Zoneboy
08-10-2009, 01:11 AM
The U.S. Postal Service will release its "Early TV Movies" line of stamps today, collector’s items that celebrate such shows as Kukla, Fran & Ollie; Hopalong Cassidy; Texaco Star Theater and 17 other shows from the 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s.
Perhaps fittingly, the stamps are in black and white and feature iconic images such as Lucy and Ethel on the chocolate-factory assembly line from a classic I Love Lucy episode; the portentous faces of Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling from their intros to Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone; and the duck descending to give Groucho Marx the secret word on the game show You Bet Your Life.
Other shows include Dragnet ("Just the mail, ma’am. Just the mail."); The Honeymooners ("Send this to the moon, Alice! Extra postage!"); and Lassie ("What’s that girl?" "Bark!" "Timmy fell in the mailbox!?"). Which of course got us thinking about some other shows we’d like to see represented and the kind of mail you might get.
Bonanza: Nobody ever gets mail with a Bonanza stamp, because once you put the stamp on an envelope, it catches on fire and Ben Cartwright and his sons come riding up the range.
Gilligan’s Island: You can put this stamp on most letters, but the mail will probably be lost, just like Gilligan, the Skipper and Co. were when the S.S. Minnow was lost at sea.
Star Trek: The stamp is reserved for mail that boldly goes where no mail has gone before.
Mission: Impossible: Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to actually put this on a letter rather than sending an e-mail. Or at least on a bill instead of doing electronic banking. Or to get someone born after 1995 to use it rather than sending a text message.
Battlestar Galactica: The first time you put it on a letter, it looks kinda cheap and cheesy, but do it again 30 years later and it looks really cool.
Miami Vice: Conversely, this looks kinda cool the first time you put it on a letter, but do it again 20 years later and it looks really cheesy.
MacGyver: Sure, it looks like a stamp. But with a paper clip and some stray sweater thread, you can make it into almost anything! A bomb defuser! A flood-dammer! An escape device!
Law & Order: The stamp stays the same, but the letter expands, becomes several similar letters, and it still stays around forever. No? How ’bout, "In the U.S. postal system, letters are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the people who send them, and the people who receive them. These are their stories. (Chunk-chunk!)."
Seinfeld: What is the deal with collectible postage stamps? It’s not like you’re going to put them on a letter or sell them. And you can’t put a stamp on an e-mail. You never even get to find out what the glue tastes like! (Note: Only for letters about nothing.) (Note two: Consider what happened to Susan on Seinfeld and don’t try to find out what the glue tastes like.)
Lost: Nobody really knows what the letters are about — sometimes, not even the writers — but everyone talks about them the next morning anyway.
The Sopranos: These are letters you can’t refuse.
’Til Death: The letter keeps coming back, but nobody can explain why.
http://www.star-telegram.com/living/story/1526933.html
Perhaps fittingly, the stamps are in black and white and feature iconic images such as Lucy and Ethel on the chocolate-factory assembly line from a classic I Love Lucy episode; the portentous faces of Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling from their intros to Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone; and the duck descending to give Groucho Marx the secret word on the game show You Bet Your Life.
Other shows include Dragnet ("Just the mail, ma’am. Just the mail."); The Honeymooners ("Send this to the moon, Alice! Extra postage!"); and Lassie ("What’s that girl?" "Bark!" "Timmy fell in the mailbox!?"). Which of course got us thinking about some other shows we’d like to see represented and the kind of mail you might get.
Bonanza: Nobody ever gets mail with a Bonanza stamp, because once you put the stamp on an envelope, it catches on fire and Ben Cartwright and his sons come riding up the range.
Gilligan’s Island: You can put this stamp on most letters, but the mail will probably be lost, just like Gilligan, the Skipper and Co. were when the S.S. Minnow was lost at sea.
Star Trek: The stamp is reserved for mail that boldly goes where no mail has gone before.
Mission: Impossible: Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to actually put this on a letter rather than sending an e-mail. Or at least on a bill instead of doing electronic banking. Or to get someone born after 1995 to use it rather than sending a text message.
Battlestar Galactica: The first time you put it on a letter, it looks kinda cheap and cheesy, but do it again 30 years later and it looks really cool.
Miami Vice: Conversely, this looks kinda cool the first time you put it on a letter, but do it again 20 years later and it looks really cheesy.
MacGyver: Sure, it looks like a stamp. But with a paper clip and some stray sweater thread, you can make it into almost anything! A bomb defuser! A flood-dammer! An escape device!
Law & Order: The stamp stays the same, but the letter expands, becomes several similar letters, and it still stays around forever. No? How ’bout, "In the U.S. postal system, letters are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the people who send them, and the people who receive them. These are their stories. (Chunk-chunk!)."
Seinfeld: What is the deal with collectible postage stamps? It’s not like you’re going to put them on a letter or sell them. And you can’t put a stamp on an e-mail. You never even get to find out what the glue tastes like! (Note: Only for letters about nothing.) (Note two: Consider what happened to Susan on Seinfeld and don’t try to find out what the glue tastes like.)
Lost: Nobody really knows what the letters are about — sometimes, not even the writers — but everyone talks about them the next morning anyway.
The Sopranos: These are letters you can’t refuse.
’Til Death: The letter keeps coming back, but nobody can explain why.
http://www.star-telegram.com/living/story/1526933.html