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    I think it would be fun to create a list of TV shows that filmed special episodes in Hawaii. Special trips, especially to Hawaii, are considered a good sign of Jumping the Shark, but they're also pretty fun for Hawaii residents to watch.

    I think the mother of all Hawaii trips has to be the Brady Bunch's trip (three episodes, a tiki curse, a tarantula, and Greg surfing).

    I didn't see it, but My Wife and Kids recently shot in Hawaii, and the Sesame Street trip was a highlight of my childhood viewing. Remember the helicopter flying Snuffleupagus to Oahu in a huge sling? That was cool.

    Any others?
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    Re: A Very Special Episode: TV Shows Visiting Hawaii

    When Jeopardy came to Hawaii, I actually tried out for it at Dave and Busters.

    Damn those questions were hard.

    I made it to a second call back, however, I failed miserably from there.

    I grew up in the Northwest and was always fascinated with game shows that offered prizes to "Waikiki." Now I laugh that I can walk in waikiki everyday without even competing on a game show.

    So I guess my list of Special Episodes would be anytime Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune come to Hawaii.
    Last edited by damontucker; January 23, 2006, 09:28 PM. Reason: To keep on topic

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      The American Life Channel was showing an episode of The FBI a couple of weeks ago that had part of the story line in Oahu. They filmed parts of the episode in Hawaii which showed Efrem Zimbalist Jr. being driven around Waikiki.

      What was amazing about this episode which was titled Caesar's Wife was that Russell Johnson was in it and a young Harrison Ford who happened to be a surfer type of person. However the beach scenes were not filmed in Hawaii.

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        Re: A Very Special Episode: TV Shows Visiting Hawaii

        Originally posted by scrivener
        I think it would be fun to create a list of TV shows that filmed special episodes in Hawaii.[...]I didn't see it, but My Wife and Kids recently shot in Hawaii,[...]Any others?
        IIRC, 'My Wife and Kids' filmed her a few years ago. But, here's a contribution to your list. Possibly, after a good night's sleep I'll remember a few more!...
        ER
        The Mole
        The Amazing Race
        Gilligan's Island (pilot...yes, I'm showing my age here!)
        The Bachelor

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          Re: A Very Special Episode: TV Shows Visiting Hawaii

          Originally posted by scrivener
          I didn't see it, but My Wife and Kids recently shot in Hawaii,
          that ep was one of the most insulting, worst piece of lowlife, lowbrow broad cheap unfunny, childish, fake humor, sickening things ever created by the infantile warped mind of the sitcom machine in general. It was even lafftrack unworthy.

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            The Osbournes
            "Hawaii Five-Ozz"
            Originally aired: Monday January 31, 2005 on MTV*
            Ozzy, Sharon and Jack head to Hawaii for their vacation. Ozzy continues to be miserable for a while, but cheers up following a private luau. Jack goes diving in a shark cage. His friends invite strippers to the luau, and behave in ways that embarrass him. The traveling party winds up leaving without Jack's friends when they fail to show up on time for their flight.

            Note: I (embarrassingly admit to have) seen this episode. Not very memorable.

            *Source
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            Murder She Wrote
            "Death in Hawaii"
            Season 11 (1994-1995), Episode # 221*
            Synopsis: Jessica's vacation to Honolulu becomes chaotic when the son of her host, power broker Matt Kinkaid, vanishes during a hotly contested U.S. Senate election.

            *Source
            Last edited by Pomai; January 23, 2006, 11:48 PM.
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              The Big Break 5
              Family Matters
              Full House
              Saved By The Bell
              House Hunters
              Jake and the Fat Man
              Lovena

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                I loved when Emeril Live and Foodnetwork came to the Big Island. The farmer's market(in Hilo) segment was classic. Great Recipes Too!

                I also enjoyed when Court TV's Trace Evidence with Dr. Henry Lee featured two East Hawaii crimes , Dana Ireland's murder and the Matherson case. Awesome!

                Showing my age too! Does anyone remember when Jeannie brought Kamehameha to life on I Dream of Jeannie? I wonder if they could pull that off today and still make it funny.
                Last edited by alohabear; January 24, 2006, 04:56 AM.
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                  Originally posted by alohabear
                  I loved when Emeril Live and Foodnetwork came to the Big Island. The farmer's market(in Hilo) segment was classic.
                  Gosh. I never thought of the Food Network.. and I'm a regular there!

                  Hawaii seems to be a favored taping destination for many Food Network programs. Shoot, getting paid to take a Hawaiian vacation, sampling the local eats ain't a bad gig at all!

                  Just last night on The Secret Life of... with Jim o'Connor, they featured Sugar, and one segment of the show visited the old Kaanapali Sugar Plantation on Maui, taking a ride on the sugarcane train.

                  $40 a Day with Rachael Ray aired several episodes in the past, with each episode covering a specific island. In the Oahu episode, I believe she tried an Okazuya in Haleiwa, and also had a Lavaflow at Duke's Waikiki Beach. The other 2 shows individually covered Maui and the Big Island.

