Kentucky Fried Politics: A Colonel Sanders Timeline
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A few more suggestions that just popped up in my mind (apologies if I already suggested something):
Game show: Ken Jennings, Mike Richards (the executive producer of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, and was a guest host for the latter after Alex Trebek's death, but there's also the comedian Michael Richards), Brad Rutter, Dylan Lane (who hosts Chain Reaction), don't know if James Holzhauer or Buzzy Cohen survive those butterflies, Merv Griffin, Drew Carey, Todd Newton, Peter Tomarken, Mark L. Walberg (and maybe the actor Mark Wahlberg), Brooke Burns, Regis Philbin, Wink Martindale, Meredith Vieira, Chris Harrison, Jim Perry, Jim Peck, Dick Clark, David Ruprecht, Bob Hilton, Randy West, Gene Wood, Burton Richardson, Rich Fields, George Gray, Chuck Woolery, Susan Stafford, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, Bob Goen, Rolf Benirschke, Jack Clark, Tom Kennedy, Jack Narz, Bill Cullen, Steve Harvey, GSN, and Buzzr. Most of them could still go the same path, but I wanted to ask anyway.
Voice actors: Chuck E. Cheese's voice actors Duncan Brannan, Bob West, Annagrey Labasse, Caroline Richardson, Chris Hill, Earl Fisher, Jeremy Blaido, John Bowen, Robert Gotcher, Jaret Reddick (and Bowling for Soup, by extension), and the non-Fechter Rock-afire Explosion voice actors, including Rick Bailey (the voice of Beach Bear), Burt Wilson (the voice of Fatz Geronimo), Duke Chauppetta (the voice of Dook LaRue), Shalisa Sloan James (the voice of Mitzi Mozzarella), and Jeff Howell (a backup singer and the voice of Uncle Klunk).
Other: Avram C. Freedberg, the Berenstain Bears, and Judy Garland
Game show: Ken Jennings, Mike Richards (the executive producer of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, and was a guest host for the latter after Alex Trebek's death, but there's also the comedian Michael Richards), Brad Rutter, Dylan Lane (who hosts Chain Reaction), don't know if James Holzhauer or Buzzy Cohen survive those butterflies, Merv Griffin, Drew Carey, Todd Newton, Peter Tomarken, Mark L. Walberg (and maybe the actor Mark Wahlberg), Brooke Burns, Regis Philbin, Wink Martindale, Meredith Vieira, Chris Harrison, Jim Perry, Jim Peck, Dick Clark, David Ruprecht, Bob Hilton, Randy West, Gene Wood, Burton Richardson, Rich Fields, George Gray, Chuck Woolery, Susan Stafford, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, Bob Goen, Rolf Benirschke, Jack Clark, Tom Kennedy, Jack Narz, Bill Cullen, Steve Harvey, GSN, and Buzzr. Most of them could still go the same path, but I wanted to ask anyway.
Voice actors: Chuck E. Cheese's voice actors Duncan Brannan, Bob West, Annagrey Labasse, Caroline Richardson, Chris Hill, Earl Fisher, Jeremy Blaido, John Bowen, Robert Gotcher, Jaret Reddick (and Bowling for Soup, by extension), and the non-Fechter Rock-afire Explosion voice actors, including Rick Bailey (the voice of Beach Bear), Burt Wilson (the voice of Fatz Geronimo), Duke Chauppetta (the voice of Dook LaRue), Shalisa Sloan James (the voice of Mitzi Mozzarella), and Jeff Howell (a backup singer and the voice of Uncle Klunk).
Other: Avram C. Freedberg, the Berenstain Bears, and Judy Garland
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You mean besides what’s been mentioned already (Chapters 65, 70, 106, 119, and 121, and Post #1305)? I’m not sure (I’m not a video game expert at all, not even in the broadest and most generous definition of the term). What other changes do you think occur ITTL?
What happened to Best Buy?
Never founded. When the high fidelity stereo-selling electronics store Sound of Music expanded in the 1970s, the location they chose for their Roseville, Minnesota outlet was in a different part of the town, and as a result, was not hit by that tornado in 1981 that led to them holding an overwhelmingly successful “Tornado Sale” at which they promised “best buys” on everything (hence the chain never reinvented itself as “Best Buy” soon after like IOTL). The tornado still happened (I don't think the POD would impact weather patterns so significantly by this point to butterfly away such a thing) and hit the same spot it did in OTL, but the store was located elsewhere ITTL. As a result of this lack of a "Tornado Sale," the Economic Crash of 1978 weakened the company in both the short and long term. Attempts to expand beyond its core customer base flopped, with poorly-timed “sexist” ads marketed toward women receiving much scrutiny during the late 1980s. The early ’90s was the final nail in their coffin and the Sound of Music chain folded in mid-1992. Circuit City and other stores filled in the void, and pioneered the store model of displaying the items on the sales floor instead of storing them in the stock room, and other ideas, that were the exact opposite decisions Sound of Music made during the early-to-mid 1980s with obviously-abysmal results.
