"Let's put Captain Kirk on the hood of a moving car..."

[piratehead]

I announce the passing of populist genius Aaron Spelling. This guy shit money, and he gave us Charlie's Angels. He will be remembered as a minor American cultural magnate of the twentieth century. My Greek great-grandmother lived until 100, knew very little English, but greatly enjoyed the Love Boat. So I give him credit for that, delighting an

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YES. God rest ye Aaron Spelling.

[fountaingirl]

I almost posted on this myself. I can remember so many of the sleepovers when I was in grade school, grades 2 - 5 or so, we would be up and watch The Love Boat and then Fantasy Island and we were up sooooooo late and it was glamorous and god help me Aaron Spelling showed me what type of woman I wanted to be when I was seven and my mom wouldn't stop drinking Schlitz long enough to make a go at Weight Watchers.

A huge chunk of the childhood/adolescence of those of us age 30-40 or so just died.

Re: YES. God rest ye Aaron Spelling.

[piratehead]

College years too-- everybody had to watching Melrose Place-- so I knew the plots even though, G-d help me, I never watched the damn show myself.

[mehinda]

There were two seminal episodes of Fantasy Island and The Love Boat when I was growing up. The Fantasy Island one involved a woman who didn't want to grow older and ended up becoming some sort of ghoulish thing (it scared the bejebus outta me) because of course a woman's desire to stay young-looking is always motivated purely out of vanity and never out of external pressures to be competitive physically.

The episode of The Love Boat that sticks with me most is the one where the woman who's brilliant has to doff her glasses and pretend to be a ditz. She lands the guy only to find out he wishes she were smarter. He's only slightly angry with her for faking shallowness.

You know, in retrospect, a seven-year-old girl really shouldn't have been watching that dreck.

[piratehead]

See, I think it was a good thing that TV was such crap. For one thing, I generally found books more interesting, and I imagine you probably did too.

[preachervic]

yes, but unfortunately he spawned that no-talent, horse-faced daughter...