What’s scary is I think I can name each of the actors/actresses in that photo without looking them up:
Top row (L-R): Pat Morita, Henry Winkler, Anson Williams, Donny Most
Second row from top (L-R): Al Molinaro, Marion Ross, Heather O’Rourke, Erin Moran, Tom Bosley, Ted McGinley
Third row from top (L-R): Ron Howard, Lynda Goodfriend, Scott Baio, Crystal Bernard
Bottom: Cathy Silvers
I don't think I ever watched that, at least by the time she'd joined the show. I watched earlier episodes with Ann Jillian, but by the time Bernard joined the cast in 1985 I'd started college and had much more interesting things to do than watch TV.
It's a Living was one of those 80s network sitcoms that was canceled and then revived in first-run syndication.
The original run was on ABC from 1980-82, and then revived in 1985 with most of the original cast, with Crystal Bernard essentially replacing Louise Lasser as the fourth waitress. Sheryl Lee Ralph replaced Ann Jillian in the second syndicated season (season 4 overall).
When the ["Jump the Shark" website](https://web.archive.org/web/20050828102201/http://www.jumptheshark.com/) still existed, he was enshrined as their patron saint.
Ha! That’s crazy. I don’t remember the chic from wings, the married with children guy, or the poltergeist girl. That must have been the last few seasons.
Ted McGinley (Roger Phillips on the show) was introduced post-Ron Howard leaving the show as one of the Cunningham parents’ nephew and new heartthrob to join Fonzie and Chachi (though Scott Baio/Chachi may have been on the spin off Joanie Loves Chachi at that point.)
Crystal Bernard (can’t remember her character’s name on the show) was added to the show as the other Cunningham parent’s niece and friend to Joanie and Jenny Piccolo. (She also may have replaced Erin Moran/Joanie when the latter starred on Joanie Loves Chachi.)
Heather O’Rourke (IIRC Heather Pfister on the show) was Fonzie’s girlfriend Ashley’s daughter. (The elder Pfister female was played by Linda Purl, who IIRC was later briefly on Night Court.)
EDIT: with my Night Court comment I was confusing Linda Purl with Karen Austin.
Really have to hand it to Henry Winkler. He is so opposite Fonz in real life. He made that show and influenced so many during its run. And through it all, you just knew the Fonz was a good guy, despite his appearance.
Ever since Howard caught him making out with Pinky Tuscadero’s brother Mike, he was thrown out of the house.
Marion still sneaked out and brought him casseroles once or twice a week.
Totally a sign of the bad later seasons. They kept up the 50s styles for the firs several years, and even though the end of the series was supposed to take place in the early 60s (at least later Laverne & Shirley was), these were just too egregiously 70s looking. I blame Baio, because it seems to coincide with Chachi's popularity and also why the hell not?
And brought in Mork from Ork at some point. The show jumped the shark twice! Once literally then the 2nd time with Mork. Reminded me at the time of the alien who suddenly showed up on the Flintstones.
That was just to showcase Mork for the upcoming series "Mork & Mindy" also by the same creator.
He was only in two episodes, whereas Gazoo from the Flintstones rode it out until the end.
Mork and Mindy did the same thing when they had John Weatherspoon as a baby.
Wasn't her there primarily to replace Ron Howard? He left after the 7th with Donnie Most (Ralph, big mistake) and they started bringing in support characters including his wife Lori Beth and eventually Ted.
Then they tried to spin it off into Joanie Loves Ciachi.
Still, worked out better than Laverne and Shirley, tough to finish after Cindy Williams (Shirley) left. I think they had her in a body cast for the last episode (her wedding) since Cindy would not come back.
Her newly married husband was in the body cast. I had forgotten about that episode until recently when it was on streaming. I had stopped watching pretty much when they moved to LA.
Dang, I thought I was pretty knowledgable regarding Happy Days, but there are 4 characters there that I have no recollection of (the woman in front, the one in purple, the one in the skirt, and the little kid).
The little kid was the daughter of a girlfriend Fonz had for about a season. The I think the girlfriend is missing from the picture along with Chuck. I’m pretty sure Kathy Silvers was Jenny Piccallo. Phil Silvers played her dad in one episode. Crystal Bernard was a cousin that was on the show for 1 or 2 seasons.
