Taxi

Yeah, new mother-in-law.

Played by TV Hollywood legend Mary Lou Henner, who's appeared in stuff like L.A. Story, Johnny Dangerously, and the TV series Taxi, and is kind of ageless.

She, I think, is into her 50s by this point, and she's pushing 70 now, and she looks still damn good.

Mary Lou Henner has been attractive...

10.55 on the Mark Arum

Show, TV show theme song of, I'm going to say one of my top ten shows of all time, Taxi.

Why am I playing the Taxi theme song? Well, one of the stars of Taxi celebrates a birthday today.

You probably know him from this movie.

Never mind that.

All right.

Well, still to come, we're going to catch up with our friend Mary Lou Henner, hear about her new role, and to take a look back on that legendary sitcom, Taxi.

Then later, the creative, everyone's favorite, wimpy kid, Mr. Jeff Kinney is here sharing big news for fans of his hit books.

I'm sitting next to a mom of one of those huge fans.

This morning, we are catching up with one of our favorite guests, Mary Lou Penner.

She was nominated for five Golden Globes for her

role as the sassy Elaine in Taxi.

And on stage, she's done it all, from originating the role of Marty in Grease to playing Roxy Hart in Chicago.

Um, I'm trying to pick out, uh...

He had a special appearance with WKRP in Cincinnati, Taxi, Charlie Angels, Hill Street Blues, Amazing Stories, Moonlighting, um, Veronica Mars, Criminal Minds, Cold Case, Nash Bridges.

You know, I love Nash Bridges.

But I, I love this actor, so anyways, go ahead.

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Taxi, Season 4, Episode 19, Tony's Comeback, written by Sam Simon.

Hey, from The Simpsons.

We knew him.

[laughs]

Subliminally, everyone already loved Robert Preston.

Anyway, uh, getting back to, uh, to Taxi here.

So a- at this point, Louie takes the mic from his cage, and he announces to the garage that he's gonna make an example of the new driver that's starting today.

You've known his work on some, you know, a few shows you might have heard of.

Larry Sanders show, Facts of Life, Mighty Mouse, a little ditty called Taxi, and then there's this other one you're going to have to dig for it to find it, but a little something called The Cosby Show.

But but also Barbecue Hall of Famer.

But all of us known him for starting our addiction program.

I remember distinctly, because I was still, when this movie came out, I was still kind of young enough to, that I still had to go see movies with my parents, or one of my parents had to a- accompany us.

And I remember my mom kind of giggling at the notion of Reverend Jim from Taxi being a Klingon, and how she [laughs] was unable to kind of separate that performance from his performance as a Klingon.

But did you think he was an effective Klingon, or no?

Not particularly.

Yeah.

I, I, I didn't really have much experience with him.

Like, I, I was not an avid watcher of Taxi.

Mm-hmm.

Jim Ignatowski.

Jim, o- o- one of my all-time favorite characters from the series Taxi.

Yeah, Jim Ignatowski.

We were talking, just chatting amongst ourselves about funniest moments in episodes.

Or the best one is, "What does a yellow light mean?"

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[laughs] Same, uh, same Taxi, same sitcom.

Yep.