Pine Cone Grenade Ingenuity
Tonight, MacGuyver made his first ever appearance on my television. All those years ago, I never thought I'd see that man on a 48" television, but there he was. I was getting ready to watch a dvd, The Weather Man, forwarding through previews, and thinking about the fact that I had to watch not only standard previews, but also those advertising syndicated television shows being released on DVD. "What does that say about the quality of the film I'm about to watch," I thought? Coud it mean that this movie was thought well of, and its advertising time was in high demand? Or, more likely, were the distributors of the film unable to sell all of their advertising slots in a traditional fashion?
Then it hit me like a sledgehammer, the Mac appeared with all of his mullet magnificence. Where have you been all these years? Isn't it obvious that your skills are desperately needed during this time of uncertainty and war? Let's be honest, George Bush could use a man with his brand of minnesota diplomacy and pine-cone-grenade-ingenuity. Truth be told, he could use a thousand.
Ah, just thinking of that show reminds me of the wonderfully cheesy innocence of the 80's, that same feeling that allowed us to revel in parachute pant hysteria. It was okay to like cheesy things back then, or cheer for patrick swayze and the boys in Red Dawn. The Cosby Show wasn't really that good, but it was an example of an obvious and readily available artifact of popular culture that we could all rally around without fear of someone impeaching its goodness. In the culture of the 80's, The Cosby Show's goodness was unquestioned, and its content made for great bus stop or water cooler fodder, depending on your stage in life. In a similar way, The 'A' Team, and yes, MacGuyver, as cheesy as they were, could be appreciated. So the question I posed to myself while images of Richard Dean Anderson flashed across my television was this. Does this observation represent a divide in the cultures of my youth and my adulthood, or have I simply changed?
Then it hit me like a sledgehammer, the Mac appeared with all of his mullet magnificence. Where have you been all these years? Isn't it obvious that your skills are desperately needed during this time of uncertainty and war? Let's be honest, George Bush could use a man with his brand of minnesota diplomacy and pine-cone-grenade-ingenuity. Truth be told, he could use a thousand.
Ah, just thinking of that show reminds me of the wonderfully cheesy innocence of the 80's, that same feeling that allowed us to revel in parachute pant hysteria. It was okay to like cheesy things back then, or cheer for patrick swayze and the boys in Red Dawn. The Cosby Show wasn't really that good, but it was an example of an obvious and readily available artifact of popular culture that we could all rally around without fear of someone impeaching its goodness. In the culture of the 80's, The Cosby Show's goodness was unquestioned, and its content made for great bus stop or water cooler fodder, depending on your stage in life. In a similar way, The 'A' Team, and yes, MacGuyver, as cheesy as they were, could be appreciated. So the question I posed to myself while images of Richard Dean Anderson flashed across my television was this. Does this observation represent a divide in the cultures of my youth and my adulthood, or have I simply changed?
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