Bewitched: ...wait. Okay, in this one, a racist visits the Stevenson household. Daughter Tabitha is friends with an African American girl. She uses her magic to change her friend white then uses her magic to turn herself black.
So, this is an episode that involves black face. And White Face. Yeah. If this weren't a Christmas episode, I'd run. Instead the two girls end up with dots on their faces while the company Christmas Party ends up at the house. This includes incredible racism. Because the 70s.
Darren's boss, upon realizing racism, decides he wants nothing to do with the racist. So, Tabitha uses her magic to make everyone appear black to the racist. Which involves everyone in black face. EVERYONE! Yeah. Look, I know, very important lesson about racism but this is more black face than a minstrel show.
Anyway, the racist realizes that racism is bad. Okay, Bewitched, I'm not forgiving you for the black face but this at least gets the Christmas Spirit of goodwill for all man. We could use that.
Gilligan's Island: This is the Christmas episode with a large amount of the footage taken from the unaired pilot. It mainly centers on Gilligan making a Christmas wish that they would be rescued, it looking like they are going to, flashbacking to Gilligan wrecking the radio, and then not getting rescued in the present. Then Santa shows up and it turns out to be the real Santa but ehh. He doesn't save them.
Maude: Maude was Bea Arthur as Edith Bunker's liberal cousin. In this episode, Maude's employees want to unionize. She is all for it. Her husband isn't and wants to fire them all. We learn an important lesson about unionized labor being important in a civilized work place. It's okay.
Laverne and Shirley: Laverne and Shirley get talked into doing a performance for a psychiatric hospital. Most of it is making fun of the mentally ill which I really don't care for. Most of it is just an excuse for the actors to demonstarte being able to dance or sing or whatever.
Non-Viewing Thoughts: 70s sitcoms were alternatively very forward thinking, insane, and regressive as heck.
Late Christmas Ideas: I really should just post my Steam Wishlist here...
Notable Commercials: Apparently MeTV is getting the original McGuyver. Good for them. Still won't watch it.
Mountain Dews Left: 6 Cans
Coca-Colas Left: 2 Cans
Kickstarts Left: 0 Cans
Coffee Left: 1 Bottle
Pumpkin Pie Left: 3/4ths
Sanity Rating: (1 being a Variety Show, 10 being a Variety of Poisonous Jellyfish): 6
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