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when is the rainy season in vancouver bc | Vancouver Climate, Weather By Month, Average Temperature (Canada) | ADVERTISEMENT
In Vancouver, the summers are short, comfortable, and partly cloudy and the winters are long, very cold, wet, and mostly cloudy. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 35°F to 73°F and is rarely below 24°F or above 80°F .
Based on the tourism score , the best time of year to visit Vancouver for warm-weather activities is from mid July to late August .
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The warm season lasts for 2.9 months , from June 15 to September 11 , with an average daily high temperature above 67°F . The hottest month of the year in Vancouver is July , with an average high of 72°F and low of 57°F .
The cool season lasts for 3.7 months , from November 13 to March 5 , with an average daily high temperature below 48°F . The coldest month of the year in Vancouver is December , with an average low of 36°F and high of 43°F .
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The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the entire year of hourly average temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day of the year, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.
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Brussels, Belgium (4,864 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Vancouver ( view comparison ).
In Vancouver, the average percentage of the sky covered by clouds experiences significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.
The clearer part of the year in Vancouver begins around June 11 and lasts for 3.6 months , ending around September 30 .
The clearest month of the year in Vancouver is August , during which on average the sky is clear , mostly clear , or partly cloudy 66% of the time.
The cloudier part of the year begins around September 30 and lasts for 8.4 months , ending around June 11 .
The cloudiest month of the year in Vancouver is January , during which on average the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy 73% of the time.
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|Cloudier||73%||70%||69%||63%||55%||49%||34%||34%||44%||61%||71%||72%|
|Clearer||27%||30%||31%||37%||45%||51%||66%||66%||56%||39%||29%||28%|
A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. The chance of wet days in Vancouver varies significantly throughout the year.
The wetter season lasts 6.4 months , from October 9 to April 22 , with a greater than 35% chance of a given day being a wet day. The month with the most wet days in Vancouver is November , with an average of 17.4 days with at least 0.04 inches of precipitation.
The drier season lasts 5.6 months , from April 22 to October 9 . The month with the fewest wet days in Vancouver is August , with an average of 4.2 days with at least 0.04 inches of precipitation.
Among wet days, we distinguish between those that experience rain alone , snow alone , or a mixture of the two. The month with the most days of rain alone in Vancouver is November , with an average of 17.1 days . Based on this categorization, the most common form of precipitation throughout the year is rain alone , with a peak probability of 58% on November 18 .
To show variation within the months and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day of the year. Vancouver experiences extreme seasonal variation in monthly rainfall.
Rain falls throughout the year in Vancouver. The month with the most rain in Vancouver is November , with an average rainfall of 9.9 inches .
The month with the least rain in Vancouver is July , with an average rainfall of 1.3 inches .
As with rainfall, we consider the snowfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day of the year. Vancouver experiences some seasonal variation in monthly snowfall.
The snowy period of the year lasts for 2.4 months , from December 2 to February 14 , with a sliding 31-day snowfall of at least 1.0 inches . The month with the most snow in Vancouver is January , with an average snowfall of 2.0 inches .
The snowless period of the year lasts for 9.6 months , from February 14 to December 2 . The least snow falls around July 11 , with an average total accumulation of 0.0 inches .
The length of the day in Vancouver varies extremely over the course of the year. In 2023, the shortest day is December 21 , with 8 hours, 11 minutes of daylight; the longest day is June 21 , with 16 hours, 15 minutes of daylight.
|Hours of||Jan||Feb||Mar||Apr||May||Jun||Jul||Aug||Sep||Oct||Nov||Dec|
|Daylight||8.7h||10.2h||12.0h||13.8h||15.4h||16.2h||15.7h||14.3h||12.5h||10.7h||9.1h||8.3h|
The earliest sunrise is at 5:06 AM on June 17 , and the latest sunrise is 3 hours, 1 minute later at 8:07 AM on December 31 . The earliest sunset is at 4:13 PM on December 12 , and the latest sunset is 5 hours, 8 minutes later at 9:22 PM on June 25 .
Daylight saving time (DST) is observed in Vancouver during 2023, starting in the spring on March 12 , lasting 7.8 months , and ending in the fall on November 5 .
The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.
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The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for 2023. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases.
We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.
The perceived humidity level in Vancouver, as measured by the percentage of time in which the humidity comfort level is muggy , oppressive , or miserable , does not vary significantly over the course of the year, remaining a virtually constant 0% throughout.
This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.
The average hourly wind speed in Vancouver experiences significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.
The windier part of the year lasts for 5.7 months , from October 19 to April 10 , with average wind speeds of more than 4.7 miles per hour . The windiest month of the year in Vancouver is December , with an average hourly wind speed of 6.5 miles per hour .
The calmer time of year lasts for 6.3 months , from April 10 to October 19 . The calmest month of the year in Vancouver is August , with an average hourly wind speed of 3.0 miles per hour .
The predominant average hourly wind direction in Vancouver varies throughout the year.
The wind is most often from the south for 3.5 months , from April 1 to July 16 ; for 1.7 weeks , from August 11 to August 23 ; for 1.7 weeks , from August 30 to September 11 ; and for 5.0 days , from September 22 to September 27 , with a peak percentage of 47% on June 21 . The wind is most often from the west for 3.7 weeks , from July 16 to August 11 ; for 1.0 weeks , from August 23 to August 30 ; and for 1.6 weeks , from September 11 to September 22 , with a peak percentage of 41% on July 20 . The wind is most often from the east for 6.1 months , from September 27 to April 1 , with a peak percentage of 52% on January 1 .
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Vancouver is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water.
The average water temperature experiences some seasonal variation over the course of the year.
The time of year with warmer water lasts for 3.0 months , from June 16 to September 15 , with an average temperature above 58°F . The month of the year in Vancouver with the warmest water is August , with an average temperature of 60°F .
The time of year with cooler water lasts for 4.5 months , from November 21 to April 5 , with an average temperature below 48°F . The month of the year in Vancouver with the coolest water is January , with an average temperature of 45°F .
To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Vancouver throughout the year, we compute two travel scores.
The tourism score favors clear, rainless days with perceived temperatures between 65°F and 80°F . Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Vancouver for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid July to late August , with a peak score in the first week of August .
The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with perceived temperatures between 75°F and 90°F . Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Vancouver for hot-weather activities is from late July to mid August , with a peak score in the first week of August .
For each hour between 8:00 AM and 9:00 PM of each day in the analysis period (1980 to 2016), independent scores are computed for perceived temperature, cloud cover, and total precipitation. Those scores are combined into a single hourly composite score, which is then aggregated into days, averaged over all the years in the analysis period, and smoothed.
Our cloud cover score is 10 for fully clear skies, falling linearly to 9 for mostly clear skies, and to 1 for fully overcast skies.
Our precipitation score , which is based on the three-hour precipitation centered on the hour in question, is 10 for no precipitation, falling linearly to 9 for trace precipitation, and to 0 for 0.04 inches of precipitation or more.
Our tourism temperature score is 0 for perceived temperatures below 50°F , rising linearly to 9 for 65°F , to 10 for 75°F , falling linearly to 9 for 80°F , and to 1 for 90°F or hotter.
Our beach/pool temperature score is 0 for perceived temperatures below 65°F , rising linearly to 9 for 75°F , to 10 for 82°F , falling linearly to 9 for 90°F , and to 1 for 100°F or hotter.
Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).
The growing season in Vancouver typically lasts for 8.4 months ( 258 days ), from around March 6 to around November 19 , rarely starting before February 9 or after March 26 , and rarely ending before October 29 or after December 14 .
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Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F .
Based on growing degree days alone, the first spring blooms in Vancouver should appear around May 6 , only rarely appearing before April 25 or after May 20 .
This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.
The average daily incident shortwave solar energy experiences extreme seasonal variation over the course of the year.
The brighter period of the year lasts for 3.3 months , from May 12 to August 20 , with an average daily incident shortwave energy per square meter above 5.5 kWh . The brightest month of the year in Vancouver is July , with an average of 6.6 kWh .
The darker period of the year lasts for 4.0 months , from October 22 to February 20 , with an average daily incident shortwave energy per square meter below 2.0 kWh . The darkest month of the year in Vancouver is December , with an average of 0.8 kWh .
For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Vancouver are 49.250 deg latitude, -123.119 deg longitude, and 217 ft elevation.
The topography within 2 miles of Vancouver contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 417 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 197 feet . Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation ( 4,209 feet ). Within 50 miles also contains extreme variations in elevation ( 8,730 feet ).
The area within 2 miles of Vancouver is covered by artificial surfaces ( 100% ), within 10 miles by artificial surfaces ( 39% ) and water ( 32% ), and within 50 miles by trees ( 44% ) and water ( 32% ).
This report illustrates the typical weather in Vancouver, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2016.
There are 3 weather stations near enough to contribute to our estimation of the temperature and dew point in Vancouver.
For each station, the records are corrected for the elevation difference between that station and Vancouver according to the International Standard Atmosphere , and by the relative change present in the MERRA-2 satellite-era reanalysis between the two locations.
The estimated value at Vancouver is computed as the weighted average of the individual contributions from each station, with weights proportional to the inverse of the distance between Vancouver and a given station.
The stations contributing to this reconstruction are:
- Vancouver Harbour (CWHC, 52%, 2.3 mi, north, -207 ft elevation change)
- Vancouver International Airport (CYVR, 33%, 5 mi, southwest, -203 ft elevation change)
- Boundary Bay Airport (CVBB, 15%, 10 mi, southeast, -207 ft elevation change) | https://weatherspark.com/y/476/Average-Weather-in-Vancouver-Canada-Year-Round | 30 |
when is the rainy season in vancouver bc | Weather in Vancouver | City of Vancouver | Vancouver has a moderate, oceanic climate. Protected by the mountains and warmed by the Pacific ocean currents, Vancouver is one of the warmest cities in Canada.
Although Vancouver has a reputation for rain, it actually ranks as the 9th rainiest location in Canada with Prince Rupert, Port Alberni, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Campbell River, Halifax, Sydney, and St. John's beating Vancouver for average yearly rainfall. Vancouver's wettest months are November and December with an average precipitation of 182mm. And - with an average of just 41mm of precipitation - July and August are the driest months in Vancouver.
Vancouver also ranks 34th for the least sunshine year round and 26th for the fewest sunny days. To learn more about how Vancouver ranks for other weather data, visit Environment Canada: | https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/weather.aspx | 30 |
when is the rainy season in vancouver bc | Weather in Vancouver | City of Vancouver | Vancouver has a moderate, oceanic climate. Protected by the mountains and warmed by the Pacific ocean currents, Vancouver is one of the warmest cities in Canada.
Although Vancouver has a reputation for rain, it actually ranks as the 9th rainiest location in Canada with Prince Rupert, Port Alberni, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Campbell River, Halifax, Sydney, and St. John's beating Vancouver for average yearly rainfall. Vancouver's wettest months are November and December with an average precipitation of 182mm. And - with an average of just 41mm of precipitation - July and August are the driest months in Vancouver.
Vancouver also ranks 34th for the least sunshine year round and 26th for the fewest sunny days. To learn more about how Vancouver ranks for other weather data, visit Environment Canada: | https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/weather.aspx | 30 |
who holds the record for longest home run | What is the longest home run in MLB history? | All home runs give the batter a trip around the bases, but why merely hit the ball over the fence when you can send it into orbit?
Baseball’s best sluggers have embraced that philosophy and raised the bar for what it means to mash, crush and blast. But which player hit the longest home run of all time?
It’s complicated.
Modern baseball includes countless tools for measuring exit velocity, launch angle and projected distance on home runs. However, for much of MLB history, there wasn’t even an exact way to determine the length of tape-measure home runs.
With the data we have, here’s the verdict on the longest home runs in baseball history:
The longest verified home run in American professional baseball history didn’t even happen in the majors.
In 1987, Joey Meyer of the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs launched a moonshot into the second deck of Mile High Stadium. City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson was able to verify the distance of the home run at 582 feet.
Meyer made his big league debut the following season with the Milwaukee Brewers . The first baseman ended his MLB career with 18 home runs in 156 games across two seasons, but it was his monstrous minor league homer that etched his name into the history books.
Determining the longest homer ever in MLB history is an exercise in myth-busting.
Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. While those feats would shatter Meyer’s mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances.
Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. ESPN had a Home Run Tracker that was able to estimate the distance of certain dingers, but there is still no conclusive list of the longest homers throughout MLB history. | https://sports.yahoo.com/longest-home-run-mlb-history-150050206.html?fr=sychp_catchall | 31 |
who holds the record for longest home run | List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most career home runs in regular season play (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games).
In the sport of baseball , a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play, without the benefit of a fielding error. This can be accomplished either by hitting the ball out of play while it is still in fair territory (a conventional home run), or by an inside-the-park home run .
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. He passed Hank Aaron , who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714 and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only other players to have hit 600 or more.
Players in bold face are active as of the 2023 Major League Baseball season (including free agents ), with the number in parenthesis designating the number of home runs they have hit during the 2023 season . The last change in the cutoff for the top 300 occurred on April 15, 2023, when George Springer hit his 224th career home run, displacing Bobby Doerr , Travis Fryman and Mike Lowell .
|Rank||Among players by career home runs. A blank field indicates a tie.|
|Player (2023 HRs)||Home runs hit in 2023 .|
|HR||Career home runs.|
|*||Elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame .|
|Bold||Active player. [a]|
Stats updated as of May 3, 2023.
|Rank||Player (2023 HRs)||HR|
|1||Barry Bonds||762|
|2||Hank Aaron *||755 [1]|
|3||Babe Ruth *||714|
|4||Albert Pujols||703|
|5||Alex Rodriguez||696|
|6||Willie Mays *||660|
|7||Ken Griffey Jr. *||630|
|8||Jim Thome *||612|
|9||Sammy Sosa||609|
|10||Frank Robinson *||586|
|11||Mark McGwire||583|
|12||Harmon Killebrew *||573|
|13||Rafael Palmeiro||569|
|14||Reggie Jackson *||563|
|15||Manny Ramirez||555|
|16||Mike Schmidt *||548|
|17||David Ortiz *||541|
|18||Mickey Mantle *||536|
|19||Jimmie Foxx *||534|
|20||Willie McCovey *||521|
|Frank Thomas *||521|
|Ted Williams *||521|
|23||Ernie Banks *||512|
|Eddie Mathews *||512|
|25||Mel Ott *||511|
|26||Gary Sheffield||509|
|27||Miguel Cabrera (0)||507|
|28||Eddie Murray *||504|
|29||Lou Gehrig *||493|
|Fred McGriff *||493|
|31||Adrián Beltré||477|
|32||Stan Musial *||475|
|Willie Stargell *||475|
|34||Carlos Delgado *||473|
|35||Chipper Jones *||468|
|36||Dave Winfield *||465|
|37||Jose Canseco||462|
|Adam Dunn||462|
|Nelson Cruz (3)||462|
|40||Carl Yastrzemski *||452|
|41||Jeff Bagwell *||449|
|Vladimir Guerrero *||449|
|43||Dave Kingman||442|
|44||Jason Giambi||440|
|45||Paul Konerko||439|
|46||Andre Dawson *||438|
|47||Carlos Beltrán||435|
|48||Juan González||434|
|Andruw Jones||434|
|50||Cal Ripken Jr. *||431|
|51||Mike Piazza *||427|
|52||Billy Williams *||426|
|53||Edwin Encarnación||424|
|54||Darrell Evans||414|
|55||Alfonso Soriano||412|
|56||Mark Teixeira||409|
|57||Duke Snider *||407|
|58||Andrés Galarraga||399|
|Al Kaline *||399|
|60||Dale Murphy||398|
|61||Joe Carter||396|
|62||Jim Edmonds||393|
|63||Graig Nettles||390|
|64||Johnny Bench *||389|
|65||Aramis Ramírez||386|
|66||Dwight Evans||385|
|67||Harold Baines *||384|
|68||Larry Walker *||383|
|69||Frank Howard||382|
|Ryan Howard||382|
|Jim Rice *||382|
|Giancarlo Stanton (4)||382|
|73||Albert Belle||381|
|74||Orlando Cepeda *||379|
|Tony Pérez *||379|
|Rank||Player (2023 HRs)||HR|
|Matt Williams||378|
|77||Norm Cash||377|
|Jeff Kent||377|
|79||Carlton Fisk *||376|
|80||Rocky Colavito||374|
|81||Gil Hodges *||370|
|82||Todd Helton||369|
|Ralph Kiner *||369|
|84||Lance Berkman||366|
|85||Joe DiMaggio *||361|
|86||Gary Gaetti||360|
|87||Johnny Mize *||359|
|88||Yogi Berra *||358|
|Carlos Lee||358|
|Mike Trout (8)||358|
|91||Greg Vaughn||355|
|92||Luis Gonzalez||354|
|Lee May||354|
|Torii Hunter||353|
|95||Ryan Braun||352|
|Ellis Burks||352|
|97||Dick Allen||351|
|98||Chili Davis||350|
|99||George Foster||348|
|100||José Bautista||344|
|Curtis Granderson||344|
|102||Ron Santo *||342|
|Joey Votto (0)||342|
|104||Jack Clark||340|
|105||Tino Martinez||339|
|Dave Parker||339|
|Boog Powell||339|
|108||Don Baylor||338|
|109||Joe Adcock||336|
|110||Robinson Canó (0)||335|
|Darryl Strawberry||335|
|112||Evan Longoria (3)||334|
|113||Moisés Alou||332|
|Bobby Bonds||332|
|115||Hank Greenberg *||331|
|Derrek Lee||331|
|117||Shawn Green||328|
|Mo Vaughn||328|
|119||Jermaine Dye||325|
|Willie Horton||325|
|Justin Upton (0)||325|
|122||Gary Carter *||324|
|Lance Parrish||324|
|124||Ron Gant||321|
|125||Vinny Castilla||320|
|Troy Glaus||320|
|127||Jay Bruce||319|
|Cecil Fielder||319|
|Prince Fielder||319|
|Paul Goldschmidt (4)||319|
|131||Roy Sievers||318|
|132||George Brett *||317|
|Adrián González||317|
|134||Ron Cey||316|
|Matt Holliday||316|
|Scott Rolen *||316|
|137||Jeromy Burnitz||315|
|138||Reggie Smith||314|
|139||Iván Rodríguez *||311|
|140||Jay Buhner||310|
|141||Edgar Martínez *||309|
|142||Greg Luzinski||307|
|Al Simmons *||307|
|Miguel Tejada||307|
|145||Fred Lynn||306|
|Richie Sexson||306|
|Rubén Sierra||306|
|148||Raúl Ibañez||305|
|David Justice||305|
|Reggie Sanders||305|
|Rank||Player (2023 HRs)||HR|
|151||Steve Finley||304|
|152||Nolan Arenado (2)||301|
|Rogers Hornsby *||301|
|154||Chuck Klein *||300|
|155||Tim Salmon||299|
|156||Mark Reynolds||298|
|157||Rickey Henderson *||297|
|Freddie Freeman (5)||297|
|159||Chris Davis||295|
|160||Magglio Ordóñez||294|
|Robin Ventura||294|
|162||Kent Hrbek||293|
|Andrew McCutchen (6)||293|
|164||Pat Burrell||292|
|Rusty Staub||292|
|166||Craig Biggio *||291|
|Jimmy Wynn||291|
|168||Bobby Abreu||288|
|Del Ennis||288|
|Bob Johnson||288|
|Anthony Rizzo (5)||288|
|Hank Sauer||288|
|173||Garret Anderson||287|
|Bobby Bonilla||287|
|Brian Giles||287|
|Matt Kemp||287|
|Manny Machado (4)||287|
|Bernie Williams||287|
|179||J. D. Martinez (4)||286|
|Carlos Peña||286|
|Frank Thomas||286|
|182||Bryce Harper (0)||285|
|183||Will Clark||284|
|Eric Karros||284|
|Ryan Zimmerman||284|
|186||Ken Boyer||282|
|Eric Davis||282|
|Adam Jones||282|
|Brian McCann||282|
|Ryne Sandberg *||282|
|191||Paul O'Neill||281|
|192||Carlos Santana (2)||280|
|193||Ted Kluszewski||279|
|194||Mike Cameron||278|
|Ryan Klesko||278|
|196||Rudy York||277|
|197||Brian Downing||275|
|Roger Maris||275|
|Dean Palmer||275|
|Jorge Posada||275|
|201||Dante Bichette||274|
|202||Steve Garvey||272|
|203||Tom Brunansky||271|
|Raúl Mondesí||271|
|Hanley Ramírez||271|
|George Scott||271|
|207||Vernon Wells||270|
|208||Joe Morgan *||268|
|Brooks Robinson *||268|
|Gorman Thomas||268|
|211||Josh Donaldson (1)||267|
|George Hendrick||267|
|Mike Napoli||267|
|214||Vic Wertz||266|
|215||George Bell||265|
|Matt Stairs||265|
|217||Bobby Thomson||264|
|218||Danny Tartabull||262|
|219||Eric Chavez||260|
|Derek Jeter *||260|
|Javy López||260|
|Tim Wallach||260|
|223||Chase Utley||259|
|224||Ian Kinsler||257|
|225||Bob Allison||256|
|Rank||Player (2023 HRs)||HR|
|Larry Parrish||256|
|Vada Pinson||256|
|228||Kirk Gibson||255|
|Adam LaRoche||255|
|John Mayberry||255|
|John Olerud||255|
|232||Larry Doby *||253|
|Joe Gordon *||253|
|Andre Thornton||253|
|Todd Zeile||253|
|236||Bret Boone||252|
|Bobby Murcer||252|
|Joe Torre *||252|
|239||Tony Armas||251|
|Tony Clark||251|
|Cy Williams||251|
|Robin Yount *||251|
|243||José Valentín||249|
|244||Goose Goslin *||248|
|Ted Simmons *||248|
|246||Justin Morneau||247|
|Vern Stephens||247|
|248||Víctor Martínez||246|
|Ken Singleton||246|
|250||Deron Johnson||245|
|Nick Swisher||245|
|Mickey Tettleton||245|
|253||Hunter Pence||244|
|Lou Whitaker||244|
|Hack Wilson *||244|
|256||José Abreu (0)||243|
|257||Dusty Baker||242|
|Sal Bando||242|
|Wally Berger||242|
|Roy Campanella *||242|
|J. D. Drew||242|
|Aubrey Huff||242|
|Kyle Seager||242|
|David Wright||242|
|265||Jesse Barfield||241|
|Cecil Cooper||241|
|Rick Monday||241|
|268||Jeff Burroughs||240|
|Roberto Clemente *||240|
|270||Dolph Camilli||239|
|Ken Caminiti||239|
|272||Earl Averill *||238|
|Ray Lankford||238|
|274||Doug DeCinces||237|
|Gus Zernial||237|
|276||Gabby Hartnett *||236|
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who holds the record for longest home run | Longest HR ever is not one you think | January 9th, 2022
A version of this story originally ran in March 2021.
Go ahead and think about it: What's the longest home run in baseball history? What's the first tater-shattering, gravity-defying, ear-splitting blast that comes to your mind?
Maybe it's the Sultan of Swat, the King of Crash. Babe Ruth had a bunch of moonshots over his baseball-wrecking career. Some ended up in alligator ponds , some cleared fence after fence after fence until there were no more fences left to clear.
What about Mickey Mantle? There are stories of his 600-foot home runs or treating old Yankee Stadium like it was his own personal Little League field.
There's home run king Barry Bonds, there's Adam Dunn depositing baseballs into other states. There's the unbelievable power of Wily Mo Peña or Glenallen Hill .
But what if I told you the guy who has the longest home run ever barely even played in the Major Leagues? What if I told you he's currently working a regular day job way out in Maui and never even talks about it?
If you Google "longest home run ever hit," the search pops up on Joey Meyer. The Hawaii native hit just 18 homers in 156 games with the Brewers between 1988 and 1989, but, standing at a giant 6-foot-3, 260 pounds, he was a big-time power threat in the Minors. Meyer hit 135 homers over 580 games.
And on one magical night, in the thin air of Mile High Stadium, he hit one to the moon.
"No, I don't even tell them I played," Meyer said with a laugh in a phone interview with MLB.com, his work walkie-talkie blaring in the background. He works security at a hospital in Maui. "I've been working at this job for five years and I don't tell anybody."
It all happened the night of June 2, 1987. Meyer's Denver Zephyrs -- the Triple-A affiliate of the Brewers -- were taking on the Buffalo Bisons at Mile High Stadium. The giant football/baseball stadium could hold about 70,000, but just a little over 1,000 people were in attendance . Meyer, 25, had been slugging his way through the Minors the past few years. He hit 91 homers from 1984-86, batting around .300 and cracking 100 RBIs twice. He was a big prospect with a big frame. According to the New York Times, the team couldn't even find a jersey to fit his torso that season.
"When the Zephyrs needed a uniform shirt for Meyer a year ago, the only one big enough was a souvenir shirt in a Denver sports bar," Dave Anderson wrote.
Meyer's high school coach in Honolulu still raves about his power, saying he could come out right now and still hit homers. The first baseman was even given the Barry Bonds treatment in his school days, getting intentionally walked with the bases loaded .
"Yeah I always hit home runs, but I prided myself that at every level I played, I hit for average," Meyer said.
When Meyer came up for the at-bat in question that night, he had already homered. But players on the field thought it had only gone out because of the thin Rocky Mountain air.
"The first one I hit barely went over the fence, so everybody on the other team was yelling cheapie and all that," Meyer said. "The next one, though, was that one."
Meyer reared back and connected with a breaking ball from reliever Mike Murphy -- sending it deep into the Denver darkness. The ball kept going up and up until it hit halfway up the second deck of Mile High Stadium -- a place very few baseballs go. If you watch the video , the camera can't even follow it that high. Meyer admits he never saw where it landed.
"Well, I knew I hit it good," Meyer told me. "In the thin air, it doesn't take much. But I didn't watch it, you know. I wasn't the watching type. When I hit third base [third-base coach/manager] Terry Bevington is the one who told me, 'You went into the upper deck.' I high-fived him and thought he was joking."
Meyer had hit BP balls up there but never in a game. Nobody had ever done it in a game. A perfect swing, the high altitude and maybe, just maybe, the bat he used all played a role.
"A new player had come in from Baltimore, Donnie Scott," Meyer said. (Scott was traded from Rochester, the Orioles' Triple-A affiliate at the time.) "He had Cal Ripken's bats. He liked my bats, so I traded him my bat for a Cal Ripken bat. That's the bat I used that night."
Meyer ended up hitting three home runs that night with Ripken's lumber. He then used it the next day, and in his first plate appearance, it broke.
"Everybody told me don't use it again, but of course I did," Meyer said.
The media descended on Mile High the next day -- wanting to talk to the man who reached heights never reached before. You get the feeling Meyer, modest and soft-spoken over the phone, was almost frightened by the attention. Overwhelmed by his own power.
"The following day, there were so many reporters there," Meyer recalled. "When you're not used to that many reporters and all of their things tied together in front of you, you know, their microphones. It's pretty intimidating."
The homer also needed to be officially measured, so the team called in the best possible person they could: City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson.
"I don't know why they decided to [call me]," Tennyson told me over the phone. "I'm not much of a baseball fan, don't know much about it, didn't know much about it. But they just asked me to come in and told me this is where it hit and it seems like it could be a hell of a long ways. I calculated it without ever knowing any records of any kind."
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Tennyson was shocked when I told him it's considered perhaps the longest measured home run in the history of baseball, telling me multiple times "that's incredible." One of his responsibilities was laying out the foundations for the football and baseball fields at Mile High Stadium, so he was very familiar with the grounds and dimensions.
"There were people who worked at the stadium full-time," Tennyson explained. "What we did was took what their line of sight was of the baseball at its highest arc and where it hit in the east stands. And I just calculated it from there. I don't remember how I actually came up with the calculations -- it involved the speed of the baseball, what kind of arc it was on, where it landed in the east stands and where it may have been projected beyond that point."
The event did happen more than 34 years ago, so it's hard to fault Tennyson for not remembering exactly how he got the number 582. Not being a fan of baseball, he also said he was just focused on getting an exact measurement and not taking home run history into consideration at all. He wasn't trying to "memorialize it." He did say a University of Colorado professor called him shortly after the measurements came out and agreed with how he came up with the distance.
So, there you have it: the longest verifiably measured homer in history.
Akin to the Ted Williams seat at Fenway Park, the chair at Mile High was removed for an orange (or maybe green?) one and the original may be on some racetrack in Pueblo, Colo. But that's a whole other insane story .
As for Meyer -- he started the '88 season with the Brewers. But his power never translated to the big leagues and he was back part-time in the Minors the next year before leaving pro baseball in 1991 at the age of 29. He did have some other special moments: He's the only player to ever hit a walk-off homer off Roger Clemens , and he belted 26 homers in 104 games during one season in Japan.
Meyer said he hasn't really thought about the homer too much until the last few years. He was more just disappointed he didn't make it in the Majors for longer.
"It's special to see it. Now I'm 58, I appreciate more things now than I did," he told me. "When I was done playing, I didn't do what I wanted and expected to do: play in the big leagues longer, establish myself. It was abrupt. I appreciate things more now than I did a few years ago."
Unlike some other mammoth homers in baseball history, there are only a handful of stories on Meyer's blast -- the longest ever according to the internet. He seems content with that -- helping out a little bit at MLB clinics on the island and really not talking about his baseball career unless somebody finds out about it.
"It's an honor for you to even call me," Meyer said. "It's been so many years, at least I'm remembered for something."
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who holds the record for longest home run | The Longest Home Runs in MLB History | Matthew Stockman/Getty Images
Hitting a baseball hundreds of feet is incredibly hard. Accurately measuring those moonshots isn't much easier.
After Giancarlo Stanton decimated a baseball during the World Baseball Classic, MLB Network informed viewers that the hulking outfielder torpedoed the ball 424 feet at an exit velocity of 117.3 miles per hour. Statcast data, however, is still a relatively new tool.
ESPN's Home Run Tracker has also studied long balls since 2006, giving fans a better sense of how homers travel. Decades before these modern advances, historians were left to make questionable estimations or even use an actual tape measure.
So take any urban legends about someone's 600-foot homer with a grain of salt. As a result, no assortment of baseball's longest blasts can be considered 100 percent credible. With no concrete numbers for anything before 2006, evaluating all-time distances remains an inexact science.
But why argue over semantics when we can watch some of MLB's best sluggers sock a few dingers ? Using the best information available, let's take a stab at locating the longest recorded home runs ever.
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Whether because of overinflated estimations or technical questions of eligibility for a list of MLB home runs, these notable exceptions missed the cut:
Joey Meyer, 582 Feet (1987)
Joey Meyer, a minor league first baseman for the Denver Zephyrs, hit a long ball on June 3, 1987, which reportedly went a staggering 582 feet . He made the majors the next season but lasted just 156 games with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Josh Gibson, 580 Feet (1937)
There's no video evidence or official measurement of his monumental feat, but Negro League star Josh Gibson allegedly smacked a home run 580 feet out of Yankee Stadium on June 3, 1937. This would put him in the feasible discussion for the longest round-tripper ever.
Mark McGwire, 487 Feet (1998)
Mark McGwire's monster home run on May 16, 1998, probably didn't travel 545 feet, as initially estimated. ESPN's Home Run Tracker docked his true distance down to 487. It was one of five home runs Baseball Almana c listed as going at least 500 feet in 1998's record-setting season.
Andres Galarraga, 468 Feet (1997)
On May 31, 1997, Andres Galarraga cleared the full bases by sending a souvenir into Pro Player Stadium's empty upper deck. Although the blast was touted at 529 feet, ESPN arrived at 468 feet. Slate's John Pastier calculated a similar distance of roughly 479 feet.
Jose Canseco, 443 Feet (1989)
Jose Canseco's upper-deck blast helped the Oakland Athletics defeat the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1989 American League Championship Series. It did not, however, journey 540 feet as have some suggested. ESPN's Home Run Tracker yielded a projected true distance of 443 feet.
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According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. But not so fast.
ESPN's Home Run Tracker tells a different story, calculating the final distance of Piazza's slam at 515 feet.
"The Rockies credited Piazza with a 496-foot home run, but their procedure for measuring home runs at the time did not attempt to include the additional distance the ball would have flown had it not landed on the concourse," ESPN's blurb said in defense of its enhanced projection. "ESPN's Stats & Info Group marks the landing point at 496 feet from home plate and 26 feet above field level."
Eye tests lead to a wide array of biases, but the video evidence helps his case.
This writer trusts the newer, in-depth data (Statcast) over a ballpark number given without much supporting evidence, so Piazza makes the cut over other tape-measure hits reported at greater distances.
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This list includes icons, Hall and Famers and rakers who wielded unquestionably elite power. Yet near the top sits a journeyman who belted 186 home runs over a career devoid of regular playing time.
In his penultimate 2000 season, Glenallen Hill registered a career-high 27 home runs for the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees. As ESPN's Home Run Tracker verifies, one moonshot on May 11, 2000, went 500 feet with a 116.7 mph exit velocity.
The ball soared out of Wrigley Field and landed on the rooftop of a building across the street.
Two months later, the Cubs traded him to the Yankees, where he put together the best stint of his career. Over 40 scorching-hot games, Hill hit .333/.378/.735 with 16 homers for the eventual World Series champions.
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From 1990 to 1991, Cecil Fielder accrued an MLB-best 95 home runs, including a soaring shot onto the Tiger Stadium roof in 1990. The Boston Globe 's Bob Ryan , via MLB.com's Mike Bertha , marveled at the power display.
"The ball assumed what can only be called a majestic arc and landed on the left-field roof in Tiger Stadium," Ryan wrote. "An inning or so later, they told us it was charted at 484 feet. I would have believed 1,484 feet."
Oh yeah, that's not even Fielder's entry. Instead, let's look back to September 14, 1991, when the Detroit Tigers slugger pounded a ball beyond Milwaukee County Stadium's bleachers.
Eleven years before the Milwaukee Brewers drafted his son, Prince, they watched Fielder punish a baseball. Historian William J. Jenkinson reported the home run's distance at 502 feet—the longest estimate from IBM's measuring system from 1982 to 1996—in a study published by Baseball Almanac .
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When researchers delve into an older home run for a more accurate telling, they typically spoil everyone's party by deflating an embellished tale. In this case, however, initial estimates appeared to have sold Ted Williams short.
The legendary hitter took Fred Hutchinson yard on June 9, 1946, for a dinger deemed to have traveled 502 feet. Not bad at all, but ESPN's Home Run Tracker determined that Williams deserves even more credit.
According to ESPN's findings, the ball landed on a fan's straw hat deep in the right field bleachers. The ball would have kept going, lending to a final true-distance calculation of 530 feet.
"Examination of satellite and ground-based digital photos suggests that the 502-foot figure is an accurate measurement of the horizontal distance to the 'Red Seat,' but since the impact point was approximately 30 feet above field level, the ball would have covered more distance before landing at field level, had its flight not been interrupted."
With apologies to those whose over-reported shots were downgraded or removed, bumping up a career .344/.482/.634 legend feels warranted.
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Adam Dunn played just 44 games with the Arizona Diamondbacks, but one of his eight home runs stands as the longest witnessed at Chase Field.
On Sept. 27, 2008, the slugger secured his fifth season with 40 deep flies. This blast off Glendon Rusch caromed off the center field awning for an estimated 504 feet.
ESPN Home Run Tracker measured it as the longest shot since providing full data in 2008. It's also not the last time the three-true-outcomes prototype appears on this list.
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Few thoughts will terrify a pitcher more than Giancarlo Stanton lurking inside a Coors Field batter's box. While the Miami Marlins slugger doesn't need a ballpark's help to punish a baseball, he collaborated with the high-altitude venue to produce a 504-foot homer on Aug. 6, 2016.
As MLB.com's Ben Weinrib noted, the blast marked the longest homer since MLB installed Statcast in all stadiums in 2015. The new system pinpointed a 115.8-mph exit velocity with a launch angle of 18.3 degrees.
"I think we like seeing it fly like that, especially if it's our guys hitting it," Marlins manager Don Mattingly told Weinrib. "Balls with that trajectory, for a lot of guys it doesn't go out. He hits balls that just keep carrying. He hits them a long way."
For everyone's entertainment, Miami should loan Stanton to Colorado and see how much damage he could inflict during a full season at Coors.
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New York Mets fans don't hold many fond memories of Mo Vaughn.
Acquired from the then-Anaheim Angels in 2001, the 1995 American League MVP spent his entire first season with the Mets sidelined before returning a shell of himself in 2002. While he hit .190/.323/.329 during 2003's sad swan song, the burly first baseman at least cleared the fences 26 times in 2002.
The best of those bombs occurred June 26, when he smacked one off Shea Stadium's scoreboard.
"Watch that splash on the scoreboard," Keith Hernandez said during his earlier years as a Mets broadcaster. "It looks like beer's coming down."
The park estimated his powerful swing at 505 feet, making it one of the longest homers to invite a Big Apple rising.
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One of baseball's most unheralded sluggers, Jim Thome retired with the quietest 612 home runs and .956 OPS ever. On July 3, 1999, the Cleveland Indians star sent a ball screaming an estimated 511 feet.
The casual fan might not fully appreciate the modest masher, who becomes eligible for Hall of Fame consideration next year. Cleveland, however, commemorated Thome's blast in 2014 by placing a statue of the franchise's all-time homer leader near the landing sight of Progressive Field's longest home run.
"I don't think anyone could ever be comfortable getting a statue, I mean that respectfully," Thome said during the unveiling ceremony, per Cleveland.com's Joey Morona . "You play the game as a kid, you progress through high school, you get drafted, you go through the minor leagues. Nobody ever dreams of a statue, I certainly didn't."
There's a lesson for all the kids hoping to leave behind a lasting legacy: Stay humble, work hard and hit dingers.
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Before getting benched for Homer Simpson, Darryl Strawberry tested Olympic Stadium's limits by sending a souvenir into the lights.
Not knowing where the ball landed on April 4, 1988, the Mets outfielder stopped at second before receiving clearance to finish rounding the bases. As reported by the New York Times ' Joseph Durso , physics professor Bob Moore said the ball would have carried 525 feet if not for hitting the lights.
"You can feel the wind blowing," Expos right fielder Hubie Brooks said, per Durso's report. "Straw hit it so far and so high that I just stood and watched."
Strawberry hit another dinger during New York's Opening Day victory and matched his previous season's career high with 39 homers that year. Off-field problems derailed his path to superstardom, but his Montreal moonshot serves as a reminder of his off-the-charts power.
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Dave Kingman hit one entirely out of Wrigley Field on April 14, 1976. That much is known. The exact distance, however, remains disputed.
According to William Jenkinson , researchers estimated the fabled fly ball at 573 feet, and the New York Times originally reported a 630-foot flight. Jenkinson's findings serve as the basis for the used mark of 530 feet.
"It has been confirmed that the ball struck against the third house beyond Waveland Avenue, which is situated about 530 feet from home plate," Jenkinson wrote. "Yet again, we have an example of a genuinely epic home run that has been grievously overstated."
Richard Keiber, a collector who obtained Kingman's moonshot outside of Wrigley Field, insisted to the Chicago Tribun e's Rick Talley in 2003 that 600 feet was a more accurate tally. Either way, everyone can agree he hit the ball very far.
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Without a closer look from ESPN at this Adam Dunn dinger, the lofty 535-foot approximation receives the benefit of the doubt. For what it's worth, it passes the "Wow, he sure hit that ball a long way" eye test.
The left-handed raker quickly set a gaudy benchmark during Great American Ball Park's second season on Aug. 10, 2004, when he crushed a Jose Lima offering well beyond the fence in center field, which stands 404 feet out.
"I was sitting on a changeup, because he only threw like 88," Dunn recalled to Cincinnati Enquirer 's C. Trent Rosecrans a year later. "I know if he throws that changeup, he'll make me look like an ass, because he had such a good one, if you don't sell out to it. Just so happened it was a heater and I don't know what happened."
Dunn finished the season with a career-high 46 long balls. Few sluggers were stronger in their prime, making him one of baseball's most feared batters despite his strikeout woes.
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Willie Stargell scorched plenty of moonshots over his career. According to Allied News ’ Jim Sankey , via MLB.com’s Matt Monagan , the Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder submitted seven of 18 balls to clear Forbes Field’s 86-foot high roof in right field.
The grandest account of his power? A hearty hack on May 20, 1978 which went further than any ball ever hit at Montreal Stadium. Per National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Matt Kelly , it went an estimated 535 feet.
Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton marveled at Stargell’s homer hit against his Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I never saw anything like it,” Sutton said, per Kelly. “He doesn't just hit pitchers, he takes away their dignity.”
This wasn’t even peak Stargell. He was 38 years old in his 16th season, but he still went yard 28 times over 450 plate appearances and earned a .567 slugging percentage. The following year, his five postseason home runs led the Pirates to a World Series championship.
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While there's no definitive list of longest All-Star Game home runs, it's safe to say Reggie Jackson's 1971 blast would top it.
The Oakland Athletics outfielder stepped up to the plate against Pittsburgh Pirates hurler Dock Ellis, who according to Baseball-Reference.com entered the Midsummer Classic sporting a 2.11 ERA. He had yielded just four homers during the first half, but Jackson took him deep for an unofficial fifth.
If not for hitting a transformer on Tiger Stadium's roof, the baseball would have experienced a further journey. On a ball that sped 124 mph off the bat, ESPN's Home Run Tracker estimated a distance of 539 feet if unhindered.
Mr. October receives the benefit of the doubt for his July feat, but watch the ball rocket off his bat. The roof might have stopped it from clearing Detroit altogether.
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Urban legends of Mickey Mantle's power prowess have run wild. Initial estimates credited him with hitting a 656-foot bomb in college, a mark outlandish even for an MLB star using performance-enhancing drugs.
Yet the story of his 565-foot moonshot still lives strong.
The date: April 17, 1953. The place: Washington's Griffith Stadium. The poor sap who fed the Hall of Fame outfielder a gopher ball: Chuck Stobbs.
MLB Network's Bob Costas credits it above as the Guinness Book of World Records holder for longest home run. He also, however, said the team's PR director literally derived that number by using a tape measure, originating the term to describe huge homers now measured through more scientific methods.
While ESPN didn't dare to debunk this legend, it studied another home run against the Kansas City Royals on May 22, 1963. Although it came nowhere close to 734 feet , ESPN determined an impressive true distance of 503 feet .
Maybe Mantle didn't quite hit it 565 feet— William Jenkinson suggested 510 feet as a better approximation. There's still no doubting Mantle's standing as one of the greatest, strongest hitters to ever live.
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Although there are multiple tales of Babe Ruth 's hitting his mythical home run beyond 600 feet, no accurate measuring tools existed during his playing days. It's foolish to take hearsay as concrete evidence, but it's also difficult to believe the man who hit 714 home runs during the dead-ball era wasn't capable of abnormal results.
William Jenkinson, who credited Ruth with setting distance high marks in every MLB ballpark, wrote the Yankees icon " defies rational analysis":
Amazingly, many of those records remain unequaled, which is to say that Ruth is a true athletic anachronism. In virtually every other field of endeavor in which physical performance can be measured, there are no Ruthian equivalents. In 1921 alone, which was Ruth's best tape measure season, he hit at least one 500 foot home run in all eight American League cities. There should be no doubt about the authentication of these conclusions. Despite the scarcity of film on Ruth , we can still make definitive evaluations of the approximate landing points of all of his 714 career home runs.
As Sports Illustrated 's Cliff Corcoran noted, Jenkinson also acknowledged The Bambino as owner of the three longest home runs ever hit in his book The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs . A 575-foot dinger at Navin Field in Detroit isn't the most interesting of the tales, but it'd top this list.
The noted historian also backed ancient anecdotes of the Sultan of Swat's hitting one over 600 feet at Wilkes University's Artillery Park in 1926. Skeptics will certainly be forgiven for doubting that distance, but others will prefer to simply believe.
Note: All videos courtesy of MLB.com
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who holds the record for longest home run | What is the longest home run in MLB history? | Sep 10, 2022
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ll home runs give the batter a trip around the bases, but why merely hit the ball over the fence when you can send it into orbit?
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Baseball’s best sluggers have embraced that philosophy and raised the bar for what it means to mash, crush and blast. But which player hit the longest home run of all time?
It’s complicated.
Modern baseball includes countless tools for measuring exit velocity, launch angle and projected distance on home runs. However, for much of MLB history, there wasn’t even an exact way to determine the length of tape-measure home runs.
With the data we have, here’s the verdict on the longest home runs in baseball history:
The longest verified home run in American professional baseball history didn’t even happen in the majors.
In 1987, Joey Meyer of the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs launched a moonshot into the second deck of Mile High Stadium. City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson was able to verify the distance of the home run at 582 feet.
Meyer made his big league debut the following season with the Milwaukee Brewers. The first baseman ended his MLB career with 18 home runs in 156 games across two seasons, but it was his monstrous minor league homer that etched his name into the history books.
Determining the longest homer ever in MLB history is an exercise in myth-busting.
Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. While those feats would shatter Meyer’s mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances.
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Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. ESPN had a Home Run Tracker that was able to estimate the distance of certain dingers, but there is still no conclusive list of the longest homers throughout MLB history.
These days, there is a new tool that should make this an easier debate moving forward.
MLB Statcast was introduced in 2015 and gave fans a more accurate indicator of home run distance.
In seven-plus seasons since Statcast’s inception, three home runs have traveled more than 500 feet. Here are the 12 longest dingers in the Statcast era:
1. Nomar Mazara, TEX, 2019: 505 feet
T-2. Giancarlo Stanton, MIA, 2016: 504 feet
T-2. C.J. Cron, COL, 2022: 504 feet
4. Christian Yelich, MIL, 2022: 499 feet
T-5. Aaron Judge, NYY, 2017: 496 feet
T-5. Miguel Sanó, MIN, 2019: 496 feet
T-5. Jesús Sánchez, MIA, 2022: 496 feet
T-8. Aaron Judge, NYY, 2017: 495 feet
T-8. Joey Gallo, TEX, 2018: 495 feet
T-8. Ronald Acuña Jr., ATL, 2020: 495 feet
T-8. Miguel Sanó, MIN, 2021: 495 feet
T-8. Ryan McMahon, COL, 2022: 495 feet | https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/phillies/what-longest-home-run-mlb-history | 31 |
who holds the record for longest home run | What is the longest home run in MLB history? | All home runs give the batter a trip around the bases, but why merely hit the ball over the fence when you can send it into orbit?
Baseball’s best sluggers have embraced that philosophy and raised the bar for what it means to mash, crush and blast. But which player hit the longest home run of all time?
It’s complicated.
Modern baseball includes countless tools for measuring exit velocity, launch angle and projected distance on home runs. However, for much of MLB history, there wasn’t even an exact way to determine the length of tape-measure home runs.
With the data we have, here’s the verdict on the longest home runs in baseball history:
The longest verified home run in American professional baseball history didn’t even happen in the majors.
In 1987, Joey Meyer of the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs launched a moonshot into the second deck of Mile High Stadium. City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson was able to verify the distance of the home run at 582 feet.
Meyer made his big league debut the following season with the Milwaukee Brewers . The first baseman ended his MLB career with 18 home runs in 156 games across two seasons, but it was his monstrous minor league homer that etched his name into the history books.
Determining the longest homer ever in MLB history is an exercise in myth-busting.
Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. While those feats would shatter Meyer’s mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances.
Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. ESPN had a Home Run Tracker that was able to estimate the distance of certain dingers, but there is still no conclusive list of the longest homers throughout MLB history. | https://sports.yahoo.com/longest-home-run-mlb-history-150050612.html | 31 |
who holds the record for longest home run | Longest home run ever: Longest home run in MLB history, furthest home runs in 2023 | What is the longest home run ever hit in MLB history? Major League Baseball’s introduction of StatCast tracking makes it easier than ever to determine the farthest home runs hit travel today. But even at a time when New York Yankees star Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge are launching bombs, they do fall short of the longest HR in MLB history.
As you might expect, baseball legends are credited with the records. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Josh Gibson didn’t benefit from technology tracking how far they hit a baseball. But simple measurements, ballpark dimensions and first-hand accounts help us get a look at the longest MLB home runs since the game began.
Let’s dive into the best moonshots in MLB history and the longest home run ever.
On April 2, New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton hit a 485-foot home run against the San Francisco Giants at Yankee Stadium. Stanton’s 485-foot blast is the longest MLB home run in 2023 and would be the sixth-longest home run in MLB over the past two years.
- Giancarlo Stanton, New York Yankees – 485 feet – April 2
- Jarred Kelenic, Seattle Mariners – 482 feet – April 12
- Brandon Crawford, San Francisco Giants – 482 feet – April 29
- C.J. Cron, Colorado Rockies – 479 feet – April 11
- LaMonte Wade Jr, San Francisco Giants – 474 feet – April 29
- Austin Riley, Atlanta Braves – 473 feet – April 3
- Evan Longoria, Arizona Diamondbacks – 463 feet – April 30
- Charlie Blackmon, Colorado Rockies – 463 feet – May 3
- Ronald Acuña Jr, Atlanta Braves – 461 feet – May 3
- Tyler O’Neill, St. Louis Cardinals – 461 feet – April 12
- Jack Suwinski, Pittsburgh Pirates – 461 feet – April 17
- Bo Bichette, Toronto Blue Jays – 460 feet – April 30
- Mitch Haniger, San Francisco Giants – 460 feet – April 30
Through the first five weeks of the season, three players have hit 480-plus-foot home runs and six have hit 470-foot blasts. We expect the numbers to skyrocket this summer as the temperatures that up and baseballs fly out even further.
Colorado Rockies first baseman hit the longest MLB home run on September 9, when he drilled a 504-foot home run at Coors Field against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The 504-foot home run is the second-longest in the StaCast era.
- Longest home run in 2022: 504 feet – CJ Cron, Colorado Rockies
Here are the farthest home runs hit in MLB this year with video links attached in the distance.
Christian Yelich, Milwaukee Brewers — 499 feet
Jesus Sanchez, Miami Marlins – 496 feet
Ryan McMahon, Colorado Rockies – 495 feet
It should come as no surprise that Coors Field is responsible for the three longest home runs in MLB this season. On Aug. 9, Colorado Rockies infielder Ryan McMahon unloaded on a pitch in the 7th inning of a 14-5 blowout against the St. Louis Cardinals. The 495-foot blast cleared the wall in right-center field, sailed over the advertising signs and went into the second deck of the deepest part in the yard. While the atmosphere in Colorado certainly played a part, it’s fair to say McMahon got all of that pitch and put his raw power on display.
C.J. Cron, Colorado Rockies – 486 feet
Sure, he has the advantage of playing with increased elevation at Coors Field, but what C.J. Cron managed to do on June 17th, crushing a baseball 486 feet to left field is still impressive. Plenty of other visiting batters have the same opportunities Cron has, but he has the second-longest home run in the season thus far.
Both Mackenzie Gore and Cron knew it was gone as soon as it touched the bat. As they say, that’s a no-doubter.
Gary Sanchez, Minnesota Twins – 473 feet
Making his return to Yankee Stadium, Minnesota Twins designated hitter Gary Sanchez blasted a two-run homer that was measured at 473 feet, making it one of the longest MLB home runs in 2022. It’s been one of the lone bright spots for Sanchez this year, who joined Minnesota as part of the Isiah Kiner-Falefa trade. Through 101 games, Sanchez has a .214/.284/.398 slash line with only 14 home runs in 373 plate appearances.
Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels – 472 feet
Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout hit the second- longest home run in 2022. The three-time AL MVP stepped to the plate against the Texas Rangers, working a 3-1 count. In a flash, the 30-year-old crushed the third-farthest home run in MLB this season with a 472-foot missile off Dane Dunning.
Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros – 469 feet
Byron Buxton, Minnesota Twins – 468 feet – Longest walk-off home run
Facing the Chicago White Sox on April 24, Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Buxton made history. In a 3-1 count with the Twins trailing 4-3, Buxton turned a hanger from Liam Hendricks into a no-doubt 469-foot blast to end the game. Incredibly, it is the longest walk-off home run ever tracked by StatCast since 2015.
Kyle Schwarber, Philadelphia Phillies – 468 feet
Jorge Soler, Miami Marlins – 468 feet
Look up the farthest home run ever hit and you’ll see New York Yankees legends Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth mentioned. The numbers are truly staggering, with Mantle credited for a 734 foot home run at Yankee Stadium in 1963 and a 656-foot blast that is rumored when he was a 19-year-old in an exhibition match against USC. But those claims are disputed by some who took part in the game.
Below, we’ll look at some of the longest home runs hit in MLB history, both documented and rumored.
Stanton is the best power hitter in MLB today, there’s no question about it. Both in terms of average home run distance and max exit velocity, he crushes baseballs like no one else in the sport. What is the longest home run ever hit by Giancarlo Stanton? It came with the Miami Marlins in 2016, fittingly at Coors Field.
If MLB makes changes to the baseballs and rules are adjusted that favors hitters more, maybe Stanton tops this mark in 2022. Health will also be a factor. One thing is for certain, Stanton is fully capable of adding another historic milestone to the list of the longest home runs ever.
Nomar Mazara, once one of the top prospects in MLB, hasn’t quite lived up to the hype. Released by the Detroit Tigers in July, Mazara’s chances of becoming an impact MLB player might be over. But everything came together on June 21, 2018 when Mazara sent a Reynaldo Lopez fastball towering into the bleachers. At 505 feet, it’s the longest home run ever in the StatCast era.
Glenallen Hill isn’t one of the most prominent names from our examination of the furthest home runs hit in MLB history. He never appeared in an All-Star Game from 1989-2001 and he never hit more than 28 homers in a single season. But in May 2000, Chicago’s outfielder delivered a blast that no fan watching it ever forgot. It landed on the rooftop across the street from Wrigley Field and estimates suggest it traveled around 500 feet. Hill thinks it cracked 700 feet, in-depth investigations suggest it likely exceed 500 but we’ll never know for sure. Even a conservative estimate of 500-520 feet makes it a candidate for the longest home run ever.
The definition of a frozen rope Jim Thome’s dinger on July 3, 1999, is one to remember. In the second game of a doubleheader, Thomas took a 3-1 pitch and sent it towering to left-center and it didn’t stay in the stadium long. After bouncing once on the concourse, it fell onto the street as a souvenir that holds a place in MLB history.
Adam Dunn hit 462 home runs in his career, earning a reputation as one of the best home-run threats during his era. On Aug. 10, 2004, in a matchup against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dunn delivered a moment he’ll never forget. In what remains the longest home run ever at Great American Ball Park, the baseball rocketed out and finished with an estimated distance of 535 feet.
Willie Stargell is among the Hall of Famers who are also recognized as one of the best power hitters in MLB history. The Pittsburgh Pirates legend finished with 475 home runs, but it was a 535-foot blast at Olympic Stadium that lands on our list. On May 20, 1978, Stargell hit the farthest home run ever recorded in Canada with his eye-popping blast in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. Keep in mind, he was 38 years old when he hit it and that arguably makes it even more impressive than others above him.
There’s no doubt who hit the farthest home run in MLB All-Star Game history. In the 1971 Midsummer Classic, slugger Reggie Jackson sent Dock Ellis’ pitch practically out of Tiger Stadium, with the ball bouncing off the roof as everyone in attendance just sat back in shock. The ESPN Home Run Tracker listed it at 539 feet, one of the longest homers hit in the recorded era.
Unsurprisingly, what many believe to be among the farthest home runs hit ever are based on first-hand accounts. On April 17, 1953, Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was credited with a tape-measure blast that traveled 565 feet, per Yankees publicist Red Patterson. It’s officially recognized by the Baseball Hall of Fame . What makes it more incredible, Mantle hit the blast with a teammate’s bat
The legend of Babe Ruth is bigger than some of the deepest bombs he hit during an iconic career. The Sultan of Swat gets credited for all kinds of records and moments that live in MLB history. Among them, a towering blast on April 3, 1919, with a plaque that credits him for a 587-foot home run. He said it was the longest home run he ever hit , clearly squashing any tales of 600-foot blasts. But historians believe the ball traveled 552 feet. Still, not bad for the King of Crash.
Josh Gibson, perhaps the greatest power hitter in MLB history, is a baseball legend. The best player in the Negro League, Gibson is credited with a 580-foot home run at Yankee Stadium in 1967 . Naturally, no video evidence was recorded, but the ball hit just two feet shy of the top of the facade at old Yankee Stadium. Many believe if Negro League records as a ‘major league’, which didn’t happen until 2020, Gibson’s blast would be more widely viewed as the longest home run ever.
While the 2022 MLB Home Run Derby offered fans a chance to watch the best power hitters in baseball, history was made in the minor leagues. Arizona Diamondbacks prospect Leandro Cedeno pulverized a baseball on July 15, blasting it over the fence for a 527-foot moonshot.
- Leandro Cedeno stats: .302/.374/.541, 18 home runs, 61 RBI, .915 OPS
Cedeno, a 23-year-old with the Diamondbacks’ Double-A affiliate, isn’t one of the club’s top 40 prospects (FanGraphs). However, the 6-foot-2 slugger made history with the longest home run ever officially recorded through StatCast. For comparison, the longest MLB home run in 2022 (more below) traveled 499 feet and the official record for the farthest home run ever hit in MLB history went 505 feet (Nomar Mazara). If you go off non-StatCast data, though, it’s not even the longest home run in minor league history (more on that below).
Washington Nationals outfielder Juan Soto hit the longest home run in the Home Run Derby (StatCast era) in 2021. Taking his swings at Coors Field, the All-Star slugger demolished a 520-foot blast in Colorado that astonishingly went into the third deck of the stadium.
Unsurprisingly, some of the farthest home runs ever hit in the Home Run Derby happened in 2021 thanks to the effects of playing in Colorado.
- Trevor Story – 518 feet
- Pete Alonso – 514 feet
- Shohei Ohtani – 513 feet
Here are the longest home runs in the Home Run Derby, during the StatCast era, away from Coors Field. As you’ll notice, Aaron Judge hit four 500-foot blasts.
- Aaron Judge (2017) – 513 feet in Miami
- Aaron Judge (2017) – 507 feet in Miami
- Aaron Judge (2017) – 504 feet in Miami
- Aaron Judge (2017) – 501 feet in Miami
There is no specific data on the farthest home run in the the Home Run Derby pre-StatCast era.
Even in an era where pitchers are throwing harder than ever and hitters are making louder contact, we rarely see 500-foot home runs. The longest blast in the StatCast era came in 2005, when Nomar Mazara hit a 505-foot cannon. Giancarlo Stanton is the second only player since 2015 to hit one 500-plus feet.
Meet Oklahoma State first baseman Griffin Doersching. The college star stepped to the plate with his team trailing 6-4 in the 7th inning, drilling an unbelievable blast that was measured at 513 feet. While it’s possible Oklahoma State gave a favorable measurement, the 513-foot homer would easily be the farthest home run in 2022 at any level of baseball.
It should come as no surprise that the record books for the longest home run ever in baseball history are spotty. MLB history offers reports of truly epic blasts, which we’ll dive into below. But the farthest home run ever documented happened in a Triple-A baseball game.
On June 2, 1987, the Denver Zephyrs hosted the Buffalo Bisons at Mile High Stadium. Aided by the thin air, much like baseballs hit out of Coors Field today, Joey Meyer launched a towering blasted that traveled an absurd 582 feet and is the longest homer ever caught on video.
Meyer technically holds the verifiable record for the deepest home run ever hit, but a look at MLB’s record books and archives points us to some Hall of Famers delivering epic moments that we never got to witness.
No one has ever officially hit a 600 foot home run in MLB or college baseball history. While the legend goes that the longest home run ever hit by Mickey Mantle traveled over 600 feet, that is an unofficial number and research in the decades since suggest it wasn’t true.
During the 2021 MLB season, we didn’t see any of the deepest homers approach the record for the longest home run ever hit. But some familiar sluggers, including some teammates, deliver huge blasts that left everyone in the stadiums just admiring the baseball as it flew out.
It’s been a turbulent career for Minnesota Twins slugger Miguel Sanó. An All-Star selection in 2017, Minnesota’s 6-foot-4 masher is more than capable of hitting one of the longest home runs ever. In August against the Boston Red Sox, Sanó uncorked a 495-foot cannon deep into the night at Fenway Park. We can only imagine how far the ball would have traveled if this moment happened at Coors Field.
Here are the deepest home runs hit from the 2021 MLB season, with videos from MLB.com .
It comes as no surprise that of the 10 farthest home runs hit, five happened at Coors Field. It’s the most hitter-friendly MLB park thanks to the thin air helping make baseballs fly out of the stadium. Interestingly, Braves’ outfielders account for four of the longest MLB home runs in 2021.
Interestingly, the hardest baseball hit in 2021 didn’t even leave the infield. New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton lined a ball off the bat at 122.2 mph this season, but it went directly into the second baseman’s glove and was turned into a double play.
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who holds the record for longest home run | Longest HR ever is not one you think | January 9th, 2022
A version of this story originally ran in March 2021.
Go ahead and think about it: What's the longest home run in baseball history? What's the first tater-shattering, gravity-defying, ear-splitting blast that comes to your mind?
Maybe it's the Sultan of Swat, the King of Crash. Babe Ruth had a bunch of moonshots over his baseball-wrecking career. Some ended up in alligator ponds , some cleared fence after fence after fence until there were no more fences left to clear.
What about Mickey Mantle? There are stories of his 600-foot home runs or treating old Yankee Stadium like it was his own personal Little League field.
There's home run king Barry Bonds, there's Adam Dunn depositing baseballs into other states. There's the unbelievable power of Wily Mo Peña or Glenallen Hill .
But what if I told you the guy who has the longest home run ever barely even played in the Major Leagues? What if I told you he's currently working a regular day job way out in Maui and never even talks about it?
If you Google "longest home run ever hit," the search pops up on Joey Meyer. The Hawaii native hit just 18 homers in 156 games with the Brewers between 1988 and 1989, but, standing at a giant 6-foot-3, 260 pounds, he was a big-time power threat in the Minors. Meyer hit 135 homers over 580 games.
And on one magical night, in the thin air of Mile High Stadium, he hit one to the moon.
"No, I don't even tell them I played," Meyer said with a laugh in a phone interview with MLB.com, his work walkie-talkie blaring in the background. He works security at a hospital in Maui. "I've been working at this job for five years and I don't tell anybody."
It all happened the night of June 2, 1987. Meyer's Denver Zephyrs -- the Triple-A affiliate of the Brewers -- were taking on the Buffalo Bisons at Mile High Stadium. The giant football/baseball stadium could hold about 70,000, but just a little over 1,000 people were in attendance . Meyer, 25, had been slugging his way through the Minors the past few years. He hit 91 homers from 1984-86, batting around .300 and cracking 100 RBIs twice. He was a big prospect with a big frame. According to the New York Times, the team couldn't even find a jersey to fit his torso that season.
"When the Zephyrs needed a uniform shirt for Meyer a year ago, the only one big enough was a souvenir shirt in a Denver sports bar," Dave Anderson wrote.
Meyer's high school coach in Honolulu still raves about his power, saying he could come out right now and still hit homers. The first baseman was even given the Barry Bonds treatment in his school days, getting intentionally walked with the bases loaded .
"Yeah I always hit home runs, but I prided myself that at every level I played, I hit for average," Meyer said.
When Meyer came up for the at-bat in question that night, he had already homered. But players on the field thought it had only gone out because of the thin Rocky Mountain air.
"The first one I hit barely went over the fence, so everybody on the other team was yelling cheapie and all that," Meyer said. "The next one, though, was that one."
Meyer reared back and connected with a breaking ball from reliever Mike Murphy -- sending it deep into the Denver darkness. The ball kept going up and up until it hit halfway up the second deck of Mile High Stadium -- a place very few baseballs go. If you watch the video , the camera can't even follow it that high. Meyer admits he never saw where it landed.
"Well, I knew I hit it good," Meyer told me. "In the thin air, it doesn't take much. But I didn't watch it, you know. I wasn't the watching type. When I hit third base [third-base coach/manager] Terry Bevington is the one who told me, 'You went into the upper deck.' I high-fived him and thought he was joking."
Meyer had hit BP balls up there but never in a game. Nobody had ever done it in a game. A perfect swing, the high altitude and maybe, just maybe, the bat he used all played a role.
"A new player had come in from Baltimore, Donnie Scott," Meyer said. (Scott was traded from Rochester, the Orioles' Triple-A affiliate at the time.) "He had Cal Ripken's bats. He liked my bats, so I traded him my bat for a Cal Ripken bat. That's the bat I used that night."
Meyer ended up hitting three home runs that night with Ripken's lumber. He then used it the next day, and in his first plate appearance, it broke.
"Everybody told me don't use it again, but of course I did," Meyer said.
The media descended on Mile High the next day -- wanting to talk to the man who reached heights never reached before. You get the feeling Meyer, modest and soft-spoken over the phone, was almost frightened by the attention. Overwhelmed by his own power.
"The following day, there were so many reporters there," Meyer recalled. "When you're not used to that many reporters and all of their things tied together in front of you, you know, their microphones. It's pretty intimidating."
The homer also needed to be officially measured, so the team called in the best possible person they could: City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson.
"I don't know why they decided to [call me]," Tennyson told me over the phone. "I'm not much of a baseball fan, don't know much about it, didn't know much about it. But they just asked me to come in and told me this is where it hit and it seems like it could be a hell of a long ways. I calculated it without ever knowing any records of any kind."
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Tennyson was shocked when I told him it's considered perhaps the longest measured home run in the history of baseball, telling me multiple times "that's incredible." One of his responsibilities was laying out the foundations for the football and baseball fields at Mile High Stadium, so he was very familiar with the grounds and dimensions.
