Television Spin-offs Quiz

Original Show	Spinoff
MAS*H
Good Morning, Miss Bliss
Happy Days
Diff’rent Strokes
Dallas
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Soap
The Practice
The Tracey Ullman Show
Three's Company

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Television Spin-offs Quiz

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Created Nov 30, 2008 in Television
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	tompaulpat:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 15:31 GMT	16 points
	wasn't "king of the hill" a spinoff of the "beavis and butthead show"? Im pretty sure hank hill was a character on it or at least the movie. mike judge created both.

	Rhawk187:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 15:37 GMT	7 points
	I put that too, but I don't think he's technically the same person, they are just drawn alike. Also, I tried Joanie Loves Chachie (sp) and that didn't work, nor did it comes up in the list for Happy Days spin offs. I think that qualifies. Same for Archie's Place (sp) for All in the Family. Not sure how sucessful they were, but I do recall their existance.

	tcalleen:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 15:43 GMT	7 points
	Here are a few you've missed: All in the Family - Gloria; Happy Days - Joanie Loves Chachi, Out of the Blue; Three's Company - Three's a Crowd; Mary Tyler Moore Show - Phyllis; Cheers - The Tortellis. Great quiz!

	SporcleAdmin:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 15:45 GMT	4 points
	We had a few of these as alternate (hidden) answers, but I went ahead and included them in the full answer as well, cause after all Joanie did really love Chachi

	radiosilence:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 15:46 GMT	1 point
	17/20. It's really bad for me to recall that number of shows. I had no clue on Buffy, Miss Bliss or Real Orange County.

	tcalleen:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 15:47 GMT	2 points
	Oh yeah, Archie's Place too. How could I have missed that one?

	Joe_Ball:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 15:56 GMT	7 points
	The Simpsons isn't really a spin-off, is it? Sure, they appeared on the Tracey Ullman Show, but they were already a separate segment in their own right.

	mosfunky:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 16:45 GMT	6 points
	boston legal and saved by the bell were less spinoff and more the same exact show with a different name and a bit of a cast overhaul. They even called it the practice for a season before changing the name for the new cast.

	marpocky:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 17:25 GMT	-1 points
	Fun quiz! I got them all except Dallas, which I knew, I just couldn't think of it.

	navada:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 17:52 GMT	-1 points
	I thought it was Knotts Landing, with a double T?

nikkola:

Nov 30th, 2008 at 18:30 GMT

3 points

Enos (this was the the title in Italy) from The Dukes of Hazard and Phyllis from Mary Tyler Moore

	nikkola:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 18:43 GMT	2 points
	Bayside school from Good morning, Miss Bliss, but I'm not sure. Flo from Alice

	nikkola:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 18:52 GMT	1 point
	Grady from Sanford and Son. Xena from Hercules

	Hermes:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 19:34 GMT	0 points
	Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures from Doctor Who Pinky and the Brain from Animaniacs Everything that What A Cartoon Gave us! Overall I enjoyed this but here's a question. How about one on spin-offs doing better then their predecessor? IE The Simpsons were on longer then their parent show, and so was something else I saw on here.

	Nezu_Chiza:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 20:15 GMT	1 point
	Great Quiz. 16/20, didn't get the answers for Grey's Anatomy, Laguna Beach, Soap, or The Practice. A question, though. What degree of spin-off are you going for? While Maude spun off of All in the Family, Good Times spun off of Maude. Should a spin-off of a spin-off be included? In addition, Happy Days is actually a spin-off itself from the show "Love, American Style". And finally, WALTER was a spin-off pilot movie from MASH for a series about Radar that wasn't picked up. Perhaps include that?

	chillicothe20:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 20:21 GMT	3 points
	Didn't Cloris Leachman have a Mary Tyler Moore spinoff called "Phyllis:?

	BlueWingX:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 20:59 GMT	4 points
	Good quiz! Some other additions for a possible sequel would be "The Lone Gunmen" spinning off from "The X-Files", and soon "The Cleveland Show" spinning off from "Family Guy"

	cocky:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 21:15 GMT	4 points
	Trapper john, MD was actually based on the movie, not the TV show. There is a legal reson for this, you can look it up as it is too complicated to explain here.

Original Show	Spinoff
MAS*H
Good Morning, Miss Bliss
Happy Days
Diff’rent Strokes
Dallas
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Soap
The Practice
The Tracey Ullman Show
Three's Company

	magister:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 00:21 GMT	4 points
	@Tompaulpat: Hank Hill is very similar to Tom Anderson on Beavis and Butthead, but there are key differences. @Joe Ball: The Tracey Ullman Show segments of The Simpsons do pre-date the Simpsons as a series by almost two and a half years.

