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The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

If anyone's interested in catching their favorite celebrities bowling this weekend, the Decades schedule says who's in each episode:

http://decades.com/schedule/

(Looks like you have to select the date yourself, though.)

I'd like to catch Milner & McCord tomorrow night, myself.

ETA--In case somebody thought I was kidding upthread:

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^^ I did see that commercial the other day. Now we finally know what the bathrooms looked like in TOS.

And I'm psyched for Celebrity Bowling! Haha. No, I'm really not. :rommie:
 
Does the commercial make you giggle spastically like it does for me? It looks like the toilet needs an exorcism or something.

ETA: Diana Ross & The Supremes as nuns on Tarzan...! :wtf:

ETA: C'mon, it's Reed and Malloy bowling against Bob the Discount Klingon...how can you not watch?
 
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I did see Reed and Mallory in the listings. Also Sue Anne Langdon, and maybe one or two others that I'd like to see. Sadly, I was at the Museum of Science all day. Woe is me. :rommie:

I'm getting more and more intrigued by the Tarzan series. I'll need to set aside some time to really watch it if I can.

And, yeah, the glowing toilet made me laugh. I kept expecting Scotty to reach out and ask for a left-handed spanner or something.
 
The Tarzan thing is funny, because as usual I just had the episode on low volume in the background. There's an early scene with these three black nuns singing a song, and I'm thinking, "Who are they supposed to be, Diana Ross and the Supremes?" Then later on I get curious and look at the episode info--Holy crap, it's Diana Ross and the Supremes!

Here's the story
Of some bowling Bradys....

Really, Celebrity Bowling is worth catching a bit of for the prizes alone. The hideous Farah slacks...the answering machine that's the size of a small toaster oven...I think these things may have been mentioned upthread...or were we still spamming the MeTV thread last time this was on?

RJDiogenes said:
And, yeah, the glowing toilet made me laugh. I kept expecting Scotty to reach out and ask for a left-handed spanner or something.
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I ended up turning it on and I caught a few glimpses here and there. I saw Bob Newhart and Don Adams. Ruth Buzzi. Roy Rogers, who looked really good. The Brady kids. John Saxon. It was amazing how bad most of these people were. It's like nobody told them to use the little markers to aim the ball. :rommie:
 
I ended up watching more of it than I should have, mainly for the fashions and the prizes but also to see who came there to play and win and those who looked like they had never picked up a ball before in their life.
 
Yes, I was thinking about the fashions, too. It's unusual to see a show where people dress normally. :rommie:
 
It's that time of the week again...up for June 18-19:

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Hmm. Interesting. I watched My Three Sons pretty frequently as a kid, because other people in the house watched it. I didn't hate it, but it never really grabbed me. It will be most interesting if they show the earlier episodes.
 
Looks like they're starting in Season 7, though their episode order doesn't line up with that on IMDb.
 
Sounds like the stuff that's already been re-run a few times in recent years.

Well, the Tarzan binge is today and tomorrow. :bolian:
 
If I might add something from the Continent.

Been binge-watching the old British series, "Upstairs Downstairs". It is as well-written and acted as ever, and holds up quite well. But as a crass, rough, Chicago American, one might imagine that I would learn a thing or thrice. Indeed, I have. Nearing the end of Season Five, there is a mention of "Spotted Dick"...being, of course, American, I quite naturally went right to Tom Hulce, in his Break-Out Role as "Pinto", in the Forever Classic, "Animal House". One can't imagine why the Brits did not pick right up on AH, and make if for BBC 12, or what have you, but I digress...to my amazement, "Spotted Dick referred not at all to Curious Anatomical Features, but...

...Pudding!!! ("Dessert", as it is known to the Leaders of the Free World, and Stealers of Everything Cool The Brits Have To Offer Regarding Television.)

My Word!

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Microwaveable, even!!!...
 
Was just looking at the Binge schedule for Tarzan...the Nichelle Nichols episodes (a two-parter) are coming up at 8 and 9 EST tonight. Alas, it looks like they'll be falling a bit short of getting to the one with the Supremes this weekend.
 
I've had the 'Tarzan' binge on in the background today; it's funny I have vague memories of watching it in the 70's in syndication while growing up but all I could really remember about it was Ron Ely. I'd forgotten that he had the child sidekick. A couple of things I've noticed - One, geographically, it's all over the map. One episode I watched appeared to take place on the coast of a Mexican fishing village and another looked like it was in New Zealand or Australia. Part of that might be because of the use of animal stock footage of species that aren't native to Africa. Does anyone know where this was filmed? I keep checking the credits and they don't list anything. I can tell when they're filming in the studio, but the location filming has me confused. Was it down in Mexico?
The other thing that I've noticed is, that despite his somewhat limited range as an actor, Ron Ely makes for a pretty imposing Tarzan. I recently rewatched 'Doc Savage' and Ron fits the description of Doc more than Dwayne Johnson does. From what I remember from the novels I've read, Doc tended more towards introspection and wasn't very gregarious or outgoing. Dwayne is going to have to dial it back a bit. Also I thought Doc was more 'perfectly proportioned' than overly muscular.
 
The ironic thing about Tarzan, geographically speaking, is that the kind of jungles depicted in the books and movies barely exist in Africa. They're really more of a South American or maybe Southeast Asian sort of thing. In the '90s, there was a syndicated series called Tarzan: The Epic Adventures that was fairly true to the books and was filmed in South Africa, and there was a jarring contrast between the scenes shot in the soundstage "jungle" set and the ones shot on location in the actual African savannah.
 
Tarzan lives in a "Fictional Africa" that only somewhat resembles the real Africa. Aside from the inconsistent terrains, there were a remarkable number of lost-yet-thriving civilizations tucked away within easy travel times.
 
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