Saturday, October 22, 2022

either someone was inspired by the Partridge Family bus, or they are a fan of the obscure artist Mondrian, who no one would know of without that bus


If you're too young to know what the hell the Partridge Family bus is,  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/04/tour-busses-of-famous-musicians.html

well, you're lucky there IS so MUCH good tv you can choose from now... in the 70s? There were 3 channels of tv. THAT WAS ALL THERE WAS.

 CBS, ABC, NBC, and I don't really count PBS, as they simply sucked the life out of everything unless you were 5 years old and watching Sesame St. I was. 

 Still love Big Bird, the Count, Bert and Ernie, Super Grover, Cookie Monster, Kermit, Sherlock Hemlock, the Martians, Mr Johnson the fly in the soup diner guy, the mad painter of numbers (Paul Benedict) in the striped shirt and bowler hat, the Twiddlebugs


no clue who the pink faced ones are. Don't care. Still miss Mr Hooper, Maria, Gordon, Susan, Bob, and Luis







Lefty The Salesman signals to Ernie with a furtive whisper: "Hey, bud! C'mere." 
Ernie shouts, "Who, me?" and the Salesman shushes him excitedly. 
Ernie whispers, "Who, me?" 
The Salesman answers with an elongated "Riiiiiight," and then begins his sales pitch: "How would ya like to buy..." "Tell ya what I'm gonna do"


 the mad painter of numbers (Paul Benedict) in the striped shirt and bowler hat

By the way, Charlotte Rea, the adult in the Facts of Life did a season on Sesame St as the postal delivery worker, and Raul Julia was also a single season cast member who went on to star n the Addams Family movies as Gomez


The show with universal appeal initially declared its target audience, “the four-year old inner-city black youngster” rooted in African-American culture, more specifically the community of Harlem.

Mississippi public television concluded that its viewers were not ready for the portrayal of multiracial harmony on city streets and wouldn’t air “Sesame Street.” Parents successfully petitioned the station to 
bring it back and invited the show’s cast to visit Jackson, Mississippi. When the show came to town, the local police showed up in riot gear.  Fucking racists.

It was wrecked and ruined after 1980. Not even worth discussing. Before that? Pure childhood magic

I'll take the Honeymooners and the first decade of Sesame St, any day


Ok, so from Subaru to Sesame St... obviously this is not the professional paid content that gets advertisers, or subscribers. Nope. I am all heart and enthusiasm

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