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Summer Gale - 2005-05-31 12:52:42
Amen!
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Melissa - 2005-05-31 13:00:26
Glad to hear you made a good connection through freecycle. *smile* Yeah, there are some boogers, but the people I've met so far have been great. I actually like it when someone posts a little something about WHY they need what I'm giving away, then I at least have a little more assurance that they're not just going to resell it for their own gain, like the garage salers.
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Petrouchka - 2005-05-31 13:14:18
You talk about a ground-breaking show... how about Edith Bunker's breast-cancer scare? Hell, most modern TV *DRAMAS* won't touch that subject with a ten-foot-pole. And here's a sitcom from, what, 30 years ago? I will always love "All in the Family" and "M*A*S*H" and all the other old school shows that both did comedy better than today's sitcoms and did drama better than today's "nighttime soaps."
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Denver doug - 2005-05-31 13:50:23
There is one present day comic strip that shows life pretty much as it really is. For Better Or For Worse
Do you remember Soap's Billy Crystal role ? All In The Family the program where the first sound of a flushing toilet was heard on TV ? But the shows that depicted real life have given way to "Survivor" type farces.
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Pandi - 2005-05-31 14:12:36
Last night The People vs. Larry Flynt was on one of the nine million HBO channels I have. Damn, I love that movie. Folks can say what they want about his "exploitation" of women, but he (or, shall I say his attorney) got the Supreme Court to give a unanimous decision in defense of the First Amendment that really, really, REALLY needs to be required reading for Congress. Some of my favorite shows growing up were Family Ties (loved the episode where the aunt passes on the family lore), Growing Pains (even though Kirk Cameron is a freak, the episode where Carol's boyfriend dies after DWI was stunning), The Facts of Life (yes, they did talk about sex!), and Good Times (a whole WORLD of social commentary there).
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Pandi - 2005-05-31 14:19:59
P.S. I second Doug on FBOFW. Great strip. Think of Peanuts, too. It broke ground in so many ways--Franklin (an African-American kid playing with the white kids), Peppermint Pattie (counter-culture hippie), Lucy (the original Queen of Snark), Linus (with his issues and his security blanket), Schroeder (the original metrosexual), Pig-Pen (who carried the soil of history around with him), I could go on. Charlie Brown would be a great subject for a psychology thesis, IMHO.
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Cosmic - 2005-05-31 22:01:52
Two of the other great lessons learned on All in the family were the show about rape and the one about menopause. They were two of the best dramatic episodes, along with the breast cancer ones ever televised.
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Holly - 2005-06-01 13:18:46
I've been really lucky with Freecycle, I got a great desk (though it needs some work now that I've had it awhile) and managed to find a great loving home for a whole library of books my son had outgrown (preschool and baby books and a bunch of DR. Suess and Winnie the Pooh), as well as several other items we had outgrown. My favorite "education" old shows would have to include M*A*S*H showing the unglamourus side of war, the original Star Trek, which though cheesy actually had quite a few good moral lessons (despite some sexism demanded by the network)featuring multiple races getting along and working together not to mention tv's first interacial kiss. One Day at a Time showinga single divorced mother wanting to be more than her husband's wife, and Julia showing an African American single mother with a professinal career. Reality tv in my opinion is anything but.. Give me a show that requires a brain please..
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