"There were people who worked at the stadium full-time," Tennyson explained. "What we did was took what their line of sight was of the baseball at its highest arc and where it hit in the east stands. And I just calculated it from there. I don't remember how I actually came up with the calculations -- it involved the speed of the baseball, what kind of arc it was on, where it landed in the east stands and where it may have been projected beyond that point."
The event did happen more than 34 years ago, so it's hard to fault Tennyson for not remembering exactly how he got the number 582. Not being a fan of baseball, he also said he was just focused on getting an exact measurement and not taking home run history into consideration at all. He wasn't trying to "memorialize it." He did say a University of Colorado professor called him shortly after the measurements came out and agreed with how he came up with the distance.
So, there you have it: the longest verifiably measured homer in history.
Akin to the Ted Williams seat at Fenway Park, the chair at Mile High was removed for an orange (or maybe green?) one and the original may be on some racetrack in Pueblo, Colo. But that's a whole other insane story .
As for Meyer -- he started the '88 season with the Brewers. But his power never translated to the big leagues and he was back part-time in the Minors the next year before leaving pro baseball in 1991 at the age of 29. He did have some other special moments: He's the only player to ever hit a walk-off homer off Roger Clemens , and he belted 26 homers in 104 games during one season in Japan.
Meyer said he hasn't really thought about the homer too much until the last few years. He was more just disappointed he didn't make it in the Majors for longer.
"It's special to see it. Now I'm 58, I appreciate more things now than I did," he told me. "When I was done playing, I didn't do what I wanted and expected to do: play in the big leagues longer, establish myself. It was abrupt. I appreciate things more now than I did a few years ago."
Unlike some other mammoth homers in baseball history, there are only a handful of stories on Meyer's blast -- the longest ever according to the internet. He seems content with that -- helping out a little bit at MLB clinics on the island and really not talking about his baseball career unless somebody finds out about it.
"It's an honor for you to even call me," Meyer said. "It's been so many years, at least I'm remembered for something."
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is there another series of better call saul | Why Better Call Saul was cancelled – and the chances of season 7 or a spinoff | "You've got to know when to leave the party."
Better Call Saul spoilers follow.
Few expected that a prequel to Breaking Bad could match the original. So imagine our surprise when Better Call Saul arguably outdid that show with something even more special.
But can there be too much of a good thing? Would a return to Saul's story, or even another spin-off, dilute the impact of these two essentially perfect shows?
Join us here at Digital Spy as we break down why Better Call Saul came to an end and how the franchise might evolve now moving forward.
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Speaking at the TCA press tour in 2020, Better Call Saul showrunner Peter Gould revealed that the show would end with its sixth and final season.
"From day one of Better Call Saul , my dream was to tell the complete story of our complicated and compromised hero, Jimmy McGill – now AMC and Sony are making that dream come true," he said (via Express ).
"We couldn't be more grateful to the fans and critics who are making this journey possible. Next month we start work on the sixth and final season – we're going to do our damnedest to stick the landing."
AMC Studios president Sarah Barnett added: "Greenlighting a prequel to one of the most iconic series in television history is one of the boldest swings that AMC has ever taken. But, thanks to the creative genius of Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, it has also been one of the most rewarding."
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Since then, creator Vince Gilligan has explained why season six wound up being the final chapter (via The Hollywood Reporter ): "You've got to know when to leave the party. You don't want to be the guy with the lampshade on his head… I know I was asked the same thing at the end of Breaking Bad and I gave the same answer, but I need to prove to myself that I'm not a one-trick pony."
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In what's become quite rare these days, Better Call Saul was able to end on its own terms rather than reckon with an abrupt cancellation. That allowed the writers to take their time and eventually catch up to Breaking Bad's storyline by the end of their final episode.
With no more story left to tell in the past, plus future Saul scenes that looked even further ahead in Breaking Bad , it seems that Saul's story has come to a natural conclusion. However, there was a point a few months back when that no longer seemed feasible.
In a different interview with The Hollywood Reporter , showrunner Peter Gould opened up about the production setback that ensued when Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack on set .
"There's no backup plan for your lead [having] a heart attack. That's impossible. It reminds you that as preoccupied and as important as entertainment feels – and we all feel like it's life-and-death as we're working on these shows; I always feel like I'm on the verge of getting crushed by a boulder – it's not," he recalled. "It's a piece of entertainment."
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Five weeks later, Odenkirk returned to set so that they could finish filming the last few episodes of Better Call Saul . And, as Gould tells it, Bob was raring to go:
"When he was still in the hospital, [Bob] was calling me and saying: 'Maybe you should send me some scripts.' Naomi, his wife, was in the background saying: 'Don't send scripts.' I don't know if I've answered the question about backup plans, but there can be none. We wouldn't have had a show. We would've scrapped the whole thing."
Thankfully, everything worked out, and the story was filmed to completion.
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While Saul's story does feel complete, Better Call Saul did start out as a spin-off, which suggests that another could theoretically continue the Breaking Bad franchise in some new direction.
When asked about this possibility , Gilligan admitted to Rolling Stone : "I could do more with this universe. And maybe someday I will. Especially if I fail at everything that comes next. Then I'll come crawling back."
That doesn't necessarily mean Gilligan ever will, though.
"Right now, whether there's more room to grow or not – and there probably is – I feel like it's time to do something new," he explained.
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Diving straight back in could repeat a mistake all too often seen in TV and film these days.
"Without naming any names, I look around at some of the worlds, the universes, the stories that I love, whether they're on TV or in the movies. And I think there's a certain point, and it's hard to define, where you've done too much in the same universe," he said.
"And some universes are much bigger and more elastic. Ours is a very small one, Albuquerque, New Mexico, versus some of these worlds and series of movies and TV shows."
However, in June 2022, AMC president Dan McDermott gave fans some hope during a chat with Variety , saying: "I can tell you that if I could do anything to encourage Vince and Peter to continue on in this universe, I would do it.
"I think you'd have to ask them, but the door is always open and I long for the day my phone rings and Vince, Peter or our friends at Sony call to say: 'Hey, I think we have another show set in this universe.'"
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"We all know our characters so well having played them for years, so it felt good," Paul recently told The Hollywood Reporter . "[Jesse] will always have a special place inside of me, but I can confidently say that [ Better Call Saul ] was the last time we're going to see Pinkman. So, it was a nice farewell."
Bob Odenkirk probably wouldn't reprise his role again either following the emotional farewell he shared after the final episode of Better Call Saul had aired, saying: "We came out of, maybe, a lot of people's favourite show ever and we could've been hated for simply trying to do a show. But we weren't, we were given a chance and hopefully we made the most of it."
Farewell Saul Goodman. And Jimmy McGill. And Gene Takovic. Now it's time for another character to pick up those Breaking Bad reins — assuming that Gilligan does ever choose to revisit this beloved world again.
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is there another series of better call saul | Better Call Saul season 6: release date and everything else we know | The Breaking Bad prequel's final season has a release date
Unlike its predecessor, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul didn't immediately catch fire with its debut season. A slow-burning character study based in twisty legal drama, the show charts the rise (or fall) of Bob Odenkirk's Jimmy McGill from diligent lawyer to morally-corrupt defense attorney Saul Goodman.
Over five excellent seasons, though, Better Call Saul has proven itself a worthy successor to the series that spawned it – with many even praising it as a superior piece of television. In our, book, at least, it's certainly one of the best Netflix shows .
Now, fans have been waiting a while for Better Call Saul season 6 – and if you've been paying attention to the news lately, you'll no doubt have noticed that a big event affected the production of the show in 2021. Star Bob Odenkirk sadly suffered a heart attack during filming and collapsed. He's subsequently recovered, however, which is great news, and filming resumed in September last year. Netflix has since shared a release date for Better Call Saul season 6, too, which you'll find below.
Co-creator Peter Gould and the show's writers spent five years carefully developing each complex character, and now the stories of Jimmy, Kim, and the drug kingpins of New Mexico are ready to reach their climax. Speaking to Deadline
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, Gould says Better Call Saul season 6 is “going to be big, and it’s going to be resolved.” The co-creator has since provided more story hints to tide us over – again, you'll find more on that below.
We already have a few clues as to who will survive, at least. As he plays a role in Breaking Bad, set six years after the prequel starts, it's essentially confirmed that Jimmy ‘Saul Goodman’ McGill is safe, but there are plenty of characters that are ripe for the chop. So let's get to it and break down what we know about the Better Call Saul season 6 release date, cast, and story. Be warned, season 5 spoilers follow.
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After much speculation, Better Call Season 6 has finally been given an official release date. Like Money Heist and Ozark before it, the 13-episode climax will be split into two parts, with the first two entries arriving on April 19, 2022. The first half's next five episodes will arrive weekly after that, followed by a final run of six episodes beginning on July 12.
We know filming has wrapped on season 6, too, after star Bob Odenkirk shared the below tweet, saying he feels "honored to have been part of [the show]."
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The season 5 finale set up two major storylines: Kim against Howard Hamlin, and Lalo Salamanca versus, well, everyone . In the final scene we left Lalo fuming with rage after Gus’ failed assassination attempt. With his house ablaze and mother dead, “Lalo has vengeance in his eyes and is heading north for revenge,” Tony Dalton told the LA Times . We know Lalo survives, though, since we recall Goodman’s terrified line to Walter White in Breaking Bad: “Did Lalo send you?”
One of the men with a target on his back is Nacho Varga, and Gould told The Wrap he’s “in deep, deep trouble.” Nacho disappears during the assassination, and the extended shot of Lalo fixating on the drinks he shared with Varga moments earlier confirms that he suspects his former colleague’s involvement. Nacho never appears in Breaking Bad, so don’t bet on him making it out alive.
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Another central Better Call Saul character missing in Breaking Bad is Jimmy’s wife, Kim Wexler, and she doesn’t seem to be on a danger-free path either. After standing up to Lalo - so she has one foot in the grave already - it seems like the taciturn attorney is getting a taste for chaos: she wants to scam goody-two-shoes Howard out of his illustrious legal career, making the newlyweds millions.
Gould is also concerned for Wexler: in an interview with The Wrap, he says “The title of the penultimate episode this season was Bad Choice Road. And, certainly, Kim Wexler seems to be on a bad choice road.” In a virtual Deadline panel
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, Rhea Seehorn reflected on her time on the show so far, explaining that playing Kim was more complex than just "one giant arc of this mask coming off" as her backstory interweaves with Jimmy's present. But while Seehorn claimed to not know where her story is going yet, Gould said "We have a lot of ideas."
In many ways, the roles of Kim and Jimmy have reversed. Following ‘Saul Goodman’s’ near-death experience in the desert, he’s reverted back to the unsure Jimmy McGill. Speaking to Deadline
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, Bob Odenkirk said “Jimmy is in a vulnerable place. He’s in a weak and uncertain and frightened place inside.”
We know that McGill makes it through Better Call Saul season 6, but will it be worth it? “He is an accessory to just awful, awful things, not just in the Walter White of it, but all the other things that he’s done,” Gould said to Deadline. “I feel that he has a karmic burden. Does this guy earn a happy ending?”
While Gould is naturally keen to keep the upcoming story threads under wraps, he did highlight the kinds of questions we should be asking with EW , pointing us in the direction of season 6's major preoccupations. First is Gene Takovic, McGill's alter ego we see in black-and-white flash-forwards at the beginning of each season. Gould encourages us to consider "What does this man deserve?" as much as " What's going to happen to him?"
Then, when asked for a final cryptic hint, he says we should "Keep your eye on the bottle stopper" Kim took from her office as she resigned her job as a lawyer at Schweikart & Cokely. It's hard to know what he's getting at, but this will certainly be reveal as the complex machinations of season 6 come to a head.
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Better Call Saul wouldn’t exist without the man himself, so Odenkirk will return as Goodman. The Better Call Saul season 6 cast list isn’t confirmed, but we’ll certainly see more from Rhea Seehorn (Kim Wexler), Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut), Patrick Fabian (Howard Hamlin), Micheal Mando (Nacho Varga), Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring), and Tony Dalton (Lalo Salamanca).
But while Gould has already confirmed that we won’t see Jesse (Aaron Paul) or Walter (Bryan Cranston), could we see any other Breaking Bad cameos? We were already treated to the return of Hank (Dean Norris) and his DEA buddy, Steven (Steven Michael Quezada) in season 5...
Having gained momentum with every season since its 2015 debut, Better Call Saul is now considered a supreme example of how to successfully produce a serialised spin-off that matches (and occasionally surpasses) the quality of its predecessor.
Not every Breaking Bad fan returned for more content in this universe. But, as a series that Empire ranked at number 27 on its list of The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time
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, Better Call Saul is an undeniably worthy successor to its trailblazing source material.
What’s more, Breaking Bad ended after just five seasons – with Better Call Saul season 6, this once-prequel show will exist as a spin-off in name only.
As for what others shows might fill the Bob Odenkirk-shaped hole in your life after Better Call Saul ends in July, Apple TV Plus' The Mosquito Coast and Netflix stablemate Ozark – which ends “later in 2022” – seem like good places to start.
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is there another series of better call saul | Better Call Saul season 6: Everything we know so far | By Kelly Woolast updated
It's almost time to say goodbye with Better Call Saul season 6
All good things must come to an end: Better Call Saul season 6 will be the final chapter in the acclaimed AMC drama. We'll have to say goodbye to Jimmy McGill (aka Saul Goodman), Kim Wexler, Mike Ehrmantraut, Gus Fring and the rest of the memorable characters from the Breaking Bad prequel.
Better Call Saul is the best show on TV , as proved by the rollercoaster ride that was season 5. The spinoff show took the colorful supporting character of Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) from Breaking Bad and explored his fascinating, complex back story as struggling lawyer Jimmy McGill.
Creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould introduced viewers to his self-righteous, hypochondriac brother Chuck McGill (Michael McKean), a respected partner at a law firm. We also met Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), a hard-working lawyer with romantic ties to Jimmy.
Better Call Saul also brought in familiar faces from Breaking Bad, including former cop turned private investigator Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and fast food operator and eventual drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). The show also put a face to a name heard on Breaking Bad: Nacho Varga (Michael Mando), a member of the Salamanca drug cartel who crosses paths with Saul, Mike and Gus.
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While we know the fates of Saul, Mike and Gus, many fans are worried about what will happen to Kim and Nacho, neither of whom ever appeared on Breaking Bad. And of course, we need a resolution to Saul's post-Breaking Bad life as Cinnabon manager Gene from Omaha.
Here's everything we know about Better Call Saul season 6.
Better Call Saul season 6 will finally start airing on April 18, 2022 on AMC and AMC+. The first two episodes will air back to back. There will be 13 episodes in all.
Similar to what happened with Breaking Bad, the final season of Better Call Saul will be broken into two parts, with seven episodes In the first half and six in the second, with a small break in between. The second half of the sixth season will start on July 11.
Initially, Better Call Saul was scheduled to air in 2021. However, it — like many other productions — were shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming began in March 2021, and was expected to take about eight months. However, it suffered another delay in July, when Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack on set. Production resumed in August, with Odenkirk rejoining the cast in September.
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; however, that was before Odenkirk's incident. So, while it was delayed a little, it wasn't by too much.
While there haven't been any full-length trailers, there have been a number of teasers promoting the final season.
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All of the major Better Call Saul cast members will be back for the sixth and final season, led by star Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman.
The other series regulars due to return are:
- Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler
- Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut
- Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring
- Michael Mando as Nacho Varga
- Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca
- Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin
A number of recurring and supporting characters are likely to make another appearance in season 6, including:
- Mark Margolis as Hector Salamanca, a high-ranking cartel boss
- Maximino Arciniega as Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina, a distributor for the Salamancas
- Jeremiah Bitsui as Victor, Gus's henchman
- Ray Campbell as Tyrus Kitt, Gus's henchman
- Lavell Crawford as Huell Babineaux, a pickpocket and associate of Saul
- Tina Parker as Francesca Liddy, Saul's receptionist
- Kerry Condon as Stacey Ehrmantraut, Mike's daughter-in-law
- Juliet Donenfeld as Kaylee Ehrmantraut, Mike's granddaughter
- Dennis Boutsikaris as Rich Schweikart, a partner at Schweikart & Cokely
- Ed Begley Jr. as Clifford Main, managing partner at Davis & Main
- Juan Carlos Cantu as Manuel Varga, Nacho's father
- Steven Bauer as Don Eladio Vuente, head of the Juarez drug cartel
- Javier Grajeda as Juan Bolsa, a high-ranking member of the Juarez drug cartel
And since Better Call season 6 is getting closer in the timeline to the start of Breaking Bad, we may see more cameos from the flagship show. The prequel has already brought in David Costabile as chemist Gale Boetticher and Laura Fraser as Madrigal Electromotive executive Lydia Rodarte-Quayle. Raymond Cruz may also return as Tuco Salamanca, who is currently in prison but is out by the start of Breaking Bad.
Season 5 also gave fans a treat with cameos by Dean Norris as Hank Schrader and Steven Michael Quezada as Steven "Gomey" Gomez, DEA agents. But sadly, we won't see the late Robert Forster as Ed Galbraith, the vacuum cleaner store owner who moonlights as a re-locator. Forster passed away in October 2019 and posthumously appeared in Better Call Saul season 5.
The biggest question is whether we'll see a cameo by the two Breaking Bad leads, Bryan Cranston as Walter White or Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman.
Better Call Saul's co-creators are planning to make 13 episodes for the final season. And they're hoping to go out with a bang.
Gilligan told Rolling Stone, “I think the landing is going to get stuck ... It’s going to be awesome, it’s going to be satisfying. It may be more of a wait for it, but it’s going to be worth the wait. That’s the headline.”
Gould added, "My short version is: We’re going to try not to screw it up.”
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Better Call Saul seasons 1-4 and the entirety of Breaking Bad.
Better Call Saul season 5 started with Jimmy McGill taking the name Saul Goodman, but he's still not that close to the position he's in at the start of Breaking Bad. If you examine the timelines of both shows, Better Call Saul season 5 takes place in spring 2004, with the finale set circa late June. Meanwhile, Breaking Bad begins around September 2008.
That's four years, which feels like an eternity. A lot of stuff has to happen, as we laid out in our burning questions about Better Call Saul season 5 . The finale set up storylines that could address some of them, notably the fates of Kim and Nacho.
The latter disappeared from Lalo Salamanca's villa after letting in assassins hired by Gus Fring. However, Lalo survived — and he undoubtedly knows that Nacho set him up. Lalo will want revenge and he's going to pursue Nacho (and possibly go after Nacho's dad, too). Gus Fring will also be looking for him, since Nacho could rat him out to the Salamancas and ruin his ambitions to take over the cartel. Nacho's days seem numbered.
As for Kim, she surprised us all by breaking bad in the finale. We've all been fearing for Kim's safety, since she isn't mentioned or seen on the flagship series. But it seems she's fully in the game now, and season 6 is likely to follow her nefarious plan to take down Howard Hamlin. Everyone has been worrying that Kim will die; maybe she'll end up in prison, instead.
As for Mike and Gus, well, we know that they both end up dead in Breaking Bad. But Saul survives, flees Albuquerque and takes on a new identity as Gene, the manager of a Cinnabon in Omaha. The show has been flashing forward to that time. Can Jimmy/Saul/Gene keep that ruse going? Or will he perform one more act as Slippin' Jimmy and con his way into a better life? | https://www.tomsguide.com/news/better-call-saul-season-6-release-date-cast-episodes-and-everything-we-know | 32 |
is there another series of better call saul | Better Call Saul season 6 part 2 | UK release date for final season | Radio Times | The final episodes of Better Call Saul are now just around the corner and after that shocking mid-season finale they really can't come soon enough.
The final six episodes start airing on 12th July, and will definitely make for a bittersweet, but also highly stressful watch. We know that some characters go on to appear in Breaking Bad, so are seemingly fairly safe, but for others their fates are truly up in the air.
The shock of the mid-season twist cannot be overstated for fans, even though Peter Gould did previously tease a “surprising” and “heartbreaking” season .
He said in a statement: "In my eyes, this is our most ambitious, surprising and, yes, heartbreaking season. Even under incredibly challenging circumstances, the whole Saul team – writers, cast, producers, directors and crew – have outdone themselves. I couldn't be more excited to share what we've accomplished together," he continued.
Now fans' eyes will all be on those long-teased cameos from Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, although just what their involvement is remains to be seen.
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But what else in store for the rest of the season? Read on for everything you need to know about Better Call Saul season 6 part 2.
The eighth episode and the first in season 6 part 2 will land on Tuesday 12th July in the UK , with the remaining episodes airing weekly after that.
Netflix previously confirmed on Twitter: "The 13 episode season will be split into two parts. Eps 1+2 will arrive on 19 April, with the next 5 episodes airing weekly. After a break, the final run of six episodes will begin on 12th July."
Bob Odenkirk shared the news and tweeted : "Here it comes! Best season of all! A whopper. Can’t wait to share with you".
Better Call Saul season 6 part 2 is made up of 6 episodes, with a new one airing each week on a Tuesday.
Therefore, the release schedule for the finale episodes is as follows:
- Episode 8: Point and Shoot - Tuesday 12th July 2022
- Episode 9: Fun and Games - Tuesday 19th July 2022
- Episode 10: TBC - Tuesday 26th July 2022
- Episode 11: TBC - Tuesday 2nd August 2022
- Episode 12: TBC - Tuesday 9th August 2022
- Episode 13: TBC - Tuesday 16th August 2022
Bob Odenkirk will return to the Better Call Saul cast as Jimmy ‘Saul Goodman’ McGill, Jonathan Banks as criminal handyman Mike Ehrmantraut and Tony Dalton as Lalo.
What's more, Rhea Seehorn is set to return as ambitious lawyer Kim Wexler while Breaking Bad super-villain Gus Fring will be played once again by Giancarlo Esposito .
The obvious exceptions are Michael Mando's Nacho and Patrick Fabian's Howard, who both met their ends in season 6 part 1, though their deaths are expected to have a lasting impact in season 6 part 2.
Yes, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will reprise their roles of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, respectively, in Better Call Saul season 6 part 2.
Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould confirmed the news at PaleyFest LA on a Better Call Saul panel (via Variety ).
“I don’t want to spoil things for the audience, but I will say the first question we had when we started the show was, ‘Are we gonna see Walt and Jesse on the show?’ Instead of evading, I’ll just say yeah,” Gould said on the panel.
“How or the circumstances or anything, you’ll just have to discover that for yourself, but I have to say that’s one of many things that I think you’ll discover this season.”
While their appearances aren't absolutely necessary for the story, a brief cameo by either would be the cherry on top of an already sensational cake – and it's a cherry we're very much looking forward to seeing placed there.
More bad news... yes, season 6 spells the end for Better Call Saul. The show may have taken a little while to heat up – as with Breaking Bad – but it has rapidly grown into a prequel series more than worthy of a place in Gilligan's universe.
Season 6 is likely to stitch itself to the beginning of Breaking Bad and potentially show us more of Saul (now in hiding as "Gene") following the events of the original series. We have previously only seen Jimmy as Gene in the odd black and white scene here and there.
But the end of Better Call Saul may not be the last time we see Jimmy, as it has been revealed via Variety that an animated prequel to this prequel is in the works at AMC and it has been given the appropriate name of Slippin’ Jimmy .
The show will apparently explore Jimmy's life prior to the events of his own show while young Jimmy and Chuck McGill were in Cicero, Illinois. It is unknown whether the original actors will return to play the characters in this new version and that, we imagine, will depend on how far back this is set.
Jimmy McGill is Saul Goodman.
He introduced himself to the locals, his clients-to-be, by distributing pre-paid burner phones for free, all with his number on speed dial. This leads to a surge in cases for Saul, he is a rampant success in the courthouse, all the while Kim is forced to watch on with mixed emotions.
She is torn between top client Mesa Verde and an elderly resident who refuses to move from his long-term home on their land. Kim works covertly to aid Mr Acker’s cause and ropes Jimmy into a plan to cross Mesa Verde. Jimmy goes full-Saul and blindsides Kim, embarrassing her in front of the Mesa Verde top brass.
We saw huge conflict between Jimmy and Kim, leading to a make or break moment that surprising fell in favour of the couple growing inexplicably closer… they got married, though the arrangement is to absolve Kim of having to testify against her husband if his shady dealings are brought to light.
Meanwhile, the Gus Fring versus Salamanca family war escalates to deadly levels, with Nacho earning the trust of Lalo Salamanca at the order of Gus – positioning himself right in the crossfire, a spy.
Lalo has been digging (not quite literally…) for the truth behind Gus’ dealings, though his underground superlab is yet to be completed or detected.
Mike officially became Gus’ right-hand man as tensions continue to spiral out of control, while Lalo was jailed for his involvement in dealings from season 4.
It wasn't a long spell in a cell for the Salamanca, after being bailed out by Jimmy following a torturous, near-death journey through the wilderness with Mike saving his skin.
The season wrapped with Lalo escaping a botched assassination attempt by Gus' 'best men' at his home in Mexico, and now he's ready to rampage after deducing Nacho had a hand in assisting the armed raiders.
The action remained largely in Mexico throughout the finale, but arguably the most disturbing aspect of the episode saw Kim go 'full Jimmy'. She is breaking bad, her inner dark side is bubbling over, Saul is rubbing off on her.
Kim brainstorms a plot to down former colleague Howard Hamlin for her and Jimmy's gain – with the idea of setting up a fresh firm aimed at serving the poorest in society. She's aiming for the Robin Hood mentality, essentially stealing from the rich give to the poor, but Kim has firmly planted herself in the grey area... The question over Kim's future has shifted somewhat from 'where is Kim after Better Call Saul?' to 'who does Kim become in Better Call Saul?'.
The episode titles of the final part of the season have not yet been released and not a huge amount is known about the plot, but we can hazard a guess from part 1.
Even though Better Call Saul season 6 is only seven episodes in, there have already been some major deaths and plenty of twists and turns.
Nacho Varga met a grisly end in episode 4, Howard Hamlin died in episode 7, making things even more unpredictable than before.
Presumably part 2 will end on another cliffhanger of some sort – either to do with Kim and Jimmy’s scheme to take down Howard, or Lalo’s revenge, or both.
We can also expect part 2 to resolve the mystery of Gene Takovic’s whereabouts.
Season 6 part 2 is the link between Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad. It is the missing puzzle piece that must be slotted into place, and that gives us clues as to where each character will end up.
Lalo Salamanca and Nacho are nowhere to be seen in Breaking Bad, and ominously, Kim Wexler falls into the same boat. The fate of these characters are likely to be explored, while we can expect to witness Saul taking up residence in his BB office, Gus and the Salamancas' war is likely to burst into life again, and the construction of the superlab is likely to be completed.
In February 2022, Bob Odenkirk was noted by The New York Times magazine to have said of the final episode: "I think I like it, but I was pretty wiped out when I read it in the middle of the night. I think it’s a challenging way to go, to finish the series. It’s not flashy. It’s substantial, and on some level it’s things I hoped for, for years, in this character’s brain. On the other hand, yeah, I have to read it again. But what I like about it is, it’s not cheap. It’s not easy. It doesn’t feel cartoonish. It’s pretty great, I think. It’s pretty great.”
He added that he wanted to focus on character development rather than gunfights, although they do feature in the season which Odenkirk teased saw Saul doing very crimes.
Back in February 2021, Bob Odenkirk dropped a few hints about what to expect in the final run. “I can’t wait for the fireworks, really," he told Deadline . "Our show is a bit of a slow burn over the past few years, and [creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould] build up. There are certainly exciting moments throughout, but towards the end, it gets super supremely intense."
Earlier, Gould had revealed that fans won't look at Breaking Bad in the same way after the final season of Better Call Saul airs. He told The Hollywood Reporter , "I think by the time you finish watching Better Call Saul, you’re going to see Breaking Bad in a very different light.
"I think we’re going to learn things about the characters in Breaking Bad that we didn’t know. We’re going to learn things about the events of Breaking Bad that we didn’t know. We’re going to learn things about the fates of a lot of these characters that may surprise people or certainly throw them into a different light."
A trailer for season 6 part 2 is yet to drop.
However, in the meantime, fans can watch AMC's trailer for season 6, which gave fans a first look at lawyer Jimmy McGill’s transformation into full-blown con man.
And it looks like we should expect the unexpected, if the new trailer is anything to go by, especially since it ends with Mike Ehrmantraut ominously saying: “Whatever happens next, it’s not gonna go down the way you think it is.” Watch below:
Better Call Season 6 has also released some short teasers. The first features some intimidating walking, while the second confirmed the April release date.
Will Saul come out the other side of the season in a better place? It remains to be seen.
An additional full trailer for season 6 was released on 6th April 2022. Here is the latest footage.
Better Call Saul is available on Netflix in the UK and AMC in the US.
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The sixth and final season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul premiered on April 18, 2022, in the United States, and concluded on August 15, 2022. The thirteen-episode season was broadcast on Mondays at 9:00 pm ( Eastern ) in the United States on AMC and its streaming service AMC+ . Each episode was released on Netflix the day after in certain international markets. The season was split into two parts; the first consisting of the first seven episodes concluded on May 23, 2022, before resuming with the second half consisting of the final six episodes on July 11. Bob Odenkirk , Jonathan Banks , Rhea Seehorn , Patrick Fabian , Michael Mando , Tony Dalton , and Giancarlo Esposito reprise their roles from previous seasons. Better Call Saul is a spin-off , prequel and sequel of Breaking Bad created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould .
The sixth season picks up where the fifth left off. The first nine episodes mainly take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2004, four years before Jimmy McGill (Odenkirk) begins his association with meth cooks Walter White ( Bryan Cranston ) and Jesse Pinkman ( Aaron Paul ). The season shows the further evolution of Jimmy into the eponymous character, criminal defense lawyer " Saul Goodman ", as he and his wife Kim Wexler (Seehorn) execute their plan to ruin the career of Howard Hamlin (Fabian) to force a resolution of the Sandpiper case. Simultaneously, it depicts the drug cartel's reactions to the assassination attempt on Lalo Salamanca (Dalton). The remaining episodes mainly take place in 2010, after the events of Breaking Bad , and show Saul living in Omaha, Nebraska under the alias "Gene Takavic", hiding from the authorities after the demise of Walter.
The sixth season was filmed over a period of eleven months in Albuquerque. Upon release, it received universal acclaim from critics, particularly for its performances, writing, visuals, emotional weight, and similarity to Breaking Bad compared to earlier seasons. The first half received four nominations at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards , including for Outstanding Drama Series while the second half is eligible for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards .
- Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman , a criminal defense attorney practicing under the name Saul Goodman. In the post- Breaking Bad timeline, he manages a Cinnabon store in Omaha under the alias Gene Takavic. [1]
- Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut , a fixer in Gus Fring's criminal enterprise who is hunting down Lalo after his attempted assassination. [2]
- Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler , a lawyer and Jimmy's wife and confidante. [3]
- Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin , managing partner of the Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill law firm. [4]
- Michael Mando as Nacho Varga , a lieutenant in the Salamanca organization who oversees daily operations in Albuquerque. He’s hiding in Mexico due to his involvement in the attempted assassination of Lalo Salamanca. [5]
- Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca , acting head of the Salamancas, a family of drug dealers and enforcers for Don Eladio 's cartel. He is keeping surveillance of Gus' plans for a secret meth lab. For this reason, Gus orchestrated the assassination attempt with Nacho. [4]
- Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring , an Albuquerque narcotics distributor for Eladio's cartel who uses his fried chicken chain Los Pollos Hermanos as a front. [4]
- Ed Begley Jr. as Clifford Main , founding partner of Davis & Main Attorneys at Law, who is working with Howard on the Sandpiper case. [6]
- Mark Margolis as Hector Salamanca , a once-brutal drug dealer and cartel enforcer who suffered a stroke and is unable to walk or speak. [6]
- Ray Campbell as Tyrus Kitt , one of Gus's henchmen. [6]
- Javier Grajeda as Juan Bolsa , a Juárez drug cartel underboss.
- Jeremiah Bitsui as Victor , one of Gus's henchmen.
- Juan Carlos Cantu as Manuel Varga , Nacho's father, who owns an upholstery shop.
- Peter Diseth as Bill Oakley , a deputy district attorney.
- Harrison Thomas as Lyle , the assistant manager of the Los Pollos Hermanos branch in Albuquerque.
- Jessie Ennis as Erin Brill , a lawyer at Davis & Main.
- Lennie Loftin as Genidowski, a con man hired by Jimmy and Kim to pose as Howard's private investigator.
- Josh Fadem as Joey Dixon/Marshall, a UNM film teacher who helps Jimmy on various projects and schemes.
- Hayley Holmes as Make-up Girl/Drama Girl/Cheri, a UNM film student.
- Julian Bonfiglio as Sound Guy/Phil, a UNM film student.
- Sandrine Holt as Cheryl Hamlin , Howard's estranged wife.
- John Posey as Rand Casimiro , a retired judge who is mediating the Sandpiper case.
- John Ennis as Lenny, a grocery store employee hired by Jimmy and Kim to impersonate Casimiro.
- Dennis Boutsikaris as Rich Schweikart , founding partner of the Scweikart and Cokely law firm.
- Bryan Cranston as Walter White , a middle-aged high school chemistry teacher who, during the events of Breaking Bad , becomes involved with the drug trade and enlists Saul to help launder his money, appears in flashbacks.
- Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman , a former student of Walter's who, during the events of Breaking Bad , works with him to produce and sell meth, appears in flashbacks.
- Pat Healy as Jeff , a cab driver who recognizes Gene as Saul Goodman. Healy replaced Don Harvey , who was unable to reprise his role due to another filming commitment.
- Max Bickelhaup as Buddy, Jeff's friend and partner in crime.
- Carol Burnett as Marion, Jeff's mother who takes a liking to Gene.
- Julie Ann Emery and Jeremy Shamos as Betsy and Craig Kettleman , a married couple whom Jimmy, and later Kim, represented during an embezzlement case, and who attempted to extort Jimmy. Since Craig's release from prison they have operated a shady tax preparation service.
- Rex Linn as Kevin Wachtell , CEO of Mesa Verde Bank & Trust.
- Lavell Crawford as Huell Babineaux , professional pickpocket and Jimmy's bodyguard and fixer.
- Julie Pearl as Suzanne Ericsen , an assistant district attorney.
- Eileen Fogarty as Mrs. Nguyen , owner of a nail salon that houses Jimmy's law office in its utility room.
- Julia Minesci as Wendy , a street prostitute working out of the Crossroads motel, reprising her role from Breaking Bad .
- David Ury as Spooge , a small-time criminal, reprising his role from Breaking Bad .
- Andrea Sooch as Margarethe Ziegler , Werner Ziegler 's widow.
- Kerry Condon as Stacey Ehrmantraut , Mike's widowed daughter-in-law and the mother of Kaylee Ehrmantraut.
- Joe DeRosa as Dr. Caldera , a veterinarian who serves as Mike and Jimmy's liaison to the criminal underworld.
- Stefan Kapičić as Casper , a member of Werner's construction crew.
- Kirk Bovill as Mr. Ryman, a seemingly innocent suburbanite who works for Gus Fring.
- Joni Bovill as Mrs. Ryman, a seemingly innocent suburbanite who works for Gus Fring.
- Jean Effron as Irene Landry, Jimmy's former elder law client who represents the class in the Sandpiper lawsuit.
- Steven Bauer as Don Eladio Vuente , head of the cartel.
- Reed Diamond as David, a sommelier at a prestigious restaurant and Fring's frequent confidante.
- Jim O'Heir as Frank, a security guard at Cottonwood Mall whom Gene befriends.
- Devin Ratray as Alfred Hawthorne Hill, a boorish man who falls victim to Gene's identity theft scam.
- Kevin Sussman as Mr. Lingk, a man with cancer who is targeted for a scam by Gene.
- John Koyama as Emilio Koyama, Jesse's future partner in the drug business during the events of Breaking Bad .
- Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader , Hank Schrader 's widow. She appears as a witness against Saul Goodman when he is finally arrested and attends Saul's trial.
- Michael McKean as Chuck McGill , Jimmy's deceased brother and partner at Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, appears in a flashback.
In January 2020, AMC renewed Better Call Saul for a sixth and final season. Showrunner Peter Gould and AMC representatives confirmed it would consist of 13 episodes, [1] higher than the usual 10. [7] This brought the series' total episode count to 63, one more than its predecessor Breaking Bad . Gould stated, "From the beginning when we started this, I think all our hopes and dreams were to be able to tell the whole story ... and make it to be a complete story from beginning to end ... We're going to try like hell to stick the landing of these 63 episodes." [1] Giancarlo Esposito had previously speculated in April 2019 that the series would end with a sixth season because it was the "comfortable way" to do so, similar to how Breaking Bad 's fifth and final season was split into two halves, giving the feeling that the latter half was the sixth season. [8] Gould said he initially doubted how he could do 13 episodes because the 10-episode count of previous seasons proved physically exhausting for him, but executive producer and writer Thomas Schnauz convinced him to go for 13, saying, "You'll know it's the last 13 so you'll see the barn in the distance. You'll be like the horse that gallops down the last bit." [9]
In February 2020, Gould suggested the sixth season would explore Saul Goodman 's flashforwards as Gene Takavic to a greater extent than previous seasons. [10] By April 2020, scripting for the season had already begun. Gould did not want the season to be anticlimactic, so, to deliver a satisfactory conclusion to Better Call Saul , he brought co-creator Vince Gilligan , who also created Breaking Bad , back to the writer's room "for a good chunk of the season". [4] Gilligan had not been involved in the writers' room since early in season three . [11] By December 2020, scripting was still not complete, with Gould saying the writers having to communicate through Zoom , rather than in person, was like "trying to dance in quick sand". [12]
Gould later said the season would explore if there was any way for Saul to earn redemption after his criminal activities throughout the series. [13] During filming of the season, series star Bob Odenkirk said that Gould told him that "when Better Call Saul is done it will shed new light ... you will see Breaking Bad and the story of Breaking Bad in a different way", comparing to its final season where Gilligan had "start[ed] knocking things down and start[ed] lighting fires and burning everything down". [14]
Laura Fraser confirmed after the premiere date announcement that she was unable to reprise her role as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle for the final season. This was due to COVID-19 restrictions preventing travel between the United States and Scotland, where she lived when the final season began filming. [15] Prior to the season premiere, it was announced that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul would reprise their roles from Breaking Bad for the final season as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman , respectively. [16]
During the mid-season break, it was announced that the latter half of the season would feature Carol Burnett in the role of Marion, although details about the character were not disclosed. Burnett was previously mentioned by Chuck McGill during the second season episode " Rebecca ". [17] [18] It was also revealed that the character of Jeff , the cab driver who recognized Saul in Omaha, had been recast from Don Harvey to Pat Healy . Fans theorized this was due to Harvey's filming commitments on We Own This City . [19] [20] Harvey later expressed disappointment in not being able to reprise the role due to scheduling conflicts, but praised Healy for making the character his own. [21]
In April 2020, Michael Mando and Tony Dalton separately said filming was scheduled to begin that September, but both were unsure if it would be delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic . [5] [22] Rhea Seehorn said in July that filming would not begin until it was safe to do so. [23] In August, producer Mark Johnson said the pandemic could limit where the series films by eschewing specific indoor locations: "Like a lot of other people, we're going to have to be very creative in where and how we shoot [...] A lot of places just won't let you in [...] We don't want everything to be a chamber piece". [24] In the same month, Gould said filming was unlikely to start in 2020 due to the pandemic, adding that while Sony Pictures Television was doing "everything humanly" possible for the series to resume filming safely, "I think we are probably going to delay a little bit unfortunately." [25] In October, Esposito said filming would begin in March 2021, [26] which was echoed by Odenkirk in February 2021. [27]
Filming officially began on March 10, 2021, in New Mexico. [28] [29] Each episode was expected to take about three weeks to film, a longer filming schedule compared to previous seasons, where a typical episode was filmed in nine days. [14] [30] Production was predicted to last roughly eight months, but filming instead wrapped after eleven months on February 9, 2022. [31] [32] Additional filming was done in March 2022, after principal photography for the series ended, for the opening teaser of " Point and Shoot ". With several crew members but no cast members on hand, the scene was filmed in Leo Carrillo State Beach , California. This was the only time the series was filmed outside of New Mexico. [33] : 1:00:01–1:01:29 [34]
For the first time in the series, production allowed cast members to serve as directors, with Seehorn and Esposito each directing an episode. [35] Cranston and Paul were flown in to Albuquerque and filmed their scenes in April 2021. [36] Their roles were kept in absolutely secrecy, with both actors kept out of sight when not on set, similar to Cranston's cameo in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie . [37] They stayed in Alburquerque for four days at an Airbnb , with all wardrobe and makeup done in the home and only leaving to be taken on site to shoot. [38] They appeared in one scene together as well as one individual scene each. [39] The Cinnabon scenes in Better Call Saul are set in Omaha, but were filmed at the Cottonwood Mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [40]
"We were shooting a scene, we'd been shooting all day, and luckily I didn't go back to my trailer. I went to play the Cubs game and ride my workout bike, and I just went down. Rhea said I started turning bluish-gray right away."
On July 27, 2021, after filming a "Point and Shoot" scene for twelve hours, Odenkirk was riding his exercise bike when he suffered a heart attack . [42] [43] Seehorn, Fabian, and Dalton were nearby and immediately called for help upon seeing him collapse. [33] : 48:43–54:10 [44] The show's health safety supervisor Rosa Estrada and Assistant Director Angie Meyer administered CPR and deployed an automated defibrillator ; it took three attempts for his pulse to return. Odenkirk was rushed to Presbyterian Hospital, where two stents were put in his body to relieve plaque buildup. [45] [46] [47] Odenkirk was treated without further surgery and took a five-week break from filming, requiring production to make accommodating schedule changes. [42] [48] In mid-August, Dalton said scenes not involving Odenkirk were being filmed, but Odenkirk had not yet been given clearance to return. [49] Odenkirk confirmed by early September 2021 that he was back on set filming. [50]
In October 2021, a potential strike by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) would have resulted in all productions in the New Mexico film and television industry shutting down, including Better Call Saul . [51] Odenkirk, Gould, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and several members of the New Mexico state legislature voiced their support for the IATSE and for creating better working conditions for the unionized crew members. [52] [53] [54] On October 16, 2021, a tentative agreement was made before the deadline between the IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers , temporarily averting a strike. [55] The contract was ratified by the IATSE members on November 15, 2021, ending all prospects of a strike and allowing production to continue without interruption. [56]
When the sixth season was ordered by AMC in January 2020, it was scheduled to premiere in 2021. [1] However, in April 2020, Gilligan said that would depend on whether the cast and crew would be able to film in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [70] In February 2021, AMC confirmed that the sixth season would likely premiere in the first quarter of 2022. [71] Gould's preference was to have all 13 episodes of the sixth season aired weekly and not for the season to be split in any manner; however, he noted that only AMC would decide the scheduling. [72]
Variety reported on November 4, 2021, that the season would air over two halves, which was confirmed on the official announcement date on February 10, 2022. [73] [74] Gould said the writers did not know the season would be split into two parts until AMC announced it. [75] The first seven episodes began airing on April 18, 2022; fans who attended PaleyFest in Los Angeles on April 9, 2022 received an early screening of the season premiere . [74] [76] The last six episodes aired starting airing July 11, 2022; fans who attended Tribeca Festival in New York on June 18, 2022 received an early screening of the mid-season premiere . [74] [77]
The seven-week break between both halves was shorter compared to the split final season of Breaking Bad , where the two halves aired a year apart. [78] Splitting the season in two allowed the show to nominate each half of the season for different Emmy Awards ceremonies, as the first half was eligible for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2022, while eligibility for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards began in June. [79]
Each episode would air on AMC at 9:00 pm (ET) on Mondays, with the first two episodes premiering back-to-back on the same night. During the season's run, each episode would be available to stream the day they premiered on AMC+ , AMC's streaming service which first launched in June 2020. [80] [81] The season premiere resulted in the biggest day of new subscriber sign-ups for AMC+, and by the mid-season finale episodic viewership on the streaming service rose by 61%. [80] [82] Upon the release of the series finale , the app experienced an outage, causing many users to be logged out. [83] AMC later reported that first-day viewing numbers for the finale on AMC+ was four times as big as the season premiere , and called the series' final season the highest acquisition driver in the history of the streaming service. [84]
In certain international markets, like previous seasons, episodes were released on Netflix and other streaming services the day after their broadcast on AMC. [85] The entire season was released on Netflix in the U.S. on April 18, 2023. [86]
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Season 6 (2022) : Percentage of positive critics' reviews tracked by the website Rotten Tomatoes [87]
The sixth season of Better Call Saul has received universal acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes , the season has an approval rating of 99% based on 179 reviews, with an average rating of 9.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, " Better Call Saul remains as masterfully in control as Jimmy McGill keeps insisting he is in this final season, where years of simmering storytelling come to a scintillating boil." [87] On Metacritic , the season has a score of 94 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [88]
After the airing of the series finale, Stuart Jeffries of The Guardian said that the series had surprisingly surpassed its predecessor in quality, saying: "Over six series, Better Call Saul evolved into a more profound and beautiful drama about human corruption than its predecessor. It mutated into something visually more sumptuous than Breaking Bad , while never, for a moment, losing its verbal dexterity and moral compass". [89] Craig Elvy of Screen Rant also opined that the series was better than its predecessor, saying: "Jimmy McGill's spinoff leaves a very familiar legacy – sustained and enthusiastic praise from audiences and critics, capped by an ending that satisfies across the board." He went on to say: "When Better Call Saul began, many would've hoped the spinoff could either escape Breaking Bad ' s shadow, or somehow enhance Walt and Jesse's story with illuminating new details. Few dared dream Better Call Saul would achieve both, and the sheer ambition to create a spinoff that wholly embraces its predecessor whilst also existing in a totally different realm exemplifies why Better Call Saul has an ever-so-slight edge over Breaking Bad ." [90] Jeremy Urquhart of Collider made a comparison between the quality of both series’, saying: " Breaking Bad succeeds as a crime-thriller tragedy with a fast-paced plot, and Better Call Saul works as a slower-paced, character-focused drama (with some dark comedy)". He said his list "doesn't aim to argue that one is better than the other. It's a matter of personal preference, but it's hard to deny that there are certain things Better Call Saul does better, but also some areas where it isn't quite as great as its parent show." [91]
The two-episode premiere " Wine and Roses " and " Carrot and Stick " received positive reviews from critics. David Segal of The New York Times described the first episode as "strong, twisty and gripping" and said the writing "must be hailed as a masterly curtain raiser, one that managed to pick up the story right where it was left, two years ago, and hurl it forward at a promising pace." Segal criticized Kim's con against Howard at the country club, calling it "dimmer and daffier than the rest of the show" and "pointlessly cruel". [92] Reviewing both "Wine and Roses" and "Carrot and Stick" together, The A.V. Club ' s Kimberly Potts graded them with an "A" and gave positive notes to Gould's screenplay and the performances of the cast, especially those of Rhea Seehorn as Kim and Michael Mando as Nacho. [93] Steve Greene, writing for IndieWire , said the first two episodes were "astonishingly short on false moves so far". He also noted Ed Begley Jr. 's acting as Clifford Main and the symbolism in Kim throwing away the "World's 2nd Best Lawyer" coffee mug, calling it "a poetic bookend of sorts." [94] [95] David Segal of The New York Times described the second episode as "superb and stressful" and said it was a "study in damage control, overseen by a man [Gus] who seems uncharacteristically ruffled and uncertain about what to do." Segal also said the shootout scene was "expertly staged" by Gilligan and that Rhea Seehorn's performance as Kim provided an opportunity for her to "demonstrate an almost thuggish toughness." [96] Scott Tobias, writing for Vulture , compared the motel sequences to the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone , including Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). He also gave positive notes to the level of detail in the episode's opening scene, calling it "one big reason Better Call Saul stands apart from other shows." [97]
The third episode " Rock and Hard Place ", which concluded Nacho's arc, received acclaim by critics. Kaleena Rivera of Pajiba praised Michael Mando 's display of rage and the episode's buildup to the ending. [98] The A.V. Club ' s Kimberly Potts said Mando's acting was deserving of an Emmy nomination. She also compared Nacho's last words to Walter White 's confession to Jesse Pinkman in the Breaking Bad episode " Ozymandias " and gave positive notes to the performances of Giancarlo Esposito and Mark Margolis and the show's development of Nacho as a compelling character. [99] David Segal of The New York Times saluted Smith 's screenplay and direction and the production design. He similarly compared Nacho's life to that of Jesse's—both criminals who made "some terrible life choices" and were "over-punished for them"—adding, "It would have been great to see more of this stellar actor, but if you must leave a show, a more dramatic and affecting end is hard to imagine." [100]
The mid-season finale " Plan and Execution ", which showcased the culmination of Saul and Kim’s plot to ruin Howard’s career and reputation, received acclaim, particularly for Patrick Fabian 's performance. Scott Tobias of Vulture and Nick Harley of Den of Geek shared five out of five ratings for the episode, while Kimberly Potts from The A.V. Club and Steve Greene from IndieWire both gave the episode an "A" grade. [101] [102] [103] [104]
The mid-season premiere " Point and Shoot ", which concluded Lalo's arc, was met with critical acclaim. It received five out of five stars from The Guardian ' s Stuart Jeffries and The Times ' s James Jackson, [105] [106] four out of five stars from Scott Tobias of Vulture , Nick Harley of Den of Geek , and Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph , [107] [108] [109] and "A" grades from The A.V. Club ' s Kimberly Potts, IndieWire ' s Steve Greene, and Entertainment Weekly ' s Darren Franich. [110] [111] [112]
The series finale " Saul Gone " received critical acclaim. Giving the episode an A grade, Kimberly Potts of The A.V. Club called it a "supremely satisfying sendoff" with "blasts from the past and one last twist". [113] At IGN , Rafael Motamayor gave the episode a 10 out of 10 rating, describing it as a "subtler character study, exploring regrets and change in its protagonist". He also noted the episode title and complimented it for being "a thematic bookend on a show that was never really about Saul Goodman" and highlighted the motif of time machines. [114] Similarly, Vulture ' s Jen Chaney also discussed the motif of time machines in the episode, and commended it for offering more depth and context to Breaking Bad , and felt the series was superior to Breaking Bad , as it "dared to widen its scope and go bigger than Breaking Bad ever did". In addition, the website's Scott Tobias gave it a 5 out of 5 rating and wrote, "'Saul Gone' [...] finds an ending for Jimmy that's hopeful and authentic without feeling rosy or unearned." [115]
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(18–49)
| Viewers |
(millions)
| DVR |
(18–49)
| DVR viewers |
(millions)
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(18–49)
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|1||" Wine and Roses "||April 18, 2022||0.31||1.42 [57]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|2||" Carrot and Stick "||April 18, 2022||0.24||1.16 [57]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|3||" Rock and Hard Place "||April 25, 2022||0.26||1.16 [58]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|4||" Hit and Run "||May 2, 2022||0.27||1.16 [59]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|5||" Black and Blue "||May 9, 2022||0.26||1.22 [60]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|6||" Axe and Grind "||May 16, 2022||0.28||1.13 [61]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|7||" Plan and Execution "||May 23, 2022||0.26||1.19 [62]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|8||" Point and Shoot "||July 11, 2022||0.28||1.16 [63]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|9||" Fun and Games "||July 18, 2022||0.27||1.22 [64]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|10||" Nippy "||July 25, 2022||0.29||1.20 [66]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|11||" Breaking Bad "||August 1, 2022||0.36||1.34 [67]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|12||" Waterworks "||August 8, 2022||0.32||1.32 [68]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|13||" Saul Gone "||August 15, 2022||0.47||1.80 [69]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
The sixth season was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on December 6, 2022; bonus features includes cast and crew audio commentaries on every episode, deleted scenes, outtakes, and various behind-the-scenes featurettes. [139]
On April 1, 2022, a few weeks before the season premiere, the CNBC Prime YouTube account uploaded American Greed: James McGill . [140] Written by Peter Gould's assistant Valerie Chu, the ten-minute short is a mockumentary done in the style of the documentary series American Greed and recaps the events of both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul . [141] Narrated by Stacy Keach , the mockumentary has interviews of several recurring Better Call Saul characters, including DA Suzanne Ericsen (Julie Pearl), Deputy DA Bill Oakley (Peter Diseth), and Kim Wexler's former boss Rich Schweikart ( Dennis Boutsikaris ). Also making reappearances are Betsy and Craig Kettleman ( Julie Ann Emery and Jeremy Shamos , respectively), who had not appeared on the series since the first season , but made additional canonical appearances in the short film No Picnic , which was released after the third season , and on the Inside the Gilliverse podcast in 2020. [142] [143] The short film was shot in Albuquerque in March 2022, a year after Emery and Shamos filmed the Better Call Saul episode " Carrot and Stick ". [143]
Variety reported in March 2021 that AMC was developing an animated spinoff series, Slippin' Jimmy . [147] The series was later revealed as a short-form series; a six-part animated series to be released online during the sixth season of Better Call Saul . Each episode is inspired by a specific film genre — from spaghetti Westerns and Buster Keaton to The Exorcist . The series was produced by Rick and Morty animators Starburns and written by Better Call Saul writers Ariel Levine and Kathleen Williams-Foshee. Voice actors include Chi McBride , Laraine Newman , and Sean Giambrone as Jimmy. [74] Six episodes of Slippin' Jimmy , each around 8–9 minutes in length, were released on AMC+ on May 23, 2022. [148]
The series received negative reviews from fans and critics for its stark drop in quality compared to its predecessors. Mark Donaldson from Screen Rant criticized the concept, saying "the animated spinoff is being sold as a digital exclusive but this race to provide sellable content to audiences undermines storytelling ... the team behind both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul have proven themselves to be savvy storytellers that respect the journeys of their characters over cheap cash-ins. It's this integrity that makes Slippin ' Jimmy feel like such a misstep." [149]
For the sixth season, new episodes of the Better Call Saul Employee Training Video series, which had begun with the show's third season, were announced. [74]
The employee videos released during the season were titled Filmmaker Training and premiered on July 11, 2022. The series consists of six episodes and focuses on the film crew that worked with Jimmy on his advertisements. [150] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul_(season_6) | 32 |
is there another series of better call saul | Why Better Call Saul was cancelled – and the chances of season 7 or a spinoff | "You've got to know when to leave the party."
Better Call Saul spoilers follow.
Few expected that a prequel to Breaking Bad could match the original. So imagine our surprise when Better Call Saul arguably outdid that show with something even more special.
But can there be too much of a good thing? Would a return to Saul's story, or even another spin-off, dilute the impact of these two essentially perfect shows?
Join us here at Digital Spy as we break down why Better Call Saul came to an end and how the franchise might evolve now moving forward.
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Speaking at the TCA press tour in 2020, Better Call Saul showrunner Peter Gould revealed that the show would end with its sixth and final season.
"From day one of Better Call Saul , my dream was to tell the complete story of our complicated and compromised hero, Jimmy McGill – now AMC and Sony are making that dream come true," he said (via Express ).
"We couldn't be more grateful to the fans and critics who are making this journey possible. Next month we start work on the sixth and final season – we're going to do our damnedest to stick the landing."
AMC Studios president Sarah Barnett added: "Greenlighting a prequel to one of the most iconic series in television history is one of the boldest swings that AMC has ever taken. But, thanks to the creative genius of Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, it has also been one of the most rewarding."
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Since then, creator Vince Gilligan has explained why season six wound up being the final chapter (via The Hollywood Reporter ): "You've got to know when to leave the party. You don't want to be the guy with the lampshade on his head… I know I was asked the same thing at the end of Breaking Bad and I gave the same answer, but I need to prove to myself that I'm not a one-trick pony."
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In what's become quite rare these days, Better Call Saul was able to end on its own terms rather than reckon with an abrupt cancellation. That allowed the writers to take their time and eventually catch up to Breaking Bad's storyline by the end of their final episode.
With no more story left to tell in the past, plus future Saul scenes that looked even further ahead in Breaking Bad , it seems that Saul's story has come to a natural conclusion. However, there was a point a few months back when that no longer seemed feasible.
In a different interview with The Hollywood Reporter , showrunner Peter Gould opened up about the production setback that ensued when Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack on set .
"There's no backup plan for your lead [having] a heart attack. That's impossible. It reminds you that as preoccupied and as important as entertainment feels – and we all feel like it's life-and-death as we're working on these shows; I always feel like I'm on the verge of getting crushed by a boulder – it's not," he recalled. "It's a piece of entertainment."
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Five weeks later, Odenkirk returned to set so that they could finish filming the last few episodes of Better Call Saul . And, as Gould tells it, Bob was raring to go:
"When he was still in the hospital, [Bob] was calling me and saying: 'Maybe you should send me some scripts.' Naomi, his wife, was in the background saying: 'Don't send scripts.' I don't know if I've answered the question about backup plans, but there can be none. We wouldn't have had a show. We would've scrapped the whole thing."
Thankfully, everything worked out, and the story was filmed to completion.
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While Saul's story does feel complete, Better Call Saul did start out as a spin-off, which suggests that another could theoretically continue the Breaking Bad franchise in some new direction.
When asked about this possibility , Gilligan admitted to Rolling Stone : "I could do more with this universe. And maybe someday I will. Especially if I fail at everything that comes next. Then I'll come crawling back."
That doesn't necessarily mean Gilligan ever will, though.
"Right now, whether there's more room to grow or not – and there probably is – I feel like it's time to do something new," he explained.
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Diving straight back in could repeat a mistake all too often seen in TV and film these days.
"Without naming any names, I look around at some of the worlds, the universes, the stories that I love, whether they're on TV or in the movies. And I think there's a certain point, and it's hard to define, where you've done too much in the same universe," he said.
"And some universes are much bigger and more elastic. Ours is a very small one, Albuquerque, New Mexico, versus some of these worlds and series of movies and TV shows."
However, in June 2022, AMC president Dan McDermott gave fans some hope during a chat with Variety , saying: "I can tell you that if I could do anything to encourage Vince and Peter to continue on in this universe, I would do it.
"I think you'd have to ask them, but the door is always open and I long for the day my phone rings and Vince, Peter or our friends at Sony call to say: 'Hey, I think we have another show set in this universe.'"
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"We all know our characters so well having played them for years, so it felt good," Paul recently told The Hollywood Reporter . "[Jesse] will always have a special place inside of me, but I can confidently say that [ Better Call Saul ] was the last time we're going to see Pinkman. So, it was a nice farewell."
Bob Odenkirk probably wouldn't reprise his role again either following the emotional farewell he shared after the final episode of Better Call Saul had aired, saying: "We came out of, maybe, a lot of people's favourite show ever and we could've been hated for simply trying to do a show. But we weren't, we were given a chance and hopefully we made the most of it."
Farewell Saul Goodman. And Jimmy McGill. And Gene Takovic. Now it's time for another character to pick up those Breaking Bad reins — assuming that Gilligan does ever choose to revisit this beloved world again.
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The sixth and final season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul premiered on April 18, 2022, in the United States, and concluded on August 15, 2022. The thirteen-episode season was broadcast on Mondays at 9:00 pm ( Eastern ) in the United States on AMC and its streaming service AMC+ . Each episode was released on Netflix the day after in certain international markets. The season was split into two parts; the first consisting of the first seven episodes concluded on May 23, 2022, before resuming with the second half consisting of the final six episodes on July 11. Bob Odenkirk , Jonathan Banks , Rhea Seehorn , Patrick Fabian , Michael Mando , Tony Dalton , and Giancarlo Esposito reprise their roles from previous seasons. Better Call Saul is a spin-off , prequel and sequel of Breaking Bad created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould .
The sixth season picks up where the fifth left off. The first nine episodes mainly take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2004, four years before Jimmy McGill (Odenkirk) begins his association with meth cooks Walter White ( Bryan Cranston ) and Jesse Pinkman ( Aaron Paul ). The season shows the further evolution of Jimmy into the eponymous character, criminal defense lawyer " Saul Goodman ", as he and his wife Kim Wexler (Seehorn) execute their plan to ruin the career of Howard Hamlin (Fabian) to force a resolution of the Sandpiper case. Simultaneously, it depicts the drug cartel's reactions to the assassination attempt on Lalo Salamanca (Dalton). The remaining episodes mainly take place in 2010, after the events of Breaking Bad , and show Saul living in Omaha, Nebraska under the alias "Gene Takavic", hiding from the authorities after the demise of Walter.
The sixth season was filmed over a period of eleven months in Albuquerque. Upon release, it received universal acclaim from critics, particularly for its performances, writing, visuals, emotional weight, and similarity to Breaking Bad compared to earlier seasons. The first half received four nominations at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards , including for Outstanding Drama Series while the second half is eligible for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards .
- Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman , a criminal defense attorney practicing under the name Saul Goodman. In the post- Breaking Bad timeline, he manages a Cinnabon store in Omaha under the alias Gene Takavic. [1]
- Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut , a fixer in Gus Fring's criminal enterprise who is hunting down Lalo after his attempted assassination. [2]
- Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler , a lawyer and Jimmy's wife and confidante. [3]
- Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin , managing partner of the Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill law firm. [4]
- Michael Mando as Nacho Varga , a lieutenant in the Salamanca organization who oversees daily operations in Albuquerque. He’s hiding in Mexico due to his involvement in the attempted assassination of Lalo Salamanca. [5]
- Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca , acting head of the Salamancas, a family of drug dealers and enforcers for Don Eladio 's cartel. He is keeping surveillance of Gus' plans for a secret meth lab. For this reason, Gus orchestrated the assassination attempt with Nacho. [4]
- Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring , an Albuquerque narcotics distributor for Eladio's cartel who uses his fried chicken chain Los Pollos Hermanos as a front. [4]
- Ed Begley Jr. as Clifford Main , founding partner of Davis & Main Attorneys at Law, who is working with Howard on the Sandpiper case. [6]
- Mark Margolis as Hector Salamanca , a once-brutal drug dealer and cartel enforcer who suffered a stroke and is unable to walk or speak. [6]
- Ray Campbell as Tyrus Kitt , one of Gus's henchmen. [6]
- Javier Grajeda as Juan Bolsa , a Juárez drug cartel underboss.
- Jeremiah Bitsui as Victor , one of Gus's henchmen.
- Juan Carlos Cantu as Manuel Varga , Nacho's father, who owns an upholstery shop.
- Peter Diseth as Bill Oakley , a deputy district attorney.
- Harrison Thomas as Lyle , the assistant manager of the Los Pollos Hermanos branch in Albuquerque.
- Jessie Ennis as Erin Brill , a lawyer at Davis & Main.
- Lennie Loftin as Genidowski, a con man hired by Jimmy and Kim to pose as Howard's private investigator.
- Josh Fadem as Joey Dixon/Marshall, a UNM film teacher who helps Jimmy on various projects and schemes.
- Hayley Holmes as Make-up Girl/Drama Girl/Cheri, a UNM film student.
- Julian Bonfiglio as Sound Guy/Phil, a UNM film student.
- Sandrine Holt as Cheryl Hamlin , Howard's estranged wife.
- John Posey as Rand Casimiro , a retired judge who is mediating the Sandpiper case.
- John Ennis as Lenny, a grocery store employee hired by Jimmy and Kim to impersonate Casimiro.
- Dennis Boutsikaris as Rich Schweikart , founding partner of the Scweikart and Cokely law firm.
- Bryan Cranston as Walter White , a middle-aged high school chemistry teacher who, during the events of Breaking Bad , becomes involved with the drug trade and enlists Saul to help launder his money, appears in flashbacks.
- Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman , a former student of Walter's who, during the events of Breaking Bad , works with him to produce and sell meth, appears in flashbacks.
- Pat Healy as Jeff , a cab driver who recognizes Gene as Saul Goodman. Healy replaced Don Harvey , who was unable to reprise his role due to another filming commitment.
- Max Bickelhaup as Buddy, Jeff's friend and partner in crime.
- Carol Burnett as Marion, Jeff's mother who takes a liking to Gene.
- Julie Ann Emery and Jeremy Shamos as Betsy and Craig Kettleman , a married couple whom Jimmy, and later Kim, represented during an embezzlement case, and who attempted to extort Jimmy. Since Craig's release from prison they have operated a shady tax preparation service.
- Rex Linn as Kevin Wachtell , CEO of Mesa Verde Bank & Trust.
- Lavell Crawford as Huell Babineaux , professional pickpocket and Jimmy's bodyguard and fixer.
- Julie Pearl as Suzanne Ericsen , an assistant district attorney.
- Eileen Fogarty as Mrs. Nguyen , owner of a nail salon that houses Jimmy's law office in its utility room.
- Julia Minesci as Wendy , a street prostitute working out of the Crossroads motel, reprising her role from Breaking Bad .
- David Ury as Spooge , a small-time criminal, reprising his role from Breaking Bad .
- Andrea Sooch as Margarethe Ziegler , Werner Ziegler 's widow.
- Kerry Condon as Stacey Ehrmantraut , Mike's widowed daughter-in-law and the mother of Kaylee Ehrmantraut.
- Joe DeRosa as Dr. Caldera , a veterinarian who serves as Mike and Jimmy's liaison to the criminal underworld.
- Stefan Kapičić as Casper , a member of Werner's construction crew.
- Kirk Bovill as Mr. Ryman, a seemingly innocent suburbanite who works for Gus Fring.
- Joni Bovill as Mrs. Ryman, a seemingly innocent suburbanite who works for Gus Fring.
- Jean Effron as Irene Landry, Jimmy's former elder law client who represents the class in the Sandpiper lawsuit.
- Steven Bauer as Don Eladio Vuente , head of the cartel.
- Reed Diamond as David, a sommelier at a prestigious restaurant and Fring's frequent confidante.
- Jim O'Heir as Frank, a security guard at Cottonwood Mall whom Gene befriends.
- Devin Ratray as Alfred Hawthorne Hill, a boorish man who falls victim to Gene's identity theft scam.
- Kevin Sussman as Mr. Lingk, a man with cancer who is targeted for a scam by Gene.
- John Koyama as Emilio Koyama, Jesse's future partner in the drug business during the events of Breaking Bad .
- Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader , Hank Schrader 's widow. She appears as a witness against Saul Goodman when he is finally arrested and attends Saul's trial.
- Michael McKean as Chuck McGill , Jimmy's deceased brother and partner at Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, appears in a flashback.
In January 2020, AMC renewed Better Call Saul for a sixth and final season. Showrunner Peter Gould and AMC representatives confirmed it would consist of 13 episodes, [1] higher than the usual 10. [7] This brought the series' total episode count to 63, one more than its predecessor Breaking Bad . Gould stated, "From the beginning when we started this, I think all our hopes and dreams were to be able to tell the whole story ... and make it to be a complete story from beginning to end ... We're going to try like hell to stick the landing of these 63 episodes." [1] Giancarlo Esposito had previously speculated in April 2019 that the series would end with a sixth season because it was the "comfortable way" to do so, similar to how Breaking Bad 's fifth and final season was split into two halves, giving the feeling that the latter half was the sixth season. [8] Gould said he initially doubted how he could do 13 episodes because the 10-episode count of previous seasons proved physically exhausting for him, but executive producer and writer Thomas Schnauz convinced him to go for 13, saying, "You'll know it's the last 13 so you'll see the barn in the distance. You'll be like the horse that gallops down the last bit." [9]
In February 2020, Gould suggested the sixth season would explore Saul Goodman 's flashforwards as Gene Takavic to a greater extent than previous seasons. [10] By April 2020, scripting for the season had already begun. Gould did not want the season to be anticlimactic, so, to deliver a satisfactory conclusion to Better Call Saul , he brought co-creator Vince Gilligan , who also created Breaking Bad , back to the writer's room "for a good chunk of the season". [4] Gilligan had not been involved in the writers' room since early in season three . [11] By December 2020, scripting was still not complete, with Gould saying the writers having to communicate through Zoom , rather than in person, was like "trying to dance in quick sand". [12]
Gould later said the season would explore if there was any way for Saul to earn redemption after his criminal activities throughout the series. [13] During filming of the season, series star Bob Odenkirk said that Gould told him that "when Better Call Saul is done it will shed new light ... you will see Breaking Bad and the story of Breaking Bad in a different way", comparing to its final season where Gilligan had "start[ed] knocking things down and start[ed] lighting fires and burning everything down". [14]
Laura Fraser confirmed after the premiere date announcement that she was unable to reprise her role as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle for the final season. This was due to COVID-19 restrictions preventing travel between the United States and Scotland, where she lived when the final season began filming. [15] Prior to the season premiere, it was announced that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul would reprise their roles from Breaking Bad for the final season as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman , respectively. [16]
During the mid-season break, it was announced that the latter half of the season would feature Carol Burnett in the role of Marion, although details about the character were not disclosed. Burnett was previously mentioned by Chuck McGill during the second season episode " Rebecca ". [17] [18] It was also revealed that the character of Jeff , the cab driver who recognized Saul in Omaha, had been recast from Don Harvey to Pat Healy . Fans theorized this was due to Harvey's filming commitments on We Own This City . [19] [20] Harvey later expressed disappointment in not being able to reprise the role due to scheduling conflicts, but praised Healy for making the character his own. [21]
In April 2020, Michael Mando and Tony Dalton separately said filming was scheduled to begin that September, but both were unsure if it would be delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic . [5] [22] Rhea Seehorn said in July that filming would not begin until it was safe to do so. [23] In August, producer Mark Johnson said the pandemic could limit where the series films by eschewing specific indoor locations: "Like a lot of other people, we're going to have to be very creative in where and how we shoot [...] A lot of places just won't let you in [...] We don't want everything to be a chamber piece". [24] In the same month, Gould said filming was unlikely to start in 2020 due to the pandemic, adding that while Sony Pictures Television was doing "everything humanly" possible for the series to resume filming safely, "I think we are probably going to delay a little bit unfortunately." [25] In October, Esposito said filming would begin in March 2021, [26] which was echoed by Odenkirk in February 2021. [27]
Filming officially began on March 10, 2021, in New Mexico. [28] [29] Each episode was expected to take about three weeks to film, a longer filming schedule compared to previous seasons, where a typical episode was filmed in nine days. [14] [30] Production was predicted to last roughly eight months, but filming instead wrapped after eleven months on February 9, 2022. [31] [32] Additional filming was done in March 2022, after principal photography for the series ended, for the opening teaser of " Point and Shoot ". With several crew members but no cast members on hand, the scene was filmed in Leo Carrillo State Beach , California. This was the only time the series was filmed outside of New Mexico. [33] : 1:00:01–1:01:29 [34]
For the first time in the series, production allowed cast members to serve as directors, with Seehorn and Esposito each directing an episode. [35] Cranston and Paul were flown in to Albuquerque and filmed their scenes in April 2021. [36] Their roles were kept in absolutely secrecy, with both actors kept out of sight when not on set, similar to Cranston's cameo in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie . [37] They stayed in Alburquerque for four days at an Airbnb , with all wardrobe and makeup done in the home and only leaving to be taken on site to shoot. [38] They appeared in one scene together as well as one individual scene each. [39] The Cinnabon scenes in Better Call Saul are set in Omaha, but were filmed at the Cottonwood Mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [40]
"We were shooting a scene, we'd been shooting all day, and luckily I didn't go back to my trailer. I went to play the Cubs game and ride my workout bike, and I just went down. Rhea said I started turning bluish-gray right away."
On July 27, 2021, after filming a "Point and Shoot" scene for twelve hours, Odenkirk was riding his exercise bike when he suffered a heart attack . [42] [43] Seehorn, Fabian, and Dalton were nearby and immediately called for help upon seeing him collapse. [33] : 48:43–54:10 [44] The show's health safety supervisor Rosa Estrada and Assistant Director Angie Meyer administered CPR and deployed an automated defibrillator ; it took three attempts for his pulse to return. Odenkirk was rushed to Presbyterian Hospital, where two stents were put in his body to relieve plaque buildup. [45] [46] [47] Odenkirk was treated without further surgery and took a five-week break from filming, requiring production to make accommodating schedule changes. [42] [48] In mid-August, Dalton said scenes not involving Odenkirk were being filmed, but Odenkirk had not yet been given clearance to return. [49] Odenkirk confirmed by early September 2021 that he was back on set filming. [50]
In October 2021, a potential strike by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) would have resulted in all productions in the New Mexico film and television industry shutting down, including Better Call Saul . [51] Odenkirk, Gould, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and several members of the New Mexico state legislature voiced their support for the IATSE and for creating better working conditions for the unionized crew members. [52] [53] [54] On October 16, 2021, a tentative agreement was made before the deadline between the IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers , temporarily averting a strike. [55] The contract was ratified by the IATSE members on November 15, 2021, ending all prospects of a strike and allowing production to continue without interruption. [56]
When the sixth season was ordered by AMC in January 2020, it was scheduled to premiere in 2021. [1] However, in April 2020, Gilligan said that would depend on whether the cast and crew would be able to film in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [70] In February 2021, AMC confirmed that the sixth season would likely premiere in the first quarter of 2022. [71] Gould's preference was to have all 13 episodes of the sixth season aired weekly and not for the season to be split in any manner; however, he noted that only AMC would decide the scheduling. [72]
Variety reported on November 4, 2021, that the season would air over two halves, which was confirmed on the official announcement date on February 10, 2022. [73] [74] Gould said the writers did not know the season would be split into two parts until AMC announced it. [75] The first seven episodes began airing on April 18, 2022; fans who attended PaleyFest in Los Angeles on April 9, 2022 received an early screening of the season premiere . [74] [76] The last six episodes aired starting airing July 11, 2022; fans who attended Tribeca Festival in New York on June 18, 2022 received an early screening of the mid-season premiere . [74] [77]
The seven-week break between both halves was shorter compared to the split final season of Breaking Bad , where the two halves aired a year apart. [78] Splitting the season in two allowed the show to nominate each half of the season for different Emmy Awards ceremonies, as the first half was eligible for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2022, while eligibility for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards began in June. [79]
Each episode would air on AMC at 9:00 pm (ET) on Mondays, with the first two episodes premiering back-to-back on the same night. During the season's run, each episode would be available to stream the day they premiered on AMC+ , AMC's streaming service which first launched in June 2020. [80] [81] The season premiere resulted in the biggest day of new subscriber sign-ups for AMC+, and by the mid-season finale episodic viewership on the streaming service rose by 61%. [80] [82] Upon the release of the series finale , the app experienced an outage, causing many users to be logged out. [83] AMC later reported that first-day viewing numbers for the finale on AMC+ was four times as big as the season premiere , and called the series' final season the highest acquisition driver in the history of the streaming service. [84]
In certain international markets, like previous seasons, episodes were released on Netflix and other streaming services the day after their broadcast on AMC. [85] The entire season was released on Netflix in the U.S. on April 18, 2023. [86]
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Season 6 (2022) : Percentage of positive critics' reviews tracked by the website Rotten Tomatoes [87]
The sixth season of Better Call Saul has received universal acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes , the season has an approval rating of 99% based on 179 reviews, with an average rating of 9.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, " Better Call Saul remains as masterfully in control as Jimmy McGill keeps insisting he is in this final season, where years of simmering storytelling come to a scintillating boil." [87] On Metacritic , the season has a score of 94 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [88]
After the airing of the series finale, Stuart Jeffries of The Guardian said that the series had surprisingly surpassed its predecessor in quality, saying: "Over six series, Better Call Saul evolved into a more profound and beautiful drama about human corruption than its predecessor. It mutated into something visually more sumptuous than Breaking Bad , while never, for a moment, losing its verbal dexterity and moral compass". [89] Craig Elvy of Screen Rant also opined that the series was better than its predecessor, saying: "Jimmy McGill's spinoff leaves a very familiar legacy – sustained and enthusiastic praise from audiences and critics, capped by an ending that satisfies across the board." He went on to say: "When Better Call Saul began, many would've hoped the spinoff could either escape Breaking Bad ' s shadow, or somehow enhance Walt and Jesse's story with illuminating new details. Few dared dream Better Call Saul would achieve both, and the sheer ambition to create a spinoff that wholly embraces its predecessor whilst also existing in a totally different realm exemplifies why Better Call Saul has an ever-so-slight edge over Breaking Bad ." [90] Jeremy Urquhart of Collider made a comparison between the quality of both series’, saying: " Breaking Bad succeeds as a crime-thriller tragedy with a fast-paced plot, and Better Call Saul works as a slower-paced, character-focused drama (with some dark comedy)". He said his list "doesn't aim to argue that one is better than the other. It's a matter of personal preference, but it's hard to deny that there are certain things Better Call Saul does better, but also some areas where it isn't quite as great as its parent show." [91]
The two-episode premiere " Wine and Roses " and " Carrot and Stick " received positive reviews from critics. David Segal of The New York Times described the first episode as "strong, twisty and gripping" and said the writing "must be hailed as a masterly curtain raiser, one that managed to pick up the story right where it was left, two years ago, and hurl it forward at a promising pace." Segal criticized Kim's con against Howard at the country club, calling it "dimmer and daffier than the rest of the show" and "pointlessly cruel". [92] Reviewing both "Wine and Roses" and "Carrot and Stick" together, The A.V. Club ' s Kimberly Potts graded them with an "A" and gave positive notes to Gould's screenplay and the performances of the cast, especially those of Rhea Seehorn as Kim and Michael Mando as Nacho. [93] Steve Greene, writing for IndieWire , said the first two episodes were "astonishingly short on false moves so far". He also noted Ed Begley Jr. 's acting as Clifford Main and the symbolism in Kim throwing away the "World's 2nd Best Lawyer" coffee mug, calling it "a poetic bookend of sorts." [94] [95] David Segal of The New York Times described the second episode as "superb and stressful" and said it was a "study in damage control, overseen by a man [Gus] who seems uncharacteristically ruffled and uncertain about what to do." Segal also said the shootout scene was "expertly staged" by Gilligan and that Rhea Seehorn's performance as Kim provided an opportunity for her to "demonstrate an almost thuggish toughness." [96] Scott Tobias, writing for Vulture , compared the motel sequences to the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone , including Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). He also gave positive notes to the level of detail in the episode's opening scene, calling it "one big reason Better Call Saul stands apart from other shows." [97]
The third episode " Rock and Hard Place ", which concluded Nacho's arc, received acclaim by critics. Kaleena Rivera of Pajiba praised Michael Mando 's display of rage and the episode's buildup to the ending. [98] The A.V. Club ' s Kimberly Potts said Mando's acting was deserving of an Emmy nomination. She also compared Nacho's last words to Walter White 's confession to Jesse Pinkman in the Breaking Bad episode " Ozymandias " and gave positive notes to the performances of Giancarlo Esposito and Mark Margolis and the show's development of Nacho as a compelling character. [99] David Segal of The New York Times saluted Smith 's screenplay and direction and the production design. He similarly compared Nacho's life to that of Jesse's—both criminals who made "some terrible life choices" and were "over-punished for them"—adding, "It would have been great to see more of this stellar actor, but if you must leave a show, a more dramatic and affecting end is hard to imagine." [100]
The mid-season finale " Plan and Execution ", which showcased the culmination of Saul and Kim’s plot to ruin Howard’s career and reputation, received acclaim, particularly for Patrick Fabian 's performance. Scott Tobias of Vulture and Nick Harley of Den of Geek shared five out of five ratings for the episode, while Kimberly Potts from The A.V. Club and Steve Greene from IndieWire both gave the episode an "A" grade. [101] [102] [103] [104]
The mid-season premiere " Point and Shoot ", which concluded Lalo's arc, was met with critical acclaim. It received five out of five stars from The Guardian ' s Stuart Jeffries and The Times ' s James Jackson, [105] [106] four out of five stars from Scott Tobias of Vulture , Nick Harley of Den of Geek , and Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph , [107] [108] [109] and "A" grades from The A.V. Club ' s Kimberly Potts, IndieWire ' s Steve Greene, and Entertainment Weekly ' s Darren Franich. [110] [111] [112]
The series finale " Saul Gone " received critical acclaim. Giving the episode an A grade, Kimberly Potts of The A.V. Club called it a "supremely satisfying sendoff" with "blasts from the past and one last twist". [113] At IGN , Rafael Motamayor gave the episode a 10 out of 10 rating, describing it as a "subtler character study, exploring regrets and change in its protagonist". He also noted the episode title and complimented it for being "a thematic bookend on a show that was never really about Saul Goodman" and highlighted the motif of time machines. [114] Similarly, Vulture ' s Jen Chaney also discussed the motif of time machines in the episode, and commended it for offering more depth and context to Breaking Bad , and felt the series was superior to Breaking Bad , as it "dared to widen its scope and go bigger than Breaking Bad ever did". In addition, the website's Scott Tobias gave it a 5 out of 5 rating and wrote, "'Saul Gone' [...] finds an ending for Jimmy that's hopeful and authentic without feeling rosy or unearned." [115]
|No.||Title||Air date|| Rating |
(18–49)
| Viewers |
(millions)
| DVR |
(18–49)
| DVR viewers |
(millions)
| Total |
(18–49)
| Total viewers |
(millions)
|1||" Wine and Roses "||April 18, 2022||0.31||1.42 [57]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|2||" Carrot and Stick "||April 18, 2022||0.24||1.16 [57]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|3||" Rock and Hard Place "||April 25, 2022||0.26||1.16 [58]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|4||" Hit and Run "||May 2, 2022||0.27||1.16 [59]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|5||" Black and Blue "||May 9, 2022||0.26||1.22 [60]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|6||" Axe and Grind "||May 16, 2022||0.28||1.13 [61]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|7||" Plan and Execution "||May 23, 2022||0.26||1.19 [62]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|8||" Point and Shoot "||July 11, 2022||0.28||1.16 [63]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|9||" Fun and Games "||July 18, 2022||0.27||1.22 [64]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|10||" Nippy "||July 25, 2022||0.29||1.20 [66]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|11||" Breaking Bad "||August 1, 2022||0.36||1.34 [67]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|12||" Waterworks "||August 8, 2022||0.32||1.32 [68]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
|13||" Saul Gone "||August 15, 2022||0.47||1.80 [69]||TBD||TBD||TBD||TBD|
The sixth season was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on December 6, 2022; bonus features includes cast and crew audio commentaries on every episode, deleted scenes, outtakes, and various behind-the-scenes featurettes. [139]
On April 1, 2022, a few weeks before the season premiere, the CNBC Prime YouTube account uploaded American Greed: James McGill . [140] Written by Peter Gould's assistant Valerie Chu, the ten-minute short is a mockumentary done in the style of the documentary series American Greed and recaps the events of both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul . [141] Narrated by Stacy Keach , the mockumentary has interviews of several recurring Better Call Saul characters, including DA Suzanne Ericsen (Julie Pearl), Deputy DA Bill Oakley (Peter Diseth), and Kim Wexler's former boss Rich Schweikart ( Dennis Boutsikaris ). Also making reappearances are Betsy and Craig Kettleman ( Julie Ann Emery and Jeremy Shamos , respectively), who had not appeared on the series since the first season , but made additional canonical appearances in the short film No Picnic , which was released after the third season , and on the Inside the Gilliverse podcast in 2020. [142] [143] The short film was shot in Albuquerque in March 2022, a year after Emery and Shamos filmed the Better Call Saul episode " Carrot and Stick ". [143]
Variety reported in March 2021 that AMC was developing an animated spinoff series, Slippin' Jimmy . [147] The series was later revealed as a short-form series; a six-part animated series to be released online during the sixth season of Better Call Saul . Each episode is inspired by a specific film genre — from spaghetti Westerns and Buster Keaton to The Exorcist . The series was produced by Rick and Morty animators Starburns and written by Better Call Saul writers Ariel Levine and Kathleen Williams-Foshee. Voice actors include Chi McBride , Laraine Newman , and Sean Giambrone as Jimmy. [74] Six episodes of Slippin' Jimmy , each around 8–9 minutes in length, were released on AMC+ on May 23, 2022. [148]
The series received negative reviews from fans and critics for its stark drop in quality compared to its predecessors. Mark Donaldson from Screen Rant criticized the concept, saying "the animated spinoff is being sold as a digital exclusive but this race to provide sellable content to audiences undermines storytelling ... the team behind both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul have proven themselves to be savvy storytellers that respect the journeys of their characters over cheap cash-ins. It's this integrity that makes Slippin ' Jimmy feel like such a misstep." [149]
For the sixth season, new episodes of the Better Call Saul Employee Training Video series, which had begun with the show's third season, were announced. [74]
The employee videos released during the season were titled Filmmaker Training and premiered on July 11, 2022. The series consists of six episodes and focuses on the film crew that worked with Jimmy on his advertisements. [150] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul_(season_6) | 32 |
is there another series of better call saul | When Will ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6 Arrive on Netflix? | Updated
We find ourselves in a bit of a good news/bad news situation when it comes to the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul . The good news? The first two episodes of the new season premiere Monday, April 18 on AMC ! The bad news? If you live in the United States, Season 6 of Better Call Saul won’t be available for next-day streaming on Netflix.
If you don’t want to wait for the new season to drop on Netflix, you can watch Better Call Saul Season 6 live or on demand via an active subscription to a variety of over-the-top streaming services that offer AMC, including fuboTV and Philo . If you’re a new subscriber, both companies offer free trials. The new season will also be available for next-day streaming on AMC.com and AMC+ .
When will Better Call Saul Season 6 arrive on Netflix? Here’s everything we know.
Yes! The first five seasons of Better Caul Saul are currently streaming on Netflix .
*** UPDATE: Better Call Saul Season 6 premieres April 18, 2023, on Netflix! ***
Nope. The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul premieres Monday, April 18 on AMC. Season 6 consists of 13 episodes, with the first half of the season (seven episodes) concluding on May 23, 2022. The show returns with the final six episodes of the series on Monday, July 11, 2022, with the finale currently scheduled to air on August 15, 2022.
It depends on where you live. The final season of Better Call Saul will be available for next-day streaming on Netflix in many international markets , but, unfortunately, Season 6 won’t be available for next-day streaming on Netflix in the United States. More on that below.
Season 6 of Better Call Saul will eventually be on Netflix (most likely in 2023), but it won’t be arriving on the streamer in the near future.
The fifth season of Better Call Saul , which debuted on AMC in February of 2020, was only added to Netflix in the U.S. on April 4, 2022. The fourth season debuted in August of 2018 on AMC and premiered on Netflix in February of 2020. New seasons of Better Call Saul historically arrive on Netflix in the U.S. about a year and a half (Season 5 had extenuating circumstances) after they premiere on AMC (and a few weeks before the next season debuts on AMC). But since this is the final season of the series, it’s possible that the last batch of episodes will drop on Netflix a little earlier than expected.
We know that Better Call Saul ends on August 15, 2022, which means we’d normally expect the final season to hit Netflix in mid-to-late 2023 (at the earliest). But as What’s On Netflix points out , it only took five months for the final season of Breaking Bad to drop on Netflix. Since this is the final installment of the the series, it’s possible that Better Call Saul Season 6 could premiere on Netflix in early 2023. Unfortunately, we’re in a wait and see situation because Netflix has yet to announce an official release date.
We’ll update this story as new information becomes available. | https://decider.com/2022/04/18/better-call-saul-season-6-netflix-release-date/ | 32 |
is there another series of better call saul | Better Call Saul season 6 part 2 | UK release date for final season | Radio Times | The final episodes of Better Call Saul are now just around the corner and after that shocking mid-season finale they really can't come soon enough.
The final six episodes start airing on 12th July, and will definitely make for a bittersweet, but also highly stressful watch. We know that some characters go on to appear in Breaking Bad, so are seemingly fairly safe, but for others their fates are truly up in the air.
The shock of the mid-season twist cannot be overstated for fans, even though Peter Gould did previously tease a “surprising” and “heartbreaking” season .
He said in a statement: "In my eyes, this is our most ambitious, surprising and, yes, heartbreaking season. Even under incredibly challenging circumstances, the whole Saul team – writers, cast, producers, directors and crew – have outdone themselves. I couldn't be more excited to share what we've accomplished together," he continued.
Now fans' eyes will all be on those long-teased cameos from Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, although just what their involvement is remains to be seen.
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But what else in store for the rest of the season? Read on for everything you need to know about Better Call Saul season 6 part 2.
The eighth episode and the first in season 6 part 2 will land on Tuesday 12th July in the UK , with the remaining episodes airing weekly after that.
Netflix previously confirmed on Twitter: "The 13 episode season will be split into two parts. Eps 1+2 will arrive on 19 April, with the next 5 episodes airing weekly. After a break, the final run of six episodes will begin on 12th July."
Bob Odenkirk shared the news and tweeted : "Here it comes! Best season of all! A whopper. Can’t wait to share with you".
Better Call Saul season 6 part 2 is made up of 6 episodes, with a new one airing each week on a Tuesday.
Therefore, the release schedule for the finale episodes is as follows:
- Episode 8: Point and Shoot - Tuesday 12th July 2022
- Episode 9: Fun and Games - Tuesday 19th July 2022
- Episode 10: TBC - Tuesday 26th July 2022
- Episode 11: TBC - Tuesday 2nd August 2022
- Episode 12: TBC - Tuesday 9th August 2022
- Episode 13: TBC - Tuesday 16th August 2022
Bob Odenkirk will return to the Better Call Saul cast as Jimmy ‘Saul Goodman’ McGill, Jonathan Banks as criminal handyman Mike Ehrmantraut and Tony Dalton as Lalo.
What's more, Rhea Seehorn is set to return as ambitious lawyer Kim Wexler while Breaking Bad super-villain Gus Fring will be played once again by Giancarlo Esposito .
The obvious exceptions are Michael Mando's Nacho and Patrick Fabian's Howard, who both met their ends in season 6 part 1, though their deaths are expected to have a lasting impact in season 6 part 2.
Yes, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will reprise their roles of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, respectively, in Better Call Saul season 6 part 2.
Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould confirmed the news at PaleyFest LA on a Better Call Saul panel (via Variety ).
“I don’t want to spoil things for the audience, but I will say the first question we had when we started the show was, ‘Are we gonna see Walt and Jesse on the show?’ Instead of evading, I’ll just say yeah,” Gould said on the panel.
“How or the circumstances or anything, you’ll just have to discover that for yourself, but I have to say that’s one of many things that I think you’ll discover this season.”
While their appearances aren't absolutely necessary for the story, a brief cameo by either would be the cherry on top of an already sensational cake – and it's a cherry we're very much looking forward to seeing placed there.
More bad news... yes, season 6 spells the end for Better Call Saul. The show may have taken a little while to heat up – as with Breaking Bad – but it has rapidly grown into a prequel series more than worthy of a place in Gilligan's universe.
Season 6 is likely to stitch itself to the beginning of Breaking Bad and potentially show us more of Saul (now in hiding as "Gene") following the events of the original series. We have previously only seen Jimmy as Gene in the odd black and white scene here and there.
But the end of Better Call Saul may not be the last time we see Jimmy, as it has been revealed via Variety that an animated prequel to this prequel is in the works at AMC and it has been given the appropriate name of Slippin’ Jimmy .
The show will apparently explore Jimmy's life prior to the events of his own show while young Jimmy and Chuck McGill were in Cicero, Illinois. It is unknown whether the original actors will return to play the characters in this new version and that, we imagine, will depend on how far back this is set.
Jimmy McGill is Saul Goodman.
He introduced himself to the locals, his clients-to-be, by distributing pre-paid burner phones for free, all with his number on speed dial. This leads to a surge in cases for Saul, he is a rampant success in the courthouse, all the while Kim is forced to watch on with mixed emotions.
She is torn between top client Mesa Verde and an elderly resident who refuses to move from his long-term home on their land. Kim works covertly to aid Mr Acker’s cause and ropes Jimmy into a plan to cross Mesa Verde. Jimmy goes full-Saul and blindsides Kim, embarrassing her in front of the Mesa Verde top brass.
We saw huge conflict between Jimmy and Kim, leading to a make or break moment that surprising fell in favour of the couple growing inexplicably closer… they got married, though the arrangement is to absolve Kim of having to testify against her husband if his shady dealings are brought to light.
Meanwhile, the Gus Fring versus Salamanca family war escalates to deadly levels, with Nacho earning the trust of Lalo Salamanca at the order of Gus – positioning himself right in the crossfire, a spy.
Lalo has been digging (not quite literally…) for the truth behind Gus’ dealings, though his underground superlab is yet to be completed or detected.
Mike officially became Gus’ right-hand man as tensions continue to spiral out of control, while Lalo was jailed for his involvement in dealings from season 4.
It wasn't a long spell in a cell for the Salamanca, after being bailed out by Jimmy following a torturous, near-death journey through the wilderness with Mike saving his skin.
The season wrapped with Lalo escaping a botched assassination attempt by Gus' 'best men' at his home in Mexico, and now he's ready to rampage after deducing Nacho had a hand in assisting the armed raiders.
The action remained largely in Mexico throughout the finale, but arguably the most disturbing aspect of the episode saw Kim go 'full Jimmy'. She is breaking bad, her inner dark side is bubbling over, Saul is rubbing off on her.
Kim brainstorms a plot to down former colleague Howard Hamlin for her and Jimmy's gain – with the idea of setting up a fresh firm aimed at serving the poorest in society. She's aiming for the Robin Hood mentality, essentially stealing from the rich give to the poor, but Kim has firmly planted herself in the grey area... The question over Kim's future has shifted somewhat from 'where is Kim after Better Call Saul?' to 'who does Kim become in Better Call Saul?'.
The episode titles of the final part of the season have not yet been released and not a huge amount is known about the plot, but we can hazard a guess from part 1.
Even though Better Call Saul season 6 is only seven episodes in, there have already been some major deaths and plenty of twists and turns.
Nacho Varga met a grisly end in episode 4, Howard Hamlin died in episode 7, making things even more unpredictable than before.
Presumably part 2 will end on another cliffhanger of some sort – either to do with Kim and Jimmy’s scheme to take down Howard, or Lalo’s revenge, or both.
We can also expect part 2 to resolve the mystery of Gene Takovic’s whereabouts.
Season 6 part 2 is the link between Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad. It is the missing puzzle piece that must be slotted into place, and that gives us clues as to where each character will end up.
Lalo Salamanca and Nacho are nowhere to be seen in Breaking Bad, and ominously, Kim Wexler falls into the same boat. The fate of these characters are likely to be explored, while we can expect to witness Saul taking up residence in his BB office, Gus and the Salamancas' war is likely to burst into life again, and the construction of the superlab is likely to be completed.
In February 2022, Bob Odenkirk was noted by The New York Times magazine to have said of the final episode: "I think I like it, but I was pretty wiped out when I read it in the middle of the night. I think it’s a challenging way to go, to finish the series. It’s not flashy. It’s substantial, and on some level it’s things I hoped for, for years, in this character’s brain. On the other hand, yeah, I have to read it again. But what I like about it is, it’s not cheap. It’s not easy. It doesn’t feel cartoonish. It’s pretty great, I think. It’s pretty great.”
He added that he wanted to focus on character development rather than gunfights, although they do feature in the season which Odenkirk teased saw Saul doing very crimes.
Back in February 2021, Bob Odenkirk dropped a few hints about what to expect in the final run. “I can’t wait for the fireworks, really," he told Deadline . "Our show is a bit of a slow burn over the past few years, and [creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould] build up. There are certainly exciting moments throughout, but towards the end, it gets super supremely intense."
Earlier, Gould had revealed that fans won't look at Breaking Bad in the same way after the final season of Better Call Saul airs. He told The Hollywood Reporter , "I think by the time you finish watching Better Call Saul, you’re going to see Breaking Bad in a very different light.
"I think we’re going to learn things about the characters in Breaking Bad that we didn’t know. We’re going to learn things about the events of Breaking Bad that we didn’t know. We’re going to learn things about the fates of a lot of these characters that may surprise people or certainly throw them into a different light."
A trailer for season 6 part 2 is yet to drop.
However, in the meantime, fans can watch AMC's trailer for season 6, which gave fans a first look at lawyer Jimmy McGill’s transformation into full-blown con man.
And it looks like we should expect the unexpected, if the new trailer is anything to go by, especially since it ends with Mike Ehrmantraut ominously saying: “Whatever happens next, it’s not gonna go down the way you think it is.” Watch below:
Better Call Season 6 has also released some short teasers. The first features some intimidating walking, while the second confirmed the April release date.
Will Saul come out the other side of the season in a better place? It remains to be seen.
An additional full trailer for season 6 was released on 6th April 2022. Here is the latest footage.
Better Call Saul is available on Netflix in the UK and AMC in the US.
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is there another series of better call saul | Better Call Saul Creator Vince Gilligan Is Developing a New Show for Apple TV+ | By Jason P. Frank , a Vulture writer covering comedy, theater, and music
Vince Gilligan. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images and John Salangsang/Variety via Getty Images
Update, Thursday, September 22:
Apple TV+ rules, AMC drools. The new Vince Gilligan show will officially be developed for Apple TV+, according to Deadline . The series has received a two-season, straight-to-order deal, with around $13.5 to $15 million in running costs per episode. Basically, it’s the kind of deal you get when you’re the guy who just made two of the biggest TV hits of the 21st century. So, who’s it gonna star? Rhea Seehorn , that’s who! Recent Emmy nominee Seehorn will be taking the project’s leading role fresh off her time as Kim on Gilligan’s Better Call Saul . “After 15 years, I figured it was time to take a break from writing anti-heroes … and who’s more heroic than the brilliant Rhea Seehorn?” Gilligan said in a press release. “It’s long past time she had her own show, and I feel lucky to get to work on it with her.” We don’t know any plot details yet, but when it comes to Gilligan’s track record, “not an anti-hero” is still a pretty big deal.
Original story follows.
Vince Gilligan is the one who
knocks creates a bunch of hit TV shows. Creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul , as well as a writer on The X-Files , Gilligan is reportedly developing a new TV show, according to Deadline . Pitching for the show has not yet begun, but with Gilligan’s record, hype for the upcoming potential series has already started with “at least 8–9 networks and platforms lined up to hear it,” per reports. The show is going to take place outside of the Breaking Bad Televisual Universe (BBTU) and focus on “the human condition.” It seems as though Gilligan’s work on The Twilight Zone — through which he met his Walter White, Bryan Cranston — might be a better indicator of the direction of this particular program.
As Gilligan’s current show, Better Call Saul, is airing its final set of episodes , it is on the awards campaign trail with seven Emmy nominations — including for stars Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn as well as for Best Drama Series. The Emmys will air Monday, September 12, on NBC and Peacock, but we all know the real prize is the grimey little freaks we met along the way. | https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/better-call-saul-creator-vince-gilligan-new-series.html | 32 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Why Angela's Father From Bones Looks So Familiar - Looper | 20th Television
By Patrick Phillips / April 12, 2021 10:25 pm EST
During its 12 season run on Fox, it was hard to find another show which so capably blended disparate genres and tones as the network's offbeat procedural drama Bones . Based on the writings of famed forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs (who authored several works of fiction very loosely based on her own life), Bones followed the tale of Reich's literary alter-ego Temperance "Bones" Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel), who pairs up with a hotshot FBI Agent (David Boreanaz) and utilizes her anthropological expertise in solving some of the Agency's most baffling, and often grisly, murder cases.
The series debuted in 2005, earning a small but devoted legion of fans who continued to devour Bones ' twisty narratives, unabashed flourishes of gore, and wicked sense of humor, over a whopping 245 episodes . And while the core cast of Bones remained mostly intact during its lengthy run, the series also became quite well-known for its revolving door of supporting players , many of whom brought welcome tinges of comedy to the show's sometimes horrific storylines.
While there were several familiar faces amongst those Bones part-timers (Joel David Moore, Carla Gallo, Ryan O'Neal, Stephen Fry), it's safe to assume few were quite as recognizable as the bearded face of the man who portrayed the father of the Jeffersonian's facial reconstruction specialist Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin). That "actor's" name is Billy Gibbons.
And if you're wondering why the word actor is in quotations, well, it's because acting is Gibbons' backup gig. Here's why Angela's father from Bones looks so familiar.
20th Television
If you call yourself a rock fan, you should be as familiar with Billy Gibbons' name as you almost certainly are his beautifully-bearded face. That's because the Texas-born Gibbons is a legit rock legend, who Rolling Stone listed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time in 2015, and whose band entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. That band is none other than ZZ Top , who rose to rock superstardom in the 1970s and 1980s on the strength of Gibbons' gritty vocals and singular, blues-drenched guitar sound.
Gibbons first made a name for himself on the rock scene fronting the late-sixties Texas psych outfit The Moving Sidewalks, who opened a handful of shows for Jimmy Hendrix circa 1969. A couple of years later, Gibbons assembled the iconic, hot rod-loving three-piece ZZ Top, and has spent the ensuing decades kicking out the jams (i.e. "Tush," "La Grange," "Legs," "Sharp Dressed Man," and more) and tripping the rock & roll life fantastic as a full-blown guitar god. Gibbons and the boys in ZZ Top are still cranking out hits, by the way, with the singer-guitarist telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2020 that a new album is imminent.
Gibbons' recurring Bones gig finally came to an end after his memorable 2014 appearance. But it's a safe bet he'll continue to turn up in other film and television projects, moving forward, as the famed axe-man has made great sport of parodying his distinctive persona over the years. The question now becomes not if, but where, Gibbons and his gnarly beard will turn up next. | https://www.looper.com/380909/why-angelas-father-from-bones-looks-so-familiar/ | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Why Angela's Father From Bones Looks So Familiar - Looper | 20th Television
By Patrick Phillips / April 12, 2021 10:25 pm EST
During its 12 season run on Fox, it was hard to find another show which so capably blended disparate genres and tones as the network's offbeat procedural drama Bones . Based on the writings of famed forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs (who authored several works of fiction very loosely based on her own life), Bones followed the tale of Reich's literary alter-ego Temperance "Bones" Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel), who pairs up with a hotshot FBI Agent (David Boreanaz) and utilizes her anthropological expertise in solving some of the Agency's most baffling, and often grisly, murder cases.
The series debuted in 2005, earning a small but devoted legion of fans who continued to devour Bones ' twisty narratives, unabashed flourishes of gore, and wicked sense of humor, over a whopping 245 episodes . And while the core cast of Bones remained mostly intact during its lengthy run, the series also became quite well-known for its revolving door of supporting players , many of whom brought welcome tinges of comedy to the show's sometimes horrific storylines.
While there were several familiar faces amongst those Bones part-timers (Joel David Moore, Carla Gallo, Ryan O'Neal, Stephen Fry), it's safe to assume few were quite as recognizable as the bearded face of the man who portrayed the father of the Jeffersonian's facial reconstruction specialist Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin). That "actor's" name is Billy Gibbons.
And if you're wondering why the word actor is in quotations, well, it's because acting is Gibbons' backup gig. Here's why Angela's father from Bones looks so familiar.
20th Television
If you call yourself a rock fan, you should be as familiar with Billy Gibbons' name as you almost certainly are his beautifully-bearded face. That's because the Texas-born Gibbons is a legit rock legend, who Rolling Stone listed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time in 2015, and whose band entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. That band is none other than ZZ Top , who rose to rock superstardom in the 1970s and 1980s on the strength of Gibbons' gritty vocals and singular, blues-drenched guitar sound.
Gibbons first made a name for himself on the rock scene fronting the late-sixties Texas psych outfit The Moving Sidewalks, who opened a handful of shows for Jimmy Hendrix circa 1969. A couple of years later, Gibbons assembled the iconic, hot rod-loving three-piece ZZ Top, and has spent the ensuing decades kicking out the jams (i.e. "Tush," "La Grange," "Legs," "Sharp Dressed Man," and more) and tripping the rock & roll life fantastic as a full-blown guitar god. Gibbons and the boys in ZZ Top are still cranking out hits, by the way, with the singer-guitarist telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2020 that a new album is imminent.
Gibbons' recurring Bones gig finally came to an end after his memorable 2014 appearance. But it's a safe bet he'll continue to turn up in other film and television projects, moving forward, as the famed axe-man has made great sport of parodying his distinctive persona over the years. The question now becomes not if, but where, Gibbons and his gnarly beard will turn up next. | https://www.looper.com/380909/why-angelas-father-from-bones-looks-so-familiar/ | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Who is Angelas dad on Bones? – Wise-Answer | Billy Gibbons
Angela’s father is played by ZZ Top member Billy Gibbons, and there have been several indications that the audience is supposed to understand that her father IS Billy Gibbons (albeit a fictional version of Gibbons, since Angela is fictional).
Michaela Conlin returned to film post-Bones 2020 has brought a return to film for Michaela Conlin — her first since portraying Jules in the 2016 psychological horror The Disappointments Room. In Bad Trip, Conlin portrays Maria Li, the high school crush of Andre’s character Chris.
Do Hodgins and Angela get divorced?
Their wedding is cut short in the season two finale when it is revealed Angela is technically married to a man from Fiji named Grayson Barasa. However, he refuses to give Angela the divorce, and she and Hodgins are left with nothing they can do.
Why did they get rid of Zack Addy on Bones?
Eric Millegan did not leave Bones because of his bipolar disorder. He explained that he had a tough time dealing with depression and mania while shooting the first season of Bones, partly triggered by moving from New York to LA for the series.
Your character Angela Montenegro is a very talented artist. Do you yourself draw as well? I like to paint, but drawing has never been a strength of mine. You should see what I’m actually drawing on those sketch pads!
Michaela Conlin is famous for her role as Angela Montenegro, an artist who does forensic reconstruction for the police on Fox’s cult-favorite series Bones. Her character first appeared in the pilot episode in 2007, and she remained on the show all the way until the season finale in 2017.
Why did Angela break up with Hodgins in bones?
Angela once was asked by Hodgins on a date. She broke it off and went back to being just friends because she was afraid that if things get “messy”, it would affect their co-workers negatively. Later, after he was found after being buried alive, they kissed, and at the end of the episode they went home together.
What was Michaela Conlin’s real name on bones?
Television work. Angela’s full name is Angela “Pookie Noodlin” Pearly Gates Montenegro, with Pearly Gates also being the name of Gibbons’ Les Paul guitar. In 2008, Conlin was nominated for an Asian Excellence Award in the category of Supporting Television actress for her role on Bones.
Bones: Marriage between royalty in ancient Egypt was often incestuous.– The Movie in the Making. Kirk Persinger [edit | edit source] Kirk was the boyfriend of Angela. Every year, Angela took 3 weeks off from work and went to New Mexico to visit him. | https://wise-answer.com/who-is-angelas-dad-on-bones/ | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Billy Gibbons - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the guitarist. For the commissioner, see Bill Gibbons . For other uses, see William Gibbons .
Billy Gibbons
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|Birth name||William Frederick Gibbons|
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|Born|| December 16, 1949 |
Houston , Texas , U.S.
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|Years active||1967–present|
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|Formerly of||Moving Sidewalks|
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William Frederick Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) [1] is an American rock musician, best known as the guitarist and primary vocalist of ZZ Top . He began his career in the Moving Sidewalks , who recorded Flash (1969) and opened four dates for the Jimi Hendrix Experience . Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969 and released ZZ Top's First Album in early 1971. He has also maintained a solo career in recent years, starting with his first album Perfectamundo (2015).
Gibbons has made appearances with other artists and acted on television shows, most notably in Bones . In 2001, Rolling Stone named him the 32nd greatest guitarist of all time. [2]
Gibbons was born to Frederick Royal ("Freddie") and Lorraine (née Duffy) Gibbons in the Tanglewood neighborhood of Houston, Texas . His father was an entertainer, orchestra conductor , and concert pianist who worked alongside his second cousin, art director Cedric Gibbons , for Samuel Goldwyn at MGM Studios . When Gibbons was five years old, his mother took him and his sister to see Elvis Presley . At age seven, Gibbons's father took him to a BB King recording session. A percussionist at first, Gibbons was sent by his father to New York City to study with Tito Puente . [3] In 1962, Gibbons received his first electric guitar following his 13th birthday, a sunburst Gibson Melody Maker , accompanied by a Fender Champ amplifier , and was influenced by guitarists such as Jimmy Reed .
While attending Warner Brothers' art school in Hollywood, California , Gibbons engaged with his first bands including the Saints, Billy G & the Blueflames, and the Coachmen. By 18, Gibbons formed an artfully designed band, conceptually inspired by friend and fellow musician, Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators , naming the group the Moving Sidewalks, penning the hit single "99th Floor", and engaging in a friendship with Jimi Hendrix . [4] [5]
Main article: Moving Sidewalks
Gibbons founded the Texas psychedelic group the Moving Sidewalks, [6] which recorded several singles and one full-length album, Flash . Gibbons and the Moving Sidewalks came to prominence opening for the Jimi Hendrix Experience during Hendrix's first American tour as a headliner. Also notable was the Gibbons-penned song, "99th Floor", its title a nod to the influence on Gibbons of fellow Texans and pioneering psychedelic band the 13th Floor Elevators . He has also commented during live performances while playing the string-bending intro to " Foxy Lady " that Hendrix taught him how to play when Gibbons was "about 17" in Dallas. [7]
Main article: ZZ Top
Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969, and quickly settled on bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank "Rube" Beard , both members of the band American Blues . After honing their trademark blues-rock style, they released ZZ Top's First Album on London Records in 1971. Although all three members were born in 1949, Gibbons was the youngest member of the band.
On July 31, 2015 it was announced that Gibbons' solo project will be named Billy Gibbons and the BFG's featuring musicians Mike Flanigin, GG Maartine ( née Martine GuiGui), Joe Hardy and Greg Morrow. Their debut album, Perfectamundo , was released on November 6, 2015. [8] [9]
Gibbons' second solo album, The Big Bad Blues , was released on September 21, 2018 via Concord Records. [10] At the 40th Blues Music Awards in May 2019, the album was named as 'Blues Rock Album of the Year'. [11]
In a 2019 interview with Guitar World , Gibbons said that he was already starting to work on his next solo release: "I think we're going to call it Hardware , and that's in tribute to Joe Hardy, our stalwart engineer for four decades. He recently passed on, but in his wake he left the instruction manual -- 'Here's how to do it.' We're still trying to get to the back chapters. It goes deep." [12] The album was released in 2021.
Gibbons added guitar to the track "Dias Raros" from Diamante Eléctrico of Bogotá , Colombia. [13]
Gibbons played the first slide guitar lead on the song "Dead End Streets" on Al Jourgensen of Ministry 's side project Revolting Cocks album Cocked and Loaded .
He wrote, played guitar on and sang "Willin' for Satisfaction" from Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell 's 2005 solo album Two Sides of If .
Gibbons collaborated with the Queens of the Stone Age on the song " Burn the Witch " from the album Lullabies to Paralyze . ZZ Top's "Precious and Grace" was recorded with lead vocals provided by Mark Lanegan as a bonus track for the album. Gibbons has claimed this was one of his favorite collaborations and "Precious and Grace" was later added back into ZZ Top's set lists. Gibbons was selected to guest the follow-up album Era Vulgaris but was unable due to scheduling conflicts. [14]
In 2007, Gibbons was featured in the documentary feature film The 1959 Burst alongside Les Paul guitar legends like Slash , Rick Nielsen and Eric Johnson [15]
Together with the Raconteurs Gibbons performed at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards . Gibbons was part of an ensemble chosen to play with the band, which included Lou Reed and Jim Jarmusch . The performance was heavily edited and cut short by MTV for broadcast.
Gibbons was one of several artists to join B.B. King on the song "Tired of Your Jive", from the B.B. King & Friends album.
Gibbons appeared on Nickelback 's album All the Right Reasons on the songs "Follow You Home", "Fight for All the Wrong Reasons" and " Rockstar ".
Gibbons performed with Hank Williams III on the song "Trashville" from his album Lovesick, Broke and Driftin' .
Gibbons collaborated with Les Paul with his Les Paul & Friends American Made, World Played track " Bad Case of Loving You ". Gibbons also performed guitar with John Mayall & Friends' track "Put It Right Back" from the album Along for the Ride . He was the first artist to appear on stage at Cleveland's State theater in November 2008 at the American Music Master Tribute to Les Paul, honoring the guitar and recording innovator, who died a few months later.
Gibbons was a guest vocalist on Kid Rock 's "Hillbilly Stomp" from the album Kid Rock .
Gibbons was the guitarist during singer Luis Fonsi 's presentation at the seventh Latin Grammy awards held in Madison Square Garden , New York, on November 2, 2006.
Gibbons sang background vocals on Sammy Hagar 's 2008 CD Cosmic Universal Fashion during the song "Switch on the Light".
Gibbons collaborated with Ronnie Dunn , of Brooks & Dunn fame, for Dunn's first solo work, playing guitar and singing along on the song, " Honky Tonk Stomp ".
Gibbons played guitar on "Broke Down on the Brazos", the opening track of Gov't Mule 's 2009 album By a Thread .
Gibbons played guitar on "Run Rudolph Run", the third track of We Wish you a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year compilation.
Gibbons made a special guest appearance behind Roky Erickson on Austin City Limits taped on November 12, 2007, and originally aired January 12, 2008. ( ACL Season 33, Episode 12).
Gibbons plays lead guitar on two songs from the 2008 Everlast album Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford : "Stone in My Hand" and "Anyone".
On January 22, 2010, Gibbons joined Ben Harper , Beck , Conan O'Brien and others on the final episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien playing a Will Ferrell -led rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd 's " Free Bird ". [16]
On February 19, 2011, Gibbons appeared as a guest judge at the 5th Annual Misprint Beard and Moustache Contest at the Mohawk Club in Austin, Texas. [17]
On December 15, 2012, Gibbons made a guest appearance at Social Distortion 's concert at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip. Frontman Mike Ness brought him out for two songs, "Drug Train" and "Black Magic". On November 19, 2014, Gibbons performed "Baby Please Don't Go" at the Vaclav Havel bust dedication ceremony in the US Capitol .
In 2020, Gibbons was featured playing guitar on Chapel Hart 's single titled "Jesus & Alcohol" [18] and also plays the role of a pastor in the music video . [19]
In November 2021, Gibbons appeared alongside Dion DiMucci on "My Stomping Ground" which is featured in DiMucci's "Stomping Ground" album. [ citation needed ]
Gibbons had a recurring role on the Fox network TV series Bones , appearing in seven episodes over nine years. He plays a fictionalized version of himself, as the father of Michaela Conlin 's character, Angela Pearly Gates Montenegro . [20] He is never referred to by name on the show, though; every mention is limited to "Angela's father". Conlin's character's middle name is the same as Gibbons' Les Paul guitar . Gibbons's character is extremely protective of his daughter, and he often "threatens" or "haunts" Angela's husband and colleague Dr. Jack Hodgins , telling him that if he hurts Angela, he will pay. When Angela and Hodgins first broke up, he drugged and kidnapped Hodgins, during which time he also gave him a tattoo of Angela's face on his left deltoid area. After Angela discovers the tattoo, she informs Hodgins she wants it removed (he never removed it) and angrily exclaimed when she discovered it was her dad's doing, "I am so going to kick his Texan bad ass."
He has appeared in several other episodes of Bones , including one where he asks Hodgins to help him recover his car from some "biker hoods". In his next appearance, he argued with Hodgins over baby names. He wanted the child to be named "Staccato Mamba", which came to him in a song, while Angela and Hodgins wanted to name him "Michael Vincent". (Parents and grandfather compromised on "Michael Staccato".) [21] At the end of the episode, Hodgins discovers he has yet another tattoo on his right biceps, this time of his father-in-law with the word "Daddy" across Gibbons' beard (at which point Gibbons told Hodgins that celebratory tequila and he do not seem to mix). In a later episode, he asks to babysit his grandson Michael, pointing out that Angela had spent many nights when she was a baby sleeping soundly backstage while he played to sold-out stadiums. After initial reluctance of Angela and Hodgins, they agree due to the need to get some sleep, as Michael will not stop crying and go to sleep. Gibbons solves the problem by discovering the music Michael likes, including blues and boogie rock , such as ZZ Top's "Hi Fi Mama".
Gibbons voiced a character in episode 60 of Metalocalypse .
Gibbons, along with his ZZ Top bandmates Dusty Hill and Frank Beard , voiced a fictionalized version of himself in Fox's animated show King of the Hill , which is set in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas. In the show, Dusty Hill is said to be a cousin of the show's main character, Hank Hill .
Gibbons appeared as a dining room guest in the season-13 episode of Hell's Kitchen .
Although first published in 2005, Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead received an expanded re-release from Motorbooks in 2020 for the 50th anniversary of ZZ Top. Gibbons joined author Tom Vickers and photographer David Perry which offers a look at his collection of cars and guitars, including the famous Eliminator Ford 1933 coupe that appeared on the cover of ZZ Top's 1983 album of the same name. The book is ultimately divided into three sections: The Life, The Cars, and The Guitars. [22]
In 2011, Gibbons joined with Texas-based Mojo Products, LLC, to launch a line of hot sauces, barbecue sauces, and other products with his own personal branding, "BFG Brand". The sauces were sold as BFG No. 44 via his personal website.
In late 2012, Gibbons was featured in a series of television commercials for Fiesta Mart , a Texas supermarket chain. Some of the BFG Brand sauces were seen in these commercials.
In 2018, Billy Gibbons teamed up with John Fogerty . During the planning of Fogerty and ZZ Top's coheadlining summer Blues and Bayous Tour, Fogerty wrote a song with entitled "The Holy Grail" which Gibbons appeared on adding vocals and some guitar. [23] Gibbons had this to say to 'Billboard Magazine': "It's not an overstatement to say that writing a song with John Fogerty is a genuine bonus. It's fair to say that John and I are both pumped about our collaboration and we think this new one called 'The Holy Grail' holds true with some great storytelling and some solid guitarist movin' the number right along. It begs a shout of, 'Turn it up!'" The single "The Holy Grail" was released on June 8, 2018.
Gibbons' primarily plays Gibson guitars. His first guitar was a sunburst 1962 Gibson Melody Maker . [24] In 1968, Gibbons acquired a sunburst 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar from a farmer in Houston, Texas , for $250. The guitar was named Pearly Gates, a name taken from the dangerous-to-drive rolling-wreck auto that he sold to buy the guitar. The guitar has become the foundation/benchmark of every ZZ Top album since the group formed in 1969. [25]
Gibbons also plays Fender guitars. During his stint in the Moving Sidewalks , Gibbons used a white 1963 Fender Jazzmaster and Fender Esquire . [26] He has also used an extremely rare " Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird " given to him by Bo Diddley . The use of this guitar (beginning with the 2003 ZZ Top album Mescalero ) inspired a signature production model, the Gretsch Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird. For Mescalero , Gibbons also relied heavily on Ulrich Teuffel's futuristic Birdfish guitar, saying it was second only to Pearly Gates. According to Gibbons, "It really shines on Mescalero because of that dirty, raunchy tone. I defy any other instrument, besides these odd-ball things, to get that crazy." [27] Gibbons recorded Eliminator using a Dean ML guitar. [28]
For the music video for the 1983 single "Legs", Gibbons and Hill used matching spinning sheepskin fur guitars made by Dean Zelinsky of Dean Guitars . [28] The guitars are attached to the belt buckles with a rotary electrical contact and strap mount, allowing them to spin. [29] Gibbons credited the spinning idea to Moving Sidewalks bassist Don Summers. [29]
Gibbons worked with Thomas Nilsen of Cream T Pickups to create the BFG Banger humbucker pickup. [30] At the 2010 Winter NAMM show, Dunlop Manufacturing and Gibbons unveiled a new line of guitar accessories, Rev. Willy's. These include Gibbons inspired picks, strings, and slides. [31]
Gibbons notably uses strings in an extra light gauge of .07-.09-.11-.20-.30-.38 on his guitars and has a signature set manufactured and sold by Dunlop known as "Rev. Willy's Mexican Lottery Brand". The company also manufactures other gauges of these strings. [32]
Originally a user of heavy gauge strings in ZZ Top's earliest days, Gibbons switched to light strings after playing a show with B.B. King . King asked to play Gibbons' guitar, which he gladly obliged. After playing it, King noticed the heavy strings, handed the guitar back to Gibbons and asked, "Why you working so hard?". Gibbons had assumed that the classic blues sound came from playing heavy gauge strings, but King told him otherwise and advised him to put light gauge strings on his guitar instead. [33] [34]
Gibbons has used a variety of Marshall products, including the JCM 900 Dual Reverb, [35] Bluesbreaker , JTM45, Major , [36] and Lead 12. [35] Recently, [ when? ] his live touring rack consists of the JMP-1 Preamp, combined with power amps such as the Valvestate 120 or the 9200 model. [37] Gibbons has a large collection of vintage Fender amplifiers (his first amp was a Fender Champ ), and collects Fender Dual Professionals . Other Fenders he has used include a Fender Bassman and Fender Tweed Deluxe . [38] Gibbons now [ when? ] uses Magnatone amplifiers. [39]
On December 14, 2005, Gibbons married longtime girlfriend Gilligan Stillwater (born Ellen J. Oetjen). [40]
Gibbons is an avid car collector and custom car enthusiast with an extensive collection that includes a 1948 Cadillac Series 62 (known as CadZZilla ), a 1962 Chevrolet Impala (known as "Slampala"), a 1950 Ford Business Coupe, and a 1958 Ford Thunderbird. [41] One of his earliest custom cars, a 1933 Ford Coupe (known as "Eliminator"), was featured in three of ZZ Top's music videos and is also on the cover of their 1983 album, also titled Eliminator . Gibbons also published a book in 2011 about his love of cars and guitars titled Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead . [42] The November 2014 issue of Guitar World magazine featured an interview with Gibbons and fellow guitarist Jeff Beck about their mutual appreciation of "cars, guitars, and everything in between". [43]
For several years, Gibbons has appeared wearing a braided-cloth cap rather than his familiar Stetson hat . During a visit to Vienna , he met the chief of the Bamileke people from Cameroon , with whom he traded the hat for the cap. [44] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Gibbons | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Billy Gibbons | Billy Gibbons is the father of Angela Montenegro . Angela's middle name is "Pearly Gates", the same as Gibbons's Les Paul guitar.
Gibbons's character is extremely protective of his daughter, almost to the point of sociopathic. Several times he has threatened Angela's now husband, Jack Hodgins , that if he hurts Angela in any way, he will pay. After Hodgins and Angela broke up, Gibbons blamed Hodgins and began "haunting" him by following him around and generally unnerving him. Angela tried to talk to him when they had lunch at the Royal Diner , and despite promising Angela that he would leave Hodgins alone, he drugged Hodgins, tattooed Angela's face onto his arm, and left him unconscious in the middle of a desert.
On another occasion, he wanted to name Hodgins and Angela's child, Staccato Mamba, but Hodgins rejected the name and insisted that they would either name the child Michael Joseph if it was a boy, or Catherine Temperance if it was a girl. He retaliated again, getting Hodgins drunk with tequila, tattooing his own face onto his other arm, and dragging him into an alley, although he did ultimately concede and allow Hodgins to name the child however they want. Although Hodgins did add Staccato to Michael's name.
His actions have made many characters afraid of him, Sweets in particular.
Angela, who loves him and is not afraid of him, is afraid of what he can do. The moment Angela saw her father after she and Hodgins split, she immediately told Hodgins to leave town, knowing her father intended on punishing him, and fully aware of the damage he could cause. Despite this, Angela shows no fear of him for herself. When she found out what he had done to Hodgins she claimed she was "so going to kick his Texan bad ass".
- Billy F. Gibbons' plays a fictionalized version of himself.
- According to Sweets, he keeps a black cat's bone in his pocket, a fact which Sweets finds extremely unnerving.
- Angela says that her father uses a Nicaraguan Cordoba as a guitar pick since he stated that different guitarists use different types of picks to produce different sounds with their guitars.
- He owns vintage cars, multiple types of guitars, and many guns.
- He used to take Angela backstage to his concerts when she was little.
Bones Characters
|Main Characters|
|Recurring Characters|
Caroline Julian · Max Keenan · Clark Edison · Hank Booth · Daisy Wick · Wendell Bray · Colin Fisher · Vincent Nigel-Murray · Arastoo Vaziri · Finn Abernathy · Oliver Wells · Rodolfo Fuentes · Jessica Warren · Douglas Filmore · Christopher Pelant · Jared Booth · Alex Radziwill · Hayes Flynn · Christine Booth · Parker Booth · Marianne Booth · Hannah Burley · Michael Hodgins · Michelle Welton · Gordon Wyatt · Billy Gibbons · Jacob Broadsky · The Gormogon · Avalon Harmonia · Amy Hollister · Rebecca Stinson · Tim Sullivan · Heather Taffet · Thomas Vega · Marcus Geier · Andrew Hacker · Aldo Clemens · Oliver Laurier · Maggie Magregor · Paul Lidner · Noel Liftin · Roxie Lyon · Padme Dalaj · Grayson Barasa · Beth Mayer
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who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Angela Montenegro - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Angela Montenegro|
|Bones character|
|First appearance|| September 13, 2005 |
(1x01, " Pilot ")
|Last appearance|| March 28, 2017 |
(12x12, " The End in the End ")
|Created by||Hart Hanson|
|Portrayed by||Michaela Conlin|
|In-universe information|
|Alias||Smacky Kennedy, Pookie Noodlin|
|Nickname||Ange, Angie|
|Gender||Female|
|Occupation||Forensic Artist|
|Family||Billy Gibbons (father)|
|Spouse|
Grayson Barasa
( m. 2003; div. 2008)
( m. 2010)
|Children|| Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins |
(son, with Jack ; born 2011)
Unnamed child (unborn, with Jack )
|Relatives|| Christine Angela Booth (goddaughter) |
Hank Booth II (godson)
Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro-Hodgins [1] (born Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons ) [2] is a fictional character in the television series Bones (2005–2017), portrayed by Michaela Conlin . She is a classically trained artist who creates forensic reconstructions for the police.
Angela Montenegro is the daughter of a fictional representation of Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top (played by the musician himself). [3] Angela was born in Baltimore , Maryland on April 16, she is half-Chinese, and she once mentioned having taken French in school , in "The Body in the Bag", in season 6 . Her middle name is meant to be an allusion to her father's guitar " Miss Pearly Gates ". [3] According to Angela, in "Mother and Child in the Bay", in season 2, Angela is 5'8 and weighs 135 pounds. In Season 10, Angela's real name is discovered to be Pookie Noodlin. Prior to the revelation, it was well known that she was so embarrassed by her birth name that she never told anyone, even her husband and closest friends.
Angela is a specialist in forensic facial reconstruction at the fictional Jeffersonian Institution, who frequently works with Dr. Temperance Brennan , her best friend. Angela received her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin in Visual Arts , with a minor in computer science . She also studied biomedical illustration at American University . [4] She uses her skills as an artist to develop, maintain, and improve the lab's three-dimensional graphics and computer simulation systems. She is credited with the innovation of the "Angelator", which is later superseded by the "Angelatron". In "The Brain in the Bot", in season 12, Angela wins a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for which she was nominated by Dr. Temperance Brennan for her "groundbreaking" work with the "Angelatron".
Throughout the series, Angela Montenegro is described as a "free spirit", "good-time girl" and "wild child". She is shown to be more socially "normal" than her coworkers at the Jeffersonian, and seems to not consider herself a scientist like the other "squints", instead on multiple occasions referencing facial reconstruction as an "art". In one episode, the character Jack Hodgins calls Angela "the heart of the operation." [5] Angela's more typical social skills are often used by the writers as a balancing point and audience surrogate ; she demonstrates a need to interact with other people in a way her more awkward colleagues do not. [6] Plotlines have alluded that Angela has extensive romantic experience, once telling Zack Addy to "reap the benefits of my sexual wisdom." [7] She also told Brennan, "I don't know how to talk to crazy people unless I'm dating them." [8] When Brennan and Booth become a couple, she is often the one to explain his behavior to Brennan and gives her advice on how to get along with him.
Angela contemplates leaving the Jeffersonian at one point, under the assumption that her work does not contribute to cases in a meaningful way. She was also unsure of her ability to handle the graphic violence she was exposed to regularly at the lab. However, Dr. Goodman, the director of the Jeffersonian, spoke of the vital importance of her work in adding an element of humanity to the victims, returning their identity. This line of reasoning persuades her to remain at the lab. [8]
Angela and Hodgins met when Angela was brought on to work at the Jeffersonian by Brennan. While initially on good terms, they grew closer throughout season one. At the beginning of season two, Hodgins became obviously interested in her, and pursued her more openly. After a few episodes of palpable sexual tension, Hodgins finally asked Angela on a date in the episode "The Girl with the Curl". While their date was quite successful, Angela broke it off fearing repercussions if things went badly. Later, after Hodgins was rescued from being buried alive, they kissed, and at the end of the episode they went home together. Angela later asked Hodgins if she could sleep at his place one night after being spooked by restored video footage, and soon they were openly involved. After refusing Hodgins' marriage proposal twice, she proposed to him. [9] Their wedding was cut short in the season two finale when it was revealed that Angela was technically married to a man from Fiji , Grayson Barasa. [10] Their relationship ended after a lengthy search for her husband, and issues regarding Jack's trust of Angela. [11]
Throughout seasons four and five, the two struggled with their relationship, eventually appearing to form a close, albeit awkward, friendship. After Hodgins declared he would support her during a pregnancy scare while she was dating Wendell Bray, their romantic tension was rekindled. While collecting evidence together for a murder investigation in Maryland , they were pulled over for a moving violation and subsequently jailed for a variety of minor infractions by a local sheriff. Their time spent together led them to re-examine their relationship, and why they broke up. When a judge arrived to post their bail, they were finally married in a civil ceremony with the sheriff as witness. [12] They announced their marriage to their colleagues soon after. [4] At the end of season five, they were planning to spend a year in Paris while Brennan and Booth were away, as neither of them wanted "to break in a new forensic anthropologist and FBI liaison."
Upon their return from Paris, Angela discovers that they are expecting their first child. Angela tries to keep her pregnancy a secret from the Jeffersonian team. This is because Angela wants to wait until after the first trimester and Hodgins wants to reveal the pregnancy when the time is right. It is later revealed that if Angela and Hodgins had a daughter, they would name her Temperance, after Dr. Brennan; but strictly as a middle name, because the name Temperance is "awful". Angela's father wanted to name their child "Staccato Mamba" (this came to him in a dream). However, the three of them finally agree on the names Katherine Temperance for a girl and Michael Joseph for a boy. In the episode "The Blackout in the Blizzard" Angela and Hodgins find out they are both carriers of Leber's congenital amaurosis , giving their baby a 25 percent chance of blindness. This was a huge devastation for the couple, but in the end they reminded each other that they can handle anything together. Their son was born healthy and without a vision impairment. He was named Michael, as planned, Staccato, as Angela's father wanted, and Vincent, after the late Vincent Nigel-Murray , the full name thus becoming Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins, but is more commonly known as Michael Vincent.
