So Ironic
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Nanny and the Professor
ragingbull1965 — 17 years ago(January 20, 2009 04:34 AM)
Like so many other people who grew up in the 70's, I also love those old TV shows like Nanny and the Professor. Even today with such shows as Friends, Cheers, Family Ties, Fraser - to name but a few - I still prefer the old classics and I am very sorry that, with the exception of TV Land, they are almost never shown any more. And reading some of the comments in this forum, it seems like many of my fellow viewers feel the same way. But why, then, do reunion shows like The All New Leave it to Beaver never get high ratings? One would think that all those nostalgic baby boomers would love those kinds of shows but, as far as I know, everytime such a thing has been tried, it has flopped. It seems like we do not like to think that the stars we grew up and identified with have also grown older. That would kill the nostalgia.
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racroen — 17 years ago(February 02, 2009 01:01 AM)
ragingbull1965:
"why, then, do reunion shows like The All New Leave it to Beaver never get high ratings? It seems like we do not like to think that the stars we grew up and identified with have also grown older."
I think you answered your own question.
Not only do we not like seeing them grown older, we like seeing them grown
different
even less. For instance, did you really want to see Andy Griffith leering and gyrating and hitting on a young hippy chick in
Pray for the Wildcats
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Of course not, nobody did. In a gentler universe, benign deities would dispatch ravens to pluck out one's eyes so such sights could be avoided. -
Jpebony123 — 15 years ago(August 17, 2010 11:31 PM)
Racroen, I agree. I was taken aback by seeing Robert Reed as the nasty boss in "Nurse" and as an obscene phone caller in an earlier movie. However, as I got older, I got over it and I admired Robert Reed's versitility.
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misscsquared — 15 years ago(October 14, 2010 09:20 PM)
Well, if you want to see Kim aka "Prudence" as she is now, just tune in to The Real Housewives ofBeverly Hills on Bravofirst show aired tonightalso her younger sis Kyle who was on "Little House on the Prairie"