[78-L] Holiday torture (tenuous 78 connection, sorry)

[David Lennick]

Ahh, John Astin..first seen in I'm Dickens, He's Fenster, which is finally out 
on dvd after being hidden away for decades.

Humbuggery? Sounds like a candidate for "newly coined naughty words".

dl

On 12/26/2011 12:20 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> No need for humbuggery, Dave. I couldn't stand The Lucy Show or most of
> its ilk, either. And that kind of crap went on and on, season after
> season, all year long, Xmas not withstanding. About the only sitcom I
> could stand watching was The Addams Family, and later Night Court. Both
> had John Astin in 'em, whom I truly loved.
> And there must have been at least one good version of A Christmas Carol
> out there, but I don't think I've ever seen it. Like Hamlet, most
> versions of ACC seem to be full of hams!
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> On 12/26/2011 6:46 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Sometimes I wonder why I spend each lonely night..no, scratch that. Sometimes I
>> wonder why the Christmas episodes of classic radio and TV programs are always
>> the worst, especially (I assume) out of context. Last night we opened a dvd of
>> some more classic Christmas sitcoms, most of them of series I never watched in
>> the first place (Beverly Smellbillies etc). The two we watched were
>> insufferable and neither would give me the slightest urge ever to watch any
>> other episodes for any reason. The "Odd Couple" Scrooge episode was mildly
>> amusing about 10% of the time. The 1962 "Lucy Show" Christmas program was the
>> most strident, screaming, unfunny piece of crap I've suffered in years. Please
>> tell me it wasn't always that bad. I know there were funny sitcoms in the
>> sixties because I still remember them, although I admit to being a snob about
>> much tv during that decade (I also didn't have the time, and for a few years I
>> also didn't own a set). I'm given to understand that The Lucy Show was a hit
>> for 6 years, possibly largely because of Gale Gordon..definitely not because of
>> these two screaming meemies (one of them with a bad face lift) and 3 obnoxious
>> kids.
>>
>> Humbug, already.
>>
>> dl
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