It is revealed that, at one point, she married in a kava -influenced ceremony in Fiji. She was unsure whether the marriage was legal and had no knowledge of where her husband was after the ritual; in fact, the United States government considered the marriage valid, and prevented her marriage to Hodgins. [10] When a private investigator tracked down Barasa, he attempted to convince Angela to stay with him, informing her that he had built them a house. Although she had no interest in pursuing anything with him, Barasa's presence eventually precipitated the end of Angela's engagement to Hodgins, because Angela felt that Hodgins did not trust her. [11]
Season 1 Episode 17, "The Skull in the Desert", reveals that, for "three weeks out of the year, Angela has a boyfriend and a vacation." Angela's first revealed steady boyfriend, Kirk, is a "pseudo-famous photographer" who lives in the desert of New Mexico . Their five-year relationship ends abruptly when Kirk goes off into the desert with his Indigenous guide and never returns. Angela is prompted to call Temperance for help when a skull is left on the porch of the local sheriff. Dr. Brennan is able to identify that the skull does belong to Kirk and the premise of the episode is discovering what happened to him out in the desert. According to Angela, he was the guy to whom she compared all other guys. [13]
After breaking off her engagement with Hodgins, Angela resumes a relationship first forged at UT Austin with Roxie, a woman who currently works as a sculptor and who was, at the time of their reconnection, the suspect in a case. Roxie broke it off with Angela over irreconcilable differences in world view ; Angela "lives in the moment" and Roxie wants a partner who plans for the future. [14] [15]
After Brennan's intern, Wendell Bray, gives Angela $45 to help save a baby pig, the two kiss and begin a relationship. [16] Their relationship continued throughout part of Season 5. After they had been dating for a few months, Angela took a pregnancy test which came up positive. This test is later revealed, by a second test that Dr. Saroyan had run, to be a false positive. When Wendell found out, he told her that he would have supported her in her choices because it was his duty. This caused Angela to realize that while Wendell is a good guy, he was not "[her] guy" and subsequently ended their relationship. The break-up was mutual and amicable.
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Temperance Brennan is an anthropologist who writes about the character Kathy Reichs in her spare time. In real-life, Kathy Reichs is an anthropologist who writes about the character Temperance Brennan.
Angela's father is played by ZZ Top member Billy Gibbons , and there have been several indications that the audience is supposed to understand that her father IS Billy Gibbons (albeit a fictional version of Gibbons, since Angela is fictional). Although Angela's dad has never been given a name, before his first appearance Angela told her friends that her father is famous enough that they might recognize him immediately, and during Gibbons' appearances, there have been several references to the music of ZZ Top.
Eric Millegan (Dr. Zack Addy), a grad student, younger than the other scientists, is one year older than T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), two years older than Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan, his teacher), and four years older than Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro).
As of season twelve, only two shots in the opening title sequence have remained the same throughout the series: the opening shot of the skeleton, and the final shot of Booth and Brennan in Limbo closing a drawer full of remains.
Originally, the weight they gave the victim, who was exactly like Brennan, on season six, episode nine, "The Doctor in the Photo", was twenty pounds less than the weight that aired. Emily Deschanel had read the script, and called the other producers, asking them to put the weight closer to reality.
Almost every time Booth is in front of the camera, he has on him a watch, his F.B.I. ID, a holstered sidearm, a Zippo lighter, Craps dice, a one hundred dollar poker chip, a floaty pen (the type where a girl's clothes fall off when you turn it upside down), 3"x5" index cards and his light brown sunglasses, and he is wearing a St. Christopher medal. All of these items can be spotted being handled by Booth throughout the series.
There have been several references to Agent Seeley Booth being a "direct descendant" of John Wilkes Booth. In reality, is is highly unlikely that John Wilkes Booth had any direct descendants. As the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, and the first assassin of any U.S. President, John Wilkes Booth's life history has been exhaustively scrutinized by generations of historical scholars, and there is absolutely no evidence that he ever married or fathered any children, legitimate or illegitimate. Several of John Wilkes Booth's brothers and sisters did have children, but in genealogical terms, to be a direct descendant of John Wilkes Booth, Seeley Booth would have to be descended from a child of his, and not just a niece or nephew.
As a Pennsylvania native, Agent Booth (David Borenaz) is a fan of the Philadelphia sports teams; the Eagles, Philies and the Flyers. In the show Agent Booth is a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, evident by his coffee mug. He is stated to be a Flyers fan but has a Boston Bruins photo hanging in his office.
S5E11 - The X in the Files: Blaine Miller the diner owner is played by Canadian actor Dean Haglund. He also played Richard "Ringo" Langly from the original X-Files series. There are many nods in this episode to X-Files including episode title and opening music.
Up to season three, Special Agent Seeley Booth has handled a Glock 17, a .357 Magnum, a two-tone Smith & Wesson Sigma (commonly misidentified as a Glock, both pistols look and function nearly identical, however Glock does not produce two-toned pistols), and a Tokyo Marui Hi-Capa 5.1 (Airsoft replica) with a tactical flashlight attachment, along with a Colt .22 back-up weapon. While Dr. Temperance Brennan has handled a Colt .22 in the pilot episode, where she shot a suspect, as well as on several occasions to back-up Agent Booth, a very large Smith & Wesson M500 .50 caliber revolver in season two, and Booth's Tokyo Marui Hi-Capa 5.1 Airsoft Replica when she shot Booth's stalker.
The trivia items below may give away important plot points.
In season ten, it is revealed that Angela's first name at birth was Pookie Noodlin. Viewers had previously learned her middle and last names, bringing her complete birth name to Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons.
Angela Montenegro's middle name is said to be "Pearly Gates" in Angela's and Hodgin's first wedding on season two finale. It is the name of a guitar belonging to Billy Gibbons , who played Angela's father. However, when she married Hodgins on season five, it is revealed that her legal name is not the name she has been using. She whispers it in to the ear of the judge marrying them, but he does not repeat her name. Her birth name is revealed in Season 10. It is Pookie Noodlin.
Every child born to a main character on the show is named after a close friend or family member who has died as a way to honor their memory. Booth's oldest child (from a previous relationship), Parker, is named after Teddy Parker, a fellow sniper and close friend, who died in Booth's arms in combat. Angela and Hodgins' son, Michael Vincent, is named after squintern Vincent Nigel-Murray who was murdered shortly before Angela gave birth. Booth and Brennan's first child, Christine Angela is named after Brennan's mother, who was murdered and her best friend, Angela Montenegro. Sweets and Daisy's child, Seeley Lance Wick-Sweets is named after Booth, who is still alive, and (Lance) Sweets, who was murdered before his child was born, and Booth and Brennan's second child is named Hank after Booth's deceased grandfather, who raised him after finding out that Booth and his brother were being physically abused by their father (Hank's son).
Despite being married to Jack Hodgins for over seven years, Angela has only referred to her husband by his first name a few times, such as in season two, episode nine, "Aliens in a Space Ship" and season five, episode one, "Harbingers in the Fountain". Usually she calls him "Hodgins". | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460627/trivia/ | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Billy Gibbons | Billy Gibbons is the father of Angela Montenegro . Angela's middle name is "Pearly Gates", the same as Gibbons's Les Paul guitar.
Gibbons's character is extremely protective of his daughter, almost to the point of sociopathic. Several times he has threatened Angela's now husband, Jack Hodgins , that if he hurts Angela in any way, he will pay. After Hodgins and Angela broke up, Gibbons blamed Hodgins and began "haunting" him by following him around and generally unnerving him. Angela tried to talk to him when they had lunch at the Royal Diner , and despite promising Angela that he would leave Hodgins alone, he drugged Hodgins, tattooed Angela's face onto his arm, and left him unconscious in the middle of a desert.
On another occasion, he wanted to name Hodgins and Angela's child, Staccato Mamba, but Hodgins rejected the name and insisted that they would either name the child Michael Joseph if it was a boy, or Catherine Temperance if it was a girl. He retaliated again, getting Hodgins drunk with tequila, tattooing his own face onto his other arm, and dragging him into an alley, although he did ultimately concede and allow Hodgins to name the child however they want. Although Hodgins did add Staccato to Michael's name.
His actions have made many characters afraid of him, Sweets in particular.
Angela, who loves him and is not afraid of him, is afraid of what he can do. The moment Angela saw her father after she and Hodgins split, she immediately told Hodgins to leave town, knowing her father intended on punishing him, and fully aware of the damage he could cause. Despite this, Angela shows no fear of him for herself. When she found out what he had done to Hodgins she claimed she was "so going to kick his Texan bad ass".
- Billy F. Gibbons' plays a fictionalized version of himself.
- According to Sweets, he keeps a black cat's bone in his pocket, a fact which Sweets finds extremely unnerving.
- Angela says that her father uses a Nicaraguan Cordoba as a guitar pick since he stated that different guitarists use different types of picks to produce different sounds with their guitars.
- He owns vintage cars, multiple types of guitars, and many guns.
- He used to take Angela backstage to his concerts when she was little.
Bones Characters
|Main Characters|
|Recurring Characters|
Caroline Julian · Max Keenan · Clark Edison · Hank Booth · Daisy Wick · Wendell Bray · Colin Fisher · Vincent Nigel-Murray · Arastoo Vaziri · Finn Abernathy · Oliver Wells · Rodolfo Fuentes · Jessica Warren · Douglas Filmore · Christopher Pelant · Jared Booth · Alex Radziwill · Hayes Flynn · Christine Booth · Parker Booth · Marianne Booth · Hannah Burley · Michael Hodgins · Michelle Welton · Gordon Wyatt · Billy Gibbons · Jacob Broadsky · The Gormogon · Avalon Harmonia · Amy Hollister · Rebecca Stinson · Tim Sullivan · Heather Taffet · Thomas Vega · Marcus Geier · Andrew Hacker · Aldo Clemens · Oliver Laurier · Maggie Magregor · Paul Lidner · Noel Liftin · Roxie Lyon · Padme Dalaj · Grayson Barasa · Beth Mayer
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who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Why Angela's Father From Bones Looks So Familiar - Looper | 20th Television
By Patrick Phillips / April 12, 2021 10:25 pm EST
During its 12 season run on Fox, it was hard to find another show which so capably blended disparate genres and tones as the network's offbeat procedural drama Bones . Based on the writings of famed forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs (who authored several works of fiction very loosely based on her own life), Bones followed the tale of Reich's literary alter-ego Temperance "Bones" Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel), who pairs up with a hotshot FBI Agent (David Boreanaz) and utilizes her anthropological expertise in solving some of the Agency's most baffling, and often grisly, murder cases.
The series debuted in 2005, earning a small but devoted legion of fans who continued to devour Bones ' twisty narratives, unabashed flourishes of gore, and wicked sense of humor, over a whopping 245 episodes . And while the core cast of Bones remained mostly intact during its lengthy run, the series also became quite well-known for its revolving door of supporting players , many of whom brought welcome tinges of comedy to the show's sometimes horrific storylines.
While there were several familiar faces amongst those Bones part-timers (Joel David Moore, Carla Gallo, Ryan O'Neal, Stephen Fry), it's safe to assume few were quite as recognizable as the bearded face of the man who portrayed the father of the Jeffersonian's facial reconstruction specialist Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin). That "actor's" name is Billy Gibbons.
And if you're wondering why the word actor is in quotations, well, it's because acting is Gibbons' backup gig. Here's why Angela's father from Bones looks so familiar.
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If you call yourself a rock fan, you should be as familiar with Billy Gibbons' name as you almost certainly are his beautifully-bearded face. That's because the Texas-born Gibbons is a legit rock legend, who Rolling Stone listed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time in 2015, and whose band entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. That band is none other than ZZ Top , who rose to rock superstardom in the 1970s and 1980s on the strength of Gibbons' gritty vocals and singular, blues-drenched guitar sound.
Gibbons first made a name for himself on the rock scene fronting the late-sixties Texas psych outfit The Moving Sidewalks, who opened a handful of shows for Jimmy Hendrix circa 1969. A couple of years later, Gibbons assembled the iconic, hot rod-loving three-piece ZZ Top, and has spent the ensuing decades kicking out the jams (i.e. "Tush," "La Grange," "Legs," "Sharp Dressed Man," and more) and tripping the rock & roll life fantastic as a full-blown guitar god. Gibbons and the boys in ZZ Top are still cranking out hits, by the way, with the singer-guitarist telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2020 that a new album is imminent.
Gibbons' recurring Bones gig finally came to an end after his memorable 2014 appearance. But it's a safe bet he'll continue to turn up in other film and television projects, moving forward, as the famed axe-man has made great sport of parodying his distinctive persona over the years. The question now becomes not if, but where, Gibbons and his gnarly beard will turn up next. | https://www.looper.com/380909/why-angelas-father-from-bones-looks-so-familiar/ | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | 'Bones' Star Michaela Conlin Tells Us What It's Like to Have Billy Gibbons Play Her TV Dad | Bones star Michaela Conlin talks to us about her character Angela’s evolution over eleven seasons, why she loves ‘90s hip-hop music, and what it's like working with her TV dad Billy Gibbons and guest star Betty White.
Michaela Conlin has returned as “free spirit” forensic facial reconstruction artist Angela Montenegro on the Fox crime-drama series Bones, which is centered around case files brought in by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanz) to Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and her forensic anthropology team at the Jeffersonian Institute.
Eleven seasons in and the show still has new plot twists and things in store for its characters, including—in Angela’s case—getting married and having kids, crossover episodes, and special guest stars.
The actress dishes on how her character Angela has evolved, who her favorite ‘90s hip-hop artists are, and why she loves working with Billy Gibbons and Betty White.
You’re in the eleventh season of Bones. How has your character Angela evolved since season one?
MICHAELA CONLIN: Oh, quite a lot actually. The series opens with Angela flashing her boobs at this airport attendant [laughs], and now she’s married and has a kid so that’s probably the biggest [change]. I think in those ways she’s changed a lot but I think who she is hasn’t changed very much at all.
Billy Gibbons—the lead vocalist of ZZ Top—plays your dad on the show. What has it been like working with him?
MC: He’s great—he’s such a nice guy and has so many amazing stories. He’s played with so many musicians—it’s crazy. He’s been around for a long time, obviously. He’s a real gentleman, and he’s really lovely to work with. Recently my dad, my actual father, went to see him play—went to see ZZ Top play—and they got a photo together. They took a bunch of photos together and Billy was really, really lovely. So, that was kind of an interesting thing to have your TV dad and your real dad together.
Bones recently did a crossover episode with the show Sleepy Hollow. What was that like?
MC: It was great. It was really nice to work with their production team and their actors. I didn’t get to work with Nicole [Beharie] but I did get to work with Tom [Mison], who is one of the leads of the show, and he was great. It was sort of fun to have a different show’s energy meshed into ours. I didn’t really know how they were going to pull it off, but both of our producers did a very good job with it. It was fun. It’s always fun to do new stuff, to do different things like that.
Betty White was also on an episode this season. Did you enjoy working with her?
MC: I did. She was so great. I mean, she’s such a legend and so funny. She’s really everything you’d think she would be—she’s really sweet and funny, and she was so professional, knew all of her lines and just… she’s great. I hope we get to have her back again.
You recently completed a film called Baby, Baby, Baby. Can you tell us a little bit about the premise?
MC: It’s sort of a personal relationship movie written by an actor named Brian Klugman, who wrote it and directed it, and was in it actually. It’s a relationship movie set in Los Angeles in present day. Adrianne Palicki is the lead in the movie and then there’s sort of this interesting supporting cast. It was a really fun movie to do and sort of personal to Brian and his experience. I play his ex-girlfriend and the movie opens with me breaking up with him. I think everybody can relate to that.
We’ve read that you love ‘90s hip-hop music. Who are some of your favorite artists?
MC: That’s funny that you found that out [laughs]. Oh gosh, yeah, I love De La Soul, Mobb Deep, Keith Murray, Tribe Called Quest, Sunshine Anderson, so many.
Where do you hang out when you’re in New York?
MC: I’m in New York quite a bit. I have a lot of friends and [during] every hiatus I’m there the whole time. My family is in Pennsylvania, which is really close, so I always try to sneak in a trip. For restaurants I love Momofuku—the pork buns are amazing. I was just on set the other day dreaming about having the pork buns [laughs]. I love The Ten Bells, the wine bar. I love Max Fish. I love The Spotted Pig, it’s so good. I pretty much like to go to New York to eat and shop and see my friends and see theater.
What’s next for you?
MC: Geez, you know, we’re about halfway through filming season 11. I’m waiting to find out about Baby, Baby, Baby, which just went to the Austin Film Festival, so we’re waiting to find out about that. I did another movie with Kate Beckinsale called The Disappointments Room, and I’m waiting for that to be released. And, I’m shooting [Bones], I’m very busy shooting. We finish in May and we’ll see if we’re going to get another season. We go all the way until May 2016. We do 22 episodes, so it’s a long season. | https://bones-ga.livejournal.com/956652.html | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Angela Montenegro - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Angela Montenegro|
|Bones character|
|First appearance|| September 13, 2005 |
(1x01, " Pilot ")
|Last appearance|| March 28, 2017 |
(12x12, " The End in the End ")
|Created by||Hart Hanson|
|Portrayed by||Michaela Conlin|
|In-universe information|
|Alias||Smacky Kennedy, Pookie Noodlin|
|Nickname||Ange, Angie|
|Gender||Female|
|Occupation||Forensic Artist|
|Family||Billy Gibbons (father)|
|Spouse|
Grayson Barasa
( m. 2003; div. 2008)
( m. 2010)
|Children|| Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins |
(son, with Jack ; born 2011)
Unnamed child (unborn, with Jack )
|Relatives|| Christine Angela Booth (goddaughter) |
Hank Booth II (godson)
Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro-Hodgins [1] (born Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons ) [2] is a fictional character in the television series Bones (2005–2017), portrayed by Michaela Conlin . She is a classically trained artist who creates forensic reconstructions for the police.
Angela Montenegro is the daughter of a fictional representation of Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top (played by the musician himself). [3] Angela was born in Baltimore , Maryland on April 16, she is half-Chinese, and she once mentioned having taken French in school , in "The Body in the Bag", in season 6 . Her middle name is meant to be an allusion to her father's guitar " Miss Pearly Gates ". [3] According to Angela, in "Mother and Child in the Bay", in season 2, Angela is 5'8 and weighs 135 pounds. In Season 10, Angela's real name is discovered to be Pookie Noodlin. Prior to the revelation, it was well known that she was so embarrassed by her birth name that she never told anyone, even her husband and closest friends.
Angela is a specialist in forensic facial reconstruction at the fictional Jeffersonian Institution, who frequently works with Dr. Temperance Brennan , her best friend. Angela received her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin in Visual Arts , with a minor in computer science . She also studied biomedical illustration at American University . [4] She uses her skills as an artist to develop, maintain, and improve the lab's three-dimensional graphics and computer simulation systems. She is credited with the innovation of the "Angelator", which is later superseded by the "Angelatron". In "The Brain in the Bot", in season 12, Angela wins a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for which she was nominated by Dr. Temperance Brennan for her "groundbreaking" work with the "Angelatron".
Throughout the series, Angela Montenegro is described as a "free spirit", "good-time girl" and "wild child". She is shown to be more socially "normal" than her coworkers at the Jeffersonian, and seems to not consider herself a scientist like the other "squints", instead on multiple occasions referencing facial reconstruction as an "art". In one episode, the character Jack Hodgins calls Angela "the heart of the operation." [5] Angela's more typical social skills are often used by the writers as a balancing point and audience surrogate ; she demonstrates a need to interact with other people in a way her more awkward colleagues do not. [6] Plotlines have alluded that Angela has extensive romantic experience, once telling Zack Addy to "reap the benefits of my sexual wisdom." [7] She also told Brennan, "I don't know how to talk to crazy people unless I'm dating them." [8] When Brennan and Booth become a couple, she is often the one to explain his behavior to Brennan and gives her advice on how to get along with him.
Angela contemplates leaving the Jeffersonian at one point, under the assumption that her work does not contribute to cases in a meaningful way. She was also unsure of her ability to handle the graphic violence she was exposed to regularly at the lab. However, Dr. Goodman, the director of the Jeffersonian, spoke of the vital importance of her work in adding an element of humanity to the victims, returning their identity. This line of reasoning persuades her to remain at the lab. [8]
Angela and Hodgins met when Angela was brought on to work at the Jeffersonian by Brennan. While initially on good terms, they grew closer throughout season one. At the beginning of season two, Hodgins became obviously interested in her, and pursued her more openly. After a few episodes of palpable sexual tension, Hodgins finally asked Angela on a date in the episode "The Girl with the Curl". While their date was quite successful, Angela broke it off fearing repercussions if things went badly. Later, after Hodgins was rescued from being buried alive, they kissed, and at the end of the episode they went home together. Angela later asked Hodgins if she could sleep at his place one night after being spooked by restored video footage, and soon they were openly involved. After refusing Hodgins' marriage proposal twice, she proposed to him. [9] Their wedding was cut short in the season two finale when it was revealed that Angela was technically married to a man from Fiji , Grayson Barasa. [10] Their relationship ended after a lengthy search for her husband, and issues regarding Jack's trust of Angela. [11]
Throughout seasons four and five, the two struggled with their relationship, eventually appearing to form a close, albeit awkward, friendship. After Hodgins declared he would support her during a pregnancy scare while she was dating Wendell Bray, their romantic tension was rekindled. While collecting evidence together for a murder investigation in Maryland , they were pulled over for a moving violation and subsequently jailed for a variety of minor infractions by a local sheriff. Their time spent together led them to re-examine their relationship, and why they broke up. When a judge arrived to post their bail, they were finally married in a civil ceremony with the sheriff as witness. [12] They announced their marriage to their colleagues soon after. [4] At the end of season five, they were planning to spend a year in Paris while Brennan and Booth were away, as neither of them wanted "to break in a new forensic anthropologist and FBI liaison."
Upon their return from Paris, Angela discovers that they are expecting their first child. Angela tries to keep her pregnancy a secret from the Jeffersonian team. This is because Angela wants to wait until after the first trimester and Hodgins wants to reveal the pregnancy when the time is right. It is later revealed that if Angela and Hodgins had a daughter, they would name her Temperance, after Dr. Brennan; but strictly as a middle name, because the name Temperance is "awful". Angela's father wanted to name their child "Staccato Mamba" (this came to him in a dream). However, the three of them finally agree on the names Katherine Temperance for a girl and Michael Joseph for a boy. In the episode "The Blackout in the Blizzard" Angela and Hodgins find out they are both carriers of Leber's congenital amaurosis , giving their baby a 25 percent chance of blindness. This was a huge devastation for the couple, but in the end they reminded each other that they can handle anything together. Their son was born healthy and without a vision impairment. He was named Michael, as planned, Staccato, as Angela's father wanted, and Vincent, after the late Vincent Nigel-Murray , the full name thus becoming Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins, but is more commonly known as Michael Vincent.
It is revealed that, at one point, she married in a kava -influenced ceremony in Fiji. She was unsure whether the marriage was legal and had no knowledge of where her husband was after the ritual; in fact, the United States government considered the marriage valid, and prevented her marriage to Hodgins. [10] When a private investigator tracked down Barasa, he attempted to convince Angela to stay with him, informing her that he had built them a house. Although she had no interest in pursuing anything with him, Barasa's presence eventually precipitated the end of Angela's engagement to Hodgins, because Angela felt that Hodgins did not trust her. [11]
Season 1 Episode 17, "The Skull in the Desert", reveals that, for "three weeks out of the year, Angela has a boyfriend and a vacation." Angela's first revealed steady boyfriend, Kirk, is a "pseudo-famous photographer" who lives in the desert of New Mexico . Their five-year relationship ends abruptly when Kirk goes off into the desert with his Indigenous guide and never returns. Angela is prompted to call Temperance for help when a skull is left on the porch of the local sheriff. Dr. Brennan is able to identify that the skull does belong to Kirk and the premise of the episode is discovering what happened to him out in the desert. According to Angela, he was the guy to whom she compared all other guys. [13]
After breaking off her engagement with Hodgins, Angela resumes a relationship first forged at UT Austin with Roxie, a woman who currently works as a sculptor and who was, at the time of their reconnection, the suspect in a case. Roxie broke it off with Angela over irreconcilable differences in world view ; Angela "lives in the moment" and Roxie wants a partner who plans for the future. [14] [15]
After Brennan's intern, Wendell Bray, gives Angela $45 to help save a baby pig, the two kiss and begin a relationship. [16] Their relationship continued throughout part of Season 5. After they had been dating for a few months, Angela took a pregnancy test which came up positive. This test is later revealed, by a second test that Dr. Saroyan had run, to be a false positive. When Wendell found out, he told her that he would have supported her in her choices because it was his duty. This caused Angela to realize that while Wendell is a good guy, he was not "[her] guy" and subsequently ended their relationship. The break-up was mutual and amicable.
- ^ "Stargazer In A Puddle". Bones . Season 2. Episode 21. May 16, 2007. Fox.
- ^ "The Life in the Light". Bones . Season 10. Episode 21. June 4, 2015. Fox.
- ^
- ^
- ^ "The Man in the Cell". Bones (TV series) . Season 2. Episode 12. Fox.
- ^ "The Man in the Wall". Bones (TV series) . Season 1. Episode 6. Fox.
- ^ "A Boy in a Tree". Bones (TV series) . Season 1. Episode 3. September 27, 2005.
- ^
- ^ "The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House". Bones (TV series) . Season 2. Episode 20. 2007-05-09. Fox.
- ^
- ^ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Montenegro | 33 |
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Temperance Brennan is an anthropologist who writes about the character Kathy Reichs in her spare time. In real-life, Kathy Reichs is an anthropologist who writes about the character Temperance Brennan.
Angela's father is played by ZZ Top member Billy Gibbons , and there have been several indications that the audience is supposed to understand that her father IS Billy Gibbons (albeit a fictional version of Gibbons, since Angela is fictional). Although Angela's dad has never been given a name, before his first appearance Angela told her friends that her father is famous enough that they might recognize him immediately, and during Gibbons' appearances, there have been several references to the music of ZZ Top.
Eric Millegan (Dr. Zack Addy), a grad student, younger than the other scientists, is one year older than T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), two years older than Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan, his teacher), and four years older than Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro).
As of season twelve, only two shots in the opening title sequence have remained the same throughout the series: the opening shot of the skeleton, and the final shot of Booth and Brennan in Limbo closing a drawer full of remains.
Originally, the weight they gave the victim, who was exactly like Brennan, on season six, episode nine, "The Doctor in the Photo", was twenty pounds less than the weight that aired. Emily Deschanel had read the script, and called the other producers, asking them to put the weight closer to reality.
Almost every time Booth is in front of the camera, he has on him a watch, his F.B.I. ID, a holstered sidearm, a Zippo lighter, Craps dice, a one hundred dollar poker chip, a floaty pen (the type where a girl's clothes fall off when you turn it upside down), 3"x5" index cards and his light brown sunglasses, and he is wearing a St. Christopher medal. All of these items can be spotted being handled by Booth throughout the series.
There have been several references to Agent Seeley Booth being a "direct descendant" of John Wilkes Booth. In reality, is is highly unlikely that John Wilkes Booth had any direct descendants. As the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, and the first assassin of any U.S. President, John Wilkes Booth's life history has been exhaustively scrutinized by generations of historical scholars, and there is absolutely no evidence that he ever married or fathered any children, legitimate or illegitimate. Several of John Wilkes Booth's brothers and sisters did have children, but in genealogical terms, to be a direct descendant of John Wilkes Booth, Seeley Booth would have to be descended from a child of his, and not just a niece or nephew.
As a Pennsylvania native, Agent Booth (David Borenaz) is a fan of the Philadelphia sports teams; the Eagles, Philies and the Flyers. In the show Agent Booth is a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, evident by his coffee mug. He is stated to be a Flyers fan but has a Boston Bruins photo hanging in his office.
S5E11 - The X in the Files: Blaine Miller the diner owner is played by Canadian actor Dean Haglund. He also played Richard "Ringo" Langly from the original X-Files series. There are many nods in this episode to X-Files including episode title and opening music.
Up to season three, Special Agent Seeley Booth has handled a Glock 17, a .357 Magnum, a two-tone Smith & Wesson Sigma (commonly misidentified as a Glock, both pistols look and function nearly identical, however Glock does not produce two-toned pistols), and a Tokyo Marui Hi-Capa 5.1 (Airsoft replica) with a tactical flashlight attachment, along with a Colt .22 back-up weapon. While Dr. Temperance Brennan has handled a Colt .22 in the pilot episode, where she shot a suspect, as well as on several occasions to back-up Agent Booth, a very large Smith & Wesson M500 .50 caliber revolver in season two, and Booth's Tokyo Marui Hi-Capa 5.1 Airsoft Replica when she shot Booth's stalker.
The trivia items below may give away important plot points.
In season ten, it is revealed that Angela's first name at birth was Pookie Noodlin. Viewers had previously learned her middle and last names, bringing her complete birth name to Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons.
Angela Montenegro's middle name is said to be "Pearly Gates" in Angela's and Hodgin's first wedding on season two finale. It is the name of a guitar belonging to Billy Gibbons , who played Angela's father. However, when she married Hodgins on season five, it is revealed that her legal name is not the name she has been using. She whispers it in to the ear of the judge marrying them, but he does not repeat her name. Her birth name is revealed in Season 10. It is Pookie Noodlin.
Every child born to a main character on the show is named after a close friend or family member who has died as a way to honor their memory. Booth's oldest child (from a previous relationship), Parker, is named after Teddy Parker, a fellow sniper and close friend, who died in Booth's arms in combat. Angela and Hodgins' son, Michael Vincent, is named after squintern Vincent Nigel-Murray who was murdered shortly before Angela gave birth. Booth and Brennan's first child, Christine Angela is named after Brennan's mother, who was murdered and her best friend, Angela Montenegro. Sweets and Daisy's child, Seeley Lance Wick-Sweets is named after Booth, who is still alive, and (Lance) Sweets, who was murdered before his child was born, and Booth and Brennan's second child is named Hank after Booth's deceased grandfather, who raised him after finding out that Booth and his brother were being physically abused by their father (Hank's son).
Despite being married to Jack Hodgins for over seven years, Angela has only referred to her husband by his first name a few times, such as in season two, episode nine, "Aliens in a Space Ship" and season five, episode one, "Harbingers in the Fountain". Usually she calls him "Hodgins". | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460627/trivia/ | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Angela Montenegro - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Angela Montenegro|
|Bones character|
|First appearance|| September 13, 2005 |
(1x01, " Pilot ")
|Last appearance|| March 28, 2017 |
(12x12, " The End in the End ")
|Created by||Hart Hanson|
|Portrayed by||Michaela Conlin|
|In-universe information|
|Alias||Smacky Kennedy, Pookie Noodlin|
|Nickname||Ange, Angie|
|Gender||Female|
|Occupation||Forensic Artist|
|Family||Billy Gibbons (father)|
|Spouse|
Grayson Barasa
( m. 2003; div. 2008)
( m. 2010)
|Children|| Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins |
(son, with Jack ; born 2011)
Unnamed child (unborn, with Jack )
|Relatives|| Christine Angela Booth (goddaughter) |
Hank Booth II (godson)
Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro-Hodgins [1] (born Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons ) [2] is a fictional character in the television series Bones (2005–2017), portrayed by Michaela Conlin . She is a classically trained artist who creates forensic reconstructions for the police.
Angela Montenegro is the daughter of a fictional representation of Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top (played by the musician himself). [3] Angela was born in Baltimore , Maryland on April 16, she is half-Chinese, and she once mentioned having taken French in school , in "The Body in the Bag", in season 6 . Her middle name is meant to be an allusion to her father's guitar " Miss Pearly Gates ". [3] According to Angela, in "Mother and Child in the Bay", in season 2, Angela is 5'8 and weighs 135 pounds. In Season 10, Angela's real name is discovered to be Pookie Noodlin. Prior to the revelation, it was well known that she was so embarrassed by her birth name that she never told anyone, even her husband and closest friends.
Angela is a specialist in forensic facial reconstruction at the fictional Jeffersonian Institution, who frequently works with Dr. Temperance Brennan , her best friend. Angela received her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin in Visual Arts , with a minor in computer science . She also studied biomedical illustration at American University . [4] She uses her skills as an artist to develop, maintain, and improve the lab's three-dimensional graphics and computer simulation systems. She is credited with the innovation of the "Angelator", which is later superseded by the "Angelatron". In "The Brain in the Bot", in season 12, Angela wins a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for which she was nominated by Dr. Temperance Brennan for her "groundbreaking" work with the "Angelatron".
Throughout the series, Angela Montenegro is described as a "free spirit", "good-time girl" and "wild child". She is shown to be more socially "normal" than her coworkers at the Jeffersonian, and seems to not consider herself a scientist like the other "squints", instead on multiple occasions referencing facial reconstruction as an "art". In one episode, the character Jack Hodgins calls Angela "the heart of the operation." [5] Angela's more typical social skills are often used by the writers as a balancing point and audience surrogate ; she demonstrates a need to interact with other people in a way her more awkward colleagues do not. [6] Plotlines have alluded that Angela has extensive romantic experience, once telling Zack Addy to "reap the benefits of my sexual wisdom." [7] She also told Brennan, "I don't know how to talk to crazy people unless I'm dating them." [8] When Brennan and Booth become a couple, she is often the one to explain his behavior to Brennan and gives her advice on how to get along with him.
Angela contemplates leaving the Jeffersonian at one point, under the assumption that her work does not contribute to cases in a meaningful way. She was also unsure of her ability to handle the graphic violence she was exposed to regularly at the lab. However, Dr. Goodman, the director of the Jeffersonian, spoke of the vital importance of her work in adding an element of humanity to the victims, returning their identity. This line of reasoning persuades her to remain at the lab. [8]
Angela and Hodgins met when Angela was brought on to work at the Jeffersonian by Brennan. While initially on good terms, they grew closer throughout season one. At the beginning of season two, Hodgins became obviously interested in her, and pursued her more openly. After a few episodes of palpable sexual tension, Hodgins finally asked Angela on a date in the episode "The Girl with the Curl". While their date was quite successful, Angela broke it off fearing repercussions if things went badly. Later, after Hodgins was rescued from being buried alive, they kissed, and at the end of the episode they went home together. Angela later asked Hodgins if she could sleep at his place one night after being spooked by restored video footage, and soon they were openly involved. After refusing Hodgins' marriage proposal twice, she proposed to him. [9] Their wedding was cut short in the season two finale when it was revealed that Angela was technically married to a man from Fiji , Grayson Barasa. [10] Their relationship ended after a lengthy search for her husband, and issues regarding Jack's trust of Angela. [11]
Throughout seasons four and five, the two struggled with their relationship, eventually appearing to form a close, albeit awkward, friendship. After Hodgins declared he would support her during a pregnancy scare while she was dating Wendell Bray, their romantic tension was rekindled. While collecting evidence together for a murder investigation in Maryland , they were pulled over for a moving violation and subsequently jailed for a variety of minor infractions by a local sheriff. Their time spent together led them to re-examine their relationship, and why they broke up. When a judge arrived to post their bail, they were finally married in a civil ceremony with the sheriff as witness. [12] They announced their marriage to their colleagues soon after. [4] At the end of season five, they were planning to spend a year in Paris while Brennan and Booth were away, as neither of them wanted "to break in a new forensic anthropologist and FBI liaison."
Upon their return from Paris, Angela discovers that they are expecting their first child. Angela tries to keep her pregnancy a secret from the Jeffersonian team. This is because Angela wants to wait until after the first trimester and Hodgins wants to reveal the pregnancy when the time is right. It is later revealed that if Angela and Hodgins had a daughter, they would name her Temperance, after Dr. Brennan; but strictly as a middle name, because the name Temperance is "awful". Angela's father wanted to name their child "Staccato Mamba" (this came to him in a dream). However, the three of them finally agree on the names Katherine Temperance for a girl and Michael Joseph for a boy. In the episode "The Blackout in the Blizzard" Angela and Hodgins find out they are both carriers of Leber's congenital amaurosis , giving their baby a 25 percent chance of blindness. This was a huge devastation for the couple, but in the end they reminded each other that they can handle anything together. Their son was born healthy and without a vision impairment. He was named Michael, as planned, Staccato, as Angela's father wanted, and Vincent, after the late Vincent Nigel-Murray , the full name thus becoming Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins, but is more commonly known as Michael Vincent.
It is revealed that, at one point, she married in a kava -influenced ceremony in Fiji. She was unsure whether the marriage was legal and had no knowledge of where her husband was after the ritual; in fact, the United States government considered the marriage valid, and prevented her marriage to Hodgins. [10] When a private investigator tracked down Barasa, he attempted to convince Angela to stay with him, informing her that he had built them a house. Although she had no interest in pursuing anything with him, Barasa's presence eventually precipitated the end of Angela's engagement to Hodgins, because Angela felt that Hodgins did not trust her. [11]
Season 1 Episode 17, "The Skull in the Desert", reveals that, for "three weeks out of the year, Angela has a boyfriend and a vacation." Angela's first revealed steady boyfriend, Kirk, is a "pseudo-famous photographer" who lives in the desert of New Mexico . Their five-year relationship ends abruptly when Kirk goes off into the desert with his Indigenous guide and never returns. Angela is prompted to call Temperance for help when a skull is left on the porch of the local sheriff. Dr. Brennan is able to identify that the skull does belong to Kirk and the premise of the episode is discovering what happened to him out in the desert. According to Angela, he was the guy to whom she compared all other guys. [13]
After breaking off her engagement with Hodgins, Angela resumes a relationship first forged at UT Austin with Roxie, a woman who currently works as a sculptor and who was, at the time of their reconnection, the suspect in a case. Roxie broke it off with Angela over irreconcilable differences in world view ; Angela "lives in the moment" and Roxie wants a partner who plans for the future. [14] [15]
After Brennan's intern, Wendell Bray, gives Angela $45 to help save a baby pig, the two kiss and begin a relationship. [16] Their relationship continued throughout part of Season 5. After they had been dating for a few months, Angela took a pregnancy test which came up positive. This test is later revealed, by a second test that Dr. Saroyan had run, to be a false positive. When Wendell found out, he told her that he would have supported her in her choices because it was his duty. This caused Angela to realize that while Wendell is a good guy, he was not "[her] guy" and subsequently ended their relationship. The break-up was mutual and amicable.
- ^ "Stargazer In A Puddle". Bones . Season 2. Episode 21. May 16, 2007. Fox.
- ^ "The Life in the Light". Bones . Season 10. Episode 21. June 4, 2015. Fox.
- ^
- ^
- ^ "The Man in the Cell". Bones (TV series) . Season 2. Episode 12. Fox.
- ^ "The Man in the Wall". Bones (TV series) . Season 1. Episode 6. Fox.
- ^ "A Boy in a Tree". Bones (TV series) . Season 1. Episode 3. September 27, 2005.
- ^
- ^ "The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House". Bones (TV series) . Season 2. Episode 20. 2007-05-09. Fox.
- ^
- ^ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Montenegro | 33 |
who plays angela montenegro's father in bones | Billy Gibbons | Billy Gibbons is the father of Angela Montenegro . Angela's middle name is "Pearly Gates", the same as Gibbons's Les Paul guitar.
Gibbons's character is extremely protective of his daughter, almost to the point of sociopathic. Several times he has threatened Angela's now husband, Jack Hodgins , that if he hurts Angela in any way, he will pay. After Hodgins and Angela broke up, Gibbons blamed Hodgins and began "haunting" him by following him around and generally unnerving him. Angela tried to talk to him when they had lunch at the Royal Diner , and despite promising Angela that he would leave Hodgins alone, he drugged Hodgins, tattooed Angela's face onto his arm, and left him unconscious in the middle of a desert.
On another occasion, he wanted to name Hodgins and Angela's child, Staccato Mamba, but Hodgins rejected the name and insisted that they would either name the child Michael Joseph if it was a boy, or Catherine Temperance if it was a girl. He retaliated again, getting Hodgins drunk with tequila, tattooing his own face onto his other arm, and dragging him into an alley, although he did ultimately concede and allow Hodgins to name the child however they want. Although Hodgins did add Staccato to Michael's name.
His actions have made many characters afraid of him, Sweets in particular.
Angela, who loves him and is not afraid of him, is afraid of what he can do. The moment Angela saw her father after she and Hodgins split, she immediately told Hodgins to leave town, knowing her father intended on punishing him, and fully aware of the damage he could cause. Despite this, Angela shows no fear of him for herself. When she found out what he had done to Hodgins she claimed she was "so going to kick his Texan bad ass".
- Billy F. Gibbons' plays a fictionalized version of himself.
- According to Sweets, he keeps a black cat's bone in his pocket, a fact which Sweets finds extremely unnerving.
- Angela says that her father uses a Nicaraguan Cordoba as a guitar pick since he stated that different guitarists use different types of picks to produce different sounds with their guitars.
- He owns vintage cars, multiple types of guitars, and many guns.
- He used to take Angela backstage to his concerts when she was little.
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how long did finding neverland run on broadway | Finding Neverland (musical) - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Finding Neverland|
|Music|| Scott Frankel (Leicester production) |
Gary Barlow (Revised edition)
Eliot Kennedy (Revised edition)
|Lyrics|| Michael Korie (Leicester production) |
Gary Barlow (Revised edition)
Elliott Kennedy (Revised edition)
|Book|| Allan Knee (Leicester production) |
James Graham (Revised edition)
|Basis|| The Man Who Was Peter Pan |
by Allan Knee
and Finding Neverland
by David Magee
|Productions|| 2012 Leicester |
2014 Cambridge
2015 Broadway
2016 US Tour
Finding Neverland is a musical with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham adapted from the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and its 2004 film version Finding Neverland . An early version of the musical made its world premiere at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2012 with a book by Allan Knee, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie . A reworked version with the current writing team made its world premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts . [1] Following completion of its Cambridge run, the production transferred to Broadway in March 2015.
After a 17-month Broadway run, Finding Neverland closed on 21 August 2016, and began a U.S. national tour the following month.
On 6 February 2011, La Jolla Playhouse , California, announced that they would produce a new stage musical based on the film with the book by Allan Knee , score by Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics), and directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford . [2] A planned production at La Jolla Playhouse was not held. [3] A developmental reading was held in New York on 31 March 2011, with Julian Ovenden , Kelli O'Hara , Tony Roberts , Mary Beth Peil , Michael Cumpsty , and Meredith Patterson , directed by Ashford. [4] The adaptation had its world premiere on 22 September 2012 at Curve in Leicester . [5] Directed by Rob Ashford, it starred Julian Ovenden as J.M Barrie and West End actress Rosalie Craig as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
On 4 September 2013, it was announced that producer Harvey Weinstein had hired Barry Weissler as executive producer. They planned on opening a revised version of the musical at the American Repertory Theater (ART), Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2014. The revised musical had a new creative team, with Diane Paulus as director, a new book by James Graham , and 22 songs by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy , [6] with a few songs from the original composers. A private reading was held in September 2013 with Brian d’Arcy James as Barrie and Jason Alexander as the "nagging theater producer". [7] On 27 February 2014, a further developmental workshop was announced for March with Matthew Morrison as Barrie. [8]
The revised production ran at the ART from 23 July 2014 to 28 September 2014, with songs by six-time Ivor Novello Award winner Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy , the book by James Graham and choreography by Mia Michaels; ART artistic director Diane Paulus is the director. [9] The full cast and creative team was announced on 2 June 2014, with Jeremy Jordan as Barrie and Laura Michelle Kelly as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies featured. The cast also includes Michael McGrath as Charles Frohman/Captain Hook, Carolee Carmello as Madame du Maurier, Jeanna de Waal as Mary Barrie, Aidan Gemme as Peter, Alex Dreier as Michael, Sawyer Nunes as George and Hayden Signoretti as Jack. [10] Roger Bart who was originally announced for the character of Charles Frohman was replaced by Michael McGrath. [11]
Jennifer Hudson debuted the song "Neverland", from the musical, at the 68th Tony Awards on 8 June 2014. [12]
The ART production directed by Diane Paulus moved to Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in March 2015. [13] On 10 November 2014, it was announced that Matthew Morrison would take Jordan's place in the portrayal of J. M. Barrie in the Broadway production. [14] Kelsey Grammer starred as Charles Frohman and Laura Michelle Kelly reprised the role of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. [15] Previews began 15 March 2015, with the official opening on 15 April. [16] [17] The production did not receive any Tony Award nominations. The Broadway production closed on 21 August 2016 after 565 performances. [18] [19] In 2017, as an offshoot of investigations into and reporting about Weinstein's many sexual abuse allegations , several news sources also reported that a significant amount of money that Weinstein ostensibly raised for the AIDS charity amfAR was instead allegedly funneled into the American Repertory Theater and the production budget for Finding Neverland . [20] [21] [22] [23]
In early 2016 it was announced that Finding Neverland would open in London in 2017, starring Alfie Boe as J.M. Barrie. The rest of the cast has not been announced. [24] On 15 May 2016, Gary Barlow performed the song "Something About This Night" from the musical for the Queen's 90th birthday celebration, hosted by Ant & Dec . Guest starring was Katherine Jenkins and Dame Shirley Bassey .
The US national tour began in Buffalo, New York on 7 October 2016, prior to the official opening on 11 October. The tour was directed by Diane Paulus and featured Kevin Kern as J.M. Barrie, Christine Dwyer as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Tom Hewitt as Frohman/Hook, Crystal Kellogg, Joanna Glushak, Jordan Cole, Finn Faulconer, Tyler Patrick Hennessy, Ben Krieger, Eli Tokash and Mitchell Wray. [25] [26]
- James Matthew Barrie: The creator of Peter Pan , a Scottish playwright who still has a child inside of him.
- Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: a widow with four children whose family inspires Barrie to write Peter Pan .
- Mary Barrie: James' unhappy wife.
- Mrs. du Maurier: Sylvia's strict mother who despises Barrie.
- Charles Frohman: Barrie's friend and the director/producer of the Acting Company that Barrie writes for.
- Captain James Hook: The classic villain from Peter Pan , comes to Barrie in a vision to convince him to add a villain to his show. Played by the same actor as Frohman.
- Peter Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons. Loves reading and develops a strong relationship with Barrie.
- Michael Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- Jack Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- George Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- Lord Canaan: A wealthy and pompous man who Frohman tries to get as a fellow producer for the play, ends up with Mary.
- Mr. Cromer: A grumpy yet lovable member of the acting troupe. Plays Michael in Peter Pan .
- Mr. Henshaw: A vain yet friendly member of the acting troupe. Plays Nana in Peter Pan .
- Elliott: Frohman's eager assistant.
- Miss Basset: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Nibs in Peter Pan .
- Miss Jones: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Tootles in Peter Pan .
- Mr. Turpin: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Captain Hook in Peter Pan .
- Peter Pan: The titular character of the play, takes Sylvia to Neverland towards the end of the show.
- Wendy (Acting Troupe): The eldest Darling child in the show within a show.
- Albert: Mary's butler.
- Emily: Mary's head maid.
- Porthos: Barrie's dog.
- The Acting Troupe, Servants, Londoners, Pirates, Indians, Lost Boys
Note: Below are the principal casts of all professional major productions. some roles are portrayed by the same actors.
|Role|| Original Leicester Cast |
2012
| Original A.R.T. Cast |
2014
| Original Broadway Cast |
2015
| U.S. National Tour Cast |
2016
|J. M. Barrie||Julian Ovenden||Jeremy Jordan||Matthew Morrison||Kevin Kern|
|Sylvia Llewelyn Davies||Rosalie Craig||Laura Michelle Kelly||Christine Dwyer|
| Charles Frohman |
Captain James Hook
|Oliver Boot||Michael McGrath||Kelsey Grammer||Tom Hewitt|
|Mary Barrie||Clare Foster||Jeanna de Waal||Teal Wicks||Crystal Kellogg|
|Mrs. du Maurier||Liz Robertson||Carolee Carmello||Joanna Glushak|
|Michael Llewelyn Davies|| Worrall Courtney |
Jon Joe Flynn
Morgan Heath
Jamieson Hughes
|Alex Dreier|| Alex Dreier |
Hayden Signoretti
Noah Hinsdale
| Jordan Cole |
Mitchell Wray
Tyler Patrick Hennessy
|Jack Llewelyn Davies|| Connor Fitzgerald |
Harrisson Slater
Garrett Tennant
|Hayden Signoretti|| Hayden Signoretti |
Christopher Paul Richards
Alex Dreier
| Mitchell Wray |
Eli Tokash
Tyler Patrick Hennessy
|George Llewelyn Davies|| Connor Phillips |
Josh Swinney
Corey Wickenden
|Sawyer Nunes|| Sawyer Nunes |
Jackson Demott Hill
Christopher Paul Richards
| Finn Faulconer |
Ben Krieger
Eli Tokash
|Peter Llewelyn Davies|| Theo Fewell |
Luke James
Harry Folden
|Aidan Gemme|| Aidan Gemme |
Jackson Demott Hill
Christopher Paul Richards
| Ben Krieger |
Mitchell Wray
Eli Tokash
- In the Leicester production, Lord Cannan was called Lord Griffin and Charles Blount was called Maximilian Blunt. Cut characters include PG Wodehouse (Norman Bowman), Mermaid (Ashley Hale), Scheherazade (Frankie Jenna), Mother (Julia Jupp), Arthur Conan Doyle (Martin Ledwith), Sally (Zoe Rainey), GK Chesterton (Gary Watson), Jerome K. Jerome (Stephen Webb), and David (James Scudamore). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Neverland_(musical) | 34 |
how long did finding neverland run on broadway | Finding Neverland (musical) - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Finding Neverland|
|Music|| Scott Frankel (Leicester production) |
Gary Barlow (Revised edition)
Eliot Kennedy (Revised edition)
|Lyrics|| Michael Korie (Leicester production) |
Gary Barlow (Revised edition)
Elliott Kennedy (Revised edition)
|Book|| Allan Knee (Leicester production) |
James Graham (Revised edition)
|Basis|| The Man Who Was Peter Pan |
by Allan Knee
and Finding Neverland
by David Magee
|Productions|| 2012 Leicester |
2014 Cambridge
2015 Broadway
2016 US Tour
Finding Neverland is a musical with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham adapted from the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and its 2004 film version Finding Neverland . An early version of the musical made its world premiere at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2012 with a book by Allan Knee, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie . A reworked version with the current writing team made its world premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts . [1] Following completion of its Cambridge run, the production transferred to Broadway in March 2015.
After a 17-month Broadway run, Finding Neverland closed on 21 August 2016, and began a U.S. national tour the following month.
On 6 February 2011, La Jolla Playhouse , California, announced that they would produce a new stage musical based on the film with the book by Allan Knee , score by Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics), and directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford . [2] A planned production at La Jolla Playhouse was not held. [3] A developmental reading was held in New York on 31 March 2011, with Julian Ovenden , Kelli O'Hara , Tony Roberts , Mary Beth Peil , Michael Cumpsty , and Meredith Patterson , directed by Ashford. [4] The adaptation had its world premiere on 22 September 2012 at Curve in Leicester . [5] Directed by Rob Ashford, it starred Julian Ovenden as J.M Barrie and West End actress Rosalie Craig as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
On 4 September 2013, it was announced that producer Harvey Weinstein had hired Barry Weissler as executive producer. They planned on opening a revised version of the musical at the American Repertory Theater (ART), Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2014. The revised musical had a new creative team, with Diane Paulus as director, a new book by James Graham , and 22 songs by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy , [6] with a few songs from the original composers. A private reading was held in September 2013 with Brian d’Arcy James as Barrie and Jason Alexander as the "nagging theater producer". [7] On 27 February 2014, a further developmental workshop was announced for March with Matthew Morrison as Barrie. [8]
The revised production ran at the ART from 23 July 2014 to 28 September 2014, with songs by six-time Ivor Novello Award winner Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy , the book by James Graham and choreography by Mia Michaels; ART artistic director Diane Paulus is the director. [9] The full cast and creative team was announced on 2 June 2014, with Jeremy Jordan as Barrie and Laura Michelle Kelly as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies featured. The cast also includes Michael McGrath as Charles Frohman/Captain Hook, Carolee Carmello as Madame du Maurier, Jeanna de Waal as Mary Barrie, Aidan Gemme as Peter, Alex Dreier as Michael, Sawyer Nunes as George and Hayden Signoretti as Jack. [10] Roger Bart who was originally announced for the character of Charles Frohman was replaced by Michael McGrath. [11]
Jennifer Hudson debuted the song "Neverland", from the musical, at the 68th Tony Awards on 8 June 2014. [12]
The ART production directed by Diane Paulus moved to Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in March 2015. [13] On 10 November 2014, it was announced that Matthew Morrison would take Jordan's place in the portrayal of J. M. Barrie in the Broadway production. [14] Kelsey Grammer starred as Charles Frohman and Laura Michelle Kelly reprised the role of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. [15] Previews began 15 March 2015, with the official opening on 15 April. [16] [17] The production did not receive any Tony Award nominations. The Broadway production closed on 21 August 2016 after 565 performances. [18] [19] In 2017, as an offshoot of investigations into and reporting about Weinstein's many sexual abuse allegations , several news sources also reported that a significant amount of money that Weinstein ostensibly raised for the AIDS charity amfAR was instead allegedly funneled into the American Repertory Theater and the production budget for Finding Neverland . [20] [21] [22] [23]
In early 2016 it was announced that Finding Neverland would open in London in 2017, starring Alfie Boe as J.M. Barrie. The rest of the cast has not been announced. [24] On 15 May 2016, Gary Barlow performed the song "Something About This Night" from the musical for the Queen's 90th birthday celebration, hosted by Ant & Dec . Guest starring was Katherine Jenkins and Dame Shirley Bassey .
The US national tour began in Buffalo, New York on 7 October 2016, prior to the official opening on 11 October. The tour was directed by Diane Paulus and featured Kevin Kern as J.M. Barrie, Christine Dwyer as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Tom Hewitt as Frohman/Hook, Crystal Kellogg, Joanna Glushak, Jordan Cole, Finn Faulconer, Tyler Patrick Hennessy, Ben Krieger, Eli Tokash and Mitchell Wray. [25] [26]
- James Matthew Barrie: The creator of Peter Pan , a Scottish playwright who still has a child inside of him.
- Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: a widow with four children whose family inspires Barrie to write Peter Pan .
- Mary Barrie: James' unhappy wife.
- Mrs. du Maurier: Sylvia's strict mother who despises Barrie.
- Charles Frohman: Barrie's friend and the director/producer of the Acting Company that Barrie writes for.
- Captain James Hook: The classic villain from Peter Pan , comes to Barrie in a vision to convince him to add a villain to his show. Played by the same actor as Frohman.
- Peter Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons. Loves reading and develops a strong relationship with Barrie.
- Michael Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- Jack Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- George Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- Lord Canaan: A wealthy and pompous man who Frohman tries to get as a fellow producer for the play, ends up with Mary.
- Mr. Cromer: A grumpy yet lovable member of the acting troupe. Plays Michael in Peter Pan .
- Mr. Henshaw: A vain yet friendly member of the acting troupe. Plays Nana in Peter Pan .
- Elliott: Frohman's eager assistant.
- Miss Basset: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Nibs in Peter Pan .
- Miss Jones: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Tootles in Peter Pan .
- Mr. Turpin: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Captain Hook in Peter Pan .
- Peter Pan: The titular character of the play, takes Sylvia to Neverland towards the end of the show.
- Wendy (Acting Troupe): The eldest Darling child in the show within a show.
- Albert: Mary's butler.
- Emily: Mary's head maid.
- Porthos: Barrie's dog.
- The Acting Troupe, Servants, Londoners, Pirates, Indians, Lost Boys
Note: Below are the principal casts of all professional major productions. some roles are portrayed by the same actors.
|Role|| Original Leicester Cast |
2012
| Original A.R.T. Cast |
2014
| Original Broadway Cast |
2015
| U.S. National Tour Cast |
2016
|J. M. Barrie||Julian Ovenden||Jeremy Jordan||Matthew Morrison||Kevin Kern|
|Sylvia Llewelyn Davies||Rosalie Craig||Laura Michelle Kelly||Christine Dwyer|
| Charles Frohman |
Captain James Hook
|Oliver Boot||Michael McGrath||Kelsey Grammer||Tom Hewitt|
|Mary Barrie||Clare Foster||Jeanna de Waal||Teal Wicks||Crystal Kellogg|
|Mrs. du Maurier||Liz Robertson||Carolee Carmello||Joanna Glushak|
|Michael Llewelyn Davies|| Worrall Courtney |
Jon Joe Flynn
Morgan Heath
Jamieson Hughes
|Alex Dreier|| Alex Dreier |
Hayden Signoretti
Noah Hinsdale
| Jordan Cole |
Mitchell Wray
Tyler Patrick Hennessy
|Jack Llewelyn Davies|| Connor Fitzgerald |
Harrisson Slater
Garrett Tennant
|Hayden Signoretti|| Hayden Signoretti |
Christopher Paul Richards
Alex Dreier
| Mitchell Wray |
Eli Tokash
Tyler Patrick Hennessy
|George Llewelyn Davies|| Connor Phillips |
Josh Swinney
Corey Wickenden
|Sawyer Nunes|| Sawyer Nunes |
Jackson Demott Hill
Christopher Paul Richards
| Finn Faulconer |
Ben Krieger
Eli Tokash
|Peter Llewelyn Davies|| Theo Fewell |
Luke James
Harry Folden
|Aidan Gemme|| Aidan Gemme |
Jackson Demott Hill
Christopher Paul Richards
| Ben Krieger |
Mitchell Wray
Eli Tokash
- In the Leicester production, Lord Cannan was called Lord Griffin and Charles Blount was called Maximilian Blunt. Cut characters include PG Wodehouse (Norman Bowman), Mermaid (Ashley Hale), Scheherazade (Frankie Jenna), Mother (Julia Jupp), Arthur Conan Doyle (Martin Ledwith), Sally (Zoe Rainey), GK Chesterton (Gary Watson), Jerome K. Jerome (Stephen Webb), and David (James Scudamore). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Neverland_%28musical%29 | 34 |
how long did finding neverland run on broadway | Finding Neverland (musical) - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Finding Neverland|
|Music|| Scott Frankel (Leicester production) |
Gary Barlow (Revised edition)
Eliot Kennedy (Revised edition)
|Lyrics|| Michael Korie (Leicester production) |
Gary Barlow (Revised edition)
Elliott Kennedy (Revised edition)
|Book|| Allan Knee (Leicester production) |
James Graham (Revised edition)
|Basis|| The Man Who Was Peter Pan |
by Allan Knee
and Finding Neverland
by David Magee
|Productions|| 2012 Leicester |
2014 Cambridge
2015 Broadway
2016 US Tour
Finding Neverland is a musical with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham adapted from the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and its 2004 film version Finding Neverland . An early version of the musical made its world premiere at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2012 with a book by Allan Knee, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie . A reworked version with the current writing team made its world premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts . [1] Following completion of its Cambridge run, the production transferred to Broadway in March 2015.
After a 17-month Broadway run, Finding Neverland closed on 21 August 2016, and began a U.S. national tour the following month.
On 6 February 2011, La Jolla Playhouse , California, announced that they would produce a new stage musical based on the film with the book by Allan Knee , score by Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics), and directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford . [2] A planned production at La Jolla Playhouse was not held. [3] A developmental reading was held in New York on 31 March 2011, with Julian Ovenden , Kelli O'Hara , Tony Roberts , Mary Beth Peil , Michael Cumpsty , and Meredith Patterson , directed by Ashford. [4] The adaptation had its world premiere on 22 September 2012 at Curve in Leicester . [5] Directed by Rob Ashford, it starred Julian Ovenden as J.M Barrie and West End actress Rosalie Craig as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
On 4 September 2013, it was announced that producer Harvey Weinstein had hired Barry Weissler as executive producer. They planned on opening a revised version of the musical at the American Repertory Theater (ART), Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2014. The revised musical had a new creative team, with Diane Paulus as director, a new book by James Graham , and 22 songs by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy , [6] with a few songs from the original composers. A private reading was held in September 2013 with Brian d’Arcy James as Barrie and Jason Alexander as the "nagging theater producer". [7] On 27 February 2014, a further developmental workshop was announced for March with Matthew Morrison as Barrie. [8]
The revised production ran at the ART from 23 July 2014 to 28 September 2014, with songs by six-time Ivor Novello Award winner Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy , the book by James Graham and choreography by Mia Michaels; ART artistic director Diane Paulus is the director. [9] The full cast and creative team was announced on 2 June 2014, with Jeremy Jordan as Barrie and Laura Michelle Kelly as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies featured. The cast also includes Michael McGrath as Charles Frohman/Captain Hook, Carolee Carmello as Madame du Maurier, Jeanna de Waal as Mary Barrie, Aidan Gemme as Peter, Alex Dreier as Michael, Sawyer Nunes as George and Hayden Signoretti as Jack. [10] Roger Bart who was originally announced for the character of Charles Frohman was replaced by Michael McGrath. [11]
Jennifer Hudson debuted the song "Neverland", from the musical, at the 68th Tony Awards on 8 June 2014. [12]
The ART production directed by Diane Paulus moved to Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in March 2015. [13] On 10 November 2014, it was announced that Matthew Morrison would take Jordan's place in the portrayal of J. M. Barrie in the Broadway production. [14] Kelsey Grammer starred as Charles Frohman and Laura Michelle Kelly reprised the role of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. [15] Previews began 15 March 2015, with the official opening on 15 April. [16] [17] The production did not receive any Tony Award nominations. The Broadway production closed on 21 August 2016 after 565 performances. [18] [19] In 2017, as an offshoot of investigations into and reporting about Weinstein's many sexual abuse allegations , several news sources also reported that a significant amount of money that Weinstein ostensibly raised for the AIDS charity amfAR was instead allegedly funneled into the American Repertory Theater and the production budget for Finding Neverland . [20] [21] [22] [23]
In early 2016 it was announced that Finding Neverland would open in London in 2017, starring Alfie Boe as J.M. Barrie. The rest of the cast has not been announced. [24] On 15 May 2016, Gary Barlow performed the song "Something About This Night" from the musical for the Queen's 90th birthday celebration, hosted by Ant & Dec . Guest starring was Katherine Jenkins and Dame Shirley Bassey .
The US national tour began in Buffalo, New York on 7 October 2016, prior to the official opening on 11 October. The tour was directed by Diane Paulus and featured Kevin Kern as J.M. Barrie, Christine Dwyer as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Tom Hewitt as Frohman/Hook, Crystal Kellogg, Joanna Glushak, Jordan Cole, Finn Faulconer, Tyler Patrick Hennessy, Ben Krieger, Eli Tokash and Mitchell Wray. [25] [26]
- James Matthew Barrie: The creator of Peter Pan , a Scottish playwright who still has a child inside of him.
- Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: a widow with four children whose family inspires Barrie to write Peter Pan .
- Mary Barrie: James' unhappy wife.
- Mrs. du Maurier: Sylvia's strict mother who despises Barrie.
- Charles Frohman: Barrie's friend and the director/producer of the Acting Company that Barrie writes for.
- Captain James Hook: The classic villain from Peter Pan , comes to Barrie in a vision to convince him to add a villain to his show. Played by the same actor as Frohman.
- Peter Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons. Loves reading and develops a strong relationship with Barrie.
- Michael Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- Jack Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- George Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- Lord Canaan: A wealthy and pompous man who Frohman tries to get as a fellow producer for the play, ends up with Mary.
- Mr. Cromer: A grumpy yet lovable member of the acting troupe. Plays Michael in Peter Pan .
- Mr. Henshaw: A vain yet friendly member of the acting troupe. Plays Nana in Peter Pan .
- Elliott: Frohman's eager assistant.
- Miss Basset: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Nibs in Peter Pan .
- Miss Jones: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Tootles in Peter Pan .
- Mr. Turpin: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Captain Hook in Peter Pan .
- Peter Pan: The titular character of the play, takes Sylvia to Neverland towards the end of the show.
- Wendy (Acting Troupe): The eldest Darling child in the show within a show.
- Albert: Mary's butler.
- Emily: Mary's head maid.
- Porthos: Barrie's dog.
- The Acting Troupe, Servants, Londoners, Pirates, Indians, Lost Boys
Note: Below are the principal casts of all professional major productions. some roles are portrayed by the same actors.
|Role|| Original Leicester Cast |
2012
| Original A.R.T. Cast |
2014
| Original Broadway Cast |
2015
| U.S. National Tour Cast |
2016
|J. M. Barrie||Julian Ovenden||Jeremy Jordan||Matthew Morrison||Kevin Kern|
|Sylvia Llewelyn Davies||Rosalie Craig||Laura Michelle Kelly||Christine Dwyer|
| Charles Frohman |
Captain James Hook
|Oliver Boot||Michael McGrath||Kelsey Grammer||Tom Hewitt|
|Mary Barrie||Clare Foster||Jeanna de Waal||Teal Wicks||Crystal Kellogg|
|Mrs. du Maurier||Liz Robertson||Carolee Carmello||Joanna Glushak|
|Michael Llewelyn Davies|| Worrall Courtney |
Jon Joe Flynn
Morgan Heath
Jamieson Hughes
|Alex Dreier|| Alex Dreier |
Hayden Signoretti
Noah Hinsdale
| Jordan Cole |
Mitchell Wray
Tyler Patrick Hennessy
|Jack Llewelyn Davies|| Connor Fitzgerald |
Harrisson Slater
Garrett Tennant
|Hayden Signoretti|| Hayden Signoretti |
Christopher Paul Richards
Alex Dreier
| Mitchell Wray |
Eli Tokash
Tyler Patrick Hennessy
|George Llewelyn Davies|| Connor Phillips |
Josh Swinney
Corey Wickenden
|Sawyer Nunes|| Sawyer Nunes |
Jackson Demott Hill
Christopher Paul Richards
| Finn Faulconer |
Ben Krieger
Eli Tokash
|Peter Llewelyn Davies|| Theo Fewell |
Luke James
Harry Folden
|Aidan Gemme|| Aidan Gemme |
Jackson Demott Hill
Christopher Paul Richards
| Ben Krieger |
Mitchell Wray
Eli Tokash
- In the Leicester production, Lord Cannan was called Lord Griffin and Charles Blount was called Maximilian Blunt. Cut characters include PG Wodehouse (Norman Bowman), Mermaid (Ashley Hale), Scheherazade (Frankie Jenna), Mother (Julia Jupp), Arthur Conan Doyle (Martin Ledwith), Sally (Zoe Rainey), GK Chesterton (Gary Watson), Jerome K. Jerome (Stephen Webb), and David (James Scudamore). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Neverland_(musical) | 34 |
how long did finding neverland run on broadway | Finding Neverland Ends Broadway Run Today | A tour of the new musical is scheduled to launch in October.
