70's Show Part 2
I thought I would look at two more shows from the seventies:
Charlie's Angels: Now all the girls that are reading it are saying "WATCH IT..." but let's look at the facts. I think of all the girls, the Kate Jackson character might have made a cop. But overall, come on. These girls take one Tai Kwon Do lesson, are given a gun and then are told something like "You girls are now cops but you now work for me Charlie...". Can you say pimp?
Here is the formula for the show that always bothered me. There is always a villain and most of the time it was a guy because you can never pass up the opportunity to watch a woman kick the guy in balls for a good laugh. The women always hung out like sisters and could never have meaningful relationships with men. They were either villains or unfortunately for them ...they were shot. But that is ok because the sisters got each other. The other part of the formula which is disturbing is that always at the end, there is always laughter and joking with Charlie speaking through that speaker box. Since every episode usually results in some death by the villain, the angels always seem to laugh it off at the end. The only man in that show that never gets harmed and is always visible is Bosley. You know that if Bosley had his way, he would be shacking up with any one or all of the angels at the same time! The angels know this and they tease and flirt with Bosley sometimes to get what they want..and always with nothing substantial in return. If you ask me, with all that Bosley has gone through with the angels...he should have gotten some action in return. Instead, he is treated like the older sister and is never quite seen as a man's man. Sorry, Bosley, angels only sleep with men who get shot and killed!
Roadrunner and Wild E Coyote: This cartoon has been seen by millions and millions of kids over the past forty years. I watched it in the seventies and it is amazing how entertainment does not provoke any real thought when watching it. Here we have the Wild E Coyote, possibly the most cunning, innovative and most intelligent predator ever to have lived. The coyote must have Club Acme points because he orders everything under the sun from that company. The ironic thing is that he orders everything from bird seed to nuclear arsenals....why can he not order out...or get delivery??
Let's look at his meal. Well, there is hardly anything to look at...there not much food for the roadrunner to provide the coyote. He would have to catch at least 5 or 6 roadrunners to have a proper meal but he cannot even catch one! Sylvester the cat has more of my votes as a predator because at least he has taken tweetie and shoved him down his throat before being beaten to a pulp to cough Tweetie up. I don't think the Coyote has even touched the real Roadrunner! I always find it amazing that both the Coyote and the Roadrunner always use the roads in the desert. It is always the Coyote who pays the price. Now, the Coyote has been trying so long to catch the Roadrunner ...what would happen if he actually caught him? Most would think that there would be the instant meal but some might say SEX and then the meal.
I find the Roadrunner is fearless beyond stupidity. I mean you watch a two ton stone flatten your mortal enemy and the next day, he is back to chasing you? I would be scared. Can anything actually kill this Coyote? He keeps on coming. If I was the Roadrunner I would be so out of the desert because this Coyote seems to have 125 lives. Why does the Roadrunner always beep when there is no one in front of him....everything important is always behind him....do you think they really hear that BEEP BEEP? Quite the extensive vocabulary he has too. Two words over and over again. If I were the Coyote I would get myself to a St. Hubert's BBq restaurant. They have the picture of the Roadrunner on the sign and you can go in and get a good meal of Chicken (roadrunner's cousin)and not have to worry about the dangers of dynamite, falling off a cliff or an oncoming truck that will hit you at the last minute.
BEEP BEEP......
Charlie's Angels: Now all the girls that are reading it are saying "WATCH IT..." but let's look at the facts. I think of all the girls, the Kate Jackson character might have made a cop. But overall, come on. These girls take one Tai Kwon Do lesson, are given a gun and then are told something like "You girls are now cops but you now work for me Charlie...". Can you say pimp?
Here is the formula for the show that always bothered me. There is always a villain and most of the time it was a guy because you can never pass up the opportunity to watch a woman kick the guy in balls for a good laugh. The women always hung out like sisters and could never have meaningful relationships with men. They were either villains or unfortunately for them ...they were shot. But that is ok because the sisters got each other. The other part of the formula which is disturbing is that always at the end, there is always laughter and joking with Charlie speaking through that speaker box. Since every episode usually results in some death by the villain, the angels always seem to laugh it off at the end. The only man in that show that never gets harmed and is always visible is Bosley. You know that if Bosley had his way, he would be shacking up with any one or all of the angels at the same time! The angels know this and they tease and flirt with Bosley sometimes to get what they want..and always with nothing substantial in return. If you ask me, with all that Bosley has gone through with the angels...he should have gotten some action in return. Instead, he is treated like the older sister and is never quite seen as a man's man. Sorry, Bosley, angels only sleep with men who get shot and killed!
Roadrunner and Wild E Coyote: This cartoon has been seen by millions and millions of kids over the past forty years. I watched it in the seventies and it is amazing how entertainment does not provoke any real thought when watching it. Here we have the Wild E Coyote, possibly the most cunning, innovative and most intelligent predator ever to have lived. The coyote must have Club Acme points because he orders everything under the sun from that company. The ironic thing is that he orders everything from bird seed to nuclear arsenals....why can he not order out...or get delivery??
Let's look at his meal. Well, there is hardly anything to look at...there not much food for the roadrunner to provide the coyote. He would have to catch at least 5 or 6 roadrunners to have a proper meal but he cannot even catch one! Sylvester the cat has more of my votes as a predator because at least he has taken tweetie and shoved him down his throat before being beaten to a pulp to cough Tweetie up. I don't think the Coyote has even touched the real Roadrunner! I always find it amazing that both the Coyote and the Roadrunner always use the roads in the desert. It is always the Coyote who pays the price. Now, the Coyote has been trying so long to catch the Roadrunner ...what would happen if he actually caught him? Most would think that there would be the instant meal but some might say SEX and then the meal.
I find the Roadrunner is fearless beyond stupidity. I mean you watch a two ton stone flatten your mortal enemy and the next day, he is back to chasing you? I would be scared. Can anything actually kill this Coyote? He keeps on coming. If I was the Roadrunner I would be so out of the desert because this Coyote seems to have 125 lives. Why does the Roadrunner always beep when there is no one in front of him....everything important is always behind him....do you think they really hear that BEEP BEEP? Quite the extensive vocabulary he has too. Two words over and over again. If I were the Coyote I would get myself to a St. Hubert's BBq restaurant. They have the picture of the Roadrunner on the sign and you can go in and get a good meal of Chicken (roadrunner's cousin)and not have to worry about the dangers of dynamite, falling off a cliff or an oncoming truck that will hit you at the last minute.
BEEP BEEP......
posted by Robert @ 11:59 a.m.
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