Who Is Your Schneider? | A Relaxed Nighttime Wind-Down

In Who Is Your Schneider?, Marco and Amanda ease into a softly nostalgic conversation that begins with the idea of being “house proud” and gently wanders into classic sitcom territory. Inspired by Schneider from One Day at a Time, they playfully explore which characters filled that same role in other beloved 80s and 90s shows. Along the way, they reflect on memorable performers like Tom Hanks during his Bosom Buddies days, Donna Dixon, Holland Taylor, and the ever-charismatic Meshach Taylor from Designing Women. It’s a gentle stroll through television history, filled with affectionate trivia and lighthearted curiosity.
As always, this calming podcast unfolds at an unhurried pace, offering a relaxing conversation designed to help you fall asleep, ease anxiety, or quiet racing thoughts at the end of the day. The nostalgic theme makes it perfect for background listening — familiar enough to feel comforting, but mellow enough not to keep you awake. Whether you’re winding down at bedtime or simply looking for steady companionship, let this cozy reflection on sitcom side characters guide you toward rest.

​Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax and listen as we have a calm conversation that's meant to help you find your way to sleep and who knows, drift off or just chill, explore. You don't fall asleep. That's fine too. You're just tuning in and finding a place where we're going to talk about nothing of importance. So feel free to drift off. I'm your host, Marco Timpano.

Amanda: I'm Amanda Barker. I had a thought.

Marco: Yeah, sure.

Amanda: Do you know the term house proud?

Marco: No.

Amanda: Oh, you've never heard?

Marco: Well, house proud means you're h. Proud of your house.

Amanda: I think so. Yeah. Like you're like, I like my house. I want it to look good. I want people to like it.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: Do you feel that way?

Marco: Yes, I Do. Yeah, I do.

Amanda: I feel like we used to have a lot more people over and we were more house proud. And so we haven't had that because you used to record quite a bit in the studio with various guests. This studio, of course, being in our house. So I always was like, you know, we have to get it. What I always called show ready. House proud, I guess would be another. But I'd always be like, okay, we have to get the house ready. Like, make sure, you know, everything's good, put away, clean, swept, the bathrooms are in working order. You know, maybe not our bedroom and the bathroom there, but everywhere else. Everywhere else, yeah. And although we'd have. I know we'd have friends and I'd be like, it's okay, you can show them our room or whatever, you know, I don't think that'll be the case tomorrow. You're recording tomorrow and I'm tired and I'm like, oh, I have to get the house show ready.

Marco: Yeah. And so it's always a bit of a mad scramble. I'm sure a lot of people throw things in closets.

Amanda: But then you feel good after. Then you're like, it's true. Or like when you have company over, you know, like you're having a little get together and you're like, oh my gosh, we have to get it ready. And then. But then that feeling after they leave and you're like, now they're gone and we have a clean house. What a bonus.

Marco: It is a good feeling, I have to say. We're almost there. I'm gonna get up early as well and really spiff up everything.

Amanda: That's what I'm thinking because I'm just. I don't know what it is right now. I'm just so tired at night.

Marco: So I have a lot of things going on tomorrow. So I'm already feeling tired for tomorrow. But I'm just trying to. I'm just trying to chill and just like, you know, work things out one thing at a time. One foot forward is how I look at it.

Amanda: I always try to. I think that's a good way to be when I'm with my mom, God love her, she will, you know, if I have anything I have to do at all when I'm at my parents house, which I was two weeks ago, I'll be like, oh, I just have to do this thing. And then they'll be like, oh, well. And it becomes this all encompassing thing. Like, you know, I'm Mandy to them. So they'll be like, mandy has to do this. Mandy. We gotta get this. Mandy. Oh, okay. Well, Mandy's thing. And it becomes this. And I almost don't want to tell them if I have, you know, which I inevitably try to get it all done before I see them so that I can just be with them the whole time and not have to jump on my computer for any reason. But, you know, sometimes there's one or two things that you're like, I just have to make sure I get this email out. Or in the case of last visit, I had a little writing thing that I'd pretty much done. But, you know, I just had a bit of. I just needed to see it with fresh eyes, do a bit of editing before I sent it off. Well, I don't want to say I made the mistake of telling them, but I wanted to be transparent. Hey, I just got to do this thing. And so once I did send it off, my mom was like, now you can relax now that thing is done. And I just said to my mom, like, mom, I can't look at things like that. I mean, she meant it in the most wonderful way. But if I look at things like that, then it's always going to be, once I get this thing done, I can relax. But the truth is, the lives we all live, especially you and I being, you know, contract. But I think that's everybody.