By Andrew Gans, Adam Hetrick
August 21, 2016
Finding Neverland , the pop-infused Broadway musical that explores the life of J.M. Barrie and the origin of how he came to write Peter Pan, ends its Broadway run August 21 at 3 PM at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
In a statement announcing the show’s closing, producer Harvey Weinstein revealed that the musical is expected to return to Broadway following its U.S. tour and that plans are underway for a film adaptation. A London transfer of the musical will open in spring 2017, with a U.S. national tour launching October 11 in Buffalo, NY.
The musical opened on Broadway April 15, 2015. Upon closing, Finding Neverland will have played 33 previews and 565 performances.
“It has been a personal joy for me to work with Diane, Gary, Eliot, James and Mia and the creative and production team on Finding Neverland,” Weinstein said in a previous statement. “Night after night the audiences’ love for the show has been so inspiring. Neverland will be beginning its around the world tour starting in the U.S. in October, then London in Spring of 2017 and Asia in 2018. Nederlander have offered us a Broadway house to return after the U.S. tour and we have accepted, like other shows have done. And on top of that, I’m excited to announce that we will be producing Finding Neverland the musical as a film.”
Finding Neverland features direction by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus ( Pippin, Hair ) with a book by Olivier Award nominee James Graham , music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Grammy Award winner Eliot Kennedy , and choreography by Emmy Award winner Mia Michaels ( So You Think You Can Dance ).
The stage production is based on the Miramax motion picture of the same title by David Magee, and the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee,
“Our Broadway company is one of the best I have ever worked with -- enormously talented and full of heart,” the show’s director, Diane Paulus added in a statement. “I have been profoundly touched by everyone's dedication to our show. I cannot wait to begin work on our national tour and am very much looking forward to bringing Finding Neverland to London next year.”
Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer opened the production. The final cast includes Tony Yazbeck, Laura Michelle Kelly, Paul Slade Smith, Carolee Carmello and Dana Costello.
Visit FindingNeverlandTheMusical.com .
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how long did finding neverland run on broadway | Wikiwand | Finding Neverland is a musical with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham adapted from the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and its 2004 film version Finding Neverland . An early version of the musical made its world premiere at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2012 with a book by Allan Knee, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie . A reworked version with the current writing team made its world premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Following completion of its Cambridge run, the production transferred to Broadway in March 2015.
|Finding Neverland|
|Music|| Scott Frankel (Leicester production) |
Gary Barlow (Revised edition)
Eliot Kennedy (Revised edition)
|Lyrics|| Michael Korie (Leicester production) |
Gary Barlow (Revised edition)
Elliott Kennedy (Revised edition)
|Book|| Allan Knee (Leicester production) |
James Graham (Revised edition)
|Basis|| The Man Who Was Peter Pan |
by Allan Knee
and Finding Neverland
by David Magee
|Productions|| 2012 Leicester |
2014 Cambridge
2015 Broadway
2016 US Tour
After a 17-month Broadway run, Finding Neverland closed on 21 August 2016, and began a U.S. national tour the following month.
On 6 February 2011, La Jolla Playhouse , California, announced that they would produce a new stage musical based on the film with the book by Allan Knee , score by Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics), and directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford . A planned production at La Jolla Playhouse was not held. A developmental reading was held in New York on 31 March 2011, with Julian Ovenden , Kelli O'Hara , Tony Roberts , Mary Beth Peil , Michael Cumpsty , and Meredith Patterson , directed by Ashford. The adaptation had its world premiere on 22 September 2012 at Curve in Leicester . Directed by Rob Ashford, it starred Julian Ovenden as J.M Barrie and West End actress Rosalie Craig as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
On 4 September 2013, it was announced that producer Harvey Weinstein had hired Barry Weissler as executive producer. They planned on opening a revised version of the musical at the American Repertory Theater (ART), Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2014. The revised musical had a new creative team, with Diane Paulus as director, a new book by James Graham , and 22 songs by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy , with a few songs from the original composers. A private reading was held in September 2013 with Brian d’Arcy James as Barrie and Jason Alexander as the "nagging theater producer". On 27 February 2014, a further developmental workshop was announced for March with Matthew Morrison as Barrie.
The revised production ran at the ART from 23 July 2014 to 28 September 2014, with songs by six-time Ivor Novello Award winner Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy , the book by James Graham and choreography by Mia Michaels; ART artistic director Diane Paulus is the director. The full cast and creative team was announced on 2 June 2014, with Jeremy Jordan as Barrie and Laura Michelle Kelly as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies featured. The cast also includes Michael McGrath as Charles Frohman/Captain Hook, Carolee Carmello as Madame du Maurier, Jeanna de Waal as Mary Barrie, Aidan Gemme as Peter, Alex Dreier as Michael, Sawyer Nunes as George and Hayden Signoretti as Jack. Roger Bart who was originally announced for the character of Charles Frohman was replaced by Michael McGrath.
Jennifer Hudson debuted the song "Neverland", from the musical, at the 68th Tony Awards on 8 June 2014.
The ART production directed by Diane Paulus moved to Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in March 2015. On 10 November 2014, it was announced that Matthew Morrison would take Jordan's place in the portrayal of J. M. Barrie in the Broadway production. Kelsey Grammer starred as Charles Frohman and Laura Michelle Kelly reprised the role of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Previews began 15 March 2015, with the official opening on 15 April. The production did not receive any Tony Award nominations. The Broadway production closed on 21 August 2016 after 565 performances. In 2017, as an offshoot of investigations into and reporting about Weinstein's many sexual abuse allegations , several news sources also reported that a significant amount of money that Weinstein ostensibly raised for the AIDS charity amfAR was instead allegedly funneled into the American Repertory Theater and the production budget for Finding Neverland .
In early 2016 it was announced that Finding Neverland would open in London in 2017, starring Alfie Boe as J.M. Barrie. The rest of the cast has not been announced. On 15 May 2016, Gary Barlow performed the song "Something About This Night" from the musical for the Queen's 90th birthday celebration, hosted by Ant & Dec . Guest starring was Katherine Jenkins and Dame Shirley Bassey .
The US national tour began in Buffalo, New York on 7 October 2016, prior to the official opening on 11 October. The tour was directed by Diane Paulus and featured Kevin Kern as J.M. Barrie, Christine Dwyer as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Tom Hewitt as Frohman/Hook, Crystal Kellogg, Joanna Glushak, Jordan Cole, Finn Faulconer, Tyler Patrick Hennessy, Ben Krieger, Eli Tokash and Mitchell Wray.
- James Matthew Barrie: The creator of Peter Pan , a Scottish playwright who still has a child inside of him.
- Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: a widow with four children whose family inspires Barrie to write Peter Pan .
- Mary Barrie: James' unhappy wife.
- Mrs. du Maurier: Sylvia's strict mother who despises Barrie.
- Charles Frohman: Barrie's friend and the director/producer of the Acting Company that Barrie writes for.
- Captain James Hook: The classic villain from Peter Pan , comes to Barrie in a vision to convince him to add a villain to his show. Played by the same actor as Frohman.
- Peter Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons. Loves reading and develops a strong relationship with Barrie.
- Michael Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- Jack Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- George Llewelyn Davies: One of Sylvia's sons.
- Lord Canaan: A wealthy and pompous man who Frohman tries to get as a fellow producer for the play, ends up with Mary.
- Mr. Cromer: A grumpy yet lovable member of the acting troupe. Plays Michael in Peter Pan .
- Mr. Henshaw: A vain yet friendly member of the acting troupe. Plays Nana in Peter Pan .
- Elliott: Frohman's eager assistant.
- Miss Basset: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Nibs in Peter Pan .
- Miss Jones: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Tootles in Peter Pan .
- Mr. Turpin: A member of the acting troupe. Plays Captain Hook in Peter Pan .
- Peter Pan: The titular character of the play, takes Sylvia to Neverland towards the end of the show.
- Wendy (Acting Troupe): The eldest Darling child in the show within a show.
- Albert: Mary's butler.
- Emily: Mary's head maid.
- Porthos: Barrie's dog.
- The Acting Troupe, Servants, Londoners, Pirates, Indians, Lost Boys
Note: Below are the principal casts of all professional major productions. some roles are portrayed by the same actors.
|Role|| Original Leicester Cast |
2012
| Original A.R.T. Cast |
2014
| Original Broadway Cast |
2015
| U.S. National Tour Cast |
2016
|J. M. Barrie||Julian Ovenden||Jeremy Jordan||Matthew Morrison||Kevin Kern|
|Sylvia Llewelyn Davies||Rosalie Craig||Laura Michelle Kelly||Christine Dwyer|
| Charles Frohman |
Captain James Hook
|Oliver Boot||Michael McGrath||Kelsey Grammer||Tom Hewitt|
|Mary Barrie||Clare Foster||Jeanna de Waal||Teal Wicks||Crystal Kellogg|
|Mrs. du Maurier||Liz Robertson||Carolee Carmello||Joanna Glushak|
|Michael Llewelyn Davies|| Worrall Courtney |
Jon Joe Flynn
Morgan Heath
Jamieson Hughes
|Alex Dreier|| Alex Dreier |
Hayden Signoretti
Noah Hinsdale
| Jordan Cole |
Mitchell Wray
Tyler Patrick Hennessy
|Jack Llewelyn Davies|| Connor Fitzgerald |
Harrisson Slater
Garrett Tennant
|Hayden Signoretti|| Hayden Signoretti |
Christopher Paul Richards
Alex Dreier
| Mitchell Wray |
Eli Tokash
Tyler Patrick Hennessy
|George Llewelyn Davies|| Connor Phillips |
Josh Swinney
Corey Wickenden
|Sawyer Nunes|| Sawyer Nunes |
Jackson Demott Hill
Christopher Paul Richards
| Finn Faulconer |
Ben Krieger
Eli Tokash
|Peter Llewelyn Davies|| Theo Fewell |
Luke James
Harry Folden
|Aidan Gemme|| Aidan Gemme |
Jackson Demott Hill
Christopher Paul Richards
| Ben Krieger |
Mitchell Wray
Eli Tokash
- In the Leicester production, Lord Cannan was called Lord Griffin and Charles Blount was called Maximilian Blunt. Cut characters include PG Wodehouse (Norman Bowman), Mermaid (Ashley Hale), Scheherazade (Frankie Jenna), Mother (Julia Jupp), Arthur Conan Doyle (Martin Ledwith), Sally (Zoe Rainey), GK Chesterton (Gary Watson), Jerome K. Jerome (Stephen Webb), and David (James Scudamore).
- "Anywhere But Here" – J. M. Barrie
- "Better" – Charles Frohman, J. M. Barrie and the Acting Troupe
- "Rearranging the Furniture" – Mary Barrie
- "Believe" – J. M. Barrie, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Boys and Ensemble
- "All That Matters" – Sylvia and Mrs. du Maurier
- "We Own the Night (The Dinner Party)" – Mary, Mrs. du Maurier, Lord Cannan, Frohman, Sylvia, J. M. Barrie, Boys, Ensemble
- "Sylvia's Lullaby" – Sylvia
- "Neverland" – J. M. Barrie
- "Circus of Your Mind" – Frohman, Mary, Mrs. du Maurier and Ensemble
- "Hook" – Captain Hook, Barrie, Pirates
- "Stronger" – J. M. Barrie, Captain Hook, Pirates, and Ensemble
- "The World is Upside Down" – J. M. Barrie, Frohman and the Acting Troupe
- "Play" – Frohman, Sylvia and the Acting Troupe
- "What You Mean to Me" – J. M. Barrie and Sylvia
- "We're All Made of Stars" – the Llewelyn Davies Boys
- "When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground" – J. M. Barrie and Peter
- "Something About This Night" – Mr. Cromer, Miss Potter, Mr. Turpin, Elliot, Frohman, JM Barrie, Peter, Ensemble
- "Neverland" (Reprise) – J. M. Barrie, Sylvia, Mrs. du Maurier, Boys and the Acting Troupe
- "Finale (All That Matters)" – Mrs. du Maurier, J. M. Barrie, Boys, Company
- "If the World Turned Upside Down" – J. M. Barrie
- "All of London is Here Tonight" – Charles Frohman, J. M. Barrie, Mary and Company
- "The Pirates of Kensington" – George, Jack, Michael and Peter
- "Believe" – J. M. Barrie, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Boys and Ensemble
- "The Dinner Party" – Mary, Mrs. Du Maurier, Lord Cannan, Frohman, Barrie, Sylvia, Boys and Servants
- "We Own the Night" – Peter, Barrie, Sylvia, Boys, Ensemble
- "All That Matters" – Sylvia
- "The Pirates of Kensington" (Reprise) – George, Peter, Jack and Michael
- "Sylvia's Lullaby" – Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
- "Neverland" – J. M. Barrie and Sylvia
- "Circus of Your Mind" – Frohman, Mary, Mrs. du Maurier and Ensemble
- "Live by the Hook" – Captain Hook, Barrie and Pirates
- "Stronger" – J. M. Barrie, Captain Hook, Pirates and Ensemble
- "The World is Upside Down" – J. M. Barrie, Frohman and the Acting Troupe
- "What You Mean to Me" – J. M. Barrie and Sylvia
- "Play" – Frohman, Sylvia, Cromer, Henshaw, Miss Bassett, Turpin, Miss Jones, Elliott, Barrie, and the Acting Troupe
- "We're All Made of Stars" – the Llewelyn Davies Boys
- "When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground" – J. M. Barrie and Peter
- "Something About This Night" – Frohman, Elliott, the Acting Troupe, J. M. Barrie and Peter
- "Neverland" (Reprise) – J. M. Barrie, Sylvia, Mrs. du Maurier, Boys and the Acting Troupe
- "Finale (When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground)" – Mrs. du Maurier, J. M. Barrie and Ensemble | https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Finding_Neverland_(musical) | 34 |
how long did finding neverland run on broadway | Finding Neverland Ends Broadway Run Today | A tour of the new musical is scheduled to launch in October.
By Andrew Gans, Adam Hetrick
August 21, 2016
Finding Neverland , the pop-infused Broadway musical that explores the life of J.M. Barrie and the origin of how he came to write Peter Pan, ends its Broadway run August 21 at 3 PM at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
In a statement announcing the show’s closing, producer Harvey Weinstein revealed that the musical is expected to return to Broadway following its U.S. tour and that plans are underway for a film adaptation. A London transfer of the musical will open in spring 2017, with a U.S. national tour launching October 11 in Buffalo, NY.
The musical opened on Broadway April 15, 2015. Upon closing, Finding Neverland will have played 33 previews and 565 performances.
“It has been a personal joy for me to work with Diane, Gary, Eliot, James and Mia and the creative and production team on Finding Neverland,” Weinstein said in a previous statement. “Night after night the audiences’ love for the show has been so inspiring. Neverland will be beginning its around the world tour starting in the U.S. in October, then London in Spring of 2017 and Asia in 2018. Nederlander have offered us a Broadway house to return after the U.S. tour and we have accepted, like other shows have done. And on top of that, I’m excited to announce that we will be producing Finding Neverland the musical as a film.”
Finding Neverland features direction by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus ( Pippin, Hair ) with a book by Olivier Award nominee James Graham , music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Grammy Award winner Eliot Kennedy , and choreography by Emmy Award winner Mia Michaels ( So You Think You Can Dance ).
The stage production is based on the Miramax motion picture of the same title by David Magee, and the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee,
“Our Broadway company is one of the best I have ever worked with -- enormously talented and full of heart,” the show’s director, Diane Paulus added in a statement. “I have been profoundly touched by everyone's dedication to our show. I cannot wait to begin work on our national tour and am very much looking forward to bringing Finding Neverland to London next year.”
Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer opened the production. The final cast includes Tony Yazbeck, Laura Michelle Kelly, Paul Slade Smith, Carolee Carmello and Dana Costello.
Visit FindingNeverlandTheMusical.com .
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who was the last surviving veteran of the civil war | Minnesotan Albert Henry Woolson was the last surviving Civil War veteran | MinnPost | When Woolson enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old.
Albert Henry Woolson had outlived over two million Civil War Union Army comrades when he died in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at the age of 106. At his death, he was recognized as the last surviving Union Army veteran. Civil War historians, however, now recognize him as the last survivor of both the Union and Confederate armies.
Albert Woolson was born in Jefferson County, New York, on February 11, 1850. His parents were Caroline Baldwin Woolson and Willard Paul Woolson — a chair maker, painter, and musician. An 1850 census lists his age as six months old, and an 1855 census lists his age as five; thus his often-reported birth year (1847) and age of death (109) are incorrect. His age on official records varied throughout the years.
In 1861, Willard Woolson migrated to southern Minnesota without his family. On November 9 of that year, he enlisted in Company I, Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; later, he was a member of a regimental brass band. A common fallacy is that his leg was wounded at the battle of Shiloh and he recuperated in a Windom hospital. His company was not at Shiloh, nor did Windom exist then. His leg was damaged in the Gladiator steamboat accident on the Tennessee River on May 13, 1862.
Willard received a disability discharge on July 19, 1862. His family moved to Minnesota to join him, and by June of 1865 was living in Blue Earth County. Shortly after, he died in Elysian following a leg amputation.
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When Albert enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old. He may have lied about his age or received parental permission to enlist, since the minimum enlistment age was eighteen. He served in Company C, First Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment. Since he was young, he became a drummer boy and bugler. As a private, he earned sixteen dollars per month.
On October 30, 1864, the members of Company C began their journey to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where their first assignment was to build winter quarters. They served garrison duty there until the fall of 1865 and did not see combat. Woolson was discharged on September 27, 1865, and returned to Minnesota.
In 1868, Albert played the cornet and guitar in a traveling group of minstrels—white performers who blackened their faces to imitate African Americans in a mocking and degrading way. His group included a band, a Highland Scottish dancer, and an acrobat. In that same year he married Sarah Sloper, who died in 1901. In 1904, he married Anna Haugen, who died in 1949. The June 1905 Minnesota census listed his age as fifty-six (he was in fact fifty-three); Anna was twenty-three. Eight children from the two marriages survived to adulthood.
Woolson held several different jobs as he and his family moved around southern Minnesota. When in Windom, he served on the state board of boiler inspectors and was the city water works and electric power plant superintendent. He taught mechanical engineering and music at the Breck School in nearby Wilder. In 1905, he and his family moved to Duluth, where he worked as an electrician, mechanic, and stationary engineer.
In March 1911, Woolson filed suit against Governor A. O. Eberhart when he was not appointed boiler inspector for the three-county area. In addition to his thirty-five years of boiler experience, he claimed that state law gave him preference as a war veteran. The judge ruled the law was unconstitutional in its preference for veterans because it limited the appointment power of the governor.
Woolson was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and proudly wore its blue uniform. He was involved in veteran activities statewide, and was in many parades. As Civil War veterans aged and died, he became a nationally known figure and received much recognition. He was the model for the GAR memorial monument “Last Survivor,” located in the Gettysburg National Military Park, and received 8,000 cards and letters on his 104th birthday (celebrated as his 107th).
When he died in 1956, Woolson was buried with full military honors. Over 1,500 people attended the funeral in the Duluth Armory, including Senators Hubert Humphrey and Edward Thye and Governor Orville Freeman. Ulysses S. Grant III, a grandson of the Civil War US Army general, was honorary pallbearer. Burial was in Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth.
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who was the last surviving veteran of the civil war | Albert Woolson - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Henry Woolson
|Birth name||Henry Albert Woolson|
|Born|| February 11, 1850 |
Antwerp , New York, U.S.
|Died|| August 2, 1956 (aged 106) |
Duluth, Minnesota , U.S.
|Buried|
Park Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minnesota
|Allegiance||United States|
| Service/ ||Union Army|
|Years of service||1864–65|
|Rank||Drummer boy|
|Unit||1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment|
|Battles/wars||American Civil War|
|Memorials||Monument at Gettysburg|
|Other work||Carpenter and member of the Grand Army of the Republic|
Albert Henry Woolson (February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956) was the last known surviving [1] member of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War ; he was also the last surviving Civil War veteran on either side whose status is undisputed. At least three men who outlived Woolson claimed to be Confederate veterans, but one has been debunked and the other two are unverified. The last surviving Union soldier to see combat was James Hard (1843–1953). [2]
Woolson was born in Antwerp , New York , to Willard P. Woolson (1811–1862) and Caroline Baldwin (ca. 1822–unknown). [3] He claimed to be born on February 11, 1847, but his entry in the 1850 United States Census lists him as born in 1850. [4] Entries in the later census records and in the 1905 Minnesota State Census support the conclusion that he was born in 1850. [5]
His father, Willard Woolson, enlisted in the Union Army . Willard was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and was transported to an Army hospital in Windom , Minnesota , where he would die of his wounds. Albert and his mother moved to Windom to accompany Willard. Albert enlisted as a drummer boy in Company C, 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment on October 10, 1864, becoming the company's drummer. However, the company never saw action, and Albert Woolson was discharged on September 7, 1865.
Woolson returned to Minnesota, where he lived the rest of his life. He was a carpenter and later a member of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), a powerful political organization made up of Civil War veterans where he became senior vice commander in chief in 1953.
In his final days, he lived at 215 East Fifth Street in Duluth, Minnesota . Woolson died at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at what was then thought to be the age of 109 , of a "recurring lung congestion condition". He was twice widowed and was survived by six daughters and two sons. Woolson was buried with full military honors by the National Guard at Park Hill Cemetery . [6]
Following his death, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said:
The American people have lost the last personal link with the Union Army ... His passing brings sorrow to the hearts of all of us who cherished the memory of the brave men on both sides of the War Between the States. [7]
Woolson and fellow drummer boy Frank Mayer marched together, both aged 99, in the Memorial Day Parade in May 1949, to lay a wreath at the tomb of General Grant in New York City.
Life magazine ran a seven-page article upon the death of Albert Woolson, in the August 20, 1956, issue. [8] The article included much information about the G.A.R., with pictures or drawings of several encampments (conventions). Also included were photos of the last three living Confederate soldiers (status and age disputed): William Lundy , 108; Walter Williams , 113; and John Salling , 110.
In mid-2006, new census research indicated that Albert Woolson was actually 106 years old, being listed as less than one year old in the 1850 census. Previous research in 1991 had suggested he was only a year younger than claimed (108 instead of 109), although this does not affect his veteran status.
After his death, the Grand Army of the Republic was dissolved because Woolson was its last surviving member.
Some of Albert’s artifacts are on display at the Veterans Memorial Hall gallery, a program of St. Louis County Historical Society , in the St. Louis County Depot in downtown Duluth, Minnesota.
The 2011–12 Minnesota Legislative Manual was dedicated to him. [9]
In 1956 a monument of Woolson was erected in Gettysburg as a memorial to the Grand Army of the Republic. [10] A twin statue is on display outside the St. Louis County Depot in downtown Duluth, Minnesota.
Woolson as "Henry Albert Woolson" in the 1850 census as a newborn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson | 35 |
who was the last surviving veteran of the civil war | The Last Civil War Veterans Who Lived to Be Over 100… Or Did They? | As America prepared to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Civil War, two centenarians told their tales — only one was telling the truth
Richard A. Serrano
Albert Woolson loved the parades. For Memorial Day in Duluth, Minnesota, he rode in the biggest car down the widest streets of his hometown. The city etched his name in the Duluth Honor Roll, and he was celebrated at conventions and banquets across the North. Even the president wrote him letters on his birthday. Because everyone said he was the last surviving member of the Grand Army of
the Republic, a fraternal organization of Union veterans once nearly half a million strong, they erected a life-size statue of him on the most hallowed ground of that entire horrible conflict—Gettysburg.
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Though deaf and often ill, he was still spry enough that, even at 109 years of age, he could be polite and mannerly, always a gentleman. He was especially fond of children and enjoyed visiting schools and exciting the boys with stories of cannon and steel and unbelievable courage on the fields around Chattanooga. The boys called him “Grandpa Al.”
But Woolson could be fussy. His breakfast eggs had to be scrambled and his bacon crisp. He continued to smoke; he had probably lit up more than a thousand cigars just since he had hit the century mark. And no one kept him from his half-ounce of brandy before dinner.
His grandfather had served in the War of 1812, and when guns were fired on Fort Sumter in 1861, his father went off to fight for Lincoln. He lost a leg and died. So, as the story goes, young Albert, blue-eyed and blonde-haired, a mere five and a half feet tall, took his father’s place. With just a year left in the war, he enlisted as a drummer boy with the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, rolling his snare as they marched south to Tennessee.
But that had been long ago, more than 90 years past. Now Albert Woolson’s days were fading, the muffled drum of his youth a softening memory. At St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, his health deteriorating, he would sometimes feel his old self, quoting Civil War verse or the Gettysburg Address. But then on a Saturday in late July, 1956, he slipped into a coma. Just before he drifted off, he asked a nurse’s aide for a dish of lemon sherbet. She gave him some soft candy too. As she shut the door she glanced back at her patient. “I thought he was looking very old,” she recalled. For a week he lay quietly in his hospital bed, awaiting death.
Down in Houston, old Walter Washington Williams had sent Woolson a telegram congratulating him on turning 109. “Happy birthday greetings from Colonel Walter Williams,” the wire said.
Williams was blind, nearly deaf, rail-thin, and confined to a bed in his daughter’s house. He had served as a Confederate forage master for Hood’s Brigade, they said, and now he was bound and determined to be the last on either side still alive when America’s great Civil War Centennial commemoration began in 1961. “I’m going to wait around until the others are gone,” he said, “to see what happens.”
Williams had ridden in a parade too. He was named in presidential proclamations and tributes in the press. Life magazine devoted a three-page spread to the old Rebel, including a photograph of Williams propped up on his pillows, a large Stars and Bars flag hanging on the wall. An American Legion band serenaded at his window, and he tapped his long, spindly fingers in time with “Old Soldiers Never Die.” But Williams was a Southern boy deep in his bones. He would have preferred “Cotton-Eyed Joe” on the radio:
O Lawd, O Lawd,
Come pity my case.
For I’m gettin’ old
An’ wrinkled in de face.
Like Woolson, Williams could be cantankerous. On his last birthday, when he said he was 117, they served him his favorite barbecued pork, though his daughter and a nurse had to feed him. His bed was piled high with cards and telegrams, but he could not read them. He could hardly pick them up. “I’m tired of staying here,” he complained in his son’s ear. The son smiled and told visitors how they had hunted deer together when his father was 101. “He rode a horse until he was 103,” the son said.
Williams’ last public outing was in an Armed Forces Day parade in Houston in May 1959, when he rode in an air-conditioned ambulance. As he passed the reviewing stand, he struggled to raise his arm in salute. Then they took him home and put him back to bed.
Four times he suffered bouts of pneumonia; twice they hung an oxygen tent over his bed. His doctor was doubtful, and his daughter feared the worst. “There’s too many years; too many miles,” she said.
And so the clock ticked down, not just on Albert Woolson and Walter Williams, but for a whole generation, an entire era, the closing of a searing chapter in American history: four years of brutal civil war. Like the old soldiers, memories of the North and South and how they had splintered and then remade America were slowly dying out too. Starting in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, Civil War soldiers began passing away in rapid numbers, nearly three a day. The glorious reunions of proud veterans at Gettysburg and the cities of the South were coming to an end; there were too few healthy enough to attend. The Grand Army of the Republic closed its last local chapter. The Rebel yell fell silent . The campfires went dark. Echoing down the years were Gen. Robert E. Lee’s last words: “Strike the tent.”
By the start of the 1950s, about 65 of the blue and gray veterans were left; by 1955, just a half dozen. As their numbers dwindled they became artifacts of a shuttered era, curiosities of an ancient time, sepia-toned figures still inhabiting a modern world from their rocking chairs and oxygen tents. They had gone to war with rifles and sabers and in horse-mounted patrols. They had lived off hardtack and beans. Now they seemed lost in a new American century that had endured two devastating world wars fought with armored tank divisions, deadly mustard gas, and atomic bombs that fell from the sky.
Bruce Catton, long a chronicler of the Civil War, could recall his boyhood in the “pre-automobile age” of rural Michigan and how a group of old Union veterans in white whiskers and blue greatcoats had delighted his young eyes. He remembered one selling summer berries from a pail he hooked over the stub of his forearm, an arm he had lost in the Battle of the Wilderness. A church deacon had fought with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, burning barns and killing livestock. Another had returned to Gettysburg for the 50th anniversary there, and when he arrived back by train and his buggy was late, the 70-year-old simply hoisted his bag and walked the five miles home. “They were grave, dignified, and thoughtful,” Catton would write of his hometown heroes. “For the most part they had never been 50 miles away from the farm or the dusty village streets; yet once, ages ago, they had been everywhere and had seen everything. . . . All that was real had taken place when they were young; everything after that had simply been a process of waiting for death.” Eventually, one by one the old men were carried up a small hilltop to the town cemetery. “As they departed,” Catton wrote, “we began to lose more than we knew we were losing.”
By the close of the 1950s, as the nation was preparing for the 100th anniversary of the Civil War, much of the pubic watched transfixed, marking the passing of each of the final veterans, wondering who might be the last, wondering if any would make it to the centennial, curious how anyone could live so long. Could anyone be so old?
That question seemed never more poignant than when a Confederate veteran from Georgia disrupted a Civil War museum and jabbed his cane in sudden bayonet thrusts, threatening the portraits of Yankee soldiers hanging on the wall. “Let me at him!” he yelled at a painting of Union hero Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, the scourge of Atlanta. Sadly, the old Rebel appeared a pitiful figure, a misfit, more a caricature of himself than a gallant hero from an epic time.
Because it turns out that many of the men were not so old after all.
Many who claimed to be well over 100 and survivors of that great war were really imposters, some flat-out frauds. In truth they had been mere children and too young to march off to war in the early 1860s. Or they had not even been born. Yet as they grew old, they fabricated stories about past heroic adventures and brazenly applied for Civil War pensions during the long, lean years of the Great Depression. Some backdated their birth dates. Some made up the names of comrades and commanding officers. Some lied to their friends and neighbors and to newspapers and government officials. Over the years, some accepted so many accolades as Civil War veterans that they never could muster the courage or the humility to own up to the truth, even as they lay near death. Many ended up believing their own fabrications. Driven by money, ego, or a craving to belong to something grand and glorious, these men defrauded a nation. They especially dishonored those who had served, those who had been wounded, and above all those who had died. Many of them fooled their own families. One fooled the White House.
The last veteran who said he fought for the Union was Albert Woolson; Walter Williams said he was the last Confederate. One of them indeed was a soldier, but one, according to the best evidence, was a fake. One of them had been living a great big lie.
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who was the last surviving veteran of the civil war | Minnesotan Albert Henry Woolson was the last surviving Civil War veteran | MinnPost | When Woolson enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old.
Albert Henry Woolson had outlived over two million Civil War Union Army comrades when he died in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at the age of 106. At his death, he was recognized as the last surviving Union Army veteran. Civil War historians, however, now recognize him as the last survivor of both the Union and Confederate armies.
Albert Woolson was born in Jefferson County, New York, on February 11, 1850. His parents were Caroline Baldwin Woolson and Willard Paul Woolson — a chair maker, painter, and musician. An 1850 census lists his age as six months old, and an 1855 census lists his age as five; thus his often-reported birth year (1847) and age of death (109) are incorrect. His age on official records varied throughout the years.
In 1861, Willard Woolson migrated to southern Minnesota without his family. On November 9 of that year, he enlisted in Company I, Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; later, he was a member of a regimental brass band. A common fallacy is that his leg was wounded at the battle of Shiloh and he recuperated in a Windom hospital. His company was not at Shiloh, nor did Windom exist then. His leg was damaged in the Gladiator steamboat accident on the Tennessee River on May 13, 1862.
Willard received a disability discharge on July 19, 1862. His family moved to Minnesota to join him, and by June of 1865 was living in Blue Earth County. Shortly after, he died in Elysian following a leg amputation.
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When Albert enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old. He may have lied about his age or received parental permission to enlist, since the minimum enlistment age was eighteen. He served in Company C, First Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment. Since he was young, he became a drummer boy and bugler. As a private, he earned sixteen dollars per month.
On October 30, 1864, the members of Company C began their journey to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where their first assignment was to build winter quarters. They served garrison duty there until the fall of 1865 and did not see combat. Woolson was discharged on September 27, 1865, and returned to Minnesota.
In 1868, Albert played the cornet and guitar in a traveling group of minstrels—white performers who blackened their faces to imitate African Americans in a mocking and degrading way. His group included a band, a Highland Scottish dancer, and an acrobat. In that same year he married Sarah Sloper, who died in 1901. In 1904, he married Anna Haugen, who died in 1949. The June 1905 Minnesota census listed his age as fifty-six (he was in fact fifty-three); Anna was twenty-three. Eight children from the two marriages survived to adulthood.
Woolson held several different jobs as he and his family moved around southern Minnesota. When in Windom, he served on the state board of boiler inspectors and was the city water works and electric power plant superintendent. He taught mechanical engineering and music at the Breck School in nearby Wilder. In 1905, he and his family moved to Duluth, where he worked as an electrician, mechanic, and stationary engineer.
In March 1911, Woolson filed suit against Governor A. O. Eberhart when he was not appointed boiler inspector for the three-county area. In addition to his thirty-five years of boiler experience, he claimed that state law gave him preference as a war veteran. The judge ruled the law was unconstitutional in its preference for veterans because it limited the appointment power of the governor.
Woolson was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and proudly wore its blue uniform. He was involved in veteran activities statewide, and was in many parades. As Civil War veterans aged and died, he became a nationally known figure and received much recognition. He was the model for the GAR memorial monument “Last Survivor,” located in the Gettysburg National Military Park, and received 8,000 cards and letters on his 104th birthday (celebrated as his 107th).
When he died in 1956, Woolson was buried with full military honors. Over 1,500 people attended the funeral in the Duluth Armory, including Senators Hubert Humphrey and Edward Thye and Governor Orville Freeman. Ulysses S. Grant III, a grandson of the Civil War US Army general, was honorary pallbearer. Burial was in Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth.
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who was the last surviving veteran of the civil war | Minnesotan Albert Henry Woolson was the last surviving Civil War veteran | MinnPost | When Woolson enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old.
Albert Henry Woolson had outlived over two million Civil War Union Army comrades when he died in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at the age of 106. At his death, he was recognized as the last surviving Union Army veteran. Civil War historians, however, now recognize him as the last survivor of both the Union and Confederate armies.
Albert Woolson was born in Jefferson County, New York, on February 11, 1850. His parents were Caroline Baldwin Woolson and Willard Paul Woolson — a chair maker, painter, and musician. An 1850 census lists his age as six months old, and an 1855 census lists his age as five; thus his often-reported birth year (1847) and age of death (109) are incorrect. His age on official records varied throughout the years.
In 1861, Willard Woolson migrated to southern Minnesota without his family. On November 9 of that year, he enlisted in Company I, Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; later, he was a member of a regimental brass band. A common fallacy is that his leg was wounded at the battle of Shiloh and he recuperated in a Windom hospital. His company was not at Shiloh, nor did Windom exist then. His leg was damaged in the Gladiator steamboat accident on the Tennessee River on May 13, 1862.
Willard received a disability discharge on July 19, 1862. His family moved to Minnesota to join him, and by June of 1865 was living in Blue Earth County. Shortly after, he died in Elysian following a leg amputation.
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When Albert enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old. He may have lied about his age or received parental permission to enlist, since the minimum enlistment age was eighteen. He served in Company C, First Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment. Since he was young, he became a drummer boy and bugler. As a private, he earned sixteen dollars per month.
On October 30, 1864, the members of Company C began their journey to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where their first assignment was to build winter quarters. They served garrison duty there until the fall of 1865 and did not see combat. Woolson was discharged on September 27, 1865, and returned to Minnesota.
In 1868, Albert played the cornet and guitar in a traveling group of minstrels—white performers who blackened their faces to imitate African Americans in a mocking and degrading way. His group included a band, a Highland Scottish dancer, and an acrobat. In that same year he married Sarah Sloper, who died in 1901. In 1904, he married Anna Haugen, who died in 1949. The June 1905 Minnesota census listed his age as fifty-six (he was in fact fifty-three); Anna was twenty-three. Eight children from the two marriages survived to adulthood.
Woolson held several different jobs as he and his family moved around southern Minnesota. When in Windom, he served on the state board of boiler inspectors and was the city water works and electric power plant superintendent. He taught mechanical engineering and music at the Breck School in nearby Wilder. In 1905, he and his family moved to Duluth, where he worked as an electrician, mechanic, and stationary engineer.
In March 1911, Woolson filed suit against Governor A. O. Eberhart when he was not appointed boiler inspector for the three-county area. In addition to his thirty-five years of boiler experience, he claimed that state law gave him preference as a war veteran. The judge ruled the law was unconstitutional in its preference for veterans because it limited the appointment power of the governor.
Woolson was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and proudly wore its blue uniform. He was involved in veteran activities statewide, and was in many parades. As Civil War veterans aged and died, he became a nationally known figure and received much recognition. He was the model for the GAR memorial monument “Last Survivor,” located in the Gettysburg National Military Park, and received 8,000 cards and letters on his 104th birthday (celebrated as his 107th).
When he died in 1956, Woolson was buried with full military honors. Over 1,500 people attended the funeral in the Duluth Armory, including Senators Hubert Humphrey and Edward Thye and Governor Orville Freeman. Ulysses S. Grant III, a grandson of the Civil War US Army general, was honorary pallbearer. Burial was in Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth.
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who was the last surviving veteran of the civil war | Minnesotan Albert Henry Woolson was the last surviving Civil War veteran | MinnPost | When Woolson enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old.
Albert Henry Woolson had outlived over two million Civil War Union Army comrades when he died in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at the age of 106. At his death, he was recognized as the last surviving Union Army veteran. Civil War historians, however, now recognize him as the last survivor of both the Union and Confederate armies.
Albert Woolson was born in Jefferson County, New York, on February 11, 1850. His parents were Caroline Baldwin Woolson and Willard Paul Woolson — a chair maker, painter, and musician. An 1850 census lists his age as six months old, and an 1855 census lists his age as five; thus his often-reported birth year (1847) and age of death (109) are incorrect. His age on official records varied throughout the years.
In 1861, Willard Woolson migrated to southern Minnesota without his family. On November 9 of that year, he enlisted in Company I, Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; later, he was a member of a regimental brass band. A common fallacy is that his leg was wounded at the battle of Shiloh and he recuperated in a Windom hospital. His company was not at Shiloh, nor did Windom exist then. His leg was damaged in the Gladiator steamboat accident on the Tennessee River on May 13, 1862.
Willard received a disability discharge on July 19, 1862. His family moved to Minnesota to join him, and by June of 1865 was living in Blue Earth County. Shortly after, he died in Elysian following a leg amputation.
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When Albert enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old. He may have lied about his age or received parental permission to enlist, since the minimum enlistment age was eighteen. He served in Company C, First Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment. Since he was young, he became a drummer boy and bugler. As a private, he earned sixteen dollars per month.
On October 30, 1864, the members of Company C began their journey to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where their first assignment was to build winter quarters. They served garrison duty there until the fall of 1865 and did not see combat. Woolson was discharged on September 27, 1865, and returned to Minnesota.
In 1868, Albert played the cornet and guitar in a traveling group of minstrels—white performers who blackened their faces to imitate African Americans in a mocking and degrading way. His group included a band, a Highland Scottish dancer, and an acrobat. In that same year he married Sarah Sloper, who died in 1901. In 1904, he married Anna Haugen, who died in 1949. The June 1905 Minnesota census listed his age as fifty-six (he was in fact fifty-three); Anna was twenty-three. Eight children from the two marriages survived to adulthood.
Woolson held several different jobs as he and his family moved around southern Minnesota. When in Windom, he served on the state board of boiler inspectors and was the city water works and electric power plant superintendent. He taught mechanical engineering and music at the Breck School in nearby Wilder. In 1905, he and his family moved to Duluth, where he worked as an electrician, mechanic, and stationary engineer.
In March 1911, Woolson filed suit against Governor A. O. Eberhart when he was not appointed boiler inspector for the three-county area. In addition to his thirty-five years of boiler experience, he claimed that state law gave him preference as a war veteran. The judge ruled the law was unconstitutional in its preference for veterans because it limited the appointment power of the governor.
Woolson was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and proudly wore its blue uniform. He was involved in veteran activities statewide, and was in many parades. As Civil War veterans aged and died, he became a nationally known figure and received much recognition. He was the model for the GAR memorial monument “Last Survivor,” located in the Gettysburg National Military Park, and received 8,000 cards and letters on his 104th birthday (celebrated as his 107th).
When he died in 1956, Woolson was buried with full military honors. Over 1,500 people attended the funeral in the Duluth Armory, including Senators Hubert Humphrey and Edward Thye and Governor Orville Freeman. Ulysses S. Grant III, a grandson of the Civil War US Army general, was honorary pallbearer. Burial was in Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth.
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Albert Henry Woolson
|Birth name||Henry Albert Woolson|
|Born|| February 11, 1850 |
Antwerp , New York, U.S.
|Died|| August 2, 1956 (aged 106) |
Duluth, Minnesota , U.S.
|Buried|
Park Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minnesota
|Allegiance||United States|
| Service/ ||Union Army|
|Years of service||1864–65|
|Rank||Drummer boy|
|Unit||1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment|
|Battles/wars||American Civil War|
|Memorials||Monument at Gettysburg|
|Other work||Carpenter and member of the Grand Army of the Republic|
Albert Henry Woolson (February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956) was the last known surviving [1] member of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War ; he was also the last surviving Civil War veteran on either side whose status is undisputed. At least three men who outlived Woolson claimed to be Confederate veterans, but one has been debunked and the other two are unverified. The last surviving Union soldier to see combat was James Hard (1843–1953). [2]
Woolson was born in Antwerp , New York , to Willard P. Woolson (1811–1862) and Caroline Baldwin (ca. 1822–unknown). [3] He claimed to be born on February 11, 1847, but his entry in the 1850 United States Census lists him as born in 1850. [4] Entries in the later census records and in the 1905 Minnesota State Census support the conclusion that he was born in 1850. [5]
His father, Willard Woolson, enlisted in the Union Army . Willard was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and was transported to an Army hospital in Windom , Minnesota , where he would die of his wounds. Albert and his mother moved to Windom to accompany Willard. Albert enlisted as a drummer boy in Company C, 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment on October 10, 1864, becoming the company's drummer. However, the company never saw action, and Albert Woolson was discharged on September 7, 1865.
Woolson returned to Minnesota, where he lived the rest of his life. He was a carpenter and later a member of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), a powerful political organization made up of Civil War veterans where he became senior vice commander in chief in 1953.
In his final days, he lived at 215 East Fifth Street in Duluth, Minnesota . Woolson died at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at what was then thought to be the age of 109 , of a "recurring lung congestion condition". He was twice widowed and was survived by six daughters and two sons. Woolson was buried with full military honors by the National Guard at Park Hill Cemetery . [6]
Following his death, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said:
The American people have lost the last personal link with the Union Army ... His passing brings sorrow to the hearts of all of us who cherished the memory of the brave men on both sides of the War Between the States. [7]
Woolson and fellow drummer boy Frank Mayer marched together, both aged 99, in the Memorial Day Parade in May 1949, to lay a wreath at the tomb of General Grant in New York City.
Life magazine ran a seven-page article upon the death of Albert Woolson, in the August 20, 1956, issue. [8] The article included much information about the G.A.R., with pictures or drawings of several encampments (conventions). Also included were photos of the last three living Confederate soldiers (status and age disputed): William Lundy , 108; Walter Williams , 113; and John Salling , 110.
In mid-2006, new census research indicated that Albert Woolson was actually 106 years old, being listed as less than one year old in the 1850 census. Previous research in 1991 had suggested he was only a year younger than claimed (108 instead of 109), although this does not affect his veteran status.
After his death, the Grand Army of the Republic was dissolved because Woolson was its last surviving member.
Some of Albert’s artifacts are on display at the Veterans Memorial Hall gallery, a program of St. Louis County Historical Society , in the St. Louis County Depot in downtown Duluth, Minnesota.
The 2011–12 Minnesota Legislative Manual was dedicated to him. [9]
In 1956 a monument of Woolson was erected in Gettysburg as a memorial to the Grand Army of the Republic. [10] A twin statue is on display outside the St. Louis County Depot in downtown Duluth, Minnesota.
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who was the last surviving veteran of the civil war | Minnesotan Albert Henry Woolson was the last surviving Civil War veteran | MinnPost | When Woolson enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old.
Albert Henry Woolson had outlived over two million Civil War Union Army comrades when he died in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at the age of 106. At his death, he was recognized as the last surviving Union Army veteran. Civil War historians, however, now recognize him as the last survivor of both the Union and Confederate armies.
Albert Woolson was born in Jefferson County, New York, on February 11, 1850. His parents were Caroline Baldwin Woolson and Willard Paul Woolson — a chair maker, painter, and musician. An 1850 census lists his age as six months old, and an 1855 census lists his age as five; thus his often-reported birth year (1847) and age of death (109) are incorrect. His age on official records varied throughout the years.
In 1861, Willard Woolson migrated to southern Minnesota without his family. On November 9 of that year, he enlisted in Company I, Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; later, he was a member of a regimental brass band. A common fallacy is that his leg was wounded at the battle of Shiloh and he recuperated in a Windom hospital. His company was not at Shiloh, nor did Windom exist then. His leg was damaged in the Gladiator steamboat accident on the Tennessee River on May 13, 1862.
Willard received a disability discharge on July 19, 1862. His family moved to Minnesota to join him, and by June of 1865 was living in Blue Earth County. Shortly after, he died in Elysian following a leg amputation.
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When Albert enlisted in the Union Army as a private at Okaman on October 10, 1864, he was fourteen years old. He may have lied about his age or received parental permission to enlist, since the minimum enlistment age was eighteen. He served in Company C, First Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment. Since he was young, he became a drummer boy and bugler. As a private, he earned sixteen dollars per month.
On October 30, 1864, the members of Company C began their journey to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where their first assignment was to build winter quarters. They served garrison duty there until the fall of 1865 and did not see combat. Woolson was discharged on September 27, 1865, and returned to Minnesota.
In 1868, Albert played the cornet and guitar in a traveling group of minstrels—white performers who blackened their faces to imitate African Americans in a mocking and degrading way. His group included a band, a Highland Scottish dancer, and an acrobat. In that same year he married Sarah Sloper, who died in 1901. In 1904, he married Anna Haugen, who died in 1949. The June 1905 Minnesota census listed his age as fifty-six (he was in fact fifty-three); Anna was twenty-three. Eight children from the two marriages survived to adulthood.
Woolson held several different jobs as he and his family moved around southern Minnesota. When in Windom, he served on the state board of boiler inspectors and was the city water works and electric power plant superintendent. He taught mechanical engineering and music at the Breck School in nearby Wilder. In 1905, he and his family moved to Duluth, where he worked as an electrician, mechanic, and stationary engineer.
In March 1911, Woolson filed suit against Governor A. O. Eberhart when he was not appointed boiler inspector for the three-county area. In addition to his thirty-five years of boiler experience, he claimed that state law gave him preference as a war veteran. The judge ruled the law was unconstitutional in its preference for veterans because it limited the appointment power of the governor.
Woolson was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and proudly wore its blue uniform. He was involved in veteran activities statewide, and was in many parades. As Civil War veterans aged and died, he became a nationally known figure and received much recognition. He was the model for the GAR memorial monument “Last Survivor,” located in the Gettysburg National Military Park, and received 8,000 cards and letters on his 104th birthday (celebrated as his 107th).
When he died in 1956, Woolson was buried with full military honors. Over 1,500 people attended the funeral in the Duluth Armory, including Senators Hubert Humphrey and Edward Thye and Governor Orville Freeman. Ulysses S. Grant III, a grandson of the Civil War US Army general, was honorary pallbearer. Burial was in Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth.
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Albert Woolson loved the parades. For Memorial Day in Duluth, Minnesota, he rode in the biggest car down the widest streets of his hometown. The city etched his name in the Duluth Honor Roll, and he was celebrated at conventions and banquets across the North. Even the president wrote him letters on his birthday. Because everyone said he was the last surviving member of the Grand Army of
the Republic, a fraternal organization of Union veterans once nearly half a million strong, they erected a life-size statue of him on the most hallowed ground of that entire horrible conflict—Gettysburg.
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Though deaf and often ill, he was still spry enough that, even at 109 years of age, he could be polite and mannerly, always a gentleman. He was especially fond of children and enjoyed visiting schools and exciting the boys with stories of cannon and steel and unbelievable courage on the fields around Chattanooga. The boys called him “Grandpa Al.”
But Woolson could be fussy. His breakfast eggs had to be scrambled and his bacon crisp. He continued to smoke; he had probably lit up more than a thousand cigars just since he had hit the century mark. And no one kept him from his half-ounce of brandy before dinner.
His grandfather had served in the War of 1812, and when guns were fired on Fort Sumter in 1861, his father went off to fight for Lincoln. He lost a leg and died. So, as the story goes, young Albert, blue-eyed and blonde-haired, a mere five and a half feet tall, took his father’s place. With just a year left in the war, he enlisted as a drummer boy with the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, rolling his snare as they marched south to Tennessee.
But that had been long ago, more than 90 years past. Now Albert Woolson’s days were fading, the muffled drum of his youth a softening memory. At St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, his health deteriorating, he would sometimes feel his old self, quoting Civil War verse or the Gettysburg Address. But then on a Saturday in late July, 1956, he slipped into a coma. Just before he drifted off, he asked a nurse’s aide for a dish of lemon sherbet. She gave him some soft candy too. As she shut the door she glanced back at her patient. “I thought he was looking very old,” she recalled. For a week he lay quietly in his hospital bed, awaiting death.
Down in Houston, old Walter Washington Williams had sent Woolson a telegram congratulating him on turning 109. “Happy birthday greetings from Colonel Walter Williams,” the wire said.
Williams was blind, nearly deaf, rail-thin, and confined to a bed in his daughter’s house. He had served as a Confederate forage master for Hood’s Brigade, they said, and now he was bound and determined to be the last on either side still alive when America’s great Civil War Centennial commemoration began in 1961. “I’m going to wait around until the others are gone,” he said, “to see what happens.”
Williams had ridden in a parade too. He was named in presidential proclamations and tributes in the press. Life magazine devoted a three-page spread to the old Rebel, including a photograph of Williams propped up on his pillows, a large Stars and Bars flag hanging on the wall. An American Legion band serenaded at his window, and he tapped his long, spindly fingers in time with “Old Soldiers Never Die.” But Williams was a Southern boy deep in his bones. He would have preferred “Cotton-Eyed Joe” on the radio:
O Lawd, O Lawd,
Come pity my case.
For I’m gettin’ old
An’ wrinkled in de face.
Like Woolson, Williams could be cantankerous. On his last birthday, when he said he was 117, they served him his favorite barbecued pork, though his daughter and a nurse had to feed him. His bed was piled high with cards and telegrams, but he could not read them. He could hardly pick them up. “I’m tired of staying here,” he complained in his son’s ear. The son smiled and told visitors how they had hunted deer together when his father was 101. “He rode a horse until he was 103,” the son said.
Williams’ last public outing was in an Armed Forces Day parade in Houston in May 1959, when he rode in an air-conditioned ambulance. As he passed the reviewing stand, he struggled to raise his arm in salute. Then they took him home and put him back to bed.
Four times he suffered bouts of pneumonia; twice they hung an oxygen tent over his bed. His doctor was doubtful, and his daughter feared the worst. “There’s too many years; too many miles,” she said.
And so the clock ticked down, not just on Albert Woolson and Walter Williams, but for a whole generation, an entire era, the closing of a searing chapter in American history: four years of brutal civil war. Like the old soldiers, memories of the North and South and how they had splintered and then remade America were slowly dying out too. Starting in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, Civil War soldiers began passing away in rapid numbers, nearly three a day. The glorious reunions of proud veterans at Gettysburg and the cities of the South were coming to an end; there were too few healthy enough to attend. The Grand Army of the Republic closed its last local chapter. The Rebel yell fell silent . The campfires went dark. Echoing down the years were Gen. Robert E. Lee’s last words: “Strike the tent.”
By the start of the 1950s, about 65 of the blue and gray veterans were left; by 1955, just a half dozen. As their numbers dwindled they became artifacts of a shuttered era, curiosities of an ancient time, sepia-toned figures still inhabiting a modern world from their rocking chairs and oxygen tents. They had gone to war with rifles and sabers and in horse-mounted patrols. They had lived off hardtack and beans. Now they seemed lost in a new American century that had endured two devastating world wars fought with armored tank divisions, deadly mustard gas, and atomic bombs that fell from the sky.
Bruce Catton, long a chronicler of the Civil War, could recall his boyhood in the “pre-automobile age” of rural Michigan and how a group of old Union veterans in white whiskers and blue greatcoats had delighted his young eyes. He remembered one selling summer berries from a pail he hooked over the stub of his forearm, an arm he had lost in the Battle of the Wilderness. A church deacon had fought with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, burning barns and killing livestock. Another had returned to Gettysburg for the 50th anniversary there, and when he arrived back by train and his buggy was late, the 70-year-old simply hoisted his bag and walked the five miles home. “They were grave, dignified, and thoughtful,” Catton would write of his hometown heroes. “For the most part they had never been 50 miles away from the farm or the dusty village streets; yet once, ages ago, they had been everywhere and had seen everything. . . . All that was real had taken place when they were young; everything after that had simply been a process of waiting for death.” Eventually, one by one the old men were carried up a small hilltop to the town cemetery. “As they departed,” Catton wrote, “we began to lose more than we knew we were losing.”
By the close of the 1950s, as the nation was preparing for the 100th anniversary of the Civil War, much of the pubic watched transfixed, marking the passing of each of the final veterans, wondering who might be the last, wondering if any would make it to the centennial, curious how anyone could live so long. Could anyone be so old?
That question seemed never more poignant than when a Confederate veteran from Georgia disrupted a Civil War museum and jabbed his cane in sudden bayonet thrusts, threatening the portraits of Yankee soldiers hanging on the wall. “Let me at him!” he yelled at a painting of Union hero Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, the scourge of Atlanta. Sadly, the old Rebel appeared a pitiful figure, a misfit, more a caricature of himself than a gallant hero from an epic time.
Because it turns out that many of the men were not so old after all.
Many who claimed to be well over 100 and survivors of that great war were really imposters, some flat-out frauds. In truth they had been mere children and too young to march off to war in the early 1860s. Or they had not even been born. Yet as they grew old, they fabricated stories about past heroic adventures and brazenly applied for Civil War pensions during the long, lean years of the Great Depression. Some backdated their birth dates. Some made up the names of comrades and commanding officers. Some lied to their friends and neighbors and to newspapers and government officials. Over the years, some accepted so many accolades as Civil War veterans that they never could muster the courage or the humility to own up to the truth, even as they lay near death. Many ended up believing their own fabrications. Driven by money, ego, or a craving to belong to something grand and glorious, these men defrauded a nation. They especially dishonored those who had served, those who had been wounded, and above all those who had died. Many of them fooled their own families. One fooled the White House.
The last veteran who said he fought for the Union was Albert Woolson; Walter Williams said he was the last Confederate. One of them indeed was a soldier, but one, according to the best evidence, was a fake. One of them had been living a great big lie.
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who tried to kill dan on one tree hill | Who Started The Fire? The 'One Tree Hill' Whodunnit | iHeart | By John Popham
July 14, 2022
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The second season of One Tree Hill left viewers on the edge of their seats as the show’s villain, “ Dan ,” played by Paul Johansson , is trapped in his burning car dealership at the hands of someone he pushed too far.
But who tried to kill “Dan Scott”? According to Bethany Joy Lenz , Hilarie Burton , and Sophia Bush , former cast members and hosts of Drama Queens , the show’s creators wanted the audience to think it could have been anyone.
“Do you guys remember when we were filming this whole who killed 'Dan' thing, how obsessed our bosses were about creating the same type of energy around our show that Dallas had?” Burton asked. “It felt like an episode of ‘Clue.’”
Season three starts off exactly where the previous season ended but doesn’t rush to show fans whether “Dan” survives. As the episode progresses, shots of a blazing dealership are scattered between scenes. The hosts said the fire was really talked up on set and a lot of production went into burning down Dan Scott Motors.
“The build-up to this fire, they were like ‘Guys you will never see anything like it for the rest of your careers,” said Morgan. “Looking back now, it was just a fire.”
“I just remember being amped to stand in that parking lot because we were like ‘Oh there’s something to do!’” said Bush.
The three drama queens of One Tree Hill said the fire took so much time to set up and shoot that production on the rest of the episode was fast tracked. Between what they can remember and what is shown on screen, the actors said the episode was block shot in order to catch up on time lost shooting the dealership fire.
“Block shooting is when you take everything that is in one location (and facing the same direction) in the whole episode and you film it all at once,” explained Lenz. “You just face the same direction and everyone in that scene will file in and do their scene in that direction.”
Hear more stories about filming One Tree Hill on Drama Queens , a weekly podcast hosted by the show’s leading ladies. “ Unbreak My Heart ” has all of the juicy secrets behind the season three premiere and can be found on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.
If you want to be sure you’re listening to the podcasts everyone else is checking out, iHeartRadio has you covered.
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Dan was at his dealership, and drinking, and a fire started. Lucas saved him from the fire. In the beginning, Dan thinks it was Lucas, because he was at the fire but in the end he realizes the person who tried to kill him was his wife Deb. | https://qa.answers.com/movies-and-television/Who_was_the_one_who_tried_to_kill_Dan_Scott | 36 |
who tried to kill dan on one tree hill | Dan Scott | Dan Scott is the original main antagonist in the first three seasons of the TV series, One Tree Hill .
He was portrayed by Paul Johansson.
Dan is the ex-husband of Deb Lee and the controlling father of Nathan and Lucas Scott. He starts of as an antagonist to all the main characters such as his ex-girlfriend Karen, his brother Keith Scott whom he has never seen eye to eye with and his wife Deb who he had just settled for. Originally wanting nothing to do with Lucas, he begins to want a part in Lucas's life . He hired a woman (Jules) to make Keith fall in love with her as revenge for sleeping with Deb. But Jules actually falls in love with Keith, but leaves him on the alter after being threatened by Karen. Deb attempted to murder Dan by burning down his dealership. Dan, thinking it was Jimmy shoots Keith and let's Jimmy Edwards take the blame as Jimmy committed suicide. Lucas gradually accepts Dan as his Dad until he finds out what he did. Dan, realizing Lucas and Nathan will never forgive him turns himself into the police. He then spends almost 5 years in prison.
After prison Dan and Nathan's son Jamie become close friends after he saves him from a crazy nanny Carrie. Dan is later kidnapped by Carrie, Jamie's ex Nanny who planned to kidnap Jamie and set Dan up for it. He is later rescued by Haley (who went to see him after Carrie called pretending to be a nurse saying Dan was about to die) and Deb (who came after wards to help Haley and Jamie after realizing where Haley had really gone). He shoots Carrie and she is believed to be dead. When Jamie founds out what he did he at first stops talking to him. While at the hospital to receive a new heart, the courier carrying the heart trips over a dog leash (as a drug addict took his dog there because he accidentally ate marijuana), dropping the heart from its' cooler and the dog eats it. Dan then apologizes to Lucas and Nathan for everything he has done for them and in the Season 6 finale, he visits Whitey at his ranch, demanding that Whitey shoot him and put him out of his misery. Whitey instead embraces his former player and says that there is still time for redemption. After leaving Whitey's ranch, Dan shows up at Lucas' house and sees Peyton holding Sawyer. Reluctantly, Peyton allows Dan to hold Sawyer and Dan holds the grandchild that will never get to know him. Dan leaves the house, walking by Karen and Lucas, who both walk by without saying a word. Dan leaves Tree Hill and prepares to die.
In the year time gap between season 6 and 7 Dan married Rachel who takes him to Mexico and illegally buys a heart. After realizing the type of person Rachel is when she wants to take their TV show to the corridor he murdered Keith, he gives all his money to charity and divorces her. Before leaving Tree Hill once again he says goodbye to Jamie who tells him he forgives him. Nathan also thanks Dan for helping him get to the NBA.
In Season 8, Dan is now poor and living/working at a diner outside of Tree Hill. Haley's older sister, Quinn, goes to visit him, requesting for his help in murdering Katie Ryan, a psychotic tennis player who shot Quinn and her boyfriend Clay Evans, leaving them for dead. Dan tells her that murder is something you can't take back and manages to talk her out her need for revenge. Nathan visits him in the season finale, giving him the first baseball Jamie hit and a picture of his newborn daughter, Lydia. This motivates Dan to burn down his diner in Season 9, so that he can be closer to his family as he begins to live with Haley, much to Nathan's chagrin. Haley attempts to help Dan back on his feet by giving him a job as a chef at Karen's Diner but several patrons leave, refusing to eat food cooked by a murderer. Dan is initially blamed by Haley for Nathan's kidnapping and thrown out, where he rents a trailer at Julian Baker's soundstage and compiles evidence to find Nathan. Dan (with Haley's help) manages to interrogate a drug dealer who has ties to Dimitri, a Russian assassin who was responsible for kidnapping Nathan, and finds out the warehouse where he is being held. Dan, Julian and Chris Keller go the warehouse to rescue Nathan, where Dan manages to rescue Nathan and jumps in front of a bullet to save Nathan's life when Dimitri shoots at him. In the hospital, Dan makes amends with Haley, Deb and later Nathan before he dies. Keith's spirit visits Dan and tells him how proud of him he is for finally putting his family and friends first and becoming the same selfless person he once was. Keith and Dan's spirits then move on to Heaven.
- Father: Royal Scott
- Mother: May Scott
- Brother: Keith Scott (deceased)
- Sons: Nathan Scott (with Deb Lee), Lucas Scott (with Karen Roe)
- Grandson: Jamie Scott (via Nathan)
- Granddaughters: Sawyer Scott (via Lucas), Lydia Scott (via Nathan)
- Dan Scott is the main antagonist and a selfish man in seasons 1 to 3 (and some of 4) he became an anti-hero in seasons 5 to 8 and is finally redeemed in season 9 when he takes a bullet to save Nathan's life. He dies later in hospital.
- All of Dan's family members made amends with him before his death except for Lucas, who was unable to bring himself to forgive Dan for the death of Keith. | https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Dan_Scott | 36 |
who tried to kill dan on one tree hill | Dan Scott | Daniel Lewis "Dan" Scott is the biological father of Lucas and Nathan Scott . Dan learns about Lucas when Karen falls pregnant in high school. Unfortunately, he left her to pursue a relationship with Deb Scott , who falls pregnant a few months after Karen did with their son, Nathan Royal Scott. Dan asks Karen for custody of their son Lucas, which was turned down by Karen out of fear that Lucas would become like him. This was something that comes as a shock to Lucas after Dan tells him to go find out the truth from his mother. After being turned down for custody, Dan began to despise Lucas, also due to the fact that Lucas was raised by Keith Scott , Dan's older brother. Dan's marriage with Deb came to an end as Deb tried to kill Dan in order to break away and divorce him. As a result of too much pressure under choosing sides, Dan's younger son, Nathan, decides to emancipate himself which was suggested by his girlfriend, now wife, Haley James Scott . With the opinion that Keith's intention was to kill him and take his son, Dan shoots Keith in the Tree Hill High School hallway, killing him. Dan had always been jealous of Keith. He was the man whom Karen gave all her attention besides Lucas to. Keith was the man Lucas thought of as his hero. Dan didn't have that with his eldest son, no matter how much he wanted to. Keith had been telling Jimmy Edwards , a student who had brought a gun to school, causing a school lockdown and now was trying to kill himself that it gets better. Dan thought Keith was talking to him, which made Dan think, "It doesn't get better." This all was why Dan shot Keith. And now Keith was going to be a father to Karen's second child, Lily Roe Scott , which was unknown to Karen until after Keith's death. Lily was born the same day that Dan's younger son Nathan becomes a father, to Jamie Scott , his first born child, a son, with Haley. Dan decides to let Jimmy Edwards, the boy who commits suicide in the hallway of Tree Hill High School take the blame for Keith's death, even fooling Lucas into believing that it was Jimmy that killed his uncle.
Dan now tried to play a role in the life of unborn Lily, helping with the pregnancy. Lucas soon finds out the truth about Dan murdering Keith, yelling to his mother, "He killed Keith, he shot him!" Pointing at Dan after catching his mother and father making out. Dan accused Lucas of needing psychological help and recommended he gets some. The day that both Lily and Jamie come into the world was the same day that Dan turned himself into the police for murdering Keith, giving up his soon-to-be relationship with Lily along with his spot as mayor, along with his successes over the years and his relationship with Karen. "My name is Dan Scott," he says to the front desk of the police station. "I killed my brother." After years in jail, Dan Scott was set free and soon forms a strong bond with his grandson, Jamie. With the thought he might have died due to his heart condition, Dan left his grandson and instead turned his attention to Rachel Gatina , his new wife. He started to preach about redemption in an attempt to win back the love and support of his family that was taken away the day the trigger of the gun used to kill Keith was pulled. Dan received a heart transplant as well. He later forms a strong bond with Jamie and Lydia Scott , his granddaughter via Nathan and Haley. Unfortunately, Dan only met his granddaughter via Lucas and Peyton, Sawyer Scott once. Dan also decided to help out at Karen's Cafe, run by Haley and Brooke .
