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* For the episode of the show ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', go [[Recap/RevolutionS1E16TheLoveBoat here]].

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[[caption-width:300:And Liberace as the engineer.]]

Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director, wrote about her experiences in a book called ''The Love Boats''. A trilogy of {{Made for TV Movie}}s followed, and then it finally became an AaronSpelling-produced series airing on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1977 to 1986.

The show was an hourlong comedy, with several intertwining plots about the guests and the crew. As the title implied, people were falling in love all over the place. And, of course, went further than that.

Now, even if you never watched the show, you've probably heard [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo the theme song]], one of the most well-known TV themes ''ever'', and a favorite for [[LoungeLizard fictional lounge acts]]. This was sung by Jack Jones and written by PaulWilliams. Yes, the man who wrote [[TheMuppetMovie "The Rainbow Connection"]] also wrote this.
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!!''TheLoveBoat'' provides examples of:
* CoolBoat: Nearly all the action took place aboard the ''Pacific Princess''.
* {{Crossover}}: A couple with ''FantasyIsland'', another Aaron Spelling show which immediately followed ''The Love Boat'' on ABC Saturday nights.
** Yet another Spelling show, ''Series/CharliesAngels'', had an episode where the title characters pursue art thieves on a ''Pacific Princess'' cruise and encounter Capt. Stubing and his crew.
* FramedFaceOpening: Utilized for the guest passengers on each episode, from season 2 onward. The standard credit sequence had the port window motif over the Princess backdrop while the final season (1985-1986) used a wave motif over a panoramic montage of sights from around the world.
* InsatiableNewlyweds: A series RunningGag, starting from the pilot.
* Magazine/{{MAD}}: ''Lust Boat''
* TheMovie: Besides the pilots, there were a number of special two-hour movies throughout the show's run, including three which aired in 1986-87 in lieu of a tenth season.
* TheOtherDarrin: The first pilot movie had an entirely different cast playing the ship's crew.
* PilotMovie: Three of them, in fact.
* PottyDance: Isaac does this when forced to share a cabin (and a bathroom) with the other male crew.
* PopculturalOsmosis: The theme song.
* PutOnABus: Julie [=McCoy=], after Lauren Tewes' cocaine addiction made her unable to do her job.
** TheBusCameBack, however. She made a guest appearance (as a passenger) in a season 9 episode, then returned as cruise director for the three season 10 movies.
* ReunionShow: ''A Valentine Voyage'', in 1990.
* {{Revival}}: ''Love Boat: The Next Wave'', which ran on {{UPN}} in 1998-99 and involved an entirely different ship and crew (although several members of the original show's cast did appear in one episode, where they got together for the wedding of the now-grown Vicki Stubing).
* ShippingTropes: Let's just put this here and save ourselves the puns.
* SpecialGuest: Lots of them. Including, of all people, Creator/AndyWarhol.
* StuntCasting: Virtually every guest star, including BillyBarty and PattyMaloney as a dwarf couple accompanied by their normal-height son.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Judy [=McCoy=], for Julie [=McCoy=].
* ThemeTune: Is a subject for a lot of [[AffectionateParody parodies]].
** This mash-up of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyxZR69CI0&feature=related Star Trek and Love Boat]]
*** {{Titanic}} [[SoundtrackDissonance Love]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXQfSNLG4I Boat]]
** ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' did one called "The Catholic Boat", making fun of the priest sexual predator scandals.
** ''SaturdayNightLive'' also made a parody on an episode guest starring Patrick Stewart: ''[[http://trekspace.ning.com/video/1977635:Video:103407 The Love Boat:]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' (complete with surprise cameo by Bernie Kopell).
** ''SesameStreet'' did a sketch with Ernie and some Anything Muppets, called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr35dJYt54E I Love This Boat]]".
** The 1979 animated special ''[[ScoobyDoo Scooby Goes Hollywood]]'' had Shaggy and Scooby on ''The Love Ship''.
** In the middle of a jailbreak in ''{{Airplane}}! II'', Jack Jones appears in the light of a searchlight singing the theme.
** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' of all things had a parody with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcngdj8Rmw Boat of Romance]]
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: Every episode featured three interwoven plot lines. Usually they were independent of each other, but on occasion they would intersect.
* WoobieOfTheWeek
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* For the engineer.]]

Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director, wrote about her experiences in a book called ''The Love Boats''. A trilogy of {{Made for
TV Movie}}s followed, and then it finally became an AaronSpelling-produced series airing on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1977 to 1986.

The show was an hourlong comedy, with several intertwining plots about the guests and the crew. As the title implied, people were falling in love all over the place. And, of course, went further than that.

Now, even if you never watched the
show, you've probably heard [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo go [[Series/TheLoveBoat here]].
* For
the theme song]], one of the most well-known TV themes ''ever'', and a favorite for [[LoungeLizard fictional lounge acts]]. This was sung by Jack Jones and written by PaulWilliams. Yes, the man who wrote [[TheMuppetMovie "The Rainbow Connection"]] also wrote this.
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!!''TheLoveBoat'' provides examples of:
* CoolBoat: Nearly all the action took place aboard the ''Pacific Princess''.
* {{Crossover}}: A couple with ''FantasyIsland'', another Aaron Spelling show which immediately followed ''The Love Boat'' on ABC Saturday nights.
** Yet another Spelling show, ''Series/CharliesAngels'', had an
episode where the title characters pursue art thieves on a ''Pacific Princess'' cruise and encounter Capt. Stubing and his crew.
* FramedFaceOpening: Utilized for the guest passengers on each episode, from season 2 onward. The standard credit sequence had the port window motif over the Princess backdrop while the final season (1985-1986) used a wave motif over a panoramic montage of sights from around the world.
* InsatiableNewlyweds: A series RunningGag, starting from the pilot.
* Magazine/{{MAD}}: ''Lust Boat''
* TheMovie: Besides the pilots, there were a number of special two-hour movies throughout the show's run, including three which aired in 1986-87 in lieu of a tenth season.
* TheOtherDarrin: The first pilot movie had an entirely different cast playing the ship's crew.
* PilotMovie: Three of them, in fact.
* PottyDance: Isaac does this when forced to share a cabin (and a bathroom) with the other male crew.
* PopculturalOsmosis: The theme song.
* PutOnABus: Julie [=McCoy=], after Lauren Tewes' cocaine addiction made her unable to do her job.
** TheBusCameBack, however. She made a guest appearance (as a passenger) in a season 9 episode, then returned as cruise director for the three season 10 movies.
* ReunionShow: ''A Valentine Voyage'', in 1990.
* {{Revival}}: ''Love Boat: The Next Wave'', which ran on {{UPN}} in 1998-99 and involved an entirely different ship and crew (although several members
of the original show's cast did appear in one episode, where they got together for the wedding of the now-grown Vicki Stubing).
* ShippingTropes: Let's just put this here and save ourselves the puns.
* SpecialGuest: Lots of them. Including, of all people, Creator/AndyWarhol.
* StuntCasting: Virtually every guest star, including BillyBarty and PattyMaloney as a dwarf couple accompanied by their normal-height son.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Judy [=McCoy=], for Julie [=McCoy=].
* ThemeTune: Is a subject for a lot of [[AffectionateParody parodies]].
** This mash-up of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyxZR69CI0&feature=related Star Trek and Love Boat]]
*** {{Titanic}} [[SoundtrackDissonance Love]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXQfSNLG4I Boat]]
** ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' did one called "The Catholic Boat", making fun of the priest sexual predator scandals.
** ''SaturdayNightLive'' also made a parody on an episode guest starring Patrick Stewart: ''[[http://trekspace.ning.com/video/1977635:Video:103407 The Love Boat:]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' (complete with surprise cameo by Bernie Kopell).
** ''SesameStreet'' did a sketch with Ernie and some Anything Muppets, called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr35dJYt54E I Love This Boat]]".
** The 1979 animated special ''[[ScoobyDoo Scooby Goes Hollywood]]'' had Shaggy and Scooby on ''The Love Ship''.
** In the middle of a jailbreak in ''{{Airplane}}! II'', Jack Jones appears in the light of a searchlight singing the theme.
** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' of all things had a parody with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcngdj8Rmw Boat of Romance]]
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: Every episode featured three interwoven plot lines. Usually they were independent of each other, but on occasion they would intersect.
* WoobieOfTheWeek
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show ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', go [[Recap/RevolutionS1E16TheLoveBoat here]].
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*** {{Titanic}} [[SoundtrackDissonance Love]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXQfSNLG4I&list=FLEB-PezNbIeQMisMK52Y5Kw&index=2&feature=plpp_video Boat]]