Marco: I think also when it comes to our parents who are retired, like my mom, who seems to think that time is, you know, for me to get home at a reasonable time, I have to be. Be on the highway before 3 or just around 3 o'. Clock. And she doesn't seem to realize that when I'm at her place and everything she has to say, she holds to the last minute. She's like, oh, just one more thing. Let me show you this. Can you do this? I'm like, I need to get on the road.

Amanda: Which is hilarious, because when she wants to leave a place, she wants to leave that place. There is no stopping her.

Marco: You have to leave.

Amanda: Shoes are on. And she's like, you can feel it. Like she's getting irritated and like, come on, come on, let's go. Yep.

Marco: And she was always someone who was quick and fast and, like, ready to jet.

Amanda: And she still is at 78.

Marco: Yeah. Not when I'm ready to leave.

Amanda: No. So anyways, our parents, I mean, we're lucky to have them. Like, the thing is just, I'm trying to look at life to your point of just one day at a time. And not once we get this Thing done then, you know, because the lives that we live. But I don't think we're unique. I think that's everybody. There's always something, right? Sure.

Marco: You mentioned One Day at a time there. And do you remember Schneider from the television series One Day at a Time?

Amanda: No, Schneider.

Marco: Schneider was.

Amanda: I did like that show, though.

Marco: So when I was a kid, I didn't really. I didn't really realize the significance of the. Of the show. A divorced mom with two kids.

Amanda: Yeah, I didn't, you know, all that stuff. For us, I think as kids, the premise was kind of arbitrary. It really could have been anything. An alien living with a family was a premise and we loved it.

Marco: But the fix it guy, or he wasn't the landlord, but you know, the guy who would. The maintenance person who lived in the. In the complex, wherever they lived, was named Schneider.

Amanda: How often do you see your maintenance person when you live in a complex?

Marco: Well, back in the day, if you were on a television sitcom, you saw them often. They were often coming. And Schneider was kind of like. Like a less cool Fonz on the series. So he was like the interesting character, the rugged guy in a T shirt and a belt. And he always had a fun little quip. Right. So you're always waiting for Schneider to come on. And I was just thinking, how many of those characters do you have in real life, the Schneider person?

Amanda: Well, we probably do.

Marco: We do.

Amanda: I'm trying to think. Oh, speaking of Schneiders, we have to get our. Sorry, this is probably not making for great radio, but we're now on radio. We used to say that when I worked in radio. Well, this is probably not great radio. And then we just do the bit anyway. But we have to do our maintenance on our heating system or whatever the thing it's called. We have to get the maintenance guys to come and. Maintenance.

Marco: You're getting the.

Amanda: We need Schneiders.

Marco: We need Schneiders to come to our

Amanda: house and our Schneiders. Is it going to be the same people that put installed it?

Marco: No, I don't know the Schneiders because I like them.

Amanda: Because in that case, our Schneiders is a lovely team of one older Korean man and one younger Korean man. And I was so happy to have them over because as people know who've been following this for a long time, I lived in Korea. I love Korea in general, and I love the Korean people. So I was so happy to have them.

Marco: I anticipate we'll have one person come over and he will be more. Or she will be more like a Schneider type.

Amanda: Oh, my goodness.

Marco: With a belt buckle that has all the, you know, bells and whistles that you need for maintenance repairs.

Amanda: Folks, stay tuned. For what? Whoever our Schneider ends up being.

Marco: I know.

Amanda: Who are some of those other characters in those 80s 90s sitcoms? There was Alvin in Designing Women.

Marco: Right? Right.

Amanda: He wore the overalls.

Marco: Right. And he was like.

