HBO Newsroom references

[Pryderi]

Joey Heatherton, Father Flanigan, and Abbott and Costello?

Is there anyone under 40 that's going to get those references?

What next? WC Fields' "My little chickadee"? Judge Hardy?

[Pryderi]

1. "Say Goodnight, Gracie" "Goodnight Gracie." n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I played Gen X Trivial Pursuit the other day. There were only 3 questions.

And two of them were about Kurt Cobain.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. People who don't get references come in two sorts, the first rushes to look up and understand the

reference. The second sort is stuck on stupid.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. One of these days Alice...

[Pryderi]

6. "We have a really big shew"

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Tonight, we have the Beatles!

What was that? 1962?

[Pryderi]

10. "Oh Rochester..."

[Arugula Latte]

12. Those long-haired fellas are just a flash in the pan

like rock-n-roll itself.

[Archae]

8. WND is pissed off at "Newsroom"

In one episode they said WND just makes shit up.

Guess what, they DO just make shit up!

[vanlassie]

9. Anyway, the ending last night blew me away!!!

I was gobsmacked by Charlie hollering in the newsroom. And what he yelled. Maybe this show only appeals to a narrow demographic, but I'm in it! And I can't wait for my son, 35, to see it. The referenced wont bother him and if he cares he'll google.

[Xyzse]

11. I love Newsroom

I don't get many of the references though.
I lived in another country for a little less than half of my life when I was younger, and I am still early 30s so that is another issue that makes me unable to get some cultural references.

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. I highly recommend this OTR site (Old Time Radio) -- over 12,000 eoisodes from 170 radio series...

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... mostly from the 40's and 50's. Enjoyable, FREE and a great way to pick up cultural references
from that era.
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Start with "Gunsmoke" and "Father Knows Best" and "The Jack Benny Show", but there's all
sorts of crime dramas, science fiction shows, comedies and other genres. I highly recommend
"The Great Gildersleeves" -- 470 episoodes from 1941 - 1954 -- for a real education in social
norms (though they always struck me as from an even earlier time than those years).
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I use RealPlayer to listen and, one of thee best things -- I can listen while doing other stuff.
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http://otr.net/
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