Talk:John Boy and Billy

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The funniest radio show I've ever heard.

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[edit] Page mentioned on the Big Show, 11/18/06

Comments were made regarding the accuracy (or lack thereof) on this page and Billy noted that he would correct himself. I'm not sure if he meant it, but this page does need some editing - most notably (from glancging) on Marci's portion.

[edit] Page mentioned on The Big Show, 1/27/06!

John Boy and Billy mentioned this page on The Big Show on 1/27/06, with Tim Wilson as the guest! Cool! Just to let visitors to the page know, JB&B don't actually maintain this page; it's edited by fans of The Big Show. We've seen a lot of edits to the page today (many of them possibly done by the cast and crew themselves). :) KansaiKitsune 22:23, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page mentioned on The Big Show, 6/2/06!

JB&B read large sections of this page on air on 6/2/06, covering in particular the information on Marty (Smarty Marty, the One Man Party)


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My boyfriend and I listen to the show every morning on the way to school. We get up just in time to hear the Current Events Quiz, and don't leave the car till it's over. It perks me up for the day! Thanks guys!


Beth -Nashville, TN

[edit] Merge & cleanup

[edit] Merge

The individual crew articles are not notable in their own right, and contain hardly any notable information. They should be merged into the main article, or at the very least, moved into subpages of the main article. They don't merit articles of their own. Waggers 15:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Characters

The (currently) seperate "Characters" article duplicates much of the information already here in the main article. As it stands, the Characters sections is already excessively long. We don't need a list of every character that has ever appeared, but just the most notable ones, if that. Waggers 10:59, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Strongly disagree that the character list belongs here. It's long and would be best served in a separate article. I'm bolding removing that section from this article. Feel free to revert me. NickelShoe 18:22, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree that moving the list here would make this article too long. My concern is that the character list is not noteworthy enough to merit an article of its own; my feeling was that proposing a merge was a better compromise than going for an all-out delete. However, in retrospect, deleting the character list article might be the better option. Waggers 10:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crew

I notice that somebody removed the "mergefrom" templates without merging the articles, and there's been no further discussion here, so I've gone for the "be bold" philosophy. I've changed all but two of the individual crew articles to redirects. I have not copied over any further information from the articles as (a) it is largely not notable, (b) the summaries already in this article are adequate, and (c) the article is already pretty long and doesn't need more content! The two I've left are Jeff Pillars and Robert D. Raiford as these seem to contain information that makes them notable in their own right. Nevertheless these two articles will require cleanup as currently they read as if this radio show is the most notable thing they do. I'll tag them for cleanup and remove the mergeto templates. Waggers 11:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

This article reads more like a homepage or fansite rather than a neutral, informative encyclopaedic article. By the same token, it looks like the talk page is being used as a message board about the show itself rather than for discussing the article... Waggers 15:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Agreed - I also wonder who used the word bellicose as a descriptor for the target audience. I'd like to see a source on that or see it removed. Jimmylogan0916 16:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Of course it reads like a damned promotional site; they probably have someone who checks it every week to make them sound like the hottest thing on the air. That's what happens when you have a public-forum encyclopedia. These guys living depends on being promoted...

I really don't think the mention of Alice Cooper's (or anybody else, for that matter) ability to finish their program on time has any relevence to this article and it should probably be removed. If nobody disagrees and I get around to it I'll come back and remove it myself. Es330td 12:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose?

Does the article contain any information of interest to those who for some geographic or other reason do not or cannot listen to this show? The incredibly long lists seem especially pointless. Perhaps it is difficult to convey the spirit of a radio show in few words, but this article demonstrates that it's even harder to convey it in great numbers of them.

Perhaps some avid fan of the show would like to emulate Hercules and clean things up a bit? Snezzy 06:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)