The Goldbergs Weigh In
Posted by William Rabkin on March 23, 2009
Much controversy about the infamous, never-to-be Scooby Doo/Diagnosis Murder crossover, all of it so far coming from various members of the Goldberg clan. Over at his blog, my former partner Lee has his own version of our prospective story, which has the dubious virtue of probably being true. It does make more sense that it would have been Jesse who was hallucinating that he was a cartoon character, but I have to say that I’m glad my mind doesn’t work in such a way that I could actually remember which of our actors we wanted to play which member of team Scooby after all these years.
And then my boss Tod Goldberg was kind enough to suggest in a phone call that if we had indeed done the cross-over, it would have been the “worst fucking thing in the history of television” and that Lee and I would have been on the front page of the New York Times under the headline “the men who killed TV.” I think he’s just bitter because he was planning on bringing Scrappy Doo into his next Burn Notice book and now he can’t.
Lee Goldberg said
“Lee and I would have been on the front page of the New York Times under the headline “the men who killed TV.””
Yes, but then we could have had it framed next to the Rolling Stone review of our Baywatch episode, which they called the worst episode of the worst TV series ever made. I can’t remember which episode that was… was it “Armored Car?” “Rookie School?” Not that it matters, they were right.
Lee
Avoid nornal situations. said
You say that like being one of the men who killed TV would be a bad thing.
DANIEL WONG said
Psh. Totally just bought burn notice The Fix just so I wouldn’t SKIP him at the LAFoB! Now that I have 8 books to be signed I need somebody else to help me bring them with me!
Too bad it takes 6 months from production to softcover and six months per book.
I thirst for more!!
DANIEL WONG said
Thank you for signing my book Mr. Rabkin! I was the first in line and was very happy to get all 9 of my books signed.
can’t wait for your next book to drop.