Posts Tagged ‘Old TV Shows’
How Inventions Happen
Go for it, Bill! We love your Socratic Method!
How to Be a Cute Chick and Make People Do What You Want Them to Do With Your Sex Appeal
I’m certainly glad the TV taught me how to be cute and get whatever I want just by using a big bright smile and a cute little dog! Or perhaps the right pair of shoes…
What Is a Hippie?
“OMG, did people really…look like that? …think other people looked like that? …put that sort of thing on TV? …watch that sort of thing on TV?”
I Carry a Badge, or What’s It Like to Be a Cop?
The social transaction here is a major theme of both Dragnet and Adam-12, and one that would later be developed in new directions by TV shows like COPS.
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Mexicans Are Cute and Funny
Viva la popular culture!
Relationships, and the Proper Management of Intoxicated Women
The police officers are pleased and amused by the situation, which gives the young viewers an indication of what it looks like when all’s well that ends well.
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The Cold War
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and other TV shows like it helped young Americans learn what and who to be be afraid of, and most importantly, what our enemies looked like.
How We Got This Way
Ways to socialize, ways to love, ways to hate, ways to be afraid come in part “naturally” and in part from specific role models, and in part from popular culture. And that popular culture includes these old TV shows.
