Which reminds me, today's Friday.
Posted on 11/07/2013 6:36:30 PM PST by lowbridge
The Nelsons really were a family, not assembled by a casting director, and Ricky and David literally grew up right in front of our eyes. When David and Rick (as he was known in later shows) got married, their actual wives even became series regulars. Ozzie and Harriet has become, a buzz term for a way of life that sums up all of the black and white family shows of the 1950s and '60s, yet it's unlike any of them.
Ozzie supposedly based the show's "Adventures" on things that happened around his own house or to people he knew. That's perhaps why the show seemed to be "a show about nothing" before Seinfeld even coined that phrase. One 1957 episode even had Ozzie craving tutti-frutti ice cream late at night when the stores were closed, and driving around town to find some. That was actually the main plot of that episode, and it worked. Leave it up to other family shows to warm your heart, tell Aesop fables and teach you lessons, the Nelsons were happy just to be your friends and make you chuckle. Don't get me wrong, the show had plenty of laughs; one 1955 episode, "The Pajama Game" (in which Ozzie and his neighbor Thorny get locked out of their houses in the middle of the night, fall asleep in a station wagon, and end up stranded in town in their pajamas) was outright hilarious, still is even now. (So's the 1953 episode about the store that keeps mis-delivering the chairs.) But it was the exception, not the rule. For the most part, if you just chuckled and shook your head, they were fine with that.
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It’s not just you. It does taste better from glass and with real cane sugar.
I love that old Perry Mason series...and not just because of the acting and the plot line. I love the 50’s...and I wish I could get in the ol’ time machine and go back to those times.
It was indeed Golden Era.
One 1957 episode even had Ozzie craving tutti-frutti ice cream late at night when the stores were closed, and driving around town to find some.
One of the reasons I always appreciated Joi Lansing is that whereas she had the, um, “looks” that could have been steered (and capitalized on) towards tawdry/sensationalist b-grade fare... and indeed, she could have made a bigger name for herself going that route... she kept her career path on roles in traditional, good-natured tv-fare. Going against the bombshell “type,” if that makes any sense. In an odd way, it always made her more endearing to me.
Say Pepsi, please!
Things go better with Coke!
Notice that beer is still sold in glass bottles.
Until they decide to:
(A) Turn off the stream of the show you want ("taking that program out of rotation for awhile")
(B) Raise the price of the programming you want (either by bundling offerings or simply raising licensing fees)
(C) Question whether cigarette use and other non-PC content has been trimmed from the streamed version
(D) force you to watch 25% advertising for 75% programming
(E) force you to relinquish privacy rights over your viewing habits.
Which reminds me, today's Friday.
TV is a medium because it’s rare if anything’s well-done.
TV is a medium because it’s rare if anything’s well-done.
Was then -- is worse now.
90% of everything is crud (Sturgeon's Law).
However with hundreds of television channels today filling up "airwaves" with 24 content, there is more total quantity of crud being produced today.
And the old filters to help quality rise to the top are not there today.
“DVD/CDs are quickly going to go the way of VHS tapes and LP records. You can already stream most older TV shows off the Internet and before too long, you will be able to stream just about anything that was every recorded.”
I’m a pretty old guy, and not a technology leader. I usually wait until a technology proves to be here to stay.
Watching television for hours was never my thing. Sports, politics, but not much else.
When I got sober, I had more time, and turned to cable TV, VHS, then DVD.
I heard about streaming, decided to give it a try, and now can state that my Roku and my $7.99 monthly Netflix subscription are the best entertainment dollars ever spent.
I want to cancel cable entirely, and will IF my wife and daughter can be brought along willingly.
I stopped drinking Cokes the say my daughter and I measured how much sugar is actually in each 12 oz. can. I used a dietary scale to measure 45 grams of sugar, then poured it into a glass that was about the same diameter of a Coke can. It ended up being about an inch of sugar in the bottom of the glass.
Now, the only carbonated drinks I consume are Perrier, Peligrino or beer. And I'm very picky about which beer I drink. If it has more than barley, hops, yeast and water I won't drink it. Bud and Miller are the two largest consumers of rice in the USA. Most all Mexican beers also use rice as a filler/replacement for barley.
LOL!
You can buy Mexican Coke at Kroger grocery stores in the Western states, Dollar General Market stores, Fry's, King Soopers & City Market. It is also available in the Western US in most 7-11, Grocery Outlet, Costco, H-E-B, Safeway, Sam's, WalMart stores, Walgreens, Home Depot and BurgerFi restaurants. More recently, Wegmans, Market Basket, Big Y, Giant and Stop & Shop.
(See: Mexican Coke)
So many times, the wife will be watching something crummy on TV and I'll be sitting next to her with my laptop, watching Netflix with my headphones. It makes for a less contentious marriage.
BTW, Netflix is not just about movies and TV shows. Tons of documentaries, music concerts and other programming is available and it's all on DEMAND, when you want to watch it and without the commercials.
In other words, what we watch on television will be the least of our problems if that ever comes to pass.
Who said GOVERNMENT?
Big Media owns copyright on materials dating back to 1930.
They own it for another few decades due to the extended copyright renewals. That material isn’t free.
Buy it on DVD, you own it and don’t have to pay anyone again to watch it or ask if you can watch it again.
My experience precisely. Got my wife to watch “The Following” and she got addicted to it. We mega dosed several episodes at a sitting.
Hopefully I’ll get her to try another series, or something. She needs to discover for herself, that Netflix (and other online demand sources) offer all the entertainment content she needs.
I happen to mostly watch British crime material. When/if that runs out I know I’ll find other material, to last me all my days.
I said Coke tasted best (IMO), not that it was good for you. Diet Coke not nearly the same. As for beers, I like Budweiser and others, again for the taste. Like Corona of the Mexican beers.
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