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	chodanutz:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 14:37 GMT	7 points
	If the Simpson's is a spin-off of the Tracey Ullman Show, then you would have to put that Beavis and Butt-Head is a spin-off of Liquid Television (the cartoon show from the 90s on MTV). That show also had Aeon Flux and The Head, which both became their own shows.

	chodanutz:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 15:10 GMT	5 points
	@gnomey70...if that is your logic, then that means that "Futurama" should be a spin off of "The Simpsons"...or "American Dad" should be a spin-off of "Family Guy". Both of those are voiced the same and pretty much drawn the same...because they are each done by the same person. Matt Groening and Seth McFarlane's "style" went into each of their shows, which makes them look similar, but not necessarily spin offs. Mike Judge has a certain style and he used that to make Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill...but one is not a spin off of the other just because they seem like the same thing

	DRWings:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 18:36 GMT	1 point
	More curious than anything, but would Wings be considered a spinoff of Cheers? They existed in the same TV universe, and had cross overs from many characters. Discuss amongst yourselves.

	magister:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 00:09 GMT	1 point
	@chodanutz re: Liquid Television - The Head actually ran in MTV Oddities with The Maxx. However, I agree that Beavis and Butthead and Aeon Flux would be spin-offs of Liquid Television.

	buiksloot:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 07:55 GMT	0 points
	I would've enjoyed the extra challenge of having to name each of the spin-offs, if more than one. Otherwise, great sporcling as always.

	Spammo:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 20:46 GMT	3 points
	I would add Family Matters from Perfect Strangers and Just the Ten of Us from Growing Pains...

	Joe_Ball:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 23:24 GMT	1 point
	@magister, I wasn't disputing that the Tracey Ullman segments came way before the Simpsons series. But it's not as if the Simpsons were characters on the Tracey Ullman show; they were just characters in a cartoon Ullman showed. For a topical example, when there was an Itchy and Scratchy movie in the Simpsons universe, it wasn't considered a Krusty the Clown spinoff.

	magister:	Dec 4th, 2008 at 19:46 GMT	0 points
	@Joe Ball: I understand your distinction, but as much as I love the Simpsons, I have to begrudgingly continue to call them a spin off. I think that there is a lack of definition about what a spin-off is, and therefore, we have to err on the side of caution. Some of these are spin-offs of lucrative shows in order to continue the legacy while the original show continues (the CSI and Law and Order spin-offs.) Others are quirky ways to continue a franchise after the franchise has ended (Joey) In response to the topical example a) "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" airing on May 11, 1997 indicates The Simpsons willingness to poke fun at spin-offs, and b) Even if the Itchy and Scratchy movie were not called a spin-off in the Simpsons universe, I am sure that someone on an internet-based quiz website's message board would certainly be grumbling about this same distinction. Dear God!!! I've become Comic Book Guy!!! Ah, well, I always knew it would come some day, might as well embrace it. Worst discussion ever!

	cocky:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 03:46 GMT	1 point
	All in the Family also spun off "Gloria" (she had divorced Meathead and worked for a vet). Then there was a short lived show called "704 houser Street", a Lear produced show about a black family living in the old Bunker house.

	Ephraim:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 08:12 GMT	1 point
	You forgot "Blansky's Beauties." It was an unsuccesful spin-off to Happy Days.

	Etheridge2:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 21:26 GMT	2 points
	Also All in the Family had a "spin off" called 704 Hauser (It starred John Amos who was on Maude also a spin off of All in the Family and of course..Maude had a spin off Good Times-John Amos was on that as well) The Amos character was different on 704 Hauser though he played an african american version of Archie Bunker whose family moves into the old Bunker house at 704 Hauser (Joey Stivick had a cameo in the first episode)... How about a quiz with spin offs of spin offs.. All in the Family begat Maude begat Good Times or All in the Family begat The Jeffersons begat Checking In Beverly Hills 90210 begat Melrose Place begat Models Inc. CSI begat CSI Miami begat CSI New York Love American Style begat Happy Days begat Laverne & Shirley (Mork and Mindy or Joanie Loves Chachi) The Surreal life begat Strange Love begat Flavor of Love begat I Love New York begat New york goes to Hollywood (Is there no end to the madness???)

	Squiggy:	Feb 17th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	0 points
	I tried Laverne & Shirley and it wouldn't take it. Also tried Joannie Loves Chachi and it wouldn't take that either.

	ensiform:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 19:33 GMT	0 points
	i haven't watched tv in years but got 16/20. that shows how easy it is to remember stuff like this (and oh how so very hard to remember, say, the names of all the popes!).

	EgoTrippin:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 21:29 GMT	0 points
	ah.. i wrote Trapper M.D. instead of Trapper John, M.D. and Navy CIS instead of NCIS :(

	tinmen:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 13:58 GMT	0 points
	i have never even heard of "the hills"

	Dahlia:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 17:09 GMT	1 point
	Fun quiz--missed a lot of the older shows, and was surprised to see that Melrose Place wasn't included as a spinoff off Beverly Hills 90210.

	johnlk:	May 20th, 2009 at 02:22 GMT	1 point
	IT would be more fun to have multiple guesses for the same show, so I can guess all the spin offs of All in the Family or Happy Days, and not just get credit for knowing one.

	espnwayne:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 15:39 GMT	2 points
	Also forgot "Hello, Larry" (McClean Stevenson) as a spinoff of "Diff'rent Strokes"

	swirlingvortex7:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 06:44 GMT	1 point
	You could also include this - original show: Stargate SG1 spin-offs: Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe =)