(07x24) 171 - A Night at Rosie's
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:54 pm
Did you know that this episode was literally written at the last minute? Originally, a version of "Good-bye, Radar" was meant to be the Season Seven finale since Gary Burghoff had already said he wasn't going to renew his contract, however the network feared in doing so, nobody would watch Season Eight, so they canceled it, and decided to hold it over till a little ways into Season Eight, and build up to it so Radar's departure could be something special.
So, needing to fill in the now empty slot in the season, Ken Levine & David Isaacs practically wrote "A Night at Rosie's" in a weekend, brought it in the following Monday, and they started filming immediately.
Personally, I dislike Eileen Saki's Rosie: beforehand, Rosie had been played by different actresses, each gave her a different demeanor and personality, but Eileen Saki's Rosie was too much like the sharp-tongued and snarky waitress stereotype that pop up in American TV all the time, she was kind of an unlikable character.
So, needing to fill in the now empty slot in the season, Ken Levine & David Isaacs practically wrote "A Night at Rosie's" in a weekend, brought it in the following Monday, and they started filming immediately.
Personally, I dislike Eileen Saki's Rosie: beforehand, Rosie had been played by different actresses, each gave her a different demeanor and personality, but Eileen Saki's Rosie was too much like the sharp-tongued and snarky waitress stereotype that pop up in American TV all the time, she was kind of an unlikable character.