Posted on 10/11/2014 3:22:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Yeah, if by strangest ever we mean POS. But of course, that’s coming from my longstanding revulsion toward musicals. There was a TV reviewer who’d expressed his deep love for the show, and as it kept circling the drain, kept up his love letters, saying it just kept getting better every week.
She will probably name the baby Barack, after all, he is the messiah/s
Exactly.
A sight seeing tour of eclectic individuals gets stranded on an island where hijanks ensue each week.
It’s called “My Living Doll.” From around 1964
Most of the original film element of the series apparently got trashed, so for a while it was considered almost a “lost” series. But prints of about ten or so episodes were culled together, and it was put out officially on dvd a couple of years back.
Fun, silly stuff.
What they’re mocking is the Virgin Birth. The IC is a different doctrine altogether.
Speaking of Julie Newmar, have you ever seen her episode of “The Twilight Zone”? She was never hotter, not even when she became a mom at 40 after a long time out of the public eye. I mean, what was I doing nine months earlier, I’m sure it wasn’t as interesting as, well...
Of course, I was one of those goofy kids who actually liked “My Mother the Car”.
I know this is going to sound dumb, but — how can there be a virgin birth without an immaculate conception?
The last movie Tom Hanks did where he didn’t get top billing, if I remember correct.
She’ll name him Chavez, supposedly after Cesar Chavez, but really after Hugo.
“Knowledge will degenerate into a riot of subjective visions and Justice will be replaced by Pity as the cardinal human virtue, and all fear of retribution will vanish and The New Aristocracy will consist exclusively of hermits, bums and permanent invalids. The Rough Diamond, the Consumptive Whore, the bandit who is good to his mother, the epileptic girl who has a way with animals will be the heroes and heroines of the New Age, when the general, the statesman, and the philosopher have become the butt of every farce and satire.” From W. H. Auden’s “For the Time Being,” a prophetic poem from a half century-ago (1944).
> discovers she is expecting a child, she has a big decision to make.
IOW, it’ll also push abortion.
Hispanics may have religious devotion but they are having premarital sex, STDs, pregnancies and abortions as much as any other group.
The whole "let's bring them in, they'll vote conservative" thing was and is BS.
Barack Che Ceasar Moehamhead
Creativity is dead.
I always tried to give “My Mother the Car” a chance. Because I’m actually quite open to comedy fare with wild and surreal premises (as indeed, I love a lot early-30s anarchic comedy like Marx Bros, Wheeler & Woolsey, Clark & McCullough and such).
But even within the perimeters of wacky humor, “Mother’s” premise was lacking some very basics of sense. How can one get ‘reincarnated’ as an inanimate object? Wasn’t his mother quite alive and kicking when the car would have been manufactured? Isn’t the car supposed to be from about 1928, yet the look and design of it appears more like something from around 1916? And sometimes Jerry Van Dyke seemed to come across as more mentally ‘afflicted’ than funny, sort of like the territory that Jerry Lewis or Huntz Hall used to walk a fine-line with, but worse.
The odd thing is that it actually was a rather well-filmed and well-produced series. It “looked” slick and nicely made, not like some rock-bottom cheapo show.
I think that was part of the premise — he was the only one she’d talk to, through the radio, right? — so that suspended our disbelief, it could have been his imagination only. I remember details of but one episode, he was overheard telling his mother that she’d be much more comfortable as he troweled in concrete to fix the garage floor; instead, the police came to investigate her murder and burial by her psycho son.
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