Truly cringeworthy fun!
Goodness gracious me oh my! Well, I hardly know what to say....
Every Saturday night, while flipping channels, I make a brief stop at the Lawrence Welk Show. And boy do I get my money's worth!
Every performance reminds me of a group of precocious children all dressed up and attending a grown up party. And someone puts on a record and the kids get to do a performance. They're hungry for applause and their eyes gleam with manic enthusiasm! Their every twirling spin, every flapping arm, every glittering exposed toothy grin screaming "LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!"
It's a horrible delight! At times I physically cringe! At other times I can't help but laugh out loud! All the while feeling as though I've been kidnapped into some magically bizarre dimension of pastel polyester and Brill Cream. A dimension where dancers in their late thirties are referred to by Welk as "youngsters". It's PRECIOUS!
I hope PBS never stops running these shows.
I only wish I could travel back in time to show a Welk audience an hour of modern music videos featuring a twerking Miley Cyrus wagging her tongue like an overheated shih tzu. Or perhaps a couple of refrains of Snoop Dogg dropping it like it's hot. Oh what fun that would surely be.
Twirl on, my pretties. Never stop twirling.