The Faking of "THAT'S OUR RALPH!"
In case you haven't figured it out, THAT'S OUR RALPH! is a completely made up TV series. It was an April Fool's Day prank. It was a lot of fun trying to create a fake TVCU blog that seemed real, and I thought I'd share the process. The title--I was really trying to capture the essence of the early 1980s, and the numerous really bad failed sitcoms that I remember. Thus I came up with this generic, cheesy title that just seemed perfect for the type of show I was trying to represent. The premise--Using that logic, I created a show that was the typical sitcom trope of that era, which had come before and still exists, but really seemed to populate the 1980s. A man who is kind of the dumb, scheming family man, with the smart nagging wife, and cute, generic kids. The picture used for the show's star is a generic picture I found in a Google images search. I have no idea who this guy is. But he's absolutely not Billy Stiper. In fac...