 Christine attempts to make
an introduction to the pilot episode but however
Kevin Somers and Jono Gebert burst through the
screen and Christine is in pain.
Then the shows producer/director
Ross (Les Lye) is auditioning kids for the show
but is turning alot down and a desperate mother
(Ruth Buzzi) tries to get her little boy Kevin
Schenk on the show as he did a soap pad TV
commercial at one point but Ross isn't interested
and thinks he's a little girl and Kevin kicks him
yelling "I'M NOT A GIRL!!!!!" and his
mother tries everything to get him on the show
including putting a dress on him and then dresses
him up as Gene Simmons from KISS.
Meanwhile Ross tells Gebert and
Somers that he needs only one 14 year old boy on
the show as they are both the best of friends and
suddenly it's war to see who goes on. Somers
fools Gebert to wear a white Saturday
Night Fever outfit on stage and all but
Gebert knows it's never good to wear white so he
does so and Ross gets him to take off his clothes
and all he has left is his socks and underwear as
his underwear is white and Ross says that won't
do so Gebert runs off the stage.
Also there's other comedy skits as
some kids try to call Christine with a Moose horn
as her nickname is Moose to try and pie her in
the face and there's the locker jokes and
opposite skits like in it's sister show
"You Can't Do That On Television"
Then Trooper performs
three of their classic hits and after their last
number "Raise a Little Hell" Kevin's
desperate mother tries to convince the band for
her son to play in their band as he is in KISS
make up but they're not interested. Ross however
says he has something for her and she forgets
about Kevin as she says she's going to be a star!

An excellent episode as it truly
introduced a new twist to the sister show You
Can't Do That On Television
Although it showed clips of the audience laughing
at some of the skits it was not recorded in front
of a studio audience except for at the very
least, the link sketches as well as the scenes of
Trooper performing.
The pilot itself was almost like a New
Years Eve Countdown type of show. The
audience was going wild on Trooper's last hit
they played on the show "Raise a
Little Hell" as the audience were
standing up clapping along.
Also some of the skits were remade
from their sister show You
Can't Do That On Television.
This pilot was shown on a Saturday morning as it
was soon to be introduced as a prime time TV show
and ran for an hour before it became a series in
the fall as it aired on Saturday mornings for a
half hour long.
They advertised tickets for the taping of the
show separately on the sister show You
Can't Do That On Television
from
the taping of the music segments (the live
audience sketches were taped on March 24, the day
they had to re-run the St.
Patricks Day [Green
Slime Show] episode, the Trooper
segments were done on March 22).
It's unfortunate the series was
short-lived as the pilot of this show looked
really promising for kids. But of course it was
an odd combination to have musical guests as it
doesn't too well for 11 year olds and especially
airing on prime time.
* A special thanks to Will Dyess for
the additional information.
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