We whole heartedly agree!
Posted on 07/21/2024 11:28:32 AM PDT by DallasBiff
That’s why shows like Designing Women and Grace Under Fire were on as well as the Dukes.
Men On Football - Original, Unedited Version from In Living Color
There was a time when the Democrats were basically a Southern party where all culture - including TV - celebrated Southern Democrat culture, including nostalgia for the Confederacy. Once the Dems were wiped out in the South, the medial culture changed to vilify Southern culture (and convenienty ignored that the Democrats created the Dixie / Confederate culture).
The Rural Purge.
Many of those shows WERE my childhood.
See my earlier post. Even in the 1980s and ‘90s, shows like Designing Women, Grace Under Fire, and even In The Heat of The Night were being made with the Southern culture on display. And who could forget BJ and The Bear and also Sheriff Lobo, lol.
Well, these ladies certainly made Hee Haw worth watching, lol.
McHale’s Navy
And they would not allow pantyhose commercials on today, along with women celebrities doing endorsements for brands like Leggs, as ones like Barbara Eden and Debby Boone did back in the early 1980s. But Lena Dunham was allowed to show off her private parts on "Girls".
Almost any show from more than twenty years ago would not be made today.
Broadcast television is in such decline that they barely produce any shows with paid actors, instead to running sports broadcasts as well as "reality" shows and game shows where the members are contestants and as such are not subject to the Screen Actors Guild rules and pay scales. Starting in 1999, the top rated shows were 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?', 'Survivor', 'American Idol', 'Sunday Night Football'. 'NCIS' hasn't held a top slot since 2016. 'The Big Bang Theory' ended in 2018. Even its spinoff 'Sheldon' has already been discontinued.
Other shows such as the 'The View', 'The Talk', 'Today', 'Good Day', or any of the other various talk or cooking shows follow the same model. They don't pull in enough viewers to command advertising revenue to pay actual writers and actors.
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Ah, the Gong Show. I watched that every time.
Remember this one called “Have You Got a Nickle?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7bvYsBudr0
Solid Gold with those leggy dancers, and the original GLOW, not the sanitized version. Even the Dean Martin Show.
I live in rural Kentucky. My wife and I moved here from Seattle 13 years ago and love it. We’re in rural south central KY.
However, people here, especially the middle class and lower, are not the most healthy eaters. The lines at McDonalds drive through are a thing to behold. But anyway, My brother in law in Phoenix told me to watch this show about a marshall in Kentucky so I tried to watch it. They would go to these typical “somewhat or totally” rundown homes in the sticks and the girlfriend/wife would come out to meet them and they were always hot. Yet I can tell you that if you lined up 100 random ones, all but maybe one or two would resemble the photo you posted, but with rattier clothing.
I really noticed the difference a couple months ago when we were visiting a friend in Palm Springs and we went to a local coffee shop (where locals shopped) and it DID look like the female cast from that TV show. It sure doesn’t at the local coffee shop where we live.
BTW, we’re smack in the middle class here, but we don’t do fast food, and rarely do restaurants, so we’re good...
We need a new Joseph McCarthy.
Amen to that...
However, we do have Mitch McConnell.../s ☹😣
Amos & Andy were the only exposure to black folks many white people had in some parts of the country.
Mel Brooks did a Pilot for a TV show based on Blazing Saddles.
I KNOW that one wouldn’t fly
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