The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a pop-culture Q&A with both Barack Obama and John McCain. I found Senator Obama's comments particularly interesting:


EW: What shows were you passionate about as a child?

Obama: You know, I grew up in the golden age of sitcoms. I think 'M*A*S*H' was probably my favorite. Michelle's favorite is 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' which she sometimes now watches [in reruns]. I have to say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' ranks right up there.

Yay Michelle!:wave:

Dick van Dyke is still a great show regardless of the fact that Obama watches it.

LOL! From the title I thought this thread said that he was "on" the Dick Van Dyke show. I was trying to figure out what part he could have played. :lol:

Yeah me too! It kinda threw me, but I figured he really couldn't have been on there!
And I agree totally with you MickeyMac!!!

yea, me too!!:lol: :lol:

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a pop-culture Q&A with both Barack Obama and John McCain. I found Senator Obama's comments particularly interesting:


EW: What shows were you passionate about as a child?

Obama: You know, I grew up in the golden age of sitcoms. I think 'M*A*S*H' was probably my favorite. Michelle's favorite is 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' which she sometimes now watches [in reruns]. I have to say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' ranks right up there.

Yay Michelle!:wave:
well, despite that, I still think it's a classic show.

Dick Van Dyke to me would still be a classic show even if Hitler liked it.

I don't like to discuss politics so I will keep any and all opinions out of this, but I will say that it can only be a positive thing for The Dick Van Dyke Show when someone like Barrack and Michelle Obama say they watch it. Hopefully someone in my generation and younger can be introduced to a classic like this by someone that prominent saying that they like it. Much like a few years back when Bill Clinton said he watched TV Land for Lucy and Archie Bunker reruns.

Good point Benno, there needs to be more interest in shows that were made before 1969.

Yeah, I wouldn't base whether I liked a show on who watched it anyway.

For a minute I thought this thread was going to say that Greg Morris, who played Mr. Peters on the classic "That's My Boy" episode, beared a resemblance to Barack Obama! (Which he kind of does, don't he?) Anyway, it would've been interesting to see him on THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, but he was only a kid when it premiered, I think. It would've been like Schwarzenegger before he was the "Governator!" :lol:

LOL! From the title I thought this thread said that he was "on" the Dick Van Dyke show. I was trying to figure out what part he could have played. :lol:


I've always had a problem with my misplaced modifiers:lol:

For a minute I thought this thread was going to say that Greg Morris, who played Mr. Peters on the classic "That's My Boy" episode, beared a resemblance to Barack Obama! (Which he kind of does, don't he?) Anyway, it would've been interesting to see him on THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, but he was only a kid when it premiered, I think. It would've been like Schwarzenegger before he was the "Governator!" :lol:

Barack Obama was probably born around the time the series premiered. He could have played the Peter's unseen baby!

LOL yeah!!! Wasn't the baby supposed to be a girl though?

I've always had a problem with my misplaced modifiers:lol:

No, that was actually pretty funny. I kind of figured that he was never on the show, since he's only 47, but you never know!

I like when candidates are interviewed on personal things like TV shows and so forth. It makes their lives seem so much more interesting! That's cool that Obama and Michelle like the classics!

Andrea

LOL yeah!!! Wasn't the baby supposed to be a girl though?

No. In the epsisode, Rob is convinced that the hospital gave them the wrong baby. They gave them the wrong flowers and maybe even other things (it has been awhile since I last saw the episode. Rob even tried to match a footprint he made to the one on the birth certificate.

Convinced that they have the wrong babies, Rob calls the Peters and asks them to come over. When they arrive, the Peters are black. Mr. Peters said he could of explained it on the phone, but he wanted to see the look on Rob's face.

I wasn't even born when this episode first aired, but I have read and heard that this episode was one of the first, if not the first, TV show that showed a black family as a normal middle class family. That was ground breaking TV for the early '60s.

Oh I know the show quite very well. I just thought that within the flowers, the nurse called him a girl, and Rob corrected her and said he was a boy, and she said "Whatever." And I thought that she was saying that because they kept mixing the Peters and Petries up.
I wasn't born when the episode first aired (negative 32 years actually) but for my end of year US History project, we had to do a decade, and concentrate on one area of one area. I did the 1960's, Pop Culture, TV, and the first of The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl, and Mary Tyler Moore (the teacher let me go over to get out m point for MTM). It was really good and I think I well deserved my 100. When she first gave the assignment I was already starting to wrote it down and barley needed my two DVD Show books to help!!! It was a lot of fun!!!!!!! :) :) :)

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20231970,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

Michelle Obama Prefers Dick Van Dyke to Debates

from People magazine

Michelle's probably as sick of listening to politics as I am, hence the preference to DVD to debates.

For a minute I thought this thread was going to say that Greg Morris, who played Mr. Peters on the classic "That's My Boy" episode, beared a resemblance to Barack Obama! (Which he kind of does, don't he?) Anyway, it would've been interesting to see him on THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, but he was only a kid when it premiered, I think. It would've been like Schwarzenegger before he was the "Governator!" :lol:


Barak Obama bears no resemblance to Greg Morris!! Greg Morris is good-looking, BO is not!

Lolac
:p

Barak Obama bears no resemblance to Greg Morris!! Greg Morris is good-looking, BO is not!

Lolac
:p



Also Greg Morris is interesting BO is not, but neither is McCain.

Also Greg Morris is interesting BO is not, but neither is McCain.

No argument there!

Lolac
:rolleyes:

Dick van Dyke is still a great show regardless of the fact that Obama watches it.

Agreed! :lol:

For a minute I thought this thread was going to say that Greg Morris, who played Mr. Peters on the classic "That's My Boy" episode, beared a resemblance to Barack Obama! (Which he kind of does, don't he?) Anyway, it would've been interesting to see him on THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, but he was only a kid when it premiered, I think. It would've been like Schwarzenegger before he was the "Governator!" :lol:

Barack Obama was born Friday, August 4, 1961, which according to my book "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was during an off-week of the show's production. "Harrison B. Harding..." was filmed Tuesday, August 1, and what may have been one of the best (IMO) eps of Season 1, "My Blonde-Haired Brunette", was filmed Tuesday, August 15.

Pay attention because this is one of the few times I will discuss politics here.

Regardless of what I think of Barak Obama and his wife. I will give them credit for appreciating a classic show like Dick Van Dyke

Pay attention because this is one of the few times I will discuss politics here.

Regardless of what I think of Barak Obama and his wife. I will give them credit for appreciating a classic show like Dick Van Dyke


This is why I feel that, regardless of politics and how one may view Obama, hopefully he will promote the appreciation that the family has of the series and thus will bring a new people to appreciate the series as well.

Better yet Obama should pick one day and invite the surviving cast members to the White House and declare it Dick Van Dyke Show Day.