tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post1652322651957812037..comments2023-09-25T10:15:41.979-04:00Comments on NYSocBoy's Beefcake and Bonding: Charles Addams/The Addams FamilyNYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-34217230317109918372021-09-21T18:40:15.097-04:002021-09-21T18:40:15.097-04:00I think of The Addams Family, The Munsters, comics...I think of The Addams Family, The Munsters, comics' Tales of Bizarro World, et all, as a genre I like to call 'Lookit The Weirdos!'. The humor tended to center on these freakish people who... Gasp!... have different manners and customs than 'normal' people. Occasionally, the trope was subverted; not only were the Addamses happier and kinder than their petty, small-minded neighbors, but they usually came out on top. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-67444303120091754912021-09-20T12:19:12.779-04:002021-09-20T12:19:12.779-04:00Nostalgia is a result of selective memoryNostalgia is a result of selective memoryjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04042785568975031327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-80007633880146066172021-09-20T10:08:18.435-04:002021-09-20T10:08:18.435-04:00Struck me as more of an 80s obsession. In the 70s ...Struck me as more of an 80s obsession. In the 70s and 80s, people were obsessed with remembering the 50s incorrectly. A lot of this were the boomers, who were naïve to current events at the time.<br /><br />So, you had things that were largely irrelevant blown out of proportion and cast as heroes or villains depending on your agenda, (The John Birch Society was much more influential in the Reagan years but was a punchline in the 50s, and McCarthy was unanimously censured and drank himself to death.), associated with but by no means exclusive to the 1950s (Segregation began when Reconstruction ended, and those wily devils are still finding new ways to get around laws abolishing it.), or seen as why the 1950s were so prosperous (Pretty much every bad thing about earlier times still has its champions.).<br /><br />It still happens, by the way. I know plenty of people who think "no black people" was part of the Comics Code; in reality, the whiteness of the Big Two before Sam Wilson's introduction was part of selling books in the South.<br /><br />Ah, nostalgia. Hindsight is definitely not 20/20.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-53804990256709416232021-09-20T10:04:19.122-04:002021-09-20T10:04:19.122-04:00Ted Cassidy, was 6'9'' played basketba...Ted Cassidy, was 6'9'' played basketball, football and was lifeguard. The photo you posted shows him surrounded by other cute hunky lifeguards. His height got him typecast as monsters and freaks. He did have a good body just look for the photo in which is he fighting Paul Newman.jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04042785568975031327noreply@blogger.com