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  1. David_B_K

    What Once Beloved TV Character Now Strikes You As Being Annoying?

    In the episode where Archie and Meathead both told their version of the visit from the plumber and his apprentice, it was clear that both were so biased that neither truthfully recalled the incident. Apparently, only Edith did.
  2. David_B_K

    What Once Beloved TV Character Now Strikes You As Being Annoying?

    It's funny. I find Laura Petrie to be smokin' hot. Mary Richards, not so much.
  3. David_B_K

    What Once Beloved TV Character Now Strikes You As Being Annoying?

    Regarding the Lear worldview on AITF, I remember seeing Rob "Meathead" Reiner on the Johnny Carson show discusssing the show when it was at the height of its popularity. On the same show was actor Walter Matthau, who had been on earlier and had already moved down to the next seat. Reiner was...
  4. David_B_K

    What Once Beloved TV Character Now Strikes You As Being Annoying?

    Who cares if the Nelsons' toilet was never used for comedy? Scatalogical humor is among the lowest forms of comedy. For the most part, movies and TV shows don't dwell on the unsavory aspects of life, like bodily excretions, menstruation and jock itch. We all know those things exist; but most...
  5. David_B_K

    What Once Beloved TV Character Now Strikes You As Being Annoying?

    I guess getting his name wrong makes many of us no better than Endora. A Darren is as good as a Durwood (or was she saying Durward?).
  6. David_B_K

    What Once Beloved TV Character Now Strikes You As Being Annoying?

    I think people are over-analyzing Bewitched on this thread. I really doubt that the writers were making any sort of parallel with "outmoded values". Darren and Endora are merely plot devices. The show was simply about a houswife who happened to be a witch. If they had not used the plot devices...
  7. David_B_K

    What Once Beloved TV Character Now Strikes You As Being Annoying?

    I don't think I find anybody on Dick Van Dyke annoying aside from Rob's brother. As to Morey Amsterdam, it seems to make perfect sense to me to have "the human joke machine" on a comedy writing staff. Many of his jokes are not funny, but the fact that he had a million of them was (for me).
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