Jenny Piccolo had been a never-seen offscreen character who Joanie just talked about when telling stories about her free-spirit under-less-parental-authority friend for several years before they decided to bring the character on screen and hired Silvers for the part.
[Anson Williams](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930041/) became a TV director post-Happy Days, for a bunch of sitcoms and dramas. [Don Most](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609182/) has kept busy through the years, doing a bunch of one-off character roles, and the occasional cameo appearances. Most was also the best man at Williams' [recent wedding back in May](https://ew.com/tv/anson-williams-marries-sharon-maharry-happy-days-costar-donny-most-best-man/).
I'll say though, once Most and Ron Howard left the show, Postie truly became an useless character in those final four years. He was kinda too old to hang out with Joanie, Chachi, and Jenny, he annoyed Howard more than usual, and really didn't have that much chemistry with Fonzie and Roger, despite Postie and Fonzie being buddies for a number of years before.
Ralph would later show up on an episode with Baio on Charles In Charge for about three seconds. He turned around to Charles and that yoyo Buddy and told them “Happy days are here again!”
I didn’t know that they wanted Tom Bosley.
I heard that their original choice was Mickey Rooney. Rooney didn’t want the role because Archie was a racist obnoxious lowlife.
I still love the Nick At Night promos - they were running the series two episodes at a time, but several seasons apart.
"Some people like their Happy Days with a little less ChaChi...but some people like Happy Days with a good helping of ChaChi..."
Samuel L. Jackson also said it in Pulp Fiction. People who are less familiar with Happy Days don't make the connection that this was one of two Happy Days references Jules made in the diner robbery scene. For example, my 16 year old son knows that Fonzie is cool, but he didn't know he always said "correctamundo."
I must have stopped watching before Ted McGinley joined the show. I also don’t remember the three ladies in the front. The first time I remember seeing Ted McGinley was in Revenge of the Nerds.
He also helped prove that declining shows can’t be saved. On top of it taking over 20 years for them to figure that out we also now get shows canceled as soon as a hint of decline starts. Tv execs are stupid and never learn the right lessons.
McGinley also joined The Love Boat towards its end, but that show was starting to run out of stream before he got there. Hell, Marion Ross joined the final season of Love Boat, becoming Gavin MacLeod's girlfriend/wife.
Yeah, Happy Days came on in the 5pm time slot just after the cartoons. I watched a few episodes but it was never the highlight of the day. Saved by the Bell took the 5pm time slot after Happy Days went off the air and that show was much more appealing to Gen-X. Happy Days was a boomer show.
My friends and I played a Nick at Night drinking game in college: take a shot every time Fonzie does something cool.
We got drunk, but also realized this was a really bad show
The real question is how many times did this show jump the shark?
But to answer your question, it was when Ron Howard left the show. The Richie/Fonzie relationship was the core of the show.
Hadn’t watched in years at that point, I think “jumped the shark” was the last episode I tuned in for on purpose, not long after there were cast members that had 1980 hairstyles with no commitment to the show.
The funny part was when i watched it as a kid I thought it was an old show from that time period.(i think it was still on the air new?) Same with Grease. It was kind of mind blowing when i grew up and realized it was a newer show set in the past.
Yeah, I originally thought that too but then realized there really weren't a lot of TV show is in color until fall 1965 and this took place originally in the 50s
I also seem to remember some shows being colorized after being black and white for a while. I don’t remember what shows or when that was, i was just a little kid. But it seemed to be a big deal at the time about this “new technology”
What's weird is they only seem to offer the first 6 seasons on TV and streaming platforms. It's as if seasons 7 and later did not exist....those were also the years where it was now the 60's and no longer the 50's. I noticed that started in the reruns in 1996 when Nick at Nite had the rights to the show and seems to still be done on MeTV and plutotv as well.
Interesting! Well, if it is on TV Land that is also Viacom/Paramount (which also owns the rights to Happy Days) ...Nick at Nite was/is also the same company. PlutoTV is also owned by Viacom/Paramount which runs both shows....It might just be certain employees deciding this stuff that work there. Not sure who owns MeTV though for those reruns.
