Empty Nest

Gone.

You n- by the way, just wanna say, Empty Nest premiered yesterday, um, in 198- like, yesterday was the, like, the 38-year anniversary of Empty Nest-

Wow

... premiering on NBC.

Holy crap

... that we are...

Yeah, like, this is an Empty Nest's...

Yesterday was an Empty Nest milestone day, so just putting that out there.

No, no, no.

What was that show? Uh, Empty Nest.

But I'm, I'm...

Yeah, Empty Nest.

There you go.

And they had that, they, th- that's back in the day when you'd, they'd, if you were in one sitcom, they would just keep putting you in sitcoms.

Yeah, the old man talked slowly, and he did his rebellious teenage thing.

You're thinking of David Leisure, who was the neighbor on Empty Nest, who then became Joe Isuzu.

I don't know why I conflated the two guys.

Maybe because they both wore a suit? Yeah, I think they were both suits.

He just spoke

quickly.

No. David Leisure's whole, even on Empty Nest, that was kind of his character.

And then they, I bet you, I guarantee you, during that time, if he walked around any mall, everybody would go, hey, there's Joe Isuzu.

Do you remember the thing that you explained to me about 15 minutes ago before we turned these mics on? The big new bonus scenes, I guess one of them is that Captain America and his wife because in Endgame Captain America went back in time and was dancing with his wife and now in this bonus new scene in Endgame Encore Who shows up to tell him you can't dance with her anymore? It's

Joe Azuzu from Empty Nest.

So Joe Azuzu shows up.

And he's like, hey, you got any orange juice?

Yeah.

Is cold cut turkey...

As popular now, do you think, as it was in the time of Empty Nest in the 90s?

No, I think lunch meats are not as popular as they once were.

Omar trying to get acrobatic and he fell over.

You were, you were talking about fake Leslie Nielsen from Empty Nest.

I don't know if that-

Yeah, but then where did that go to?

And it's time to strap in and pour yourself a stiff one.

I've got a glass of wine because we just rewatched season 2, episode 26, Empty Nests-

Yes

... which is objectively considered the worst episode of The Golden Girls.

It was so annoying.

And what was even more annoying, and what made it more annoying, is the demographic of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is not going over to Vanderpump Rules.

Whereas, the demographic of Golden Girls would go over to an empty ne- empty nests sort of-

Hmm.

Eisner really needed a hit television show to make Disney a player again, and Susan delivered.

But then, if you think about it, how many spinoffs from, you know, Golden Girls were they? Golden Palace, Empty Nest, Nurses.

And think about how

much merchandise is still sold today, Golden Girls-wise.