Kicking It Old School
Set your TiVos... Colonial House begins May 17th. I'm a fan of this entire genre of reality TV for pointy-heads. I've watched most or all of Frontier House, Manor House, 1900 House, Life in the Iron Age, and 1940s House, and look forward to watching modern Americans wipe with oak leaves, attend Puritan meetings, and attempt to remember whether the punishment for Slander is whipping or the stocks.
Y'know, 1628 was a pre-modern era, and ways of thinking, speaking, and ordering society that prevailed then are completely, disorientingly, alien to modern people. I will be interested to see the degree to which the producers and players will be willing to take that fact.
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J,
J,
I watch "Early 21st Century House" now. Every fucking day.
Have you seen it?
How about "Johnny Two-Cents
How about "Johnny Two-Cents House"? Would that be a good program?
I want them to cast me in
I want them to cast me in early 22nd Century house, so I can finally get my effing rocket pack, jet car and blaster.
Can't wait!
Can't wait!
I like these shows for the same reason I like The Amazing Race - it's not about the tasks they have to do, but how people crack under pressure and their true personalities are revealed - the sexist father on 1900 house? The Cheating family on Frontier house?
NDR,
NDR,
I never saw an episode of "Johnny Two Cents House" but I've read about it. Something about mixolydian scales and bread...?
B,
And take your vacations on Mars, right?
Trust me, guys, "Johnny Two
Trust me, guys, "Johnny Two-Cents House" would be a horrorshow.
A guy I used to know, who, as will become clear momentarily, was a heavy potsmoker of the sticky, resinous and evangelical variety, once laid a sticky, resinous idea on me that I haven't quite been able to shake. His idea was this: each one of us is the star of a TV show being broadcast in another dimension, and it is incumbent upon us to make that show as interesting as possible. Crossover events. Weddings. Wacky situations. The more interesting our lives are, and the better we live them, the higher our ratings are.
My ever-snacking friend was using ratings as a metaphor for our will to choose our own destinies, and despite the fatuous potsmokery of it all which betrays a long string of days spent watching The Cartoon Network in lieu of attending the classes his parents were paying for, I think he's on to something.
This week on "Johnny Two-Cents House," a very special episode, titled "Buyer's Remorse."
Watch as Johno and Mrs. Two-Cents finance and buy a used car then travel to New Jersey to attend a wedding/family reunion featuring relations he has not seen in ten years and more. Will everything go as planned? Hilarity ensues. Michael Anthony Hall guest stars.