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More to with what can be broadcast cheaply with the end of cable not far away. I have the most basic of basic cable at this point and still can't stomach the TV being on for more than a few minutes most hours of the day while I'm prepping meals in the kitchen. Infomercials, Spanish TV that is somehow even worse than American channels, hours and hours of the same local news stories on six channels, two month old town board meetings on local access, staged paternity tests for deadbeat dads for the 50,000th time. It makes me yearn for the old days, but even stations like MeTV fail at that. Daily marathons of god awful shows like "Murder She Wrote" and "Empty Nest". I need a barf bag. Did anybody even like "Empty Nest" when it was a current show on NBC? I had forgotten all about it.
I will never get tired of watching Barney Miller. Once in awhile I am lucky to find it
Barney & Andy are similar in several important respects.
- Great ensemble casts (with the so called "star" as the straight man).
- Hilarious characters being introduced (say once a year). Like Earnest T. Bass & the Floozies on Andy...& on Barney you had dozens of characters floating in and out, often repeat victims or criminals. (local shopkeepers, the lonely widow who would flirt with the prisoners, the two gay guys, the dude from internal affairs.....all of them classic ).
- And both shows had a sweetness (both by the characters and how the characters treated others). It was nice.
I always liked that show, but I was disappointed when Ron Howard, and Andy Griffith came out for Obama. It ruined it for me, but that is Hollywood. Sadly.
Here is your choice ... either start behaving yourself or run the risk of having to eat another jar of Aunt Bee's homemade pickles. Hopefully, that will help you come to your senses.
I always liked that show, but I was disappointed when Ron Howard, and Andy Griffith came out for Obama. It ruined it for me, but that is Hollywood. Sadly.
Nice way to inject politics into a thread that had absolutely nothing to do with politics.
On of my sons, who grew up in the '90's, was always looking for a Mayberry kind of town when he was little. We never talked about the show when he was watching, but he saw something in the show that he liked.
Oldie but goodie. I have about 35 episodes on my DVR. It takes me back to my childhood and a time when morals were more important then money. Ah Mayberry. Sometimes I escape there after an hour or two on the political forum. You know that whole ying and yang thing.
Here is your choice ... either start behaving yourself or run the risk of having to eat another jar of Aunt Bee's homemade pickles. Hopefully, that will help you come to your senses.
Aura, worse than Aunt Bee's Pickles.....Copanut said I'd have to join him on a double date with the Floozies !
(aka "the Fun Girls").
He's setting me up with Daphne !!
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