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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: daveB from Oakland on October 19, 2008, 05:56:04 PM
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So I was flipping through a Mad Magazine anthology that I failed to sell at a yardsale. It's called "Mad About the Sixties". My eye fell upon this picture, from a 1961 piece called "Tomorrow's Parents":
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/davebucket68/GorchmarriedSarah-1.jpg)
Uncanny, right? Mad Magazine claims these characters are named "Fred and Ginger", but clearly this is the Gorch and Sarah Palin.
A quote from the article to give you an idea of MAD's schtick: "... frightening as it may seem , the rebellious adolescents of the present will become the mothers and fathers of the future".
... and then MAD magazine makes this bold prediction: "The most popular names for boys in 1970 will be Fabian, Frankie, Frankenstein, Bobby, Darin, and Elvis. The most popular names for girls will be Sandra, Tuesday, Wednesday, Annette, Funicello, and Elvis".
Obviously, all these 1961 hip references were about to go very stale. I can see why the Gorch is such an angry guy ... this is the future he was denied.
A few other thoughts: The idea of the Gorch as "first dude" doesn't seem all that absurd to me. Also, I smiled when I saw that they named their son "Kingston Trio", because it reminded me of Bob naming his dog "Rollins Band", and Bryce naming his kid "The Phil Zone Larson-Prefontaine".
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Wallace Wood can predict the future!!!!!!!
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Those damn hippies came along and wrecked everything.
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Wallace Wood can predict the future!!!!!!!
Good eye, Satchmo Mask! The artist was, indeed, Wallace Wood. And he weren't no Nostradummy!
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/davebucket68/GingerPalin.jpg) (http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/davebucket68/0_61_palin_sarah.jpg)
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/davebucket68/FredGorch2.jpg) (http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/davebucket68/gorchtee.jpg)
Come to think of it, this "Fred" character from Mad Magazine also looks a bit like Ronald Reagan. And let's consider the symbolic undercurrents of Sarah Palin's piled-up, nouveau-bouffant hairdo. Her hairdo hearkens back to a "simpler" (as in "more blatantly racist") past.
Yes. This is all making more and more sense.
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Apparently they are brother and sister. There's no way that someone named after Fred Astaire would marry someone named after Ginger Rogers just by coincidence. "Their parents" is ambiguous but I can see what's going on.
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hearkens back to a "simpler" (as in "more blatantly racist") past.
You're waaaaay too CORRECT about that. I'm constantly hearing friends of mine saying "Why can't things be like they were back in the 50's and early 60's when things were so simple?"
I have to remind them that things were really only "simple" for our white parents and grandparents, because everyone else was being oppressed.
Let's move forward!
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I'm not trying to deny that your friends are racist, Steve, but things were also simpler then because there were only at most thirteen channels on television, there was no Internet--hell, there were no personal computers--malls hardly existed, grocery store selections were limited, and so on. It did make for a less cluttered life.
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Sarah Palin & the Almighty Deacons?
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qwNGaeCRkvY/SLhhDBH547I/AAAAAAAAAns/IUiQerFVdJQ/s400/palinbikers.jpg)
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Sarah Palin & the Almighty Deacons?
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qwNGaeCRkvY/SLhhDBH547I/AAAAAAAAAns/IUiQerFVdJQ/s400/palinbikers.jpg)
That looks like Dutch in the back right corner.
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Could a cameo on Sons of Anarchy be next?
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I'm not trying to deny that your friends are racist ...
Wait, whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?