Amanda: He was a painter.

Marco: No, he was the guy who delivered their furniture. I don't think his name was Alvin.

Amanda: Elvin.

Marco: Elvin.

Amanda: Wasn't it Elvin with an E?

Marco: We're talking about What's Designing Women?

Amanda: The guy with the overalls and only one overall was done up.

Marco: The actor's name was Meshach Taylor.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: And his role.

Amanda: I think we're talking about two different people.

Marco: You're talking about Designing Women, right?

Amanda: Or am I talking about Murphy Brown?

Marco: That. See, I don't know. I never watched Murphy Brown.

Amanda: I'm gonna have to do a look. But who was the guy that had the white overalls? Kind of a mullet. See, that's not me. Shut down.

Marco: I think you're thinking of Family Ties and Alex's sister's boyfriend, the guy who was like, whoa, whatever.

Amanda: Oh, no, that was Keith. Oh, my goodness. Okay, I got a lot to look up. I'm gonna start with that. I'm gonna start Family Ties boyfriend. What was his name?

Marco: I think the actor's name was Valentine was his last name.

Amanda: I like that. You know, the Scott Valentine. But what was the guy's name? Nick.

Marco: Nick.

Amanda: So that was Nick.

Marco: Okay, so he was.

Amanda: So we've got that one figured out. Yeah. Mallory's boyfriend, Nick.

Marco: What about Meshach Taylor's role on Designing Women? I don't think it was Alvin. I can't remember his name.

Amanda: I don't know how to spell Meshach.

Marco: M E. Shock. Okay, so he. When he would come up, it was fun. He was funny. I remember.

Amanda: I love Meshach Taylor.

Marco: And he used to.

Amanda: Anthony Bouvier on. On Designing Women. Right.

Marco: And he delivered their furniture.

Amanda: He's from Boston.

Marco: And when he would come on the screen, he would often work with. What's her name? Delta Burke. And they would have funny little moments.

Amanda: Right. Okay. So Elvin, I think, must have been Murphy Brown.

Marco: On Murphy Brown, I did not really watch. I know that. What's her name? Was it Murphy Brown? Candice Bergen, I believe, is her name. Her father was a ventriloquist guy who had a ventriloquist dummy.

Amanda: In real life.

Marco: In real life, he was very famous.

Amanda: Okay. Eldon was his name, Not Elvin. And his name was Robert Pastorelli.

Marco: Oh, that guy.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: Wasn't he a painter or something? He painted her house or something. Just a fix it guy.

Amanda: I don't understand again, what did he do? Like, I. Like, how often is a painter in your life when you work? Like, that was like a news show. Right, right.

Marco: She was a Barbara Walters type.

Amanda: Right.

Marco: She was the head of the news.

Amanda: Why would a painter. You know what I mean?

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: I don't know. I didn't watch that show. That show did not make me laugh. So I guess he was the comedic beat. The painter who would paint in a white overall. That one thing was unbuttoned as you described.

Amanda: Yeah, but I just don't understand. Yeah. Lovable house painter. Eldon Bernanke on the series Murphy's Brown. Yeah. He was a house painter. Was she just constantly getting her house painted? He was in like almost every episode, it felt like.

Marco: I mean, you watched the show. I didn't. So I couldn't tell you.

Amanda: I don't remember.

Marco: I couldn't tell you. But yeah, the Fonz was the original,

Amanda: sort of Meshach Taylor.

Marco: The original Meshach Taylor. Schneider, whatever. But he was cool.

Amanda: Well, the house is a little different because the Fonz was not a maintenance guy.

Marco: No, but he was a motorcycle guy.

Amanda: Yeah, but we're talking. I think we're getting into a very specific genre of maintenance people on 80 sitcoms. Schneider, who was a maintenance guy. Eldon, who was the house painter. Somehow on Murphy Brown. Meshach Taylor, who was the furniture deliverer. Anthony Bouvier on designing. Because they were designers. Is that what it was?

Marco: They were designers in Atlanta.

Amanda: So. So the guy that delivers the furniture makes some sense. Right?

