Which was not in the original run, but in “The New Scooby Doo Movies”, where I think they first brought in the Globetrotters and Don Knotts.
I, too, learned important lessons from television shows, like “quicksand may swallow you whole at any moment”.
Hilarious bit in “Mystery Inc” where the culprit reveals his motivation behind his preposterous scheeme and someone says, “Why didn’t you just take them to court?”
“Do you have any idea how expensive lawyers are?”
The most outrageous aspect of the first season of “American Horror Story” is this family buys a beautiful, huge Victorian within driving distance of downtown L.A., and then laments they can’t sell it because it’s haunted.
My dudes, that just added another $250K to the home value.
Yeah, I think was more a contemporary stylistic choice. In the late '60s/early '70s, everything was drab nihilism, because, you know, like, reality, man.
As I said upthread, it really is a modern incarnation of Radcliffian gothic horror, which Lovecraft rants about in his “Supernatural Horror in Literature” essay. The whole “it’s a ghost!” or “haha, no such thing as ghosts, you dope!” is cyclical.
We all say that, but you have to look to #12 at the box office (“Elvis”) to find a non-sequel/non-franchise movie. And #14 (“Nope”) to find something original.
See above.
There may be something to that, though not strictly nepotism. The people dominant in media and government go to the same schools, read the same books, have the same philosophy—George Carlin pointed this out in the '90s. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
Machiavelli pointed this out, too. The ruling class (which is what they are) becomes increasingly insular which leads to…well, let’s just say “Very Bad Things”.
The '80s was the rise of “pro-social” programming. The cartoons of the '60s and '70s were “bad” because they didn’t carry “pro-social” messages. So in the '80s, they all had explicit messaging. (Hilariously spoofed in the '90s by the Animaniacs.)
Of course. It’s meant to seem that way. And there’s doubtless some truth to it.
But there’s also some truth in that different ethnicities (etc) are being used as a shield for shoddy product. Hollywood has always jumped on whatever bandwagon they could, in as cynical a way as anyone could imagine.
For example, Jason Momoa didn’t seem to generate much pushback despite being not at all the classic Aquaman. Because Momoa is cool. Somebody, somewhere, probably objected to Eartha Kitt being Catwoman, but not enough to cost her the job or her place as an iconic Catwoman.
Velma was played by Hayley Kiyoko in two live-action movies ten years ago. Nobody cared.
