Re the old TV's.....I don't know what the brand of the first one we got in 1948, but we were mesmerized! "Imagine, seeing and hearing at the same time from a box and a screen...."
Remember "Light's Out"?
And Hopalong Cassidy, Lone Ranger, Texico Comedy Hour, Red Skelton, and all of those wonderful old programs.
Re Tom Sawyer and Huck....Like MM said, it was Tom who was supposed to do the fence for his Aunt....here's a couple of good links...
In the real story, it was Tom Sawyer who was whitewashing the fence, and he tried to get his friends to pay him while they tried their hand at slapping paint on the fence…..
pbs.org
In today’s world, the Simpsons did this….
One of the best-known and best-loved moments in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the whitewashing scene, where the wily Tom convinces half the neighborhood children to not only do his chore of painting for him, but to actually pay him for the privilege. By making the odious task seem desirable to the neighborhood kids, Tom shows his smarts, gets out of his chores, and becomes richer in the process.
"The Simpsons'" take on the whitewashing scene is quite different, of course. Now Tom and Huck are whitewashing the fence together (Huck: "Whitewashing sucks, Tom. It powerful sucks"). And this time, instead of Tom's finagling and finesse, Huck, as Nelson the bully, simply slams the neighborhood childrens' heads into the paint, and then yells at them to "Get to work!"
pbs.org
BTW, how's your fence coming... |
