On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:48 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> My recent travels took me to the actual Brady house out in the valley. >>> For all of its cheese and all of its camp and all of its preachiness, it >>> was a good show. As I posted on Twitter, Mr. Brady finally has his maid >>> back, just in time to tidy up his heavenly home. No doubt, he designed it >>> himself. >>> >> >> Cheesy, campy and preachy. What exactly was good about it? I never >> understood what people liked about that show. >> >> > That's fair. Speaking just for myself, it was nice to see a happy family > at a time when mine was anything but. The Bradys fought but made up. They > loved each other even when they didn't like each other at times. They were > one of the last functional TV families. So even though I watch "Married > With Children" and "Titus" much more often than I watch "The Brady Bunch," > there's still a spot in my heart for the Bradys, so much so that Florence > Henderson was one of only two people I've ever been star-struck by. > Fair enough - but then I think we need a different adjective than "good" here. It was a meaningful show, a helpful show, maybe in its own way an important show (for you and others I have heard similar reports from) but it was not really, in any valid sense, a good show. FWIW: I may have lost track of our relative ages, but I have put you at least 15 years younger than me, and I was in elementary school when The Bradys first came on TV, so I am going to assume you came to love them in reruns. I have a theory that shows kids watch in reruns get stamped into a special place in their animal brain. When you are, say, 10, it is hard to really get impacted by a weekly series (and of course most of them are on after your bed time); but a show that gets double-pumped every week day in syndication a half hour after you get home from school can make a life-long impression. For me, those were shows like Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes and Get Smart; I vaguely recall them in their original run, but they got mainlined directly into my hippocampus in reruns. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
