tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post5935327839241947421..comments2024-03-17T07:25:56.478-04:00Comments on Thrilling Days of Yesteryear: Mayberry Mondays #67: “Howard, the Dream Spinner” (12/28/70, prod. no. 0320)Ivan G Shreve Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-62810024678190446502012-12-10T23:30:53.217-05:002012-12-10T23:30:53.217-05:00Just commenting to get comment notifications. Than...Just commenting to get comment notifications. Thanks, Blogger! (Dinks...)Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05250238254417726987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-59587665905280878522012-12-10T23:30:27.086-05:002012-12-10T23:30:27.086-05:00Aaaaagh I'm a week behind and missed a Howard ...Aaaaagh I'm a week behind and missed a Howard episode! Noooooouuuuuuu...<br /><br />By the way, DYING at those screencaps of Howard you got from the previous episodes. Oh, Howard.<br /><br />Ken Berry's face, especially during the BOIINNGG moment? Absolutely priceless. I woke up cats laughing at your joke about the wedding and the antifreeze.<br /><br />I like Arlene's hair better in this episode than usual, I think because it doesn't look like a wig. Oh, I know that helmet hair often looked like a wig when it wasn't (thank you, Aquanet), but the more natural look suits her. <br /><br />Gotta agree with Chris, this was the best write-up yet, out of a whole bunch of excellent ones. Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05250238254417726987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-31016332985334676092012-12-04T18:04:56.217-05:002012-12-04T18:04:56.217-05:00In re Millie's hair:
I'm wondering if any...In re Millie's hair:<br /><br />I'm wondering if anybody besides me noticed that Maggie Peterson and Arlene Golonka looked enough alike to be plausibly cast as sisters?<br /><br />And, given Maggie's pre-existing relationship with the Mayberry-Griffith-Linke complex, could this be why Arlene was the one who had to change her hair for this occasion?<br /><br /><i>Coincidence?</i><br /><br />You decide ...Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-81370137952395722352012-12-04T13:40:13.457-05:002012-12-04T13:40:13.457-05:00And Millie with her hair up was cute, but Millie w...And Millie with her hair up was cute, but Millie with her hair down must have made Standards and Practices squirm in their seats a bit.<br /><br />Rowrrr.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-56283672219226637862012-12-04T13:28:41.560-05:002012-12-04T13:28:41.560-05:00Also, for those who wondered what an "ascot&q...Also, for those who wondered what an "ascot" was when I mentioned Thurl Ravenscroft wearing one in comment a while back, Howard splendidly dishes out this form of neckwear in several of the captured stills. <br /><br />Also, cringed to see the badge of bad sixties fashion, enormous collar lapels worn outside the jacket. I don't think I ever succumbed to this, but can't guarantee that. I thankfully recall there are no photographs of myself in that era.<br /><br />Howard Sprague: Hollywood.<br />Hollywood: Howard Sprague.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-55866689086704115892012-12-04T10:31:14.566-05:002012-12-04T10:31:14.566-05:00I was rolling on the floor long before "Chris...I was rolling on the floor long before "Chris Vosburg laughter in five..four"<br /><br />Ivan, I say this often, and I'll say it again, as long as you keep doing it: your best and funniest post ever, from cartoon moose to antifreeze in the tractor and everything beyond, this had me in stitches.<br /><br />And oddly, so did the ep itself. It's actually very funny [shaking head in disbelief], and it's like MRFD found it's stride, sort of. Long may it run!<br /><br />And lastly (yeah that'll be the day), the shot of Howard in the Comfy Chair reminded me of the local PBS channel's clumsy attempt to rerun a classic sixties TV series with a presenter to Explain It All For You.<br /><br />A bona fide psychologist, in a winged armchair, with pipe in mouth, and bookcases in background and dog at his feet, explaining the psychological ramifications of what was up with Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner".<br /><br />Seriously, he'd smarmily lay out the plot points of each ep, patiently explaining to us poor uneducated plebes what was really going on.<br /><br />And he got most of it wrong, the dope.<br /><br />He was laughed off the air after three eps, for which I'm grateful, because I was about ready to throw a cinderblock at the TeeVee.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.com