MTV's The 70's House

[carrier76]

I watched this last night and LOVED it. I love it because most of the people on The Real World, Road Rules, etc., are huge assholes and idiots, and I feel like this show is totally making fun of them. So, HA HA.

[Deleted]

I thought it was boring. I do like that they are being "watched" and judged to make sure they really try to stay in the 1970s, but the game show aspect (and relative boringness of the people) just puts me to sleep. I guess I need to watch this like I would any competetive reality show, not like it is a PBS "____ House" series or something.

[lemons]

K. Barrett--Yep. And I didn't complain then.

chiqui--I guess it's cooler and more easy for the young'uns to relate to the 1970's then say god forbid they turn on PBS and watch the 1800's house.

& yes, I remember the big deal about LONG distance phone calls too.

chiqui said:

I don't get it. I mean, aside from the advance in communications technology, there isn't much difference between 2005 and 1975. Now, between 1965 and 1975, THAT was a difference, clothing-wise, social-wise, tech-wise, travel-wise, sex-wise. Jeeze, in 1965 women were still expected to wear gloves when out in public, girdles, and hair-spray laden beehive hairdoes. In most areas of the country it was still very acceptable to say '****.' Jet travel was still in its infancy. A long distance phone call was a big thing and only for emergencies. I'm showing my age, aren't I ?

As for polyester, a good many of todays' 'hot' women's fashions are made from polyester, so I don't get the revulsion.

[Ripley]

It sounds like my childhood, which I lived through once, don't need to do it again, thanks.

We had a TV that had the channel-station knob fell off. We spent many years changing the channel by using pliers to turn the stick that was under the knob.

[snacktastic]

ladymadonna said:

I did have a Princess Phone. I hope they have one of those on their. And we did have a television with an eight track player and record player attached--with a remote that was connected with a cord to the television. (Pretty sweet, I know).

Wow! You guys were rich! Why, I remember only having one TV, with no remote, and having to hook up the Intellivision every time we wanted to play. Our 8 track was a stand alone, and the record player stood by itself in a lovely glass cabinet in the corner of the room.

Oh, and the TV had antennas on the top with tin foil wrapped around them.
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We weren't rich as much as extravagant in our television purchases. My dad bought it. My mom, the breadwinner, was horrified to find out that we bought a 3000 dollar television. Remember, this was around 1978. A 3000 dollars (way too much now) is like 8 or 9K today. Now looking back, it seems a bit nuts. And btw, I do remember the thing about long distance calls. Once when I was about 7 (this would be around 1978), someone misdialed and called us by mistake, from Chile. I was so excited to be talking with someone from South America, I kept him on the phone for a while (telling him my "Chile Today, Hot Tamale" joke). God if I only knew how much it really was.

Topic: I probably will inevitably watch it during one of the 10 million reruns.

[ownlife]

I caught an episode last night and had a good laugh at all of the '70s stuff. I remember all of the fashions, rotary phones with cords, high-thigh basketball shorts, etc. The best part was the fondue party. I remember making fondue in Home Ec and it was so awful.

[monsterzero]

As with all MTV reality shows nowadays, though, I find myself wondering if everyone that age is that dumb and uncultured, or if it's just the people that will go on these shows in the first place. I hope for the latter, but suspect the first (with the exception of the smart young people here).

No, MTV finds the stupid people to be on there. I was born in 1978 and my house still has a very old circa 1940s telephone that's rotary and hangs on the wall in it's original wood. A rotary phone isn't that foreign to most of America as some of us still have phone wiring that only responds to rotary (or pulse dialing).

I watched this last night and LOVED it. I love it because most of the people on The Real World, Road Rules, etc., are huge assholes and idiots, and I feel like this show is totally making fun of them. So, HA HA.

And the final insult? They are forced to drive Pintos and eat from original Fiestaware with lead-based paint. ENJOY!

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Eek! I registered for a fondue pot and Fiestaware!

I'm not however, driving a Pinto.

[chiqui]

I thought Fiestaware was from the 1930s? More likely they'd be eating off milky-white Corel 'glass' dishes with that little scribbly border around them. Also, fondue was a product of the late sixties and though it lasted until the 70s, it had fallen off the radar approximately 1975 or so. Ah, but I quibble.

[ownlife]

I was thinking about my junior high and high school wardrobes and wondering why this show didn't break out the Frye boots, afghan coats (I smell patchouli) or smock tops. Actually it is quite conservative with respect to female fashions because there were some horrors back then and some good stuff too. I remember my mother bought me a pair of gauchos (below knee-length culottes) in blue "snake." I hated those things but I loved my white painters pants.