Comments on: It’s A Tradition

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:36:25 +0000

That must have been a hoot. Too many farmers in my family to be taken in, but I can see city people swallowing hook, line, and sinker.

My Mother has made pasta, when it wasn’t available where we lived and she wanted it.

By: John B.

John B. — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:13:07 +0000

Bryan,

I remember seeing this very “short” (as it was then known) playing in a theater in my home town — between double features, no less. Yes, it was 1957. I may be wrong, but I could swear in its original form there was mention in the film, too, of how conditions were affecting the macaroni bushes.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:31:37 +0000

Have you really, really tried? What if you went to a tall structure…eh, that’s probably a bad idea.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:11:38 +0000

If only penguins really COULD fly. Sigh!

– Badtux the Flightless Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:14:04 +0000

The BBC ran it as a segment on a very serious information/magazine type program. They manage not to take themselves over seriously.

It’s a shame that you can’t get cabinets or wood like that anymore. At one point my Dad was building a Heathkit to put in one of those cabinets.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:03:45 +0000

My family had a TV from the days in which the local NBC station was as yet showing only a test pattern. Unfortunately, the TV was at my grandmother’s house, not ours; my paratrooper uncle bought it for her, probably to show how much wealthier and more dedicated a son he was than my father. Still, we had some very early TV experiences, unlike many families of our socioeconomic class… which was low indeed. I finally let go of the mahogany cabinet (!) of that TV only 13 years ago, when I moved to this apartment: I gave it to a fellow whose hobby was installing new TVs in old cabinets. I consider that to be what the Germans used to call “das Happyend.”

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:55:39 +0000

That Swiss Spaghetti Harvest video was the funniest thing I’ve seen today! Thanks to whoever found it.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:40:59 +0000

You are certainly welcome.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:31:31 +0000

my thanks to both of you.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:45:29 +0000

After almost all of the Ernie Kovacs shows, the “Spaghetti Harvest” is right up there with with the “WKRP in Cincinnati” turkey give-away as classic TV comedy. They are so serious about it.

Of course, there weren’t a lot of TVs in Britain, or anywhere else, in 1957, [I was in Europe at the time and no one had a TV in the village where we lived in Germany], so re-runs are the basis for memories of the event.

Thank Elayne, Hipparchia, I missed when I visited the BBC site.