"Parker Lewis Can't Lose" constantly tackles real world issues and put them in a more PG format. In this case it's the epic battle of the big video store chain vs. the family owned video store around the corner. Time after time the massive chains run the small video stores out of business. Now that the big chain, "POWder Keg Video" has moved into Santo Domingo the family owned video store around the corner happens to be "Mondo Video"... This is a clever episode as it's very realistic. Everything that Mondo Video does great it seems Powder Keg does the same thing, but twice as well. Naturally Parker the thinker he is taps into what Mondo Video can always do better than the big chain and exploits it. It's a bummer that they don't refer back to the status in the war between the two chains ever again in the series. This is one of the best episodes of Season 3 and it wraps up neatly... A little TOO convenient in my opinion :-P
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Parker's Dad
safenoe2 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I'm really enjoying re-watching Parker Lewis Can't Lose, which is one of the best shows from the 1990s, but sadly underrated. Anyway, this episode is from the third and final series, which in my humble opinion was unjustly looked down upon. Anyway, season three is pretty much about relationships, and here it's the relationship between Parker and his Dad, played by Timothy Stack.
Parker's mom, played by Mary Ellen Trainor, provides a realistically humorous counterbalance to this, as Parker's Dad wants to save Mondo Video and for Parker to run the business. Phil Hartman, who at the time was at his peak in SNL, guest stars as Phil Diamond, and whenever he spoke, it reminded me of Lionel Hutz, which Hartman voiced to perfection in The Simpsons.
Parker's mom, played by Mary Ellen Trainor, provides a realistically humorous counterbalance to this, as Parker's Dad wants to save Mondo Video and for Parker to run the business. Phil Hartman, who at the time was at his peak in SNL, guest stars as Phil Diamond, and whenever he spoke, it reminded me of Lionel Hutz, which Hartman voiced to perfection in The Simpsons.
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