Were you infuriated about a specific point in the address or discontented with the overall situation?
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I barely watched the show back in the day; I managed to catch the end sequence many times, and liked it.
I just did a search on Zap2It, and apparently the show isn’t running on any channels! Could this be a cost-of-rights thing?
FWIW, “Bowzer” (Jon Bauman), who doesn’t perform with the current act, is a fiesty political activist, going to campaign appearances with liberal candidates.
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Hey, there was a lot of talent on Hee Haw. Chalk the problems up to sexism, racism, etc. We know not to tell ‘jokes’ like that anymore. But the musicians were stellar.
Here’s a video I like to show people in this kind of situation. Remember one of the main characters, Roy Clark?
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Should have read further. Great minds think alike!!
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I think this is more like the saying that the golden age of science fiction is twelve. That is, what someone is nostalgic about has more to do with the age of the person being nostalgic.
Warner Bros recently rebooted The Banana Splits as an R-rated horror movie.
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Yes, and so do ours!
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8 was a generalization…but seeing as Nixon was in office…yikes!
Until cable came to our area in the 80s, we had the big 3 networks and PBS. The State of the Union was a real downer.
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Roy Clark was a treasure. You’re right.
The jokes were bad and corny, by design, on any subject. It was a time when people worried that if it didn’t make the slowest person in a room laugh, then people wouldn’t watch it.
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The only time the Ramones were on network (or was it syndicated?) television that I know of.
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They were on Letterman in the 90s, but 1979 is way more interesting.
That appearance was great, but it’s too bad they couldn’t also Sha La La on Sha Na Na.
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“Harold turn off the mic.”
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Mindy, of Mork fame.
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Definitive
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Just watched those clips. Oh, wow. I only vaguely remember Sha Na Na, but that was painfully unfunny.
Heck, even shows I thought were good kind of sucked. Miami Vice was iconic, ground breaking, the most expensive TV series ever made, and kind of crappy - or so it seemed when I watched an episode a few years back. Granted, not Sha Na Na crappy, but still crappy.
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It was actually pretty common for the singer to sing live to pre-recorded music – more live than lip-syncing, fewer mistakes or sound problems.
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Those of us who remember the 80s can enjoy the nostalgia of the good bits (arcades, shag carpeting, new wave music, BMX bikes, malls) while not having to relive the deeply crappy parts of the decade.
I’ve occasionally worn 70s era shirts for fun, and have found my parents have zero nostalgia for that decade. “Ugly clothes, ugly politics, ugly everything,” is how they remember it.
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Definitely lip sync. Both Johnny and Dee Dee are doing stuff that does not match the song.
I was having the exact same thought. Would have been another few years before I bought any Ramones albums on my own.
I could do with a few DVDs of Hee Haw and Sha Na Na
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