Gordon Jump

Um, and he also has this music video where he has these basically deepfakes of all the principal actors in the show, and they're kinda dancing along with him.

And there's this meta-narrative where Gordon Jump from WKRP, who played like a, um, a purveyor of CSAM, uh, o- on a very special episode of Different Strokes.

In the video, Gordon Jump gets, like, beaten up with a baseball bat and tied up and put into the back of a trunk and eventually, like, put in jail by the Different Strokes kids, um, as this, like, long-awaited, uh, revenge for the crimes that he committed on, on, on the show 40 years ago.

Um, and I just-- it was one of the most creative uses of, uh, of AI that I've seen in the music space or heard in the music space recently.

And I, I think it's only a matter of time before a Black artist gets sued, um, for creating a work like that.

... and I was born before the show came on.

But when I was a kid, everybody always like, "Oh," like, "uh, the big guy from WKRP in Cincinnati." And I was like, "Yeah, that's, uh, that's true." But the best is what Gordon Jump played, um, Arthur Carlson, and I don't...

He was also known for playing the bicycle repair- the bicycle man in, um, the Diff'rent Strokes where, um, um, Arnold's friend gets, uh-

Yep

it was Gary Sandy, right? No, no.

It was actually Gordon Jump who was at the end

of it.

As I'm recalling, I don't think Gary Sandy was there.

That could be.

You know,

like the person who seemed to be, you know, like the dad of the family or the mom of the family or like, you know, Gordon Jump was sort of the boss of the thing.

Do you know who

Oh, God.

So, you know, one of my favorites, because I love TV, WKRP in Cincinnati, Gordon Jump.

Remember, he was the radio station manager? Yes.

Oh, he had a monkey on his... something about there was drugs and something and he had a monkey on his foot he had cocaine in a sock and just the funniest uh he died in in on this day in 2003 he was also the maytag repairman made plenty of money in the tv commercials i thought gordon jump was so funny um he died in 2003

I saw, just, can I divert from it? Yeah, we go back and forth.

I was in Mississippi for the football game on Saturday, and people were posting pictures from the tailgate, and they said, oh, I just spotted my first LSU fan with an ankle bracelet.

Very true.

Tonight on a very special episode of Diff'rent Strokes, Arnold and Dudley find man-boy love with Gordon Jump, only on NBC.

I've always thought of, th- like, why do you take that role, Gordon, you know? [laughs] Some parts you can turn down, bro.

That's all.

Okay.

Uh, he was replaced eventually by Gordon Jump from WKRP, but he, uh-

Okay

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