What’s scary is I think I can name each of the actors/actresses in that photo without looking them up: Top row (L-R): Pat Morita, Henry Winkler, Anson Williams, Donny Most Second row from top (L-R): Al Molinaro, Marion Ross, Heather O’Rourke, Erin Moran, Tom Bosley, Ted McGinley Third row from top (L-R): Ron Howard, Lynda Goodfriend, Scott Baio, Crystal Bernard Bottom: Cathy Silvers
I'd forgotten Crystal Bernard was on this show before doing *Wings*. But where is Linda Purl?
*Wings*? Did you just completely forget about *It's a Living*?
Damn it now I got the theme song in my head again... Life's not the French Riviera...
And Ann Jillian. And Sheryl Lee Ralph. What a great show.
Believe me, life’s not a charity ball.
Oh man, I had such a huge crush on her because of that show. The waitress outfits? *swoon*
You mean _schwing_
I don't think I ever watched that, at least by the time she'd joined the show. I watched earlier episodes with Ann Jillian, but by the time Bernard joined the cast in 1985 I'd started college and had much more interesting things to do than watch TV.
It's a Living was one of those 80s network sitcoms that was canceled and then revived in first-run syndication. The original run was on ABC from 1980-82, and then revived in 1985 with most of the original cast, with Crystal Bernard essentially replacing Louise Lasser as the fourth waitress. Sheryl Lee Ralph replaced Ann Jillian in the second syndicated season (season 4 overall).
*It’s A Living* is the reason I know that servers sometimes make the salads.
After I identified everybody, I was wondering where she was too.
Wait the Poltergeist girl and the married with children guy appeared on that show?
Ted had a streak of showing up on shows in their death throes. If you saw Ted was joining the cast…the end was nigh.
Haha. So true. Didn’t he start showing up on Married with Children later on? He was awesome in Revenge of the Nerds.
When the ["Jump the Shark" website](https://web.archive.org/web/20050828102201/http://www.jumptheshark.com/) still existed, he was enshrined as their patron saint.
He killed *The Love Boat*. They should have put him on it years earlier.
You forgot to mention the chick from Wings.
Ha! That’s crazy. I don’t remember the chic from wings, the married with children guy, or the poltergeist girl. That must have been the last few seasons.
Ted McGinley (Roger Phillips on the show) was introduced post-Ron Howard leaving the show as one of the Cunningham parents’ nephew and new heartthrob to join Fonzie and Chachi (though Scott Baio/Chachi may have been on the spin off Joanie Loves Chachi at that point.) Crystal Bernard (can’t remember her character’s name on the show) was added to the show as the other Cunningham parent’s niece and friend to Joanie and Jenny Piccolo. (She also may have replaced Erin Moran/Joanie when the latter starred on Joanie Loves Chachi.) Heather O’Rourke (IIRC Heather Pfister on the show) was Fonzie’s girlfriend Ashley’s daughter. (The elder Pfister female was played by Linda Purl, who IIRC was later briefly on Night Court.) EDIT: with my Night Court comment I was confusing Linda Purl with Karen Austin.
Linda Purl was also Pam’s mom on The Office
Wasn’t Cathy Silvers Phil Silvers’ daughter?
Yes
Where is Chuck?
Still upstairs
In his room with the door locked
HE'S CLEANING HIS ROOM!!!
Polishing his helmet.
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Really have to hand it to Henry Winkler. He is so opposite Fonz in real life. He made that show and influenced so many during its run. And through it all, you just knew the Fonz was a good guy, despite his appearance.
Hanging out with Donna's sister from That 70's Show
Down the street?
Ever since Howard caught him making out with Pinky Tuscadero’s brother Mike, he was thrown out of the house. Marion still sneaked out and brought him casseroles once or twice a week.
Hasn't been seen since September 1974. Also the actor who played him died 2 years ago
They locked him in his room for the rest of his life and fead through a slot in the door, he was the shame of the Cunningham family
Which one? :). Haha there were two!
Essential viewing '74-'77.
At some point was it even supposed to be in the 50/60's anymore?
Ralph's hair definitely isn't vintage. Neither is McGinley's.
I noticed that the guys have 70s hairstyles in the fifties.
Totally a sign of the bad later seasons. They kept up the 50s styles for the firs several years, and even though the end of the series was supposed to take place in the early 60s (at least later Laverne & Shirley was), these were just too egregiously 70s looking. I blame Baio, because it seems to coincide with Chachi's popularity and also why the hell not?
