Help me out. Examples of 60s-70s BAD attempts at being cool in media.

[nolabear]

This, which of course was all over the place yesterday, is the ultimate I think. But I remember TV shows and movies trying SO hard to be all groovy and far out and failing miserably. Of course I could use some examples. Help!

Whaddaya got?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Of all the people in the entire universe who never could be considered "groovy,"

Lawrence Welk had to have been at the top of the list.

[nolabear]

4. I'll bet the boys in the band were hysterical though.

[Tribalceltic]

2. I need ear bleach, but Captain Kirk ummm... well see for yourself

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[nolabear]

3. YES! I actually owned the "Golden Throats" collection.

Telly Savalas, Sebastion Cabot...I'd forgotten about it. Off to find them.

[benld74]

5. I was 15 in 1971 and my folks STILL watched

their LW show. I can remember seeing this!! while they were watching that night.

I just got really quiet, waiting for them to say something, anything about the song.

Because I KNEW.

But they didn't. Now I wish I would have checked their feet at the time, to see if they were tapping them to the tune,,,,

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. You just had to remind me, didn't you!

[nolabear]

7. Bless his heart.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. I swear Telly Savalas used that same chair to sing "Who Loves Ya Baby" on some variety show.

I can find the youtube for his horrible musical special but that wasn't it. He was sitting and singing just like Lawford.

[hibbing]

8. Dragnet druggies

Any of the druggies they had on that show were so over the top, I think some character painted his face green and jumped out of a building or something on one show.

Peace

[nolabear]

9. I remember that. Half show, half lecture.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. What a flashback! My roommates and I saw that episode at the Hollywood Preview Center before

the air date. The three of us were stoned out of our minds on PEZ acid. We were escorted out of the theater when I fell into the aisle laughing my ass off!

[hibbing]

12. Thumbs up!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. Lol.

[Tikki]

10. The Quincy, M.E. episode about the dangers of being a Punk...

Classic beyond classic on how far out of touch some TV writers can be.
Literally everything about the episode was cliche and just plain stupid and laughable.

Tikki

[nolabear]

14. Oh yeah! Prime.

Wouldn't you have loved to have been in on the planning for some of these?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. I've long suspected a lot of this was to pay off community service time. :-)

[WinkyDink]

13. Well, there was this one politician....

[nolabear]

15. Yeah, but Laugh In and The Smothers Brothers worked.

They really did. I think Laugh In played on the idea of old guys being groovy, and the Brothers were just groovy. That straight line between folk and hip.

[WinkyDink]

21. Nixon was never cool, was my point.

[Sancho]

38. I was posting the same one...first thing I thought of...

[area51]

17. Can't resist posting this

such an odd backdrop for the song.

[Rhiannon12866]

18. I remember that! Not first run, but my brother used to send me things like this, LOL

I'm not sure he meant it as a joke, since we used to watch it with my Polish grandmother, she enjoyed it. As a little kid, I liked the Lennon Sisters, still remember all their names. But given the audience of the show, this has to be one of the funniest moments in TV history!

[Ptah]

19. Pat Boone

[nolabear]

22. I wonder whose idea that was.

There were stories that he lived next door to Ozzy and was t thrilled with their shenanigans but the fact he did Crazy Train for the series probably brought him more money than he'd seen in years. Ick.

[annabanana]

20. Brady Bunch. (Bless their hearts)

I have a real soft spot for this show.. but "cool" they never were..

[nolabear]

23. The Partriges they weren't.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

24. I made it through 34 seconds.

The cheapskate (i.e., over-the-air) TV shows back-to-back episodes of that on Sunday afternoons. The fashions are hard to take.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. Any Bob Hope special of the era.

For example, go to 48:00 on this one:

[Warpy]

28. Oh, gawd, there were so many

My favorites were the "counterculture" in depth news segments that showed people under 25 who were obviously putting them on. Runner up were the cop and crime shows. Third were music acts aimed at the flabby suburbs in "60s" garb.

Oh, and the fashion and interior desecration magazines. Oh, my gawd, did anybody wear that stuff? Did anybody really live like that?

http://flashbak.com/pages-of-polyester-the-sears-1974-catalog-1687/ When people want to know what finally killed Sears, I say "polyester." Before they discovered that shit, they sold classic if dowdy stuff that lasted. Once polyester invaded them, it was only a matter of time.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/ "Glad you could come over! Excedrin Migraine's on the shelf."

And who could remember the hip president relaxing at the beach? Sand in the wingtips must've been a bugger.

[wasupaloopa]

29. After he resigned he did walk the beach like many people did and you could walk right up to him

[nolabear]

30. I forgot about ads. They were some of the worst!

[Warpy]

32. I forgot the absolute worst of the worst

It was any TV show or movie that showed people under 25 dancing, especially to live music. It was grisly.

[Straw Man]

31. Donnie and Marie, "Reelin' in the Years."

With iceskaters.

[nolabear]

33. Oh. My. God. I...I don't know what to say.

[Straw Man]

34. There really are no words.

It defies description.

[Doc_Technical]

35. Groovy

[Sancho]

37. Nixon