Posted on 06/12/2021 3:06:57 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I have mosquito bites all over my arms and legs. I'm thinking because I've been out camping, sitting by the campfire and doing a lot of cast iron based cooking over said fire. Which is some of the best kind of cooking if you are to be camping.
Then I go into my tent and roll myself into a "sleeping bag" but even then, I'm thinking mosquitoes are still able to get through.
So a lot of mosquito bites and it's only mid June. Lot of camping left to go this season.
Nothing better though then sleeping under a tent and hearing all the noises of nature, especially pit-pattering rain and crickets and tree frogs. Then you get the birds in the morning waking you up as the sun gains strength in the east.
Then you get the campfire going again in put some "cowboy coffee" on as you prepare the eggs and bacon to get your next camping day off to an acceptable start.
But I digress.
I'm old enough to remember back when "rural" themed TV shows ruled the day. You had "Hee Haw" which was such an incredible institution that I might need several posts to fully describe it. You had "Beverly Hillbillies", "Green Acres", "Petticoat Junction", "Mr Ed", "Andy Griffith", "Jim Nabors Show", and "Lassie" just to name a few.
Oh yeah, and "Gunsmoke" and "F Troop" just to name a couple more.
All these shows (and more!) had respectable to great ratings on TV and presented good American values to the general public.
But along came this douchebag named Fred Silverman who took over CBS around 1970 and felt that rural values were not conducive to how he felt America should be and the "rural purge" was on.
In came more "urban" based shows like "Mary Tyler Moore", "All In The Family", "The Jeffersons", "What's Happening", "James at 15", and "Sanford & Son."
Certainly not all Fred Silverman creations but Fred did kill the rural-based TV shows in order to cater to more urban and suburban audiences (though those audiences did appreciate the rural shows as even "Hee Haw" got decent ratings in NYC and Boston.)
Fact is, rural shows basically disappeared in the early 1970s with the notable exceptions of "The Waltons" and "Little House On The Prairie."
Basically from then on, you had the urban-suburban TV shows with their loud voices, their canned laughtracks and their more liberal values dominating the airwaves.
I’d love to see the Meathead go up against one of the Cartwrights.
Red Skelton was another victim of the purge.
F-Troop was as close as American television writers ever got to Monty Python quality. With the noted exception of The Rocky and Bullwinkel Show. If you watch it today you will be gobsmacked.
Hee-Haw stuck around a long time in independent syndication. It always featured great music too.
Actually, Red took himself off of TV due to the filth.
Actually, Red took himself off of TV due to the filth.
I used to like MASH which I would watch as reruns. It wasn’t until I got a bit older that I realized just how left-wing that show is.
So he’s the one that really did the Americanization of British TV shows. Hmmmm.
The “rural purge” is even mentioned in Wikipedia; no cancellation of that history, on an article ironically about a cancel culture pioneer.
What do you expect when “rootless cosmopolitans” run the entertainment industry?
Angela Cartwright could kick Rob Reiner’s sorry butt!
I always found it very odd that all the black urban comedy shows were written by old Jewish white guys who used canned laugh tracks and forced the black actors who were very talented to make fools out of themselves. Let Dave Chapelle deliver black comedy to white television viewers. They might learn something.
I made friends in Hollywood with a bunch of kids my age and I had a girlfriend there too. One evening, we were romping around together, well after 10:00 at night and I think we were drinking a bit and we walked right into a large concrete statue of Bullwinkle Moose holding Rocky in his hand. We had accidently found Jay Ward Studios and they were still working late that night.
They saw us and invited us in and we spent many hours yet watching their rushes of their latest Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons with Peabody and Sherman and Dudley Doright, etc and a new character that apparently never went anywhere, Florence of Arcadia. and also saw them assembling the first Captain Crunch commercials. They were fun, energetic people and they made us feel really welcome. They also had a coin-operated Wurlitzer music machine in their foyer.. Great memories!
I’d like to see meathead go up against Ellie May.
Don’t forget the Beverly Hillbillies that started it all.
We’ll doggies.
“I realized just how left-wing that show is.”
Watch some Star Trek, post Kirk. Holy cow! Can’t even watch it anymore.
MASH is hard to watch now.
I prefer Barney Miller.
You’d get along well with my Dad. He’s a Barney Miller fan too.
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