I've known plenty of women that liked them.
But they liked wild game too.

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 7:40 am

karstopography wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:19 pm
There’s not a person alive, in my experience, that identifies as an XX, female, woman, etc. that has ever liked the three stooges.

Well, you know one now... ME!

And me. Although I'm not fond of the ones with Shemp in them. I mean, he was funny, but NO ONE can replace Curly. Moe tried to by imitating some of his sounds but it wasn't the same.
One of the funniest memorable Curly moments was when when he flopped to the floor after Moe whistled for him and he spun quickly around on the floor on his side, then crawled towards Moe on his elbows and feet.

Abbot and Costello were another comedy pair I enjoyed. Who remembers their famous baseball skit? What was really sad was that sometimes those two men argued and it was hard for them to work together because they were literally mad at each other.
But their movies were funny, especially the one about the haunted house, and the one featuring Bela Logosi as Dracula, Glenn Strange as Frankenstein and Lon Chaney Jr as the Wolfman.

One of the show's I'm DVD binging currently is Rifleman. Its not my number one shoot-em-up but Lucas McCain could be considered one of the best TV father figures. The bond between he and Mark is very heartwarming, giving the Western a family feeling and an emotional touch along with the hardships. Parents don't teach their kids the way Lucas teaches Mark anymore.
The close bond between Lucas and Micah is heartwarming to me as well; I love the strong friendship concept. The episode I saw yesterday titled Closer Than A Brother really put their friendship to the test when Micah thought Lucas had turned his back on him after an argument Micah had started because Micah had gotten all frightened like a kid than an old nemesis was coming for him.

Another section of my criteria is classic horror movies. I've seen many a 'creature-feature' in my time like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Wasp Woman, The Crawling Eye/The Trollenburg Terror and Tarantula but in recent years I've gotten quite fond of what I call it, 'mentally off people' horror.

Guest in the House: A very old film about a narcissistic woman who breaks up a whole household of family and employees apart during her stay.

Leave Her to Heaven: About a poor man's marriage to a narcissistic woman and she wrecks havoc on his life.

Love From a Stranger: Very old movie about a woman recently come into a great deal of money is romanced by a man (Basil Rathbone) who comes into her life, they are married, then he starts behaving strangely.

The Two Mrs. Carrols: Featuring Humphrey Bogart as a married man and artist who gets rid of his first wife so he can marry his next (Barbara Stanwick).

Conflict: Also with Humphrey Bogart who murders his wife so he can romance her younger sister but starts finding evidence that his wife may still be alive.

The Beast With Five Fingers: An elderly, paralyzed man dies, then leaves his giant house to his young, pretty nurse instead of his greedy brother and nephew. Then after finding out someone cut off his right hand, there's 'sightings' of the hand crawling about the house at night killing people.

Gaslight: A girls aunt is murdered, then after she's an adult she marries piano player (Charles Boyer). After they move into the apartment house her and her aunt used to live in, her husband's actions start making her believe she is looney.

I find movies like that informative so you'll know who to avoid when they behave like that.

Sherlock Holmes, with Basil Rathbone, I also enjoy.

I've always been a night owl, so because I had to wake up early for school I caught up on sleep on the weekends. By the time I woke up the cartoons were gone & my brother would tell me what I missed. I did manage to catch some shows like the Flintstones & the Jetsons. I watched Tarzan until the show with the giant spiders. That traumatized me for years lol.

Twilight zone.
Outer limits.
Night gallery.
Several others like this.

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 9:55 am
And me. Although I'm not fond of the ones with Shemp in them. I mean, he was funny, but NO ONE can replace Curly. Moe tried to by imitating some of his sounds but it wasn't the same.
One of the funniest memorable Curly moments was when when he flopped to the floor after Moe whistled for him and he spun quickly around on the floor on his side, then crawled towards Moe on his elbows and feet.

I agree on the Shemp thing! My favorite episode was when the Stooges posed as chefs to get a job and had to prepare a huge turkey for some big dinner. They didn't have a clue but found a recipe. "Can of peas!" In went an unopened can of peas. "Celery!" and a whole bunch of celery got stuffed in. On and on until they couldn't get anything else into it. Into the oven it went where it kept getting bigger and bigger, wheezing and puffing, inflating and deflating until it finally exploded.

This may come as a surprise but I can't stand and never could stand the Three Stooges.
I try not to be negative but the truth has to come out.
That type of comedy just gets on my nerves.
But movies like Operation Petty Coat was hilarious.
I watch it every time it comes on.
Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.
Also Some like it hot is another hilarious movie.
With Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.
Father goose with Cary Grant.
The wackiest ship in the army will Ricky Nelson and Jack Lemmon.
Donovan's Reef probably my favorite John Wayne movie and really funny but not stupid.
Interestingly the young girl Jacqueline Malouf in movie was like 21 years old or something but looked like she was around 13 maybe because she was so small.
She also played in petticoat junction.
That movie touched on racism to the max.
It was made in 1963 and a must watch.
Lots of other great actors in it too.
Here's a fun fact about the movies Donovan's Reef and the Whackiest ship in the army were at least partially filmed in Hawaii on the island of Kauai.
Like the canyon scene.
I didn't even have to look it up the scenery is so familiar since so many movies are made there.

The actors who played the stooges were ironically all very talented and intelligent. They just hit it big with a goofy role.

Cole_Robbie wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2024 8:19 am The actors who played the stooges were ironically all very talented and intelligent. They just hit it big with a goofy role.

