{"id":2150,"date":"2014-02-26T02:36:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2024-09-08T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:05:58","slug":"some-tv-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2014\/02\/26\/some-tv-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some TV Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Americans<\/em> returns tonight! The Americans<\/em> returns tonight! With another potentially big winter storm in the forecast, this is just the news I needed to get out of bed in the morning.<\/p>\n

The AV Club says season two starts off quite well. Here\u2019s a good look at where the series is as the new year kicks off with some interesting details about how the show is created.<\/p>\n

The Americans aims to break the second-season curse<\/a><\/p>\n

While you\u2019re at the AV Club, here\u2019s another one to add to your reading queue.<\/p>\n

Reviewing episodes for 40-year-old game shows may not sound like a lot of fun. But I found this look back at Match Game<\/em> fascinating. I loved that show back in the day.1<\/a><\/sup> In college, I think I spent a lot of mornings when I was skipping class watching the updated version, hosted by Bert Convy, that often featured Brad Garrett and Marsha Wallace.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you remember the 1970s version, this article is funny and enlightening. There was a lot of wink-wink, nudge-nudge gay humor for example.<\/p>\n

\n Somers sat in the upper tier next to, and mock-sparred with, Charles Nelson Reilly, who also joined in 1973 and continued through a 1990-91 revival. Not concerned with being recognized as gay, Reilly was a role model for a lot of youngsters who didn\u2019t yet realize they needed one. In contrast to the misanthropic Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares, Reilly was a \u201cgood gay\u201d who winked at the audience and looked genuinely sorry when he didn\u2019t match contestants. When the question is about a \u201creally weird\u201d woman who \u201ckeeps her husband in a blank,\u201d Reilly responds with \u201ccloset.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s brilliant! And I bet not everyone got it back then.<\/p>\n

10 Match Game episodes that hit viewers right in the blank<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. \nTop 5 favorite game shows, pre-puberty edition. Match Game<\/em>, Tic-Tac-Dough<\/em>, The Gong Show<\/em>, Press Your Luck<\/em>, and The Price Is Right<\/em>. I say pre-puberty because I think most boys only cared about Barker\u2019s Beauties<\/a> once the hormones kicked in. ↩<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Americans returns tonight! The Americans returns tonight! With another potentially big winter storm in the forecast, this is just the news I needed to get out of bed in the morning. The AV Club says season two starts off quite well. Here\u2019s a good look at where the series is as the new year kicks off with some interesting details about how the show is created. The Americans aims to break the second-season curse While you\u2019re at the AV Club, here\u2019s another one to add to your reading queue. Reviewing episodes for 40-year-old game shows may not sound like a lot of fun. But I found this look back at Match Game fascinating. I loved that show back in the day.1 In college, I think I spent a lot of mornings when I was skipping class watching the updated version, hosted by Bert Convy, that often featured Brad Garrett and Marsha Wallace. Anyway, if you remember the 1970s version, this article is funny and enlightening. There was a lot of wink-wink, nudge-nudge gay humor for example. Somers sat in the upper tier next to, and mock-sparred with, Charles Nelson Reilly, who also joined in 1973 and continued through a 1990-91 revival. Not concerned with being recognized as gay, Reilly was a role model for a lot of youngsters who didn\u2019t yet realize they needed one. In contrast to the misanthropic Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares, Reilly was a \u201cgood gay\u201d who winked at the audience and looked genuinely sorry when he didn\u2019t match contestants. When the question is about a \u201creally weird\u201d woman who \u201ckeeps her husband in a blank,\u201d Reilly responds with \u201ccloset.\u201d That\u2019s brilliant! And I bet not everyone got it back then. 10 Match Game episodes that hit viewers right in the blank Top 5 favorite game shows, pre-puberty edition. Match Game, Tic-Tac-Dough, The Gong Show, Press Your Luck, and The Price Is Right. I say pre-puberty because I think most boys only cared about Barker\u2019s Beauties once the hormones kicked in. ↩<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,27,28],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-media","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14336,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/14336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}