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Post by virgoscorpio on Mar 9, 2012 17:37:03 GMT -5
In Ann's world, every 11 or 13 year old kid is in love with I Love Lucy. So. not. realistic.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 9, 2012 17:54:31 GMT -5
I really was an I Love Lucy fan at an even younger age. Probably 7 or 8. It played for an hour each afternoon, so I'd watch it all summer long. (I lived out in the country with no cable and only 4-5 TV channels to pick from, so my choices were limited. I also watched a ton of Leave it to Beaver and The Brady Bunch. My brother liked The Beverly Hillbillies and Designing Women reruns (hee).) So it is possible to have a few kids like and make Lucy references, but she should have probably toned it down a bit.
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 9, 2012 19:28:36 GMT -5
I also liked Beaver. Lucy, not at all. I remember very much enjoying "Eight is Enough." Hey that (should) could have been based on the Pikes.  |
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Post by greer on Mar 10, 2012 2:31:23 GMT -5
I really was an I Love Lucy fan at an even younger age. Probably 7 or 8. It played for an hour each afternoon, so I'd watch it all summer long. (I lived out in the country with no cable and only 4-5 TV channels to pick from, so my choices were limited. I also watched a ton of Leave it to Beaver and The Brady Bunch. My brother liked The Beverly Hillbillies and Designing Women reruns (hee).) So it is possible to have a few kids like and make Lucy references, but she should have probably toned it down a bit. My mom always had Beaver and Lucy on in the mornings while we got ready for school. I didn't begin to like it until I was 12 or so, though. Now I think I've seen every episode of Beaver, Lucy, Andy Griffith, etc. Also Designing Women. |
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Post by virgoscorpio on Mar 10, 2012 19:01:28 GMT -5
^Ahhh Designing Women! Annie Potts is in the new series GCB and I'm always getting DW flashbacks! |
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Post by greer on Mar 11, 2012 0:43:40 GMT -5
^Ahhh Designing Women! Annie Potts is in the new series GCB and I'm always getting DW flashbacks! DW and Pretty in Pink  |
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on May 23, 2020 19:57:26 GMT -5
I really like Mrs. McGill, she balanced on how to be a parent and a friend. I like how in Stacey and the Missing Ring how she and Stacey would clean up the house together. Their little book club in whatever book that was also pretty cute.
As for the job thing, we know she went to college. Has it been said how long it was since she graduated and then married? I'd assume that she probably had some kind of long term job before quitting to take care of Stacey.
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Post by merrymelody on Jun 9, 2020 13:28:11 GMT -5
I like her. I figure she and Ed had a typical relationship trajectory considering their income bracket and that they married in what, the 70s? Wife stays at home, dad works all the time. Then gradually time and citcumstances shift, one partner realises they want more, the others happy to stay the same. The fact she went from a traditional wife (and she married young, too, iirc, so had even less time to really know herself) to being very wise about men (the book where she dates John) while Ed remains a workaholic and married a younger woman kinda shows she became a deeper person whereas he....didn't so much.
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Post by cnj on Jul 11, 2021 20:37:19 GMT -5
I like her. I figure she and Ed had a typical relationship trajectory considering their income bracket and that they married in what, the 70s? Wife stays at home, dad works all the time. Then gradually time and citcumstances shift, one partner realises they want more, the others happy to stay the same. The fact she went from a traditional wife (and she married young, too, iirc, so had even less time to really know herself) to being very wise about men (the book where she dates John) while Ed remains a workaholic and married a younger woman kinda shows she became a deeper person whereas he....didn't so much. So true! Lots of the BSC's parents came of age in the 1970s when the feminist movement was still in its budding stages. |
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