Man Shows For Manly Men
in the early morning on Tuesday, the 15th of April 2008 by Chad
Where are the shows for men? I mean, real unafraid man shows?
The 70’s had Kung Fu, Six-Million Dollar Man, and Black Sheep Squadron. The Six-Million Dollar Man was so manly they had to spin off the chick part into her own show.
In the 80’s you had The A-Team (possibly manliest show ever) and Airwolf. MST3K was in the 80s.
The 90’s… nothing we could find. Apparently 1990 marked the castration of shows for men. Something changed around that time, and suddenly it became wrong to have TV shows with explosions… it became necessary to have shows where the men were either stupid or emotional. Every father on tv became a caricature. You had Home Improvement, trying to see how much of a clown you could make the father.
Since 2000 the only show that even comes close was Deadwood on HBO. It had cowboys and dirt and guns and cussin’ and killin’ and hookers.
You say Football? Are you kidding me? For a long time now they’ve been working to make that a co-ed spectator sport.
Am I missing anything in the past twenty years that would truly be called a show for men?
A man show should meet the following qualifications, made by Dirk Benedict about the A-Team:
It was a guy’s show. It was male driven. It was written by guys. It was directed by guys. It was acted by guys. It’s about what guys do. We talked the way guys talked. We were the boss. We were the God. We smoked when we wanted. We shot guns when we wanted. We kissed the girls and made them cry… when we wanted. It was the last truly masculine show.
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April 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Do people still watch prime time TV?
April 16th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I wouldn’t think so myself, but apparently they do. Least common denominator stuff you know.
The last couple shows I tried to watch on broadcast tv started promising for a couple episodes but I quickly found that I couldn’t care less if I missed the show.
Right now the only thing Tivo’d from the big 3 I watch is NCIS.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Lordy, we need another Gunsmoke or Bonanza.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
OMG, Yes!!! Bonanza is MY Show! I make a practice out of catching at least a couple of episodes a week.
I would love to have a show like that on television today. It had tons of action! Six-shooters… Fisticuffs… Horse Chases… Wrangling… and more! Add in a healthy dose of patriotism! All that, and it’s a family show. It is VERY RARE these days that I find anything during the prime time hours that I would be comfortable with showing to my children.
When PAX-TV brought out the “re-imagined” Bonanza as a new series named “Ponderosa” a few years back, I was SO HAPPY!!! I watched it religiously, and was so pleased that they kept many of the same themes that made the original show so great. I was very upset when it was cancelled so prematurely.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Grey’s Anatomy needs some six-shooters and a cowboy with a limp.
By the way, that’s a great point that most of these were family shows. Bonanza, the A-Team — strong enough for a man, but kids like ‘em too.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:34 pm
What about The Man Show
Nobody but regular readers of The American Spectator knew who Jimmy Kimmel was until he came out of Ben Stein’s shadow.
C’mon . . . Juggies?
April 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I kept thinking about “The Man Show” but why then was half the audience women?
I actually nominate “Most Extreme Elimination Challenge” (MXC) as being more man than “The Man Show” if only for the fact that no woman ever would watch MXC… hehe