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TGIFfunnies 11/15/24 EDITION: Make Room for the PAIN!

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 2 weeks, 4 days ago to Humor
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All stemming from Karmaquences! and a large dose of Kamalaquences TOO!


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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 2 weeks, 3 days ago
    Fun Fact:
    The Studios hated the Beverly Hillbillies Show so much they tried to cancel it almost immediately, but audiences loved it.
    Every time they tried to cancel it, the public wrote tens of thousands of letters of outrage.
    It ran for another Eight Seasons!
    It ran four seasons in the top ten, another four seasons in the top twenty.
    This is exactly what the Hollywierd Elite thinks of you
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    • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 2 weeks, 2 days ago
      Ever hear of the "rural purge" of the seventies? I may post thoughts on THAT subject later, if I'm still around.
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      • Posted by tutor-turtle 2 weeks, 1 day ago
        Yes.
        It was purely driven by advertisers looking for a more "sophisticated" market. -their words.
        That was exactly and precisely the time I started watching less and less TV. By the mid-1970's I was watching exactly ZERO TV!
        I found a real life, and it didn't involve spending endless hours sitting in front of the Idiot Box.
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      • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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        • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 2 weeks, 1 day ago
          Found this:

          https://books.google.com/books?id=EV0...

          (Watching While Black, book by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade. Wonder if she's related to that gal who wrote Project 1619, I think that gal was a Smith Hyphen too.)

          Oh, no. That gal was a Jones: Nikole Hannah-Jones.

          Guess they had to remove good v evil, where good always wins and substitute Roots. Where white guys are the bad guys.
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        • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 2 weeks, 1 day ago
          Looking at Freddie's Wiki bio, though some of his programs were probably not bad, in general the intellectual level was geared for a more childish audience. Do you see that too?

          I wonder who the people were, the behind-the-scenes people, who hired him to replace the other guy, Matt Something-or-other.
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          • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 1 day ago
            Can't speak for Fred but all the programing was Morally based, Conscious humans do not need reminding (it's built in-unless deprogrammed) but it's nice to know one is not alone. It's not subjective, it's common knowledge but again, nice to see how each situation plays out.

            Remark below about America losing it's innocents during WW2 is true, as we learn now days, we were played like fiddles,
            Wars should always be defensive first, offensive once we're sure the enemy is not giving up.
            Can't remember where I read or.heard that.
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        • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 2 weeks, 1 day ago
          Fred Silverman. Thanks, a name. I'll check up on him---do some research. (A lot of so-called 'smart' people do not understand the meaning of 'research' and actually believe 'real' research is some kind of scientific experiment, for which they have no true knowledge of how to do.---Not you, Carl).

          After World War II, and the boys came home, mystified and unbelieving---I read somewhere that America lost its innocence in World War II---they needed the American Westerns, where the good guys wore the white hats and always beat the bad guys; for instance The Lone Ranger. It restored a belief that evil can always be overcome. After the sixties changed everything, 'Ain't I Right', by the seventies the westerns: good vs. bad, and anything with a tree in it, as Pat Buttram said, was taken off the air and moral relativity became the new 'right', shoving moral absolutism right down the toilet. But these rural shows were giving in to the liberal progressive hogwash by that time anyway. Arnold Ziffel on Green Acres in the last season of that rural show, was shown in a sketch being discriminated against in a school classroom because he was unfortunately, a pig. I enjoyed all the seasons of Green Acres until the last one.

          As Cecil Sharpe, English folklorist said about the Appalachian people: they came face-to-face with reality on a daily basis. The folks in the rural shows were that kind of people, they knew reality. Arnold might have been a pig; but they knew he was a pig and it was funny to see a man with his boy, a pig. They knew it wasn't real.

          I'll check up on Freddie boy.
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          • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 1 day ago
            Haven't had the chance but it might be interesting how this plays out on Wikipedia, would image all kinds of "Edits". or, maybe they play it straight?
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            • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 2 weeks, 1 day ago
              Here I am, bending your ear again. But I went back to Wikipedia---and you're right, there are not many reference notes---but I saw that when he went to I think NBC or CBS, after ABC, his programming was pretty much a failure, But when he got to CBS by the late seventies, his programming was more successful. I'm not sure that that is correct, but for now it is a working hypothesis.

              At any rate, I realized that this was the time the media in all its many manifestations began to use social cognitive theory, you know the theory that what people see other people doing is what they think is the 'right' thing to do. I asked copilot a few questions, and it finally came up with this:

              "The application of reciprocal determinism [social cognitive theory] in advertising and television began to gain traction in the 1970's and became more widespread through the 1980's and onwards. During this period advertisers and media creators increasingly leveraged the concept of observational learning [social cognitive theory] to influence consumer behavior..." Apparently, copilot would not admit they used it to influence moral behavior.
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            • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 2 weeks, 1 day ago
              It seemed fairly straight to me, I just glanced through it, wanting to know who hired the Silverman character, and found the programs Silverman had the good-always-wins replaced with. But that's as far as I went. I might replay it.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 weeks, 3 days ago
    1 is started me off with a smile! Others kept it going, LOL! Looks like some lefty ladies are finally taking themselves out of the gene pool - good! Oh wait, is the bad gene pool just moving to Canada - BYE! How about some fries to go with that whine?
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    • Posted by $ 2 weeks, 3 days ago
      LMAO . . .PS, the title was from Carly Simon's song, meaning we all still need to deal with the pain while we wait till we'll have no time, no room, for the pain since we've known Trump.
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