{"id":419050,"date":"2022-03-20T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/"},"modified":"2022-03-20T22:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T19:00:25","slug":"baby-bob-ted-lasso-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Baby Bob,&#8217; &#8216;Ted Lasso&#8217; &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ec206ed47e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ec206ed47e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Baby_Bob_%E2%80%98Ted_Lasso_More%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Baby Bob,&#8217; &#8216;Ted Lasso&#8217; &#038; More&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/#Baby_Bob\" >Baby Bob<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/#The_California_Raisin_Show\" >The California Raisin Show<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/#Cavemen\" >Cavemen<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/#Dear%E2%80%A6\" >Dear\u2026<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/#Hey_Vern_Its_Ernest\" >Hey Vern, It\u2019s Ernest!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baby-bob-ted-lasso-more\/#Ted_Lasso\" >Ted Lasso<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Baby_Bob_%E2%80%98Ted_Lasso_More%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Baby Bob,&#8217; &#8216;Ted Lasso&#8217; &#038; More&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/baby-bob-adam-arkin.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div> Inspiration can strike in the most unlikely of places, especially for TV writers. Sure, we\u2019ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ed TV shows based on books, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, and video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s. But we\u2019ve also seen shows based on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homecoming_(TV_series)\">podcasts<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secret_Diary_of_a_Call_Girl\">blogs<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/$h*!_My_Dad_Says\">Twitter feeds<\/a>. And occasionally, an intrepid small-screen scribe will try to turn a TV commercial into a TV <em>show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the adaptation will pay off, even with Emmy-wining results. But most times, the commercial-derived series will be lost to the annals of television history faster than you can say \u201cWe\u2019ll be right back after these messages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are examples of commercials-turned-TV shows, starting with one that debuted 20 years ago now\u2026<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Baby_Bob\"><\/span><em>Baby Bob<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baby Bob TV Show: E03\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nsLGBtuREUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a talking tot became the spokes-baby for the internet service provider FreeInternet.com around the turn of the millennium, CBS bought the rights to \u201cBaby Bob,\u201d according to the <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/ae\/tv\/article\/From-the-mouth-of-Baby-Bob-comes-a-belated-1083015.php\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a><\/em>. But by the time <em>Baby Bob<\/em> hit the airwaves in March 2002, the dot-com bubble had burst and FreeInternet.com had gone under.<\/p>\n<p>And <em>Baby Bob<\/em>, the TV show, didn\u2019t last long either. The comedy\u2014starring Joely Fisher and Adam Arkin as the parents of a newborn who can talk like an adult\u2014was canceled in 2003 after CBS burned off a few episodes of Season 2 over the summer.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_California_Raisin_Show\"><\/span><em>The California Raisin Show<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The California Raisin Show Opening\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B08GQ0xTIxw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More than a decade before <em>Baby Bob<\/em>, CBS took a bet on a singing group of anthropomorphized fruit snacks. In their original incarnation, the California Raisins were Motown-performing characters created for a series of claymation commercials for the California Raisin Advisory Board. Based on the success of those ads, CBS aired the claymation TV special <em>Meet the Raisins!<\/em> in 1988 and then released this cel-animated Saturday morning series the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Lasting 13 episodes, <em>The California Raisin Show<\/em> boasted the voices of <em>Full Metal Jacket<\/em>\u2019s Dorian Harewood, Tony-winning Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell, and <em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/em> voice actor Cam Clarke, among other talents.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cavemen\"><\/span><em>Cavemen<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cavemen T.V. Series: Episode1 : Her Embarrassed of Caveman Full episode.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZyCPZsk_5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As it happens, creating a TV show based on popular commercial characters is <em>not<\/em> so easy to do, a caveman could do it. And yet, ABC gamely attempted a sitcom focusing on Geico\u2019s group of cavemen living in modern-day times, with actors Nick Kroll, Bill English, Sam Huntington, and Jeff Daniel Philips donning wigs and prosthetics to get their Cro-Magnon on.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, critics detected racial overtones in an early cut of the pilot episode, complaining that the comedy \u201ctrafficked in the very racial caricatures it was supposed to be lampooning,\u201d as <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2007\/07\/26\/cavemen-producers-clubbed-with-accusations-about-race\/\">The Orange County Register<\/a><\/em> noted. And ABC quietly put the much-maligned show out of its misery during the 2007\u20132008 writers strike, after only six episodes had aired.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dear%E2%80%A6\"><\/span><em>Dear\u2026<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dear\u2026 Season 2 \u2014 Official Trailer | Apple TV+\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfHJ0D20Re4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apple TV+ mined Apple\u2019s own marketing efforts in 2020 when it gave the green light to <em>Dear\u2026<\/em>, a docuseries based on the company\u2019s \u201cDear Apple\u201d ads. In the ad campaign, real-life Apple customers explained how their Apple Watches improved or even saved their lives. But in the docuseries, created by documentarian R.J. Cutler, celebrities like Viola Davis, Gloria Steinem, Malala Yousafzai, and Sandra Oh read letters from fans whose lives they changed.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hey_Vern_Its_Ernest\"><\/span><em>Hey Vern, It\u2019s Ernest!<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hey Vern It&#039;s Ernest.m4v\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXy_MlyLAFI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1980s-era commercials for Sprite, Mello Yello, Chex, and too many other products to list here, Jim Varney\u2019s denim-vested character would not give his offscreen neighbor Vernon a moment of peace, always singing the praises of the latest, greatest product.<\/p>\n<p>And in 1988, CBS gave Ernest his own Saturday-morning children\u2019s show, that featured live-action sketches on the weekly theme (outer space, movies, magic, sports, holidays, etc.). Varney, who voiced Slinky Dog in the <em>Toy Story<\/em> franchise, died in 2000, but he also brought Ernest to the big screen in moves like <em>Ernest Goes to Camp<\/em> and <em>Ernest Saves Christmas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ted_Lasso\"><\/span><em>Ted Lasso<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An American Coach in London: NBC Sports Premier League Film featuring Jason Sudeikis\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6KeG_i8CWE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fans of this Emmy-winning Apple TV+ comedy might not know that Jason Sudeikis\u2019 affable, mustachioed coach\u2014and Brendan Hunt\u2019s Coach Beard, too!\u2014originated in a 2013 promo for NBC Sports, as seen above. In that ad, as in the series, Ted is an American football coach in over his head in the world of English football.<\/p>\n<p>The character returned in an NBC Sports ad the following year, and that second spot \u201creally unlocked elements of the character that we found very, very fun to write and portray and view the world through,\u201d Sudeikis told <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/2020\/08\/11\/ted-lasso-jason-sudeikis-apple-tv-series-nbc\">Sports Illustrated<\/a><\/em> in 2020. \u201cSo, one day in 2015, my [now-former] partner Olivia [Wilde] came up to me one day and said, \u2018You know, you should do Ted Lasso as a show,\u2019 and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t know,\u2019 but then after marinating on it, I thought maybe this could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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