Episode #75 "Missing Hours"

[ViceFanMan]

6 minutes ago, Adrian321 said:

I wouldn't go AS FAR to say that, but it is definitely VERY BAD.

I would ...I have & have watched a LOT of TV shows over the decades, and I have yet to see an episode of any show as pathetically horrible & despicable as “Missing”! It’s an embarrassment to television. 

[Adrian321]

1 minute ago, ViceFanMan said:

I would ...I have & have watched a LOT of TV shows over the decades, and I have yet to see an episode of any show as pathetically horrible & despicable as “Missing”! It’s an embarrassment to television. 

Sounds like a good argument; but even a better one is that theis is an embaressment to Ferrari as a brand; more with this episode than with the Daytona replica....... if I was Enzo Ferrari I would've been embaressed seeing this dumb image from this forsaken episode.......... They put good actors and a jewel piece in this pile of mud.

[ViceFanMan]

Just now, Adrian321 said:

Sounds like a good argument; but even a better one is that theis is an embaressment to Ferrari as a brand; more with this episode than with the Daytona replica....... if I was Enzo Ferrari I would've been embaressed seeing this dumb image from this forsaken episode.......... They put good actors and a jewel piece in this pile of mud.

The whole episode is an embarrassment to not only the show, but to television itself. It just should never have been considered a possibility, let alone actually filmed and put into production. 

[Adrian321]

1 minute ago, ViceFanMan said:

The whole episode is an embarrassment to not only the show, but to television itself. It just should never have been considered a possibility, let alone actually filmed and put into production. 

The producers of this episode must have had some real problems to think of making it into MV....... 

Sure........ in the right context of series, an episode like this might fit, and not be this bad, but because of its placement........ I agree it is VERY, VERY, VERY BAD...... sort of an embaressment for everyone involved.

I feel sad for the lost money........ (and potential) on this pile of filthy mud, mixed with crap..... even by S4 standards, MV's budget was PRETTY high.... with that amount of money you could make a decent, watchable episode...... It wouldn't have needed much, just a decent plot, and nice scenery to make it watchable and worthwhile.

Missing hours was a waste of my personal time......... and many other people's time.

[Dadrian]

So did Will Smith avenge everyone who hates this episode?  

[Mr. Vigilante]

1 hour ago, Dadrian said:

So did Will Smith avenge everyone who hates this episode?  

How epic would that have been for Will Smith to yell "This is for Missing Hours b!##h!"

[Robbie C.]

11 hours ago, Dadrian said:

So did Will Smith avenge everyone who hates this episode?  

I'd rather see Chris Rock slap Will Smith for "Wild, Wild West." Talk about desecrating a fantastic show...

[ViceFanMan]

14 hours ago, Dadrian said:

So did Will Smith avenge everyone who hates this episode?  

I doubt he’d think it was worth ‘avenging’/slapping anyone over...he most likely wants no association with this episode!  

Edited March 29, 2022 by ViceFanMan

[Augusta]

According to TheHill.com
.....Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at Oscars after joke about his wife
BY JUDY KURTZ - 03/27/22 11:12 PM EDT 2,971

Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock during a jaw-dropping onstage exchange after the comedian made a joke about the "King Richard" star's wife at the Oscars. 

"Jada, I love ya. 'G.I. Jane 2,' can't wait to see it," Rock said while presenting an award during Sunday's Oscars ceremony from Los Angeles. The reference was about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who sports a bald head like the character in Demi Moore's 1997 film, "G.I. Jane." 

Pinkett Smith revealed in 2018 that she had been diagnosed with alopecia areata, a disease that causes hair loss.

Smith then ascended the stairs to the Oscars stage and approached Rock, as the audience applauded. The 53--year-old actor slapped the seemingly stunned Rock before returning to his seat. 

The audio feed for the awards ceremony cut out in the U.S. broadcast, as Smith exchanged words with Rock from his chair.

In clips of foreign broadcasts shared on Twitter, Rock says, "Wow, Will Smith just smacked the ___ out of me." 

Smith can then be heard yelling from his seat: "Keep my wife's name out of your f------ mouth!"

"That was, uh, the greatest night in the history of television," Rock, 57, said, before not making any further reference on-air to the incident......

