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I like the Midnight Cowboy quote. Cool.

I didn't watch the show. I just couldn't resist a pun on the word suite, though I tried for a while. I'm most familiar with Peckinpah's work from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Pretty good, though sometimes it goes a bit overboard. I guess my favorite Peckinpah film is The Getaway.

No lie. I'm a straight shooter, just like Sam was. One more thing--wear a good solid pair of shoes because the floor is covered with so many broken whiskey bottles it looks like someone was running a mini-distillery in there. I doubt I'll ever get to Montana. The sky around here is big enough.

It's really dirty. Gross stains on the carpet, tables and chairs overturned, cig burns on the kitchen table, a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. It's like some old drunk lived there.

What the heck are they teaching these kids at Stoddard U.? How to be tramps and psycho killers? I'd transfer out of that place ASAP. Plus it's too easy to get into the chemistry dept. supply room. This is a bit of Peyton Place west with the constant sunshine taking the place of the New England shade. Bobby wasn't all bad. Before trying to off Joanne, he tried the ol' push her down the bleachers abortion method. No go. What was next in his plan, a Clorox sitz bath? When Joanne was not killed by his pill I was wondering if the doofus was too dumb to come up with a lethal one. Turns out she didn't take it. He finally gave up with more subtle methods and just pushed her off a building. Then he sticks around looking through her purse instead of getting the hell out of there. Oh well. I liked Jeffrey Hunter. He was one of the few sane folks in the whole flick. Kind of nerdy, but smart enough to be there to pick up the pieces of Virginia's broken heart after Bobby is out of the picture. From the first time I saw this I always thought it was such a 1950s movie--the garishness, the clothes, the cars, the manners, etc. so more so than your typical 1950s film. Makes it very enjoyable on its own, aside from the plot and characters. I saw the 90s remake many years ago and don't remember much about it. It certainly didn't have the unconscious weirdness of the original.

I was one of those kids who didn't like Sundays. The morning and afternoon were alright, but around eight o'clock in the evening I would get a queasy feeling because I hadn't done my homework and had spent the weekend goofing off. During the winter months I hoped for a large overnight snowstorm to occur, but it very rarely did. Today Sundays are wonderfully carefree.

I would say it's one of my favorite "new" programs. Until last week channel 500 on DirecTV was running it every day without commercials, so I caught up on the half dozen or so episodes I missed during the original run. When the final episode was shown they started over with the first one and I kept on watching. When channel 500 went off the air last Friday they arranged it so that the final episode was the last one they showed. I was surprised at how few people actually watched it compared to the influence and press coverage it got.

I thought I was an anteater man. Good ol' blue boy. As long as blue boy is playing somewhere on the tube out there, I know this old world will be alright.

According to Alice Cooper he did an interview and told the reporter that as a teenager he was a real Eddie Haskell, meaning he was kind of a juvie. Somehow that turned into he actually played Eddie Haskell on LITB. Listen baby, you really wouldn't understand.

Holy ****. How could I forget this one--Dragnet 1960s version. A comedy classic.

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned. A few more: Northern Exposure DD Mad Men Skag

No, I'm not very familiar with Powell's days as a juvenile musical star. To me he just looks underwhelming in the physical tough guy way. I noticed he had quite a widow's peak in Cornered. Maybe that was his secret weapon. A Nazi with the first name of Marcel? C'mon. That lowers the Nazi bad guy scale by about 50%. Now if it was Helmut or Heinrich, then we've got a ball game.

Sure Willi was a no good Nazi U-boat bad guy, but at least he was able to coax Gus out of the boat and on his way to Davy Jones locker so we would no longer have to listen to his interminable whining about Rosie and the joys of cutting a rug. Shut up already, Bendix. Danke, Willi. I've never taken Powell very seriously as a tough guy. Yeah he can snarl and make with the wiseguy patter, but I've never bought it. Still, Cornered was fairly entertaining. I think the main outlines of the plot were pretty clear though the details of who was with who got a bit confusing. As far as Nazis go, the French variety just don't make the grade. You truly need the real Teutonic deal for ultimate impact, not their weak tea, land of 10,000 cheeses fascist brethren. One political spiel near the end caught my attention. Jarnac says something about the needy and poor being fertile ground for fascism. Not very subtle, comrade.

Was Eddie behind it? I haven't seen that episode in a long time but it sounds like something Eddie would do. When that accordion came crashing down the stairs. Hilarious.

No doubt about that.

I don't know about Joseph Breen personally, but being a conservative Catholic is not necessarily congreunt with being a supporter of the IRA.

In general I like the later episodes more than the earlier ones. The latter are sometimes kind of sappy, though many are still funny. One of my favorites scenes was in an episode where Beaver buys an accordion on the installment plan without telling his parents. When he can't pay, a man from the company comes to the front door and talks with Ward. Ward keeps insisting no one ordered an accordion and becomes quite heated on the subject. Just then an accordion comes loudly bouncing down the stairs. Oh brother.

I always got a laugh out of Wally's use of hunk. A hunk of cake I can see, but a hunk of milk. Just doesn't sound right.

I think that if Larry's dad hadn't always been on all those business trips he might have turned out better. I've heard about four of five different reasons why Rusty Stevens left the show, so who knows. Larry was certainly a better friend than Gilbert Bates. I always liked the episode where Larry and Beaver wanted to go to the carnival but didn't have any money. Larry took his mother's pin money and threw it out on the lawn. Then when Beaver came over Larry started to pick it up and told Beav it must have fallen out of an airplane. Of course Larry had to eventually pay for his little prank. FETV doesn't show Beaver so I don't think they will have a marathon, but we'll see.

I was being tongue-in-cheek about Ken being a cop, well for the most part. Better than becoming a porn actor. Frank Bank a.k.a. Lumpy, became a stock broker and did quite well I believe. He also wrote an autobiography and said he was quite the ladies' man. Some people found that to hard to believe.

Why hello Mrs. Cleaver. You look especially lovely today. Is Wallace at home? Good ol' Eddie. One of my favorite TV characters. Of course just about everybody was on to his bs, but that didn't stop him from continually dishing it out. I have to admit, whatever you say about Eddie, the guy was persistent. One summer when I went to summer school I would watch an episode of Beaver, then get on my bike and go to school. If you think kids are happy to get out of regular school, imagine how happy they were to get out of summer school before the whole season was ruined. I even forgive Ken for becoming a cop. C'est si bon.

Probably not something he would have picked up on the streets. I hate to think what would have happened if teach brought in some classical music. CRASH.

It's not a gang, it's a club. I get a kick out of the 1950s JD flicks. The gangs are as corny as anything else from that time period. One of my favorite moments was the young toughs smashing the teacher's precious jazz sides from The Blackboard Jungle. I felt sorry for the guy, but how could he be so hopelessly naive not to foresee what these dirtbags would do to his beloved 78s.

Tomorrow is another day.

That was their most popular album and understandably so. The title track is a total trip. From a little while later....