What Might've Been: Howard Stern tries a Latin variety show, and parodies From Here to Eternity (1991-2)

 From season 2 of radio legend Howard Stern's WWOR late night show:

Among the skits on the program are a parody of the long running Spanish language variety show, Sabato Gigante, at least at the regional level, referencing the station's then-homebase of Secaucus, New Jersey, and in last skit of the evening, Martha Quinn (Rockline) visits and does a satire of "From Here to Eternity" with Howard. Stern started hitting on Martha the minute she entered the studio, and it went from there.

I remember seeing the "Eternity" skit when it first aired. Martha is plugging "Bad Channels", which came out in the spring-summer of 1992, and she'd already had a few acting jobs under her belt, including The Bradys and "Problem Child 2", so teasing the skit as "Howard & Martha's acting debut" is a bit misleading, unless they're trying to tease trying them out as a team.

You'll see what I mean.

TV critic David Bianculli, then with the NY Post, shredded Martha for her work on The Bradys. I can only imagine how he'd grade "Eternity" a la Stern. Not too well. Should've stayed longer on Full House, Martha. That's all I'm going to say.

Rating: C.