I knew that the phrase ‘jumping the shark’ came from Happy Days, but I didn’t know that Mork from Ork first visited the Fonz before hooking up with Mindy.
Got any good trivia?
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I never swooned for the Fonz. I was in the age demographic where he should have appealed to me but didn’t. To me, he was like a bantam rooster, all strut and full of himself. The constant hair combing was the equivalent of preening his feathers.
Here’s the trivia: The Fonz’ hair-combing habit was a nod to a prior teen heart-throb — Kookie from the tv series, “77 Sunset Strip.” The actor, Edd Byrnes, even made a pop song about it, “Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb.” Weird stuff I remember from the late 50’s/early 60’s…
I also never put it together that Morgan Fairchild had been a recurring character on Mork & Mindy.
This is going to be so sweet.
Space …
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I’m a huge fan of the original series, but that takes geekitude to a level I cannot relate to.
This isn’t frivolous, at least to me, and I need some help.
My very reactionary sister got into an email argument with me over Fox’s slanted, inaccurate reporting, and I brought up Father Coughlin in the discussion.
She came back that Father Coughlin was a socialist progressive. I asked for a source and she hasn’t provided it. She thinks that socialism and fascism are interchangeable. Does anyone have a source for this claim about Coughlin?
In a lot of ways the National Socialists were progressives, so your sister isn’t so wrong. There is a brilliant book on this topic by a German author named Götz Aly. Robbespierre and Uncle Joe were progressives too, so perhaps the problem is that we have a tendency to view “progressive” as inherently friendly, open and unproblematic.
It’s hard to connect “progressive” with Auschwitz. Classic fascism is a merging of business leadership with political leadership, to the detriment of working people. The cost of labor in prison camps certainly favored the Herman Abses of the world, not the poor victims who worked out of Auschwitz.
Well for you it’s obviously hard, objectively it’s not hard at all. That’s the problem with having holy words that are supposed to represent absolute good.