You can be smart and play stupid.
But you can't be stupid and play smart.
That's my problem with comedy today.
It seems all of it is based on stupid.

Lieutenant Colfax is Marion Ross age 95.
Marion Ross is the Mom on Happy Hays.

I watched some Happy Days because of Fonzie. ❤
Eeyyyyyy!!

Charles Bronson.
Probably my favorite actor with class.
Mr Majestyk is on YouTube Free as we speak.
Saw it at the movies in San Diego California.

Let's see.

Dungeons and Dragons
Ghostbusters
The Pirates of Darkwater
He Man
Duck Tales
Arthur. Actually started watching this in probably my 30s
Mr Rodgers
Curious George. Another one I watched late in life
Pee Wee's Playhouse. Say what you will about him, it was still a great show

I recently had a 70+ year old woman tell me , a 20+ year old I needed to watch Bluey. Now is that weird, or what? I don't know why people are so brainwashed by that show, it's designed for toddlers. Hence, why it's listed under Disney Junior.
Also when I did some delving to try and find out what the heck is so fascinating about it, I found out that, before Disney did some editing, contained some inappropriate stuff I wouldn't want my child watching. Toilet humor for one. Modern people don't find toilet humor inappropriate but I was raised to be modest and to have manners. I heard somewhere that some weird parent was complaining that Pepa Pig encouraged bad behavior by jumping in a mud puddle. The unedited things in Bluey (that people were complaining about being removed) encouraged worse. I'd rather my child jump in a mud puddle than to hand me a piece of poop and tell me it was a train ticket. (Bluey scene)
Other things that Disney edited out of Bluey was a pony pooping, a dog character on the toilet, the mother swearing (Australians don't view the D word as a swear word, unfortunately.) The father discussing with a friend about having some male surgery and altogether removed a highly inappropriate show featuring the father pretending to be pregnant with their youngest daughter and 'giving birth' to her in a plastic wading pool in the backyard with a neighbor watching.
That is why I stick to 'vintage' stuff. Nothing inappropriate in there.

I have no idea what you're talking about.
And I don't want to know.
Sounds disgusting.

@TomatoNut95

Bluey might have a disturbing past, or whatever, but I think it's important not to stigmatize adults who watch cartoons for toddlers based simply on the history of one show that a large number of adults for some reason enjoy (most of whom probably aren't even aware of that past).

There are a lot of reasons adults might watch shows for toddlers. Here's a list of some wholesome possibilities:

- They actually have toddlers, or might want them some day, and want to be familiar with the best content to give them. Or if they don't have them, maybe watching the shows helps to reduce some of the pain of not having them. In examining this social security site yesterday (in the baby name section), I found the statistics troubling. I expected to see larger numbers of the most and least popular names as the decades got closer to the present, but that wasn't the case at all. There would seem to be fewer children born per decade in recent decades than there were during the Baby Boomer era, even though the USA's population is much larger now than it was then. Unless, of course, we have zillions more uncommon names than they had then.
- Shows for toddlers, on average, are positive and uplifting, with very little of the sort of content you mentioned for Bluey.
- Socially traumatized individuals sometimes need the positive and uplifting vibes that such shows have to offer, because they're difficult to get anywhere else. Sometimes they need the straightforward simplicity that a show for a child has to offer, too; they may deal with a lot of passive aggression that overcomplicates their social scene.
- Some shows that people think are for toddlers are actually just as complex and mature as shows for older kids. The main difference is the age of the characters.
- Some people actually miss being toddlers, or they didn't get enough of a childhood or whatever. Or maybe their siblings hogged the remote and they spent decades brooding about it before they got the opportunity to watch the shows they really wanted to watch as a child. They might not even know that the show they're watching is targeted at toddlers, in some cases. There's a perception among content-creators that children watch up. So, it's not unheard of for a show for toddlers to have like a 9-year old protagonist (and for actual 9-year olds to think the show is for babies, even though there's nothing obviously for babies about it).
- They like bright colors. Shows for adults don't tend to have them, like at all.
- They might want to be cultured in the shows (like schools want us to be cultured in Shakespeare). They may be content-creators, and it's good for some kinds of content-creators to be familiar with shows for toddlers.
- They appreciate voice artists and want to follow their work (even if they work with stuff for toddlers).

Of course, there are non-wholesome possibilities, too, but we don't need to get into that. Not everyone does the same thing for the same reason. Some people only have wholesome reasons for what they do.

worth1 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 12:41 pm I have no idea what you're talking about.
And I don't want to know.
Sounds disgusting.

Bluey is an Australian made cartoon about a family of blue heeler dogs for preschool children that even teenagers and adults are obsessed with and will watch just for themselves. While it's highly praised for it's family values and touches on subjects such as pregnancy, death, miscarriages and such, (parents should be teaching their kids these things, not their tv shows) it still contains inappropriate behavior, toilet humor and talk that I personally wouldn't allow my preschoolers to watch.

@Shule As I said before I'm not against adults watching cartoons. I watch cartoons myself and will continue to watch cartoons into my old age. I've tried to encourage my own grandmother to watch cartoons. (She will literally watch ANYTHING if I watch it with her )
But I'm talking about adults watching ones intended for preschool age. To each their own I guess, but I personally could never watch any of the preschool stuff I actually watched as a preschooler- kindergartener now at my age. I couldn't watch Teletubbies now without wanting to feel really stupid.