Just "entertainment"!

[alexpgp]

It turns out last night's NBC's Medium crime drama had a plot in which a senator from Arizona - who just happens to be a former POW - turns out to be... a double murderer and a cannibal!

I tell you, the people who, back in '63, arranged for the "little girl picking the flowers" ad to run immediately after a telecast of Dr. Strangelove were clumsy thumbed amateurs, by comparison.

Or maybe not.

If the self-righteous clods who arranged for last night's plot can't learn to rein in their, um, "creative impulses," their attempts to sway public opinion may backfire on them.

Cheers...

UPDATE: As LJ friend justpat points out, most of the info in the second graf is wrong. The Daisy Girl ad ran in 1964 during a telecast of David and Bathsheba, and not Dr. Strangelove which only hit the boob tube in '68. No doubt, I am recalling a similar ad, aired at a different time, after a movie of the Dr. Strangelove genre.

Comments

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Oh, come, come -- that episode of Medium was produced before the writers' strike started back when Mitt Romney was still the Republican front runner.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Point taken.

Hollywood producers, who have a worldwide reputation for never, ever changing a line of a screenplay after it has been written - <grin> - obviously had no choice but to go forth with a script in which the villain (picked, doubtless, at random) is eerily similar to a guy who, according to the polls (http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/national-polls.html), spent most of last year in second place (behind Giuliani, not Romney).

Thus, what we have here is not an attempt to make an also-ran look bad, but rather, such an attempt gone wrong?

Cheers...

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't think it was a McCain dis. The series takes place in AZ. If it took place in TX, they would have used a Texas politician.

[madhacktress.livejournal.com]

...but we already know that a former Texas politician has blood on his hands.

Sorry, my partisan is showing.

[justpat.livejournal.com]

Also, Dr. Strangelove wasn't released in theaters until 1964 and wasn't on TV until 9 October 1968.

The Daisy Girl commercial was broadcast once, on 7 September 1964, during an NBC movie that wasn't Strangelove.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the clarification.

I have a memory of having seen an ad that, if it wasn't the Daisy Girl (http://www.conelrad.com/daisy/index.php) ad - and having just watched it on YouTube, I can't honestly say if it was the one or not - was very similar in concept and broadcast immediately following the telecast of a movie that involved nuclear war (coulda sworn it was Strangelove). In fact, the effect was such that - if you weren't actively channel-surfing (and since these were the days before remote controls, few would've been) - you might've easily thought the ad was part of the movie.

Then again, right now, I'm recalling I saw it on my grandmother's television, in a place that would have precluded it being 1964. (More like 1967-1972.)

Cheers...