Comments | tp: how charming

how charming

Sep 04, 2001 08:50

as i was dropping off to sleep last night, i had a hilarious flashbulb memory of an old tv show i used to watch. does anyone else remember the charmings? it was this horrible, campy sitcom about snow white and prince charming being 80's yuppies. it was awful and yet i was so drawn to it. my mom and i used to watch it and make great fun of it ( Read more... )

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Fiddlesticks! jcorman September 4 2001, 08:20:28 UTC

I remember the "The Charmings." I remember one episode where the father said "Oh, fiddlesticks!" when he was trying to fix the plumbing or something.
They were like all out of place and stuff, right?
Did they have a little girl?
It's all so vague. . .

Re: Fiddlesticks! tp September 4 2001, 10:00:47 UTC

yes! i remember that too!

yeah, they were totally in the stone age but living in modern-day america. i think they had 2 kids... and the evil stepmom randomly lived upstairs with her magic mirror.

so good. not quite as good as kids, inc., but still good in its own way.

jamalb September 4 2001, 20:37:50 UTC

I can't believe that you would speak ill of The Charmings. That was quality TV right there...kinda. It think the episode about the "f-word" was also the one where Snow told the Prince that one of her co-workers was gay, to which he replied "any man would be happy to be working with you". Someone then pulled him aside and explained it all to him.

Bow before my wealth of useless 80s TV memories! Anyone remember "Sledgehammer" and "Auto man"?

ha! tp September 5 2001, 06:08:54 UTC

i love that you watched that show, jamal. why am i not surprised?

i totally remember that gay thing, too.

i think it's fascinating to watch how gayness was treated in 80's tv. for example, we watched the episode of the golden girls last night where rose convinces blanche and dorothy to appear on her talk show as lesbians, and the jokes about it were just so old and stereotyped. a show would never get away with that today, and if it tried, the audience laughter would be nervous at best. it's just so interesting. and i just had to share that thought.

Re: ha! jamalb September 5 2001, 11:42:10 UTC

I've notice many changes to tv shows, along those lines. Ever notice how the one black person on a mostly white sitcom can never have a bad character trait? They can have white drunks, and druggies, but the one black guy has to be respectable. The only way you can get black villains is if you have another black character who is the good guy's best friend, who usually has to give "the speech". The speech is the whole "our people have been through so much and you're setting us back with your behavior" or "I'm from the ghetto too and I got out without robbing people". I love how tv execs think a few hackneyed plots and "the more you know" spots are going to define the morals of everyone watching...then again, that's pretty scary if it actually works...

Re: ha! tp September 7 2001, 11:28:16 UTC

exactly.

who are the ad wizards who came up with this?