He Always Gets His Man

You’ll have to bear with me on this post … my mind has wondered all over the place just to share with you that in keeping with the British Commonwealth theme of our kids’ Spirit Week’s International Day, my son dressed up like a Canadian Mounted Policeman.  (Anna dressed Scottish – pictures here).

 So, as we were working on Andrew’s “costume” yesterday, we got to laughing hysterically … you see, we LOVE old sitcoms because really, there isn’t much “good” on TV these days (not to say there isn’t ANYTHING good, but there isn’t MUCH good) … we prefer Gilligan’s Island, Get Smart, Little House on the Prairie, Hogan’s Heroes, and even ALF). One classic TV show that Dan introduced me to as I apparently missed it the first time around in my 1970’s childhood was “F Troop”. My kids LOVE this show. It is cheesily funny and yet, surprisingly clever.


One of our favorite episodes stars Paul Lynde (who was also often a guest star on other late 60’s/early 70’s TV shows- particularly often on Bewitched - as well as several game shows like Hollywood Squares) as a singing Canadian Mountie, Sgt. Ramsden. You’d have to know the episode to understand why just thinking about this episode makes me and Andrew spontaneously break out in “I dream of Wrangler in with the light YELLAR hair.” You really should buy the DVD if you like classic television! The other key joke is that Sgt. Ramsden is in pursuit of the Burglar from Banff (emphasis on the “f-f” … as in Burglar of Banf-ffffff….”. You had to see it, I guess) who is potentially a man named Lucky Pierre. Funny stuff.
If you're curious, you can watch some of the episode on YouTube here. 

Dan dressed Hawaiian for the day (although the shirt is originally from Togo, Africa - given to us by a friend from college who is native to Togo and is now a pastor/missionary there; I have a matching dress!).  So, in keeping with the oldies TV theme, I guess Dan was emulating the series Hawaii Five-O.  Book 'em, Dan-O!