Growing up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched- Page 2

[AnthVoice2010]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:46am

I DETESTED This show....

"The Mothers in Law" re-runs...THOSE were great!

The most under-rated sitcom of the 1960's.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:49am

Who didnt want to be able to wiggle their nose and beome invisible, especially a gay kid in those days!

Funny, I HATED it's sitcom counterpart I Dream of Jeannie. Somehow the plot's seemed so much more idiotic and Larry Hagman was so mean to Barbara Eden!

I also had a crush on Dick York too...and adored Endora! Marion Lorne was my favorite, of course.

I also loved that Samantha loved her gay uncle.

Of course, as a teenager my fantasies turned to Carrie White, because I was all about revenge after a few years of bullying. I fantasized about flipping cars into flaming wrecks.

TMI?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:59am

Larry Hagman was so mean to Barbara Eden!

At least HE didn't try to keep her from using her powers!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 11:04am

He yelled at her and sent her to her bottle when she was just trying to please her master!

Cmon!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 11:52am

When I'm very hungry, I still say I have "voracious ravenesitis".

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 11:48pm

That was a funny one, doodle. I do think Major Nelson was meaner to Jeannie than Darren was to Sam. Especially second Darren, who brought out a softer side of the character. As a kid I preferred second Darren, I preferred the new nighttime episodes to the afternoon repeats from a couple of seasons before. It's the pop influence on my childhood tastes, I guess. I liked the latest, and it seemed "better" than what came before. Then when Dick Sargeant came out, I realized it might have been my pre-teen gaydar.

And, yeah, JRB, that was the book he was ostensibly talking about. Robin Young didn't do the best job incorporating Bewitched into the discussion of growing up gay and isolated. When I was a guest on her show about 10 years ago, she asked me all the right questions. She was surprised that I knew John Savage was her brother and after that we were, like, besties for my segment.

Updated On: 6/9/11 at 11:48 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 9:57am

It always seemed to me that Maj. Nelson didn't really want Jeannie around, at least not at first. She was just a source of embarrassment.

Whereas Darrin and Samamtha chose each other.

[AnthVoice2010]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 10:20am

I think we all forget that High School was a disaster for almost everyone. The boy with pimples. The fat girl. The poor boy. The girl who was too tall. The one with a lump of fat on his neck.

Did gay youth get it worse than others? Probably.

What I am amazed at is how most of the people I went to school with have grown up and grown into being smart, together and unbiased people.

The ones who have children are raising these kids to be just as tolerant and loving as they are now. That's half the battle guys.

The ones who were bullies are horrified at what they did. One man contacted me who was a terror in High School. He has an autistic son and children will always be children, meaning, things are sometimes difficult for his son. He literally apologized for being mean to me in 8th grade (Honestly, I don't remember).

The world is changing...let's focus on that change..

Updated On: 6/9/11 at 10:20 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:05am

Without Darren or Major Nelson trying to stop the characters from using their full powers, there wouldn't be much of a show. I think they both did episodes where the men had unbridled access to the magic and they revealed themselves to be completely entitled butt holes with absolutely no concern for how their behaviors effected others around them. They were just gleeful at their abilities to steamroll through situations and to do what they wanted, damn the feelings or sensibilities of those around them.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 2:57pm

you know what this thread needs?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 3:16pm

Really! Is there anything better than the unbridled joy unleashed whenever Serena was onscreen delivering the potent message to little gay boys everywhere (and their allies!) of the joys of being just a little bit naughty?

Posted: 6/10/11 at 5:23pm

I always feel like there is a joke in that song that I am just not getting.