Bonus video! Mickey Rooney's Terrible Alternative to All in the Family

I'd love to watch a video in which you talk about your maybe ten favorite series that did NOT get picked up. "Rooney, Private Blind-Eye" could've been interesting!

Eric Baysinger

Another delicious morsel of information! Too bad I don’t get to see you during your book tour! We’d love to see you in Kalamazoo!

Tony Holewinski

I think he just meant to say that her breast had popped out during her audition.

Maybe they would have gotten away with the breast idea on Primetime TV in the early 70's considering this was around the same time that film ratings were constantly changing. From 1970 to 1972, the M rating for Mature audiences was changed to the GP rating for All ages admitted with parental guidance, to the PG rating that we remember from the 1970's and 1980's that sometimes did allow some nudity. Andromeda Strain which came out in 1971 with a G rating had a lot of non-sex scene nudity. If there was ever a time for this idea, this was probably it. And who knows how TV standards would have changed after that.

Juan Nunez

I agree- and I was going to say the same thing, with this addition: not bleeping could be done only if the content is meant to highlight why using that slur is a problem (otherwise go ahead and bleep it), then give the content warning, as well as a little blurb like “This recording was made in 197x, and characters were given slurs in their lines to highlight the problems these words pose for society. Viewer discretion is advised.” or something like that.

Empress Jadis

Oh WOW I didn't know about that!!! Doris would have been amazing in that role, very hard to imagine but I'd have loved to see it.

Matt Baume

Oh good, glad YouTube is working well. Vimeo is about to end support for their TV app and that really was the last straw of waiting for them to fix connectivity.

Matt Baume

Ah yes, Mickey Rooney as Archie Bunker. One of the bizarre casting choices right up three with Doris Day as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.

Scott Nesmith

Yay! Thank you for moving them back to YT. Vimeo is great in theory but works *so* poorly in practice. Also, the book is fantastic and I'm recommending it to all my friends. :) Also also, that montage at the end of the video was way more fun than it had any right to be, felt like something out of a 60s variety show, and I love it.

Yonatan Zunger

I agree that that's a good way to handle things -- it's what I tried to do with Norman's story containing slurs at the end of this bonus video. Let me know know what's coming so it doesn't just seem like "hey here's a totally normal way to talk about people"

Matt Baume

On bleeping> my I agree with you about the fact bleep words out gives them more power. One way to navigate could be to let viewers know at the start about the language in the episode so they are warned it is coming up and can make an informed decision about if thet want to hear it or not.

Sarah Parker-Shemilt