Friday, May 13, 2016

                              Fish Out Of The Water


Two 1960s sitcoms, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES and THE ADDAM'S FAMILY, had one element in common:  That being the huge rift between the everyday reality of the average person and the everyday reality of an isolated demographic, be they a "forgotten" subculture or a fringe lifestyle.


In the case of both THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES and THE ADDAM'S FAMILY the main characters were totally oblivious to how out-of-touch they were to the mainstream, and actually thought themselves to be "the mainstream".


While THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES were "fish out of the water" due to their relocation from the backwoods to the elitist suburbs of Los Angeles, in THE ADDAM'S FAMILY it was the mainstream outsiders who visited them who wound up becoming the "fish out of the water".

4 comments:

  1. So what happened to the proposed reality TV series called the Real Beverly Hillbillies? Have poor country folk live among rich people. Imagine the laughs and ridicule. No controversy there.

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  2. So what happened to the proposed reality TV series called the Real Beverly Hillbillies? Have poor country folk live among rich people. Imagine the laughs and ridicule. No controversy there.

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  3. We're supposed to be such a "diversified" society.
    Learning to accept and tolerate each others differences.

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    1. Although, in our "off time", still preferring to continue "running with the same crowd" of course.

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