The creator of ABC‘s “TGIF” is setting the document straight.
Jim Janicek created the favored programming block again within the Nineteen Eighties, and it has featured such exhibits as Roseanne, Full Home, Household Issues, Step by Step, Boy Meets World and extra.
Whereas many thought it stood for “Thank God It’s Friday,” Jim reveals that the Friday evening block’s acronym really stood for one thing else!
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“[TGIF] just isn’t ‘Thank God It’s Friday,’” Danielle Fishel mentioned on a brand new episode of her podcast, Pod Meets World.
Alongside together with her Boy Meets World co-stars and co-hosts Rider Sturdy and Will Freidle, they cleared it up that TGIF stands for “Thank Goodness It’s Humorous.”
“We had been [first] speaking about issues just like the ‘Friday Enjoyable Membership,’” Jim revealed. “There’s a complete record [of brand names] someplace I most likely may dig up, however I do not forget that one. , ‘It’s Friday Evening.’ A number of little short-isms.”
“I don’t recall precisely the place [‘TGIF’] got here from. That was on our record!” he added.
Jim additionally famous he was skeptical of utilizing that when it was first pitched because it may have prompted a authorized dispute with the restaurant chain TGI Friday’s.
“We had been animating the open. After which, [ABC executives] Stu Brower and Bob Iger referred to as and mentioned, ‘We’ve landed on TGIF. We wanna name it TGIF,’” Jim shared. “In order that’s the place we received the title, and we began animating these letters into the open and went from there.”
“Bob, I imagine, got here up with ‘Thank Goodness It’s Humorous,’ to keep away from any battle with any restaurant,” he added.
“TGIF” was retired after the 1999-2000 season, with Boy Meets World, The Hughleys, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Making the Band as the ultimate lineup of exhibits.
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