Would you want to live in an old tv show?

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It’s been some years since i saw the movie Pleasantville but the 1990s girl’s decision to (temporarily) stay still seems foolish. It’s still 1958 America, she’s still a female in that time period and if she does return to the real world, her education is 40 years out of date and no 1998 institution would honor her degree from a fictional version of Eisenhower-era America.

a real world teenager transported to a fifties sitcom: I don’t think many modern young girls would appreciate not being able to wear pants to school, being expected to perform Christianity and attend church or suffer repercussions, being nicknamed something like Kitten and being expected to get their “MRS” instead of an actual education.

Oh and only having newspapers, radio and TV would probably suck to a modern kid…
 
I think our 2016 election shows a large segment of the U.S. population wants very much to return to a place like Pleasantville.

When I think of all of our troubles, both personal and collective, I think I would like to live in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. A place that is calm, gentle, accepting, and peaceful.
 
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It’s been some years since i saw the movie Pleasantville but the 1990s girl’s decision to (temporarily) stay still seems foolish.
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IIRC, don’t the characters in “Pleasantville” turn into color when they do “it”? (Regardless if they’re married or not.) I remember a HUGE uproar about that movie when it came out – and for a PG-13 rated movie, too. Didn’t the then-Catholic Bishops Film Office give it an “O” (Morally Offensive) rating?
 
the 1990s teenage girl turns color in the tv world when she chooses to stay home and study instead of going to Lover’s Lover’s Lane with Skip.

“learning is it’s own reward”
 
I’ve always sort of liked the idea of living in the fifties, becoming a housewife, wearing skirts. It’s a romanticized image, and I’m sure it’s not all golden when you’re actually there, but I’d enjoy at least visiting that time period.
 
With shows like Dick Van D y k e you wish they had gone for a daughter or more daughters instead of sons. IMHO
 
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a real world teenager transported to a fifties sitcom: I don’t think many modern young girls would appreciate not being able to wear pants to school, being expected to perform Christianity and attend church or suffer repercussions, being nicknamed something like Kitten and being expected to get their “MRS” instead of an actual education.
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But if you could get your hands on just a little bit of cash, you could parlay it into a bundle via sports betting, stock market, et cetera, a la Back to the Future.

You could go to 3M and encourage them to invent a weak glue for Post-It notes, a la Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion.

You could “invent” pantyhose, a la Peggy Sue Got Married.

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We do. It’s sometimes called “The Twilight Zone”.

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Stephie
 
If i were a character in The Twilight Zone, I’d be Christie Streator who has a doll that protects her from her aggro stepfather.
 
Aggro = aggressive.

Watching that episode of Twilight Zone, your heart breaks for Christie when her stepfather takes her doll Talky Tina and Christie begs “DADDY, PLEASE!” and the stepfather yells “I’m not your daddy!”
 
Michelle_Garvey said:
It’s been some years since i saw the movie Pleasantville but the 1990s girl’s decision to (temporarily) stay still seems foolish. It’s still 1958 America, she’s still a female in that time period and if she does return to the real world, her education is 40 years out of date and no 1998 institution would honor her degree from a fictional version of Eisenhower-era America.

a real world teenager transported to a fifties sitcom: I don’t think many modern young girls would appreciate not being able to wear pants to school, being expected to perform Christianity and attend church or suffer repercussions, being nicknamed something like Kitten and being expected to get their “MRS” instead of an actual education.

Oh and only having newspapers, radio and TV would probably suck to a modern kid…
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Perhaps the problem is that you seem to have gotten all of your ideas about the fifties from the stereotypes in a movie?

Many people on this forum would not remember the things you mention as being so terrible because life was not not like the movie. Just what does “being expected to perform Christianity” mean, by the way?

Please do not assume that this generation is the greatest time to be living, and that you know what every female stands for. The things you objected to are things many young women still do or look forward to doing. And that includes not wearing pants all the time. Since you brought it up, people were quite happy with books, newspapers, radio and TV. :rolleyes:
 
I’m a liberal Catholic. I’m well aware that the real fifties weren’t like they were on Father Knows Best or Make Room for Daddy, but a modern teen who has grown up in a Western culture that is much more permissive and accepting, would find being transported to a fifties tv show very difficult, especially if they were female.
 
Michelle_Garvey said:
Aggro = aggressive.

Watching that episode of Twilight Zone, your heart breaks for Christie when her stepfather takes her doll Talky Tina and Christie begs “DADDY, PLEASE!” and the stepfather yells “I’m not your daddy!”
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I actually remember that episode.Scared me to death and this coming from someone who loved dolls as a little girl.
I Remeber the basement scene t where the stepdad is stuck in the stair rails and Tina say “,my name is talky Tina and I am going to kill you!:eek:”
 
Leave it to Beaver, Father knows Best and Ozzie & Harriet. Works for me. Pleasantville? No.

Having lived in the 1950s, I prefer family life as depicted, and lived, then.

Ed
 
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