The New York Mets’ High-A affiliate, the Brooklyn Cyclones, is set to pay homage to one of the greatest sitcoms of the last 30 years: ‘The King of Queens.’ The series ran from 1998 to 2007, and stars Kevin James as IPS driver Doug Heffernan, who lives in Queens with his feisty wife, Carrie — played by the fantastic Leah Remini — and her dad, Arthur, played by the late, great comedy legend Jerry Stiller.
A Tribute to a Classic Sitcom
While the show is set in Queens, not the Cyclones’ home borough of Brooklyn, it’s close enough, plus the show features countless references to the Mets, a team that James is a real-life fan of. So, the team will pay tribute to the show during their ‘The King of Queens’ night on July 11, and they’re giving away an absolute beauty of a bobblehead.
That’s an homage to the season two episode, ‘Doug Out,’ in which Doug jumps on the field during a Mets game to try and grab a foul ball to cheer up Arthur after he hears him refer to him as a ‘demented old circus monkey.’ It’s a great episode, but it stinks that there will only be 2,000 of those bobbleheads given out.
Original reporting: Fox News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