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*** {{Titanic}} [[SoundtrackDissonance Love]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXQfSNLG4I&list=FLEB-PezNbIeQMisMK52Y5Kw&index=2&feature=plpp_video com/watch?v=DaXQfSNLG4I Boat]]
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* SpecialGuest: Lots of them. Including, of all people, AndyWarhol.

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* SpecialGuest: Lots of them. Including, of all people, AndyWarhol.Creator/AndyWarhol.
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** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' of all things had a parody with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9qkAsHkpY Boat of Romance]]

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** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' of all things had a parody with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9qkAsHkpY com/watch?v=EVcngdj8Rmw Boat of Romance]]
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** ''SaturdayNightLive'' also made a parody on an episode guest starring Patrick Stewart: ''The Love Boat: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' (complete with surprise cameo by Bernie Kopell).

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** ''SaturdayNightLive'' also made a parody on an episode guest starring Patrick Stewart: ''The ''[[http://trekspace.ning.com/video/1977635:Video:103407 The Love Boat: Boat:]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' (complete with surprise cameo by Bernie Kopell).
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: On cruises, crew members are not allowed to mingle with guests quite as freely as happened on ''The Love Boat''. In fact, "fraternizing" with a guest can get the crew member put off the ship at the next port, and "fraternizing" is pretty broadly defined.
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Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director, wrote about her experiences in a book called ''The Love Boats''. A trilogy of {{Made for TV Movie}}s followed, and then it finally became an AaronSpelling-produced series airing on {{ABC}} from 1977 to 1986.

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Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director, wrote about her experiences in a book called ''The Love Boats''. A trilogy of {{Made for TV Movie}}s followed, and then it finally became an AaronSpelling-produced series airing on {{ABC}} Creator/{{ABC}} from 1977 to 1986.



** ''SouthPark'' did one called "The Catholic Boat", making fun of the priest sexual predator scandals.

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** ''SouthPark'' ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' did one called "The Catholic Boat", making fun of the priest sexual predator scandals.



** ''PhineasAndFerb'' of all things had a parody with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9qkAsHkpY Boat of Romance]]

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** ''PhineasAndFerb'' ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' of all things had a parody with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9qkAsHkpY Boat of Romance]]
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** ''SaturdayNightLive'' also made a parody on an episode guest starring Patrick Stewart: ''The Love Boat: [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' (complete with surprise cameo by Bernie Kopell).

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** ''SaturdayNightLive'' also made a parody on an episode guest starring Patrick Stewart: ''The Love Boat: [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' (complete with surprise cameo by Bernie Kopell).
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* CoolBoat: Nearly all the action took place aboard the ''Pacific Princess''.

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* CoolBoat: Nearly all the action took place aboard the ''Pacific Princess''.



* MadMagazine: ''Lust Boat''

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* MadMagazine: Magazine/{{MAD}}: ''Lust Boat''



* PottyDance: Isaac does this when forced to share a cabin (and a bathroom) with the other male crew.

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* PottyDance: Isaac does this when forced to share a cabin (and a bathroom) with the other male crew.



* PutOnABus: Julie [=McCoy=], after Lauren Tewes' cocaine addiction made her unable to do her job.

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* PutOnABus: Julie [=McCoy=], after Lauren Tewes' cocaine addiction made her unable to do her job.
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* ReunionShow: ''A Valentine Voyage''

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* ReunionShow: ''A Valentine Voyage'' Voyage'', in 1990.
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* {{Revival}}: ''Love Boat: The Next Wave''

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* {{Revival}}: ''Love Boat: The Next Wave''Wave'', which ran on {{UPN}} in 1998-99 and involved an entirely different ship and crew (although several members of the original show's cast did appear in one episode, where they got together for the wedding of the now-grown Vicki Stubing).

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