Did Don Trump do any notable commercials ITTL?
I mentioned him being in a January 2014 commercial for KFC in Chapter 108. Besides that one, ads promoting the hotels, sports stadiums, and other real estate ventures built by the Trump Organization after he retired from MLB in 1981. Daffy Donald also appeared in ads for a variety of products. As a former MLB pitcher, he endorsed a plethora of sports-related “as seen on TV” products, including video games concerning baseball (but years later confessed he’d never played any of them despite saying he had in the ads) and baseball-themed paraphernalia such as a baseball-shaped alarm clock and other items. He appeared in some ads/commercials in the 1980s and 1990s for Coca-Cola and Pizza Hut; Toshiba desktop HCs (home computers); the 1999 board game “Trump – The Game,” which was basically a hyper-jingoistic baseball-themed version of monopoly; the US Office of Domestic Security, in response to a bombing at the Trump Sunrise Hotel in California; and a “meta” trailer for Major League III (1998), in which he had a small cameo. In the 2000s decade, Donald Trump cameoed in the 2001 film “Toon Slam,” in which Kareem Abdul-Jabbar starred as a universe-jumping superhero that parodied the superhero films of the late 1990s and the tropes of such films in general; appeared in a few public health messages urging people to wash their hands and practice safezoning measures during the SARS pandemic (due to his germaphobia, not because of anything political); and, alongside others, appeared in a Superbowl commercial for F.A.O. Schwartz in 2005. Trump spent the next ten years working on the Americana Overdrive series before returning to real estate full-time, but in the 2010s he appear in commercials for Hershey chocolates (with him and his youngest grandchildren constructing a model building out of a bunch of Hershey products); for TASKER, a “software agent” Natural Audio Focus-Tracking Assistant (similar to OTL’s Siri); and for the fast-food chains Burger Czar, TacoTime, and Captain D’s Seafood (in which he played an “imposter” Captain D) (Quiznos and the Spongerats were butterflied away here by the ’78 recession, btw, as that chain wasn’t founded until the early 1980s IOTL).
What is the most famous "sitcom" ITTL?
Here are some of the best-known ones in the US, as I’m most familiar with those:
1960s: Gilligan’s Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Flintstones, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Green Acres
1970s: All In The Family, Sanford and Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mork and Mindy, Soap, Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, The Jeffersons
1980s: Family Ties, Cheers, Newhart, Night Court, The John Amos Show, Golden Girls, Happily Married (TTL’s Married with Children, but less successful)
1990s: Seinfeld, Roseanne, Frasier (of course), Friends, Futurama, Mr. Floppy (basically Unhappily Ever After, but more successful), The Wayans Bros., Sabrina The Teenage Witch (starring future FLOTUS Marissa Joan Hart), Boy Meets World, Spin City, and In Living Color …And maybe some version of Full House, too.
2000s: maybe 3rd Rock from the Sun, 8 Simple Rules, The George Lopez Show, The Mario Lopez Show, Becker, Reba, and several ones that don’t exist IOTL
2010s: some variation of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Rodeo Days (which parodied the tropes of the westerns of yesteryear) and many more that don’t exist IOTL
Cool! It’s okay that you didn’t leave a comment; I appreciate the thought anyway!
BTW, which video was it, and which ones did you recognize? I’ve never heard of it, but, uh, sure, why not?
I’m not sure. What do you think – do you think they would have pretty much ended up in similar career paths ITTL?
No idea. They probably would have still gone into voice acting. What do you think?
Avram Freedberg – Huh. A Broadway theater producer who got into legal trouble for obscene material distribution in the 1980s and for a fraudulent coin marketing scheme in 2004, just two years before producing a musical version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas? How have I never heard of this guy!?! Things probably turn out differently for him here, but I’m uncertain how. Maybe he spends some time in jail? Maybe he becomes more “Successful” or better-known, like Frank Abagnale? I’m not sure, but he certainly is an interesting “wild card” kind of fella, isn’t he?
The Berenstain Bears – still get written, beginning with the first book in 1962; however, initial copies of the first book misspell the last name as “Berenstein,” and while the correct spelling is used in all subsequent books and in all subsequent publications of the original book, first-edition copies with the error, while rare to come across, can still be found here and there, and are apparently a very expensive collector’s item.
