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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI hate to unload on you people, but something is keeping me awake.
It's not Covid.
It's not anti-maskers or anti-vaxxers.
It's not the realization that our democracy is fragile.
It's not thinking about all of the harm TFG has done.
It's...
Just how fucking stoned do you have to be to come up with the thought, the seed, the concept...and then following through and pitching that concept to TV executives and convincing them that the premises behind the TV shows "The Flying Nun" and "My Mother the Car" will do reasonably well?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the shows at all, I'm talking about the concept of the shows. You can't come up with stuff like that without drugs.
I'm not sure if they had bongs back then, but I can picture a bunch of men and women sitting around a table doing bong rips and trying to come up with ideas for a new TV show.
"How about a nun that fucking flies around and shit"?
Those younger than me will have no idea what I'm talking about.
bottomofthehill
(8,347 posts)Dont forget Mr Ed
LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)but I thought people would take offense because he was so beloved.
happybird
(4,627 posts)Nice. We were just talking about them at work the other day.
LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)captain queeg
(10,242 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)was one of the writers in the staff room complaining about how his mother-in-law was a real witch
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)on Hulu or Netflix.
Make7
(8,543 posts)Both are free, no sign up required to watch (if I remember correctly), but they both show ads.
Whether or not those are options for you depends on what devices you use to stream (and if you are willing to watch some commercials).
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/f0cbab7bd40e550eb7181f772ae798a6-1/bewitched/season-1
https://tubitv.com/series/300006608/bewitched
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)If you're actually wondering, it seems that Bewitched was inspired by a couple of movies, "I Married a Witch" and "Bell Book and Candle". Well, at least if you are to believe the trivia section of IMDB on "I Married a Witch" :
Currently available for streaming from TCM. Not the best of films, but Veronica Lake was certainly cute!
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)BootinUp
(47,188 posts)Thread if I hadnt already.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,856 posts)And like he was trying to hold in a fart.
Detective 714! That had to be by design. Those crazy writers!
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)yonder
(9,676 posts)My brother once pointed that out while we were in a haze, though Sgt. Friday seemed more like a scotch guy to me. Probably a mean drunk too. Bill Gannon, on the other hand, stoner all the way.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Need to look it up before stating with certainty..
Hotler
(11,445 posts)happybird
(4,627 posts)The hat thing (wimple?) she wears is crazy.
Imma guess very, very stoned.
I suspect Sid and Marty Krofft were also on something.
LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)but I didn't know what to call them.
happybird
(4,627 posts)I love learning new, random stuff! It helps my Jeopardy scores.
LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)For me, however, thinking is hard.
So I avoid it.
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BootinUp
(47,188 posts)I was young.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)There probably wasn't anything to it. Who knows? I remember watching it as a kid and thinking it was quite strange even then.
ShazzieB
(16,518 posts)The Fifteenth Pelican by Tere Rios, published in 1965, was the basis for the TV ries, The Flying Nun.
https://www.amazon.com/Fifteenth-Pelican-Original-Adventures-Bertrille/dp/B000X1SW4M
Not gonna speculate on whether drugs were involved in the creation of the book or the decision to turn it into a TV show!
Mr. Evil
(2,856 posts)Remember H.R. Pufnstuf? Now, where did that idea come from?
Harker
(14,036 posts)skylucy
(3,743 posts)ret5hd
(20,522 posts)LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)there was a kid sitting on a tree limb throwing confetti or something?
I tried to do the same as that kid.
It didn't work out.
LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)Brian Keith calling for Mr. French.
FRENCH??? FRENCH???
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Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,019 posts)LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,713 posts)Sally Fields had some acting chops, to be sure.
LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I mean look at the fucking concept of that show and you cannot tell me that someone was not on acid when they came up with that idea
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...no less a personage than St Joseph of Copertino, a rather dull-witted young man who, apparently when he got into a state of religious ecstasy, would fly around his monastery like a chirping bird. There is all sorts of documentation of him doing this, though I remain personally a wee bit, how should I put it, skeptical...? In any event, the memory of him might have influenced The Flying Nun...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,898 posts)by realizing that those who made them were doing serious drugs. All the time.
cate94
(2,813 posts)Nearly every time I get in my car to drive. The first thing my car does is tell me to drive safely and follow the rules of the road. Next, it freaks out when Im three feet from anything. When I try to use voice commands, it completely misunderstands more than half of what I say. It seems familiar.
Mom, is that you?
Ocelot II
(115,858 posts)I loved that show.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)man, there is one that I questioned from the start. I was @16 and just learning what drugs could do.