tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post5942353554610803601..comments2024-02-27T10:53:43.331-05:00Comments on Big Media Vandalism: And the Doorknobs Shined Like DiamondsSteven Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10533736956366847765noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-61195915453363098622023-05-01T23:07:11.003-04:002023-05-01T23:07:11.003-04:00fred the obvious pseudonym:
Concur on ". . ....fred the obvious pseudonym:<br /><br />Concur on ". . . like diamonds". TV shows don't usually touch on the emotional relationship between people and places. The brick and mortar means nothing -- but the structures haul up memories of where you were, who you were, and the people you were with then. Once the structure is gone, that memory-hook goes with it. A couple of buildings in my home town are being torn down this year, places I haunted when I was young. Other places -- I've done that long last look at places I knew for decades, and knew I would never see again. Isabel Sanford caught that look superbly. (So too did Saoirse Ronan in "Brooklyn", BTW)<br /><br />Thanks to you for making this blog available.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547624039988272443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-77031236500889845942010-03-19T01:19:00.313-04:002010-03-19T01:19:00.313-04:00Such a nice post, it is really interesting,you are...Such a nice post, it is really interesting,you are really a hard worker guy, Thanks.<br /><br /><a href="http://onetec.pk/local/karachi.html" rel="nofollow">Web designing Karachi</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11003619619250082828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-84574860338354662152008-02-13T14:50:00.000-05:002008-02-13T14:50:00.000-05:00Hey, Anon,I'll see what I can do about putting up ...Hey, Anon,<BR/><BR/>I'll see what I can do about putting up a complete list of the entries. Stay tooned for that.<BR/><BR/>Everybody Hates Chris is a lot of fun. I think it's well acted and Tichina Arnold reminds me a lot of my own mother. I love the show because I feel like Chris in my own family, except I'm the oldest of a much bigger family. Everybody Hates Odie.odienatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10926978706604468636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-81667459390922924352008-02-13T01:53:00.000-05:002008-02-13T01:53:00.000-05:00Odienator - What do you make of Everybody Hates Ch...Odienator - What do you make of <I>Everybody Hates Chris</I>? I love that show, and it always feels like I am missing the big picture, similar to the way you mentioned many white people do watching <I>Coming To America</I>.Ali Arikanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02293558856795196349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-16433786813666892372008-02-12T21:26:00.000-05:002008-02-12T21:26:00.000-05:00Nope, Seeing_I, it was Willona from Good Times who...Nope, Seeing_I, it was Willona from Good Times who sang <I>Moving on Up</I>. Florence (Marla Gibbs) sang the theme song to her show 227. Hell, even Oprah sang her theme song before somebody pulled her aside and said "gurrrl, you sound like a pit bull."<BR/><BR/>Movin' On Up is my second favorite theme song behind--dare I admit this--Welcome Back Kotter. I also liked Cheers (though they don't sing the best lyrics of that song in the TV theme), Get Smart, Peter Gunn, Sesame Street, and Hill Street Blues. <BR/><BR/>Themes I dislike: Even though I love Donny Hathaway, I never understood what the hell he was talking about in the Maude theme song. As a kid, I even thought he said "and then there's Maude! She's a man!" (Well, it's Bea Arthur!) Friends--I hate that show and I hate that song. The Golden Girls--Thank you for making me puke. I'm sure there's more I like and dislike, but my mind's going blank.<BR/><BR/>My favorite part of the Good Times theme song was at the end. I thought the lyrics were just plain over the top ridiculous:<BR/><BR/>Mmmm-hmmm-hmmm. <BR/>Just lookin' out of the window, <BR/>Watchin' the asphalt grow-ow-ow-ow!<BR/><BR/>Say WHAT?! (At least I think that's what they're saying. As a kid, I thought they said assholes, not asphalt.)odienatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10926978706604468636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-45641712961502277302008-02-12T16:49:00.000-05:002008-02-12T16:49:00.000-05:00I vividly recall the "Doorknobs" episode. It was ...I vividly recall the "Doorknobs" episode. It was very moving an unusual, all the more so for barely featuring the show's star.<BR/><BR/>When I was a kid, I always thought it was Weezy singing the theme song. Thanks for filling me in!Seeing_Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07678537250333277334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-16755862129283331982008-02-12T04:19:00.000-05:002008-02-12T04:19:00.000-05:00This was a great post.All in The Family was never ...This was a great post.<BR/><BR/><I>All in The Family</I> was never shown here in Turkey, and <I>The Jeffersons</I> began its run in the late 80's. I was in my early teens, and I LOVED the show for its comedy, unable to see the commentary on race until much later.<BR/><BR/>I have a thing for sitcom theme tunes (horses for courses), and <I>Movin' On Up</I> is definitely up there among the greats.