TUBE YOUR ENTHUSIASM (20)
Did I understand that Miss Kitty was a madam? Not exactly.
Did I understand that Miss Kitty was a madam? Not exactly.
“Emma Peel and John Steed would rather quip, flirt, and drink than sleuth.”
The cosmic sheen of his perfect bald pate radiated a sublime dialectics.
Paladin is an icon of neoliberal postwar American power.
An interstitial reality of anonymous, overgrown stretches of road.
Children spoke like Lutheran elders, not least because they were voiced by middle-aged adults.
Everybody knew an Eddie Haskell, and everybody knows one now.
Even watching as a preteen, I didn’t understand those twin beds.
Is Taylor a Br’er Rabbit-like trickster? Is he wrong-footing us?
“This endless TV road trip set the standard for crew-cut cool.”
It’s potentially subversive, but at base, all Dobie really wants is in.
An oscilloscope sine wave display, atmospheric woodwind and harp flutter.
Push buttons existed to make everything easier, not to make the life of the already-privileged another 5% better.
“But Granny, they ain’t varmints. They’s my critters!”
NBC could not get a national sponsor for the show because Cole’s color “would not play in the South.”