I'm sure that (Hollywood people being Hollywood people), the quoting of this one line Chris said on-stage, will change 17 times as it goes around the world, even though it's been captured accurately on youtube and such, we'll claim it's been doctored and the audio has been photoshopped with Guitarband software (....uuugh). 
But if THAT's all some comedian said about my (husband, lover, girlfriend, partner) in a public performance, we'd simply wave-off or "booo" him down to show the bad taste.  There was nothing there that required you to step forward and "represent my lover's honor".  
Physical face-off is for a real insult on your partner (some vile racial, sexual, or pornographic crud)

I can't believe I listened to everyone from my friends to my own 80-year old mother say how Chris Rock "insulted" and "said nasty crap" about the man's wife, "Chris had no right to", and "she's suffering from Cancer" and....

I can't believe I waited until this afternoon to finally educate myself and investigate WHAT WAS IT that Chris actually said?  
He said effectively "nothing".  A stand-up comedian's standard sarcastic dig at someone in the audience he sees during his stage act. 

"GI Jane-2, can't wait to see it"... Was a Don Rickles dig on someone's bald head "an insult"?  Was that what all this stampede and dust is about?  It's always fun to laugh when the comedian does it to someone else who's OUTSIDE the room, but suddenly you don't find it funny when he let's you sit IN the room and receive yours?

Come to any comedy-night bar if you want to get a REAL hardcore stand-up comedian insult. 

I should have known it would be something we could only appreciate with an electron microscope.  Ha,....Celebrities.  So tiny and charming they are.  That's the kind of human who produces "Missing Hours",  LOL!!!

[Dadrian]

To bring things back to the thread, I will admit I have skipped this episode on my last two runs. Maybe next time..  

[ViceFanMan]

1 minute ago, Dadrian said:

To bring things back to the thread, I will admit I have skipped this episode on my last two runs. Maybe next time..  

I usually skip it when going through the show...I’ve sadly seen it enough times in the past, that I would be fine never seeing it again (it and “Miracle Man”). 

[Dadrian]

40 minutes ago, ViceFanMan said:

I usually skip it when going through the show...I’ve sadly seen it enough times in the past, that I would be fine never seeing it again (it and “Miracle Man”). 

I do like the upbeat Jan Hammer cue in the teaser, and the part where Stan escorts Izzy and Noogie out of the OCB office always make me laugh. Sometimes I just watch up until that scene, skip the rest, skip Like a Hurricane entirely, and move right on to Rising Sun of Death.  

[Robbie C.]

1 hour ago, Dadrian said:

To bring things back to the thread, I will admit I have skipped this episode on my last two runs. Maybe next time..  

I feel the same way about "The (not so) Great McCarthy)". I'd watch Missing Hours for Trudy alone before I'd go near that first season snooze-fest.

[ViceFanMan]

49 minutes ago, Dadrian said:

I do like the upbeat Jan Hammer cue in the teaser, and the part where Stan escorts Izzy and Noogie out of the OCB office always make me laugh. Sometimes I just watch up until that scene, skip the rest, skip Like a Hurricane entirely, and move right on to Rising Sun of Death.  

Yeah, that one particular scene is fairly humorous.  But, it’s still not enough to make me want to watch the episode...I’d watch probably any episode (including “Showbiz” and “Miracle Man”) over “Missing Hours”! I always feel bad for Trudy (Olivia), that she was forced to be a main part of the so-called plot...if you can even call it that. She deserved so much better! But, then again no one in the cast, nor the show itself, deserved “Missing”.  

[Augusta]

On 4/13/2010 at 2:29 PM, cageyJG said:

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somebody has given this a 10? who did this? therapy is an option

Need to be able to modify votes. But that would be some ****-pain to program, that's for sure. But, seriously...

I stumbled across this fine solution a few days ago.  
While surfing through my cable tv stations half asleep, I flipped across two back-to-back episodes of Miami Vice... on the Spanish language channel.  
Tubbs, Switek, Gina, Noogie, everyone was talking in Hispanic dub-over.  So I couldn't understand a word except the James Brown's song still in its english vocals, and couldn't follow anything in the story except the visual of Trudy, which speaks paragraphs to the deaf!  Gina was glorious fore and aft in that yellow design that tastefully takes charge when she turns around,... but from the first dress Olivia's frame just can't hold back the guys anymore!  She's slender and aqua-dynamic as a porpoise.  She investigates the house boat, and everywhere she bends or reaches, she's like this curving PORPOISE.  The camera team puts her in a third dress and tells her to gyrate, and suddenly she's like a WINDING GYRATING porpoise.  Could make someone lose his Caribbean cookies, winding him up like that.

