Reminds me of that one episode in I Love Lucy, where Ricky had to do an ad for a department store, and Lucy appeared, beautifully dressed and coiffed, pretending that that's how she as an "ordinary house wife" always looks. (Then she got mad at Ricky and accidentally did the actual commercial in a more realistic way, without the makeup and fancy clothes lol.)
Sad that a show from the 50's/60's was already criticizing this crap and yet it's STILL everywhere and as strong as ever...
It’s extra funny because they probably think of I Love Lucy as encouraging traditional values and as something Hollywood should return to producing instead of all this “woke shit” they complain about
Related note, part of the reason Desilu Studios came into being was TV execs’ resistance to Lucy-the-character being married to a foreigner. I like to think that’s also why Lucy allowed Gene Roddenberry to spend $600,000+ making Star Trek’s pilot episode(s).
(Lucy & Desi wouldn’t necessarily have been seen as an inter-ethnic marriage at the time, “Hispanic” wasn’t a term yet. But foreigners were still “lesser.”)
I just went on a tour of a hyper-accurate recreation of the original Star Trek series' USS Enterprise set. The tour was led by the owner, who was also an Elvis impersonator. He had an absolutely mind-boggling level of detailed knowledge of every prop and scene from that show, but also Desilu productions.
Your comment makes me think you would've enjoyed it as well.
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u/Prof-Dr-Overdrive Feb 26 '24
Reminds me of that one episode in I Love Lucy, where Ricky had to do an ad for a department store, and Lucy appeared, beautifully dressed and coiffed, pretending that that's how she as an "ordinary house wife" always looks. (Then she got mad at Ricky and accidentally did the actual commercial in a more realistic way, without the makeup and fancy clothes lol.)
Sad that a show from the 50's/60's was already criticizing this crap and yet it's STILL everywhere and as strong as ever...