tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post866287481735433556..comments2024-03-26T22:42:06.412-07:00Comments on TAG Blog: Fifty years ...Steve Huletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-75046032539687663572010-10-01T06:24:38.757-07:002010-10-01T06:24:38.757-07:00Speaking of snotty tweaks . . .Speaking of snotty tweaks . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-77390519661995087922010-09-30T18:06:14.678-07:002010-09-30T18:06:14.678-07:00Everybody with a snotty pop-culture tweak thinks h...<i>Everybody</i> with a snotty pop-culture tweak thinks he knows the Flinstones Winston commercial--<br />Unaware that they also advertised for One A Day vitamins (gee, wonder whatever happened to that?), and Welch's juice. (Which explains why almost every episode in the fourth season had strategically planted lines about "drinking grape juice").<br /><br />And the writing for the first three seasons was miles ahead of the shallow hip-cynicism of the current Springfield residents:<br />The early-HB writers let their silly Yogi Bear timing cut loose, and a satirical adult sensibility that amused themselves if they didn't think anyone else was watching. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com