                  There were quite a few past progams on the Food Network with episodes taped exclusively in Hawaii, but I can't remember 'em all specifically at the moment.
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                    Re: A Very Special Episode: TV Shows Visiting Hawaii

                    Originally posted by Pomai
                    $40 a Day with Rachael Ray aired several episodes in the past, with each episode covering a specific island. In the Oahu episode, I believe she tried an Okazuya in Haleiwa, and also had a Lavaflow at Duke's Waikiki Beach.
                    40. a day? and she wen go Duke's? then da lava Flow was the only thing she had THAT day.
                    Last edited by kimo55; January 24, 2006, 09:00 AM.

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                      Re: A Very Special Episode: TV Shows Visiting Hawaii

                      Originally posted by Pomai
                      $40 a Day with Rachael Ray aired several episodes in the past, with each episode covering a specific island. In the Oahu episode, I believe she tried an Okazuya in Haleiwa, and also had a Lavaflow at Duke's Waikiki Beach.
                      Rachael really butchered the Hawaiian language though. When she got to the North Shore she had an establishing shot in front of the Hale'iwa sign and pronounced it "huh-LEH'-ee-wuh".

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                        Originally posted by kimo55
                        40. a day? and she wen go Duke's? da lava Flow was the only thing she had THAT day.
                        If memory serves me right, she had breakfast at The Shorebird, where she used a $2.00 off coupon, and ended up paying only $6.00 for that. Not bad for a beachfront breakfast in Waikiki. The Okazuya bento lunch in Haleiwa set her back $7.00, leaving her $27.00 for dinner. That's where she figured in "digging deep" for the Lavaflow, before setting off for dinner at a place that's like LaMariana's, but not there. Can't remember where.

                        Anyway, yeah.. the Lavaflow costed her something like $8.00 with tip. Ouch. If you're gonna' make an evening of food and drinks at Duke's, plan on spending at least $30-40 per person.
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                          like the name dat song thread, we can go on and on with AAAALLLL the instances where people come here and absolutely decimate the local language, placenames, slang, etc.
                          They don't simply butcher it. They hack it to a bloddy pulp with a dull timbersaw and then back over it with a steamroller, then run a high school marching band parade over it, playing "Louie, Louie".

                          They otta just leave it alone.
                          Hell; even people who supposedly lived or lived here screwed it up. Speaking of Hawaii 5-0, almost every other ep, has mispronunciations.

                          One of the worst is the aforementioned instance in Dizzyland at da "Tiki Room" You wait outside for the next show, waiting your turn to be herded in there like the the member of the cattleherd you are, and before you watch a short show of plastic birds with sout ob de boarder accents and animated tikis with rolling googly eyes, you are threated with all forms of cartoonish creations that have no existence outside of the imagineering mind, but they announce themselves with ancient Polynesian names. Almost:

                          I ammmm... Tanaroa!"
                          "I am PEEEE Lay!"
                          ( I suppose I should be happy they grossly mispronounce it, cuz it is almost indistinguishable, but c'mon. Leave Hawaii's goddess of the volcanoe out of cheap entertainment.)
                          Last edited by kimo55; January 24, 2006, 09:02 AM.

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                            Re: A Very Special Episode: TV Shows Visiting Hawaii

                            Originally posted by kimo55
                            like the name dat song thread, we can go on and on with AAAALLLL the instances where people come here and absolutely decimate the local language, placenames, slang, etc.
                            They don't simply butcher it. They hack it to a bloddy pulp with a dull timbersaw and then back over it with a steamroller, then run a high school marching band parade over it, playing "Louie, Louie".

                            They otta just leave it alone.
                            Hell; even people who supposedly lived or lived here screwed it up. Speaking of Hawaii 5-0, almost every other ep, has mispronunciations.

                            One of the worst is the aforementioned instance in Dizzyland at da "Tiki Room" You wait outside for the next show, waiting your turn to be herded in there like the the member of the cattleherd you are, and before you watch a short show of plastic birds with sout ob de boarder accents and animated tikis with rolling googly eyes, you are threated with all forms of cartoonish creations that have no existence outside of the imagineering mind, but they announce themselves with ancient Polynesian names. Almost:

                            I ammmm... Tanaroa!"
                            "I am PEEEE Lay!"
                            ( I suppose I should be happy they grossly mispronounce it, cuz it is almost indistinguishable, but c'mon. Leave Hawaii's goddess of the volcanoe out of cheap entertainment.)
                            LOL! " In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Room." I can't believe Dizzyland still has that outdated attraction .OMG! Walt Dizzy World has one too !
                            Last edited by alohabear; January 24, 2006, 09:29 AM.
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                              I always stop and watch the Travel Channel when they're in Hawaii. Yesterday I was watching the Best of Hawaii and they said that the Polynesian Cultural Center was only a 30 minute drive from Honolulu. As someone who used to live in Hauula, I call BS!

                              Also, looks like they're making Magnum, P.I. into a film, so I imagine (hope?) they'll be filming in Hawaii:

                              http://www.cinematical.com/2006/01/2...-pi-the-movie/

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