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Did anyone else here watch, and love, the TV show "SLEDGE HAMMER", 1986-1988?

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It was an absolutely hilarious show.

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Did you watch it, do you remember it with a smile, and, what were your favorite moments on the show?

My favorite was when Hammer had target practice in his apartment. He put a VHS tape in his VCR and pressed "play". All the video was, was a target silhouette on the TV screeen that kept repeating "Shoot Me......shoot me......shoot me.......shoot me" in monotone. Thus his TV became the target!

It was great stuff. If he wasn't shooting his gun, he was talking to it or sleeping with it. Absolutely off-the-wall humor.

Anyone else here, love that show back then?

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Edit: meant to post in off-topic, sorry!
 
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Yep!

One of my all time favorite shows! My favorite episodes were ones where he had conversations with his gun.

Though now that I watch it as an adult, I detect a lot of hidden "anti" themes in old movies and TV Shows, and unfortunately Sledge is one of them.

Here's a little history and a conversation with the show's creator (If you're a fan you'll enjoy this):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvtTcDumF0
 
I do remember it was pretty funny. I like how they started season 2 even though season 1 ended up with a nuke killing everyone. Just say season 2 is five years earlier.
 
Trust me. I know what I'm doing.[laugh] My son was just 3 and he would be running around the apartment saying that every time it was on. Yeah, that was a good show. He had the bumper sticker that said
" I <3 violence " and he had a gun as a trinket hanging from his rear view mirror.

Greg
 
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minininjer said:
They had TV back then? Was it even in color? What is VHS and VCR?
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Hey now... We had Atari... phlbttt [wink]

I liked that show, looked for it in re-runs, but it seemed to drop off the face of the earth.

Oh and yes, when you go back and watch all TV from late 70's on, you are smacked in the face with the hammer of Hollywood convincing you guns are evil. It's pretty stark going back now and watching those things...
 
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I completely missed that show, never even heard of it. I was in the Navy at sea 96% of the time from 86 through 89. Now I am going to have to find this to "research" it. Thanks for the lead...
 
I do remember this show, but I didn't even remember it as being a comedy. All I remember is liking the gun. I would have been like 4, so that's understandable. (Mother says I've always liked guns) ;)

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cekim said:
Hey now... We had Atari... phlbttt [wink]

I liked that show, looked for it in re-runs, but it seemed to drop off the face of the earth.

Oh and yes, when you go back and watch all TV from late 70's on, you are smacked in the face with the hammer of Hollywood convincing you guns are evil. It's pretty stark going back now and watching those things...
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I blame 80's pop culture for sooo much of the anti gun sentiment in the country... that's where know nothings got the whole EBR fear from.
 
josh2600 said:
I blame 80's pop culture for sooo much of the anti gun sentiment in the country... that's where know nothings got the whole EBR fear from.
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It wasn't an accident. There is a book out there somewhere with an author that interviewed influential people form that era. It was a concerted and effective campaign.

They literally design characters around it. Dustin Hoffman speaks proudly of his personal roll in being a "leading man who didn't need a gun", McGyver was an anti-gun construct from the get-go... so on and so forth.

I suspect/know some of it was just that generation, traumatized by the 60's assassinations knee jerking and piling on, but Hollywood wasn't just reflecting society, it was actively trying to change it and I agree, it succeeded quite well and it has taken 20 years to even begin to dismantle the damage done... 1994 finally woke people up.

You'd have thought the 70's hand-gun bans would have done it, but the "pro-gun" sentiment was just too gutless and willing to hide behind "hunter's rights" back then.
 
FormerlyIndifferent said:
Just don't tell me that The A-TEAM was anti-gun, PLEASE!
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A-Team is just pro-Union/communist LOL.

The bad guy is either bad Army guy, union buster or an anti-communist dictator, though they generally took great pains not to use the word "anti-communist" which wouldn't have done too well in the 90's. There were a lot of "Robin Hood" themed (read socialist) plots.

It was pretty fascinating to watch those against now that you can get them on-demand...

There were really only a hand-full of plots that were re-worked with different characters/settings. Makes sense for a serial show, just much more obvious when streaming...

A fun to watch show regardless...
 
I used to watch this with my dad and my brother when it aired. So I bought the full series on DVD for my dad's 80th bday recently.

He didn't remember seeing it back in The Day, but he sure enjoyed it when I made him watch it. So good.
 
I remember that show and thought it was hilarious. The "loudener" episode was more memorable than most.

I had a high school English teacher at the time that show was airing... I remember one time, the teacher flipped out and went on a screaming crying rant about how society was degrading and used this show as his main example. Then, he kicked the trash can across the room and the trash fell out all over the place. I'm guessing he was a leftie. Although he was sane enough most of the time... not sure why this show made him have a tantrum. Does he not understand humor? Ironic, since this particular English class was specifically about comedy in literature. LOL.
 
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I remember that show and thought it was hilarious. The "loudener" episode was more memorable than most.

I had a high school English teacher at the time that show was airing... I remember one time, the teacher flipped out and went on a screaming crying rant about how society was degrading and used this show as his main example. Then, he kicked the trash can across the room and the trash fell out all over the place. I'm guessing he was a leftie. Although he was sane enough most of the time... not sure why this show made him have a tantrum. Does he not understand humor? Ironic, since this particular English class was specifically about comedy in literature. LOL.
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I had a high school teacher do the same thing, ranting about a brand-new show called The Simpsons. Time flies.
 
Nope. I think my MIL watched it. Among the other terrible sitcoms of that era. That stupid dinosaur one. She would sit there on teh couch in the dark with her pack of generic cigarettes, a tall glass of by-the-gallon wine and a dish full of hard candy and sit all night and watch that stuff.
 

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