Marco: You know, the Fonz, for the record, that was like a 70s show, not an 80s show. 70s, 80s. Like it crossed over.

Amanda: Yeah. Okay.

Marco: And the Fonz lived upstairs and he fixed motorcycles and he was just cool. All he had to do was be cool.

Amanda: It's funny that he lived upstairs. Like this idea like that they had an upstairs renter. Yeah. Because it's so interesting. Like that time in the 50s, like my. My mom. Like my parents grew up in a lot of apartments and stuff because that was the reality. Right. In the city in the 50s.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: But then I think suburbia kind of happened sort of right after that.

Marco: Did your folks have a cool guy live upstairs?

Amanda: A Fonz.

Marco: A Fonz, too?

Amanda: Yeah, my dad's was. My dad was a drummer, so a lot of his friends were cool guys.

Marco: I did not expect A yes to that question.

Amanda: Well, not lived, but he had Uncle Peter. Uncle Peter was his cool friend who had like really, really curly hair.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: And Uncle Peter was often doing odd jobs.

Marco: There you go.

Amanda: Like hire Uncle Peter to do it. He was not my uncle.

Marco: It all comes back. Right. So you did have a Schneider, I guess.

Amanda: Who was your Schneider?

Marco: My dad had to be the Schneider was everyone's Schneider. My dad was because he was a Fix it. My dad could fix a lot of things.

Amanda: Yeah. He was so handy.

Marco: So he was the Schneider of our house, that's for sure. And other people's places. And by proxy, I became my dad Schneider's assistant and.

Amanda: Oh, you were little Schneider.

Marco: I was little Schneider.

Amanda: Petite Schneider.

Marco: I was pretty petitioner. And for the record, one day at a time. Never had a petite Schneider. But my dad had a petite Schneider. And my dad, like a surgeon, he would ask me for tools that I had no idea what they were.

Amanda: But what an education for you.

Marco: Not at the time. He would yell at me if I didn't know what the particular wrench he asked for was. And I'm like, I've never heard of this wrench, but I should know what it is or whatever tool he wanted. Now I know what those things are. And now I am handy. And most recently, I had Amanda help me move a fridge on a dolly. And so. So I like to think that my Schneider's not as short tempered as my dad's Schneider was. But I'm pretty handy. I'm a pretty handy guy.

Amanda: Now there's another kind of 80s, 90s or 70s sitcom. Sorry to interrupt you. You are handy. Yeah, but now I'm stuck on this supporting role thing, which, by the way, is my ideal role. Like, I love booking. I've done a few. I have a few very small brushes with very small fame, but got to be that thing of like, yeah, we're gonna bring her back for another episode. You know, she's the wacky teacher. She's the Kurt secretary. I played a few of those. And it's a delight when I know that I get to come in for another episode and deliver a line or two.

Marco: Have you played the fix it person or the house painter?

Amanda: Not yet.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: The painter is a really interesting choice, but there is also the supporting role of the wacky CA character. Right. Like too wacky for every episode, but a lovable character that you're like, oh, here comes wacky person.

Marco: Like Monroe on Too Close for Comfort.

Amanda: I think.

Marco: Do you.

Amanda: I don't remember who that is.

Marco: Do you remember the premise of Too Close for Comfort?

Amanda: No.

Marco: So the white haired guy. I forget his name. I'm sure Bill's gonna be like shouting right now.

Amanda: Yeah, the white haired guy, Bill Antonio. Hi.

Marco: Was a cartoonist and used to do a duck no cow cartoon.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: And he had two.

Amanda: Maybe, I don't remember the show.

Marco: Two hot daughters, a blonde one.

Amanda: Okay. Is that the pitch that he had hot daughters?

Marco: I mean, I don't know how else to describe it.

Amanda: I don't know if any of this. It feels very inappropriate. But it was probably the 70s.

Marco: It was. No, it was the 80s and that's how it was pitched. You can read a synopsis of that.

Amanda: That he had two hot. Who were the hot daughters?

Marco: The blonde one and the dark haired one.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: And the blonde one was a bit more ditzy and the D haired one was more academic. And they had a neighbor who was Monroe, played by Jim Bullock, I think is his name.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Who was like this zany, almost childlike character. And I don't know what he did. I think he. Was he a fix it person or did he just live next door? Well, wow.

