tupperware! was on pbs last night. i can’t have been the only who saw it…
i really enjoyed the show. very interesting stuff; women, plastic, the 50’s, and good old corporate hijinks. i have lots of tupperware and never thought of how it came to be.
a tupperware party every 2.5 seconds, who knew?!? who goes?!?
No, I didn’t see it. And I’m not likely too, either. As previously stated in another thread, I have Dish Network. Shows on PBS (that I have to pay extra for, by the f@*ing way) don’t run when they should, if at all. When they do run, I tend to find out about them purely by chance 45 minutes into them. I don’t even want to discuss this further right now.
The nanosecond cable becomes available in my area, I’m shit-canning Dish Network.
www.pbs.org might be able to hold you over until then…
That sounds right up my alley! I’ll put in on the TiVo in case they run it again.
Really, as a guy who is on Cable right now and has had DirectTV (not Dish) I advise you against the cable company. (Does it really matter where you are?) As a matter of fact the sattelite copmpanies will be raising rates by 2-3 percent. Cable companies are also planning for a raise, but of 5-6%.
I don’t know. I just found Sat to be much more reliable and the quality to be much higher (as far as video quality is concerned). I do understand the frustration about schedules though. That always pissed me off. You could always consider a PVR…
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Here’s an interesting article about the documentry, if anyone is interested.
I was writing my Japanese penpal (a 44-year old woman) and mentioned Tupperware parties, fully expecting I would have to explain what I saw as an American phenomena. I was surprised to learn that she already know all about Tupperware and the parties were a common occurence in Japan. (and all the wives of lower ranking company workers hate them because they feel compelled to buy from the higher-ranking wives :))
I loved seeing how they dressed back then. Brownie’s story could make a good TV movie.
I saw this because I had Kathy Bates wishlist on my Tivo.
You know, I’d think the Dish network would be all about the tupperware. 
I was flipping channels and caught it by accident, but I saw most of it. I thought it was pretty interesting too, which says something about PBS since I doubt I would have made a note to watch a documentary about Tupperware.
I thought the effect Brownie and Tupperware parties had on women was the most interesting part - I thought Brownie was amazing! It’s too bad her story didn’t have a happier ending. She got robbed.
I was very amused by the inventions Tupper came up with before he hit it big with Tupperware.
Last night, right when I would expect to see “The News Hour” (which has mysteriously disappeared), I caught the Tupperware Lore. Pretty cool but kinda scary in an “AmwayCult” way with all the kooky sales conventions. The one big difference of course is that Tupperware actually has a decent product to sell.
I’ll bet that Brownie was guilty of some serious misappropriation of funds for her to get the uncerimonous boot n’ bury.
The wife and I both bust up laughing at Tupper’s other, less succesful inventions, like the fish-powered boat and the comb shaped like a dagger. Guy was kinda nut-job, but he got his island in the end. Way cool.
Whatami: I’ve had cable my whole life till I moved out to BFE, and would be willing to pay twice as much for it than Dish. Unfortunatly, I can’t get it where I live (yet).
tremorviolet, one of the women they interviewed li walker took tupperware to the philipines (sp?), i’m sure it was just a hop, skip, and jump to japan. ms walker did very well with tupperware.
i was just amazed by brownie wise. her ideas were fantastic. she did indeed get broadsided by tupper. i was glad to read that she did try a law suit. she did lose quite a lot when she was fired. too bad she never thought about having stock in the company. i guess she figured she couldn’t be replaced.
the jamborees they had were incredible, they reminded me of some of the lavish parties of the 500 club of new york city. i can’t imagine being a farm girl in the 50’s and going to one of those. you must have thought you were on the other side of the rainbow.
i think it would have been fun digging up a “treasure.” mabel, i swear, i was digging and i hit a box! i pulled that box out of the earth. and you won’t believe what was in there… this here mink stole!!!