https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/working-stiffs.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093343/
1979 CBS. "My Boys Are Having a Baby." Michael Keaton and Jim Belushi janitor sitcom. Paul Reubens plays a character called Heimlich. Allan Arbus, Val Bisoglio, Lorna Patterson. Greg Antonacci, who we saw in Makin' It last week, directed two episodes. Penny Marshall directed the pilot. Only four episodes aired but it got some play later when Keaton and Belushi became names. Yet another 1979 season show that has showed up on Youtube and there are more coming.
Nikki (Lorna Patterson) is pregnant and her no good husband Ralph (Thomas Callaway) leaves her rather than deal with a new child. Mike (Michael Keaton) escorts him down the stairs, head first, and Ernie (Jim Belushi) heroically steps in to be a surrogate father. But the baby is coming now, right in the middle of a John Payne film festival, and the mother is sprawled out on a Star Trek pinball machine. "Dr. Spock," Ernie says. "Mr. Spock," says the mother. The boys have to deliver the baby because help is not on the way. "Is it a boy or a girl?" asks the mother. "We're not to that part yet!" says Ernie as the baby is on the way. Uh, oh. It's twins.
There are a few episodes of Working Stiffs on Youtube, including one that was unaired. Decent enough show. Fun for the young cast. Paul Reubens is probably the funniest thing. Already skilled at playing eccentric characters.
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