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Car Talk guys to ride off into the sunset
By adamg on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:21am
NPR reports Tom and Ray Magliozzi are retiring this fall from the locally produced show that gave them - and their accents - national prominence.
"Car Talk" will continue to air, but only with repeats from 25 years of car-advice call-ins, recorded at WBUR's studios. Hopefully, they'll keep their Dewey, Cheetham and Howe offices in Harvard Square.
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So Sad..
.. don't drive like my brother. :(
I'll have to go up the street to Car Talk plaza to say goodbye.
I hope staff retirement party
I hope staff retirement party planner Luisa Jolley Goodfellow is still around.
I guess they were just to
I guess they were just to "exhausted" to continue....
Good run, Tom and Ray. We'll miss you.
I had an alternator way to
I had an alternator way to make a joke, but instead I'm just going to be a crank.
Not exhausted, just tired
Give me...
... a brake.
These puns
Have lost their spark.
Just trying ...
... to inject a little humor. Perhaps they are just shifting to a lower gear, or maybe they had a little trouble staying current with all the plug-in hybrid technology.
Or give their office back to the rightful owners
"Dewey Cheetham and Howe" was a common law firm featured in many Three Stooges shorts.
I thought they used Dewey,
I thought they used Dewey, Burnham, and Howe ...
They used both sets of names
But "Cheetham" was used far more frequently than "Burnham".
And Cheatham...
along with Dewey & Howe is what's stencilled in an old timey font on the third-floor front window of this Harvard Sq. building:
http://images.travelpod.com/users/twowombats/1.132...
Don't forget Hammond Eggers, Attorney at Law
another 3 Stooges classic
And when the devil was in regular clothing..
...and they referred to him as Mr. Heller.
Oh, say it ain't so?!?
And has it only been 25 years? I swear I brought shite boxes to Ray for the "Blue-Plate Special" before that... Love you guys and will miss you and the show. Best always.
25 at NPR, but 35 at WBUR
25 at NPR, but 35 at WBUR
Thank you, Aragusea,
I knew I had been listening to them much longer than 25 years.
nationally syndicated since 1987, local show before that
I used to live just down the street from Ray's Garage. These bozos were cracking wise for years before they tricked NPR into the beautiful boondoggle that is Car Talk. Their show was broadcast locally before it was inflicted on the rest of the country in '87.
If reruns are broadcast without their participation
would they be automatic transmissions?
In any case ...
They're definitely retreads.
This whole rerun thing..
Could certainly backfire on NPR.
How do you figure? I think of
How do you figure? I think of it like PBS stations running 40 year old Monty Python episodes, or us airing 50 year old My Word! episodes on Sunday nights. The old Car Talk hours will gradually move out of the more choice slots on stations as listenership sags, but the material has a long life ahead of it, as it should. I think we'd get many more angry emails at WBUR if we just let the show disappear abruptly. Nothing wrong with a long goodbye sometimes.
Sad day, no week, no month for Boston radio...
First FNX, then Steve Leveille and now Clicky clack. Why can't Dan Rea retire?
Car Talk: The Musical
Now that a musical based on the radio show (yup, you heard that right) is opening in Cambridge next weekend, maybe the Tom and Ray figured they've finally reached the ultimate heights, and they're going out in style? ;-)
http://www.centralsquaretheater.org/season/11-12/c...
Not its premiere
Opened last year at Suffolk.
Well...
Let's call this the professional premiere. The one-weekend student-cast run at Suffolk was more of a workshop outing, or to quote a Playbill article on the show, a "developmental student production." Though I can't tell you for sure, the material was probably reworked and revised for this version, based on how things went with the Suffolk run, as is typical for this process. Readings, workshops, and short "trial runs" like this are generally the way musicals are developed now, instead of the "tryout" system of an older era.
I guess I'm the only one who
I guess I'm the only one who can't stand those guys.
yes you are
yes you are
Tom lives in one of the condos next door
And it's really great to hear that distinctive laugh echoing across the backyard.
Unfortunately he seems really frail- I suspect he could not keep up doing the shows much longer.