Ralph and his right-wingers are like a cartoon version of the right-wingers who appeared in the 1971 movie "Cold Turkey". Both groups featured an old lady in a World War One-era US army hat (Smoky the Bear style). I wonder whether one group was inspired by the other?
shareI didn't see Cold Turkey till several years after this show, but I always thought there might be a connection. A very funny actress named Judith Lowry played that part. She made her characters funnier than MOST of those abrasive little old ladies you see in comedies.
shareI always thought Ralph looked like Richard Nixon...
shareHah, yes, it's so obvious that the paranoid right-winger neighbor was meant to be a Nixon b-slap.
This show was a figment of my pre-school imagination until probably ten years ago when some cable network started re-running it. It seems rather obscure, IMHO, given how popular most of the rest of HB is. Then again, I don't think it's aged well at all. It really was of-the-moment; a slice of early 70's America, but without the iconic status of All in the Family that gives that its staying power.
Now, that Roman Holidays show that was on around the same time (I think)...that's still firmly rooted in my pre-school imagination. I don't think that's ever made it back from the dead (at least not that I've caught).
Roman Holidays is now available on DVD.
shareThis show was a figment of my pre-school imagination until probably ten years ago when some cable network started re-running it. It seems rather obscure, IMHO, given how popular most of the rest of HB is. Then again, I don't think it's aged well at all. It really was of-the-moment; a slice of early 70's America, but without the iconic status of All in the Family that gives that its staying power.