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30 Days of TV -- Day 18

Jul 30, 2010 23:06

Day 18 -- Favorite title sequence

THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW

Who Can Turn The World On With Her Smile?

They don't call them "meme" for nothing, because it's all about me-me (I know that's not how it's really pronounced, but it's just too perfect!) Watching the intro to The Mary Tyler Moore Show - sorry for the subpar quality, btw, it was the ( Read more... )

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rosie_spleen July 31 2010, 04:14:13 UTC

Oh!

well it's YOU girl and you should know it...

Love this muchly, thanks Viva. Adored teh_MaryTM show, the hat throwing at the end of the sequence and the supporting cast. Ed Asner, FTW.

Thanks for the cheery memories on a coolish Saturday afternoon, ma'am.

chapter_stork July 31 2010, 04:35:55 UTC

When you come and visit me in Mpls I'll take you to the MTM house. On the show it is supposed to be a boarding house full of colorful characters, but in reality it's a $2 million mansion in the fanciest part of town, LOL. Then we can go to the Nicollet Mall and throw our hats, and sing the song of course.

*huggles*

rosie_spleen August 1 2010, 02:37:23 UTC

Could we wear the checkered pant suit? LOL

I'm all for the singing and smiling, MTM style

sticks_for_legs July 31 2010, 04:27:23 UTC

I like this pick! It makes me nostalgic for my childhood too, only I was watching in re-run of course, but still, nostalgia is nostalgia, I feel the same way about Fraggle Rock, which by the way totally beats MTM. Why, because only THAT show could get me to run upstairs, get into my purple leotard, run back downstairs, dance around the family room, and sing all the words.

I want MTM's hair.

chapter_stork July 31 2010, 04:37:26 UTC

The Fraggle Rock theme is awesome, I'll give you that. Dance your cares away, *clap clap* worries for anther day...

Purple leotard, you say? Pics, please.

sticks_for_legs July 31 2010, 07:13:28 UTC

Sadly(as evidenced by Ten crying), there are no pictures of baby me in a purple leotard dancing around to Fraggle Rock, come to think of it, it wasn't even purple, it was lavender. Booo, I know, total booooo.

*wipes tears off Tens face gently*

chapter_stork July 31 2010, 23:21:36 UTC

Ten is too pretty to be sad ;(

It was a Barney the dinosaur leotard, wasn't it. I knew you were hiding something. Lavender, indeed. *scoffs*

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msgenevieve July 31 2010, 05:02:07 UTC

Oh God, yes. I haven't seen this in years, and yet the first few bars of that theme song instantly catapaulted me back in time. She really was awesome, wasn't she? *loves*

chapter_stork July 31 2010, 23:35:59 UTC

She is awesome! The humor on that show is timeless.

msgenevieve August 1 2010, 10:12:30 UTC

To this day, I can't attend a funeral without thinking of that episode where - was it a famous clown who died? - everyone was making wisecracks leading up to the funeral and she was cross with all of them, but then at the actual funeral, they were all very serious and she was the one who kept bursting into laughter.

rosie_spleen August 1 2010, 02:36:31 UTC

Did you watch it some nights? I think it might have been on around 7pm?

We didn't watch it religiously, but MTM was always something the family could watch and sigh to.

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bnleah July 31 2010, 05:12:29 UTC

because it's all about me-me (I know that's not how it's really pronounced, but it's just too perfect!)

I pronounce it me-me! I guess others pronounce is 'mem' or 'meem' right? It looks like me-me to me and that's how I say it! ;)

chapter_stork July 31 2010, 23:40:53 UTC

Here's the way I understand it...it's pronounced "meem". Really, though, the way people tend to use it on LJ is to describe a quiz or questionaire, and that's technically what a "meme" is. A true "meme" is something is a phenomena that goes "viral", like a saying that everyone picks up. So, I think we can safely call these me-me's. That's probably more than you wanted to know ;)