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July 12, 2007
Jeremy Price passes along a Cat and Girl comic strip he thinks I'll find amusing. He is correct. (I also like the other one he recommended.) And to miss the point entirely, although the strip is right in pointing out that early TV shows didn't show families watching TV, TV's did figure in some of them in interesting, self-reflexive, possibly postmodern ways: In Burns & Allen in particular, George would go upstairs to watch TV to see what Gracie was up to in the show itself. [Tags: tv cat_and_girl comics ] Posted
by D. Weinberger at July 12, 2007 08:22 AM
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Similarly, Rob and Laura Petrie used to watch Alan Brady from time to time. I also have this oh-so-vague recollection that the Flintstones had a TV, but maybe it was only a radio? Finally, while "The Simpsons" was clearly a pioneer in this area, I much more strongly associate TV watching with "Married... With Children" than with "Roseanne," but I never watched either show more than once or twice.
Posted by: Dennis Doughty | July 13, 2007 03:14 PM
The drunk librarian in the second comic has me laughing out loud.
Groening picked on television a lot in the 80's in Life is Hell. It was a natural that he'd have at it in the Simpsons.
I recall a Road Runner cartoon where two children were staring at the TV discussion Road Runner cartoons with the same entranced you'd later see on Bart and Lisa. I spend the last who knows how long trying to find the title of the cartoon.
Posted by: Alan Gutierrez | July 17, 2007 03:07 PM