tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post7850347946163904682..comments2023-11-03T11:37:13.579-04:00Comments on Something Old, Nothing New: Crazy WoodyJaime J. Weinmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15128500411119962998noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-83318754430539261472007-06-30T17:49:00.000-04:002007-06-30T17:49:00.000-04:00I think a lot depends on what you were exposed to ...I think a lot depends on what you were exposed to first -- as a child, watching Bewitched reruns, I saw Dick Seargant as Darrin before I saw Dick York, so I preferred Dick Seargant. However, when I got older I learned that virtually the entire Western World prefers it the other way. <BR/><BR/>I think much of TV is fundamentally about familiarity.Rob Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743540135575747985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-66557031800534193572007-06-27T09:40:00.000-04:002007-06-27T09:40:00.000-04:00I like all of them, but my favorite is the slick o...I like all of them, but my favorite is the slick one of the mid-to-late 40s. I own the maquette of the 1941 mentally retarded Woody and it's absolutely awesome.Thadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04443425643665474645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-75038599782217847532007-06-26T23:26:00.000-04:002007-06-26T23:26:00.000-04:00My favorite Woody design is the mid-to-late 1940s ...My favorite Woody design is the mid-to-late 1940s version of the character. The original Woody design has to have been one of the ugliest in Technicolor cartoons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-8412535662126274602007-06-26T21:37:00.000-04:002007-06-26T21:37:00.000-04:00Age and location have a lot to do with this -- if ...Age and location have a lot to do with this -- if you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s in a big city, with a number of independent TV stations, then chances are you saw the pre-48 Warners cartoons five or six days a week, and the post-48s only on Saturday mornings, while at that time the Lantz syndicated package pretty much stopped at about 1958 or so, which meant you never saw the really bad decline in the studio's cartoons that followed.<BR/><BR/>Those in smaller cities who grew up during that same period, in cities without the luxury of non-network stations, saw only the post-48 WB cartoons on CBS and ABC, and only got Woody for a few years on NBC's Saturday morning lineup or if their ABC, CBS or NBC station carved out some of its limited late-afternoon free space for kids cartoons. So their experience with the Universal or WB stuff wouldn't be much different than for those who grew up in the 1980s or early 90s, when the later cartoons from both studios were more prevalent on TV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com