ktag
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Post by ktag on Oct 20, 2006 20:09:38 GMT -5
I was wondering whether Ann was a baseball fan, because there were quite a few books centered on the subject. Also, it's been established that Kristy is a Mets fan. The Mets won the World Series in 1986, the year the BSC was first published. Being a New Yorker, could be that Ann took the current high for that team and transferred it to Kristy.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Oct 21, 2006 11:03:44 GMT -5
I was skimming through Karen's President the other day, and Ann makes the fictional President of the United States an I Love Lucy fan, and Karen is all excited because the President watches the same show as she does. Gah.
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macca
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Post by macca on Oct 21, 2006 20:38:03 GMT -5
I was wondering whether Ann was a baseball fan, because there were quite a few books centered on the subject. Also, it's been established that Kristy is a Mets fan. The Mets won the World Series in 1986, the year the BSC was first published. Being a New Yorker, could be that Ann took the current high for that team and transferred it to Kristy. Yeah, there is tons about baseball, but Ann strikes me as a totally unathletic, uninterested in sports type who just included a sports-obsessed chick for feminist/token purposes... and maybe her dad or someone loved baseball so she got info and enthusiasm from him.
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 24, 2006 22:22:53 GMT -5
I was skimming through Karen's President the other day, and Ann makes the fictional President of the United States an I Love Lucy fan, and Karen is all excited because the President watches the same show as she does. Gah. Ugh... she never quits!
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macca
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Post by macca on Oct 26, 2006 19:38:44 GMT -5
^ oh FFS!!!
There is too much I Love Lucy crap in the BSC!! Remember how one thing the McGill parents had in common when they first met was their love of the same Lucy episode?!
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ktag
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Post by ktag on Oct 26, 2006 20:28:54 GMT -5
Ha, and she totally married him for his name. A McGill(icuddy) in New York. That worked out so well.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Oct 27, 2006 13:04:09 GMT -5
I can think of at least two times where a character would use a big word and then tell us that it had been on their vocabulary list recently. It might have happened more. So, I guess Ann was obsessed with improving our vocabulary.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Oct 27, 2006 15:50:37 GMT -5
That totally went over my head. Ann is crazy.
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Post by spazgirl on Oct 27, 2006 21:41:33 GMT -5
Sort of tying into the 60s music, but the Beatles are mentioned A LOT. From strawberry picking at "Strawberry Fields Forever" to the group singing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in Kristy's kitchen. Laine lives in the Dakota, etc.
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Post by liss31d on Oct 28, 2006 6:55:40 GMT -5
Also Hannie, Linny, David Michael and Karen decide to play Job Agency because Linny saw Lucy and Ethel go to one
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2006 11:16:21 GMT -5
The Beatles are also mentioned in Stacey and the Bad Girls. Mrs. McGill called herself "Paula" in honor of Paul McCarteny, back when she was a youngin'. #common063#
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gabbie
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Post by gabbie on Nov 17, 2006 12:46:47 GMT -5
I never even saw an episode of "I Love Lucy" until I was at least 18. I grew up in France they didn't show it here. I understand that contemporary shows date a series too but I find it very hard to believe that seven 13 year old girls in the 1990s adored "I Love Lucy".
Oh and there was the time in one of the earlier books where they were devasted because they couldn't watch "The Love Boat" anymore. Yeah right.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Nov 17, 2006 16:30:21 GMT -5
^Ha, I wouldn't be so sure about that. My first semester of college, some of my floormates and I were hugely annoyed when we were picking classes for the next semester and one of the classes we wanted conflicted with the night we got together to watch The Golden Girls on Lifetime.
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lisa
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Post by lisa on Nov 18, 2006 3:57:27 GMT -5
I never even saw an episode of "I Love Lucy" until I was at least 18. I grew up in France they didn't show it here. I understand that contemporary shows date a series too but I find it very hard to believe that seven 13 year old girls in the 1990s adored "I Love Lucy". Oh and there was the time in one of the earlier books where they were devasted because they couldn't watch "The Love Boat" anymore. Yeah right. I've still never seen I Love Lucy. I don't get why they've never aired it here. And the only reason I care about watching it was beucase it was featured so prominently in the BSC :S
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Post by sugarmonkey on Nov 18, 2006 8:54:44 GMT -5
I always hated it when there would be a mention of a real tv show or musician or something. I understand authors use stuff they like and that using "classic" elements of pop culture won't date the books too much. But, I would've preferred it if they had used fictional tv shows and bands (like Cam Geary). I was reading the books at 13 and none of the real things appealed to me.
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