INNUENDO



Never, ever was there innuendo in one of tv's best shows. Never did anyone have to get embarrassed if they happened to be watching tv with their parents and the show that was airing was Beaver.


It's not quite like that anymore. When humor has sunk so low that I can't imagine watching some prime time shows with our young ones. Most of the innuendo, of course, is of a sexual nature. It's so unsophisticated that it reminds me of the time in first grade when we learned how to spell "but". I thought that was funny. (What first grader knew what I was laughing at required one more t?) It's about that level. I just wish it were that mild.

I even see it on the Disney channel comedy sit-coms. Whenever I sit in front of the tv when they're on, I think of the brain power I've lost and ponder how I can ever retrieve that thirty minutes from my life. I chalk it up to lost sleep. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep. Miley Cyrus smokes something that is spelled almost like saliva one day. The next, she's seen with a bong. This is Billy Ray's girl and Disney's princess. Well, Mary Ellen Rogers would never have considered it in Beaver.

In one show, an older Wally did date a girl who took tickets at the movies. She was older and smoked. She took him to a "beer joint" where Wally left her. If not brokenhearted, he at least had a heart pang. That was about as risque at the Beav's show ever got.

And I really liked it like that. But "gone are the snows of yesteryear", so if you're in for a little tube watching tonight, be sure there are no kids around.

I still miss "to do ta doda, ta do ta do"--you know, the theme song of "Leave it To Beaver.