tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930184807804243603.post7667272689331760126..comments2022-12-20T08:03:51.127-05:00Comments on Hold My Order, Terrible Dresser: HMOTD 027: All the Men in Landersville are Going BaldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930184807804243603.post-82749861392796060582016-09-14T08:03:24.979-04:002016-09-14T08:03:24.979-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Doug aka Johnny Sunshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02860865375999944085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930184807804243603.post-25324555344165607892016-09-14T08:02:55.425-04:002016-09-14T08:02:55.425-04:00Good 1st show for season 3! Next to the horrible A...Good 1st show for season 3! Next to the horrible Andy's girlfriend episode, Airplane Show is probably my least favorite, and yet you guys managed to make it more interesting than the episode itself ;) Doug aka Johnny Sunshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02860865375999944085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930184807804243603.post-83628758273526738072016-09-12T22:49:46.871-04:002016-09-12T22:49:46.871-04:00Kevin: Yes, absolutely. I think we talked a while ...Kevin: Yes, absolutely. I think we talked a while back about how the "Silver Age" sitcoms "made the strange domestic and the domestic strange" - I was thinking about exactly the same martians, witches, weirdos, etc that you are.<br /><br />Thanks for commenting - and your icon is absolutely on point!Rob MacDougallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08062764977151219393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930184807804243603.post-73582165528302411852016-09-10T01:41:33.054-04:002016-09-10T01:41:33.054-04:001950s and 1960s, I should have said.1950s and 1960s, I should have said.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793368572325018760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930184807804243603.post-8305491793402619072016-09-10T01:40:47.131-04:002016-09-10T01:40:47.131-04:00The "haunting of the suburbs" discussion...The "haunting of the suburbs" discussion got me thinking.<br /><br />The idea that the suburb is full of secret weirdos had been around for a while. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I think, can be read as a reaction to planned communities like Levittown springing up in the post-War years. In the 1950s, for all that TV still had its traditional suburban families, you also had civil rights issues being obliquely addressed in the form of witches, martians, macabre weirdos, and supernatural creatures living in the suburbs, with the antagonists being their intolerant, busybody neighbors.<br /><br />The idea of a typically pretty progressive sitcom like WKRP depicting suburban weirdos as the antagonists feels *very* Reagan-era.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793368572325018760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930184807804243603.post-17022086371813621822016-09-07T19:44:13.649-04:002016-09-07T19:44:13.649-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13308917791548134160noreply@blogger.com