h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In the "Characters" section, why isn't John Ratzenberger's name in brackets next to Cliff's entry, like all the others?

In the "Guest" section, the "Johnny Carson" paragraph is in the wrong font, and has a spurious carriage return giving it an extra bullet point in the list.

In the "Changes" section, you refer to "Nielson" ratings - it's "Nielsen".

Oh, and you forgot to mention that the barfly character, "Morn" in "Star Trek: Deep Space 9" is directly modelled on "Norm"...

Well LOONed!

The first one wasn't my fault, the brackets were added by the sub editor

Well looned indeed! They're fixed now.

Oh no they're not... The spurious carriage return in the middle of the Johnny Carson segment is still there, causing the words "Tonight Show" to break onto a new line, complete with an extra bullet point...

Quite right! I've fixed it now.

My fellow LoONies are letting me down. You've all missed the biggest erratum of them all. Dan Hadeya's character's name was Nick *Tortelli* not Lozupone. Lozupone is Carla's maiden name. (See the episode where Carla's mother, Mrs Lozupone, on her deathbed, after having the "death dream, asks Carla to rename her eldest son after two grandparents, thus he would become Benito Mussolini Tortelli.)

CountZerosaLoONie

Fair enough, although you'd have to actually watch the show to get that one, and personally I hated it...

"Frasier" is , though...

It wasn't just that one episode (or are you referring to the spin off?). Nick was always referred to as "Nick Tortelli". The name "Lozupone" didn't come up in many episodes, but when they did it was always in reference to Carla's family's names. But in this entry, the footnote for Nick Lozupone, it states that Dan Hedeya went on to star in a short lived sitcom named "THE TORTELLIS".
Q.E.D.
Also, the Nick Tortelli character was one of the longer lasting side characters in Cheers. He kept coming back even after Eddie LeBec died.
big error.

Also, here is an interesting behind the scenes look into the death of Eddie LeBec. The death of Eddie LeBec was a gruesome one, killed under a Zamboni. After his death we discover that he was an adulterer and a bigamist. Why all these bad things happening to a character that had always been adorable in a washed up, rather dim hockey player sort of way? Because the actor, Jay Thomas didn't get permission from the producers of Cheers before he went off to star in "Love & War" with Susan Dey on another network.

OOOPs, sorry, I got the wrong character. Jay Thomas got canned from Cheers after appearing on "Murphy Brown" and THEN went to "Love & War".

I LoONed myself.

There are a number of mistakes in this dry, unforgivably arch entry. Perhaps next time the entry should be written by someone who actually watches and appreciated the show. All in all, the entry was extremely poor, riddled with errors and downright dull.

"Perhaps next time the entry should be written by someone who actually watches and appreciated the show."

I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it, but I do watch the show... it's one of my favorites. I'd be very surprised if there's one episode I haven't seen.

While you're criticizing me of not finding facts before writing, I might accuse you of the very same thing. Before you say something in haste similar about another entry, I'd advise you to stop and think about whether your conclusions are based on any facts at all.

As for the 'riddled with errors' part, I'm sure it's not perfect, so speak up about them and I'm sure they can be changed.

I thought it was a fine entry aside from some small errors. I do see that Nick Tortelli's name is still wrong however. You might want to drop a note in feedback pointing to this convo.