# It's About Time - or - I have wasted my brain **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521 "2019-12-07T17:52:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/61 "2019-12-08T23:27:54Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > You mean it doesn’t belong to Edward? Apparently not. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/62 "2019-12-08T23:30:38Z")
I’ve heard that the LiS cast practically rebelled when they were told they had to dress as vegetables. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/63 "2019-12-09T00:00:59Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **SGT MORGAN O’ROURKE:** (_On numerous occasions_) Agarn, I don’t know why everybody says you’re so dumb! 😉 > > **CPL RANDOLPH AGARN:** (_Hours later, each time_) Who says I’m dumb?!? :dubious: :mad: IT IS BALLOON! Chief Wild Eagle: (on how the Hekawi tribe got their name) “Many moons ago tribe move west because Pilgrims ruin neighborhood. Tribe travel west, over country and mountains and wild streams, then come big day… tribe fall over cliff, that when Hekawi get name. Medicine man say to my ancestor, ‘I think we lost. Where the heck are we?” (The original joke was about a tribe of Indians called the Fukawi, but of course they couldn’t say, “Where the fuck are we?” on TV.) How do you get to the Hekawi camp? Make right turn at big rock that look like bear, then make left turn at big bear that look like rock. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/64 "2019-12-09T00:40:09Z")
And of course they used terrible native American stereotypes. 60s TV used a lot of bad ethnic stereotypes. Not that that doesn’t still happen. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/65 "2019-12-09T01:15:58Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > And of course they used terrible native American stereotypes. 60s TV used a lot of bad ethnic stereotypes. > > Not that that doesn’t still happen. Going only on my recollection, ISTM that F Troop’s Hakawis tended to be smarter than the white folks, as a whole. But otherwise you’re right; it was an era of widespread stereotypes for all ethnic groups. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/66 "2019-12-09T01:36:55Z")
The fun thing is that the natives were all Jewish. So Mel Brooks’ Indian Chief in _Blazing Saddles_ wasn’t so off after all. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/67 "2019-12-09T01:44:08Z")
I was born in 1961, so I was 7 or 8 when most of these shows were at peak popularity and I watched and enjoyed them uncritically. (I didn’t care for _Star Trek_ in its first run; it was too cerebral. Plus, I was a _Lost in Space_ loyalist.) I quite enjoyed _The Beverly Hillbillies_ as a young child. It went off the air soon enough and I never gave it another thought. A decade later, in college, I was doing laundry at the local laundromat and the TV mounted to the wall was playing a _Beverly Hillbillies_ rerun–I think it was the one where Mr. Drysdale orders his steno pool to participate in a “Roman orgy”–and it occurred to me for the first time ever that maybe all 60s television was this bad and I just wasn’t conscious of it. If you’re really into 60s kitsch and are honest with yourself, you have to admit that you like crap. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/68 "2019-12-09T04:17:50Z")
Mr Ed was a show about a guy having an affair with his horse and trying to keep it secret from his wife, right? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/69 "2019-12-09T07:10:50Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > I was born in 1961, so I was 7 or 8 when most of these shows were at peak popularity and I watched and enjoyed them uncritically. (I didn’t care for _Star Trek_ in its first run; it was too cerebral. Plus, I was a _Lost in Space_ loyalist.) > > I quite enjoyed _The Beverly Hillbillies_ as a young child. It went off the air soon enough and I never gave it another thought. A decade later, in college, I was doing laundry at the local laundromat and the TV mounted to the wall was playing a _Beverly Hillbillies_ rerun–I think it was the one where Mr. Drysdale orders his steno pool to participate in a “Roman orgy”–and it occurred to me for the first time ever that maybe all 60s television was this bad and I just wasn’t conscious of it. > > If you’re really into 60s kitsch and are honest with yourself, you have to admit that you like crap. I love the original premise of the series and the early episodes, but after nine years it all wore pretty thin. The Clampetts were just as clueless in the final episode as they were in the first. They were so freakin’ out of it, I find the series painful to watch nowadays. I’m willing to bet one of the secretaries from the steno pool was none other than Sharon Tate, who had a recurring role as a bank employee in the series. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/70 "2019-12-09T07:12:35Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Mr Ed was a show about a guy having an affair with his horse and trying to keep it secret from his wife, right? _ **Willlllll-bur?** _ :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/71 "2019-12-09T07:17:45Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The fun thing is that the natives were all Jewish. So Mel Brooks’ Indian Chief in _Blazing Saddles_ wasn’t so off after all. Yes, and the humor was strictly Borscht Belt. 🆒 They were actually satirizing Indians as they were traditionally portrayed in Hollywood Westerns, rather than the Native Americans themselves. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/72 "2019-12-09T07:36:10Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I’ve heard that the LiS cast practically rebelled when they were told they had to dress as vegetables. Yes, but Stanley “Cyrano Jones” Adams gave a memorable performance as “The Talking Carrot.” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/73 "2019-12-09T14:41:16Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Mr Ed was a show about a guy having an affair with his horse and trying to keep it secret from his wife, right? It’s actually a very depressing show about a guy with undiagnosed mental illness. The horse (of course!) doesn’t talk. Everything is in his Wilbur’s head. The show ended before Wilbur fully cracked and went on a shooting spree, killing everyone that doesn’t hear Ed talk. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/74 "2019-12-09T17:17:34Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It’s actually a very depressing show about a guy with undiagnosed mental illness. The horse (of course!) doesn’t talk. Everything is in his Wilbur’s head. > > The show ended before Wilbur fully cracked and went on a shooting spree, killing everyone that doesn’t hear Ed talk. So was Jerry Van Dyke hearing voices due to undiagnosed mental illness too, in “My Mother the Car”? Or was someone trying to drive him insane by broadcasting the voice of someone pretending to be his mom? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/75 "2019-12-09T17:20:52Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > So was Jerry Van Dyke hearing voices due to undiagnosed mental illness too, in “My Mother the Car”? Or was someone trying to drive him insane by broadcasting the voice of someone pretending to be his mom? > > 😕 It could be both. In one episode he confessed to his wife that the car contained his dead mother’s spirit and she treated him as if he was possessed. He had to pretend he was joking all along before she had him committed. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/76 "2019-12-10T19:06:46Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > . . .Which episodes the shots in the original Hawaii 5-0 credits come from, and what season they were added. . . . Well, in the [pilot episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLgZpIXFWKE), the only scenes that appear in the pilot are the hula dancer and Kono. In [Season 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w), I forget which ep Danno is seen running, and notice we no longer see the hula dancer’s face, only her swiveling hips. But we still see the same scene with Kono. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/77 "2019-12-10T19:18:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Metal Men! What a great nerdy science comic! Learn the properties of the elements as our heroes combat the forces of evil! Noble Gold! Mighty Iron! Steady Lead! Wimpy Tin! Volatile Mercury (inaccurately colored red like an alcohol thermometer)!\*\* And lovely Platinum, the only female metal man!\*\* (Bolding mine) Excuse me? What about Tin’s girlfriend Nameless? ---
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/78 "2019-12-10T19:45:03Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > … What crap is clogging your brain? Which is the only episode of _Gilligan’ Island_ in which you can see Mary Ann’s panties? Season 3, Episode 1, _Up at Bat_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/79 "2019-12-10T19:56:15Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > Which is the only episode of _Gilligan’ Island_ in which you can see Mary Ann’s panties? Season 3, Episode 1, _Up at Bat_. If I’m not mistaken, you can also see them in S2E30 “Vitamins,” where she’s dressed in the French maid’s outfit. :o ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/80 "2019-12-10T20:14:09Z")
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