Posted on 12/27/2023 9:57:30 PM PST by Bullish
Thank you Tommy, RIP.
Vid at source of course.
I was in my mid teens when they debuted. Our family loved watching them.
What a shame. How time flies.
Thanks for all the smiles and laughs, Tommy. RIP.
Tommy’s natural sense of comedic timing was incredible. It made the act.
I’ve upped my standards.
Now.......
Met him once briwfly and exchanged pleasantries. He was friendly and a bit whimsical. It made my day.
The brothers sponsored a car back in the 70’s when Watkins Glen still hosted the Grand Prix. I played pinball with them in a bar in Elmira one night.
Nice
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I will always recall one of the funniest punchline and leave it at that. I was watching with my mother at the time.
“Duct Tape”
I wish it was the end of an era... and not neccesarily a good era. There was a rise in political awareness then the commies took the reins. Thank you Reiner, Martin and several other script wtiters who are no longer germaine but continue to loudly promote tantrum politics rather than rational problem solving. The age of bumper sticker politics is upon us and this show was part of the shameful promotion of it. Laughter was the camouflage...
Thanks for this. Yesterday a post on Tom’s death was yanked. Someone didn’t like him, I guess.
Unless I missed it in another post, Dick’s catchphrase was, “Mom always liked you best.”
Sometime in the 1980s I got to see the Smothers Brothers on stage. The only thing I remember clearly about the event was Tom could really handle a yo-yo. Wow, was he good!
“All in the Family” was produced to shift the American population left a few points, under the guise of comedy. It worked.
I saw what you two saw as the movies and TV were used to alter the American mind but kept it entertained and watching while doing it.
YUP and they have used the medium, ever since.
The purpose of present American television is to make Blacks and queers the majority population
I watch very little television, primarily at my long term girlfriend's home and in total, about 5 hrs/week.
What I see in commercials is a complete dumbing down of White American Males, an over-representation of blacks (they're 12% of the population yet are in the high majority of commercials) and bi-racial couples or single moms with kids (meaning: no dad in the picture.)
I think the agenda is pretty f'n clear, what they're trying to communicate.
And that's on @ 5 hours/week watching.
Plus, Tommy had the privilege of getting punched out by Bill Cosby at a Playboy Mansion party in the ‘60’s (I suspect Tommy spotted Cosby as a scumbag from the start).
“The age of bumper sticker politics is upon us and this show was part of the shameful promotion of it. Laughter was the camouflage...”
It’s interesting watching the old sitcoms from the early 70s and seeing the politics written into the shows. I recently watched the first few seasons of Mary Tyler Moore. I noticed at season 3 (I believe) the Nixon jokes in the first several episodes and out of curiosity I checked to see the year those shows aired, just ahead of the ‘72 election as I suspected.
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