January 31, 2015
"So Pee Wee had the least ridiculous suit among the contestants?"
Comment at YouTube on a 1979 episode of "The Dating Game," where Pee Wee Herman was one of the unseen, possibly datable men. And speaking of unseen, I wish I could unsee that Pam-Dawberesque lady's hot pants.
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In the early 90's I worked for a video production house in LA that transfered video media from one format to another, e.i. from the American tv standard of NTSC to the European PAL/SECAM. During my time there a client had ordered the entire Dating Game library. Before anything is shipped out, the tapes had to be checked for quality purposes, which means someone had to watch some of the tapes to make sure the transfer went OK. I was just a production assistant, a go-fer as it were, so I wasn't that guy. But word would quickly spread in the office when either there was a future celebrity on the show, like the still unknown Tom Selleck, or when some absolutely bizarre and freaky bit of 70's fashion was shown. I think that was the first time I realized just how hideous 70's fashion was.
In my increasing reach into romantic comedy DVDs, I can verify that there are spectacularly bad flicks that are too stupid for words in the mix.
This is not genre-bad, say anything involving Nicholas Sparks which is simply aimed at another audience (disease, tears and weddings females), but plot-point insight-free stupid. Yet they write and make them. Maybe they are aimed at 13-year old girls. They're PG13, which lets them in.
On the other hand there are very good ones too.
Sandra Bullock, The Proposal and Two Weeks Notice. The Hugh Grant speech to win her back in the latter being excellent.
There's a motivation miscue after that - he isn't anxious to get into her pants but to be with her.
The miscues are interesting in a good flick but not a bad one.
Happy Days! That was how 1970s people once looked and acted when on TV.
Maybe iphones and ipads have added more positives than negatives.
I really wanted to see what you want to un-see, but I'm thinking the link is broken.....cuz there is nothing to un-see on the wiki page.
"cuz there is nothing to un-see on the wiki page."
That link is just to identify Pam Dawber. You have to watch the YouTube link to see the hot pants.
The woman's face resembles Pam Dawber, who was an important TV star in 1979.
I'm going to take the link off PD's name since it seems more like to confuse than to help.
Ah, the Seventies. Bad clothes, bad music, bad politics. The promise of the Sixties unfulfilled and the Reagan era yet to come. One long toothache of a decade.
"more like to confuse"
Just a typo for "likely," not me reverting to some rural form of speech, despite all that stuff about "tromp" today.
From wiki:
Rodney Alcala -- The Dating Game Killer.
In 1978, despite his status as a convicted rapist and registered sex offender,[29][30] Alcala was accepted as a contestant on The Dating Game. By then he had already killed at least two women in California and two others in New York.[31] Host Jim Lange introduced him as a "successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the darkroom at the age of 13, fully developed. Between takes you might find him skydiving or motorcycling".
Actor Jed Mills, who competed against Alcala as "Bachelor #2", later described him as a "very strange guy" with "bizarre opinions".[13] He asserted that Alcala did not wear earrings on the show, as he claimed during his 2010 trial; earrings were not yet a socially acceptable accoutrement for men in 1978. "I had never seen a man with an earring in his ear", he said. "I would have noticed them on him".[32]
Alcala won the contest, and a date with "bachelorette" Cheryl Bradshaw, who subsequently refused to go out with him, according to published reports, because she found him "creepy".[11][13] Criminal profiler Pat Brown, noting that Alcala killed Robin Samsoe and at least two other women after his Dating Game appearance, speculated that Bradshaw's rejection might have been an exacerbating factor. "One wonders what that did in his mind", Brown said. "That is something he would not take too well. [Serial killers] don't understand the rejection. They think that something is wrong with that girl: 'She played me. She played hard to get.'"[13]
I am Laslo.
That is a wonderful clip. Those lapels...
Was Chuck Barris a hitman for the United States government when this was videotaped?
"cuz there is nothing to un-see on the wiki page."
Thanks! I watched the video. I appreciated the hot pants, but she looks like a one-night-stand. Her posture, and demeanor convey a lack of self-esteem.
Pam Dawber, she is not!!
It would've never occurred to me that an attractive woman could be made less attractive by wearing hot pants.
We're never too old to learn.
Oh my....it's a lime green Pull-Up.
OK, I grew up in the 60s, and even I can't believe someone appeared on The Dating Game with those pants.
I said for decades that the '70s "never happened."
That clip was one reason why.
That chick is all teeth and camel toe.
I would take Pee-Wee over the other 2. Yikes. #3's remembrance of a date when he was 16 and the girl was all "No no no," is a great memory? The whole show is creepy and the host is like a pimp. I can't believe anyone thinks this is sexy.
Real camels would envy that camel toe.
Well, I have some pix of me from the early '70s, and I do wonder about my color combinations. Don't recall my girlfriend trying to set me straight, though. Oh! Back to the video: Yup, Bad suits, BAD! That young woman is awfully slim, and I didn't watch her long enough to see indications of camels on-screen.
The only word that comes to mind while watching that video is "chlamydia".
How did we as a people survive the 70s? Yikes!
The Dating Game was really just a screen test for wanna-be actors.
"I appreciated the hot pants, but she looks like a one-night-stand. Her posture, and demeanor convey a lack of self-esteem."
I figure they made her dress like that. She wouldn't have gone on without that getup.
It was so unflattering!
@CStanley - Exactly. They aren't hot pants, they're some sort of diaper. Fetish clothes.
Keri Frey looks like a cross between Suzanne Somers . . . and Joyce De Witt!
My classiest threads in the 70s:
-plum-colored suit with lapels to the shoulders and bell-bottoms
-lime-green shirt with a huge collar
-various extremely wide ties in psychedelic,patterns
-shiny black shoes
Everything (including the shoes, probably) made of polyester.
Casual wear:
-blue jeans with a red,insert to give them super big bells
-off-white shirt with big collar and puffy sleeves (just like the Jerry was shanghaid into wearing in that Seinfeld episode.
Great days…
kzookitty
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