When he learned his son was still missing, Dan went on a hunt to retrieve his son. He ended up killing most of the men working for Dimitri , the main kidnapper. After soon finding his son, Nathan and Dan were spotted by Dimitri. Dimitri took out his gun and aimed at Nathan. Ever since Nathan was little, his father had nothing but love for him. This was proved when Dan jumped in front of Nathan, the bullet going through Dan's back. After shooting Dan, Dimitri was then distracted while telling Nathan that he will "join his father" referring to how his father had a bullet in his back. Nathan then pulled out a gun from his back pocket and shoots Dimitri, killing him. Dan was then taken to a hospital by Nathan and Julian , Brooke 's husband. Dan was awake at the hospital, saying his last words to his grandchildren, Deb , his daughter-in-law Haley, and Nathan. Lucas did not show up for Dan, which was understood by Dan, considering Dan had never been there for Lucas' life, so, "why should Lucas be there for his." Dan later died while laying in the hospital bed, surrounded by Nathan, Haley, Jamie, Lydia, and Deb. While slowly making his way to hell, Keith meets Dan halfway, telling him he forgave him and took him to heaven. Dan's transformation over the course of the whole series has been noted as the most remarkable out of all transitions on One Tree Hill . He goes from the controlling father, to the dangerous murderer, to the man who took a bullet though his skin for the sake of his son.
Daniel Robert "Dan" Scott was the second child and son of Royal and May Scott . Dan grew up with an older brother, Keith , whom he didn't get along with that well, and was pushed by his father to become a great basketball player. During his teen years he dated the cheerleader Karen Roe who became pregnant with his child just before the end of high school. Before that, he took his team to the state championship, but he didn't like Whitey's plays and chose not to play. The team lost the championship and that is when he and Whitey hate each other. Dan promised to be with her, but he eventually abandoned her. At college, he met Deb Lee and dated her. After a few months Deb became pregnant and Dan decided to marry her. Karen gave birth to a son, Lucas Eugene Scott , a few months before Deb would give birth to Nathan Royal Scott .
Dan was portrayed as the original villain in the beginning of One Tree Hill . Dan and Karen Roe had a relationship in high school which led to her being pregnant. Dan left Karen behind and went off to college and met Deb . A few months later Deb was pregnant as well. He married Deb and Karen gave birth to Lucas whereas a few months later Deb gave birth to Nathan. In the beginning of Season 1 , Dan was shown to only care about one his sons, Nathan. Whereas, he left Lucas to be with his mother, Karen . Dan never acknowledged Lucas until Lucas ' junior year in high school because Keith Scott , who was Dan Scott's brother, talked to Whitey , who was the coach of the junior varsity basketball team. Keith convinces Whitey to give Lucas a chance to be on the team which Dan wouldn't like to happen. Lucas was granted a spot on the basketball team by the coach, Whitey. Dan was furious with the fact that Lucas will be on the team and turns Nathan against Lucas . Dan tells Nathan that they've worked too hard and they don't need someone like Lucas to take Nathan 's spot on the team. However, Lucas does take Nathan 's spot as shooting guard which makes Dan even more furious. Lucas finds out that Dan actually tried to have joint custody of Lucas but Karen refused. Through out the season, Dan pushes Nathan too far to the point where Nathan actually takes drugs. Towards the end of the season, Deb and Dan are in the process of going through a divorce and Nathan breaks away from Dan because his girlfriend, Haley taught him to be a better person. Nathan moves out of the house and goes into an apartment. The final scene of Dan of Season 1 was him having an heart attack which plays a major role in later seasons.
At the beginning of Season 2 , Dan had a heart attack. Deb found him on the floor and called 911. Dan let Keith take over the dealer ship while he got better, making him Vice President. When Dan got out of the hospital Deb let him stay until he got better and he tried to make things better with Lucas . Lucas decided to help Dan with rehab but it failed as Dan reverted back to his old ways. Dan finds out he is going to be fine. When Deb asks if he's going to be okay he Dan was paying Jules to be with Keith . Dan deliberately tells Karen that Deb and Keith slept together. Dan finds out that Lucas has HCM and tells him if he moves in he'll pay for his HCM medication. When Nathan and Lucas end up in jail Karen bails them out but Dan takes the credit. Dan and Karen go to court to see who Lucas wants to live with and Lucas says Dan. When Keith finds out Dan paid Jules to be with him he goes to the dealership and they get into a fight. When Nathan ends up in the hospital he was there for him. Dan finds out that Karen was dating Andy her college professor. Dan goes to Andy 's class and exposed that he was dating Karen . Nathan was having money problems and Dan says he'll pay the bills only on one condition. Haley has to sign a annulment. Dan tests Lucas's loyalty to him by planting a ledger and a duffel bag of counterfeit money in the ceiling of his dealership office. Lucas fails this test and Dan says that now Lucas means nothing to him and he is no longer paying for his HCM medication and his college fund was terminated. On the season finale of Dan receives a bottle and a note that says " For all you've done". Later that night the dealership was set on fire.
Dan survived the fire at the dealership, however, without any recollection of who caused the fire, and how he managed to survive it. He made it his mission to find who did it, and get his revenge on the culprit. Initially staying with Deb during the duration of his recovery, Dan retreated again to the beach house. After seeing Lucas standing near a bonfire, part of Dan's memory in regards to the arson is triggered and he remembered seeing Lucas there. Convinced that he was the one that had tried to kill him, Dan followed Lucas to the high school gym where he nearly strangled him. Due to Peyton's intervention, enlightening Dan that Lucas didn't kill him as much as save him, he released his son.
After having the dealership fire ruled as an accident, Dan ran for mayor. Blackmailing Deb into supporting his candidacy, by offering her a deal -support for Nathan's well-being- she stood by his side during the entire election while her best friend, Karen, was running against Dan. However, Dan's campaign was more than once dented by Deb's attempt to embarrass him. Eventually winning the election, Mayor Dan got access to the Fire Departments rulings that the dealership fire was an accident and the police reports, Dan set out the discover the truth. Discovering that his brother, Keith, had bought the same kind of liquor with which he was drugged only hours before the fire, Dan was convinced that he had found his culprit. This information and his thirst for revenge drove Dan to the point where he shot Keith at point blank range in the hallway of Tree Hill High during the school shooting. Successfully blaming Jimmy who had only moments before took his own life, Dan managed to remain unpunished for this crime.
During Nathan and Haley's second wedding, Deb came clean to Dan, telling him that she was the one that had tried to kill him instead of Keith. Overcome by grief and guilt, Dan started seeing Keith's Ghost everywhere.
Cooper and Rachel got into a car crash, which forced Nathan to try and save them. Dan later visited the hospital after he heard of the turn of events. After learning that his son was alive and well, Dan assaulted Deb at the hospital. Nathan goes to Dan for help with money and he says no. Nathan tells Dan about Daunte and Dan helps him. Dan goes to Daunte and tries to make a bargain with him. When Nathan wins the game Daunte gets angry and runs over Haley and crashes into a wall. Nathan starts punching him and before the cops show up Dan tells Nathan to go. He takes the fall for his son. Dan faces murder charges for what happened to Daunte. Dan is released from jail and Deb attempts suicide. Dan finds Deb and calls the ambulance. He tells them to take her to rehab. He helps Karen out in various ways like making her a crib, fixing her dinner, and helping out at the cafe. Dan gets strange texts and messages written on the walls at work and home from an anonymous person. Dan finds out the person who sending him texts and messages is Abby Brown. He goes to her house and tells her she didn't see anything. Also she didn't see him kill and threatens her and mom. Abby goes to Lucas's home and tell him that his father killed his uncle. Lucas attacks Dan after walking in on him and Karen kissing. Lucas tells Karen that Dan killed Keith, but Dan convinces Karen that Lucas is delusional and needs help. Lucas then steals Deb's gun. While Dan and Karen are eating dinner Lucas confronts Dan in front of Karen, having set him up by sending him a message from "Abby". Karen collapses and Lucas fires a warning shot at Dan, telling him not to touch her. Karen is rushed to hospital with eclampsia and has an emergency c- section. On the season 4 finale Dan goes to the police station and turns himself in for Keith's murder. Karen visits Dan in jail and refuses to forgive him and that when her daughter is old enough, she will tell her that her father loved his younger brother very much, and that brother took her father away from her for her entire life. Dan attempts to hang himself in his jail cell with a bedsheet, but the sheet breaks and Dan curls onto the floor, crying.
He was locked up in the Tree Hill Prison for murdering Keith.
Dan returns to Tree Hill after being paroled. He attempts contact with his sons, who want nothing to do with him, so he begins following and watching his family. Because of this, he is able to rescue Jamie from Carrie after she kidnaps him from Lucas' wedding. After this, Dan has some "secret" meetings with Jamie while he's at school. Jamie wished that Dan would go to his 5th birthday party but he was not allowed to but that didn't stop him from giving him a birthday present. The present was Nathan's first jersey growing up. Later that night, Nathan goes to the beach house to tell Dan that he had no business going to the party and for him to stay away from him and his family. In which Dan gives him some papers. Nathan looks over the papers only to discover that Dan has left the beach house to Nathan and his family. Dan then lays the harsh truth that he only has 6 months to live because of his heart condition (HCM) and needs a heart transplant. Lucas pays Dan a visit because he thinks he's lying and tells him that he's going to check up on if he's dying or not only to find that he really is telling the truth this time. Much to Dan's chagrin, however, he finds that he is second on the donor list and even attempts to smother the number one candidate with a pillow until finding the card Jamie had given him and sees that there is hope. Dan finds out later that the candidate has died and now Dan is number one on the donor list. Dan's happiness is short-lived however, as an unknown party hits Dan with their car when he leaves from the hospital.
Dan is held hostage by Carrie , who hit him with a car outside the hospital just as the pager to alert Dan that a heart had been found for transplant. Carrie takes Dan to a remote house and remodels a room to look like that of one in a hospital to fool Dan when he comes to.
Carrie drives Dan's black SUV in front of Jamie 's school, leading Haley and Jamie to believe he was still alive, but when Haley attempts to investigate, the SUV pulls away.
Dan attempts to break free, but when he discovers the shallow grave where Carrie buried her son, she knocks him out and chains him to the bed again. Carrie eventually makes contact with Deb in the park and contacts Haley as Dan's "hospice nurse", hoping to lure Haley into a trap and kidnap Jamie again.
Dan comes to again and finds Haley inside the house, but before Haley can help Dan, Carrie knocks out Haley and then goes after Jamie, who is in Haley's SUV. Jamie breaks out the window and runs into the corn field, with Carrie giving chase. Haley finds Jamie, but when her cell phone goes off as Nathan calls, Carrie gives chase again. As the three exit the field and run back in front of the house, Deb knocks out Carrie with a bottle of champagne.
Dan comes out and tells Carrie the police are on their way. Carrie laughs and tells Dan they will never catch her, and Dan responds by shooting her in the chest. Carrie gets up, but Dan shoots her again in the head, killing her once and for all. Dan is exonerated by the authorities and returns to Tree Hill to reconnect with Jamie. Eventually, Dan is placed back on the waiting list for a heart transplant. Jamie discovers the beeper going off in his room, and Dan goes to the hospital for surgery. However, as the heart is brought into the hospital for transplant, the courier trips, the ice chest containing the heart opens, and a dog belonging to a drug addict eats the heart. Dan angrily goes into the ocean and demands the tide take him away, but he survives. He later tells Nathan and Lucas they are good sons and he is sorry for all he's done.
Dan is waiting to die in the season finale when he visits Whitey at his ranch. Dan demands Whitey shoot him, but instead Whitey embraces his former player and tells Dan there's still time for redemption.
Dan goes to Lucas' house and finds Peyton on the porch with their newborn baby, Sawyer. Dan asks Peyton if he can hold his granddaughter. Peyton is hesitant at first, but she relents. As Dan departs, he encounters Karen and Lucas, who are returning from a visit to the cemetery to Keith's grave. The pair walk by Dan without saying a word.
The season jumps to a point where Dan has a new wife, Rachel Gatina, who graduated with Dan's sons, Nathan and Lucas. Dan is living in Los Angeles, with Rachel. Dan has his own television show called Scott Free Redemption, where he tells people to "step into the light and make yourself right." Rachel serves as the show's producer. Dan had convinced his audience that he is a miracle as he was supposed to die from heart failure 14 months ago. It is later revealed, however, that Rachel paid a couple to take their son off life support so that Dan could get the son's heart and had black market surgeons perform the heart transplant. Dan also helps to clear Nathan's name during the Nathan/ Renee Richardson pregnancy scandal by inviting her to his show and having her confess in public that Nathan did not get her pregnant after subjecting her to a fixed lie detector test and taking pictures of her body language. Dan and Rachel claim to love each other, but they prove themselves to still be the selfish people they were years before. Dan returns to Tree Hill with Rachel in order to seek redemption, although his family (minus Jamie) refuse to forgive him. After being confronted by Mary , mother of the late Jimmy Edwards , Dan begins to see how wrong it is to profit off the deaths of Keith and Jimmy. Dan announces that the show filmed at Tree Hill High is his last and he is giving all his wealth away to charities and donations. Dan divorces Rachel, leaving her with nothing as he departs by bus from Tree Hill.
After his departure in Season 7, Dan is now working as a chef at a diner outside of Tree Hill. Quinn James , Haley's older sister, goes to visit him, asking for his help to murder Katie Ryan , who was responsible for shooting her and her boyfriend Clay Evans as she is tired of having to live in constant fear of Katie returning to harm them even further. Dan convinces Quinn that murdering someone is something that you can't take back. Eventually Quinn takes his advice and she leaves.
Nathan later visits Dan at the diner, giving him a picture of his newborn daughter Lydia and the first baseball that Jamie hit to win the game. It is revealed that Dan is living at the diner as well, as he closes it up and has dinner, smiling at the picture of Lydia.
Dan returns in season 9 because he loses everything when the diner burns down. He convinced Haley to let him stay with them for a few days, saying he has nowhere else to go. Nathan finds out about this and orders that Dan has to leave once he returns from scouting in Europe. Dan also helps Haley out as a chef at Karen's cafe, but has to deal with a heckler who is appalled that Haley would hire a murderer to work for her. Haley learns that Dan burned his diner down on purpose to be closer to his family and has him arrested and kicked out of their home when she believes that he planned for Nathan to get kidnapped so that Nathan would never make it home and he could stay longer. Dan then begins to live in a trailer at Julian's soundstage, where he compiles clues to find Nathan. Dan notices an emblem on the wall of a building behind Nathan in the video he sent Jamie, and after assaulting a prison medic, Dan gains the trust of a Russian prisoner, who tells him that the emblem belongs to a group of assassins and that it isn't good if they have Nathan held hostage. With the help of Haley, Dan is able to capture and interrogate a drug dealer who has ties with Dimitri and learns the location of the warehouse where Nathan is being held hostage. Dan goes into the warehouse where Nathan is held with the help of Julian and Chris Keller, he kills most of Dimitri's men and while trying to save Nathan, Dan takes a bullet and saves Nathan's life. He is still alive but is shown in the hospital thinking that he will not live "this time". Eventually, he does die in the hospital with Nathan, Haley, Jamie, and Lydia by his bedside. All of them reconciled with Dan. His brother Keith takes him to the other side once he has died, telling Dan that he forgives him.
In the series finale, Mouth receives a $1,000.000 check from Dan's estate. The money was a thank you from Dan when Mouth quit his job to protect Nathan, who was then under fire from rumors that he had an affair with Renee Richardson , rumors which turned out to be false when Renee failed a lie-detector test on Scott-Free Redemption. Mouth uses the money to start a scholarship fund in honor of Keith and Jimmy. | https://onetreehill.fandom.com/wiki/Dan_Scott | 36 |
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Dan was at his dealership, and drinking, and a fire started. Lucas saved him from the fire. In the beginning, Dan thinks it was Lucas, because he was at the fire but in the end he realizes the person who tried to kill him was his wife Deb. | https://qa.answers.com/movies-and-television/Who_was_the_one_who_tried_to_kill_Dan_Scott | 36 |
who tried to kill dan on one tree hill | Dan Scott | Dan Scott is the original main antagonist in the first three seasons of the TV series, One Tree Hill .
He was portrayed by Paul Johansson.
Dan is the ex-husband of Deb Lee and the controlling father of Nathan and Lucas Scott. He starts of as an antagonist to all the main characters such as his ex-girlfriend Karen, his brother Keith Scott whom he has never seen eye to eye with and his wife Deb who he had just settled for. Originally wanting nothing to do with Lucas, he begins to want a part in Lucas's life . He hired a woman (Jules) to make Keith fall in love with her as revenge for sleeping with Deb. But Jules actually falls in love with Keith, but leaves him on the alter after being threatened by Karen. Deb attempted to murder Dan by burning down his dealership. Dan, thinking it was Jimmy shoots Keith and let's Jimmy Edwards take the blame as Jimmy committed suicide. Lucas gradually accepts Dan as his Dad until he finds out what he did. Dan, realizing Lucas and Nathan will never forgive him turns himself into the police. He then spends almost 5 years in prison.
After prison Dan and Nathan's son Jamie become close friends after he saves him from a crazy nanny Carrie. Dan is later kidnapped by Carrie, Jamie's ex Nanny who planned to kidnap Jamie and set Dan up for it. He is later rescued by Haley (who went to see him after Carrie called pretending to be a nurse saying Dan was about to die) and Deb (who came after wards to help Haley and Jamie after realizing where Haley had really gone). He shoots Carrie and she is believed to be dead. When Jamie founds out what he did he at first stops talking to him. While at the hospital to receive a new heart, the courier carrying the heart trips over a dog leash (as a drug addict took his dog there because he accidentally ate marijuana), dropping the heart from its' cooler and the dog eats it. Dan then apologizes to Lucas and Nathan for everything he has done for them and in the Season 6 finale, he visits Whitey at his ranch, demanding that Whitey shoot him and put him out of his misery. Whitey instead embraces his former player and says that there is still time for redemption. After leaving Whitey's ranch, Dan shows up at Lucas' house and sees Peyton holding Sawyer. Reluctantly, Peyton allows Dan to hold Sawyer and Dan holds the grandchild that will never get to know him. Dan leaves the house, walking by Karen and Lucas, who both walk by without saying a word. Dan leaves Tree Hill and prepares to die.
In the year time gap between season 6 and 7 Dan married Rachel who takes him to Mexico and illegally buys a heart. After realizing the type of person Rachel is when she wants to take their TV show to the corridor he murdered Keith, he gives all his money to charity and divorces her. Before leaving Tree Hill once again he says goodbye to Jamie who tells him he forgives him. Nathan also thanks Dan for helping him get to the NBA.
In Season 8, Dan is now poor and living/working at a diner outside of Tree Hill. Haley's older sister, Quinn, goes to visit him, requesting for his help in murdering Katie Ryan, a psychotic tennis player who shot Quinn and her boyfriend Clay Evans, leaving them for dead. Dan tells her that murder is something you can't take back and manages to talk her out her need for revenge. Nathan visits him in the season finale, giving him the first baseball Jamie hit and a picture of his newborn daughter, Lydia. This motivates Dan to burn down his diner in Season 9, so that he can be closer to his family as he begins to live with Haley, much to Nathan's chagrin. Haley attempts to help Dan back on his feet by giving him a job as a chef at Karen's Diner but several patrons leave, refusing to eat food cooked by a murderer. Dan is initially blamed by Haley for Nathan's kidnapping and thrown out, where he rents a trailer at Julian Baker's soundstage and compiles evidence to find Nathan. Dan (with Haley's help) manages to interrogate a drug dealer who has ties to Dimitri, a Russian assassin who was responsible for kidnapping Nathan, and finds out the warehouse where he is being held. Dan, Julian and Chris Keller go the warehouse to rescue Nathan, where Dan manages to rescue Nathan and jumps in front of a bullet to save Nathan's life when Dimitri shoots at him. In the hospital, Dan makes amends with Haley, Deb and later Nathan before he dies. Keith's spirit visits Dan and tells him how proud of him he is for finally putting his family and friends first and becoming the same selfless person he once was. Keith and Dan's spirits then move on to Heaven.
- Father: Royal Scott
- Mother: May Scott
- Brother: Keith Scott (deceased)
- Sons: Nathan Scott (with Deb Lee), Lucas Scott (with Karen Roe)
- Grandson: Jamie Scott (via Nathan)
- Granddaughters: Sawyer Scott (via Lucas), Lydia Scott (via Nathan)
- Dan Scott is the main antagonist and a selfish man in seasons 1 to 3 (and some of 4) he became an anti-hero in seasons 5 to 8 and is finally redeemed in season 9 when he takes a bullet to save Nathan's life. He dies later in hospital.
- All of Dan's family members made amends with him before his death except for Lucas, who was unable to bring himself to forgive Dan for the death of Keith. | https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Dan_Scott | 36 |
who tried to kill dan on one tree hill | Dan Scott | Daniel Lewis "Dan" Scott is the biological father of Lucas and Nathan Scott . Dan learns about Lucas when Karen falls pregnant in high school. Unfortunately, he left her to pursue a relationship with Deb Scott , who falls pregnant a few months after Karen did with their son, Nathan Royal Scott. Dan asks Karen for custody of their son Lucas, which was turned down by Karen out of fear that Lucas would become like him. This was something that comes as a shock to Lucas after Dan tells him to go find out the truth from his mother. After being turned down for custody, Dan began to despise Lucas, also due to the fact that Lucas was raised by Keith Scott , Dan's older brother. Dan's marriage with Deb came to an end as Deb tried to kill Dan in order to break away and divorce him. As a result of too much pressure under choosing sides, Dan's younger son, Nathan, decides to emancipate himself which was suggested by his girlfriend, now wife, Haley James Scott . With the opinion that Keith's intention was to kill him and take his son, Dan shoots Keith in the Tree Hill High School hallway, killing him. Dan had always been jealous of Keith. He was the man whom Karen gave all her attention besides Lucas to. Keith was the man Lucas thought of as his hero. Dan didn't have that with his eldest son, no matter how much he wanted to. Keith had been telling Jimmy Edwards , a student who had brought a gun to school, causing a school lockdown and now was trying to kill himself that it gets better. Dan thought Keith was talking to him, which made Dan think, "It doesn't get better." This all was why Dan shot Keith. And now Keith was going to be a father to Karen's second child, Lily Roe Scott , which was unknown to Karen until after Keith's death. Lily was born the same day that Dan's younger son Nathan becomes a father, to Jamie Scott , his first born child, a son, with Haley. Dan decides to let Jimmy Edwards, the boy who commits suicide in the hallway of Tree Hill High School take the blame for Keith's death, even fooling Lucas into believing that it was Jimmy that killed his uncle.
Dan now tried to play a role in the life of unborn Lily, helping with the pregnancy. Lucas soon finds out the truth about Dan murdering Keith, yelling to his mother, "He killed Keith, he shot him!" Pointing at Dan after catching his mother and father making out. Dan accused Lucas of needing psychological help and recommended he gets some. The day that both Lily and Jamie come into the world was the same day that Dan turned himself into the police for murdering Keith, giving up his soon-to-be relationship with Lily along with his spot as mayor, along with his successes over the years and his relationship with Karen. "My name is Dan Scott," he says to the front desk of the police station. "I killed my brother." After years in jail, Dan Scott was set free and soon forms a strong bond with his grandson, Jamie. With the thought he might have died due to his heart condition, Dan left his grandson and instead turned his attention to Rachel Gatina , his new wife. He started to preach about redemption in an attempt to win back the love and support of his family that was taken away the day the trigger of the gun used to kill Keith was pulled. Dan received a heart transplant as well. He later forms a strong bond with Jamie and Lydia Scott , his granddaughter via Nathan and Haley. Unfortunately, Dan only met his granddaughter via Lucas and Peyton, Sawyer Scott once. Dan also decided to help out at Karen's Cafe, run by Haley and Brooke .
When he learned his son was still missing, Dan went on a hunt to retrieve his son. He ended up killing most of the men working for Dimitri , the main kidnapper. After soon finding his son, Nathan and Dan were spotted by Dimitri. Dimitri took out his gun and aimed at Nathan. Ever since Nathan was little, his father had nothing but love for him. This was proved when Dan jumped in front of Nathan, the bullet going through Dan's back. After shooting Dan, Dimitri was then distracted while telling Nathan that he will "join his father" referring to how his father had a bullet in his back. Nathan then pulled out a gun from his back pocket and shoots Dimitri, killing him. Dan was then taken to a hospital by Nathan and Julian , Brooke 's husband. Dan was awake at the hospital, saying his last words to his grandchildren, Deb , his daughter-in-law Haley, and Nathan. Lucas did not show up for Dan, which was understood by Dan, considering Dan had never been there for Lucas' life, so, "why should Lucas be there for his." Dan later died while laying in the hospital bed, surrounded by Nathan, Haley, Jamie, Lydia, and Deb. While slowly making his way to hell, Keith meets Dan halfway, telling him he forgave him and took him to heaven. Dan's transformation over the course of the whole series has been noted as the most remarkable out of all transitions on One Tree Hill . He goes from the controlling father, to the dangerous murderer, to the man who took a bullet though his skin for the sake of his son.
Daniel Robert "Dan" Scott was the second child and son of Royal and May Scott . Dan grew up with an older brother, Keith , whom he didn't get along with that well, and was pushed by his father to become a great basketball player. During his teen years he dated the cheerleader Karen Roe who became pregnant with his child just before the end of high school. Before that, he took his team to the state championship, but he didn't like Whitey's plays and chose not to play. The team lost the championship and that is when he and Whitey hate each other. Dan promised to be with her, but he eventually abandoned her. At college, he met Deb Lee and dated her. After a few months Deb became pregnant and Dan decided to marry her. Karen gave birth to a son, Lucas Eugene Scott , a few months before Deb would give birth to Nathan Royal Scott .
Dan was portrayed as the original villain in the beginning of One Tree Hill . Dan and Karen Roe had a relationship in high school which led to her being pregnant. Dan left Karen behind and went off to college and met Deb . A few months later Deb was pregnant as well. He married Deb and Karen gave birth to Lucas whereas a few months later Deb gave birth to Nathan. In the beginning of Season 1 , Dan was shown to only care about one his sons, Nathan. Whereas, he left Lucas to be with his mother, Karen . Dan never acknowledged Lucas until Lucas ' junior year in high school because Keith Scott , who was Dan Scott's brother, talked to Whitey , who was the coach of the junior varsity basketball team. Keith convinces Whitey to give Lucas a chance to be on the team which Dan wouldn't like to happen. Lucas was granted a spot on the basketball team by the coach, Whitey. Dan was furious with the fact that Lucas will be on the team and turns Nathan against Lucas . Dan tells Nathan that they've worked too hard and they don't need someone like Lucas to take Nathan 's spot on the team. However, Lucas does take Nathan 's spot as shooting guard which makes Dan even more furious. Lucas finds out that Dan actually tried to have joint custody of Lucas but Karen refused. Through out the season, Dan pushes Nathan too far to the point where Nathan actually takes drugs. Towards the end of the season, Deb and Dan are in the process of going through a divorce and Nathan breaks away from Dan because his girlfriend, Haley taught him to be a better person. Nathan moves out of the house and goes into an apartment. The final scene of Dan of Season 1 was him having an heart attack which plays a major role in later seasons.
At the beginning of Season 2 , Dan had a heart attack. Deb found him on the floor and called 911. Dan let Keith take over the dealer ship while he got better, making him Vice President. When Dan got out of the hospital Deb let him stay until he got better and he tried to make things better with Lucas . Lucas decided to help Dan with rehab but it failed as Dan reverted back to his old ways. Dan finds out he is going to be fine. When Deb asks if he's going to be okay he Dan was paying Jules to be with Keith . Dan deliberately tells Karen that Deb and Keith slept together. Dan finds out that Lucas has HCM and tells him if he moves in he'll pay for his HCM medication. When Nathan and Lucas end up in jail Karen bails them out but Dan takes the credit. Dan and Karen go to court to see who Lucas wants to live with and Lucas says Dan. When Keith finds out Dan paid Jules to be with him he goes to the dealership and they get into a fight. When Nathan ends up in the hospital he was there for him. Dan finds out that Karen was dating Andy her college professor. Dan goes to Andy 's class and exposed that he was dating Karen . Nathan was having money problems and Dan says he'll pay the bills only on one condition. Haley has to sign a annulment. Dan tests Lucas's loyalty to him by planting a ledger and a duffel bag of counterfeit money in the ceiling of his dealership office. Lucas fails this test and Dan says that now Lucas means nothing to him and he is no longer paying for his HCM medication and his college fund was terminated. On the season finale of Dan receives a bottle and a note that says " For all you've done". Later that night the dealership was set on fire.
Dan survived the fire at the dealership, however, without any recollection of who caused the fire, and how he managed to survive it. He made it his mission to find who did it, and get his revenge on the culprit. Initially staying with Deb during the duration of his recovery, Dan retreated again to the beach house. After seeing Lucas standing near a bonfire, part of Dan's memory in regards to the arson is triggered and he remembered seeing Lucas there. Convinced that he was the one that had tried to kill him, Dan followed Lucas to the high school gym where he nearly strangled him. Due to Peyton's intervention, enlightening Dan that Lucas didn't kill him as much as save him, he released his son.
After having the dealership fire ruled as an accident, Dan ran for mayor. Blackmailing Deb into supporting his candidacy, by offering her a deal -support for Nathan's well-being- she stood by his side during the entire election while her best friend, Karen, was running against Dan. However, Dan's campaign was more than once dented by Deb's attempt to embarrass him. Eventually winning the election, Mayor Dan got access to the Fire Departments rulings that the dealership fire was an accident and the police reports, Dan set out the discover the truth. Discovering that his brother, Keith, had bought the same kind of liquor with which he was drugged only hours before the fire, Dan was convinced that he had found his culprit. This information and his thirst for revenge drove Dan to the point where he shot Keith at point blank range in the hallway of Tree Hill High during the school shooting. Successfully blaming Jimmy who had only moments before took his own life, Dan managed to remain unpunished for this crime.
During Nathan and Haley's second wedding, Deb came clean to Dan, telling him that she was the one that had tried to kill him instead of Keith. Overcome by grief and guilt, Dan started seeing Keith's Ghost everywhere.
Cooper and Rachel got into a car crash, which forced Nathan to try and save them. Dan later visited the hospital after he heard of the turn of events. After learning that his son was alive and well, Dan assaulted Deb at the hospital. Nathan goes to Dan for help with money and he says no. Nathan tells Dan about Daunte and Dan helps him. Dan goes to Daunte and tries to make a bargain with him. When Nathan wins the game Daunte gets angry and runs over Haley and crashes into a wall. Nathan starts punching him and before the cops show up Dan tells Nathan to go. He takes the fall for his son. Dan faces murder charges for what happened to Daunte. Dan is released from jail and Deb attempts suicide. Dan finds Deb and calls the ambulance. He tells them to take her to rehab. He helps Karen out in various ways like making her a crib, fixing her dinner, and helping out at the cafe. Dan gets strange texts and messages written on the walls at work and home from an anonymous person. Dan finds out the person who sending him texts and messages is Abby Brown. He goes to her house and tells her she didn't see anything. Also she didn't see him kill and threatens her and mom. Abby goes to Lucas's home and tell him that his father killed his uncle. Lucas attacks Dan after walking in on him and Karen kissing. Lucas tells Karen that Dan killed Keith, but Dan convinces Karen that Lucas is delusional and needs help. Lucas then steals Deb's gun. While Dan and Karen are eating dinner Lucas confronts Dan in front of Karen, having set him up by sending him a message from "Abby". Karen collapses and Lucas fires a warning shot at Dan, telling him not to touch her. Karen is rushed to hospital with eclampsia and has an emergency c- section. On the season 4 finale Dan goes to the police station and turns himself in for Keith's murder. Karen visits Dan in jail and refuses to forgive him and that when her daughter is old enough, she will tell her that her father loved his younger brother very much, and that brother took her father away from her for her entire life. Dan attempts to hang himself in his jail cell with a bedsheet, but the sheet breaks and Dan curls onto the floor, crying.
He was locked up in the Tree Hill Prison for murdering Keith.
Dan returns to Tree Hill after being paroled. He attempts contact with his sons, who want nothing to do with him, so he begins following and watching his family. Because of this, he is able to rescue Jamie from Carrie after she kidnaps him from Lucas' wedding. After this, Dan has some "secret" meetings with Jamie while he's at school. Jamie wished that Dan would go to his 5th birthday party but he was not allowed to but that didn't stop him from giving him a birthday present. The present was Nathan's first jersey growing up. Later that night, Nathan goes to the beach house to tell Dan that he had no business going to the party and for him to stay away from him and his family. In which Dan gives him some papers. Nathan looks over the papers only to discover that Dan has left the beach house to Nathan and his family. Dan then lays the harsh truth that he only has 6 months to live because of his heart condition (HCM) and needs a heart transplant. Lucas pays Dan a visit because he thinks he's lying and tells him that he's going to check up on if he's dying or not only to find that he really is telling the truth this time. Much to Dan's chagrin, however, he finds that he is second on the donor list and even attempts to smother the number one candidate with a pillow until finding the card Jamie had given him and sees that there is hope. Dan finds out later that the candidate has died and now Dan is number one on the donor list. Dan's happiness is short-lived however, as an unknown party hits Dan with their car when he leaves from the hospital.
Dan is held hostage by Carrie , who hit him with a car outside the hospital just as the pager to alert Dan that a heart had been found for transplant. Carrie takes Dan to a remote house and remodels a room to look like that of one in a hospital to fool Dan when he comes to.
Carrie drives Dan's black SUV in front of Jamie 's school, leading Haley and Jamie to believe he was still alive, but when Haley attempts to investigate, the SUV pulls away.
Dan attempts to break free, but when he discovers the shallow grave where Carrie buried her son, she knocks him out and chains him to the bed again. Carrie eventually makes contact with Deb in the park and contacts Haley as Dan's "hospice nurse", hoping to lure Haley into a trap and kidnap Jamie again.
Dan comes to again and finds Haley inside the house, but before Haley can help Dan, Carrie knocks out Haley and then goes after Jamie, who is in Haley's SUV. Jamie breaks out the window and runs into the corn field, with Carrie giving chase. Haley finds Jamie, but when her cell phone goes off as Nathan calls, Carrie gives chase again. As the three exit the field and run back in front of the house, Deb knocks out Carrie with a bottle of champagne.
Dan comes out and tells Carrie the police are on their way. Carrie laughs and tells Dan they will never catch her, and Dan responds by shooting her in the chest. Carrie gets up, but Dan shoots her again in the head, killing her once and for all. Dan is exonerated by the authorities and returns to Tree Hill to reconnect with Jamie. Eventually, Dan is placed back on the waiting list for a heart transplant. Jamie discovers the beeper going off in his room, and Dan goes to the hospital for surgery. However, as the heart is brought into the hospital for transplant, the courier trips, the ice chest containing the heart opens, and a dog belonging to a drug addict eats the heart. Dan angrily goes into the ocean and demands the tide take him away, but he survives. He later tells Nathan and Lucas they are good sons and he is sorry for all he's done.
Dan is waiting to die in the season finale when he visits Whitey at his ranch. Dan demands Whitey shoot him, but instead Whitey embraces his former player and tells Dan there's still time for redemption.
Dan goes to Lucas' house and finds Peyton on the porch with their newborn baby, Sawyer. Dan asks Peyton if he can hold his granddaughter. Peyton is hesitant at first, but she relents. As Dan departs, he encounters Karen and Lucas, who are returning from a visit to the cemetery to Keith's grave. The pair walk by Dan without saying a word.
The season jumps to a point where Dan has a new wife, Rachel Gatina, who graduated with Dan's sons, Nathan and Lucas. Dan is living in Los Angeles, with Rachel. Dan has his own television show called Scott Free Redemption, where he tells people to "step into the light and make yourself right." Rachel serves as the show's producer. Dan had convinced his audience that he is a miracle as he was supposed to die from heart failure 14 months ago. It is later revealed, however, that Rachel paid a couple to take their son off life support so that Dan could get the son's heart and had black market surgeons perform the heart transplant. Dan also helps to clear Nathan's name during the Nathan/ Renee Richardson pregnancy scandal by inviting her to his show and having her confess in public that Nathan did not get her pregnant after subjecting her to a fixed lie detector test and taking pictures of her body language. Dan and Rachel claim to love each other, but they prove themselves to still be the selfish people they were years before. Dan returns to Tree Hill with Rachel in order to seek redemption, although his family (minus Jamie) refuse to forgive him. After being confronted by Mary , mother of the late Jimmy Edwards , Dan begins to see how wrong it is to profit off the deaths of Keith and Jimmy. Dan announces that the show filmed at Tree Hill High is his last and he is giving all his wealth away to charities and donations. Dan divorces Rachel, leaving her with nothing as he departs by bus from Tree Hill.
After his departure in Season 7, Dan is now working as a chef at a diner outside of Tree Hill. Quinn James , Haley's older sister, goes to visit him, asking for his help to murder Katie Ryan , who was responsible for shooting her and her boyfriend Clay Evans as she is tired of having to live in constant fear of Katie returning to harm them even further. Dan convinces Quinn that murdering someone is something that you can't take back. Eventually Quinn takes his advice and she leaves.
Nathan later visits Dan at the diner, giving him a picture of his newborn daughter Lydia and the first baseball that Jamie hit to win the game. It is revealed that Dan is living at the diner as well, as he closes it up and has dinner, smiling at the picture of Lydia.
Dan returns in season 9 because he loses everything when the diner burns down. He convinced Haley to let him stay with them for a few days, saying he has nowhere else to go. Nathan finds out about this and orders that Dan has to leave once he returns from scouting in Europe. Dan also helps Haley out as a chef at Karen's cafe, but has to deal with a heckler who is appalled that Haley would hire a murderer to work for her. Haley learns that Dan burned his diner down on purpose to be closer to his family and has him arrested and kicked out of their home when she believes that he planned for Nathan to get kidnapped so that Nathan would never make it home and he could stay longer. Dan then begins to live in a trailer at Julian's soundstage, where he compiles clues to find Nathan. Dan notices an emblem on the wall of a building behind Nathan in the video he sent Jamie, and after assaulting a prison medic, Dan gains the trust of a Russian prisoner, who tells him that the emblem belongs to a group of assassins and that it isn't good if they have Nathan held hostage. With the help of Haley, Dan is able to capture and interrogate a drug dealer who has ties with Dimitri and learns the location of the warehouse where Nathan is being held hostage. Dan goes into the warehouse where Nathan is held with the help of Julian and Chris Keller, he kills most of Dimitri's men and while trying to save Nathan, Dan takes a bullet and saves Nathan's life. He is still alive but is shown in the hospital thinking that he will not live "this time". Eventually, he does die in the hospital with Nathan, Haley, Jamie, and Lydia by his bedside. All of them reconciled with Dan. His brother Keith takes him to the other side once he has died, telling Dan that he forgives him.
In the series finale, Mouth receives a $1,000.000 check from Dan's estate. The money was a thank you from Dan when Mouth quit his job to protect Nathan, who was then under fire from rumors that he had an affair with Renee Richardson , rumors which turned out to be false when Renee failed a lie-detector test on Scott-Free Redemption. Mouth uses the money to start a scholarship fund in honor of Keith and Jimmy. | https://onetreehill.fandom.com/wiki/Dan_Scott | 36 |
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Dan was at his dealership, and drinking, and a fire started. Lucas saved him from the fire. In the beginning, Dan thinks it was Lucas, because he was at the fire but in the end he realizes the person who tried to kill him was his wife Deb. | https://qa.answers.com/movies-and-television/Who_was_the_one_who_tried_to_kill_Dan_Scott | 36 |
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We eat different kinds of food every day and it is a compulsory and important steps that the food gets digested and absorbed, all the nutrients and minerals that our body gets is through the food that we consume the energy that is provided by those food is getting absorbed by the body the moment it enters, now absorption and assimilation of food are two different processes. In absorption and assimilation of food we see that the food enters the alimentary canal which gets broken into simpler substances with the help of the enzyme enzymes that are produced by the body and this process is known as assimilation of food. We have read this since a very early age that saliva helps in breaking down the food and makes the process of digestion easier right from the mouth.
The most common example would be carbohydrates which are broken down into simpler units by saliva in the buccal cavity. The proteins that we consume which are high in calorific value are broken down into simpler compounds by the action of pancreatic juice in the small intestine, the fats are similarly broken down by the action of bile which is also present in the small intestine and additionally small intestine helps in the absorption of food in various ways, the entire process would come under a simulation of food.
Now we go on to define absorption so what happens during absorption is that the digested products are transported into the blood or lymph call lymphatic tissue is through the mucous membrane, the absorption of food is achieved by different mechanisms which are simple diffusion, active transport, facilitated transport and passive transport.
Before we go ahead with the explanation of these processes we will understand what diffusion means. We can define diffusion as the intermingling of substances by the natural movement of their particles into a wider term.
In simple diffusion the movement of salute from the higher concentration of anything to the lower concentration through the membrane is produced or performed for example after digestion, a few monosaccharides diffuse into the bloodstream based on its concentration gradient a few examples would be glucose, amino acids and certain irons like chloride.
Active transport is just the opposite of simple diffusion; it may be defined as a process where the movement of the salute from the lower concentration towards the higher concentration takes place at the expense of energy, which means that there is some utilization of energy that takes place while the transformation happens. The process of electrolytes like any Na ions engages in the process of active transport as they are absorbed into the blood.
This can be defined as the process of movement of solute across the biological membrane present in the body with the help of certain specific carrier proteins. Through facilitated transport, some digested amino acids and glucose are absorbed into the blood or bloodstream with the help of this method.
Just like the term sounds, passive transport is a process where the movement of solute across a cell membrane takes place without the requirement of energy or expenditure of energy. This process usually takes place after digestion when simpler food substances are absorbed into the blood.
Now the process of absorption of food is not always easy as there are some digested food or digested products from fats that cannot be absorbed into the blood for example fatty acids and glycerol so there are certain components known as micelles component complex which attaches to micelles, which are small droplets from the complex, these component complexes are formed into chylomicrons which are small protein-coated fat globules present in the body all the cells, these, in turn, move into the lymphatic vessels and release the digested products into the bloodstream and finally the food that is digested and absorbed reach is the tissue which is further utilised for the activities that are required by the body and this again explains the process of a simulation.
Now the process of absorption starts at the mouth where digestion begins with chewing, the mucus that is used helps in moistening the food and the enzyme that is produced is amylase, which partially digests polysaccharides also known as starch food. After this is done the food reaches the stomach through the pathway which consists of fairings and esophagus now we all know that the stomach stores and digests food macromolecules into a solution called chyme. Now the lining is present in the glands of the stomach to secrete hydrochloric acid that is responsible for dissolving food particles and protein-digesting enzymes called pepsin. The final stages of digestion happen in the small intestine which is further divided into three segments known as the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Now certain monosaccharides, amino acids, and mineral salts are not easily absorbed but then this process happens by transport and mediated processes where the fatty acid and water diffuse passively.
Undigested material is passed to the large intestine, although it is temporarily stored and concentrated by the absorption of salt and water while it stays there and after it is ready for use we see the contractions of the rectum, the last part of the large intestine which explains the fickle matter through the anus thus ending the process of digestion and absorption as well.
The digestive system is a special set of organs that help break down the food we eat into smaller composite particles that are then absorbed into the bloodstream. Proteins called digestive enzymes aid the process and help to catalyse a series of chemical reactions. Before we proceed, let's learn what is meant by digestion.
Digestion is a complex physicochemical process that transforms large particles of food into smaller, simple substances. This is followed by the absorption and assimilation of digested food that begins with the walls of the alimentary canal.
The process by which digested food molecules are absorbed into the bloodstream and transported to different parts of the body is known as absorption. Absorption of food begins with the small intestine. The digested food molecules pass through the walls of the small intestine and then into the bloodstream.
Once the food particles reach the bloodstream, they are transported throughout the different parts of the body, wherever necessary.
Only smaller, soluble food molecules can pass through the walls of the small intestine, whereas larger food molecules cannot pass through as they are insoluble.
During the absorption process in digestion, a network of mucous membranes help carry the digested, soluble food molecules into the bloodstream or lymph. The process of absorption involves the following steps.
Diffusion
Active Transport
Facilitated Transport
Passive Transport
Let us revise a few important concepts with the following exercise.
The absorption of food takes place in the ___________.
Large intestine
Mouth
Small intestine
None of the above
The body needs to extract ingredients from the food you eat to ensure its proper functioning.
As food particles break down into smaller particles, the process of absorption ensures that these particles are carried into the bloodstream.
It is only through the process of absorption that digested food particles reach various cells, tissues and organs of our body.
Blood carries nutrients like sugars and amino acids from the absorbed food into the liver where they are processed.
From the liver, these nutrients are delivered to other parts of the body where they are required.
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1. What is absorption?
The process by which digested food molecules are absorbed into the bloodstream and transported to different parts of the body is known as absorption.
2. Where is digested food absorbed into the blood in the human body?
The absorption of food begins with the small intestine. The digested food molecules pass through the walls of the small intestine and then into the bloodstream.
3. What is absorption in biology?
The process by which digested food molecules are absorbed into the bloodstream and transported to different parts of the body is known as absorption.
4. What is the definition of digestion?
Digestion is a complex physicochemical process that transforms large particles of food into smaller, simple substances.
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Absorption refers to the process through which the products of digestion are absorbed by the blood and then supplied and transported to the rest of the body parts. The human digestive system is a group of organs that help in the breakdown of food into smaller composite particles, which are then absorbed into the bloodstream. Digestive enzymes are proteins that aid the process by catalyzing a series of chemical reactions . Digestion is a complex physicochemical process that breaks down large food particles into smaller, more easily digestible components. Following then, the absorption and assimilation of digested food begin with the alimentary canal's walls. The movement of digested food molecules through the intestinal wall into the blood or lymph is known as absorption. The small intestine is the site of absorption of digested food. The ileum is where the majority of absorption occurs.
The food consumed by an organism must be taken into the bloodstream once it is broken down into smaller and simpler particles as the digested meal can only reach the cells and tissues through the means of blood and the circulatory system . Blood carries simple sugars, glycerol, amino acids, and a few vitamins and minerals to the liver from the digestive organs. All the chemicals are stored and processed in the liver. They're also cleansed here. The process involves the transportation of the nutrients to the rest of the body as and when they are required. Absorption and Assimilation are the terms used to describe the complete process.
Absorption is one of the most vital processes in the digestion of food in which the end products are absorbed into the blood or lymph from the intestinal mucosa. All the passive, active, or assisted transport mechanisms of the human body play an important role in this process. The small intestine is the place in the digestive system where the process of absorption takes place. It has been specially made to do this function. When food particles enter the bloodstream, they are carried to various parts of the body where they are needed. Only smaller, soluble food molecules can pass through the small intestine's walls; larger, insoluble food molecules cannot.
Special cells in the small intestine aid in the absorption of nutrients from the intestinal lining into the circulation. It has several physiological features that help in the absorption process. It is a long, convoluted tube-like organ with a diameter of one inch and a length of roughly 10 feet. The small intestine is surrounded by a thin membrane called the mesentery, which anchors it in place.
The mesentery is home to numerous blood vessels , lymphatic vessels, and nerves . They support the small intestine tissues and help in the transfer of nutrients from the intestines to the rest of the body.
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Various parts of the small intestine are:
- Duodenum- It is the first section of the stomach that links to the pyloric sphincter. It is the intestine's shortest section. Here, the chyme is combined with bile and pancreatic juice.
- Jejunum- It is the principal site of nutrient absorption and is located in the middle of the body. This section is approximately 3 feet long.
- Ileum- It is the part of the small intestine that empties into the big intestine at the end. It completes the absorption of the remaining nutrients at a length of 6 feet.
Parts of Small Intestine
During digestion, a network of mucous membranes helps in the transport of digested, soluble food molecules into the bloodstream or lymph. The following are the steps in the absorption process.
Diffusion
Simple diffusion is the passage of solute particles through a permeable membrane from an area of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration. Monosaccharides such as glucose, ions such as fluoride and chlorides, and amino acids are all carried into the bloodstream by this process, which is based on the concentration gradient across the membranes. This is the initial step in the digestion and absorption process.
Active Transport
Active transport is the process by which solute particles move from a location of lower concentration to a region of higher concentration by using energy, such as ATP . Active transport aids the diffusion of electrolytes like Na+ ions into the bloodstream against a concentration gradient.
Facilitated Transport
It is the active transport of solute particles across a permeable biological membrane, which is facilitated by certain carrier proteins. Amino acids, carbohydrates , and glucose are all transported into the bloodstream by facilitated transport.
Passive Transport
Passive transport is the passage of solute particles across a permeable cell membrane without the use of energy. This is the last step in the digestion process. Passive transport is the process through which simple and soluble food particles are absorbed into the bloodstream after digestion.
Glycerol and fatty acids, for example, cannot be taken into the bloodstream until they have been digested. Micelles , or micellar bodies, are tiny droplets that these molecules adhere to. Chylomicrons are formed from these complexes. Chylomicrons are tiny fat globules with a protein coating.
The chylomicrons are subsequently carried to lymph arteries , where they pass all of the digested food particles into the bloodstream. Food particles that have been digested and absorbed are transported to various cells and tissues where they might be used again. The assimilation of digested food is the last step.
|Part||Function|
|Mouth||When certain drugs come in contact with the mucosa of the mouth and lower side of the tongue, they are absorbed into the blood capillaries lining them.|
|Stomach||In the stomach, the absorption of water, simple sugar and alcohol takes place.|
|Small intestine||Glucose, fructose, fatty acids, glycerol, and amino acids are absorbed through the mucosa into the bloodstream and lymph.|
|Large intestine||The Large Intestine is the site of absorption for water, some minerals, and drugs.|
Human Digestive System
- Absorption refers to the process through which the products of digestion are absorbed by the blood and then supplied and transported to the rest of the body parts.
- To function properly, our body needs to extract nutrients from the food we eat.
- The absorption process guarantees that food particles are transported into the bloodstream when they break down into smaller particles.
- Only through the absorption process do digested food particles reach our body's numerous cells, tissues, and organs.
- Sugars and amino acids are transported from the absorbed food into the liver, where they are digested.
- Nutrients are transported from the liver to other regions of the body as needed.
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where does the absorption of food take place | 18.3: Digestion and Absorption | The process of digestion does not always go as it should. Many people suffer from indigestion, or dyspepsia, a condition of impaired digestion. Symptoms may include upper abdominal fullness or pain, heartburn, nausea, belching, or some combination of these symptoms. The majority of cases of indigestion occur without evidence of an organic disease that is likely to explain the symptoms. Anxiety or certain foods or medications (such as aspirin) may be contributing factors in these cases. In other cases, indigestion is a symptom of an organic disease, most often gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or gastritis. In a small minority of cases, indigestion is a symptom of a peptic ulcer of the stomach or duodenum, usually caused by a bacterial infection. Very rarely, indigestion is a sign of cancer.
An occasional bout of indigestion is usually nothing to worry about, especially in people less than 55 years of age. However, if you suffer frequent or chronic indigestion, it’s a good idea to see a doctor. If an underlying disorder such as GERD or an ulcer is causing indigestion, this can and should be treated. If no organic disease is discovered, the doctor can recommend lifestyle changes or treatments to help prevent or soothe the symptoms of acute indigestion. Lifestyle changes might include modifications in eating habits, such as eating more slowly, eating smaller meals, or avoiding fatty foods. You also might be advised to refrain from taking certain medications, especially on an empty stomach. The use of antacids or other medications to relieve symptoms may also be recommended
Digestion of food is a form of catabolism, in which the food is broken down into small molecules that the body can absorb and use for energy, growth, and repair. Digestion occurs when food is moved through the digestive system. It begins in the mouth and ends in the small intestine. The final products of digestion are absorbed from the digestive tract, primarily in the small intestine. There are two different types of digestion that occur in the digestive system: mechanical digestion and chemical digestion. Figure
summarizes the roles played by different digestive organs in mechanical and chemical digestion, both of which are described in detail in the text.
Mechanical digestion is a physical process in which food is broken into smaller pieces without becoming changed chemically. It begins with your first bite of food and continues as you chew food with your teeth into smaller pieces. The process of mechanical digestion continues in the stomach. This muscular organ churns and mixes the food it contains, an action that breaks any solid food into still smaller pieces.
Although some mechanical digestion also occurs in the intestines, it is mostly completed by the time food leaves the stomach. At that stage, food in the GI tract has been changed to the thick semi-fluid called chyme. Mechanical digestion is necessary so that chemical digestion can be effective. Mechanical digestion tremendously increases the surface area of food particles so they can be acted upon more effectively by digestive enzymes.
Chemical digestion is the biochemical process in which macromolecules in food are changed into smaller molecules that can be absorbed into body fluids and transported to cells throughout the body. Substances in food that must be chemically digested include carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. Carbohydrates must be broken down into simple sugars, proteins into amino acids, lipids into fatty acids and glycerol, and nucleic acids into nitrogen bases and sugars. Some chemical digestion takes place in the mouth and stomach, but most of it occurs in the first part of the small intestine (duodenum).
Chemical digestion could not occur without the help of many different digestive enzymes. Enzymes are proteins that catalyze or speed up biochemical reactions. Digestive enzymes are secreted by exocrine glands or by the mucosal layer of the epithelium lining the gastrointestinal tract. In the mouth, digestive enzymes are secreted by salivary glands. The lining of the stomach secretes enzymes, as does the lining of the small intestine. Many more digestive enzymes are secreted by exocrine cells in the pancreas and carried by ducts to the small intestine. Table
lists several important digestive enzymes, the organs and/or glands that secrete them, and the compounds they digest. You can read more about them in the text.
|Digestive Enzyme||Organ, Glands That Secretes It||Compound It Digests|
|Amylase||Salivary Glands, Pancreas||Amylose (Polysaccharide)|
|Sucrase||Small Intestine||Sucrose (Disaccharide)|
|Lactase||Small Intestine||Lactose (Disaccharide)|
|Lipase||Salivary Glands, Pancreas||Lipid|
|Pepsin||Stomach||Protein|
|Trypsin||Pancreas||Protein|
|Chymotrypsin||Pancreas||Protein|
|Deoxyribonuclease||Pancreas||DNA|
|Ribonuclease||Pancreas||RNA|
|Nuclease||Small Intestine||Small Nucleic Acids|
About 80 percent of digestible carbohydrates in a typical Western diet are in the form of the plant polysaccharide amylose, which consists mainly of long chains of glucose and is one of two major components of starch. Additional dietary carbohydrates include the animal polysaccharide glycogen, along with some sugars, which are mainly disaccharides.
To chemically digest amylose and glycogen, the enzyme amylase is required. The chemical digestion of these polysaccharides begins in the mouth, aided by amylase in saliva. Saliva also contains mucus, which lubricates the food, and hydrogen carbonate, which provides the ideal alkaline conditions for amylase to work. Carbohydrate digestion is completed in the small intestine, with the help of amylase secreted by the pancreas. In the digestive process, polysaccharides are reduced in length by the breaking of bonds between glucose monomers. The macromolecules are broken down to shorter polysaccharides and disaccharides, resulting in progressively shorter chains of glucose. The end result is molecules of the simple sugars glucose and maltose (which consists of two glucose molecules), both of which can be absorbed by the small intestine.
Other sugars are digested with the help of different enzymes produced by the small intestine. For example, sucrose, or table sugar, is a disaccharide that is broken down by the enzyme sucrase to form glucose and fructose, which are readily absorbed by the small intestine. Digestion of the sugar lactose, which is found in milk, requires the enzyme lactase, which breaks down lactose into glucose and galactose, which are then absorbed by the small intestine. Fewer than half of all adults produce sufficient lactase to be able to digest lactose. Those who cannot are said to be lactose intolerant.
Proteins consist of polypeptides, which must be broken down into their constituent amino acids before they can be absorbed. Protein digestion occurs in the stomach and small intestine through the action of three primary enzymes: pepsin, secreted by the stomach; and trypsin and chymotrypsin secreted by the pancreas. The stomach also secretes hydrochloric acid, making the contents highly acidic, which is required for pepsin to work. Trypsin and chymotrypsin in the small intestine require an alkaline environment to work. Bile from the liver and bicarbonate from the pancreas neutralize the acidic chyme as it empties into the small intestine. After pepsin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin break down proteins into peptides, these are further broken down into amino acids by other enzymes called peptidases, also secreted by the pancreas.
The chemical digestion of lipids begins in the mouth. The salivary glands secrete the digestive enzyme lipase, which breaks down short-chain lipids into molecules consisting of two fatty acids. A tiny amount of lipid digestion may take place in the stomach, but most lipid digestion occurs in the small intestine.
Digestion of lipids in the small intestine occurs with the help of another lipase enzyme from the pancre
Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) in foods are digested in the small intestine with the help of both pancreatic enzymes and enzymes produced by the small intestine itself. Pancreatic enzymes called ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease break down RNA and DNA, respectively, into smaller nucleic acids. These, in turn, are further broken down into nitrogen bases and sugars by small intestine enzymes called nucleases.
The human gastrointestinal tract is normally inhabited by trillions of bacteria, some of which contribute to digestion. Here are just two of dozens of examples:
- The most common carbohydrate in plants, which is cellulose, cannot be digested by the human digestive system. However, tiny amounts of cellulose are digested by bacteria in the large intestine.
- Certain bacteria in the small intestine help digest lactose, which many adults cannot otherwise digest. As a byproduct of this process, the bacteria produce lactic acid, which increases the release of digestive enzymes and the absorption of minerals such as calcium and iron.
When digestion is finished, it results in many simple nutrient molecules that must go through the process of absorption from the GI tract by blood or lymph so they can be used by cells throughout the body. A few substances are absorbed in the stomach and large intestine. For example, water is absorbed in both of these organs, and some minerals and vitamins are also absorbed in the large intestine. However, about 95 percent of nutrient molecules are absorbed in the small intestine. The absorption of the majority of these molecules takes place in the second part of the small intestine, called the jejunum. However, there are a few exceptions. For example, iron is absorbed in the duodenum, and vitamin B12 is absorbed in the last part of the small intestine, called the ileum. After being absorbed in the small intestine, nutrient molecules are transported to other parts of the body for storage or further chemical modification. For example, amino acids are transported to the liver to be used for protein synthesis.
The epithelial tissue lining the small intestine is specialized for absorption. It has many wrinkles and is covered with villi and microvilli, creating an enormous surface area for absorption. As shown in Figure
, each villus also has a network of blood capillaries and fine lymphatic vessels called lacteals close to its surface. The thin surface layer of epithelial cells of the villi transports nutrients from the lumen of the small intestine into these capillaries and lacteals. Blood in the capillaries absorbs most of the molecules, including simple sugars, amino acids, glycerol, salts, and water-soluble vitamins (vitamin C and the many B vitamins). Lymph in the lacteals absorbs fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E, and K).
The process of digestion does not always go as it should. Many people suffer from indigestion, or dyspepsia, a condition of impaired digestion. Symptoms may include upper abdominal fullness or pain, heartburn, nausea, belching, or some combination of these symptoms. The majority of cases of indigestion occur without evidence of an organic disease that is likely to explain the symptoms. Anxiety or certain foods or medications (such as aspirin) may be contributing factors in these cases. In other cases, indigestion is a symptom of an organic disease, most often gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or gastritis. In a small minority of cases, indigestion is a symptom of a peptic ulcer of the stomach or duodenum, usually caused by a bacterial infection. Very rarely, indigestion is a sign of cancer.
An occasional bout of indigestion is usually nothing to worry about, especially in people less than 55 years of age. However, if you suffer frequent or chronic indigestion, it’s a good idea to see a doctor. If an underlying disorder such as GERD or an ulcer is causing indigestion, this can and should be treated. If no organic disease is discovered, the doctor can recommend lifestyle changes or treatments to help prevent or soothe the symptoms of acute indigestion. Lifestyle changes might include modifications in eating habits, such as eating more slowly, eating smaller meals, or avoiding fatty foods. You also might be advised to refrain from taking certain medications, especially on an empty stomach. The use of antacids or other medications to relieve symptoms may also be recommended.
- Define digestion. Where does it occur?
- Identify two organ systems that control the process of digestion by the digestive system.
- What is mechanical digestion? Where does it occur?
- Describe chemical digestion.
- What is the role of enzymes in chemical digestion?
- What is absorption? When does it occur?
- a. Where does most absorption occur in the digestive system?
b. Why does most of the absorption occur in this organ and not earlier in the GI tract?
- Name two digestive enzymes found in saliva and identify which type of molecule they digest.
- a. Where is bile produced?
b. What are some functions of bile?
- True or False. Pepsin digests cellulose.
- True or False. Glucose can be absorbed by the body without being further broken down.
- The pH of the stomach ___________ .
A. is neutral B. is alkaline
C. is acidic D. depends only on what you eat
- Lymph absorbs __________ .
A. fatty acids B. sugars
C. amino acids D. vitamin C
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where does the absorption of food take place | 22.13A: Absorption in the Small Intestine | - Describe the role played by the small intestine in the absorption of nutrients
- Digested food is able to pass into the blood vessels in the wall of the small intestine through the process of diffusion.
- The inner wall, or mucosa, of the small intestine is covered in wrinkles or folds called plicae circulares that project microscopic finger-like pieces of tissue called villi, which in turn have finger-like projections known as microvilli.
- The function of the plicae circulares, the villi, and the microvilli is to increase the amount of surface area available for the absorption of nutrients.
- Each villus transports nutrients to a network of capillaries and fine lymphatic vessels called lacteals close to its surface.
- villi : Tiny, finger-like projections that protrude from the epithelial lining of the intestinal wall.
- plicae circulares : These circular folds (known as the valves of Kerckring or the valvulae conniventes) are large, valvular flaps that project into the lumen of the bowel.
- diffusion : The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
Examples of nutrients absorbed by the small intestine include carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, iron, vitamins, and water.
The small intestine is the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine where much of the digestion of food takes place. The primary function of the small intestine is the absorption of nutrients and minerals found in food.
Intestinal villus : An image of a simplified structure of the villus. The thin surface layer appear above the capillaries that are connected to a blood vessel. The lacteal is surrounded by the capillaries.
Digested nutrients pass into the blood vessels in the wall of the intestine through a process of diffusion. The inner wall, or mucosa, of the small intestine is lined with simple columnar epithelial tissue.
Structurally, the mucosa is covered in wrinkles or folds called plicae circulares—these are permanent features in the wall of the organ. They are distinct from the rugae, which are non-permanent features that allow for distention and contraction.
From the plicae circulares project microscopic finger-like pieces of tissue called villi (Latin for shaggy hair). The individual epithelial cells also have finger-like projections known as microvilli. The function of the plicae circulares, the villi, and the microvilli is to increase the amount of surface area available for the absorption of nutrients.
Each villus has a network of capillaries and fine lymphatic vessels called lacteals close to its surface. The epithelial cells of the villi transport nutrients from the lumen of the intestine into these capillaries ( amino acids and carbohydrates) and lacteals (lipids).
The absorbed substances are transported via the blood vessels to different organs of the body where they are used to build complex substances, such as the proteins required by our body. The food that remains undigested and unabsorbed passes into the large intestine.
Absorption of the majority of nutrients takes place in the jejunum, with the following notable exceptions:
- Iron is absorbed in the duodenum.
- Vitamin B12 and bile salts are absorbed in the terminal ileum.
- Water and lipids are absorbed by passive diffusion throughout the small intestine.
- Sodium bicarbonate is absorbed by active transport and glucose and amino acid co-transport.
- Fructose is absorbed by facilitated diffusion.
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Ingested food is chewed, swallowed, and passes through the esophagus into the stomach where it is broken down into a liquid called chyme. Chyme passes from the stomach into the duodenum. There it mixes with bile and pancreatic juices that further break down nutrients. Finger-like projections called villi line the interior wall of the small intestine and absorb most of the nutrients. The remaining chyme and water pass to the large intestine, which completes absorption and eliminates waste.
Villi that line the walls of the small intestine absorb nutrients into capillaries of the circulatory system and lacteals of the lymphatic system. Villi contain capillary beds, as well as lymphatic vessels called lacteals. Fatty acids absorbed from broken-down chyme pass into the lacteals. Other absorbed nutrients enter the bloodstream through the capillary beds and are taken directly to the liver, via the hepatic vein, for processing.
Chyme passes from the small intestine through the ileocecal valve and into the cecum of the large intestine. Any remaining nutrients and some water are absorbed as peristaltic waves move the chyme into the ascending and transverse colons. This dehydration, combined with peristaltic waves, helps compact the chyme. The solid waste formed is called feces. It continues to move through the descending and sigmoid colons. The large intestine temporarily stores the feces prior to elimination.
The body expels waste products from digestion through the rectum and anus. This process, called defecation, involves contraction of rectal muscles, relaxation of the internal anal sphincter, and an initial contraction of the skeletal muscle of the external anal sphincter. The defecation reflex is mostly involuntary, under the command of the autonomic nervous system. But the somatic nervous system also plays a role to control the timing of elimination. | https://www.visiblebody.com/learn/digestive/digestive-absorption-and-elimination | 37 |
where does the absorption of food take place | Your Digestive System & How it Works - NIDDK | On this page:
The digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal tract—also called the GI tract or digestive tract—and the liver , pancreas , and gallbladder. The GI tract is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus . The hollow organs that make up the GI tract are the mouth, esophagus , stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus. The liver, pancreas, and gallbladder are the solid organs of the digestive system.
