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* SharedUniverse: [[WordOfGod According to George Lucas]], Roger and Penny Henderson are the parents of Curtis from ''Film/AmericanGraffiti''.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: InUniverse, television (and ''color'', at that). It is everybody else scoffing at the idea after all the effort and even having a working camera model during TheGreatDepression that drives the murderer to... well, murder.

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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: InUniverse, television Television (and ''color'', at that). It is everybody else scoffing at the idea after all the effort and even having a working camera model during TheGreatDepression that drives the murderer to... well, murder.
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* TheCameo: Bobcat Goldthwait as one of the writers on strike, drunk off his ass and providing GoingPostal KillEmAll ideas for every script. Also George Burns as an InUniverse comedian.

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* TheCameo: Bobcat Goldthwait as one of the writers on strike, drunk off his ass and providing GoingPostal KillEmAll ideas for every script. Also George Burns as an InUniverse comedian.

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[[caption-width-right:300:At WBN, “dead air” is about to take on a whole new meaning...]]

''Radioland Murders'' is a 1994 comedy-mystery produced by Creator/GeorgeLucas and directed by [[Film/BrainDonors Mel Smith]]. The script was written by Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn.

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[[caption-width-right:300:At WBN, “dead air” "dead air" is about to take on a whole new meaning...]]

''Radioland Murders'' is a 1994 comedy-mystery produced by Creator/GeorgeLucas and directed by [[Film/BrainDonors Mel Smith]].Smith. The script was written by Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn.



Enter Roger Henderson (Creator/BrianBenben), the lead writer, and his wife Penny (Creator/MaryStuartMasterson), who is seeking to divorce him. Both are just trying to make sure everything goes well, but darn it, someone keeps killing people. And wouldn't you know it, Roger always manages to be the first on the scene of the crime. So while Penny tries to keep things from falling apart backstage, Roger has to clear his name, while running from the cops and single-handedly re-writing all of the scripts.

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Enter Roger Henderson (Creator/BrianBenben), the lead writer, and his wife Penny (Creator/MaryStuartMasterson), who is seeking to divorce him. Both are just trying to make sure everything goes well, but darn it, someone keeps killing people. And wouldn't you know it, Roger always manages to be the first on the scene of the crime. crime.

So while Penny tries to keep things from falling apart backstage, Roger has to clear his name, while running from the cops and single-handedly re-writing all of the scripts.
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* GermanicEfficiency: Mr. Katzenback boasts this as he fixes the gears on his rotating stage. They become his FamousLastWords.

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* GermanicEfficiency: Mr. Katzenback boasts this as he fixes the gears on his rotating stage. They become his FamousLastWords.last words.
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The film was in DevelopmentHell for over 20 years before it finally got released, but was mostly panned and did very poorly at the box office. Which is a shame, since it is absolutely hilarious.

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