A bit out of the ordinary for Hollywood

Hickory n steel said:
My 3 favorite older shows to watch in syndication are gunsmoke, the Rockford files, and Bonanza.
The Rockford files especially ( used to be my ringtone ) because James Garner was one of my favorite actors.

I also liked wild wild west, leave it to beaver, Andy Griffith, and Hogan's heroes.


There are a lot of shows these days I find good and enjoy, but there are definitely way more that I can't stand.
If I was around back then theres probably not too many i wouldn't have watched.
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Hogan's Heroes was great. Best characters were Sgt Schultz and Col Klink. And Barney Fife was the star of Andy Griffith.
 
DrRollinstein said:
First off, any list of 50s/60s TV without the Twilight Zone is automatically irrelevant. Second, there are tons of great modern day shows. Tons of good sitcoms from the 80's and 90's, and animation has been killer the past 20 years.
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We just have different tastes. Been watching some Twilight Zone lately, but FAR from my favorite. Kinda creepy, actually. Dont like '80s and '90s shows, and HATE cartoons except for Looney Tunes, Pink Panther, and Johnny Quest. Maybe others from '60s or before, like Popeye from the '40s and '50s.
 
Hickory n steel said:
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All I'm saying is when a character is actually shown opening a package which does happen, a pocket knife should be used once in a while instead of the box being unrealistically easy to open effortlessly with bare hands .

All the Hollywood theatrics are key to entertainment and I definitely get that, but it seems that directors and writers always choose to see anything but a kitchen knife as a weapon unless the person is LEO...ect.
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I must be Superman. Opening boxes with my bare hands has always come easily to me...
 
Prester John said:
We just have different tastes. Been watching some Twilight Zone lately, but FAR from my favorite. Kinda creepy, actually. Dont like '80s and '90s shows, and HATE cartoons except for Looney Tunes, Pink Panther, and Johnny Quest. Maybe others from '60s or before, like Popeye from the '40s and '50s.
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I love the old Looney Tunes cartoons! But I do have to add a two thumbs up for Venture Brothers. Brok Sampson always seems to find a way to use a knife, but it is rarely subtle.
 
Hickory n steel said:
My 3 favorite older shows to watch in syndication are gunsmoke, the Rockford files, and Bonanza.
The Rockford files especially ( used to be my ringtone ) because James Garner was one of my favorite actors.

I also liked wild wild west, leave it to beaver, Andy Griffith, and Hogan's heroes.


There are a lot of shows these days I find good and enjoy, but there are definitely way more that I can't stand.
If I was around back then theres probably not too many i wouldn't have watched.
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Not quite seeing what this has to do with knives. :confused:

As for your "badass" theory, that's what people want in their knives. If they didn't want that fantasy we wouldn't have camo coated blades.
 
Somehow the air time for good guys having an edge over the bad guys are gone.
Its no wonder that knives are mostly seen in the hands of bad guys.
Would come as something of a shock to viewers these days to see
a good guy become overly dependent on an edge tool for anything i guess...
 
DB_Cruiser said:
I love the old Looney Tunes cartoons! But I do have to add a two thumbs up for Venture Brothers. Brok Sampson always seems to find a way to use a knife, but it is rarely subtle.
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Not familiar with those, but I'll take your word for it!
 
In a few of the older episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the Detective Stabler character used a SE Delica 3 for mundane uses, mostly at crime scenes. Maybe a couple of the other characters (Det. Olivia Benson and Det. Tutuola), with Delicas and/or other knives, as well.

In Law &Order: Criminal Intent, the main detective used an automatic knife in several episodes for mundane purposes, usually while gathering crime scene evidence.

In one episode of Criminal Minds, I could have swore I saw one of the investigators using a SS Spyderco Police to dig into drywall to recover evidence (perhaps a bullet?). It happened pretty quickly and under the radar: if you blinked you would have missed it.

I still remember a scene in an episode in The Beverly Hillbillies where Jethro was holding his pocketknife and complaining that it has three broken blades. That's one of the few scenes from that show I even remember, besides the intro, of course. And the fact that I had a little boy's crush on Ellie May. :)

Jim
 
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James Y said:
I still remember a scene in an episode in The Beverly Hillbillies where Jethro was holding his pocketknife and complaining that it has three broken blades. That's one of the few scenes from that show I even remember, besides the intro, of course. And the fact that I had a little boy's crush on Ellie May. :)
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I remember Jethro peeling potatoes with a knife and wondering why the potatoes ended up so small. He took off most of the potato with the knife!
 
Ahh Hollywood... my favorite is when an auto / semi-auto firearm runs out of ammo and goes "click, click, click" before the operator realizes it is out of ammo.

No slide locking back / no bolt held open ... :poop:
 
Peaky Blinders

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To answer Hickory's OP, the reason Hollywood generally portrays knives as a threat is because humans are hardwired to monitor threat, which is why violence is the crack cocaine or heroin of all media (much more so than porn). I recall hearing a US Army psychologist interviewed once on the roll of violence in the media and he talked about lessons learned in US military training on habituating people to violent responses. He noted the advances that led the rate of infantry firing on the enemy in WW2 from about 40% to over 90% in Vietnam.

He noted that we've learned some key things about the human brain and violence and chief among them is that humans are hard wired to monitor for threat. This is why newsrooms follow the adage, "If it bleeds, it leads" and why cable news keeps a live ticker running with some threat inducing crap running on it.

Anyway... Peaky Blinders... the gang members kept razor blades in the brim of their scaly caps and use them often. Like like Gibbs cutting a steak with a ZT or Longmire killing (1, 2, how many) people with his 110, generally speaking knives are props for inducing the element of threat - which is why we watch the shows.

Putting it another way, the problem isn't Hollywood. They just make stuff that we like to watch. The problem is us. We like to watch menace and violence - even more than sex.
 
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