Now as an adult, knowing how tv shows are made, there were unpaid interns whose job it was to watch hours and hours of WTR and pull the most absurd clips. What a dream.
I watched that episode with the kid hitting the floor. Me and my brother laughed so much we found out he had asthma. After that Walker became a tradition in my house.
what the fuck does twitter have to do with a comedy late night show? don't even put both in the same sentence, twitter is one of the many cancer of modern society, this is a show that was built by people who worked hard and had originality
The Walker Lever has a double whammy of being hilarious for its out of context clips and Conan’s reactions to them. This will always make me laugh no matter how many times I watch it. 😂
WTR was such a smooth operation. In the action sequences you could hardly even see the edits. It was more like you felt them in your soul like a chainsaw.
Fun Fact: The kid hitting the ground was because his dad (Dan Lauria) was a crime boss who was trying to teach him tough love. At the end of the episode, the kid does the right thing and gives the Rangers the evidence to put him away. This episode was less focused on Walker but on a female ranger who felt the case personally because she has a daughter the boy's age. If I remember, in the end, when the father yells at his son, "I TRUSTED YOU!" The ranger coldly replies. "Your son trusted you to make him feel safe. How does it feel?"
@@captainw0wYou should never betray your friends and family. Never ever rat on them. If you have a problem you handle it INSIDE the family. Not with outsiders. And certainly never with the police! What's this world coming to where someone is glorified for telling on their family to the police.
Why did the child have to jump? He's literally standing on a ladder. Just walk down the ladder, son. Oh, but then we wouldn't have been treated to that glorious outcome.
Whats astounding, is that TV used to be so terrible is the fact that THAT show was literally one highest rating TV shows of all time during its 8 YEAR RUN.
What? What planet are you from. It was successful, but wasn't "one of the highest rating tv shows of all time". It cracked the top 20 in 2 of it's 8 years. Pretty decent, but not as high as you think.
The show is a cult classic still watched in the USA and around the world . Yeah it wasn’t arthouse but it was entertaining, funny and often showed good values
Jack Arnold (Dad) from The Wonder Years was always a strict disciplinarian. I member that episode when he made Kevin jump off the roof after his frisbee got stuck up there.
4:35 LOL- “What the hell was that? I’ve never seen anything more horrific than that. The ones without Walker are the most scary in a way. He’s not there to make sure that those things don’t happen. When you don’t see Walker in a clip you know something terrible is happening. He let that kid hit the ground”. 🤣🤣🤣 IDK but that’s FN hilarious commentary to me
I'll never forget that one moment in the show where Conan kept telling the audience they were retiring the Walker, Texas Ranger lever. And the most absurd things were happening in the studio that would somehow set the lever off. I remember there was a guy in the audience eating watermelon. He spit the seed out and it flew far enough to hit the lever and start a new clip. 🤣
I saw this episode when it first aired. I had never seen Conan so upset before as to get up like that! I have to admit that the clip horrified me too! But there was nothing for it. I'm just glad he recovered from the shock!
I saw this in ireland when CNBC ran late show and the tonight. conan did a series about hyping up Dirty Dancing and then when he saw he did not like it
I remember this one being 1st or second time seeing the lever. I was cracking up at how hysterical these clips were. This was when I'd watch the show very night just to see the lever get pulled. I had seen a Walker Texas Ranger episode here and there when it would air on prime time. Sometimes they'd start off really interesting to where i'd watch all the way through. I had never noticed how campy the acting was until the lever came about. Though I see that same cringey over acting in NCIS:LA and all a dozen other cops shows of recent years. So I cant say Walker was any different but Chuck Norris made it watchable.
