If so, did you enjoy the show?
I LOVED it.
Missed quite a few episodes due to attending KH meetings, but I'm making up for that.
The show reminds me so of growing up in a large family, having to share everything, and looking out for each other.
Did You Watch The Waltons?
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BizzyBee
Goodnight John-Boy!
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JWdaughter
I loved it-sap and all! And yes, the meetings totally messed with Happy Days, Lavern and Shirley and the Waltons! Screw that! I am just lucky that my mom didn't like the second meeting so much (it used to go pretty late and she had 3 little kids). We lived close to the book study on Thurs, so we got home pretty quick(my mom wasn't a big socializer)
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snowbird
Sappy can be good - at times.
Another thing, it seemed that all of Billy Graham's Crusades were on meeting nights.
I used to break all traffic rules trying to get home to watch and hear his closing signature hymn - Just As I Am.
Love that song!
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talesin
I liked it, too. The kids were encouraged to think about consequences, rather than living in fear of their parents. Everyone pulled together during those hard times. I also loved the two old sisters and 'the recipe'. ahahahaha!!!
It reminded me of the folks 'down home', where I escaped to live with my grandparents every summer, Xmas and Easter vacation.
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snowbird
Ah, yes. The Recipe.
LOL.
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Glander
Great show. We never missed it unless we had to go to the spiritual food restaurant.
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wasblind
Yes I loved the Waltons, still watch em today on INSP channel
It's like a comfort food.
But I have to say, accordin' to my late granma who was born in 1911,
the WALTONS' were the richest poor folk she had ever seen
She said, even the white folk she knew back then didn't have an indoor toilet
even if they were lucky enough to have electricity
Which bring me to critique Good Times
Florida didn't have a job and James couldn't keep one
and yet Thelma was the best dressed girl in the projects
yea, I know florida sewed, but where she get the money from
to buy thread ???
Which leads me to Greene Acres
The fact that the husband literally snatched the wife
from a life of luxury and forced her to live in squallor
ought to be grounds for divorce
Which leads me to I dream of Jeannie
the major should have been a Jehovah's witness
Did he not know how to make a wish ????
he should have wished for a dollar, to buy a clue
on how to make a wish, and what to wish for
Well I could go on , don't wanna bore y'all
so I'll kindly go BTTT
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snowbird
I hear you, Wuz!
I could never identify with Good Times.
Heck, I could stand The Jeffersons more than I could Good Times.
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nugget
I caught it when I could. it was gentle drama with thoughtful dialogue. I remember when one of the daughters was hiding her boyfriend from the family and the father chastised her not for having the boyfriend but for the way she behaved. By hiding him she was devaluing him and making him something shameful. She was judging him and deeming him unworthy of the family. This reminded me of all those hidden relationships when JWs have worldly boyfriends or girl friends.