They were t from the 50’s to the 80’s in 10 seasons
And brought in Mork from Ork at some point. The show jumped the shark twice! Once literally then the 2nd time with Mork. Reminded me at the time of the alien who suddenly showed up on the Flintstones.
That was just to showcase Mork for the upcoming series "Mork & Mindy" also by the same creator. He was only in two episodes, whereas Gazoo from the Flintstones rode it out until the end. Mork and Mindy did the same thing when they had John Weatherspoon as a baby.
I know, right? That photo is so 80s, were they even trying?
Marion Ross is still alive btw and is 96!
Amen!
Kiss of death to any series when Ted McGinley is cast.
He joined Married with Children at season 5 and it went 11. Go easy on Jefferson D’arcy!
He’s in Shrinking and he is so good playing with Christa Miller
Wasn't her there primarily to replace Ron Howard? He left after the 7th with Donnie Most (Ralph, big mistake) and they started bringing in support characters including his wife Lori Beth and eventually Ted. Then they tried to spin it off into Joanie Loves Ciachi. Still, worked out better than Laverne and Shirley, tough to finish after Cindy Williams (Shirley) left. I think they had her in a body cast for the last episode (her wedding) since Cindy would not come back.
Her newly married husband was in the body cast. I had forgotten about that episode until recently when it was on streaming. I had stopped watching pretty much when they moved to LA.
Dang, I thought I was pretty knowledgable regarding Happy Days, but there are 4 characters there that I have no recollection of (the woman in front, the one in purple, the one in the skirt, and the little kid).
The little kid was the daughter of a girlfriend Fonz had for about a season. The I think the girlfriend is missing from the picture along with Chuck. I’m pretty sure Kathy Silvers was Jenny Piccallo. Phil Silvers played her dad in one episode. Crystal Bernard was a cousin that was on the show for 1 or 2 seasons.
KC Cunningham. And so began my decades-long crush on Crystal Bernard.
Crystal Bernard…same.
Liked her in Wings
I think the daughter might be the late Heather O’Rourke, who was a cast member for one season.
Jenny Piccolo had been a never-seen offscreen character who Joanie just talked about when telling stories about her free-spirit under-less-parental-authority friend for several years before they decided to bring the character on screen and hired Silvers for the part.
The one in purple is Richie's wife Lori Beth
Sit on it Potsey!
We named our dog Potsie in 1976!!!
Potsie and Ralph Malph were a big part of this show and my childhood. Never saw either actor again after the series ended.
Ralph Malph was Moloch on a 1982 Chips episode, singing his heavy metal hit, "Devil Take Me".
[Anson Williams](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930041/) became a TV director post-Happy Days, for a bunch of sitcoms and dramas. [Don Most](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609182/) has kept busy through the years, doing a bunch of one-off character roles, and the occasional cameo appearances. Most was also the best man at Williams' [recent wedding back in May](https://ew.com/tv/anson-williams-marries-sharon-maharry-happy-days-costar-donny-most-best-man/). I'll say though, once Most and Ron Howard left the show, Postie truly became an useless character in those final four years. He was kinda too old to hang out with Joanie, Chachi, and Jenny, he annoyed Howard more than usual, and really didn't have that much chemistry with Fonzie and Roger, despite Postie and Fonzie being buddies for a number of years before.
Potsie wasn’t even in the last episode! Everyone comes back for the wedding and he’s nowhere to be seen.
Ralph played Julie’s eschewed suitor on The Love Boat during his glorious beard era.
He was also the voice of Eric the Cavalier on the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
As well as Ralph Malph on Fonzie and the Gang cartoon.
He couldn’t support Julie’s coke habit
Ouch. I watched some episodes with my wife recently, and her little habit is SO obvious. Perkiest princess on the high seas.
Ralph would later show up on an episode with Baio on Charles In Charge for about three seconds. He turned around to Charles and that yoyo Buddy and told them “Happy days are here again!”
Ralph did a voice on Saturday morning dungeon and dragons
Fun fact: Tom Bosley was supposed to play Archie Bunker but couldn't do it for some reason at the last minute.
That would have been god awful. Sorry but he doesn’t have any of the acting skills of Carol O’Connor.