Amanda: The zany. So I'm trying to remember the name of. And I had it and I lost it. There was a woman. So my mom was a dance teacher, choreographer in that world. And so she would sometimes. We had a big theater in the area. So sometimes she would. The woman who ran it at the time would come over and my mom would. She'd kind of pitch like the musical to my mom. Like, my mom didn't know it or it wasn't like now where you could just Google it and watch the Tonys or whatever. So she would come over and explain either the premise of the musical or play the cassette tape or the album, the record. I mean, when I was really little, to my mom. So that she would come over and pitch like, to my mom, will you do this musical? Will you choreograph it?

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: I think her name was Ro Rosemarie. I don't know, but she was kind of the. The closest I can think of for sitcom characters.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Is. Would be Joey's agent on Friends.

Amanda: Okay.

Amanda: That kind of. She would come over, chain smoke the entire time. Like you would know she was. The house would smell for two days after because she just never stopped smoking. I remember she would bring like film strips, like those little like super eights of the movies. If there was a movie, or she'd play the record or whatever. My mom would have to like listen to it. And I'd be little, she'd have a

Marco: Super 8 of a movie.

Amanda: Yeah, I remember she came over and had the Super 8, I guess. No, well, what, what were the things? And you put it in the projector and you projected it on the wall. Okay.

Marco: Of a movie. So.

Amanda: Yeah, so she had. I remember she had all of her and she wanted my mom to choreograph all of her at this theater.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: My mom didn't know the music. You know, we didn't have the album. Maybe it hadn't. Probably hadn't come out yet. But anyway, the movie had just come out or whatever and my mom hadn't seen it. So she brought over the movie in the. Isn't that what that's called, a Super 8?

Marco: I know. I feel like a Super 8 is smaller.

Amanda: Okay, well, whatever it was the film that you put in the projector, a film reel of Oliver, she brought that over. I mean, it was before vhs. Okay, or maybe it wasn't before vhs, I don't know. But VHS was like a new fangled thing anyway. So I remember she brought the film of Oliver and they projected it on the wall and I sat with Rosemarie, I think, was that her name? Chain smoking for the Hingham Conservatory Music Theater or whatever.

Marco: Amazing.

Amanda: In Massachusetts and watched Oliver with them. I'll never forget it. But this woman was just like, you know, long nails, a crazy bun piled sort of haphazardly on top of her head, like, lacy blouse and red stiletto heels.

Marco: Amazing.

Amanda: She just was like a torrent of smoke.

Marco: I just picture Rosemarie from D*** Van D***.

Amanda: Oh, I don't know who that is.

Marco: She was a comedy writer, the female comedy writer on the D*** Van D*** Show.

Amanda: What was the premise of the D*** Van D*** Show?

Marco: I mean, I. I was really, really young when I saw the repeats of it, so I can barely tell you. I can tell you that he trips over the ottoman when he walks in and there was like a writing room.

Amanda: So they're actually writing a show for him.

Marco: I don't know if they were like. I think they were writing a show. I don't know if it was for him, but it was Rosemary, the guy with the dark hair, the bald dude and D*** Van D*** and they would write their little show, they would write a comedy show. And I think Rosemary and the dark haired guy were the comedic writers and the rest I don't know. And Rob Reiner's father was one of the writers, I think, both of the D*** Van D*** show and was one of the writers in the writing room on the D*** Van D*** Show.

Amanda: Oh, wow.

Marco: That's the best I can remember, but I couldn't tell you anything other than that. I just happen to like sitcoms, so I know a little bit about a lot of sitcoms, even though I haven't seen them. So name a sitcom. I'll tell you who the Schneider is on the sitcom.

Amanda: My Two Dads.

Marco: My Two Dads was Two fathers. One was buttoned up and one was more cool. Right.

Amanda: I think so. That was a real. That was. Everyone loved that premise. One's a nerd, is a cool guy,

Marco: and I don't know who the Schneider is on that show. That's. That's about all I know about that. That show.