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, "Millhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore," one of the funnier episodes of <I>The Simpsons'</I> lacklustre later seasons features the late Isabel Sanford in her last ever television appearance. After a plea for Mr Jefferson to come home, Sanford, or her cartoon couterpart, starts dancing to <I>Movin' On Up</I>. It's sublime.Ali Arikanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02293558856795196349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-56151718186711655492008-02-12T03:34:00.000-05:002008-02-12T03:34:00.000-05:00This post reminds me that '70s sitcoms, particular...This post reminds me that '70s sitcoms, particularly the ones that came from Norman Lear and Mary Tyler Moore, were adept at switching from low-down slapstick to wrenching drama and back again on a dime, so gracefully that you didn't think about the fact that a sitcom had suddenly turned serious. There's a much sharper demarcation between comedy and drama today, although "Everybody Loves Raymond" sometimes managed to mix those tones in a very "All in the Family" -- "Good Times" sort of way.<BR/><BR/>I don't think audiences have gotten dumber -- some of the cable series like "The Sopranos," "Sex and the City," "Deadwood" and "The Wire" jump from straight-up silliness to pathos and back again without worrying that they'll lose people. But the networks, by and large, seem to have grown far more timid in that respect.Matt Zoller Seitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16921028537989131859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-6654135623663898442008-02-11T20:39:00.000-05:002008-02-11T20:39:00.000-05:00Great post! And we're certainly on the same page ...Great post! And we're certainly on the same page for picking the best episode of that series. Funny, I even brought it up in a class recently while discussing how our culture depicts the rise to success.<BR/><BR/>Another great episode from the series that developed George's "back story" was from Season 6, "The First Store," a flashback to George attempting to get a business loan to set up his first store amidst the riots resulting from Martin Luther King's assassination. The flashback sequence portrays George torn between kissing up to a condescending white banker to get the loan he needs to finally set up his own business, and his anger over the way the world is set up to squelch his audacity of trying to become independent. It was done quite well, and even provided reasons for the way George would handle Archie Bunker within the chronology of the character, besides showing us the difficult steps of attaining the American dream for this character.<BR/><BR/>As much as the sillier episodes of The Jeffersons were enjoyable (I lost count of how many times someone got robbed or George/Tom got into some harebrained scheme that Louise/Helen had to bail them out of), every so often they'd throw in something that made the show ring very real.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-51698532125815789622008-02-11T19:53:00.000-05:002008-02-11T19:53:00.000-05:00Odie, A website management question: If I come to...Odie,<BR/><BR/> A website management question: If I come to Big Media Vandalism directly all I get is the latest post in the Black History Mumf Series, as opposed to a long page with all of February's posts on it. For the long page I have to click on the February 2008 link on the right hand side. I was wondering if you'd consider putting all the BHM posts on the front page.<BR/><BR/>AnonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-27295592437668219502008-02-11T17:34:00.000-05:002008-02-11T17:34:00.000-05:00Odie - that was great - well done.Can't say anymor...Odie - that was great - well done.<BR/><BR/>Can't say anymore than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-61165065812550736592008-02-11T16:11:00.000-05:002008-02-11T16:11:00.000-05:00Jim, I always thought Lionel got the best of Archi...Jim, I always thought Lionel got the best of Archie, moreso than Meathead. Meathead and Gloria always got too emotional, presumably because Archie was directly related to them. <BR/><BR/>Mike Evans, I neglected to mention above, was one of the creators of Good Times, along with Cooley High writer Eric Monte.odienatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10926978706604468636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-11571623912663378552008-02-11T15:30:00.000-05:002008-02-11T15:30:00.000-05:00I wish I could tell the late Mike Evans this: Lio...I wish I could tell the late Mike Evans this: Lionel Jefferson was my inspiration. My father was basically Archie Bunker (we watched "All in the Family" in my house, but he liked it because he thought Archie was speaking the truth!). Lionel's sly showdowns with Archie (especially the insults that went right over Archie's head) embodied my dream of dealing with my dad. Instead of the screaming fights we had about every issue of the day (Vietnam, civil rights, gun control, feminism, the "sexual revolution")... beginning when I was about, oh, 11. I wished I could be as cool and funny and together as Lionel, and not let dad/Archie get to me. To this day I feel some part of me (part of the best part) is Lionel Jefferson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-51414553886227063152008-02-11T14:34:00.000-05:002008-02-11T14:34:00.000-05:00Thanks, Rick. This is the one that got to me too. ...Thanks, Rick. This is the one that got to me too. And yeah, I did my own homework, hence the "they may ask for compensation" warning!odienatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10926978706604468636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14169925.post-5682714382274931132008-02-11T10:59:00.000-05:002008-02-11T10:59:00.000-05:00I was moved to tears by this post, and I love the ...I was moved to tears by this post, and I love the homework.<BR/><BR/>Well done!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com