You know you are getting old when:

[tonyb]

A phone conversation with an old friend yesterday turned, as it often does, to our various ailments.

We agreed that in light of the ultimate fact of life, it’s not so unfortunate to have these complaints.

A person either grows old or he doesn’t. And growing old inevitably involves ailments.

 

[Zombie_61]

...A person either grows old or he doesn’t. And growing old inevitably involves ailments.

Most of the time the hard part is finding replacement parts.

 

[chilehed]

For my generation "Miss Ellie" was Ellie May Clampett:

Ginger and Mary Ann are okay, but my heart's with the beauty who can shoot skeet with a slingshot and tame any critter there is.

 

[GHT]

Most of the time the hard part is finding replacement parts.

Tell me about it!

 

[Zombie_61]

Ginger and Mary Ann are okay...

Ginger Grant was okay; Mary Ann Summers was...well, let's just say I've always been Team Mary Ann.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
Dawn Wells, who was practically the definition of cuteasabuttonandstillsexyashell in her portrayal of Mary Ann, died late last year. The ’vid pushed her over the edge.

 

[Zombie_61]

And on that note, I suppose you know you are getting old when you not only remember Gilligan's Island, but watched it regularly.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you try hard to understand, why Carhartt caps are a fashion trend... Seemingly around super hip big city idio.. um people.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
Yeah, that Carhartt workwear look is mostly wasted on me, too, on anyone other than people who actually get their hands (and clothes) dirty in the process of earning their daily bread.

But then, people once thought the same about blue jeans. These days plenty of people with soft hands wear blue jeans and they rarely if ever get accused of posing.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

And on that note, I suppose you know you are getting old when you not only remember Gilligan's Island, but watched it regularly.

During the first run, and not re-runs (except, of course, during the summer months)

 

[Tiki Tom]

As a kid, I watched so many Gilligans Island reruns that I got sick of it. But not nearly as sick of it as I was with I Love Lucy. It seemed like ILL was on 24/7.

I understand that there is a Ricky/Lucy movie in the works …and that a recent biography of Lucy paints a picture of a star who’s real life was far different from the wholesome public image. Oh, well.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
I’m just a little too young for any firsthand recollections of I Love Lucy when it was in production, but it seemed that reruns were broadcast nonstop throughout my childhood. And I never understood its popularity. Still don’t.

The Honeymooners, on the other hand …

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Gilligan" was the first television show I remember seeing in color. For some reason I'd always imagined his shirt was blue. What a disappointment.

 

[Tiki Tom]

^^^ Now that you mention it, maybe Gilligan was indeed the first TV show I saw in color. Either that or Batman. Don’t get me started. For a long time I thought Adam West’s Batman was a masterpiece of understated humor brilliantly hidden beneath a camouflage of OTT kitsch. Loved West’s earnest delivery.

Lucy was not funny imho. Carol Burnett was incredibly funny.

 

[Zombie_61]

Yeah, that Carhartt workwear look is mostly wasted on me, too, on anyone other than people who actually get their hands (and clothes) dirty in the process of earning their daily bread.

But then, people once thought the same about blue jeans. These days plenty of people with soft hands wear blue jeans and they rarely if ever get accused of posing.

My daily "uniform" is usually a tee shirt and blue jeans because that's what I've worn every day through most of my life. Get my hands and clothes dirty while earning a living? You bet! I've never been afraid of physical labor (or wasn't until my back problems started) so every job I've had was working class/blue collar. Even the two "white collar" jobs I had (tire sales, quality control) were in blue collar industries, so wearing "nice" clothes was a bad idea and a waste of money. I do have a Carhartt "shirt jacket", and it's lightweight, comfortable, and keeps me warm enough when I need it to, so I still wear it.

I’m just a little too young for any firsthand recollections of I Love Lucy when it was in production, but it seemed that reruns were broadcast nonstop throughout my childhood. And I never understood its popularity. Still don’t.

The Honeymooners, on the other hand …

When I was very young Mom and Big Sis liked to watch I Love Lucy and we only had the one television for a long time, so... I always liked William Frawley as Fred Mertz, but never understood why Fred married Ethel. Or why Ricky married Lucy, for that matter. So, yeah, the entertainment value wore thin very quickly for me, and I've never understood all of the Lucy worship; even she admitted she stole everything she did from other entertainers who did it better.

"Gilligan" was the first television show I remember seeing in color. For some reason I'd always imagined his shirt was blue. What a disappointment.

I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek, but the first show I remember watching in color was Batman starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Now that was a show that was literally made for color TV.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Even as a kid I found the "Lucy" character insufferable. And also inescapable. "I Love Lucy" was on every afternoon in local syndication, "The Lucy Show" was in morning reruns on CBS, and "Here's Lucy" was still putting out new episodes every Monday night. I watched them, because they were there, and I never understood who I was supposed to identify with or find sympathetic in any of them.

As for the physical comedy, Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly did it all twenty years earlier. And funnier, too.

 

[Rmccamey]

And for us rowdy rock and rollers, The Monkeys!

And on that note, I suppose you know you are getting old when you not only remember Gilligan's Island, but watched it regularly.

 

[tonyb]

Even as a kid I found the "Lucy" character insufferable. And also inescapable. "I Love Lucy" was on every afternoon in local syndication, "The Lucy Show" was in morning reruns on CBS, and "Here's Lucy" was still putting out new episodes every Monday night. I watched them, because they were there, and I never understood who I was supposed to identify with or find sympathetic in any of them.

As for the physical comedy, Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly did it all twenty years earlier. And funnier, too.

And to think that until reading your post I had managed to pretty much forget those later Lucille Ball efforts.

I’m shaking my fist.

 

[Zombie_61]

And for us rowdy rock and rollers, The Monkeys!

Ahh, The Monkees, a.k.a. the "Prefab Four". For a stage actor, a child actor, and a couple of wannabe musicians, they did pretty well for themselves.

 

[Tiki Tom]

I liked The Monkeys. But they may have been the start of me growing up and becoming cautiously skeptical about everything. I was still young and impressionable when someone tried to explain to me that they were not really a band and were merely a Hollywood marketing gimmick. I immediately recognized the truth, but was still very disappointed. I was a kid.