Square Pegs (TV related)
batmon
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I didnt watch this when it was out but im peepin it. Not bad. Super 80's.
The series feels less like a precursor to the nuanced ???My So-Called Life??? and ???Freaks and Geeks??? and more like a preview of cornier, more wholesome sitcoms like ???Hannah Montana??? and ???Zoey 101.???
Jamie Gertz ftw
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But yes... Still got it.
I never saw what the Waitresses looked like until i saw the first episode where they sing at the party.
Didnt know they had a Sista bass player.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Square Pegs was my jernt, though. I remember when Bill Murray was a guest star (as a "cool" subsitutue teacher, I think? Every school had one), and there was some scene where they were all dancing somewhere, and he was clapping and egging on the cornrowed girl like, "Ugh, chocolate lady--do your stuff!" It was an early moment of racial concern for a young james. Like, "Dang, is it really okay to talk to black people that way?"
Anyway, I liked SJP, but the guidette gal was kind of a sleeper, too.
I noticed a couple of 'make fun of white folks' comments as well as "you go girl" comments too.
The Jeffersons were already doin that on CBS anyways.
The lone black character seemed like an over-the-top parody of a lone black character. She did lay on the "soul sisterisms" a little thicker than she needed to. Remember the first episode where she sang the National Anthem? She must have preceded Bleeding Gums Murphy by a decade or so. (Remember the Simpsons' episode where B.G. Murphy souled up "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a sporting event and it took him a long time to finish?)
It should be mentioned that the same people who produced Square Pegs also produced the first season of A Different World, when Lisa Bonet was still on the show. Before that show went full-on Afrocentric, several of those early scripts looked like Square Pegs leftovers. Jasmine Guy's "Whitley Gilbert" character might as well be a black version of Jami Gertz ("Muffy Tepperman").
Yeah. Cosby gave Debbie Allen the revamp job to rescue it from the Square Pegs folks.
With all due respect to Ms. Gertz, she's looking fine here. But the chick in the foreground is damn near stealing her thunder.
Never underestimate the power of a tight top...
big Gertz fan.
what is this ^^^^^ recent pic ^^^^^ from? is homegirl still on TV?
"Freedom of Choice", since it has "Whip It" will perhaps be more instantly palatable due to the familiar sound...but their genius is best summed up in the debut, "Are We Not Men.." IMO. One of their best songs "Through Being Cool" is on their 4th LP, although the entire LP isn't stellar as that track...Really any LP from the 1st 4 is a good place to start...
Rad
were they well oiled by the time whip it came out? did they get freakier as time goes or did they get less "artsy"?
were they more punk on the debut and then new wavey by whip it?
A College buddy of mine was into Devo hard. He put me on to Frank Zappa, Flotsam & Jetsam, Metallica, Skinny Puppy etc.
When i got into Eno, Kraftwerk and other seminal Electronic acts I never returned to Devo even while being well exposed.
Are they even under the PUNK umbrella in their early years, or were they alraedy kinda past it in the 70s?
That's Tracy Nelson.
Back in the 70s punk wasn't as narrowly defined as it is now.
Which may be why it was a hell of a lot more interesting back then. An attitude, not a codified commodity.
"Totally different head, totally."
But that is perhaps for another time.
major sellout. any Jewish girl gets a nosejob is banned from the seder table. just rep your shit.
A second cousin of mine (on the Jewish side) auditioned for the role and (family folklore holds) was denied the role for not looking "Jewish enough".