The Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Challenge!
9Norman Lear’s satirical soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman premiered in syndication on January 5, 1976. There are 325 episodes, a sequel/continuation titled Fernwood Forever, and two seasons of summer replacement Fernwood 2 Nite and America 2 Nite. I’m going to try to watch the whole thing in order on as close to the original airing dates as possible, if possible. It’s going to take a year and a half. I’m excited.
Here’s the first episode:
It’s a little terrifying!
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Are they all on YouTube? I may join you!
@sammydog01 I’m not sure! A google search said it’s available on Sony’s YouTube channel, but I couldn’t find it using my phone. I have the series boxed set, but I can’t remember if it has Forever Fernwood and it definitely doesn’t have Fernwood 2 Nite. I hope it’s all on YouTube, because a group watch would be super fun!
“What kind of a madman would shoot two goats and eight chickens?”
/showme a madman shooting two goats and eight chickens
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@mediocrebot @Pavlov Geez. I preferred it when the bot rejected violence.
@Kyeh @mediocrebot @Pavlov It looks like that particular madman is protecting the sheep and goats who are under attack.
@mediocrebot @mossygreen @Pavlov
It does, I guess. I’m still shocked at the gore.
@Kyeh @mossygreen @Pavlov I wouldn’t give the bot too much credit for using correct perspective. And, on a side note, it looks like David Arquette really let himself go!
@ircon96 @Kyeh @mossygreen @Pavlov I thought Mad Max (Mel Gibson) when I first saw the image.
Looks like the hen in the middle ducked at the right time.
@Kyeh @mossygreen @Pavlov @phendrick “Ducked”
… Yeah, that poor girl is like, What the cluck…?!
/showme a kitchen floor with a yellow waxy buildup.
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@mediocrebot that buildup was a letdown
Episode 2 from the same youtube account:
“I got a mother and a father and a chicken and a goat, and I’m a riding the train to heaven.”
/showme a mass murderer with a chicken and a goat riding a train to heaven
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@mediocrebot @Pavlov Missing a negligee from Frederick’s.
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This was on American airwaves for 300 episodes? This seems like a British series.
@pakopako 325, plus a sequel and summer replacements. In that way, the exact opposite of a British series.
@pakopako OF COURSE, Norman Lear was known for retooling British sitcoms for the US market, so while I don’t know how much he had to do with the actual nuts and bolts of creating the series, it makes sense that there’d be some UK dna in there.
@mossygreen @pakopako The US version of The Office is SO MUCH better that the English one! Same thing for the show Ghosts.
@mossygreen @pakopako @therealjrn Love the US version of Ghosts and was sooooo disappointed with the UK one.
I found episode 3 here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5cmyom
“I’m sure you were very attractive.”
“Really? What do you think happened to me?”
/showme an attractive young girl drinking from a water fountain with water going up her nose
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@Pavlov Thanks, I was just about to post this! It looks like they have a lot of the episodes. There’s a guy on YouTube who streamed reaction videos of the whole series but didn’t show the actual episodes until episode 60. I haven’t checked them out yet to see if the viewing experience is enhanced by a middle-aged Asian man smiling in the lower left corner. I’m kind of hoping it is.