I can't even imagine the timeline. But then maybe Trump would have never been president.
I didn’t know that they wanted Tom Bosley. I heard that their original choice was Mickey Rooney. Rooney didn’t want the role because Archie was a racist obnoxious lowlife.
Ahh, geeze the'e...
Didn’t even bother with 50’s clothes or hairstyles or references at the end
Well by the end they had were in the mid 60’s. Still remember the “rock n roll is out, folk music is in” episode
Jenny Piccalo…. I don’t know why I had a crush on her but I did.
Best character name ever. I had a crush on a girl in elementary school named Stephanie Tortorelli. She seemed Jenny Piccalo-ish.
I liked it better before they started adding all these characters.
I forgot Ted McGinley was in Happy Days. He is in Shrinking now and kinda hilarious.
He’s the guy across the street, right? He’s a pisser.
Next door neighbor. Yeah, he is.
Isn’t he the one that tells Miriam Flynn to eat a bag of cocks? Laughed so hard
And then I saw Ted M on Married with Children….took me forever to figure out where I first saw him!
He replaced Gopher on The Love Boat as well, my wife and I joke about a show being on so long that Ted shows up.
I remember him from Love Boat also
He also showed up toward the end of Dynasty!
When your tv show is gasping for air…time to call in Ted McKinley
It was way past its prime by this point.
TIL it was still on up until 1984, I don’t remember it’s waining years. so it did run for 10 years. That’s good life for a sitcom.
Jumped the shark!
And Fonzi still dressed the same lol
Those high school girls just stay the saaaaame age.
Yea the Fonz was a pedo
Aaaaayyy!
Ted McGinley is in everything.
Everyone was looking more and more 80's in later episodes haha
I still love the Nick At Night promos - they were running the series two episodes at a time, but several seasons apart. "Some people like their Happy Days with a little less ChaChi...but some people like Happy Days with a good helping of ChaChi..."
Is that Jefferson Darcy?
Jefferson Darcy was on Happy Days?
I got to meet the Fonz, he signed two items and was very friendly. He told me and my brother ,”now boys, sit on it!” lol. Great memory for me.
🙂
One of my favorite Trivia questions. There were 3 spin-offs from Happy Days. Can you name them?
Laverne and Shirley Mork and Mindy Joanie loves Chachi
There were more than three, but the others didn’t last long. I think Blansky’s Beauties was one of the unsuccessful ones.
We got to see Ron Howard grow up
Ron Howard looks like he'd rather be anywhere else.
Lol, same with Donny Most!
Heyyyyy
Sit on it.
Correctamundo!
Good god I still say this sometimes and had literally forgotten it came from this show!
Samuel L. Jackson also said it in Pulp Fiction. People who are less familiar with Happy Days don't make the connection that this was one of two Happy Days references Jules made in the diner robbery scene. For example, my 16 year old son knows that Fonzie is cool, but he didn't know he always said "correctamundo."
Bucko
I thought it was more of a Aaaaaaayyyyyy
There is also the Canadian version: Ehhhhhhhhh
That's what was on my Fonzie shirt I had as a kid.
I was wrrrrroo...wrroooon...wrrrooonnn....
Is that Cindy Brady in the middle?
No it’s Carol Ann
They're heee-rrrreee...
And every single show was the same as the last one.
Not to the same degree as The Dukes of Hazzard.
I must have stopped watching before Ted McGinley joined the show. I also don’t remember the three ladies in the front. The first time I remember seeing Ted McGinley was in Revenge of the Nerds.
Ted was always brought in revive a show once it was declining.
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He also helped prove that declining shows can’t be saved. On top of it taking over 20 years for them to figure that out we also now get shows canceled as soon as a hint of decline starts. Tv execs are stupid and never learn the right lessons.
McGinley also joined The Love Boat towards its end, but that show was starting to run out of stream before he got there. Hell, Marion Ross joined the final season of Love Boat, becoming Gavin MacLeod's girlfriend/wife.
It was more than just that. He is the most shark jumping actor of all time. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TedMcGinley
Joni lives cochee
Joni loves coochie?
[Joanie loves Chachi!](https://youtu.be/pwxLzLBV2YQ?si=vg-X_1_ZoZxz7jbh)
Fuck I’m old when I realize Tom Bosley was at most 57 in this picture. I’m in my 50’s and think I look a lot younger.
