tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post6122038622679588738..comments2023-10-31T05:03:38.910-07:00Comments on Letters from a broad...: Most Insane Sitcom Premise EverC. L. Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698855413639518095noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-1794066881407872362009-05-22T22:07:20.260-07:002009-05-22T22:07:20.260-07:00Hey Anonymous!!!
Hmm, that's interesting. I thin...Hey Anonymous!!!<br /><br />Hmm, that's interesting. I think it would be possible to write a reasonable story about ambiguous paternity (though I don't think the makers of "My Two Dads" succeeded). I'd be curious to see <I>Les Comperes</I>.C. L. Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12698855413639518095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-49953816216937607122009-05-22T13:12:49.576-07:002009-05-22T13:12:49.576-07:00The sitcom producers may have had in mind Les Comp...The sitcom producers may have had in mind Les Comperes, a fairly good French comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard. You could probably find a number of movies that successfully used ambiguous paternity is their premise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-2328856134566645182009-05-22T07:14:30.375-07:002009-05-22T07:14:30.375-07:00Hey Wry!!!
Very good point, and actually a fun id...Hey Wry!!!<br /><br />Very good point, and actually a fun idea. :D<br /><br />But that one was so weird that I even noticed it back then! ;^)C. L. Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12698855413639518095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-8732320927317722752009-05-22T06:59:00.901-07:002009-05-22T06:59:00.901-07:00TV in the '80s was just weird. Go back and watch ...TV in the '80s was just weird. Go back and watch any of it through your noughties eyes and see all sorts of things you didn't see before. :D<br /><br />- wryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-1295304697538354292009-05-19T23:09:28.541-07:002009-05-19T23:09:28.541-07:00Hey Volly!!!
Wow, I've never seen that show. Yik...Hey Volly!!!<br /><br />Wow, I've never seen that show. Yikes, it sounds awful!C. L. Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12698855413639518095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-1437668216014546792009-05-19T14:33:48.999-07:002009-05-19T14:33:48.999-07:00My personal non-fave is Love Sidney, which aired f...My personal non-fave is Love Sidney, which aired from 1981-1983 (at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic...how ironic...). <br /><br />This was a show about a gay character who's unable to talk about the fact that he's gay, written by a bunch of people who were also afraid to write about people who are gay, produced by a bunch of people who were afraid they'd lose their fortunes and have to go back to doing real work if they were honest about the character's being gay. The show gave me a headache every time I tuned in; finally I just gave up.Vollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14514280952695776270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-83550638228287089552009-05-18T10:40:00.000-07:002009-05-18T10:40:00.000-07:00Hey B. Spinoza!!!
I thought of that one too! I m...Hey B. Spinoza!!!<br /><br />I thought of that one too! I mean, they couldn't possibly find any apartment except one in a women's only building? So they had <I>no choice</I> but to dress up as women by night <I>for years</I>???<br /><br />But that one has a plausible explanation. They secretly liked dressing up as women and wanted an excuse. ;^)C. L. Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12698855413639518095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-83916874589082489872009-05-18T10:04:00.000-07:002009-05-18T10:04:00.000-07:00Bosom Buddies is kind of weird too: http://en.wiki...Bosom Buddies is kind of weird too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosom_BuddiesB. Spinozahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086206346767831626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-57672503734958805842009-05-18T03:54:00.000-07:002009-05-18T03:54:00.000-07:00Hey Rebecca!!!
I was a teenager when this came ou...Hey Rebecca!!!<br /><br />I was a teenager when this came out, and in those days I watched so many stupid sitcoms that -- on my own -- I didn't notice anything odd about it.<br /><br />My mom kind of clued me in by pointing out how weird it is that this woman was carrying on two relationships simultaneously (to the point where she didn't even know which was the father of her child, so she was having sex with them within days of one another), and everybody's OK with that -- it's not presented as any kind of smudge on everyone's loving memory of her. Then my Mom kind of hinted that that's kind of a bizarre way to try to make the (basically immoral) premise (two guys, raising a family together!) into something acceptable.<br /><br />And I was thinking, "Hm, you're right, that's weird. Sheesh, why not just have them be gay? That would make more sense..."C. L. Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12698855413639518095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-78158189858344642362009-05-18T01:27:00.000-07:002009-05-18T01:27:00.000-07:00I saw that show in reruns as a teenager, and I was...I saw that show in reruns as a teenager, and I was so unbelievably naive (raised in a very conservative town where I didn't know any adults - and certainly no parents - that were gay) that it never occurred to me that the premise would make more sense if they were gay.<br /><br />But...duh. Seriously.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10006115623631732544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-42771304200024511862009-05-18T00:51:00.000-07:002009-05-18T00:51:00.000-07:00Hey Lorry!!!
I think this random tidbit came back...Hey Lorry!!!<br /><br />I think this random tidbit came back to me because of a news item from this past week (another crucial interpreter getting fired from the military for being gay, while people are still claiming that torturing prisoners to get information was justified). It's <A HREF="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/15/dan-choi-daily-show_n_203830.html" REL="nofollow">summed up well</A> on the Daily Show:<br /><br />"So it was okay to waterboard a guy 80 times but God forbid the guy who could understand what that prick was saying has a boyfriend? Waterboarding may make a prisoner talk, but it ain't gonna make him talk English."<br /><br />I realize this ridiculous sitcom premise can't be compared to torture, but hearing about the crazy extremes of <I>anything, anything, anything</I> is OK except "the gay" somehow made my associative memory pull up this.<br /><br />Perhaps it was the same for you. ;^)C. L. Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12698855413639518095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19053670.post-3890903725386657512009-05-18T00:07:00.000-07:002009-05-18T00:07:00.000-07:00It's funny because I was just pondering over this ...It's funny because I was just pondering over this very idea a couple days ago. I'm not sure why I thought of it, since I haven't actually seen the show in over a decade. It's probably because the title isn't very original, but it could also be a sign from the alien overlords. Not sure which.Lorryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14155686679117574497noreply@blogger.com