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Gidget
IMDB ^ | 1965

Posted on 07/03/2022 10:04:33 AM PDT by DallasBiff

This was Sally Field's first television situation comedy. In it she portrayed a bright, winsome fifteen-and-a-half year old California teenager.

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MEtv is running a mini marathon of Gidget(1965).

A much simpler time, right before LBJ ramped up Vietnam and began the disaster called the "Great Society".

Also Sally Field's start and before "The Flying Nun".

1 posted on 07/03/2022 10:04:33 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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the original movie with Sandra Dee is a scream....its so bad that its good...especially the first 15 minutes....


2 posted on 07/03/2022 10:07:32 AM PDT by basalt ( in the irons....)
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To: basalt

I still have the hots for Moondoggie


3 posted on 07/03/2022 10:08:47 AM PDT by MagUSNRET ((" I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of he night"))
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To: DallasBiff

I had forgotten that Marty Milner was the Great Kahuna.

The beach party movies used the Big Kahuna theme too.

‘Back to the Beach’: What’s a Kahuna anyway and is it important to have a big one?


4 posted on 07/03/2022 10:28:11 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto

Jules: Big Kahuna Burgers! That’s that Hawaiian burger joint. I hear they’ve got some tasty burgers.


5 posted on 07/03/2022 10:35:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jjotto

Kahuna is the boss, the chief, the BMOC...


6 posted on 07/03/2022 10:35:37 AM PDT by null and void (If I had a buck for every girl that found me unattractive, they would eventually find me attractive!)
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To: jjotto

Kahuna
Kahuna is a Hawaiʻian word that refers to an expert in any field. Historically, it has been used to refer to doctors, surgeons and dentists, as well as priests, ministers, and sorcerers.

Wikipedia


7 posted on 07/03/2022 10:36:59 AM PDT by null and void (If I had a buck for every girl that found me unattractive, they would eventually find me attractive!)
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To: DallasBiff

Jerry Buss’s mom.


8 posted on 07/03/2022 10:43:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: null and void

I was quoting Frankie Avalon in the 1987 movie ‘Back to the Beach’ where middle aged characters fro the Beach Party movie series humorously reprise their roles from 20 years before.


9 posted on 07/03/2022 10:44:13 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: DallasBiff

I was 7 in 1965. For some reason the only thing in my head about this show is that for a TV dad her dad seemed old. There was probably some 1965 reason for using a professorial looking old guy.


10 posted on 07/03/2022 10:44:21 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: DallasBiff

When i see the America that the leftists and the open border neoCONs have completely destroyed, it makes me angry.


11 posted on 07/03/2022 10:45:10 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: DallasBiff
"Gidget" is short for "girl midget." It is from a 1957 book based on the author's teenage daughter.

Wikipedia: Gidget

12 posted on 07/03/2022 10:47:31 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: jjotto

It did me a chance to look up a word I’ve been misusing since my days in the Territory of Hawai’i...

...so there’s that!


13 posted on 07/03/2022 10:50:38 AM PDT by null and void (If I had a buck for every girl that found me unattractive, they would eventually find me attractive!)
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To: TalBlack
I was 7 in 1965. For some reason the only thing in my head about this show is that for a TV dad her dad seemed old. There was probably some 1965 reason for using a professorial looking old guy.

That would be character actor Don Porter.

He's the guy one would see on different tv shows, and one would say, I've seen him before on tv.

14 posted on 07/03/2022 10:50:57 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: null and void

Hawaiian surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku didn’t like the term kahuna because of its association with black magic.

BTW, the Hebrew word kehuna sounds the same and means priesthood. In English we say high priest, but the Hebrew term is actually Kohen Gadol, literally ‘big priest’.


15 posted on 07/03/2022 11:04:34 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto
I was quoting Frankie Avalon in the 1987 movie ‘Back to the Beach’ where middle aged characters fro the Beach Party movie series humorously reprise their roles from 20 years before.

That was a funny movie. I remember where Gilligan(Bob Denver) was a bartender and said to Frankie, paraphrasing, "stranded for 15 years on a desert island with two beautiful women, and I couldn't do anything".

16 posted on 07/03/2022 11:05:39 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: DallasBiff

Worth watching for Annette Funicello singing ‘Jamaica Ska’ and Herbie Hancock and Dweezil teaming for ‘Wipeout’.


17 posted on 07/03/2022 11:12:38 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto

Clarke’s Law, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...”


18 posted on 07/03/2022 11:24:43 AM PDT by null and void (If I had a buck for every girl that found me unattractive, they would eventually find me attractive!)
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To: DallasBiff

Check out the opening surfing scene. Mega cameltoe.


19 posted on 07/03/2022 11:24:47 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: MagUSNRET

hmmm...i think you just like saying “Moondoggie”....lol


20 posted on 07/03/2022 11:25:20 AM PDT by basalt ( in the irons....)
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