Is Your Pilot Light On?
I was watching a clip from an old episode of the Carol Burnett Show where the Mama character starts throwing insults at her daughter, Eunice. Carol Burnett can hardly keep a straight face. Reflecting on the relationship between the two characters, Tim Conway later commented that you could go into any small town in America and find those same two "characters" still today. In the episode I was watching, Mama's arrows went something like this: "I think you done sprung a leak in your dingy" "You aren't playing with a full deck" "I think somebody blew your pilot light out." I can appreciate the comedy in those sketches from years-gone-by, but as I watch some of the older television shows, they really make me cringe. To our sensitivities today, Mama's comments, for instance, about Eunice being "crazy" and that "they are going to lock you up" strike quite the nerve. On other shows I have watched, the implici