Comments on: TV Urban Legends Revealed #25

By: dom

dom — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:06:28 +0000

I remember an interview with Eddie Murphy back in the 80′s where he said he was a big fan of the Amos and Andy tv show. He said that there were a lot of positive black characters that were on the show. I’ve never seen it, so I don’t know, I just remember the interview.

By: Floria Adorno

Floria Adorno — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:16:14 +0000

Rick Manis

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:20:29 +0000

The character standing beside Penelope Pitstop is called the Hooded claw, who is actually her deceased father’s secretary, Sylvester Sneekly.

By: Hood Hair Dryer

Hood Hair Dryer — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:06:41 +0000

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By: TV Legends History

TV Legends History — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:16:15 +0000

[...] #25 – Bill Cosby tried to purchase the rights to the Amos and Andy TV series to keep it off the air. [...]

By: Comic Book Legends Revealed #246 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:38:12 +0000

[...] which you can check out here, at legendsrevealed.com. I’d especially recommend you check out this installment of TV Legends Revealed to find out what involvement Bill Cosby had with the Amos and Andy TV series coming off the [...]

By: Andy E Nystrom

Andy E Nystrom — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:37:38 +0000

There’s been enough sexual refeences in other cartoons (one episode of Super Friends had Batman & Robin use the Bat-Lube; one episode of He-Man had He-Man and other character constrantly arguing over the quality of their swords; Men in Black’s cartoon mentioned the cat scan) that I tend to make “intentional” my default assumption.

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:17:05 +0000

[...] of fun and engaging articles on Movies, TV, Popular Music, and other forms of entertainment. Did Bill Cosby try to censor Amos & Andy? Was the Little Mermaid modeled on Alyssa Milano? Was the song Breakfast at Tiffany’s [...]

By: FerCryinOutLoudPeople

FerCryinOutLoudPeople — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:26:40 +0000

The Vibrator button on Penelope Pitstop’s console refers a vibrating belt machine found at the time in salons and gymnasiums, and believed to promote a slimmer, trimmer figure. If Penelope’s Compact Pussycat was, as described, a traveling beauty salon, it would logically come equipped with one of these commonplace devices. The action described in the above article about a belt emerging about her waist when the button is pressed confirms it.

Here’s a link to a website describing such a machine:
http://fitho.in/tag/vibrating-belt-machine/

So, sorry, folks. No one snuck one by the ol’ unwary, unhip blue-nose censor this time. There was no under-the-table under-the-covers bit of the ol’ nudge-nudge-wink-wink taking place here…

Hey, here’s an idea. Why don’t we post that cover from the old Rifleman comic with the log and all share a laff about how they really got one over on the censors with that gag, huh?? Yeesh…

By: Jim Kosmicki

Jim Kosmicki — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:19:18 +0000

what gets forgotten is that Amos and Andy was actually funny – both radio and TV. If you read Cosby’s argument, his problem was that the comedic shuffling stereotype was the ONLY portrayal and thus the dominant portrayal. However, the negative charge stuck and now you can’t go back and see the originals anymore. The Amos and Andy show employed a LOT of black actors – and when it went off the air, they simply had no more jobs, not jobs with better portrayals. it was 10 years before Cosby and then Diahann Carroll in Julia played a black main character who was “normal.” That’s a long time of little to no work for black actors.

and their sponsor was BLATZ beer, not Bratz beer. it was a major beer brand up through the end of the 1950′s, when a series of purchases and mergers led to it being lost.