The small intestine has three parts. The first part is called the duodenum. The jejunum is in the middle and the ileum is at the end. The large intestine includes the appendix , cecum, colon , and rectum. The appendix is a finger-shaped pouch attached to the cecum. The cecum is the first part of the large intestine. The colon is next. The rectum is the end of the large intestine.
Bacteria in your GI tract, also called gut flora or microbiome, help with digestion . Parts of your nervous and circulatory NIH external link systems also help. Working together, nerves, hormones , bacteria, blood, and the organs of your digestive system digest the foods and liquids you eat or drink each day.
Digestion is important because your body needs nutrients from food and drink to work properly and stay healthy. Proteins , fats , carbohydrates , vitamins NIH external link , minerals NIH external link , and water are nutrients. Your digestive system breaks nutrients into parts small enough for your body to absorb and use for energy, growth, and cell repair.
- Proteins break into amino acids
- Fats break into fatty acids and glycerol
- Carbohydrates break into simple sugars
Each part of your digestive system helps to move food and liquid through your GI tract, break food and liquid into smaller parts, or both. Once foods are broken into small enough parts, your body can absorb and move the nutrients to where they are needed. Your large intestine absorbs water, and the waste products of digestion become stool . Nerves and hormones help control the digestive process.
Food moves through your GI tract by a process called peristalsis. The large, hollow organs of your GI tract contain a layer of muscle that enables their walls to move. The movement pushes food and liquid through your GI tract and mixes the contents within each organ. The muscle behind the food contracts and squeezes the food forward, while the muscle in front of the food relaxes to allow the food to move.
Mouth. Food starts to move through your GI tract when you eat. When you swallow, your tongue pushes the food into your throat. A small flap of tissue, called the epiglottis, folds over your windpipe to prevent choking and the food passes into your esophagus.
Esophagus. Once you begin swallowing, the process becomes automatic. Your brain signals the muscles of the esophagus and peristalsis begins.
Lower esophageal sphincter. When food reaches the end of your esophagus, a ringlike muscle—called the lower esophageal sphincter —relaxes and lets food pass into your stomach. This sphincter usually stays closed to keep what’s in your stomach from flowing back into your esophagus.
Stomach. After food enters your stomach, the stomach muscles mix the food and liquid with digestive juices . The stomach slowly empties its contents, called chyme , into your small intestine.
Small intestine. The muscles of the small intestine mix food with digestive juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, and push the mixture forward for further digestion. The walls of the small intestine absorb water and the digested nutrients into your bloodstream. As peristalsis continues, the waste products of the digestive process move into the large intestine.
Large intestine. Waste products from the digestive process include undigested parts of food, fluid, and older cells from the lining of your GI tract. The large intestine absorbs water and changes the waste from liquid into stool. Peristalsis helps move the stool into your rectum.
Rectum. The lower end of your large intestine, the rectum, stores stool until it pushes stool out of your anus during a bowel movement .
As food moves through your GI tract, your digestive organs break the food into smaller parts using:
- motion, such as chewing, squeezing, and mixing
- digestive juices, such as stomach acid, bile , and enzymes
Mouth. The digestive process starts in your mouth when you chew. Your salivary glands make saliva , a digestive juice, which moistens food so it moves more easily through your esophagus into your stomach. Saliva also has an enzyme that begins to break down starches in your food.
Esophagus. After you swallow, peristalsis pushes the food down your esophagus into your stomach.
Stomach. Glands in your stomach lining make stomach acid and enzymes that break down food. Muscles of your stomach mix the food with these digestive juices.
Pancreas. Your pancreas makes a digestive juice that has enzymes that break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. The pancreas delivers the digestive juice to the small intestine through small tubes called ducts.
Liver. Your liver makes a digestive juice called bile that helps digest fats and some vitamins. Bile ducts carry bile from your liver to your gallbladder for storage, or to the small intestine for use.
Gallbladder. Your gallbladder stores bile between meals. When you eat, your gallbladder squeezes bile through the bile ducts into your small intestine.
Small intestine. Your small intestine makes digestive juice, which mixes with bile and pancreatic juice to complete the breakdown of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Bacteria in your small intestine make some of the enzymes you need to digest carbohydrates. Your small intestine moves water from your bloodstream into your GI tract to help break down food. Your small intestine also absorbs water with other nutrients.
Large intestine. In your large intestine, more water moves from your GI tract into your bloodstream. Bacteria in your large intestine help break down remaining nutrients and make vitamin K NIH external link . Waste products of digestion, including parts of food that are still too large, become stool.
The small intestine absorbs most of the nutrients in your food, and your circulatory system passes them on to other parts of your body to store or use. Special cells help absorbed nutrients cross the intestinal lining into your bloodstream. Your blood carries simple sugars, amino acids, glycerol, and some vitamins and salts to the liver. Your liver stores, processes, and delivers nutrients to the rest of your body when needed.
The lymph system NIH external link , a network of vessels that carry white blood cells and a fluid called lymph throughout your body to fight infection, absorbs fatty acids and vitamins.
Your body uses sugars, amino acids, fatty acids, and glycerol to build substances you need for energy, growth, and cell repair.
Your hormones and nerves work together to help control the digestive process. Signals flow within your GI tract and back and forth from your GI tract to your brain.
Cells lining your stomach and small intestine make and release hormones that control how your digestive system works. These hormones tell your body when to make digestive juices and send signals to your brain that you are hungry or full. Your pancreas also makes hormones that are important to digestion.
You have nerves that connect your central nervous system—your brain and spinal cord—to your digestive system and control some digestive functions. For example, when you see or smell food, your brain sends a signal that causes your salivary glands to "make your mouth water" to prepare you to eat.
You also have an enteric nervous system (ENS)—nerves within the walls of your GI tract. When food stretches the walls of your GI tract, the nerves of your ENS release many different substances that speed up or delay the movement of food and the production of digestive juices. The nerves send signals to control the actions of your gut muscles to contract and relax to push food through your intestines.
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where does the absorption of food take place | Digestion: Anatomy, physiology, and chemistry | Humans need nutrients from food to survive. A complex process of digestion enables the nutrients to enter the body and its cells.
Food contains all of the nutrients a person’s body needs for health, but large, complex compounds bind them. During digestion, the body breaks these compounds down into smaller parts. This enables them to enter cells, providing energy and Thisenefits.
This article explains how the body digests food from when it enters the mouth to when it exits the body. It also suggests some tips for healthy digestion and how to identify problems.
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The human gastrointestinal tract, also called the alimentary canal, is around 30 feet (9 meters) long in adults.
- the mouth, or oral cavity
- the esophagus
- the stomach
- the small intestine
- the large intestine, or colon
- the rectum
In addition, the following organs support digestion, for example, by chewing or adding enzymes and other secretions that enable the body to absorb nutrients:
Together, these organs provide mechanical processing, the secretion of enzymes and bile to help break down compounds, and the excretion of waste.
Some terms to describe these functions include:
- ingestion, which includes chewing and swallowing
- the secretion of substances that enable food and nutrients to move through the body effectively
- propulsion, where muscles move the contents of the canal forward
- digestion, the breakdown of food, for example, through chewing and secretions
- the absorption of nutrients, which mainly occurs in the small intestine
- defecation and urination, the removal of waste products through the rectum and the bladder, respectively
Digestion begins even before the food enters the mouth.
When a person smells or thinks of food or eating, the salivary glands begin producing saliva.
Once the food is inside of the mouth:
- saliva moistens it.
- the teeth and tongue break it down mechanically.
- an enzyme in the saliva, salivary amylase, breaks it down into starch.
Chewing and amylase digestion will convert the food into a small, round blob, or bolus. This enables a person to swallow it easily.
After swallowing, the bolus enters the esophagus, where gravity and muscle contractions help move it down to the stomach through a process called peristalsis.
Peristalsis is the slow contraction of smooth muscles along and around the digestive system.
As the bolus moves through the esophagus, these contractions push it toward the stomach.
In the stomach, the following processes occur:
- The stomach stores the food temporarily.
- Cells in the stomach secrete gastric juices. These include hydrochloric acid, which maintains the pH of the stomach between
1.5–2.0.
- The stomach has three muscular layers that churn and mix its contents.
These processes turn the food into a thick paste, known as chyme.
Hydrochloric acid is essential for:
- destroying microorganisms, such as bacteria
- breaking down proteins and plant fibers
- activating pepsin, an enzyme that helps digest proteins
The acid, however, can harm the stomach lining, so some cells produce mucus to protect the lining from damage.
The stomach does not absorb many nutrients from the chyme into the bloodstream, so the chyme enters the small intestine through the pyloric sphincter.
There are three sections:
- The duodenum: This receives chyme from the stomach and digestive enzymes from the liver and pancreas.
- The jejunum: Most of the chemical digestion and absorption occur here.
- The ileum: This contains the ileocecal valve, a sphincter through which food passes to the large intestine.
Once the food is fully broken down, the villi absorb the nutrients, which enter the bloodstream.
Villi are tiny, finger-like projections that line the walls of the small intestine. Within the villi are tiny capillaries called lacteals. By increasing their surface area, the villi maximize their absorption of nutrients.
Any unabsorbed food and nutrients now pass to the large intestine, or colon. The material is now feces.
- cecum, a pouch through which food enters from the small intestine
- ascending colon
- transverse colon
- descending colon
- sigmoid colon
From the large intestine, the body absorbs water and electrolytes.
Food travels slowly through the colon to allow the body to absorb water, and
of gut bacteria break down any undigested food.
Next, peristalsis moves the feces toward the rectum.
As the digested food moves into the rectum, nerves in the wall of the rectum known as stretch receptors detect when the chamber is full and stimulate the desire to defecate.
Defecation involves
of muscle movement.
The first happens automatically, and a person cannot control it. This is a relaxation of the smooth muscles in the internal anal sphincter.
The second, a person can control and is a conscious relaxation of the skeletal muscles in the external anal sphincter. If a person wishes to delay defection, they can avoid relaxing their muscles to move the feces back into the colon.
The longer feces stay in the colon, the more water the body will absorb. This can lead to dry, hard feces, constipation , and possibly impaction. For this reason, a person should defecate as soon as is convenient.
A person should seek medical advice if they are unable to defecate for about 3 days or if they have abdominal or rectal pain or bleeding | https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320014 | 37 |
where does the absorption of food take place | Your Digestive System & How it Works - NIDDK | On this page:
The digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal tract—also called the GI tract or digestive tract—and the liver , pancreas , and gallbladder. The GI tract is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus . The hollow organs that make up the GI tract are the mouth, esophagus , stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus. The liver, pancreas, and gallbladder are the solid organs of the digestive system.
The small intestine has three parts. The first part is called the duodenum. The jejunum is in the middle and the ileum is at the end. The large intestine includes the appendix , cecum, colon , and rectum. The appendix is a finger-shaped pouch attached to the cecum. The cecum is the first part of the large intestine. The colon is next. The rectum is the end of the large intestine.
Bacteria in your GI tract, also called gut flora or microbiome, help with digestion . Parts of your nervous and circulatory NIH external link systems also help. Working together, nerves, hormones , bacteria, blood, and the organs of your digestive system digest the foods and liquids you eat or drink each day.
Digestion is important because your body needs nutrients from food and drink to work properly and stay healthy. Proteins , fats , carbohydrates , vitamins NIH external link , minerals NIH external link , and water are nutrients. Your digestive system breaks nutrients into parts small enough for your body to absorb and use for energy, growth, and cell repair.
- Proteins break into amino acids
- Fats break into fatty acids and glycerol
- Carbohydrates break into simple sugars
Each part of your digestive system helps to move food and liquid through your GI tract, break food and liquid into smaller parts, or both. Once foods are broken into small enough parts, your body can absorb and move the nutrients to where they are needed. Your large intestine absorbs water, and the waste products of digestion become stool . Nerves and hormones help control the digestive process.
Food moves through your GI tract by a process called peristalsis. The large, hollow organs of your GI tract contain a layer of muscle that enables their walls to move. The movement pushes food and liquid through your GI tract and mixes the contents within each organ. The muscle behind the food contracts and squeezes the food forward, while the muscle in front of the food relaxes to allow the food to move.
Mouth. Food starts to move through your GI tract when you eat. When you swallow, your tongue pushes the food into your throat. A small flap of tissue, called the epiglottis, folds over your windpipe to prevent choking and the food passes into your esophagus.
Esophagus. Once you begin swallowing, the process becomes automatic. Your brain signals the muscles of the esophagus and peristalsis begins.
Lower esophageal sphincter. When food reaches the end of your esophagus, a ringlike muscle—called the lower esophageal sphincter —relaxes and lets food pass into your stomach. This sphincter usually stays closed to keep what’s in your stomach from flowing back into your esophagus.
Stomach. After food enters your stomach, the stomach muscles mix the food and liquid with digestive juices . The stomach slowly empties its contents, called chyme , into your small intestine.
Small intestine. The muscles of the small intestine mix food with digestive juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, and push the mixture forward for further digestion. The walls of the small intestine absorb water and the digested nutrients into your bloodstream. As peristalsis continues, the waste products of the digestive process move into the large intestine.
Large intestine. Waste products from the digestive process include undigested parts of food, fluid, and older cells from the lining of your GI tract. The large intestine absorbs water and changes the waste from liquid into stool. Peristalsis helps move the stool into your rectum.
Rectum. The lower end of your large intestine, the rectum, stores stool until it pushes stool out of your anus during a bowel movement .
As food moves through your GI tract, your digestive organs break the food into smaller parts using:
- motion, such as chewing, squeezing, and mixing
- digestive juices, such as stomach acid, bile , and enzymes
Mouth. The digestive process starts in your mouth when you chew. Your salivary glands make saliva , a digestive juice, which moistens food so it moves more easily through your esophagus into your stomach. Saliva also has an enzyme that begins to break down starches in your food.
Esophagus. After you swallow, peristalsis pushes the food down your esophagus into your stomach.
Stomach. Glands in your stomach lining make stomach acid and enzymes that break down food. Muscles of your stomach mix the food with these digestive juices.
Pancreas. Your pancreas makes a digestive juice that has enzymes that break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. The pancreas delivers the digestive juice to the small intestine through small tubes called ducts.
Liver. Your liver makes a digestive juice called bile that helps digest fats and some vitamins. Bile ducts carry bile from your liver to your gallbladder for storage, or to the small intestine for use.
Gallbladder. Your gallbladder stores bile between meals. When you eat, your gallbladder squeezes bile through the bile ducts into your small intestine.
Small intestine. Your small intestine makes digestive juice, which mixes with bile and pancreatic juice to complete the breakdown of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Bacteria in your small intestine make some of the enzymes you need to digest carbohydrates. Your small intestine moves water from your bloodstream into your GI tract to help break down food. Your small intestine also absorbs water with other nutrients.
Large intestine. In your large intestine, more water moves from your GI tract into your bloodstream. Bacteria in your large intestine help break down remaining nutrients and make vitamin K NIH external link . Waste products of digestion, including parts of food that are still too large, become stool.
The small intestine absorbs most of the nutrients in your food, and your circulatory system passes them on to other parts of your body to store or use. Special cells help absorbed nutrients cross the intestinal lining into your bloodstream. Your blood carries simple sugars, amino acids, glycerol, and some vitamins and salts to the liver. Your liver stores, processes, and delivers nutrients to the rest of your body when needed.
The lymph system NIH external link , a network of vessels that carry white blood cells and a fluid called lymph throughout your body to fight infection, absorbs fatty acids and vitamins.
Your body uses sugars, amino acids, fatty acids, and glycerol to build substances you need for energy, growth, and cell repair.
Your hormones and nerves work together to help control the digestive process. Signals flow within your GI tract and back and forth from your GI tract to your brain.
Cells lining your stomach and small intestine make and release hormones that control how your digestive system works. These hormones tell your body when to make digestive juices and send signals to your brain that you are hungry or full. Your pancreas also makes hormones that are important to digestion.
You have nerves that connect your central nervous system—your brain and spinal cord—to your digestive system and control some digestive functions. For example, when you see or smell food, your brain sends a signal that causes your salivary glands to "make your mouth water" to prepare you to eat.
You also have an enteric nervous system (ENS)—nerves within the walls of your GI tract. When food stretches the walls of your GI tract, the nerves of your ENS release many different substances that speed up or delay the movement of food and the production of digestive juices. The nerves send signals to control the actions of your gut muscles to contract and relax to push food through your intestines.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and other components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conduct and support research into many diseases and conditions.
Watch a video of NIDDK Director Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers explaining the importance of participating in clinical trials.
Clinical trials that are currently open and are recruiting can be viewed at www.ClinicalTrials.gov NIH external link .
Last Reviewed December 2017 | https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/digestive-system-how-it-works | 37 |
where does the absorption of food take place | The Digestive Process: What Does the Small Intestine Do? | Your small intestine is the longest part of the human digestive system. It's about 20 feet long. After food leaves your stomach, it passes into your small intestine. This is where most of the digestive process takes place.
The upper part of your small intestine is the duodenum. It's the widest part of your small intestine and also the shortest. It's about 10 inches long. When food moves into your duodenum, it mixes with digestive enzymes that your pancreas secretes. These enzymes break down the largest molecules of food, such as proteins and starches. They also neutralize stomach acid. Bile is a substance that breaks down the fats in foods. It also empties into your duodenum by the common bile duct. Some minerals are absorbed here, such as iron and folate.
The middle part of your small intestine is the jejunum. The jejunum absorbs most of your nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins, and vitamins.
The lowest part of your small intestine is the ileum. This is where the final parts of digestive absorption take place. The ileum absorbs bile acids, fluid, and vitamin B-12. Finger-shaped structures called villi line the entire small intestine. They help absorb nutrients.
Contractions move food through your small intestine. After you eat a meal, your small intestine contracts in a random, unsynchronized manner. Food moves back and forth and mixes with digestive juices. Then stronger, wave-like contractions push the food farther down your digestive system. These movements are known as peristalsis. Your enteric nervous system controls the movements in your small intestine. This is a network of nerves that runs from your esophagus to your anus.
After food leaves your small intestine, contractions push any food that remains in your digestive tract into your large intestine. Water, minerals, and any nutrients are then absorbed from your food. The leftover waste is formed into a bowel movement.
Many conditions can damage or impair your small intestine. Among them are:
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This is a gastrointestinal (GI) disorder. It has many symptoms, including belly pain and cramps, diarrhea or constipation, and bloating. These symptoms generally occur without any visible signs of damage or disease to your digestive tract.
Celiac disease. This is an allergy to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. When your body digests gluten, your immune system attacks the villi lining your small intestine. Without treatment, your body won't be able to absorb nutrients correctly and you may become malnourished.
Crohn’s disease. This is a chronic disease that causes inflammation and irritation in your digestive tract. This can cause ulcers and injury to the intestines. Crohn’s disease most often affects the ileum, a part of your small intestine but it can occur anywhere in the GI tract.
Small bowel obstruction. This is a narrowing of your intestine that prevents food from getting through. It most often affects the small intestine. Small bowel obstruction is often caused by hernias. It is also caused by bands of tissue (adhesions) that can twist or pull your intestine or tumors. A complete bowel obstruction is an emergency. It means that the intestine is completely blocked. It needs medical care right away. | https://www.uhhospitals.org/health-information/health-and-wellness-library/article/adult-diseases-and-conditions-v1/the-digestive-process-what-does-the-small-intestine-do | 37 |
where does the absorption of food take place | Digestive System (for Teens) - Nemours KidsHealth | Food is our fuel, and its nutrients give our bodies' cells the energy and substances they need to work. But before food can do that, it must be digested into small pieces the body can absorb and use.
The first step in the digestive process happens before we even taste food. Just by smelling that homemade apple pie or thinking about how delicious that ripe tomato is going to be, you start salivating — and the digestive process begins in preparation for that first bite.
Almost all animals have a tube-type digestive system in which food:
- enters the mouth
- passes through a long tube
- exits the body as feces (poop) through the anus
Along the way, food is broken down into tiny molecules so that the body can absorb nutrients it needs:
- Protein must be broken down into amino acids.
- Starches break down into simple sugars.
- Fats break down into into fatty acids and glycerol.
The waste parts of food that the body can't use are what leave the body as feces.
The digestive system is made up of the alimentary canal (also called the digestive tract) and other organs, such as the liver and pancreas. The alimentary canal is the long tube of organs — including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines — that runs from the mouth to the anus. An adult's digestive tract is about 30 feet (about 9 meters) long.
Digestion begins in the mouth, well before food reaches the stomach. When we see, smell, taste, or even imagine a tasty meal, our salivary glands in front of the ear, under the tongue, and near the lower jaw begin making saliva (spit).
As the teeth tear and chop the food, spit moistens it for easy swallowing. A digestive enzyme in saliva called amylase (pronounced: AH-meh-lace) starts to break down some of the carbohydrates (starches and sugars) in the food even before it leaves the mouth.
Swallowing, done by muscle movements in the tongue and mouth, moves the food into the throat, or pharynx (pronounced: FAIR-inks). The pharynx is a passageway for food and air. A soft flap of tissue called the epiglottis (pronounced: ep-ih-GLAH-tus) closes over the windpipe when we swallow to prevent choking.
From the throat, food travels down a muscular tube in the chest called the esophagus (pronounced: ih-SAH-fuh-gus). Waves of muscle contractions called peristalsis (pronounced: per-uh-STALL-sus) force food down through the esophagus to the stomach. A person normally isn't aware of the movements of the esophagus, stomach, and intestine that take place as food passes through the digestive tract.
At the end of the esophagus, a muscular ring or valve called a sphincter (pronounced: SFINK-ter) allows food to enter the stomach and then squeezes shut to keep food or fluid from flowing back up into the esophagus. The stomach muscles churn and mix the food with digestive juices that have acids and enzymes, breaking it into much smaller, digestible pieces. An acidic environment is needed for the digestion that takes place in the stomach.
By the time food is ready to leave the stomach, it has been processed into a thick liquid called chyme (pronounced: kime). A walnut-sized muscular valve at the outlet of the stomach called the pylorus (pronounced: pie-LOR-us) keeps chyme in the stomach until it reaches the right consistency to pass into the small intestine. Chyme is then squirted down into the small intestine, where digestion of food continues so the body can absorb the nutrients into the bloodstream.
The small intestine is made up of three parts:
- the duodenum (pronounced: due-uh-DEE-num), the C-shaped first part
- the jejunum (pronounced: jih-JU-num), the coiled midsection
- the ileum (pronounced: IH-lee-um), the final section that leads into the large intestine
The inner wall of the small intestine is covered with millions of microscopic, finger-like projections called villi (pronounced: VIH-lie). The villi are the vehicles through which nutrients can be absorbed into the blood. The blood then brings these nutrients to the rest of the body.
The liver (under the ribcage in the right upper part of the abdomen), the gallbladder (hidden just below the liver), and the pancreas (beneath the stomach) are not part of the alimentary canal, but these organs are essential to digestion.
The liver makes bile , which helps the body absorb fat. Bile is stored in the gallbladder until it is needed. The pancreas makes enzymes that help digest proteins, fats, and carbs. It also makes a substance that neutralizes stomach acid. These enzymes and bile travel through special pathways (called ducts) into the small intestine, where they help to break down food. The liver also helps process nutrients in the bloodstream.
From the small intestine, undigested food (and some water) travels to the large intestine through a muscular ring or valve that prevents food from returning to the small intestine. By the time food reaches the large intestine, the work of absorbing nutrients is nearly finished.
The large intestine's main job is to remove water from the undigested matter and form solid waste (poop) to be excreted.
The large intestine has three parts:
- The cecum (pronounced: SEE-kum) is the beginning of the large intestine. The appendix , a small, hollow, finger-like pouch, hangs at the end of the cecum. Scientists believe the appendix is left over from a previous time in human evolution. It no longer appears to be useful to the digestive process.
- The colon extends from the cecum up the right side of the abdomen, across the upper abdomen, and then down the left side of the abdomen, finally connecting to the rectum.
The colon has three parts: the ascending colon and the transverse colon, which absorb fluids and salts; and the descending colon, which holds the resulting waste. Bacteria in the colon help to digest the remaining food products.
- The rectum is where feces are stored until they leave the digestive system through the anus as a bowel movement.
It takes hours for our bodies to fully digest food. | https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/digestive-system.html | 37 |
where does the absorption of food take place | The Digestive Process: What Does the Small Intestine Do? | Your small intestine is the longest part of the human digestive system. It's about 20 feet long. After food leaves your stomach, it passes into your small intestine. This is where most of the digestive process takes place.
The upper part of your small intestine is the duodenum. It's the widest part of your small intestine and also the shortest. It's about 10 inches long. When food moves into your duodenum, it mixes with digestive enzymes that your pancreas secretes. These enzymes break down the largest molecules of food, such as proteins and starches. They also neutralize stomach acid. Bile is a substance that breaks down the fats in foods. It also empties into your duodenum by the common bile duct. Some minerals are absorbed here, such as iron and folate.
The middle part of your small intestine is the jejunum. The jejunum absorbs most of your nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins, and vitamins.
The lowest part of your small intestine is the ileum. This is where the final parts of digestive absorption take place. The ileum absorbs bile acids, fluid, and vitamin B-12. Finger-shaped structures called villi line the entire small intestine. They help absorb nutrients.
Contractions move food through your small intestine. After you eat a meal, your small intestine contracts in a random, unsynchronized manner. Food moves back and forth and mixes with digestive juices. Then stronger, wave-like contractions push the food farther down your digestive system. These movements are known as peristalsis. Your enteric nervous system controls the movements in your small intestine. This is a network of nerves that runs from your esophagus to your anus.
After food leaves your small intestine, contractions push any food that remains in your digestive tract into your large intestine. Water, minerals, and any nutrients are then absorbed from your food. The leftover waste is formed into a bowel movement.
Many conditions can damage or impair your small intestine. Among them are:
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This is a gastrointestinal (GI) disorder. It has many symptoms, including belly pain and cramps, diarrhea or constipation, and bloating. These symptoms generally occur without any visible signs of damage or disease to your digestive tract.
Celiac disease. This is an allergy to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. When your body digests gluten, your immune system attacks the villi lining your small intestine. Without treatment, your body won't be able to absorb nutrients correctly and you may become malnourished.
Crohn’s disease. This is a chronic disease that causes inflammation and irritation in your digestive tract. This can cause ulcers and injury to the intestines. Crohn’s disease most often affects the ileum, a part of your small intestine but it can occur anywhere in the GI tract.
Small bowel obstruction. This is a narrowing of your intestine that prevents food from getting through. It most often affects the small intestine. Small bowel obstruction is often caused by hernias. It is also caused by bands of tissue (adhesions) that can twist or pull your intestine or tumors. A complete bowel obstruction is an emergency. It means that the intestine is completely blocked. It needs medical care right away. | https://www.uhhospitals.org/health-information/health-and-wellness-library/article/adult-diseases-and-conditions-v1/the-digestive-process-what-does-the-small-intestine-do | 37 |
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what are the ingredients in moo goo gai pan | What Is Moo Goo Gai Pan? | Moo goo gai pan is an English transliteration of the Cantonese dish, “moh gu gai pin,” which literally means plate of chicken and mushrooms. It’s a chicken stir-fry that’s thickened with cornstarch, and then paired with a bed of crunchy vegetables. Compared to the versions in China, moo goo gai pan in the States has a much higher proportion of vegetables. Feel free to use whatever is in season, just make sure to cut the vegetables so that they’re about the same size as the chicken.
crspix/Getty Images
The main ingredients in this dish are boneless chicken breasts and mushrooms. The chicken is cut into strips and dipped in cornstarch and egg white for a velveting effect; this makes the meat incredibly soft and tender. Without the cornstarch, the thin slices of chicken are prone to overcooking and might get too stringy or tough.
The mushrooms are usually a white button mushroom that’s sliced into pieces. Canned button mushrooms work as well. Finally, a handful of crunchy vegetables are added for texture, like white chestnut, fresh snap peas, carrots and, and bamboo shoots. Substitutions are more than welcomed.
Moo goo gai pan is quite easy to make. The best way to save some time is to cut and portion out everything first.
- Prep all the ingredients. Slice the chicken and mushroom into thin pieces. Cut the water chestnuts in half and neatly chop the rest of the vegetables into bite-sized pieces.
- Coat the chicken. Toss the chicken strips in corn starch and egg whites and let that marinate for about 30 minutes.
- Cook the vegetables. Heat the oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Add the vegetables and cook, stirring occasionally, until crisp-tender. Remove the vegetables to a plate.
- Cook the chicken. Add a bit more oil to the pan, then add the chicken and sear it until it’s cooked through.
- Combine the chicken and vegetables with a slurry. Add the vegetables back to the pan and cook the chicken and vegetables over high heat with a slurry of cornstarch, chicken stock, soy sauce and a bit of sugar. Cook just until the slurry thickens.
- Serve the hot dish immediately with white rice.
Antonis Achilleos
This is a Cantonese-style moo goo gai pan, more similar to the versions found in China than in the States.
Velveted Chicken Stir-Fry with Shiitake Mushrooms and Bok Choy
A classic moo goo gai pan but with gorgeous, umami-heavy shiitakes instead of the usual white button mushrooms.
Related Links: | https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/packages/food-network-essentials/what-is-moo-goo-gai-pan | 38 |
what are the ingredients in moo goo gai pan | What Is Moo Goo Gai Pan? | Moo goo gai pan is an English transliteration of the Cantonese dish, “moh gu gai pin,” which literally means plate of chicken and mushrooms. It’s a chicken stir-fry that’s thickened with cornstarch, and then paired with a bed of crunchy vegetables. Compared to the versions in China, moo goo gai pan in the States has a much higher proportion of vegetables. Feel free to use whatever is in season, just make sure to cut the vegetables so that they’re about the same size as the chicken.
crspix/Getty Images
The main ingredients in this dish are boneless chicken breasts and mushrooms. The chicken is cut into strips and dipped in cornstarch and egg white for a velveting effect; this makes the meat incredibly soft and tender. Without the cornstarch, the thin slices of chicken are prone to overcooking and might get too stringy or tough.
The mushrooms are usually a white button mushroom that’s sliced into pieces. Canned button mushrooms work as well. Finally, a handful of crunchy vegetables are added for texture, like white chestnut, fresh snap peas, carrots and, and bamboo shoots. Substitutions are more than welcomed.
Moo goo gai pan is quite easy to make. The best way to save some time is to cut and portion out everything first.
- Prep all the ingredients. Slice the chicken and mushroom into thin pieces. Cut the water chestnuts in half and neatly chop the rest of the vegetables into bite-sized pieces.
- Coat the chicken. Toss the chicken strips in corn starch and egg whites and let that marinate for about 30 minutes.
- Cook the vegetables. Heat the oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Add the vegetables and cook, stirring occasionally, until crisp-tender. Remove the vegetables to a plate.
- Cook the chicken. Add a bit more oil to the pan, then add the chicken and sear it until it’s cooked through.
- Combine the chicken and vegetables with a slurry. Add the vegetables back to the pan and cook the chicken and vegetables over high heat with a slurry of cornstarch, chicken stock, soy sauce and a bit of sugar. Cook just until the slurry thickens.
- Serve the hot dish immediately with white rice.
Antonis Achilleos
This is a Cantonese-style moo goo gai pan, more similar to the versions found in China than in the States.
Velveted Chicken Stir-Fry with Shiitake Mushrooms and Bok Choy
A classic moo goo gai pan but with gorgeous, umami-heavy shiitakes instead of the usual white button mushrooms.
Related Links: | https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/packages/food-network-essentials/what-is-moo-goo-gai-pan | 38 |
what are the ingredients in moo goo gai pan | What Is Moo Goo Gai Pan? | Moo goo gai pan is an English transliteration of the Cantonese dish, “moh gu gai pin,” which literally means plate of chicken and mushrooms. It’s a chicken stir-fry that’s thickened with cornstarch, and then paired with a bed of crunchy vegetables. Compared to the versions in China, moo goo gai pan in the States has a much higher proportion of vegetables. Feel free to use whatever is in season, just make sure to cut the vegetables so that they’re about the same size as the chicken.
crspix/Getty Images
The main ingredients in this dish are boneless chicken breasts and mushrooms. The chicken is cut into strips and dipped in cornstarch and egg white for a velveting effect; this makes the meat incredibly soft and tender. Without the cornstarch, the thin slices of chicken are prone to overcooking and might get too stringy or tough.
The mushrooms are usually a white button mushroom that’s sliced into pieces. Canned button mushrooms work as well. Finally, a handful of crunchy vegetables are added for texture, like white chestnut, fresh snap peas, carrots and, and bamboo shoots. Substitutions are more than welcomed.
Moo goo gai pan is quite easy to make. The best way to save some time is to cut and portion out everything first.
- Prep all the ingredients. Slice the chicken and mushroom into thin pieces. Cut the water chestnuts in half and neatly chop the rest of the vegetables into bite-sized pieces.
- Coat the chicken. Toss the chicken strips in corn starch and egg whites and let that marinate for about 30 minutes.
- Cook the vegetables. Heat the oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Add the vegetables and cook, stirring occasionally, until crisp-tender. Remove the vegetables to a plate.
- Cook the chicken. Add a bit more oil to the pan, then add the chicken and sear it until it’s cooked through.
- Combine the chicken and vegetables with a slurry. Add the vegetables back to the pan and cook the chicken and vegetables over high heat with a slurry of cornstarch, chicken stock, soy sauce and a bit of sugar. Cook just until the slurry thickens.
- Serve the hot dish immediately with white rice.
Antonis Achilleos
This is a Cantonese-style moo goo gai pan, more similar to the versions found in China than in the States.
Velveted Chicken Stir-Fry with Shiitake Mushrooms and Bok Choy
A classic moo goo gai pan but with gorgeous, umami-heavy shiitakes instead of the usual white button mushrooms.
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Moo goo gai pan is a Chinese-American dish that literally translates to chicken with sliced mushrooms. This dish is great, light, and very flavorful.
Recipe by deven
Updated on January 30, 2023
2 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
2 cups chopped broccoli florets
1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
1 (15 ounce) can whole straw mushrooms, drained
1 (8 ounce) can sliced bamboo shoots, drained
1 (8 ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into strips
¼ cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine
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Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wok over high heat until it begins to smoke. Stir in broccoli and fresh mushrooms, then add straw mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts. Stir-fry until broccoli is tender and all vegetables are hot, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and wipe out the wok.
Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in the wok over high heat until it begins to smoke. Add garlic and stir-fry until it turns golden, a few seconds. Add chicken and stir-fry until browned on the edges and no longer pink in the center, about 5 minutes.
Stir broth, cornstarch, sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and rice wine together in a small bowl; pour over chicken in the wok and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil until sauce thickens and is no longer cloudy, about 30 seconds. Return vegetables to the wok; toss with sauce and cook until heated through, about 1 minute. | https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/165846/moo-goo-gai-pan/ | 38 |
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Moo goo gai pan is a Chinese-American dish that literally translates to chicken with sliced mushrooms. This dish is great, light, and very flavorful.
Recipe by deven
Updated on January 30, 2023
2 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
2 cups chopped broccoli florets
1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
1 (15 ounce) can whole straw mushrooms, drained
1 (8 ounce) can sliced bamboo shoots, drained
1 (8 ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into strips
¼ cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine
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Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wok over high heat until it begins to smoke. Stir in broccoli and fresh mushrooms, then add straw mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts. Stir-fry until broccoli is tender and all vegetables are hot, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and wipe out the wok.
Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in the wok over high heat until it begins to smoke. Add garlic and stir-fry until it turns golden, a few seconds. Add chicken and stir-fry until browned on the edges and no longer pink in the center, about 5 minutes.
Stir broth, cornstarch, sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and rice wine together in a small bowl; pour over chicken in the wok and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil until sauce thickens and is no longer cloudy, about 30 seconds. Return vegetables to the wok; toss with sauce and cook until heated through, about 1 minute. | https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/165846/moo-goo-gai-pan/ | 38 |
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20 minute is all it takes to make this delicious moo goo gai pan recipe! Chicken and vegetables tossed in a gooey, sour and savory sauce so tasty you’ll want to drizzle it all over your rice!
Making a delicious stir fry of chicken with Chinese vegetables is one of my favorite go-to dishes when I want something nutritious and quick. According to Wikipedia, with 78.9% retention, stir frying preserved significantly more vitamin C than boiling. This makes me very happy since I stir fry regularly!
Homemade moo goo gai pan (or mugu gai pan) is a dish both Ben and I like to make because it takes literally 20 minutes to make and tastes way better than the takeout version!
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It’s a dish commonly found in Chinese restaurants but the name can be a little intimidating if you are not too familiar with the menu. Here is a quick explanation on this famous Chinese dish – from what’s in a moo goo gai pan, the meaning of the word and a super easy recipe for you to make at home tonight.
Moo goo gai pan is a simple American-Chinese stir fry made with chicken (gai pin in Cantonese), mushrooms (mohgu in Cantonese) and vegetables such as carrots, snow peas, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts. The ingredients are tossed in a classic Chinese white sauce and served with rice on the side.
Cantonese dishes are usually milder in flavor because they use less spices and chilies. Having lived in both Hong Kong (Cantonese) and Taiwan (Szechuan), I can tell you there is a big difference in flavor between those two places. Chinese food is complex and what makes the food so great is the many different flavor combinations you get as you travel through those territories.
Traveling across Asian is an adventure for the palate!
As I mentioned above, the name is pretty much taken from two ingredients – chicken and mushrooms. The literal translation for mòh-gū gāi-pin is sliced chicken with button mushrooms.
- Oil: peanut oil is what’s most often used in Asian cooking but you can use vegetable oil as well since it’s neutral in flavor.
- Chicken: I’m using boneless skinless chicken breasts but feel free to use other parts of a chicken, if you have a preference. You can also keep the skin on if you enjoy the texture, and bones if you like sucking on them.
- Garlic: garlic is essential to Chinese cooking and is used in most stir fry to flavor the oil.
- Mushrooms: Again, you can use other types of mushrooms such as shiitake or wood ear. I’m using white button mushrooms because they are easy to find.
- Snow Peas: I prefer snow peas over sugar snap peas because of their softer texture, but you can swap one for the other.
- Canned bamboo Shoots: salty and savory, canned bamboo shoots are also a little crunchy and meaty in texture.
- Water Chestnuts: if bamboo shoots and snow peas are crunchy, water chestnuts are super duper crunchy! They are also high in water content which makes taking a bite from a piece, quite refreshing!
- Cornstarch: Cornstarch is essential to thickening the sauce and give it that gooey texture we’ve come to associate with Chinese food.
- Ground White Pepper: this adds a fruity and floral kick that tickles the nose.
- Marinade Sauce: whisk the soy sauce, rice vinegar and cornstarch to infuse extra flavor to your chicken.
- Moo Goo Gai Pan Sauce: whisk the chicken broth, soy sauce, rice vinegar, oyster sauce, and sesame oil for a quick stir fry sauce.
A lot of readers have asked if they can use other vegetables to make this easy stir fry. The answer is – absolutely, yes!
Here is a short list of vegetables that can be used instead of the ones included in the recipe:
- Bok choy
- Baby bok choy
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Celery
- Green onion
- Carrots
- Onions
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Marinate the chicken: Whisk all the ingredients for the chicken marinade in a bowl and set aside.
- Cook the chicken: Place the chicken in a large skillet over medium-high heat and saute until it’s cooked through and tender. Transfer the chicken on a plate.
- Add the vegetables: Add the garlic, mushrooms and snow peas, and cook for 5 minutes. Add bamboo shoots, chestnuts and chicken and cook for 2 minutes.
- Combine the flavor: Stir in the sauce and add the cornstarch and water mixture. Keep stirring until the sauce thickens.
- Serve: Serve with white rice and season with a little salt and white ground pepper if needed.
Got leftovers? Store them in an airtight container and keep it in the refrigerator. This simple stir fry will keep for 3 to 4 days.
In order to make a watery sauce gooey, mix a little corn starch with cold water. Stir and pour into the sauce as it is bubbling and that’s it! The sauce will thicken immediately and be ready to serve.
It’s the same concept for all sauces. Chinese white sauce, mapo tofu, general Tso and moo goo gai pan sauce all have one ingredient in common – corn starch.
The only downside to gooey sauce is that the consistency doesn’t last. I’m sure you’ve experienced ordering Chinese food and finding breaded chicken pieces sadly sitting in a watery sweet sauce the next day. That’s because corn starch can only retain its consistency for about an hour at most.
What I usually do when something like this happens is throw the leftovers in a pan and stir in a little corn starch (once the ingredients are hot) to bring back the consistency. It works most of the time but there have been dishes that I wasn’t able to save that way. 80% success, 20% fail I would say.
One of the great cooking techniques China has brought over to America is velveting.
Velveting is basically coating or marinating chicken or meat in a mixture of corn starch, sauce and/or egg white. What velveting does is create a barrier from the heat when the chicken cooks, leaving it super moist and silky.
For this recipe I’m marinating the chicken in a mixture of rice vinegar, soy sauce and corn starch. I’m letting the chicken marinate for 20 minutes but I recommend leaving it for longer if you have the time. 30-40 minutes yields super moist chicken pieces.
To make moo goo shrimp, simply swap the chicken for large shrimp that have been thawed and deveined. The cooking time will vary slightly since it takes shrimp less time to cook. You can velvet shrimp as well, it will give them a much nicer texture!
Stir fries are so easy to make that I usually have extra time to cook additional dishes to serve along with this main dish. Some of my favorites are:
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Moo Goo Gai Pan is a classic Chinese dish! Tender chicken pieces and mushrooms with crisp vegetables such as carrots, water chestnuts, and snow peas all stir-fried together with a savory sauce. Way better than take out and it only 20 minutes!
I am all about skipping the take out and making Chinese food at home. If you love Chinese food as much as I do try this Skinny Slow Cooker Kung Pao Chicken , Awesome Kung Pao Shrimp or Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli .
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Seriously! Skip takeout and make this at home. It’s one of my all-time favorite Chinese dishes. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some takeout, but I also love to make moo goo gai pan at home and enjoy it in the comfort of my sweatpants. It is so much better than I thought it could ever be! The combo of tender chicken pieces and crisp veggies all in a savory sauce is amazing. You are going to love how easy and delicious this moo goo gai pan recipe is! It truly is better than takeout .
There is little to no seasoning on moo goo gai pan. Just the perfect sweet and savory sauce that enhances all the flavors in this dish! You will have dinner on the table in less than 20 minutes. If you are craving Chinese food, skip those expensive food delivery apps and make this Moo Goo Gai Pan recipe instead! You won’t regret it and your family will love every bite!
Moo Goo Gai Pan is best known for being a popular Chinese takeout dish. It’s part of Cantonese cuisine and usually includes chicken and mushrooms that are served with other vegetables depending on your preference and where it is prepared. It’s a quick and easy Chinese dish that is now modernized into an American-Chinese stir fry.
This is everything you need to make a delicious moo goo gai pan stir fry! All the flavors from the ingredients blend so well together to make this a fresh and hearty meal. Check out the recipe card for exact measurements!
- Olive Oil : Used to cook the chicken in.
- Chicken Thighs : I cut my chicken thighs into 1 inch chunks but if you like the classic Chinese thin sliced cuts of meat that will work too. Just be sure not to overcook your sliced chicken since it is thinner. If you don’t want to use thigh meat, you can also use boneless skinless chicken breasts.
- Salt and Pepper : Help to enhance all of the tasty flavors of moo goo gai pan. Season to taste!
- Vegetables: The great thing about stir fries is that you can throw in leftover veggies that you have in the fridge. I used carrots, mushrooms, water chestnuts, and snow peas! Bok choy, bamboo shoots, celery, or cabbage are great options as well.
- Chopped Green Onions and Sesame Seeds: For garnish! These add a little extra flavor and also give the moo goo gai pan great presentation.
- Chicken Broth : This is the liquid gold that makes the moo goo gai pan sauce come to life! It adds depth of flavor and richness to the dish.
- Soy Sauce : This umami bomb ties everything together in the sauce. It gives the dish that classic savory taste we all know and love.
- Brown Sugar : Sweet, sweet brown sugar! This guy brings balance to the moo goo gai pan sauce by adding a touch of sweetness that complements the salty and savory flavors.
- Garlic : This tiny but mighty ingredient packs a flavorful punch in the sauce. It adds a subtle yet powerful garlicky aroma and taste that will make your mouth water.
- Hoisin Sauce : This sweet and savory sauce is a staple in Chinese cuisine, and it adds a unique flavor to the moo goo gai pan sauce.
- Sesame Oil : Just a small amount of sesame oil goes a long way in adding nuttiness and depth to the sauce.
- Cornstarch : Cornstarch is the key to achieving the perfect consistency in the moo goo gai pan sauce. It thickens the sauce just enough to coat the chicken and veggies without being too heavy.
- Water : Last but not least, water! It’s what helps to bring all the ingredients together and create a delicious, cohesive sauce. It’s like the glue that holds everything together, and also helps to adjust the sauce’s consistency.
You can’t go wrong with this Chinese dinner staple. It’s quick, simple to make and served up hot and ready in less than 20 minutes. Time to gather up your ingredients and a saucepan! This saucy, savory dish is the perfect solution for a hungry family on busy weeknights.
- Cook Chicken: In a large skillet or wok add the olive oil and turn to medium high heat. Then salt and pepper the chicken and cook in the wok until cooked throughout and no longer pink. Remove and set aside on a plate.
- Sauté Vegetables : Add a tablespoon of olive oil and carrots and sauté until almost tender 1-2 minutes. Then add the mushrooms and sauté for 1-2 minutes. Add in the water chestnuts and snow peas and sauté for a minute more.
- Whisk Sauce Ingredients: To make the sauce, whisk in a small bowl the chicken broth, soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, hoisin, and sesame oil. Combine the cornstarch and water in another small bowl and whisk into the sauce.
- Combine: Add the chicken back to the wok and pour the sauce on top and let simmer until it starts to thicken.
This moo goo gai pan recipe is foolproof and really hard to get wrong. But here are a few extra tips to make sure your meal turns out as delicious as your favorite Chinese restaurant!
- Vegetable Size: It’s best to cut the vegetables all the same size and width. This will help ensure that they cook evenly and at the same rate.
- Don’t Overcook the Veggies : Moo goo gai pan is all about fresh, crisp veggies. To ensure they retain their texture and flavor, don’t overcook them. They should be tender but still have a bit of crunch.
- Don’t Overcrowd the Pan: When cooking the chicken and veggies, make sure not to overcrowd the pan. This can cause the ingredients to steam instead of sear, resulting in a mushy texture.
- Cutting Chicken: When cutting the chicken a simple trick is to place the chicken in the freezer for about 20 to 30 minutes. Letting the chicken become hard but not frozen helps cut the chicken easier. Be sure to cut against the grain for best results. At this time, it is best to slice the chicken into thin slices or one inch chunks depending on what you prefer.
- Keep Your Wok Hot: Make sure your wok or skillet is always hot when cooking the chicken and vegetables. This will help them become seared to perfection!
- Serve With Rice : Moo goo gai pan is traditionally served with steamed rice , which helps to soak up the delicious sauce and balance out the flavors. Yum!
These other easy Chinese dishes are great for serving alongside your moo goo gai pan! Adding a side salad like my Chinese Chicken Pasta Salad with Sesame Dressing , 20-Minute Vegetable Lo Mein or a simple white rice can make this into a complete meal that rivals your favorite takeout spot.
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20 minute is all it takes to make this delicious moo goo gai pan recipe! Chicken and vegetables tossed in a gooey, sour and savory sauce so tasty you’ll want to drizzle it all over your rice!
Making a delicious stir fry of chicken with Chinese vegetables is one of my favorite go-to dishes when I want something nutritious and quick. According to Wikipedia, with 78.9% retention, stir frying preserved significantly more vitamin C than boiling. This makes me very happy since I stir fry regularly!
Homemade moo goo gai pan (or mugu gai pan) is a dish both Ben and I like to make because it takes literally 20 minutes to make and tastes way better than the takeout version!
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It’s a dish commonly found in Chinese restaurants but the name can be a little intimidating if you are not too familiar with the menu. Here is a quick explanation on this famous Chinese dish – from what’s in a moo goo gai pan, the meaning of the word and a super easy recipe for you to make at home tonight.
Moo goo gai pan is a simple American-Chinese stir fry made with chicken (gai pin in Cantonese), mushrooms (mohgu in Cantonese) and vegetables such as carrots, snow peas, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts. The ingredients are tossed in a classic Chinese white sauce and served with rice on the side.
Cantonese dishes are usually milder in flavor because they use less spices and chilies. Having lived in both Hong Kong (Cantonese) and Taiwan (Szechuan), I can tell you there is a big difference in flavor between those two places. Chinese food is complex and what makes the food so great is the many different flavor combinations you get as you travel through those territories.
Traveling across Asian is an adventure for the palate!
As I mentioned above, the name is pretty much taken from two ingredients – chicken and mushrooms. The literal translation for mòh-gū gāi-pin is sliced chicken with button mushrooms.
- Oil: peanut oil is what’s most often used in Asian cooking but you can use vegetable oil as well since it’s neutral in flavor.
- Chicken: I’m using boneless skinless chicken breasts but feel free to use other parts of a chicken, if you have a preference. You can also keep the skin on if you enjoy the texture, and bones if you like sucking on them.
- Garlic: garlic is essential to Chinese cooking and is used in most stir fry to flavor the oil.
- Mushrooms: Again, you can use other types of mushrooms such as shiitake or wood ear. I’m using white button mushrooms because they are easy to find.
- Snow Peas: I prefer snow peas over sugar snap peas because of their softer texture, but you can swap one for the other.
- Canned bamboo Shoots: salty and savory, canned bamboo shoots are also a little crunchy and meaty in texture.
- Water Chestnuts: if bamboo shoots and snow peas are crunchy, water chestnuts are super duper crunchy! They are also high in water content which makes taking a bite from a piece, quite refreshing!
- Cornstarch: Cornstarch is essential to thickening the sauce and give it that gooey texture we’ve come to associate with Chinese food.
- Ground White Pepper: this adds a fruity and floral kick that tickles the nose.
- Marinade Sauce: whisk the soy sauce, rice vinegar and cornstarch to infuse extra flavor to your chicken.
- Moo Goo Gai Pan Sauce: whisk the chicken broth, soy sauce, rice vinegar, oyster sauce, and sesame oil for a quick stir fry sauce.
A lot of readers have asked if they can use other vegetables to make this easy stir fry. The answer is – absolutely, yes!
Here is a short list of vegetables that can be used instead of the ones included in the recipe:
- Bok choy
- Baby bok choy
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Celery
- Green onion
- Carrots
- Onions
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Marinate the chicken: Whisk all the ingredients for the chicken marinade in a bowl and set aside.
- Cook the chicken: Place the chicken in a large skillet over medium-high heat and saute until it’s cooked through and tender. Transfer the chicken on a plate.
- Add the vegetables: Add the garlic, mushrooms and snow peas, and cook for 5 minutes. Add bamboo shoots, chestnuts and chicken and cook for 2 minutes.
- Combine the flavor: Stir in the sauce and add the cornstarch and water mixture. Keep stirring until the sauce thickens.
- Serve: Serve with white rice and season with a little salt and white ground pepper if needed.
Got leftovers? Store them in an airtight container and keep it in the refrigerator. This simple stir fry will keep for 3 to 4 days.
In order to make a watery sauce gooey, mix a little corn starch with cold water. Stir and pour into the sauce as it is bubbling and that’s it! The sauce will thicken immediately and be ready to serve.
It’s the same concept for all sauces. Chinese white sauce, mapo tofu, general Tso and moo goo gai pan sauce all have one ingredient in common – corn starch.
The only downside to gooey sauce is that the consistency doesn’t last. I’m sure you’ve experienced ordering Chinese food and finding breaded chicken pieces sadly sitting in a watery sweet sauce the next day. That’s because corn starch can only retain its consistency for about an hour at most.
What I usually do when something like this happens is throw the leftovers in a pan and stir in a little corn starch (once the ingredients are hot) to bring back the consistency. It works most of the time but there have been dishes that I wasn’t able to save that way. 80% success, 20% fail I would say.
One of the great cooking techniques China has brought over to America is velveting.
Velveting is basically coating or marinating chicken or meat in a mixture of corn starch, sauce and/or egg white. What velveting does is create a barrier from the heat when the chicken cooks, leaving it super moist and silky.
For this recipe I’m marinating the chicken in a mixture of rice vinegar, soy sauce and corn starch. I’m letting the chicken marinate for 20 minutes but I recommend leaving it for longer if you have the time. 30-40 minutes yields super moist chicken pieces.
To make moo goo shrimp, simply swap the chicken for large shrimp that have been thawed and deveined. The cooking time will vary slightly since it takes shrimp less time to cook. You can velvet shrimp as well, it will give them a much nicer texture!
Stir fries are so easy to make that I usually have extra time to cook additional dishes to serve along with this main dish. Some of my favorites are:
Did you try this moo goo gai pan recipe? Are there changes you made that you would like to share? Share your tips and recommendations in the comments section below! | https://pickledplum.com/moo-goo-gai-pan-recipe/ | 38 |
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As a physical piece of hardware, the Expansion Pak doubled the Nintendo 64's RAM and paved the way for bigger & better games.
In the world of gaming, players generally have to wait for a new console to come out before seeing a significant and meaningful upgrade to their gaming experience. This is not to say that games never progress without better hardware, especially because developers and their teams become familiar with the capabilities and limitations as the life of the console grows. But those limitations are generally fixed ceilings.
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The Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak completely changed that narrative. As a physical piece of hardware, it doubled the RAM (random access memory) of the N64 entertainment system. For most gamers, this meant more storage for bigger games, which was true, but it was not the entire story. Quite a lot about the Expansion Pak slipped under the radar of the general public.
The Expansion Pak came with an ejector tool to get rid of... wait, what did it get rid of? Was it the old memory card? Was it just a piece of plastic? Observant home technicians will note that the item ejected is labeled "Jumper Pak."
Don't feel bad throwing it away, the item is not a hidden gem on the N64 . It exists to occupy the slot and terminate the Rambus system that might try to access unavailable memory. Just don't toss it without the Expansion Pak or the N64 will only display a blank screen!
Donkey Kong is perhaps the most underrated Nintendo franchise and this entry on the list will only add fuel to that fire. Without Donkey Kong 64 , there is a chance that most audiences would have only heard of the Expansion Pak as some kind of strange, failed experiment.
Most gamers did not actually buy an Expansion Pak, they bought Donkey Kong 64 which the Expansion Pak was bundled with. The game required a higher frame rate and better rendering than the N64 allowed, so the decision to pair it up with the Expansion Pak was made.
Making an N64 game with superior graphics might not have been the only reason the Expansion Pak came with Donkey Kong 64 . Chris Marlow, a programmer for Rare, stated that the Expansion Pak was required to kill off a game-breaking bug.
That statement is true , but it is not without contest. Other developers asserted that the decision to use the Expansion Pak was made early on, well before the bug was ever an issue, so its presence was never much of a real problem. It's less of a "myth" and more of a difference in perspective.
The addition of bigger games that could be ported from other consoles onto the N64 was not the only advantage of the Expansion Pak. Several games decided to use this extra space by improving the original state of their graphics.
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Games like Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness offered players the option of "Hi-Res" of 490x355i, but some even took this further. Fifa 99 , Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer , and Top Gear Overdrive actually had a 640x240p setting available after the Expansion Pak was installed!
Some will take note of the cuts from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and neglect that the entire game would have been cut if it weren't for the Expansion Pak. That's right, Zelda fans, the Expansion Pak is the only reason players ever got to explore Termina and Clock Town.
This accessory improved Majora's Mask in many ways, like allowing motion blur, getting rid of the fog noticeable in Ocarina of Time , and permitting more models on screen, but even without all of that, the game was just fundamentally too big for the standard N64.
At an astounding 640x222p, Perfect Dark was beautiful and fun to play on the N64. It is still a top ten first-person shooter game on Metacritic (at the time of this article's publication, it is tied for number one!)
Perfect Dark was technically playable without the Expansion Pak, but only in a few multiplayer modes, essentially making it a demo that had no access to the single-player campaign, counter-operative campaign, or the co-operative modes that gave the game its identity.
Players who like Starcraft know a good RTS when they see one . Great real-time strategy games bundle intense and fast player-versus-player modes with deep, immersive, and important story modes in order to hit the gamer from every angle.
Those who didn't have an Expansion Pak only got half of this beautiful RTS experience on the N64. Starcraft: Brood War was only accessible to gamers that had one and those without would be in the dark about the plot changes between the first installment and StarCraft 2 .
Gamers have a love/hate relationship with cheat codes. On one hand, they can help beat a tough game, even in the modern era . On the other hand, hard-earned achievements are made indistinguishable from ordinarily tough badges that are just a code or two away.
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Vigilante 8 and its sequel, Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense , had a different take on "cheats" and decided that the highest resolution settings made possible through the Expansion Pak should be codes entered like a cheat through the pause menu. That's a heck of a secret; respectively entering "MAX_RESOLUTION" and "GO_MAX_REZ" enabled the best graphics settings.
Higher resolutions and bigger file sizes weren't the only improvements made possible with the Expansion Pak. While many game designers saw this as an opportunity to squeeze in more pixels, a couple of teams felt they could eke out some new colors as well.
Quake II increased framebuffer color depth (among other improvements like framerate and eliminating screen blur) and The World is Not Enough enabled an entire "hi-color" setting when the Expansion Pak was detected.
By ejecting the Jumper Pak and installing the Expansion Pak, players were essentially treated to a unilateral upgrade for their system. For fans of one game, however, the "upgrade" became a total nightmare.
Space Station Silicon Valley went from a smooth game to a festival of crashes when the accessory was installed due to some streamlined coding that wasn't prepared to handle the possibility of another RAM device. The Expansion Pak modernized most games but blasted this one back to the stone age.
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do you need a memory expansion for nintendo 64 | Nintendo 64 accessories - Wikipedia | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nintendo 64 accessories are first-party Nintendo hardware—and third-party hardware, licensed and unlicensed. Nintendo's first-party accessories are mainly transformative system expansions: the 64DD Internet multimedia platform, with a floppy drive, video capture and editor, game building setup, web browser, and online service; the controller plus its own expansions for storage and rumble feedback; and the RAM-boosting Expansion Pak for big improvements in graphics and gameplay. Third-party accessories include the essential game developer tools built by SGI and SN Systems on Nintendo's behalf, an unlicensed SharkWire online service, and unlicensed cheaper counterparts to first-party items. In the fifth generation of video game consoles , the Nintendo 64 had a market lifespan from 1996 to 2002.
First-party Nintendo 64 accessories have a product code prefixed with NUS, short for "Nintendo Ultra Sixty-four". [1] [2]
The Nintendo 64 controller (NUS-005) is an "m"-shaped controller with 10 buttons (A, B, C-Up, C-Down, C-Left, C-Right, L, R, Z, and Start), one analog stick in the center, a digital directional pad on the left side, and an extension port on the back for many of the system's accessories. Initially available in the seven colors of gray, yellow, green, red, blue, purple, and black, and it was later released in translucent versions of those colors except gray.
The Controller Pak [a] (NUS-004) is the console's memory card , comparable to those of the PlayStation and GameCube . Compatible games can save player data to the Controller Pak, which plugs into the back of the Nintendo 64 controller (as do the Rumble and Transfer Paks ). The Controller Pak was marketed for exchanging data between Nintendo 64 owners, because data on the game cartridge can not be transferred.
The original models from Nintendo have 256 kilobit (32KB) of battery backed SRAM , split into 123 pages with a limitation of 16 save files, but third-party models have much more, often in the form of 4 selectable memory banks of 256kbits. [3] Games occupy varying numbers of pages, sometimes using the entire card. It is powered by a common CR2032 battery. [4]
Upon launch, the Controller Pak was initially useful, and even necessary for early games. Over time, the Controller Pak lost popularity to the convenience of a battery backed SRAM or EEPROM in some cartridges. Because the Nintendo 64 Game Pak format also allows saving data on supported cartridges, few first-party and second-party games use the Controller Pak. [5] The vast majority are from third-party developers . This is most likely due to the increased production and retail costs which would have been caused by including self-contained data on the cartridge. Some games use it to save optional data that is too large for the cartridge, such as Mario Kart 64 , which uses 121 of the total 123 pages for storing ghost data, [6] or International Superstar Soccer 64 , which uses the entire cartridge's space for its save data. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater uses 11 pages. [7] Quest 64 and Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon use the Controller Pak exclusively for saved data. The Japan-only game Animal Forest uses the Controller Pak to travel to other towns.
Following the 1996 Christmas shopping season , Next Generation reported "impressive sales of the memory pack cartridges despite the lack of available games to take advantage of the $19.99 units". [8]
The Jumper Pak [b] (NUS-008) is a filler that plugs into the console's memory expansion port. [9] It serves no functional purpose other than to terminate the Rambus bus in the absence of the Expansion Pak. [10] This is functionally equivalent to a continuity RIMM in a Rambus motherboard filling the unused RIMM sockets until the user upgrades. All Nintendo 64 consoles were shipped with the Jumper Pak installed. [11] Replacement Jumper Paks were not sold individually in stores and could only be ordered through Nintendo's online store. The system requires the Jumper Pak or Expansion Pak, or there is no display.