Amanda: Okay, let me think of another one. How about the one with Tom Hanks and they dressed up like bosom buddies. Bosom buddies, yeah. That was. God, I love that show.

Marco: That great. That show.

Amanda: So, I mean, they were the crazy ones, weren't they? Kind of.

Marco: They were. Well, they were two guys who pretended to be women so that they could live in a. Yeah. In a dormitory or in a. In a.

Amanda: All women's dorm.

Marco: It wasn't a dorm, but it was a dorm.

Amanda: Like, I think back then it was

Marco: at like a halfway. It was like a house.

Amanda: It was not a halfway house.

Marco: It was a.

Amanda: Can I just say, back then, up until the 80s, there were places where you could live like an apartment, but just women. But you'd have a shared bathroom.

Marco: Exactly.

Amanda: Almost like a tenement. That's what I was trying to say.

Marco: But it's not a dormitory because that's.

Amanda: They would call it a dorm. Yeah, yeah. It's not associated with a college or university, but it would be more of a dorm, because I don't think dormitory has to be part of a college or university. But in any event, you could call it a tenement. Maybe. But I mean, that's because I remember when I was going to move to New York, they still existed. And I was sort of looking at them like these houses for young ladies, just so it was all women. So there was like a safety component. Sure, sure. But you shared bathrooms and things like that. Yeah. So that. And it was cheaper and. And it was even when I looked like the cheapest place to live in New York at the time.

Amanda: And

Marco: I think the house mother was played by that older actress now, Holland.

Amanda: Holland Taylor.

Marco: Holland Taylor, I think Holland Taylor, yeah. And there was the blonde, the big statuesque blonde. And I want to say that was Donna Dixon. I could be wrong.

Amanda: I Can't help you there. I think.

Marco: I think she ended up marrying Dan Aykroyd.

Amanda: Oh, really?

Marco: Yeah, I think. I think so. And then there was the shorter woman with the dark hair who was kind of, you know, bigger, and she was funny.

Amanda: Bigger.

Marco: She.

Amanda: He's doing b*** motions.

Marco: No, I wasn't doing b*** motions.

Amanda: You were.

Marco: Was doing bigger. She's bigger.

Amanda: I'm offended by all of it.

Marco: Well, anyways, she was the funny one.

Amanda: Yeah. Okay.

Marco: Okay. And that was the story there.

Amanda: That was always the lot. But. But I guarantee you one thing about the 80s. Go back and look, and she's not as big as you remember.

Marco: Fair enough.

Amanda: Because they would have these characters and they would be the. The chubby, funny ones. And then you go back and you're like, they weren't chubby.

Marco: Now, can you find out if it was Holland Taylor who played the. The house mother on Bosom Buddies?

Amanda: Oh, my goodness. I did not know I'd do a deep dive.

Marco: I need to know if Dan Aykroyd married the blonde one.

Amanda: I can't do all of this. This is a lot of work.

Marco: You just have to type in Bosom Buddies.

Amanda: I will, but it's not gonna be who did Dan Aykroyd marry?

Marco: Well, I'll know when you mentioned her name.

Amanda: Buzzum Buddies. Oh, so you know this woman's name if she married Dan Aykroyd?

Marco: Yeah, I was. I was young when that came out, but I remember it being very funny. And I bet if I watched episodes today, they wouldn't be very funny.

Amanda: Oh, my goodness. Can I read you the pitch? So I'm gonna pitch this to you like it's a series today and you're a producer. Okay, Margo, here's the show I want to do. Kip and Henry, two young studs working for a New York ad agency, come home to find their apartment building being demolished.

Amanda: Right.

Amanda: Amy, the receptionist, convinces them to move into her complex. Oh, she's the inn. The problem is that it's a complex. So they're calling it a complex. A complex for women only. But the rent is cheap. To get the low rent joint. The low rent joint. All they have to do is dress in drag. Okay. Enter Buffy and Hildegard, AKA Kip and Henry. Who was Hildegard?

Marco: Hildegard was, I think, the short one. I think, the other guy. Yeah.

Amanda: And Buffy was Tom Hanks.

