Ghost of TWOP Past

I thought he had died? That's because you're intelligent.

Yes ladies, let that song be a lesson to you lest your own heart be drugged through the mud. Which, by the way, makes it sound like the truck broke down so something else had to drag it drug it, which doesn't seem like much of a recommendation for a truck commercial.

How is her heart like a truck? Is it metal, excessively large for its purpose, and polluting? And hearing that "it's been drug through the mud" makes my brain hurt.

That is the exact thought which passed through my mind.

Everyone involved in the commercials where people who can't sing "sing" variations on the Burger King jingle needs to be abandoned on a desert island until they apologize. And then left there anyway.

Knock off all the cussing, you gutter-mouthed punk youths!

Don't judge me.

I could just swear I heard a bit of suspense music from a Twlight Zone ep, but I don't remember which Perry it was in.

In one episode the judge is black, and he was played by... an actual black judge. This was in 1963. https://reelrundown.com/tv/Perry-Mason-The-Case-of-the-Silent-Black-Judge-and-More Meanwhile, last night's METV offering was The Case of the Bashful Burro. Did I hear correctly that the assayer was supposed to be from Wales? Because judging by that bizarre accent, I would have guessed he'd grown up in Mumbai.

She's thirsty.

Buy a little plastic bag of miracle water and then you'll receive checks for money in the mail, from... angels? Or something. How in the hell is this legal? Also, what are you supposed to do with it? There are no instructions. Maybe apply directly to the forehead?

The musical score is somewhat over-the-top at times in season 2. Also, what's with the odd habit of casting actresses with much older actors as their husbands?

Last night's ep surprised me with one of my first crushes, Nita Talbot. That's what she looked like in 1958 and she actually got better looking as she got older. 💘

Are you kidding or is this what it's supposed to mean?

Am I hearing correctly that this electric razor is an "all terrain shaver"? Aren't they all? Are there some electric razors which work in grassland and taiga but not temperate forest or alpine locations?

It's for the people who want their paychecks 2 days earlier.

Two tidbits about last night's MeTV episode (the name of which I forgot to note). Firstly, the flag in the courtroom only had 48 stars, which is correct for the time (Alaska and Hawaii became states part-way through the show's run) and I thought it was interesting. But there may be a continuity error in that the defendant of the week was said to be in Perry's "company" during the war, while other eps tell us Perry was in the Navy and the Navy only uses the term "company" for a few kinds of special purpose units. The term "company" is far more common for Army and Marines. Maybe nothing. Just discussing. :)

Never pick up hitchhikers. It just never ends well.

Speaking of repeated plots, Perry has now had 2 girls chased by guard dogs onto his boat, which happened to be passing at the time. What are the odds? I've read that this was one of the first long-running series in tv history and I guess they were were working out the rules for this sort of thing as they went. Does anyone know how audiences at the time reacted to recycled plots?

Last night in a season 1 episode a young woman hitchhiker caught a ride from a business man, then her partner tried to blackmail the business man, but Perry forestalled that by giving the blackmailer a check which appeared falsified but was actually valid. Thus if the blackmailer went ahead with the scam Perry could have him prosecuted for forgery. But the thing is, I could swear that is the plot of a later episode. Am I confused or did they actually use the same story twice?

I'm watching The Case of the Crimson Kiss and I am utterly bewildered. The aunt finds two drugged women she can't wake up, and her first call is to a lawyer rather than a doctor or the police? The answering service directs her call to Perry, who is eating at a diner at 1:30 in the morning? He calls Della, who is also ready to go at a moment's notice despite the hour and joins him at the location. Perry then calls the police and reports the dead lothario, but he then attempts to play dumb when Tragg arrives despite the fact that Tragg will already know that Perry was in the apartment to see the body and make the call, right? And then Perry discards the key to the lothario's apartment, which I believe is tampering with evidence and a crime. Later as Perry gets a ride with Tragg, they appear to be driving through a rural orchard. Sure, LA was less built up in 1957. But orchards on the route to the hospital? Then Perry more or less assaults what's her name right there in court to get a print of her lipstick for comparison, and the judge is only mildly annoyed? Am I missing something or is this all just plain weird?

The thing that bugs me about that is if you lose weight they pay you, right? Which means their business model depends on you failing to lose weight. So while pretending to be encouraging they're actually playing the odds that you'll fail. Profoundly cynical.

"Battlevision Storm" sunglasses. That's what they're called. Not just Battlevision. Battlevision STORM sunglasses! In case you need to fight off the Red Army while on your evening commute during a blizzard, I guess. Apparently they make daylight darker and night brighter, somehow. And they have to stop making them so they're only available for a limited time! It's like something Zap Brannigan would wear.

Tonight's MeTV offering is the one about a fictional tv show in which the real show's production crew plays the part of the fake show's production crew. The Mason-character's creator Earle Stanley Gardner is the judge. It's also the series finale, though as I understand it they didn't know it would be at the time.