The Expansion Pak [c] (NUS-007) consists of 4 MB (megabytes) of random access memory (RAM)—which is RDRAM , the same on the console motherboard [10] —increasing the console's RAM from 4 MB to 8 MB of contiguous main memory. [10] It is installed in a port on top of the console and replaces the pre-installed Jumper Pak, which is simply a Rambus terminator. [9] [10] Originally designed for the 64DD disk drive's larger multimedia workstation applications, the Expansion Pak was launched separately in Q4 1998 and then bundled with the 64DD's delayed December 1999 launch package in Japan. [ citation needed ] The Expansion Pak was bundled with Donkey Kong 64 , [12] [13] and in Japan, the Expansion Pak additionally was bundled with The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Perfect Dark . [ citation needed ]
It was bundled with an "ejector tool" (NUS-012) meant for removing the original Jumper Pak. [ citation needed ]
Game developers found ways to use the increased memory, including greater visual appeal. The Expansion Pak is required in order to run both Donkey Kong 64 and Majora's Mask . [13] [14] Perfect Dark blocks access to content, including the single-player campaign, when no Expansion Pak is present, and the game's packaging states that "approximately 35%" of the game is available in that case. [15] It is required for all 64DD software. In StarCraft 64 , it is needed to unlock levels from the Brood War add-on from the PC version. Quake II features higher color depth and better performance, but not a higher resolution, with the Expansion Pak. In the vast majority of games with support, such as Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine , the Expansion Pak is merely used as additional frame buffer memory to enable various high-resolution (usually interlaced) mode options at a performance cost, in some cases dramatically so. This use of the Expansion Pak can be attributed to ease of implementation and games that mainly target the stock console; additional RDRAM cannot be easily used to circumvent other bottlenecks of the console, such as the small texture cache. [ citation needed ] The original NTSC release [ citation needed ] of Space Station Silicon Valley may crash in certain places if the Expansion Pak is present. [16]
IGN celebrated the Nintendo 64 industry's methods in launching and supporting the Expansion Pak for making a high-impact accessory with "immediate and noticeable", though mostly optional, effects. [15]
|Title||Pak required||Notes|
|40 Winks||No||Adds high-res letterbox (480×232i) and high-res (480×360i) modes.|
|Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage||No||Enables a "high resolution" setting, changes certain music tracks, and adds foliage to maps. Its absence enables behind-the-scenes memory management features.|
|All-Star Baseball 2000||No||Enables longer replays in the replay feature. [17]|
|All-Star Baseball 2001||No|
|Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.||No||Adds high-res letterbox (480×232i) and high-res (480×360i) modes, accessible from pause menu.|
|Army Men: Air Combat||No|
|Army Men: Sarge's Heroes||No|
|Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2||No|
|Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs||No|
|Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness||No||Enables the option to turn on "Hi-Res" mode (490×355i).|
|Command & Conquer||No||Makes the "high" battlefield resolution option in in-game options menu available, which engages a high-res interlaced mode.|
|Daikatana||No||Adds a "hi-res" interlaced letterbox mode, accessible from main menu.|
|Dinosaur Planet||Yes||Canceled and redeveloped as Star Fox Adventures for the GameCube .|
|Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers||No||Enables high resolution mode.|
|Donkey Kong 64||Yes||Marketed as improving the frame rate and object rendering at a distance. [18] According to Rare programmer Chris Marlow, the company could not resolve a bug that occurred without the Expansion Pak and thus was forced, at great expense, to bundle the game with it. [19] [20] However, lead artist Mark Stevenson called Marlow's story a "myth" and said that the Expansion Pak was committed to early in development. Though such a bug did exist towards the end of development, according to Stevenson, "the Expansion Pak wasn't introduced to deal with this and wasn't the solution to the problem." [21] Nintendo said that the bundle would avoid consumer confusion. [22]|
|Duke Nukem: Zero Hour||No||Adds interlaced medium and high-res modes, accessible from main menu options.|
|Excitebike 64||No||Enables high-res mode. Only the PAL version signifies its Expansion Pak compatibility on the box.|
|F-1 World Grand Prix II||No||Enables a full race replay.|
|FIFA 99||No||Enables an unadvertised "Super High" resolution mode of 640×480i.|
|Gauntlet Legends||No||Required for 4-player multiplayer.|
|Hybrid Heaven||No||Enables high-res letterbox and high-res (640×474i) modes, accessible from main menu options.|
|Hydro Thunder||No||Required for 3 and 4 player multiplayer.|
|Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine||No||Enables high-res mode of 400×440i and unlocks level 13.|
|International Superstar Soccer 2000||No||Enables high-resolution textures but at reduced performance.|
|International Track & Field 2000||No|
|Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000||No|
|Ken Griffey, Jr.'s Slugfest||No||Enables high-res mode.|
|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask||Yes||One of the two released non-64DD game completely designed for the Expansion Pak, to increase texture detail, remove fog that is prevalent in Ocarina of Time , increase number of on-screen models, and add effects such as motion blur. [15]|
|Madden NFL 2000||No|
|Madden NFL 2001||No|
|Madden NFL 2002||No|
|NBA Jam 2000||No||Only the PAL version signifies its Expansion Pak compatibility on the box.|
|NFL Quarterback Club '99||No|
|NFL Quarterback Club 2000||No|
|Nuclear Strike 64||No||Adds a progressive "medium" resolution mode, accessible from main menu options.|
|Perfect Dark||Required for story mode||The Expansion Pak is required for the single player, co-operative, and counter-operative campaigns, and most multiplayer features. It also adds an optional high-res mode accessible via pause menu, increasing the resolution to 640×222p (from 320×222p) in NTSC, and 448×268p (from 320×268p) in PAL. However, the Japanese version fully requires the Expansion Pak.|
|Pokémon Stadium 2||No||States "Expansion Pak Detected" on the Start screen, increases render resolution to 640×480i, and improves resolution of some textures.|
|Quake II||No||Increases framebuffer color depth, removes dithering, turns off screen blur, and slightly increases framerate.|
|Rayman 2: The Great Escape||No||Adds a progressive high-res mode, accessible from pause menu.|
|Re-Volt||No||Adds an interlaced "medium resolution" mode, accessible from pause menu.|
|Resident Evil 2||No||Increased resolution and texture detail, switching between various progressive and interlaced resolutions on a per-screen basis.|
|Road Rash 64||No||Adds letterboxed, widescreen, and high-res progressive modes, accessible from main menu.|
|Roadsters||No|
|San Francisco Rush 2049||Required for some content||Required for track 6, the Advanced Circuit, changeable rims, and music during Arcade races.|
|Shadow Man||No||Adds an interlaced high-res mode, accessible from main menu.|
|Spider-Man||No|
|South Park||No||Enables interlaced high-res letterbox and high-res mode options; increases frame rate in low-res mode. [ citation needed ]|
|StarCraft 64||Required for some modes||Required for the Brood War missions and the two player split-screen mode.|
|Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo||No||Enables high-res mode, which increases resolution to 400×440i.|
|Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer||No||Enables high-res mode at 640×480i with higher-resolution textures, and increases the framerate in low-res mode. [ citation needed ]|
|Star Wars: Rogue Squadron||No||Enables high-res mode at 400×440i.|
|The World Is Not Enough||No||Adds a "hi-color" mode, accessible from pause menu, which switches to a higher progressive resolution and turns off the screen noise effect.|
|Tony Hawk's Pro Skater||No|
|Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2||No||Increases framerate, especially noticeable during multiplayer games.|
|Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3||No|
|Top Gear Hyper Bike||No|
|Top Gear Overdrive||No||Adds "half" and "full" high-res (640×240p) options to main menu setup.|
|Top Gear Rally 2||No|
|Turok 2: Seeds of Evil||No||Adds high-res letterbox (480×232i) and high-res (480×360i) modes, accessible from pause menu.|
|Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion||No||Adds high-res letterbox (480×232i) and high-res (480×360i) modes, accessible from pause menu.|
|Turok: Rage Wars||No||Adds high-res letterbox (480×232i) and high-res (480×360i) modes, accessible from pause menu.|
|Vigilante 8||No||Adds a high resolution mode (480×360i), accessible from pause menu. A hidden "ultra" mode (640×480i) is added by entering "MAX_RESOLUTION" in the password screen.|
|Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense||No||Adds a high resolution mode (480×360i), accessible from pause menu. A hidden "ultra" mode (640×480i) is added by entering "GO_MAX_REZ" in the password screen, which is accessed by selecting "Game Status", pressing A twice, then pressing L+R.|
|Xena: Warrior Princess: The Talisman of Fate||No|
Main article: Rumble Pak
The Rumble Pak [d] (NUS-013) provides haptic feedback by vibration. It is powered by two AAA batteries and connects to the controller's expansion port. It was released in 1997 for the new game Star Fox 64 , with which it was originally bundled. [23]
Main article: Transfer Pak
The Transfer Pak [e] (NUS-019) plugs into the controller to transfer data between supported Nintendo 64 games and Game Boy or Game Boy Color games. [14] It was released in Japan in August 1998, bundled with the game Pocket Monsters' Stadium , and in North America and Europe in February and April 2000 respectively, where it was similarly bundled with Pokémon Stadium . [24]
Developed by Intelligent Systems , the Wide-Boy64 is a series of adapters similar to the Super Game Boy that plays Game Boy games. The device was never sold in retail to general consumers and was only provided to developers and the gaming press. Developers and magazines could purchase one directly from Nintendo at a cost of $1,400 (equivalent to about $2,277 in 2021). [25] The cartridge contains internal Game Boy hardware, allowing the system to run games natively rather than via an emulator. Two major versions of Wide-Boy64 were released: the CGB for Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, and the updated AGB for those and Game Boy Advance Game Paks. [26] The gaming press used it to capture screen shots more easily. Like the Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player , the game screen is surrounded by a template mimicking the appearance of the portable system. [27] It was used for final matches at the Pokémon League Summer Training Tour '99. The Canadian children's game show Video & Arcade Top 10 used Wide-Boy64 adapters so contestants could play Game Boy games on some later episodes.
The S-Video cable provides a better quality picture than composite RCA cables via the MultiAV port. The NTSC cable is identical to and compatible with earlier SNES (NTSC/PAL) and later GameCube (NTSC-only) S-Video cables. The first-party NTSC Nintendo 64 S-Video cable sold by Nintendo, however, was not produced in PAL regions. The PAL Nintendo 64 does natively output S-Video (Luma/Chroma), [28] but require a different cable to NTSC Nintendo 64 due to a design difference in most or all PAL motherboard revisions. Nintendo never released an official S-Video cable for the PAL console. Using an NTSC S-Video cable on a PAL console will usually produce over-bright, garish colors; or it may not produce any video image at all. [29]
Third-party S-Video cables for NTSC and PAL consoles were produced, though many cheaper S-Video cables do not deliver a true S-Video signal, merely passing the composite video signal (the yellow plug of the standard red/white/yellow AV cables) through the S-Video plug. [30]
Main article: 64DD
The 64DD (NUS-010) is a 64 MB floppy drive with real-time clock, font and audio library in ROM, and a bundle of other accessories and custom games. The peripheral was initially announced in 1995, planned for release in 1997, and repeatedly delayed until its release in December 1999. It was launched alongside a now defunct online service called Randnet. With nine games released, it was a commercial failure and so was never released outside Japan.
The mouse (NUS-017) was developed for the 64DD's GUI-based games and applications, such the Mario Artist suite, SimCity 64 , and the web browser for Nintendo's defunct online service Randnet . It was manufactured by Mitsumi and was released only as a bundle with the 64DD's launch game, Mario Artist: Paint Studio . [31] [32] [33] It works with Mario no Photopi [f] , which was switched from the 64DD to Game Pak.
The VRU or Voice Recognition Unit (NUS-020, NUS-021, NUS-022, and NUS-025) is compatible with only two games: Hey You, Pikachu! and Densha de Go! 64 . Hey You, Pikachu! is packaged with the VRU and requires it, but Densha de Go! 64 does not and is sold separately. The VRU consists of a ballast (NUS-020) connected to controller port 4, a microphone (NUS-021), a yellow foam cover for the microphone, and a clip for clipping the microphone to the controller (NUS-025, bundled with Hey You, Pikachu! ) or a plastic neck holder for hands-free usage (NUS-022, bundled with Densha de Go! 64 ). The VRU is calibrated for best recognition of a high-pitched voice, such as a small child's, and other voices are less likely be recognized properly by the VRU.
VRUs are region dependent, and foreign region VRUs are not detected by the games. No VRU compatible game was launched in the EUR region (PAL, Europe), so there is no EUR-region VRU. A similar device for the Wii is Wii Speak .
The cleaning kit (NUS-014, NUS-015, and NUS-016) contains materials to clean the connectors of the Control Deck, controllers, Game Paks, Rumble Paks, and Controller Paks.
The RF Switch and RF Modulator (NUS-009 and NUS-003) connect the Nintendo 64 and model 2 SNES (redesigned after the launch of the Nintendo 64) to the television through RF. It is primarily intended for older televisions that lack AV cable support. The RF switch itself is identical in every way to the RF switches released for Nintendo's prior systems (the NES and the SNES ) and can be interchanged if needed. This set was later re-released for the GameCube to give it RF capability. The cables intended for the GameCube will also work with the Nintendo 64 and SNES.
The Euro Connector Plug is an adaptor packaged with European releases of the console, which converts RCA composite and stereo cable inputs to Composite SCART .
The video capture cassette (NUS-028), or cartridge, is for the Mario Artist [g] 64DD game series. The back of the cartridge has audio, video, and microphone input jacks. [34] It was bundled with the 64DD game Mario Artist: Talent Studio . [h]
The modem cartridge (NUS-029) connects at up to 28.8 kbit/s , for the defunct Randnet service and compatible 64DD games and web browser.
The power supply (NUS-002, UKV-EUR-AUS-JPN-USA) provides electricity to the Control Deck.
The compact keyboard is for the Randnet service and compatible 64DD games.
SmartMedia memory cards for Mario no Photopi [i] contain images, backgrounds, borders, and other media assets for editing the user's photos. There are at least six different cards:
- Illustrations - Postal cards 1 [j]
- Illustrations - Funny accessories 1 [k]
- Characters collection - Yoshi's Story [l]
- Characters collection - Sylvanian Families [m]
- Characters collection - Bomberman [n]
- Characters collection - The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time [o]
- Characters collection - Himitsu no Akko-chan [p]
- Characters collection - Hello Kitty [q]
- Characters collection - Card Captor Sakura [r]
- Characters collection - Medarot [s]
The cards are all 3.3 V 2 MB SmartMedia memory cards manufactured by Hagiwara Sys-Com. Mario no Photopi was bundled with an empty memory SmartMedia card for storing the user creations.
The ASCIIWHEEL 64 is an alternate controller shaped as a steering wheel for driving games, with an accessory port. [35]
The Bio Sensor (NUS-A-BIO-JPN) is an ear clip that plugs into the Controller Pak slot of the controller to measure the user's heart rate . [34] It was manufactured by Seta and released only in Japan. It is compatible only with Tetris 64 , which slows down or speeds up depending on how fast the player's heart is beating. This device is similar to the unreleased Wii Vitality Sensor .
The Tsuricon 64 [36] (ASC-0905) is a fishing controller manufactured by ASCII Corporation and compatible with a few fishing games released in Japan, like Bass Rush - ECOGEAR Power Worm Championship [t] , Nushi Tsuri 64: Shiokaze Ninotte [u] , or Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No.1 Definitive Edition! [v]
A train controller compatible with just one game: Densha de Go! 64 . [w] It is similar to other controllers for the same game series on different platforms such as Dreamcast and PlayStation. The game optionally supports the VRU.
Nintendo licensed A.L.S. Industries to make two types of black wooden system organizers. Both feature a plastic drawer, bearing a Nintendo 64 sticker, with slots designed to hold Nintendo 64 game cartridges, controllers, and Controller Paks.
The Messenger Bag is a black bag to be carried on the left side of the body. It comes with zippered compartments on the outside and inside and with mesh pockets, for a few games and a controller.
Nintendo licensed a Traveling Case—a black bag, with the Nintendo 64 name stitched on the front. Two plastic buckles on the front keep the bag closed. It carries the Nintendo 64 console, controllers, games, and accessories. They also made a standard black backpack with the Nintendo 64 logo on the top and a zippered compartment on the front.
A basic 35 mm camera, complete with a timer and flash. Official cameras have a Nintendo 64 logo on the front. They come in different colors such as blue and orange.
Nintendo's original development environment for Nintendo 64 software is a card made by SGI containing most of a Nintendo 64 console, plus a software development kit (SDK) for self-hosted installation in an SGI Indy workstation.
The second generation moved to a much cheaper partner model between a normal Nintendo 64 console and a PC by providing a cartridge form factor holding flash storage with a cable connection to a PC. Nintendo officially licensed SN Systems to make the SN Systems dev kit and SN Maestro 64, the second generation of Nintendo 64 SDK in PC partner form to replace the Indy-hosted hardware solution. Unofficial kits include IS-VIEWER 64 and Partner 64. The Monegi Smart Pack is a collection of third-party hardware and software which facilitates real-time development while the game is running on the console.
Through the decades, many unlicensed third-party peripheral devices have provided many consumer-friendly alternative storage mediums for retail Nintendo 64 consoles. They bypass console security for the purpose of development or for users making backups of game cartridges and save data. The Doctor V64 is a CD-ROM peripheral designed by Bung Enterprises and released in 1996. It plugs into the Nintendo 64's underside expansion slot, and uses a lockout-bypass adaptor that fits into the cartridge port, into which any retail cartridge is inserted for use of its lockout chip by proxy. The Doctor V64 Jr. is a cheaper, condensed version that fits into the cartridge port and provides a parallel port connection to a PC. Bung made the DX 256 Super Game Saver [37] which stores 256 battery EEPROM save states, and the DS1 Super Doctor Save Card. The CD 64 is a CD-ROM drive developed by UFO/Success Company. Mr. Backup Z64 designed by Harrison Electronics, Inc. is a ZIP drive peripheral for creating writable backups and performing playback of any Nintendo 64 cartridge. The modern Everdrive 64, ED64 Plus, N64 Neo Myth, and 64Drive use SD cards for mass storage of ROM image files or USB cables to connect to a PC for transfer.
DexDrive is a retail consumer product, an adaptor to connect a Nintendo 64 #Controller Pak into a PC serial port, for sharing saved games . [38] [39]
- The Glove Controller is a wearable glove-like controller similar to the Power Glove with buttons like a normal controller. It is usable in any game.
- The Tilt Pak is a rumble feedback and motion sensor made by Pelican.
- The GameShark , or Action Replay in Europe, is an unlicensed cheat device, similar to the Game Genie , made by InterAct in two versions. The first version has an LED display and a slot on the back of the unit for an expansion card that was never made. The second version (known as the "Pro" series, versions 3.2 and up) has a parallel port on the back for connecting to a computer for game downloads.
- SharkWire Online is a GameShark with modem and PC-style serial port for keyboards . It allowed emailing and Game Shark updates through the now discontinued sharkwire.com dial-in service.
- The GB Hunter is a Game Boy player, similar to the first-party Super Game Boy for the SNES.
- The High-Rez Pack is Mad Catz 's less expensive version of the Expansion Pak . [40] There were reports of overheating due to inadequate cooling/venting, and the unit suffered from poor build quality. [ citation needed ]
- The N64 Passport is an adaptor and cheat device that bypasses games' region lock , with a few exceptions.
- The Memory Card Comfort by Speed-Link is a controller expansion with four separate memory areas and 123 pages each, selectable via a small switch.
- The SharkPad Pro is a third-party controller from InterAct, with slow motion and autofire capabilities.
- The Tremor Pak is a third-party rumble expansion with its own expansion port, allowing for the use of another accessory simultaneously. [41]
- The Nyko Hyper Pak Plus contains internal memory and a rumble feature. [42]
- The Advanced Controller is a Mad Catz gamepad with the same form and controls as the standard Nintendo 64 controller, plus a turbo button. [43] [44]
- The Mad Catz Steering Wheel is a set consisting of an analog steering wheel that turns 270 degrees, two foot pedals, and a stick shift. [43] [44]
- The Power Wheel is a steering wheel with foot pedal module, produced by Game Source. [45]
- The V3 Racing Wheel is a steering wheel with foot pedals produced by InterAct. It includes an expansion port which does not support the Rumble Pak due to the risk that it would grate on the player's crotch. [46]
- The Flight Force Pro 64 is a flight stick from InterAct. [47]
- The Arcade Shark is an arcade-style joystick controller from InterAct with slow motion and autofire buttons. [44]
- The Tristar 64 is a third-party adaptor enabling NES and SNES games on Nintendo 64. The device expands the cartridge slot into three total slots for each cartridge type.
- InterAct reportedly had two Nintendo 64 light guns "packed and ready to ship", one of them with built-in force feedback , but never released them due to the complete lack of light gun shooters for the console. [48]
- ^ Japanese : コントローラパック , Hepburn : Kontorōra Pakku
- ^ Known in Japan as Terminator Pack ( Japanese : ターミネータ パック , Hepburn : Tāminēta Pakku )
- ^ Japanese : 拡張パック , Hepburn : Kakuchō Pakku
- ^ Japanese : 振動パック , Hepburn : Shindō Pakku
- ^ Known in Japan as 64 GB Pack ( Japanese : 64GBパック , Hepburn : Rokujūyon Jī Bī Pakku )
- ^ Japanese : マリオのふぉとぴ
- ^ Japanese : マリオアーティスト
- ^ Japanese : マリオアーティスト タレントスタジオ
- ^ Japanese : マリオのふぉとぴ
- ^ Japanese : イラスト集 ポストカード 1
- ^ Japanese : イラスト集 おもしろアクセサリー 1
- ^ Japanese : キャラクター集 ヨッシーストーリー
- ^ Japanese : キャラクター集 シルバニアファミリー
- ^ Japanese : キャラクター集 ボンバーマン
- ^ Japanese : キャラクター集 ゼルダの伝説 - 時のオカリナ
- ^ Japanese : キャラクター集 ひみつのアッコちゃん
- ^ Japanese : キャラクター集 Hello Kitty
- ^ Japanese : キャラクター集 カードキャプターさくら
- ^ Japanese : キャラクター集 メダロット
- ^ バスラッシュ - ECOGEAR Power Worm Championship
- ^ ぬし釣り64～潮風にのって～ , lit. "Master of Fishing 64, Ride the Salt Sea Wind"
- ^ 糸井重里のバス釣り No.1 決定版!
- ^ 電車 で GO! 64 , lit. "Let's Go by Train! 64"
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- ^ Casamassina, Matt (February 23, 1999). "Nintendo 64 Mailbag" . IGN. Archived from the original on July 19, 2007 . Retrieved October 3, 2007 . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_accessories | 39 |
do you need a memory expansion for nintendo 64 | N64, what do I need. - Retro Forum | I can get a N64 for really cheap. But I'm afraid it isn't complete. What kind of cables, accesoires and stuff do I need to connect it to the TV, power and to play it. It came with one controller, but if I can remember correctly there were different packs available. And are games saved on the cartridge or do you need some sort of memory controller?
Oh, and what are the must haves for the N64.
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All you need are two cables; one to connect to plug into a power socket and the other to plug into the TV. As for the games, most of them do save on the cartridge itself, but there are a few that require a memory card to save, and some which require the expansion pak to play properly...
Now for game essentials:
Super Mario 64
GoldenEye 007
WCW/NWO Revenge
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
Mario Kart 64
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Army Men
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes
Battletanx
Battletanx: Global Assault
NFL Blitz 2001
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Super Smash Bros.
Mario Party 1-3
I'll cut off there for now...
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@shinesprite : I only included games that I've actually played/owned, but I'm not the only game in town, I'm sure DK 64 will show up on someone's list eventually...
"Don't make enemies, they'll stab your heart; don't make friends, they'll stab your back. Including me, including you, all men are trash. Don't love; don't be loved. Have nothing to do with other; live in isolation."
The powercable was included, how does the video cable looks? I assume it goes from N64 to composite, but how does the N64 plug looks? Is it the same as the Wii (or is that just wishful thinking ).
I can do without a Controller Pak, not sure about a Rumble Pack but from what I've read I really need an Expansion Pack. Otherwise some games won't even work.
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I'd like to add Duke Nukem 64 to the list of recommendations. Its an excellent port. The only downfalls are that there's no ingame music, little edits here and there to remove adult stuff (and rename steroids) and you need a memory pack to save your game (you can use cheats to start on certain level too). Overall, its still the king of FPS games with excellent level design and four-player multiplayer, and you can use bots too! Its also one of the few (probably only) N64 FPS games that has two player co-op!
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do you need a memory expansion for nintendo 64 | Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak | The Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak was an add-on for the Nintendo 64 that doubled the amount of RAM the N64 had to 8MB. This allowed for greater resolution, longer draw-distance, and more detailed graphics. It was bundled with Donkey Kong 64 , one of the first games to utilize the hardware. Nintendo published a few titles that either required or used the Expansion Pak, specifically Donkey Kong 64 , The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask , and Perfect Dark . | https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_64_Expansion_Pak | 39 |
do you need a memory expansion for nintendo 64 | Does each controller need a memory pack or can one pack work for all four controllers? - Nintendo 64 Q&A for Nintendo 64 | - I'm buying a memory pack and extra controllers and trying to find out if I need to buy more than one memory packWaterAssassin18 - 1 year ago - report
- You only need a memory pak for one controller, and not all games use the controller pak for saving.
micro-64.com/database/gamesave.shtml
Some games listed on here are under both categories; saves on cartridge, and saves on memory pak. For these titles, the memory pak is used for extra data. For example, Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing both save main gameplay/progression on the cartridge, but extra data such as ghost times for time trials saves to the memory pak.BanjoDude98 - 1 year ago - report1 0
- There are not too many games that require you to use the controller pak, it depends on what games you buy. But when games do require it, they take up a ton. The N64 controller runs on pages, you get 124 I think. Some games take up like 80 pages. As mentioned by BanjoDude98, racing games like Diddy Kong Racing can save ghosts, but this takes up about 100 pages. I recommend buying 2 controller paks just in case, because you never know when you play a game that requires a controller pak and you need space because one game takes up all the pages.0 0
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do you need a memory expansion for nintendo 64 | Do I Need An Expansion Pack For Nintendo 64? | It is necessary to purchase the Expansion Pak in order to play Donkey Kong 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask simultaneously. Using the Expansion Pak, the Nintendo 64 all-remade version of Quake II has a higher color depth and better performance, but not a higher resolution.
With the Expansion Pak, the Nintendo 64 console’s random access memory (RAM) can be increased from 4 megabytes (MB) to 8 MB of contiguous main memory, which is equivalent to a doubling of RAM. With the help of an included key, the Expansion Pak fits into the slot beneath the removable panel on the top of the N64 console and is ready to use.
In addition to doubling the RAM of the N64, the Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak also doubled the memory of the Nintendo 64. In this way, the graphics were more detailed, the draw distance was longer, and the resolution was greater. In addition to Donkey Kong 64, one of the first games to utilize the hardware, it was bundled with it.
Some games, such as Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, San Francisco Rush, and others, require the controller pak to be saved. If you are only playing games with on- cartridge saves , then you do not need a controller/memory pak.
Jumper Paks were included with the Nintendo 64 consoles and were installed right away. In the absence of the Expansion Pak, the system will not function properly, and there will be no picture on the TV.
What is the cost of the Expansion Pack for Existing Nintendo Switch Online Customers?? In addition to the $30 subscription fee for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, you’ll also get access to these vintage games (and some other features, of which we’ll get to later). The service is already $99 for them.
A 4 player multiplayer expansion pak is required. In addition to enabling two hi-res modes, which increase resolution to 640*480, but result in a significant performance drop, the Expansion Pak is required for 3 and 4 player multiplayer. The resolution is increased to 400*440 when enabled in hi-res mode.
The reason N64 games are so expensive is that they are made with cartridge games, which are much more expensive to produce than discs. Fewer were made than discs. Therefore, the supply of N64 games is relatively low. Despite this, the demand for these games remains high.
The key to holding it in place is to press firmly. Ensure that the Expansion Pak is not loaded backwards by inserting it into the Memory Expansion compartment. On the Expansion Pak, the text should be centered to the front of the control deck. The Memory Expansion Cover on the control deck needs to be replaced.
The expansion pack content is currently not available on its own, so new subscribers will have to pay $49 for it.
A 4 player multiplayer expansion pak is required. In addition to enabling two hi-res modes, which increase resolution to 640*480, but result in a significant performance drop, the Expansion Pak is required for 3 and 4 player multiplayer.
There was a game breaking bug in the 4 MB version of Donkey Kong on the N64, which is what most of you are aware of. In order to prevent that bug from happening, they had to include the expansion memory.
Perfect Dark came along at a time when GoldenEye 007 was the gold standard for first-person shooters on Nintendo 64. This is one of the most advanced Nintendo 64 games. The game requires an Expansion Pak in order to play the campaign and most of the multiplayer modes, which is why some copies were bundled with one of them.
Each game has a set amount. Some games have built-in memory on the cartridge, but Mario 64 and other games do not. Below is a list of games that require a memory card to be saved.
In contrast to the GameCube, it has internal memory for saving game data. In some games, the SD card is also used to store non-game data (such as Mario Kart 64 on the N64). snapshots that can be taken in Super Smash Bros. were an example of this.
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Konami Osaka
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
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Konami Osaka
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when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Hawaii’s Long Road to Becoming America’s 50th State | Hawaii became part of the union more than six decades after an illegal coup ousted the Native Hawaiian monarchy.
More than 60 years after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, Hawaii (Native spelling: Hawaiʻi) officially became America’s 50 th state on August 21, 1959. The cluster of islands, situated some 2,400 miles off the U.S. mainland in the South Pacific, followed Alaska, the 49 th entry, by just eight months.
Hawaii’s push for statehood had failed repeatedly for more than half a century—due largely, scholars say , to discrimination against the islands’ substantial non-white population. However, savvy political maneuvering, coupled with changing U.S. strategic interests in the Pacific during the Cold War, ultimately turned the tide.
Statehood hasn’t been universally embraced on the islands. For some Native Hawaiians, it reflects an unwelcome legacy of American imperialism, militarism and colonization in the Pacific region.
Hawaii drew American interest for both economic and strategic reasons. After Christian missionaries visiting in the early 19 th century reported favorable conditions for planting sugar cane, white business investors arrived, buying up large tracts of land.
By the 1870s, treaties tied Hawaiian trade increasingly to the U.S. economy, while the wealthy planter class worked actively to undercut the sovereignty of Native rule. In 1887, in what came to be known as the “Bayonet Constitution,” they forced King David Kalakaua, at gunpoint, to sign a constitution that drained the monarchy of power and effectively denied suffrage to anyone who wasn’t a white, English-speaking property owner.
On January 17, 1893, a small group of white planters and businessmen successfully overthrew the last Hawaiian monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani . They had help from America’s envoy to Hawaii who, without authorization, had conspired to place a U.S. warship off the coast, threatening invasion if the Queen resisted. Despite President Grover Cleveland ’s condemnation of the coup and verbal support for the queen, the provisional government refused to step down, and established the Republic of Hawaii.
The new government pushed immediately for annexation, prompting five years of political debate. Proponents saw Hawaii as a gateway to Asian markets and a strategic mid-Pacific stopover for military and merchant ships. Some opponents saw annexation as burdensome, amoral and potentially unconstitutional. Others feared paving a pathway to citizenship for the islands’ Polynesian, Chinese and Japanese residents at a time when racist immigration laws expressly excluded Asians .
Annexation efforts stalled until 1898, when the outbreak of the Spanish-American War urgently underscored Hawaii’s strategic value as a base for battles in the Philippines. On July 7 of that year, Congress passed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a U.S. territory; in 1900, it was granted self-governance.
Hawaii
Efforts to make Hawaii a full state started early and continued for decades. Sanford B. Dole, the first governor of the territory of Hawaii (and cousin to the future pineapple magnate), initially raised the possibility in his 1894 inaugural address. On February 11, 1919, the first bill for Hawaiian statehood was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. It died in committee.
Despite investigations, reports and recommendations regarding the issue, statehood gained little traction. Instead, Hawaii retained its tenuous territorial status, with only one nonvoting Congressional delegate. That meant the islands received scant federal funding for crucial needs like infrastructure, transportation improvements, conservation efforts and education. Hawaiian residents couldn’t vote for their governor or president. And at any time, Congress could abolish the territorial legislature and local governor and place the islands under a resident commissioner or a Navy commission.
By 1940, two of every three voters in Hawaii supported statehood. World War II initially stalled the process, but in 1947, the push renewed in earnest. The Hawaiian Equal Rights Commission changed its name to the Hawaii Statehood Commission. Numerous Hawaii statehood bills passed either the U.S. House or Senate in 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1953. But none prevailed through both chambers.
In 1956, after John Burns was elected as Hawaii’s Democratic delegate in a Democrat-controlled Congress, he succeeded in winning the support of southern congressmen, particularly Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That proved crucial, since many so-called Dixiecrats still supported segregation and viewed Hawaii’s multi-ethnic population as incompatible with their racially homogenous vision of America.
For some, though, Hawaii’s large Asian population was seen not as an impediment. Instead, they were potentially critical intermediaries for America’s growing trade and military interests in the Far East—particularly during the Cold War, asserts historian Roger Bell, author of Last Among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics .
On January 3, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law admitting Alaska as the 49 th state. Later that same year, the Hawaii bill, ultimately helped by being uncoupled from Alaska’s bid, passed in the House by a 323 to 89 vote and in the Senate by a 76 to 15 margin. At last, 18 years after Pearl Harbor , Hawaii’s people were officially American citizens. Hawaii voters ratified statehood by an overwhelming margin of 17 to 1.
However, not all Hawaii residents celebrated statehood. Native Hawaiians have continually challenged Hawaii’s incorporation into the United States, from royalists staging a counter revolution in the immediate aftermath of the coup to contemporary calls for decolonization.
The Native sovereignty movement got a significant boost in the 1970s from antimilitary activism, according to Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo’ole Osorio, dean of the Hawaiinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge . In particular, resentment of the U.S. military grew as activists risked their lives trying to reclaim Kaho‘olawe Island , a sacred Native place that had been environmentally decimated after being used as a bombing range.
In 1993, 100 years after the coup, the U.S. government formally apologized to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing their kingdom and depriving them of their rights to self-determination. But while it acknowledged that 1.8 million acres of land had been ceded “without the consent of or compensation to the Native Hawaiian people…or their sovereign government,” the statement offered no renumeration. It ended with the disclaimer: “Nothing in this Joint Resolution was intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States.”
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when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Hawaii’s Long Road to Becoming America’s 50th State | Hawaii became part of the union more than six decades after an illegal coup ousted the Native Hawaiian monarchy.
More than 60 years after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, Hawaii (Native spelling: Hawaiʻi) officially became America’s 50 th state on August 21, 1959. The cluster of islands, situated some 2,400 miles off the U.S. mainland in the South Pacific, followed Alaska, the 49 th entry, by just eight months.
Hawaii’s push for statehood had failed repeatedly for more than half a century—due largely, scholars say , to discrimination against the islands’ substantial non-white population. However, savvy political maneuvering, coupled with changing U.S. strategic interests in the Pacific during the Cold War, ultimately turned the tide.
Statehood hasn’t been universally embraced on the islands. For some Native Hawaiians, it reflects an unwelcome legacy of American imperialism, militarism and colonization in the Pacific region.
Hawaii drew American interest for both economic and strategic reasons. After Christian missionaries visiting in the early 19 th century reported favorable conditions for planting sugar cane, white business investors arrived, buying up large tracts of land.
By the 1870s, treaties tied Hawaiian trade increasingly to the U.S. economy, while the wealthy planter class worked actively to undercut the sovereignty of Native rule. In 1887, in what came to be known as the “Bayonet Constitution,” they forced King David Kalakaua, at gunpoint, to sign a constitution that drained the monarchy of power and effectively denied suffrage to anyone who wasn’t a white, English-speaking property owner.
On January 17, 1893, a small group of white planters and businessmen successfully overthrew the last Hawaiian monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani . They had help from America’s envoy to Hawaii who, without authorization, had conspired to place a U.S. warship off the coast, threatening invasion if the Queen resisted. Despite President Grover Cleveland ’s condemnation of the coup and verbal support for the queen, the provisional government refused to step down, and established the Republic of Hawaii.
The new government pushed immediately for annexation, prompting five years of political debate. Proponents saw Hawaii as a gateway to Asian markets and a strategic mid-Pacific stopover for military and merchant ships. Some opponents saw annexation as burdensome, amoral and potentially unconstitutional. Others feared paving a pathway to citizenship for the islands’ Polynesian, Chinese and Japanese residents at a time when racist immigration laws expressly excluded Asians .
Annexation efforts stalled until 1898, when the outbreak of the Spanish-American War urgently underscored Hawaii’s strategic value as a base for battles in the Philippines. On July 7 of that year, Congress passed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a U.S. territory; in 1900, it was granted self-governance.
Hawaii
Efforts to make Hawaii a full state started early and continued for decades. Sanford B. Dole, the first governor of the territory of Hawaii (and cousin to the future pineapple magnate), initially raised the possibility in his 1894 inaugural address. On February 11, 1919, the first bill for Hawaiian statehood was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. It died in committee.
Despite investigations, reports and recommendations regarding the issue, statehood gained little traction. Instead, Hawaii retained its tenuous territorial status, with only one nonvoting Congressional delegate. That meant the islands received scant federal funding for crucial needs like infrastructure, transportation improvements, conservation efforts and education. Hawaiian residents couldn’t vote for their governor or president. And at any time, Congress could abolish the territorial legislature and local governor and place the islands under a resident commissioner or a Navy commission.
By 1940, two of every three voters in Hawaii supported statehood. World War II initially stalled the process, but in 1947, the push renewed in earnest. The Hawaiian Equal Rights Commission changed its name to the Hawaii Statehood Commission. Numerous Hawaii statehood bills passed either the U.S. House or Senate in 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1953. But none prevailed through both chambers.
In 1956, after John Burns was elected as Hawaii’s Democratic delegate in a Democrat-controlled Congress, he succeeded in winning the support of southern congressmen, particularly Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That proved crucial, since many so-called Dixiecrats still supported segregation and viewed Hawaii’s multi-ethnic population as incompatible with their racially homogenous vision of America.
For some, though, Hawaii’s large Asian population was seen not as an impediment. Instead, they were potentially critical intermediaries for America’s growing trade and military interests in the Far East—particularly during the Cold War, asserts historian Roger Bell, author of Last Among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics .
On January 3, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law admitting Alaska as the 49 th state. Later that same year, the Hawaii bill, ultimately helped by being uncoupled from Alaska’s bid, passed in the House by a 323 to 89 vote and in the Senate by a 76 to 15 margin. At last, 18 years after Pearl Harbor , Hawaii’s people were officially American citizens. Hawaii voters ratified statehood by an overwhelming margin of 17 to 1.
However, not all Hawaii residents celebrated statehood. Native Hawaiians have continually challenged Hawaii’s incorporation into the United States, from royalists staging a counter revolution in the immediate aftermath of the coup to contemporary calls for decolonization.
The Native sovereignty movement got a significant boost in the 1970s from antimilitary activism, according to Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo’ole Osorio, dean of the Hawaiinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge . In particular, resentment of the U.S. military grew as activists risked their lives trying to reclaim Kaho‘olawe Island , a sacred Native place that had been environmentally decimated after being used as a bombing range.
In 1993, 100 years after the coup, the U.S. government formally apologized to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing their kingdom and depriving them of their rights to self-determination. But while it acknowledged that 1.8 million acres of land had been ceded “without the consent of or compensation to the Native Hawaiian people…or their sovereign government,” the statement offered no renumeration. It ended with the disclaimer: “Nothing in this Joint Resolution was intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States.”
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when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Hawaii’s Long Road to Becoming America’s 50th State | Hawaii became part of the union more than six decades after an illegal coup ousted the Native Hawaiian monarchy.
More than 60 years after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, Hawaii (Native spelling: Hawaiʻi) officially became America’s 50 th state on August 21, 1959. The cluster of islands, situated some 2,400 miles off the U.S. mainland in the South Pacific, followed Alaska, the 49 th entry, by just eight months.
Hawaii’s push for statehood had failed repeatedly for more than half a century—due largely, scholars say , to discrimination against the islands’ substantial non-white population. However, savvy political maneuvering, coupled with changing U.S. strategic interests in the Pacific during the Cold War, ultimately turned the tide.
Statehood hasn’t been universally embraced on the islands. For some Native Hawaiians, it reflects an unwelcome legacy of American imperialism, militarism and colonization in the Pacific region.
Hawaii drew American interest for both economic and strategic reasons. After Christian missionaries visiting in the early 19 th century reported favorable conditions for planting sugar cane, white business investors arrived, buying up large tracts of land.
By the 1870s, treaties tied Hawaiian trade increasingly to the U.S. economy, while the wealthy planter class worked actively to undercut the sovereignty of Native rule. In 1887, in what came to be known as the “Bayonet Constitution,” they forced King David Kalakaua, at gunpoint, to sign a constitution that drained the monarchy of power and effectively denied suffrage to anyone who wasn’t a white, English-speaking property owner.
On January 17, 1893, a small group of white planters and businessmen successfully overthrew the last Hawaiian monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani . They had help from America’s envoy to Hawaii who, without authorization, had conspired to place a U.S. warship off the coast, threatening invasion if the Queen resisted. Despite President Grover Cleveland ’s condemnation of the coup and verbal support for the queen, the provisional government refused to step down, and established the Republic of Hawaii.
The new government pushed immediately for annexation, prompting five years of political debate. Proponents saw Hawaii as a gateway to Asian markets and a strategic mid-Pacific stopover for military and merchant ships. Some opponents saw annexation as burdensome, amoral and potentially unconstitutional. Others feared paving a pathway to citizenship for the islands’ Polynesian, Chinese and Japanese residents at a time when racist immigration laws expressly excluded Asians .
Annexation efforts stalled until 1898, when the outbreak of the Spanish-American War urgently underscored Hawaii’s strategic value as a base for battles in the Philippines. On July 7 of that year, Congress passed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a U.S. territory; in 1900, it was granted self-governance.
Hawaii
Efforts to make Hawaii a full state started early and continued for decades. Sanford B. Dole, the first governor of the territory of Hawaii (and cousin to the future pineapple magnate), initially raised the possibility in his 1894 inaugural address. On February 11, 1919, the first bill for Hawaiian statehood was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. It died in committee.
Despite investigations, reports and recommendations regarding the issue, statehood gained little traction. Instead, Hawaii retained its tenuous territorial status, with only one nonvoting Congressional delegate. That meant the islands received scant federal funding for crucial needs like infrastructure, transportation improvements, conservation efforts and education. Hawaiian residents couldn’t vote for their governor or president. And at any time, Congress could abolish the territorial legislature and local governor and place the islands under a resident commissioner or a Navy commission.
By 1940, two of every three voters in Hawaii supported statehood. World War II initially stalled the process, but in 1947, the push renewed in earnest. The Hawaiian Equal Rights Commission changed its name to the Hawaii Statehood Commission. Numerous Hawaii statehood bills passed either the U.S. House or Senate in 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1953. But none prevailed through both chambers.
In 1956, after John Burns was elected as Hawaii’s Democratic delegate in a Democrat-controlled Congress, he succeeded in winning the support of southern congressmen, particularly Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That proved crucial, since many so-called Dixiecrats still supported segregation and viewed Hawaii’s multi-ethnic population as incompatible with their racially homogenous vision of America.
For some, though, Hawaii’s large Asian population was seen not as an impediment. Instead, they were potentially critical intermediaries for America’s growing trade and military interests in the Far East—particularly during the Cold War, asserts historian Roger Bell, author of Last Among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics .
On January 3, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law admitting Alaska as the 49 th state. Later that same year, the Hawaii bill, ultimately helped by being uncoupled from Alaska’s bid, passed in the House by a 323 to 89 vote and in the Senate by a 76 to 15 margin. At last, 18 years after Pearl Harbor , Hawaii’s people were officially American citizens. Hawaii voters ratified statehood by an overwhelming margin of 17 to 1.
However, not all Hawaii residents celebrated statehood. Native Hawaiians have continually challenged Hawaii’s incorporation into the United States, from royalists staging a counter revolution in the immediate aftermath of the coup to contemporary calls for decolonization.
The Native sovereignty movement got a significant boost in the 1970s from antimilitary activism, according to Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo’ole Osorio, dean of the Hawaiinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge . In particular, resentment of the U.S. military grew as activists risked their lives trying to reclaim Kaho‘olawe Island , a sacred Native place that had been environmentally decimated after being used as a bombing range.
In 1993, 100 years after the coup, the U.S. government formally apologized to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing their kingdom and depriving them of their rights to self-determination. But while it acknowledged that 1.8 million acres of land had been ceded “without the consent of or compensation to the Native Hawaiian people…or their sovereign government,” the statement offered no renumeration. It ended with the disclaimer: “Nothing in this Joint Resolution was intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States.”
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when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Hawaii’s Long Road to Becoming America’s 50th State | Hawaii became part of the union more than six decades after an illegal coup ousted the Native Hawaiian monarchy.
More than 60 years after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, Hawaii (Native spelling: Hawaiʻi) officially became America’s 50 th state on August 21, 1959. The cluster of islands, situated some 2,400 miles off the U.S. mainland in the South Pacific, followed Alaska, the 49 th entry, by just eight months.
Hawaii’s push for statehood had failed repeatedly for more than half a century—due largely, scholars say , to discrimination against the islands’ substantial non-white population. However, savvy political maneuvering, coupled with changing U.S. strategic interests in the Pacific during the Cold War, ultimately turned the tide.
Statehood hasn’t been universally embraced on the islands. For some Native Hawaiians, it reflects an unwelcome legacy of American imperialism, militarism and colonization in the Pacific region.
Hawaii drew American interest for both economic and strategic reasons. After Christian missionaries visiting in the early 19 th century reported favorable conditions for planting sugar cane, white business investors arrived, buying up large tracts of land.
By the 1870s, treaties tied Hawaiian trade increasingly to the U.S. economy, while the wealthy planter class worked actively to undercut the sovereignty of Native rule. In 1887, in what came to be known as the “Bayonet Constitution,” they forced King David Kalakaua, at gunpoint, to sign a constitution that drained the monarchy of power and effectively denied suffrage to anyone who wasn’t a white, English-speaking property owner.
On January 17, 1893, a small group of white planters and businessmen successfully overthrew the last Hawaiian monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani . They had help from America’s envoy to Hawaii who, without authorization, had conspired to place a U.S. warship off the coast, threatening invasion if the Queen resisted. Despite President Grover Cleveland ’s condemnation of the coup and verbal support for the queen, the provisional government refused to step down, and established the Republic of Hawaii.
The new government pushed immediately for annexation, prompting five years of political debate. Proponents saw Hawaii as a gateway to Asian markets and a strategic mid-Pacific stopover for military and merchant ships. Some opponents saw annexation as burdensome, amoral and potentially unconstitutional. Others feared paving a pathway to citizenship for the islands’ Polynesian, Chinese and Japanese residents at a time when racist immigration laws expressly excluded Asians .
Annexation efforts stalled until 1898, when the outbreak of the Spanish-American War urgently underscored Hawaii’s strategic value as a base for battles in the Philippines. On July 7 of that year, Congress passed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a U.S. territory; in 1900, it was granted self-governance.
Hawaii
Efforts to make Hawaii a full state started early and continued for decades. Sanford B. Dole, the first governor of the territory of Hawaii (and cousin to the future pineapple magnate), initially raised the possibility in his 1894 inaugural address. On February 11, 1919, the first bill for Hawaiian statehood was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. It died in committee.
Despite investigations, reports and recommendations regarding the issue, statehood gained little traction. Instead, Hawaii retained its tenuous territorial status, with only one nonvoting Congressional delegate. That meant the islands received scant federal funding for crucial needs like infrastructure, transportation improvements, conservation efforts and education. Hawaiian residents couldn’t vote for their governor or president. And at any time, Congress could abolish the territorial legislature and local governor and place the islands under a resident commissioner or a Navy commission.
By 1940, two of every three voters in Hawaii supported statehood. World War II initially stalled the process, but in 1947, the push renewed in earnest. The Hawaiian Equal Rights Commission changed its name to the Hawaii Statehood Commission. Numerous Hawaii statehood bills passed either the U.S. House or Senate in 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1953. But none prevailed through both chambers.
In 1956, after John Burns was elected as Hawaii’s Democratic delegate in a Democrat-controlled Congress, he succeeded in winning the support of southern congressmen, particularly Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That proved crucial, since many so-called Dixiecrats still supported segregation and viewed Hawaii’s multi-ethnic population as incompatible with their racially homogenous vision of America.
For some, though, Hawaii’s large Asian population was seen not as an impediment. Instead, they were potentially critical intermediaries for America’s growing trade and military interests in the Far East—particularly during the Cold War, asserts historian Roger Bell, author of Last Among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics .
On January 3, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law admitting Alaska as the 49 th state. Later that same year, the Hawaii bill, ultimately helped by being uncoupled from Alaska’s bid, passed in the House by a 323 to 89 vote and in the Senate by a 76 to 15 margin. At last, 18 years after Pearl Harbor , Hawaii’s people were officially American citizens. Hawaii voters ratified statehood by an overwhelming margin of 17 to 1.
However, not all Hawaii residents celebrated statehood. Native Hawaiians have continually challenged Hawaii’s incorporation into the United States, from royalists staging a counter revolution in the immediate aftermath of the coup to contemporary calls for decolonization.
The Native sovereignty movement got a significant boost in the 1970s from antimilitary activism, according to Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo’ole Osorio, dean of the Hawaiinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge . In particular, resentment of the U.S. military grew as activists risked their lives trying to reclaim Kaho‘olawe Island , a sacred Native place that had been environmentally decimated after being used as a bombing range.
In 1993, 100 years after the coup, the U.S. government formally apologized to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing their kingdom and depriving them of their rights to self-determination. But while it acknowledged that 1.8 million acres of land had been ceded “without the consent of or compensation to the Native Hawaiian people…or their sovereign government,” the statement offered no renumeration. It ended with the disclaimer: “Nothing in this Joint Resolution was intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States.”
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when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Hawaii’s Long Road to Becoming America’s 50th State | Hawaii became part of the union more than six decades after an illegal coup ousted the Native Hawaiian monarchy.
More than 60 years after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, Hawaii (Native spelling: Hawaiʻi) officially became America’s 50 th state on August 21, 1959. The cluster of islands, situated some 2,400 miles off the U.S. mainland in the South Pacific, followed Alaska, the 49 th entry, by just eight months.
Hawaii’s push for statehood had failed repeatedly for more than half a century—due largely, scholars say , to discrimination against the islands’ substantial non-white population. However, savvy political maneuvering, coupled with changing U.S. strategic interests in the Pacific during the Cold War, ultimately turned the tide.
Statehood hasn’t been universally embraced on the islands. For some Native Hawaiians, it reflects an unwelcome legacy of American imperialism, militarism and colonization in the Pacific region.
Hawaii drew American interest for both economic and strategic reasons. After Christian missionaries visiting in the early 19 th century reported favorable conditions for planting sugar cane, white business investors arrived, buying up large tracts of land.
By the 1870s, treaties tied Hawaiian trade increasingly to the U.S. economy, while the wealthy planter class worked actively to undercut the sovereignty of Native rule. In 1887, in what came to be known as the “Bayonet Constitution,” they forced King David Kalakaua, at gunpoint, to sign a constitution that drained the monarchy of power and effectively denied suffrage to anyone who wasn’t a white, English-speaking property owner.
On January 17, 1893, a small group of white planters and businessmen successfully overthrew the last Hawaiian monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani . They had help from America’s envoy to Hawaii who, without authorization, had conspired to place a U.S. warship off the coast, threatening invasion if the Queen resisted. Despite President Grover Cleveland ’s condemnation of the coup and verbal support for the queen, the provisional government refused to step down, and established the Republic of Hawaii.
The new government pushed immediately for annexation, prompting five years of political debate. Proponents saw Hawaii as a gateway to Asian markets and a strategic mid-Pacific stopover for military and merchant ships. Some opponents saw annexation as burdensome, amoral and potentially unconstitutional. Others feared paving a pathway to citizenship for the islands’ Polynesian, Chinese and Japanese residents at a time when racist immigration laws expressly excluded Asians .
Annexation efforts stalled until 1898, when the outbreak of the Spanish-American War urgently underscored Hawaii’s strategic value as a base for battles in the Philippines. On July 7 of that year, Congress passed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a U.S. territory; in 1900, it was granted self-governance.
Hawaii
Efforts to make Hawaii a full state started early and continued for decades. Sanford B. Dole, the first governor of the territory of Hawaii (and cousin to the future pineapple magnate), initially raised the possibility in his 1894 inaugural address. On February 11, 1919, the first bill for Hawaiian statehood was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. It died in committee.
Despite investigations, reports and recommendations regarding the issue, statehood gained little traction. Instead, Hawaii retained its tenuous territorial status, with only one nonvoting Congressional delegate. That meant the islands received scant federal funding for crucial needs like infrastructure, transportation improvements, conservation efforts and education. Hawaiian residents couldn’t vote for their governor or president. And at any time, Congress could abolish the territorial legislature and local governor and place the islands under a resident commissioner or a Navy commission.
By 1940, two of every three voters in Hawaii supported statehood. World War II initially stalled the process, but in 1947, the push renewed in earnest. The Hawaiian Equal Rights Commission changed its name to the Hawaii Statehood Commission. Numerous Hawaii statehood bills passed either the U.S. House or Senate in 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1953. But none prevailed through both chambers.
In 1956, after John Burns was elected as Hawaii’s Democratic delegate in a Democrat-controlled Congress, he succeeded in winning the support of southern congressmen, particularly Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That proved crucial, since many so-called Dixiecrats still supported segregation and viewed Hawaii’s multi-ethnic population as incompatible with their racially homogenous vision of America.
For some, though, Hawaii’s large Asian population was seen not as an impediment. Instead, they were potentially critical intermediaries for America’s growing trade and military interests in the Far East—particularly during the Cold War, asserts historian Roger Bell, author of Last Among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics .
On January 3, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law admitting Alaska as the 49 th state. Later that same year, the Hawaii bill, ultimately helped by being uncoupled from Alaska’s bid, passed in the House by a 323 to 89 vote and in the Senate by a 76 to 15 margin. At last, 18 years after Pearl Harbor , Hawaii’s people were officially American citizens. Hawaii voters ratified statehood by an overwhelming margin of 17 to 1.
However, not all Hawaii residents celebrated statehood. Native Hawaiians have continually challenged Hawaii’s incorporation into the United States, from royalists staging a counter revolution in the immediate aftermath of the coup to contemporary calls for decolonization.
The Native sovereignty movement got a significant boost in the 1970s from antimilitary activism, according to Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo’ole Osorio, dean of the Hawaiinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge . In particular, resentment of the U.S. military grew as activists risked their lives trying to reclaim Kaho‘olawe Island , a sacred Native place that had been environmentally decimated after being used as a bombing range.
In 1993, 100 years after the coup, the U.S. government formally apologized to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing their kingdom and depriving them of their rights to self-determination. But while it acknowledged that 1.8 million acres of land had been ceded “without the consent of or compensation to the Native Hawaiian people…or their sovereign government,” the statement offered no renumeration. It ended with the disclaimer: “Nothing in this Joint Resolution was intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States.”
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when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Hawaii Statehood, August 21, 1959 | Located in the historical records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate at the Center for Legislative Archives are many documents that illustrate the important role of stakeholders, indigenous people and Congress in the statehood process. Here is a small sampling of the many congressional records that highlight Hawaii's long and often challenged path to statehood. On August 21, 1959 Hawaii became the 50th state.
For more information, visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library to see Executive documents related to Hawaii's statehood.
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when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | From Territory to Statehood: Alaska and Hawaii | Jump to: Sample Articles
- 1867: Alaska territory purchased from Russia for $7 million.
- 1898: Hawaii annexed as a United States territory.
- 1959: Alaska and Hawaii admitted, respectively, as the 49th and 50th states of the Union.
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- Alaska Wants Voice on Floor of Congress , The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.), January 9, 1903, Page 2, Image 2, Cols. 1-2
- Alaska in 1906: Its Wonderful Development and How it is Building Seattle , Deseret Evening News (Great Salt Lake City, UT), June 30, 1906, Last Edition, Part Two, Page 29, Image 29, Cols. 1-7
- Three Million Acres in Alaska Soon to be Opened up to Settlers , New-York Tribune (New York, NY), July 21, 1907, Image 13, Full page | https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/FTTSAkHi.html | 40 |
when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Teachinghistory.org | Historian John Buescher is an author and professor who formerly headed Tibetan language broadcasts at Voice of America. His Ph.D. is from the University of Virginia and he has published extensively on the history of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism and on the history of 19th-century American spiritualism.
When and why did Hawaii become a state?
Hawaii—a U.S. territory since 1898—became the 50th state in August, 1959, following a referendum in Hawaii in which more than 93% of the voters approved the proposition that the territory should be admitted as a state.
There were many Hawaiian petitions for statehood during the first half of the 20th century.
The voters wished to participate directly in electing their own governor and to have a full voice in national debates and elections that affected their lives. The voters also felt that statehood was warranted because they had demonstrated their loyalty—no matter what their ethnic background—to the U.S. to the fullest extent during World War II.
In retrospect, perhaps, the genuinely interesting question about Hawaii’s becoming a state is why it took so long—60 years from the time that it became a U.S. possession. There were many Hawaiian petitions for statehood during the first half of the 20th century. These were denied or ignored. Some in the U.S. had been convinced, even at the time of Hawaii’s annexation, that Hawaii had no natural connection to the rest of the states. It was not contiguous territory, most obviously, but 2,000 miles from the coast.
In retrospect, perhaps, the genuinely interesting question about Hawaii’s becoming a state is why it took so long.
Hawaii’s annexation in 1898 had much to do with the power of American plantation owners on the islands and the protection of their financial interests—both in gaining exemption from import taxes for the sugar they shipped to the U.S. and in protecting their holdings from possible confiscation or nationalization under a revived Hawaiian monarchy. There was considerable sentiment in the U.S. that annexation would be an unjust, imperialistic, and therefore un-American, move (Hawaii had more than sugar; it was a potential harbor and coaling station for naval vessels and was historically pressured in the 18th and 19th centuries for concessions by countries including Great Britain, Japan, and Russia).
Nevertheless, at the time of annexation the monarchy itself had only been in existence for a century, and originally consolidated power brutally, with the help of European sailors and firepower. Even by the end of the 19th century, a significant portion of the Caucasian residents of Hawaii had been born and raised there and considered themselves natives. Complicating the question was a large population of immigrant Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese, all of whom had been originally encouraged to come in order to supply agricultural labor to the islands.
At the time of the vote, 90% of the population of Hawaii consisted of U.S. citizens.
Part of the decades-long reluctance to change Hawaii’s status from territory to state derived, both in Hawaii and on the mainland, from uncertainty and fear about granting electoral power to one ethnic group or another. This was not just Caucasian vs. ethnically Polynesian. Some ethnically Polynesian Hawaiians opposed the change from territory to state because, while they had come to feel comfortably “American,” they feared that the Japanese population on Hawaii (perhaps as high as 30%) would, under a universal franchise authorized by statehood, organize and vote itself into power to the disadvantage of the Hawaiians of Polynesian descent.
At the time of the vote, 90% of the population of Hawaii consisted of U.S. citizens. Hawaii’s importance in World War II had secured its identity as fully American in the minds of both Hawaiians and mainlanders. In addition, persistent and effective lobbying of Congressional representatives during this initial period of the modern Civil Rights Movement convinced enough members of Congress that this was the right moment to accept Hawaiian statehood, no matter what its racial makeup was.
Hawaiians themselves had been awaiting this for years, so much so that the “49th State” Record Label had been selling popular Hawaiian music since shortly after the War. As it turned out, Alaska entered as a state at the very beginning of 1959, making it the 49th, and when Hawaii came in several months later, it became the 50th state of the Union. | https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/25769 | 40 |
when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | History of Hawaii - How Hawaii Became a State | Our guides at Skyline Hawaii love sharing their knowlege about the history of and culture of Hawaii. One of the things you might hear about on your tour is how Hawaii became as state.
Many people know that Hawaii joined the United States of America as the 50th state in 1959. But, many people do not know the political history of Hawaii before it became a state. Until 1894, Hawaii was ruled by kings and queens. Hawaii was united under a single kingdom for 80 years, from the reign of King Kamehameha to Queen Lili’oukalani. During this 80 year period, the rules of succession evolved a lot. Initially, people eligible to rule only included family members. Eventually, adopted sons and daughters were eligible to be rulers. In addition to adopted children, members of the noble class recognized by Kamehameha were eligible to become rulers too.
Many people know that Hawaii joined the United States of America as the 50th state in 1959. But, many people do not know the political history of Hawaii before it became a state. Until 1894, Hawaii was ruled by kings and queens. Hawaii was united under a single kingdom for 80 years, from the reign of King Kamehameha to Queen Lili’oukalani. During this 80 year period, the rules of succession evolved a lot. Initially, people eligible to rule only included family members. Eventually, adopted sons and daughters were eligible to be rulers. In addition to adopted children, members of the noble class recognized by Kamehameha were eligible to become rulers too.
The Republic of Hawaii was established on July 4th, 1894. Sanford Dole became the first president of the Republic. There was a brief effort in 1895 to restore the monarchy and Queen Lili’oukalani to the throne, but this effort was quickly ended. In 1898, a wave of nationalism was caused by the Spanish-American War. Because of these nationalistic views, President William McKinley annexed Hawaii from the United States. Hawaii’s statehood was deferred by the United States until 1959 because of racial attitudes and nationalistic politics. In 1959, Hawaii’s status was linked to Alaska’s and both territories became states that year. It took 60 years from the time Hawaii became a United States territory until it was declared a state on August 21st, 1959. A sovereignty movement still exists today among Native Hawaiians. The movement recognizes that the independent and internationally recognized government of the Hawaiian islands was illegally overthrown by the United States. Native Hawaiians are the only group of indigenous people living in the United States who are not recognized as a separate nation by the government. Instead, they are regarded as “wards” of the State of Hawaii.
Sadly, many of the cultural practices of Hawaii have been lost due to the European settlement on the islands in 1778. However, there are some schools and classes that are working to preserve the native culture. These institutions dedicate time to teaching the language as well as other native cultural practices.
Sources: http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Ha-La/Hawaiians.html
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Sources: http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Ha-La/Hawaiians.html
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when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states of the USA only after world war two. What was their sovereign status before that? | Notes and Queries | Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states of the USA only after world war two. What was their sovereign status before that?
- ALASKA was a Russian colony from 1744 until the USA bought it in 1867 for $7,200,000. It was made a state in 1959. Hawaii was a kingdom until 1893 and became a republic in 1894. It then ceded itself to the USA in 1898 and became a state in 1959. Kyra Ings, Devizes, Wiltshire ([email protected])
- IMMEDIATELY before Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959, it was a Territory of the US. However, it had been a sovereign constitutional monarchy until 1893, when the last Queen, Lili'uokalani, was deposed by a group of American sugar planters and missionaries, with the support of the US marines. A few years after her overthrow, the islands were annexed to the US. Alex Fenton, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- ALASKA was also a "territory" until May 1959. Statehood requires a minimum population. We moved to Alaska from California in 1954. I recall eating breakfast, listening to the radio, and hearing the Governor announce: "We are now a state". We kept eating breakfast - there were no street parties as for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in Britain in 1977. My parents still reside in Alaska and are respected old timers or "sourdoughs". Terry Lambert, Milnthorpe, Cumbria. | https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2188,00.html | 40 |
when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | The last time Congress created a new state | On March 12, 1959, Congress approved Hawaii for admission to the union as the 50th state, marking the last time statehood was subject to votes in the House and Senate.
President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admissions Act a week later on March 18, 1959, and Hawaii officially became the 50th state on August 21, 1959, after Hawaiians voted to become a state in June 1959 under terms specified in the Admissions Act.
The Constitution grants general state-creation powers to Congress in Article IV, Section 3, under the Admissions Clause, which reads: “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”
Since 1789, states have joined the union in various ways. The usual process has been for Congress to grant territorial status as a precursor, with a territory creating a local constitution for its citizens that conforms to the federal Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. In other cases, such as Texas, West Virginia, Vermont and Kentucky, the admission process differed. But since West Virginia’s admission to the union in 1863, the state admission process has been restricted to territories.
On the Interactive Constitution, Eric Biber and Thomas B. Colby describe the general evolution of the statehood process in recent times:
“The Admissions Clause provides that admission of a state requires at least one Act of Congress. However, Congress has often followed a more complicated process. For many admitted states, Congress first passed an Enabling Act, which authorized the population of a territory to convene a constitutional convention to draft a constitution for the new proposed state, and to apply for admission to Congress,” they explain.
“Often in the Enabling Act, Congress specified a range of conditions that the proposed state had to meet in order for admission to occur. … Once the proposed state constitution was drafted, it was sent to Congress, which then decided whether to pass an additional act or resolution admitting the state. One variation in the Enabling Act process involved Congress delegating the final approval process to the President.”
Efforts to add Alaska and Hawaii as states with “an equal footing with the other States” had picked up in their intensity after World War II when the strategic importance of both territories became more urgent. However, politics played a role in the statehood process in a divided Washington.
The admission of a state brings with it new electoral votes and new representatives in Congress. The Democrats during the 1950s favored Alaska as the 49th state, while the Republicans wanted Hawaii admitted by itself, with both sides believing there was a political benefit to the admissions process.
President Eisenhower had publicly supported Hawaiian statehood, but he had not supported Alaskan statehood until 1958 when it became clear that both territories would need to be admitted as states to keep a political balance in Washington.
In January 1959, Alaska became the 49th state, which accelerated the Hawaii statehood process. On March 11, 1959: the Senate voted 75-15 in favor of the Admissions Act, with the House approving the same bill in a 323 to 89 vote on March 12, 1959.
During the 1940s and 1950s, there was also a serious debate about the status of Puerto Rico as a potential state, or as an independent nation. Today, the statehood debate for Puerto Rico remains controversial. There is also a statehood movement in the District of Columbia. | https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-last-time-congress-created-a-new-state-hawaii | 40 |
when did hawaii become the 50th state of america | Teachinghistory.org | Historian John Buescher is an author and professor who formerly headed Tibetan language broadcasts at Voice of America. His Ph.D. is from the University of Virginia and he has published extensively on the history of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism and on the history of 19th-century American spiritualism.
When and why did Hawaii become a state?
Hawaii—a U.S. territory since 1898—became the 50th state in August, 1959, following a referendum in Hawaii in which more than 93% of the voters approved the proposition that the territory should be admitted as a state.
There were many Hawaiian petitions for statehood during the first half of the 20th century.
The voters wished to participate directly in electing their own governor and to have a full voice in national debates and elections that affected their lives. The voters also felt that statehood was warranted because they had demonstrated their loyalty—no matter what their ethnic background—to the U.S. to the fullest extent during World War II.
In retrospect, perhaps, the genuinely interesting question about Hawaii’s becoming a state is why it took so long—60 years from the time that it became a U.S. possession. There were many Hawaiian petitions for statehood during the first half of the 20th century. These were denied or ignored. Some in the U.S. had been convinced, even at the time of Hawaii’s annexation, that Hawaii had no natural connection to the rest of the states. It was not contiguous territory, most obviously, but 2,000 miles from the coast.
In retrospect, perhaps, the genuinely interesting question about Hawaii’s becoming a state is why it took so long.
Hawaii’s annexation in 1898 had much to do with the power of American plantation owners on the islands and the protection of their financial interests—both in gaining exemption from import taxes for the sugar they shipped to the U.S. and in protecting their holdings from possible confiscation or nationalization under a revived Hawaiian monarchy. There was considerable sentiment in the U.S. that annexation would be an unjust, imperialistic, and therefore un-American, move (Hawaii had more than sugar; it was a potential harbor and coaling station for naval vessels and was historically pressured in the 18th and 19th centuries for concessions by countries including Great Britain, Japan, and Russia).
Nevertheless, at the time of annexation the monarchy itself had only been in existence for a century, and originally consolidated power brutally, with the help of European sailors and firepower. Even by the end of the 19th century, a significant portion of the Caucasian residents of Hawaii had been born and raised there and considered themselves natives. Complicating the question was a large population of immigrant Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese, all of whom had been originally encouraged to come in order to supply agricultural labor to the islands.
At the time of the vote, 90% of the population of Hawaii consisted of U.S. citizens.
Part of the decades-long reluctance to change Hawaii’s status from territory to state derived, both in Hawaii and on the mainland, from uncertainty and fear about granting electoral power to one ethnic group or another. This was not just Caucasian vs. ethnically Polynesian. Some ethnically Polynesian Hawaiians opposed the change from territory to state because, while they had come to feel comfortably “American,” they feared that the Japanese population on Hawaii (perhaps as high as 30%) would, under a universal franchise authorized by statehood, organize and vote itself into power to the disadvantage of the Hawaiians of Polynesian descent.
At the time of the vote, 90% of the population of Hawaii consisted of U.S. citizens. Hawaii’s importance in World War II had secured its identity as fully American in the minds of both Hawaiians and mainlanders. In addition, persistent and effective lobbying of Congressional representatives during this initial period of the modern Civil Rights Movement convinced enough members of Congress that this was the right moment to accept Hawaiian statehood, no matter what its racial makeup was.
Hawaiians themselves had been awaiting this for years, so much so that the “49th State” Record Label had been selling popular Hawaiian music since shortly after the War. As it turned out, Alaska entered as a state at the very beginning of 1959, making it the 49th, and when Hawaii came in several months later, it became the 50th state of the Union. | https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/25769 | 40 |
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