Judy Garland – still has serious mental health issues throughout the 1960s. She’s critical of Lyndon Johnson’s approach to Cuba and so is not exactly welcomed at the White House during the Cuba War. Her TV show lasts for one more season (meaning she doesn’t go on tour in Australia until 1966 and it’s much more successful) before being cancelled in 1965; she calls off the wedding to Mark Herron before it happens, but still faces legal issues due to personal debts and debts to the IRS. Family friends Frank Sinatra and Mickey Rooney help out as best they can, and her fourth marriage, to Mickey Deans, seems to help her. During the First Arkwave (1970) she is a vocal supporter of the movement, taking the moment to openly condemn film executives for constantly critiquing her physical appearance and defending the “next generation” of young starlets, including the likes of Sharon Tate and Natalie Wood. However, she failed to kick her barbiturates addiction and grew more self-conscious of her age as her 50thh birthday approached, telling close friends her was regretting the day as a “death sentence” to her career despite many actresses trying to convince her otherwise. Husband Mickey Deans found her dead on June 8, 1972; it could not be determined if she consumed a large amount of sleeping pills and alcohol due to recent insomnia issues and thus was an accident overdose, or if it was indeed a suicide due to her recent comments. Nevertheless, her role in the Arkwave Movement and the tragedy of her demise partially contributed to some actresses like Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood deciding to take brief hiatuses from acting during the 1970s to focus on their own mental health.
Thanks for the compliment and thank you for reading!Congrats on finishing this epic world, it’s been one wild ride
Thanks again; I truly appreciated your comments throughout this project of sorts.
I appreciate that part, too!
That's awesome; great to hear!
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Cool! It’s okay that you didn’t leave a comment; I appreciate the thought anyway!
Minnie Pearl’s Chicken, Red Barn, Ollie’s Trolleys, and Burger Chef are all the ones that jumped out to me. Being a European born in the 90s, I wouldn’t have known any of them without this timeline
For Mike Richards, I'd imagine his Price allegations IOTL wrecked his career early, and he ends up becoming a wash-up who somehow still thinks he has a career left by hosting and/or producing several short-lived shows. I'd see Buzzy Cohen as the new host of Jeopardy!, assuming his 1985 birth isn't affected. Him, Jennings or someone else. Though whoever replaces Harry Friedman as executive producer would be a bigger question.
Amazing timeline, probably the most comprehensive I've ever read.
Just a few random questions.
1. How did Nintendo get so dang valuable?
2. What inspired you to make my beloved local chain of 4 Rivers a national BBQ chain?
Just a few random questions.
1. How did Nintendo get so dang valuable?
2. What inspired you to make my beloved local chain of 4 Rivers a national BBQ chain?
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Thanks for the compliment!
1. The company had a string of successful enterprises (thanks to many very profitable investments) during the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the Nintendo Vision (2004), Nintendo Gem (2008), and Nintendo Vapor (2000) being some of the best-selling consoles of all time (as mentioned in the June 2020 post), plus merchandising - lots and lots of merchandising.
2. I've heard good things about it!
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Yes he is! I mentioned him making a few songs for Mike Judge's animated series "High High" in 1996, and I believe I mentioned him making a few songs for SNL commercials at some point.
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Yes it is!
If Sondheim still comes up with the idea for it in 1979, I can see it still premiering in 1990. It would actually fit it quite well with the TL's pop culture trends leading up to the President's assassination in 1995, as violent video games, "angry" music, and several controversial films faced scrutiny in the aftermath of the first Presidential assassination in 94 years. That said, "Assassins" could also face scrutiny, possibly making it one of Sonheim's most controversial works!
As for the play itself, I could see its characters be the following:
Fictional:
The Proprietor - the gun salesman who provides the characters with their weapons at the beginning of the show.
The Balladeer - the narrator who provides the stories of the assassins
Ladybird Johnson and Claudia Sanders - First Ladies
Ensemble - crowd members, chorus, etc.
Historical:
John Wilkes Booth - assassin of President Lincoln
David Herold - accomplice of Booth
Mary Surratt - alleged accomplice of Booth
Charles Guiteau - assassin of President Garfield
James Blaine - Garfield's Secretary of State, who received many letters from Guiteau
Leon Czolgosz - assassin of President McKinley
Emma Goldman - anarchist and political activism who interacted with Czolgosz
Giuseppe Zangara - attempted assassin of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
Byron De La Beckwith and Thomas Arthur Vallee - alleged would-be assassins of President Lyndon Johnson
Colonel Sanders - US President who survived attempts on his life in 1964 and 1980
Osama bin Laden - attempted assassin of former President Sanders
But then Sondheim, being the genius that he was, will then have to update it with a number about Iacocca getting gunned down too (even just an acknowledgment).