It's very revealing that you consider poor and silly interchangeable, no?
"I, Mudd" is very silly but also IMHO very good... because it's gloriously silly! TOS's camp at its best oiled.
I Mudd what did I just see boring or what
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"I, Mudd" is very silly but also IMHO very good... because it's gloriously silly! TOS's camp at its best oiled.
I'm not the biggest fan of Harry Mudd to begin with (or Roger Carmel for that matter), so I generally don't enjoy the stuff he's in. Mudd's Women was a craptacular episode (thank God it wasn't picked as the pilot), and because of Carmel and the over baked comedy, I, Mudd is usually bypassed by me during my episode viewings.
I was never fond of the "all comedy" episodes of Trek. Out of all of them, The Trouble With Tribbles works best for me, since everyone stays in character. I, Mudd and A Piece of the Action, on the other hand, are not so good. A Piece of the Action is just bloody awful with only one good bit from Spock ("I'd advise yas ta keep dialin', Oxmyx.").
It always seemed like everyone went over the top for comedy on the original series. I found Trek's humor to be most successful when it was character based and hauled out to relieve the tension. Not, however, as episode cappers like in The Galileo Seven, where everyone is pissing themselves with cheesy fake laughter after two crewmembers are horribly killed on the planet. Kirk is busting a gut, Bones wipes his eyes, and Scotty is holding onto the turbolift doorway, unable to stand because it's all just so darned funny.
But, yeah, not a fan of The Mudd's.
I was never fond of the "all comedy" episodes of Trek. Out of all of them, The Trouble With Tribbles works best for me, since everyone stays in character. I, Mudd and A Piece of the Action, on the other hand, are not so good. A Piece of the Action is just bloody awful with only one good bit from Spock ("I'd advise yas ta keep dialin', Oxmyx.").
It always seemed like everyone went over the top for comedy on the original series. I found Trek's humor to be most successful when it was character based and hauled out to relieve the tension. Not, however, as episode cappers like in The Galileo Seven, where everyone is pissing themselves with cheesy fake laughter after two crewmembers are horribly killed on the planet. Kirk is busting a gut, Bones wipes his eyes, and Scotty is holding onto the turbolift doorway, unable to stand because it's all just so darned funny.
But, yeah, not a fan of The Mudd's.
Often embarrassingly quirky is "Mudd's Passion" (TAS), but it still has its good points, a Kirk & Spock hugging scene (IIRC), another return for Roger C Carmel, and a fairly meaty role for Christine Chapel.
what are your thoughts on grammar nazism?
So what? Things exist whether we have a word for them or not.
THINGS exist in objective reality. CONCEPTS exist only in the human mind. "Sexism" is a concept that was created in the 1970s. To accuse Trek TOS of that dreaded "ism" is as foolish as criticizing Al Jolson or Eddie Cantor for performing in blackface.
Back on topic: I find "I, Mudd" enjoyable on the whole. The notion of Kirk and company driving a bunch of androids loony by staging a piece of improv absurdist theater is, well, loony. But the episode was written and played as a broad farce, and it works on that level.
Accepting your premise, this just doesn't make any logical sense at all. Sexism can only criticize things that existed after to the creation of the term, then what did it criticize when it came into existence? Sexism did not exist as a concept and to exist it had to criticize things that existed prior to its existence as a concept.
It's simply utter nonsense. It's also untrue, as anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the topic (i.e. me) is aware of the fact things centuries, even millennia old have been accused of sexist portrayals. Like Penelope in the Odyssey, for example.
I agree, "Friday's Child" was one of the original series' dullest episodes. Even the presence of statuesque Julie Newmar couldn't liven up that turkey.
I believe we should leave it alone!
I beg to differ. I think we should catch it and kill it.
For Dada, you may want to have a look at the Ernie Kovacs Show, which aired in several incarnations on US television during the 1950s and early 60s. Not all of it was preserved, but enough still exists in the form of "Best of"-type packages, YouTube clips and the like for you to be able to get a sense of how the rest might have been.
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