#ted mcginley

[manny-jacinto]

SHRINKING 🧠 (2023-) #02.01 | "Jimmying"

[docgold13]

Heroes & Villains The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

The Justice Guild of America 

The heroic Justice Guild were a team of superheroes based in Seaboard City on an alternate Earth. In a dimension parallel to this alternate Earth, the Justice Guild were believed to be fictional characters, having appeared in popular comic books of the middle twentieth century. Evidentially the creators of these comics had somehow subconsciously ‘tuned in’ on the events of the alternate Earth when crafting their stories.  John Stewart of the Justice League was of this earth and he grew up greatly enjoying reading the comic book exploits of the mighty Justice Guild.  

Sadly, the Justice Guild perished in a terrible nuclear war that decimated their planet, leaving it a wasteland inhabited by a small population of survivors.  As a result of the Guild’s deaths, the comic writers were no longer inspired by The Guild and the comics featuring them were eventually cancelled.

Ray Thompson, a young citizen of Seaboard City, survived the nuclear atrocities and developed vast psychic powers from the radioactive fallout. Ray used his newfound powers to recreate the world in which he lived and ‘resurrected’ his heroes. Other survivors of the war were forced to play their parts in Ray's world, becoming witless puppets to his whim.

Decades later, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern and J'onn J'onzz found themselves transported to this parallel earth after being caught in a dimensional rift. John Stewart immediately recognized the heroes he had read about in his youth.  Following some initial confusion, The Leaguers were welcomed into the Justice Guild as fellow heroes and together they battled against the dreaded villains of the Injustice Guild.

It was not long, however, before the Leaguers were able to ascertain the truth about this world.  They discovered that young Ray, the adolescent sidekick to the Guild, was manipulating reality with his mental powers and enslaving his fellow survivors.  The imagoes of the Justice Guild he created were true to their original selves.  And when they discovered that they were not real, that they were puppets enforcing a tyrannical rule, they turned against Ray and demanded freedom for the survivors of this world.

Ray used his powers in an effort to destroy both the Guild and the League.  Working together, however, the heroes were able to defeat Ray.  The Justice Guild sacrificed themselves so to free their world and thereafter the Justice Leaguers were able to return to their home dimension.  

The Justice Guild was composed of the Streak (voiced by actor David Naughton); Tom Turbine (voiced by Ted McGinley); Catman (voiced by Stephan Root); The Siren (voiced by Jennifer Hale); and The Green Guardsman (voiced by William Katt). Actor Neil Patrick Harris voiced Ray Thompson.  The tragic team of heroes featured in the sixteenth and seventeenth episodes of the first season of Justice League, ‘Legends Parts I and II.’   

[vintagegeekculture]

Prolific 70s-80s television actor Theodore Martin McGinley has a dubious reputation as “the Patron Saint of Shark Jumping” and “the killer of television shows.” 

You see, Ted McGinley was usually added to a long-running and venerable show’s cast well into the show’s run, in later seasons, right when they run out of steam creatively and continue unecessarily. In these cases, Ted appears on dying shows like the Grim Reaper himself. Ted McGinley joining the cast can usually be identified as the exact moment the show jumped the shark, as he did as a later season cast addition on such TV classics as Happy Days, Dynasty, the Love Boat, and Married With Children. 

What gets even more impressive is that his appearance serving a harbinger of doom for television shows continued well into the 2000s. His run of guest appearances on both the West Wing and the Practice coincided at just the precise moment when the consensus of most long term viewers was that the shows had gone on a bit too long. Ted McGinley is, in that respect, like the gods Mercury or Anubis, a psychopomp who’s duty is to guide a dying show to the next world. 

[flipjack]

So many feels

[gameofthunder66]

Shrinking (2023- ) tv series

-(started) watchin' Season 2- 11/12/2024- on Apple tv

[filministic]

Shrinking (2023-…)

[beardedmrbean]

I guess you're gonna miss the panty raid

Says who?

[mythirdparent]

[nostalgiafan]

Married With Children (1987-97)

[thekylemeredith]

We all agree that #Shrinking is one of the best shows on TV, correct?

I'm excited to have the cast on today's episode to talk about the season 2 with Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Ted McGinley, Lukita Maxwell, creator Bill Lawrence, & more at Consequence

[denver-carrington]

Belated birthday wishes to Ted McGinley (Clay), who turned 66 on May 30. He's photographed here by Robert Ascroft in 2023 for his role in Shrinking.

[dorothy16]

Cast of ‘Shrinking’ photographed by Robert Ascroft

[male1971]

A Ted McGinley appreciation post:

Happy Days (1980-1984)

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

The Love Boat (1984-1986)

Dynasty (1987-1989)

Married… With Children (1991-1997)

Hope & Faith (2003-2006)

Shrinking (2023)

[multiprises]

« Please, don’t say the thing you always say when I drink too much…

– Was it worth it?

– Fuck off. »

Apology Tour, Shrinking, 1.07

Randall Keenan Winston (D),  Brett Goldstein (S), 03/03/23

[kwebtv]

Stephanie Faracy, Ted McGinley, T.R. Knight, Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in "Charlie Lawrence"

[mythirdparent]