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TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title

Kepler said:
I missed TCBS, sadly. It was just before my time. I am only listing shows I have personally seen. Which is why the TV version of Jack Benny is not here either.
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Pretty sure you're older than me. ;) To be fair I was only old enough to appreciate it pre-reruns for probably the last 3 or 4 seasons. After that it was reruns. Tim Conway busting up Harvey Korman will never get old, although not sure how someone would feel watching for the first time in 2025.
 
Laugh In was on Nick at Nite along with The Smothers Brothers. My dad was so proud when I watched those!

Carol Burnette was on when I was really young as was Mommas Family.
 
I recall liking Laugh In reruns as a kid, and the Smother Brothers a little less so.

The Carol Burnett Show was a bit over my head at times, but overall enjoyed it. I couldn’t get into Momma’s Family at all.
 
Mommas Family was funny when I was young...but wore out quick! Especially since every great show from the 50s and 60s was on syndication at the time. I mean I got to watch Donna Reed, My Three Sons, Dick Van Dyke, Danny Thomas, Leave it to Beaver, Dobie Gillis, Gilligans Island...etc.

Smothers Brothers took a while to get until my dad explained all the people who worked on it and how they got in trouble for being anti-war.
 
A reminder that TV, with very few exceptions, was ludicrously awful from 1960 through 2000. That list of not shit TV is about 50 titles out of, what, 1,000? 95% shit. Sure, the gen pop is stupid, but not that stupid. Sturgeon was right.

TV and movies flip-flopped in quality and interestingness around 2000.
 
Kepler said:
Have never seen it. In fact, I just saw the Firewalk movie Friday. I will watch the movie 1-2 more times before attempting the slightest commentary. After one pass it's way above me.

I love Lynch but have still not seen many of his works. I am working on it. Next up for me is Inland Empire.
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Spoiled the show for you then.
 
Kepler's high brow would probably disagree, but I thought the 4th and final season of China Beach was one of the best network TV series ever broadcast.

Starting in the first episode when we discover the identity of the one-legged man who shows up on Doc Dick Richard's doorstep in the modern day '80's.
 
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rufus said:
Kepler's high brow would probably disagree, but I thought the 4th and final season of China Beach was one of the best network TV series ever broadcast.

Starting in the first episode when we discover the identity of the one-legged man who shows up on Doc Dick Richard's doorstep in the modern day '80's.
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I can't disagree as I have never heard of it. Was that in my 1981-88 dead zone too? That's a big smoking hole blown through my pop culture literacy.

Edit: it started in 1988 but thinking about it I watched almost no TV or movies for that matter from 1981 through 1992 or so. Ages 18-29. I assume many people have that trajectory. I was doing shit then, I didn't need entertainment. 1985-86 Mets were the sole real exception. IINM, the first Mets game I watched in 1988 was the LA NLCS; I'm not crying you're crying.

I strongly suspect most people have two life modes: fucking all the time or sitting on the couch all the time. My TV consumption just went on hiatus for 12 years. I mean, have you met 20-something girls?
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
In my TV-watching lifetime, near the top is still Niles Crane trying to iron his pants. Just spectacular stuff, all without a single word spoken.
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I'm laughing just thinking about it!!!

Here's another (for those old ones like me):

Jim Ignitowski trying to get his driver's license on Taxi.

"Whaaat.....does.....a...yellow.....light....mean?"

"Slow down!"

"Whaaaaaaat.....doooooeeees.....a...yeeeeeh-llow.....liiiiight....meeeeean?"

"Slow down!!"

And so on.
 
rufus said:
Kepler's high brow would probably disagree, but I thought the 4th and final season of China Beach was one of the best network TV series ever broadcast.

Starting in the first episode when we discover the identity of the one-legged man who shows up on Doc Dick Richard's doorstep in the modern day '80's.
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China Beach was fantastic from beginning to end. We loved that show.
 
Scarlet said:
I'm laughing just thinking about it!!!

Here's another (for those old ones like me):

Jim Ignitowski trying to get his driver's license on Taxi.

"Whaaat.....does.....a...yellow.....light....mean?"

"Slow down!"

"Whaaaaaaat.....doooooeeees.....a...yeeeeeh-llow.....liiiiight....meeeeean?"

"Slow down!!"

And so on.
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Incorrect.

A yellow light means "Step on it before it turns red!"
 
Russell Jaslow said:
China Beach was fantastic from beginning to end. We loved that show.
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I thought the second season was a little weak, third got a bit better, kinda generic Vietnam war sort of writing that we've seen in other things before, but that fourth season, when they dropped linear story-telling in favor of jumping all over time and location, really digging in to how that war changed both their lives, and themselves as people, was really something else.

Like I said, I was floored from the moment they revealed just who that one-legged man was. And then later, we find out how he got that way.
 
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