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Can the adults please smoke?
re: can the adults please smoke?#2100
Posted: 8/4/04 at 3:53pmHow about when John Jrs' plane was lost? Yet another tragic end to someone so young, and the Bissetts' lost both of their daughters.
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2101
Posted: 8/4/04 at 3:54pm
DG - the emotion was overwhelming.
And, even though I wasn't watching it 'live' - I SOBBED during the funeral. How could you not?!
(and ran out to buy the Good-bye England's Rose single the MINUTE it was available!)
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2102
Posted: 8/4/04 at 3:56pmI know this isn't the same type of thing, but we all react differently to different things - I was almost knocked to the ground when John Denver crashed. His music gave me hope of brighter days when I didn't know they existed.
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2103
Posted: 8/4/04 at 3:57pm
Mom - that was beyond sad. Such an unnecessary loss.
Remember when the Challenger blew up? The faces of the families who had gathered to watch - go from thrill to confusion to disbelief to horror?! I LOVED Reagan's speech following the tragedy.
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2104
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:00pm
Oh, the John Denver loss was devastating!
His songs were poetry - and provided the songtrack to a large part of my life!
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2105
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:00pmBack to TV - was anyone watching when David Dukes played the rapist on ALL IN THE FAMILY, and Edith got away by throwing the hot cake in his face? It's the only time in sitcom history that they turned the cameras around and showed the audience reaction in the studio. We were SCREAMING at our house.
re: can the adults please smoke?#2106
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:03pm
I was watching it on CNN. You see Christa McAuliffe went to the same college as I did (she went several years before I did )
But when they opened the Challenger Center at the school. They put it right where my dorm room was! (How cool was that) My oldest daughter got to visit it and I was a chaperone. One of the tour guides was a prof.that I had had as an undergrad!
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2107
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:05pm
I remember that (All in the Family)! Edith was one of my all-time favorite characters!
I'm sure this has already been brought up 100 times - but M*A*S*H was one of the best shows ever. In my opinion.
re: can the adults please smoke?#2108
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:07pm
Also along the lines of space, How about when Apollo 13 rELLY happened!
Man the movie did a great job brining home just how gut renchingly close we were to losing people in space. My kids asked ifthe "blackout" time really felt that long. David ( my husband) just said "longer"
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2109
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:08pmmom - that's an interesting connection to history for you and your daughter.
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2110
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:09pm
mom - that was the perfect answer.
I remember that - we were in school, and they had a TV on in the cafeteria for us to watch.
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2111
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:09pmWe did the play of MASH when I was a senior in high school - and I sent the script to a playwright friend of mine and had him insert the Charles character so I could play him. I LOVED the characters in the final permanent cast. I liked Charles better than Frank, and Potter better than Henry. A magical, magical ensemble. And Alan's coming back to Broadway next year!
re: can the adults please smoke?#2112
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:15pmI don't remember the camera's being turned topward the audience during that episode. I do remember the controversy around it. It was the first time a sitcom dealt with the issue of rape of older women. There was the episode earlier with the attempted rape of Gloria.
re: can the adults please smoke?#2113
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:46pm
"All In The Family" was one the early ground breaking TV shows.
While the dramatic ones were outstanding, I have to say my two
favorite ones were,
1, When Sammy Davis Jr. gave Archie a great big old kiss on
his cheek
2, Archie and Edith celebrating their 25 wedding
anniversary. Edith leans out the window and yells "It's
still there!"
Archie: "What's still there?"
Edith: "The Atlantic Ocean!"
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2114
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:51pm
I don't know if I could pick my favorite FAMILY scenes. It's a toss-up for me between that and MASH for best show ever. They both had perfect casts, impeccable writing, and dealt with everything from laugh-out-loud comedy to pathos - while at the same time confronting most of the major issues of the day.
Favorite MASH episode - when Charles had to decide whether to save a man's hand or leg - chooses the leg so he could walk, and then finds out the kid was a concert pianist. I told you, us piano players stick together 
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2115
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:52pm
The episode when Edith tries to hide the fact that she may have Breast Cancer.
Heartwrenching.
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2116
Posted: 8/4/04 at 4:58pmNYadgal - didn't Betty Garrett appear in that story arc as a friend who had had cancer? ANYTHING to do with Edith in pain wracked me up!
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2117
Posted: 8/4/04 at 5:05pm
Yes - she played her friend Irene.
The infrequent moments of tenderness between Edith and Archie were gems.
re: can the adults please smoke?#2118
Posted: 8/4/04 at 5:07pmI fogot about FAMILY -- I think the best episode was when Buddy became a woman!
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2119
Posted: 8/4/04 at 5:08pm
DGrant - the final episode of MASH: "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"
I don't think I moved for 20 minutes after it was over.
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2120
Posted: 8/4/04 at 5:08pmCarrol O'Conner was brilliant (of course, so was Jean) - I remember the scene when Gloria had had a miscarriage, and Archie came in to comfort her. Almost no words were spoken - and he tore me to shreds. On the flip side, there was Edith trying to give Gloria the 'wedding night' speech - I almost wet my pants I was laughing so hard!
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2121
Posted: 8/4/04 at 5:10pm
That wedding night speech was one of the funniest scenes in TV. Ever.
I wonder how many shows over the years have had a scene having to do with "that speech"...??
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2122
Posted: 8/4/04 at 5:13pm
NYadgal - probably any of them that had a mother whose daughter was getting married
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen - my answer to people who say that TV is incapable of art. I was always in love with Alan anyway, but that performance almost killed me. And I probably don't have to explain what my reaction to Charles' "music will always be a reminder" speech was.
re: can the adults please smoke?#2123
Posted: 8/4/04 at 5:30pmDG I also loved that episode of M*A*S*H. Remember Charles found some piano piecies for the left hand, man I sobbed!
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re: can the adults please smoke?#2124
Posted: 8/4/04 at 5:33pmMASH - the series was remarkable. And, I loved how it experimented in its storytelling. One episode was presented as a black-and-white war documentary. Another was told in real time - with a clock ticking in the corner of the screen as the doctors performed an operation. The 4077th deserves its place in TV history!
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