In its earliest days (in the fifties) Gunsmoke was neither chaste nor bland. In fact, Miss Kitty was a straight up whore and Marshall Dillon used her services, and he was a badass who'd beat people to death and shoot scofflaws. That's what made it popular. Then it just stayed on the air forever and Miss Kitty got bigger feathered boas and became respectable or something.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jun 03, 2011 11:14:42 am PDT #11159 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Jun 03, 2011 11:16:58 am PDT #11160 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What about The Guiding Light, though? Or is that apples and oranges?
Yeah, apples and oranges. GL 4eva!!!
amych - Jun 03, 2011 11:24:43 am PDT #11161 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
But racism's so bad!!
Nononono, you're totally misunderstanding. Racism is just fine. Being called a racist is the worst thing ever.
Also, teh gays don't understand that "gay" doesn't really mean "gay", and women make shit up all the time. What's wrong with you, can't you take a joke?
Connie Neil - Jun 03, 2011 11:25:59 am PDT #11162 of 30001
brillig
You first worlders, with your fancy schmancy three channels
Yeah, and when the picture went out because a branch fell on the wire that led from the antenna to the house, Daddy had to go walk the line up the hill to find where the break was so he could nail it back up.
(true story, in the hills where we were you had to get a clear line of sight up high, and the antenna on the house only got Channels 4 and 5. Channel 2 came in on the antenna up by the water tank that was fed by the spring that was our only source of water. Aw, life in the borderlands of the Appalachians.)
Uphill both ways! In the winter! And we liked it!
Tell kids that today and they won't believe you.
I do remember clearly the awe and amazement when we first got a color TV.
Jesse - Jun 03, 2011 11:27:03 am PDT #11163 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I remember when we first got a color TV, but it wasn't that exciting, because everyone else already had one.
amych - Jun 03, 2011 11:28:25 am PDT #11164 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I wish hotels would go back to advertising COLOR TV with those signs that had 5 different colors in the word "color". Those rocked.
sumi - Jun 03, 2011 11:31:27 am PDT #11165 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse! Your family and mine: could we secretly be sisters???
Jesse - Jun 03, 2011 11:35:47 am PDT #11166 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe! I didn't notice having a sister, but maybe!
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2011 11:36:52 am PDT #11167 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember us not getting a colour TV, despite complaining and begging and whining. And then we moved to the UK, and all the TVs were colour. Voila!
Ginger - Jun 03, 2011 11:37:09 am PDT #11168 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I remember when we first got a color TV, but it wasn't that exciting, because everyone else already had one.
Yeah, my mother has "but the old one still works" syndrome.