The Middlebrow Daily Taxonomy
Lowbrow = Pabst Blue Ribbon
Highbrow = Chimay Ale
Middlebrow = St. Provo Girl Pilsner
Dr. Write and Middlebrow just got back from a party. A real party! With adults and seemingly adult chit chat. We drank beer and ate sausage and Son played in the back yard with other kids. Yes, it was one of those rarities: a kid-friendly party. What is especially nice about the kid-friendly party (kfp) is that other adults entertain your kid while you talk. This was a kfp for three reasons: 1) There were other adults there with kids. 2) It was a barbecue with a big back yard for the kids to play. 3) It started at five, which means that we could go and still get Son in bed at a reasonable hour.
I never remember what I say at parties but I do recall having a conversation about WKRP in Cincinnati, a sitcom I used to watch as a kid. For some reason I thought Fred Willard was in it, but it turns out I'm wrong. A Fred Willardesque actor is in it. I commented that you don't really see the show on the reruns. Probably for the best. It's probably one of those shows that was good at the time but now (like Threes Company) is terrible. My grandfather became addicted to Threes Company toward the end of his life. He would tape them and watch them over and over again. Odd that I would remember that.
Anyway, the kfp was fun. Thank you Strange Polkas and MD. Thank you blue sky and mountains. Thank you sausage. Thank you Beck's Light (a high-middlebrow concoction). Thank you bad late seventies early eighties sitcoms.
Saturday, June 18, 2005
The Kid-Friendly Party
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I object to lumping WKRP in with Three's Company, which was trash back then and remains trash today, despite kitsch-loving Nick or wherever it currently appears. WKRP, on the other hand, featured the brilliant Howard Hesse, always hilarious, and also Loni Anderson. Some of that show was sublime comedy. It may have dated, but that don't make it bad, middlebrow.
Correction: Howard Hesseman. (Or at least that's closer.)
I do agree with Lisa, though. WKRP is much better than Three's Company. But neither really hold a candle to Barney Miller, which may have been one of the best sit-coms ever.
Welcome Back, Kotter, on the other hand. That was mostly painful. Except for Travolta, who did his best work in that series.
Glad you had a great time on Saturday. We'll have to do it again.
Correction: Howard Hesseman. (Or at least that's closer.)
I do agree with Lisa, though. WKRP is much better than Three's Company. But neither really hold a candle to Barney Miller, which may have been one of the best sit-coms ever.
Welcome Back, Kotter, on the other hand. That was mostly painful. Except for Travolta, who did his best work in that series.
Glad you had a great time on Saturday. We'll have to do it again.
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