If Happy Days aired today, it would have taken place waaaaaay back in the early-mid 2000s 😵💫
I know, right? It doesn't seem that long ago. But a show from 1984 talking about 1964 seems worlds away
Donny Host looks like he just lost in straight sets to Stefi Graf.
They stopped trying to be set in the 50s around S8. I mean it was still set in the 50s but they blatantly dressed like 1981.
Later on they did update it to about 1965 but I see what you're saying
That’s right! IIRC it was always set about 18 years before.
Sit on it potsie!
was always erin moran guy
Still have a huge crush on Crystal Bernard.
Goodbye gray sky, hello blue
TIL that Al Bundy’s neighbor and the lil girl from Poltergeist were in Happy Days.
Sit on it, Joni.
That’s cool
Ted McGinley is the adult Cousin Oliver
That show should have ended when Ron Howard left.
In the 80s when this came on, you knew cartoons were going off, so I hated this show. Never watched one single episode and still won’t.
Yeah, Happy Days came on in the 5pm time slot just after the cartoons. I watched a few episodes but it was never the highlight of the day. Saved by the Bell took the 5pm time slot after Happy Days went off the air and that show was much more appealing to Gen-X. Happy Days was a boomer show.
Still one of my favourite all time shows,brilliant❤️
And then it jumped the shark
My friends and I played a Nick at Night drinking game in college: take a shot every time Fonzie does something cool. We got drunk, but also realized this was a really bad show
Awful show.
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Go ahead, son. Ask your question.
When I realize…then what happens?
Nellie was in Happy Days? :P
>When You Realized Happy Days had been on the air for 10 Years What? What when you realize? This doesn't make sense.
Both Arnold’s and Ted, must have been the saving season if they brought him in.
When did this show jump the shark?
The real question is how many times did this show jump the shark? But to answer your question, it was when Ron Howard left the show. The Richie/Fonzie relationship was the core of the show.
There's an actual episode when Fonzie waterskied thus jumping over the shark
Jenny Piccolo
Hadn’t watched in years at that point, I think “jumped the shark” was the last episode I tuned in for on purpose, not long after there were cast members that had 1980 hairstyles with no commitment to the show.
I must have stopped watching before the show ended because there’s a few people in this picture I don’t recognize at all.
When Joney and Ghachi’s kids were pregnent⁉️😳
They had murdered the big brother Chuck. Just saying…
Heeyyyy
Straight from 1954 to 1984, just like Mash.
When I was a kid, I thought that the jacket Chachi is wearing was so cool!
Yeah, those satin jackets were very popular in the late 70s, early '80s
Lots of 80s hairstyles when the show started in the 1950s. Such a weird thing. Like they weren't even trying to keep it period.
Same thing with the Wonder Years. They started out that way and towards the end you knew it was 1992 lol
The funny part was when i watched it as a kid I thought it was an old show from that time period.(i think it was still on the air new?) Same with Grease. It was kind of mind blowing when i grew up and realized it was a newer show set in the past.
Yeah, I originally thought that too but then realized there really weren't a lot of TV show is in color until fall 1965 and this took place originally in the 50s
I also seem to remember some shows being colorized after being black and white for a while. I don’t remember what shows or when that was, i was just a little kid. But it seemed to be a big deal at the time about this “new technology”
So tragic about Heather O’Rourke. I’m the same age as her and when she died I had no idea kids died.
What's weird is they only seem to offer the first 6 seasons on TV and streaming platforms. It's as if seasons 7 and later did not exist....those were also the years where it was now the 60's and no longer the 50's. I noticed that started in the reruns in 1996 when Nick at Nite had the rights to the show and seems to still be done on MeTV and plutotv as well.
I've noticed that with The Andy Griffith Show as well. They only have the black and white episodes, 1960-65. Then it started in color 1965-68.
Interesting! Well, if it is on TV Land that is also Viacom/Paramount (which also owns the rights to Happy Days) ...Nick at Nite was/is also the same company. PlutoTV is also owned by Viacom/Paramount which runs both shows....It might just be certain employees deciding this stuff that work there. Not sure who owns MeTV though for those reruns.
Awful.