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'So I'm Watching "Mary Poppins" With The Kids

I've gotta' go with the Muppet's "A Christmas Carol." Still makes me laugh and laugh after all these years. Especially Gonzo the Great and Rizzo the Rat.
 
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Brad,

I LOVE the Muppet Christmas Carol! :salute:

"Oh wait, I forgot my jelly beans."

"You can fit through those bars?"

"Yeah..."

"You are such an idiot!"
 
In our house growing up it was Sunday night after dinner Mutual of Omaha "Wild Kingdom", The Wondeful World of Disney, and Bonanza, then bed.
 
Wild Kingdom and poor Jim Fowler! While Marlin stayed in the blind Jim got to wrestle the gator,lion,tiger,big snake ETC. Then Sunday Mystery Theater where it was a rotating showing of McCloud,Columbo,McMillan and Wife and a couple of others I can't remember anymore. As bad as most theater movies are these days TV has gotten even worse.
 
One of my favorites was Fess Parker and Buddy Gibson, in Disney's Legend of Davy Crockett. Those were days when TV wasn't filled with blood, murder, gore and violance as it is now. Remember "Combat" you knew what was going on yet I can't remember having actually seen Vic Murrow kill a German on that show. Now many of the shows on TV our filled with Violence and killing for no justified or morale reason, an our childern our becoming more numb to it everyday. Very sad indeed, very sad.
 
We really don't bother with 'Television' as it is today.
Even the so-called 'Pay TV Channels' are riddled with commercials and the FTA networks (ABC and SBS excepted) are run by idiots.
"Sigz munz ergo I cuden spil 'Telavishun Execatif', now I r wun."
Way back when we were kids the networks had strict quotas and had to toe the line, unlike today when anything goes and running 10+ minutes overtime is the norm.
I built up a PC that streams almost anything we want for nothing which I can save to a PVR to view at our leisure ........ without 'Advertising'.
:cool:
 
gradyhappyg said:
Wild Kingdom and poor Jim Fowler! While Marlin stayed in the blind Jim got to wrestle the gator,lion,tiger,big snake ETC. Then Sunday Mystery Theater where it was a rotating showing of McCloud,Columbo,McMillan and Wife and a couple of others I can't remember anymore. As bad as most theater movies are these days TV has gotten even worse.
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Ah yes. "While Jim takes care of the python, I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about Mutual of Omaha" was one of my favorite phrases.

I do recall the Zoo Parade episode (live tv) when Merlin got squeezed by the python. All you could see was him, still talking about what the snake was doing, and all these hands suddenly appearing and pulling the snake off him. I believe he sustained a couple of cracked ribs. What a man! The show must go on! So he could take it as Fowler could.
 
KellyB said:
Ah yes. "While Jim takes care of the python, I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about Mutual of Omaha" was one of my favorite phrases.

I do recall the Zoo Parade episode (live tv) when Merlin got squeezed by the python. All you could see was him, still talking about what the snake was doing, and all these hands suddenly appearing and pulling the snake off him. I believe he sustained a couple of cracked ribs. What a man! The show must go on! So he could take it as Fowler could.
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Speaking of snakes,.....Marlin Perkins got bit by a Timber Rattlesnake during a pre-show rehearsal for the Zoo Parade. We felt Marlin was one of ours since he was the director of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Eventually,...he went back to his roots of Missouri and became director of the St. Louis zoo.
What this country needs,...and badly lacking,....are persons of integrity and moral character such as a Marlin Perkins, Roy Rogers,....and Neil Armstrong.

 
tidbit about Mr Perkins from his wikipedia page,

Because Walt Disney had fabricated footage of a mass suicide of lemmings in its film White Wilderness,[SUP][5][/SUP] then CBC journalist Bob McKeown asked Marlin Perkins if he had done the same. Perkins, then in his seventies, "firmly asked for the camera to be turned off, then punched a shocked McKeown in the face."


gotta love him for that...
 
Speaking of nature shows I loved "Wild Kingdom" and recently Discovery HD Channel has been running a holiday marathon of a show called "Speed Of Life" that has a photo crew,using state of the art camera gear that is capable of extreme slow-motion capture visiting all the most intense areas for wildlife/insects on the planet and they have gotten some of the most unusual and beautiful footage I've ever seen on video_On one episode the crew set up in an area frequented by a troop of Baboons,when they first got there the Baboons were suspicious and a bit aggressive but after a few days the Baboons accepted the crew into their troop and actually started "grooming" the crew when evening came around.Very cool stuff,I highly recommend the series if you see it in your area,well worth watching!:cool:
 
OBIO said:
Luckydog....we don't need to know about your porn viewing habits LOL!


I totally agree that there is little entertainment in the world of entertainment these days. Television is nothing but junk. Movies....the best movies to hit the screen the last several years have been animated features....there have been a few regular movies that Deb and I have liked, but not many. Remake after remake is what Hollyweird is doing......read that they have a remake of Dirty Dancing in the works...how the heck can it be Dirty Dancing without Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray? Horror movies aren't scary anymore....they are just excessively gory.

We ditched cable some years back and have NO regrets about doing so. Netflix and an every growing collection of DVD and Blue Ray movies is how Deb and I fulfill our movie watching needs. Just have to love those $5 movie tubs at Walmart!

Tim
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Tim, the purpose of cable or satellite TV is not to provide quality, enjoyable entertainment, but to provide hundreds of channels to surf through! As SEINFELD pointed out, "men don't care what's on TV, they care what else is on TV!"

Seriously, outside of History Channel, Military Channel, Military History Channel, Discovery & NatGEO, it's a wasteland out there. If it really gets bad, I'll throw in a disc of Ozzie & Harriet episodes or some Ma & Pa Kettle films. When my son was 25, he had never seen an episode of Ozzie & Harriet, and sat down and had a hoot watching a few with me. He turned to me and said, "Why can't they make shows like that today?" The great thing about the set of O&H DVDs that I have is that they left the commercials intact. Talk about memory lane!!
 
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