Marco: Hanks. I think so.

Amanda: Sonny and Isabel are two cuties living in the same building. Sun, Sunny. Being heavily pursued by Kip. Or was it Buffy. The ruse is eventually known by all the women in the building, but by now, Buffy and Hildegard are each just one of the girls. The show was a launching point in the careers of eventual movie megastar Tom Hanks, who played the Kip Buffy role in the series. Okay. Anyway, the cast. So Peter Scolari.

Marco: Yes.

Amanda: And Tom Hanks.

Marco: Yes.

Amanda: It'd be hard to be Peter Scolari and be like, I was good too,

Marco: and he was great in New Heart.

Amanda: He was great. Oh, yeah, he was great. Okay. Wendy Jo Sperber is Amy Cassidy. Donna Dixon.

Marco: Thank you.

Amanda: Was Sunny Lumen all right? So did she marry? I'm pretty sure. Do you want me to look? Yeah, of course. All right. And Holland Taylor was Ruth Thumper.

Marco: There you go. I mean, I was a kid the

Amanda: last time I saw me as Holland Taylor. So Holland Taylor was playing a battle axe back then.

Marco: Yes, she's been a battle axe for years and she does it so well.

Amanda: I get it. I play them too. Donna Dixon. Let's just see. She's looked. Yep. Dan Aykroyd. They're no longer together. Oh, sorry to say. Well, but they were together a very, very long time.

Marco: They had a good run.

Amanda: They had a very good run. They made some albums. You know.

Marco: Who was the Schneider on Newhart? And we'll end it there.

Amanda: Who? The Schneider on New.

Marco: Like, who was the. Was it Larry? Larry.

Amanda: Which Newhart? The new. You're talking about the. The new heart that we watched.

Marco: Well, the new heart that was before that. I was a little kid once again and I think my parents watch it and Marsha Wal was the receptionist.

Amanda: So the original. So it was the Bob Newhart show and that was six seasons from 1972. So then what's the one we're talking about?

Marco: It's called Newhart.

Amanda: It's just called Newhart. Yeah. And who am I looking up?

Marco: I don't know.

Amanda: Henry Mancini did the theme song.

Marco: Okay, I couldn't tell. I couldn't tell you the theme song of Newhart.

Amanda: If you heard it, you would know it. Yeah. The handyman. Tom Poston as George Utley. The sensitive, dutiful, trustworthy, but slow witted handyman. Yeah.

Marco: He wasn't very funny though, that guy. He was a character actor. You've seen him in everything. Tom Poston.

Amanda: Well, then Larry, Darrell and Darryl must have been right. Yeah. William, Tony. William Sanderson, Tony Papenfuss and John Volstead. Gosh, Larry Darrell and Daryl were really funny. You know, Newhart, we love Newhart so much. I mean, who didn't right from that time? But my family loved it so much. I'm just trying to see when it aired, because at that time. Yeah, 1982 to 1990.

Marco: So during those years, you guys ran an inn.

Amanda: We ran an inn in Vermont, surprisingly, with Bob Newhart. He based the show on it. No, but we were going. My family would commute to Canada, back and forth from New England to Canada. So we had a lot of experiences through Maine and then obviously in rural New Brunswick, but we weren't living there yet. So we were experiencing rural New Brunswick, but we hadn't fully settled there anyway. And we did by the time we had started going, sort of as the show just started airing a little bit after it, and then by the time it ended, we were fully settled. So that kind of any fish out of water into a rural existence, like the movie Baby Boom was my mom's favorite movie because it's the same kind of premise was very important to my family. We saw ourselves in that. So there you go.

Marco: Well, there you go. Well, folks, that's the end of this episode, which, where we cover a lot of sitcoms from the 80s.

Amanda: Didn't know we were going to do that today.

Marco: I hope you enjoyed it and I hope some of you actually found it uninteresting enough that you were able to chill.

Amanda: And if you're still with us and you know, tell us who your Schneider is.

Marco: Yeah, tell us who.

Amanda: Let us know.

Marco: Yeah, we'd love to know that. Until next time, we hope you were able to listen and sleep.