• Flying SquidM
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    1119 days ago

    Because that’s what you had to do to get past the executives and the censors in the 1960s.

    Just like how “Last Train to Clarksville” is about Vietnam.

    • @grue
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      19 days ago

      Just like how “Last Train to Clarksville” is about Vietnam.

      TIL. That is a really subtle reference (at least from the perspective of somebody born a couple of decades after the fact, anyway).

      • Flying SquidM
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        319 days ago

        Yeah, but the executives were terrified of any and all conflict. That’s why so many shows of that era are incredibly bland.