This has a different reason for TBHâs origin.
Whoâs your favorite character, if you have one?
The hippopotamus?
Hm, I donât remember a hippo being on any of those, but thatâs meâŚ
Iâm convinced the Clampetts are meta-humans, btw. And Grannyâs only blood to Elly Mae, her being Jedâs mother-in-law. And Pearl Bodine, Jethroâs widowed mother, is either Jedâs cousin or his sister (no jokes about Ozark folks, lol!) - but you know how TV shows can be when it comes to relatives of the main characters, especially in the first one or two seasons.
IIRC, Granny referred to it as a huge hog. Escaped from the zoo, I think.
Jeez, when I think of the time I wasted watching all these dumb shows . . . .
Dumb, maybe, but fun.
Iâm just going to through this random thought out there: Third Rock From The Sun was a sci-fi reboot of The Beverly Hillbillies.
I think they both fall under the âfishes out of waterâ TV trope.
I took the music for granted until 1999 when Pharaoh Monch sampled a piece of more dramatic incidental music with the âporkarinaâ in it. I realized I had no idea what instrument it was. my best guess has been either a hurdy gurdy or a harmonica in the lowest key ever made. but probably wrong.
learned about this guy on a podcast
Fire 'em all.
âŚout of a cannon.
I found this because I was looking at a funny editorial cartoon that depicted Bigfoot, and to me he bore more than a passing resemblance to Gerald Ford. THEN, I remembered Iâd read an article some time ago on Ford being okay with gay folk, so I did a search for âGerald Ford and Gay Republicansâ - and this came up:
and hereâs the cartoon that started it all, lol:
wow, pretty far out. as the WaPo reporters said, lots of smoke, no fire. the interesting thing was how little these republican (!) politicians cared about their colleaguesâ alleged queerness personally. the fear was if these politicians got security clearance and they really were queer, the KGB could find out and blackmail them; which the article says happened to a cryptographer and I forget the second oneâs job, but point being it had happened at least twice prior to this alleged conspiracy.
Interesting how much confusion and inefficiency was when the 9/11 attacks occurred.
Something I found surprising - they mostly didnât know where the hijacked planes were and couldnât readily track them. They turned off their transponders and more or less blended in with all the other commercial air traffic. And most of our radar was looking out for inbound aircraft, what radar they had watching the flights inside the borders wasnât really very good.
I would not have thought civilian jet airliners could basically fly stealth missions through our cities. Just assumed they wouldâve known exactly where they were, but didnât know what they were doing. But no, apparently for a lot of the time, they didnât even know where they were.
There was also a lot of confusion about who was in charge of response, and after the first plane was hijacked, then when people started trying to mention others, there was some pushback like âyeah, weâre already dealing with the hijackingâ and âcanât put your call through, theyâre in an emergency meeting about a hijacking, no interruptions!â so it took even longer for them to get info about the later ones.