Posted on 06/01/2013 1:21:54 PM PDT by Monty22002
It’s only 10am !
Your description of Archie’s character and what the show was meant to do sounds exactly right. I was a child when it aired and picked up that Archie was old fashioned and wrong, and meathead was supposed to be more enlightened. Sad but that is how I read it as a young child.
Also I didn’t know the show dealt with impotence, ha, that episode must have been done discreetly enough that it went right over our heads!
Agreed
Folks here who think AITF was even handed or did not propagandize are either high or too young to have watched it
I was a left leaning libertarian hippie freak then....I loved it...I loved watching Archie get skewered
As I morphed towards the end of the run I started to see it for its hamfisted polemics and Lear’s ardent progressive secular crap and nauseating race baiting
The very folks here lauding it always take that left leaning road on culture
Borges....bless his heart
He’s our own Mike Medved
He’ll be back
Lol
Me and you both
I had started agreeing more with Archie....by the end in 79 or 80
Yep. I remember a conservative friend of mine telling me how she hated MASH because they made fun of Frank Burns' conservative views.
She said:"Frank Burns was made out to be a clown, but his politics made sense if you actually listen to him. But Alda had to make sure that the liberal view 'won'".
And another "irony" is that Nixon supposedly made some comment about the show making fun of a hard-working man like Archie was wrong.
My mom had a commune open near her rural home in a farm nearby....needless to say those people fast learned you cannot change human behavior....it was funny actually to hear them talk about how rewarding their life was while they had to organize among them the “rule of law” as things got out of hand. Some would do the work, others were there for the ride. etc. etc.
Needless saying they lasted about a year...didn't take long before the “group” had jealousy issues, stealing, and major disagreements leading to the police being called there.
What do you think of 13:08 through 16:28?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ODbpbXrC0vw#!
Thanks.
We know what Norman Lear intended, and he achieved it, to move America left, to produce product that would get the average Joe to sit in front of the boob tube, and become changed, culturally altered, it is why he is a hero of the left, and a leader.
Do you think ‘Good Times’ was that? That show I would call full blown conservative. A nuclear family living in the ghetto and trying to get out the right way...a strong father figure as well. The younger son parroted Black militant talking points but they were the subject of laughter.
It’s tiresome to talk to some liberal kid about a transitional period of American history that he doesn’t know about and didn’t experience and who is a devotee of the Hollywood left.
I’m not a kid (the ‘70s were a long time ago and people who don’t remember them can still be adults in 2013) but it’s good to know you still do nothing but cast aspersions. I noticed you were doing that to other posters in other threads too.
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