Things I learned from Dollar Store DVD's...

Cafe Society
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I recently purchased a big stack of DVD’s for one dollar each at Dollar Tree. Mainly, I picked ones that were “old time TV” shows. Some things, in no particular order, I learned (or was caused to remember):

  1. The best parts of the “Buick Berle Show” were the spots for Buick automobiles done by Vinton Hayworth.
  2. The older, longer commercials were generally more interesting and less annoying than today’s efforts.
  3. The comedians like Berle, Jack Benny, Red Skelton et. al. who straddled vaudeville-radio-TV could be gut-bustingly, pants-pissingly funny.
  4. Those same comedians could be eye-avertingly, want-to-die-of-embarassment-for-them bad; especially when they were attempting a moment of pathos, or falling back on the vaudeville-era idea that foreign accents are funny in and of themselves.
  5. Dorothy Lamor, Dagmar, and Denise Darcel all fall into the category of "Why don’t women look like that anymore?
  6. The variety show format is due for a comeback.
  7. The “Jim Bowie” tv show richly deserved cancellation.
  8. Martin and Lewis, especially Lewis, were pretty annoying outside the confines of a movie script.
  9. Red Skelton seemed better at ad-libbing than many of his contemporaries.
  10. Bob Hope was a god.
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and
11. We don’t wear hats enough anymore.

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Wow! DVD’s at the dollar store? How much were they?

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  1. DVDs can cost less than a dollar to produce.
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  1. DTS is no longer the province of high end DVDs.
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Hmm, you must be going to one of them upscale dollar stores. I hain’t seen nuthin’ like that out this way.