In Spanish, I don't know anything about Feds, or UFOs, or radioactive dirt. But I know if Trudy put her arms over her head, and you aimed her into the waves like a throwing dart, she'd slip through water like some newest US Navy weapon quicker than Crockett's scarab. In With the foreign dubbing, the only wrong thing I saw in this episode was the name-plate on Joplin's desk, "Big Booty Trudy"!  There isn't a SINGLE "big" anything on that capable frame except her two sweet-genie eyes. That girl is all non-stopping kink-free curves, as if the artist  started drawing at the tip of her nose, and never lifted pencil off the paper until she was all drawn in one continuous line.  

So, ahaaa!  That's the remedy for Episode 075.  Find the channel for Spanish audiences, play the first 40 minutes only, return to start and repeat....and the result is:  I don't know what the rest of you are talking about---there's nothing wrong with this episode at all.

Missing Hours is one of the 5 darn-ist best-ist episodes of Seasons 3-5.  

[RedDragon86]

Even the humor is terrible and what Stan says to the red headed twins girls makes no sense "There ya go: Pete and re-Pete" it would have been funny if it was said to twins boys.

[wolfie1996]

On 3/29/2022 at 7:41 PM, Dadrian said:

To bring things back to the thread, I will admit I have skipped this episode on my last two runs. Maybe next time..  

Dadrian! I'm shocked! Shocked!

[Dadrian]

18 hours ago, RedDragon86 said:

Even the humor is terrible and what Stan says to the red headed twins girls makes no sense "There ya go: Pete and re-Pete" it would have been funny if it was said to twins boys.

Maybe he was talking about the ice cream  

[RedDragon86]

26 minutes ago, Dadrian said:

Maybe he was talking about the ice cream  

You just never know with this episode 

 

[Dadrian]

So it was this one tonight for me. 

Same review:

-Great Jan Hammer tune at the beginning

-Stan tossing Noogie and Izzy out of OCB is hilarious 

-Trudy is beautiful 

I’ll never get that 48 minutes back. 

They should have called this one Missing Hour  

ps- video game nerds: John Petersen used his (then) new revolutionary Roland D-50 synthesizer pretty heavily on this one. Did anybody notice the same infamous sound as when you power up a PS1 was used throughout the episode?

Edited September 15, 2022 by Dadrian

[fakespyder]

Two scenes I liked that added a softer dimension to Sonny and Rico's characters:

1. Sonny being patient and kind to the lady who said she was abducted.
2. Rico picking up Trudy and holding her in the manner he did.

[Tom]

vor 7 Stunden schrieb Dadrian:

-Stan tossing Noogie and Izzy out of OCB is hilarious 

-Trudy is beautiful 

I’ll never get that 48 minutes back. 

Don’t be an inch pincher! 
 

Factoring in the hilarious OCB scene and all the gorgeous Trudy scenes throughout the episode only 36 minutes are lost.  

[OCBman]

7 hours ago, Dadrian said:

They should have called this one Missing Hour  

[Dadrian]

In a vailed attempt to redeem this episode, I will humbly share this video. James Brown truly has no peers in his craft:

 

[johnnyfarragut]

Director Ate De Jong speaks (!):

Before we move on to your latest film, I am obliged as a fan of Miami Vice to ask you a few questions about it. Not many people know it, but you have directed an episode of this series. How did you get involved with them?

Miami Vice wanted at that time - second half of the eighties - young directors with a personal style. Under the influence of producer Michael Mann they also looked at European filmmakers who lived in Hollywood. My agent gave the producers of Miami Vice a tape of my film In The Shadow Of The Victory. That tape was not rewind by the previous viewer, and stood exactly on the only action scene in the film. The vice-producer who was responsible for finding directors (they had a separate producer for that) looked at it for three minutes and found it classy enough.

In the interview the producer asked what movies I wanted to make. I thought it was easier to say what I did not want to make. No musicals I told him, because we can not make those in Europe. And then I wanted to say, not science fiction either, but he interrupted me and shouted to his secretary "Mary, what is the new episode about?" She shouted back "About aliens". "Aliens, is that something for you?", asked the producer. "Great," I said. Yes, I was an opportunist.

Wasn't it difficult to handle all these stars?

We have no stars in the Netherlands and Belgium. Here, stars drive with a bus back to their hotel. That's something else in the USA. It was not easy to deal with stars. Don Johnson was a disaster and ran every moment away from the set when he didn't like it. But he did that not only with me, even with the American directors.

Afterwards I was asked to direct 2 episodes, but I have not done that. "I'm not masochistic enough", I told the producer. Stupid. It would have been much better for my career. Afterwards, it was very special because in my episode Missing Hours I had James Brown (the Godfather of Soul) and then the totally unknown Chris Rock as guest stars.

http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/ate-de-jong-director/

Edited April 8, 2023 by johnnyfarragut