster vac made up by the show's producers to look like a crazy contraption,,so that "Mr B" (Hazel's boss) could have something to really get mad at!
Also on Mama's family,,, i remember there is an episode where Mama is vacuuming the couch in the living room with an late 70s, blue Powermate Kenmore,,the one with the fake woodgrain top,,,she is either using the upolstery brush, or the crevis tool on the end of the hose. They dont show the powermate.
It was some sort of monster vac made up by the show's producers to look like a crazy contraption,,so that "Mr B" (Hazel's boss) could have something to really get mad at!
Also on Mama's family,,, i remember there is an episode where Mama is vacuuming the couch in the living room with an late 70s, blue Powermate Kenmore,,the one with the fake woodgrain top,,,she is either using the upolstery brush, or the crevis tool on the end of the hose. They dont show the powermate.
WOW! Thank you Brian in Eudora......
Now I know I wasn't dreaming this up. I would love to find this on YouTube or on a DVD........love this message board!
Brian in Toronto
Now I know I wasn't dreaming this up. I would love to find this on YouTube or on a DVD........love this message board!
Brian in Toronto
shag
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The Jefferson's vacuum
In season one when Florence starts to appear on the show,she has a convertible.You can't see the base, but the bag is cream coloured and the handle almost appears to be pale yellow.
In another episode when she is working a second job at night, she falls asleep while vacuuming.I think that convertible was chocolate brown. I think thats when her and Weezy get in a fight about Florence letting the bag get too full. Weezy used it and the bag burst and blew dust all over, Florence said it was her fault for buying cheap bags.
In season one when Florence starts to appear on the show,she has a convertible.You can't see the base, but the bag is cream coloured and the handle almost appears to be pale yellow.
In another episode when she is working a second job at night, she falls asleep while vacuuming.I think that convertible was chocolate brown. I think thats when her and Weezy get in a fight about Florence letting the bag get too full. Weezy used it and the bag burst and blew dust all over, Florence said it was her fault for buying cheap bags.
methodistbill
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Royal Upright
The vacuum I remember from Hazel is a Royal Upright. I don't remember seeing her vacuum with it. She just hauls it through the house from time to time.
The vacuum I remember from Hazel is a Royal Upright. I don't remember seeing her vacuum with it. She just hauls it through the house from time to time.
