{"id":3244,"date":"2014-03-28T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2014-03-28T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T20:26:41","slug":"golden-age-of-commercial-cliffhangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/golden-age-of-commercial-cliffhangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Age of commercial cliffhangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cael and I have been recently re-watching The Dukes of Hazzard, because there’s just never enough Hazzard in your life.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, we have it on DVD but the setups for the commercials are of course still there, just like they were aired.\u00c2\u00a0 I realize that lots of shows do this, set up a dramatic scene just before they cut to commercial, and then in some cases the post commercial review can be quite long before you get to the action again.\u00c2\u00a0 But I must say that few shows in memory did it quite as well as the Dukes.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, come on, look at this one….<\/p>\n

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Look out Bo and Luke, overly dramatic villain guy is right behind you…..<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is awesome, and I really think as an art form it’s lost.\u00c2\u00a0 You just can’t fake this kind of fakery any more.\u00c2\u00a0 It was real back then, and innocent in it’s silliness.\u00c2\u00a0 And it wasn’t any less entertaining even though we all knew that there was no way that guy was going cave in Bo’s blond head with that wrench.\u00c2\u00a0 But that was TV back then and we LOVED it.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, adolescent boys did I guess.<\/p>\n

For the record, Cael laughed himself silly at this guy’s expression, and we just had to pause it here to take this pic.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately Bo and Luke got themselves out of this pickle, just in time for the another pickle to be set up for the next commercial break….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cael and I have been recently re-watching The Dukes of Hazzard, because there’s just never enough Hazzard in your life.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, we have it on DVD but the setups for the commercials are of course still there, just like they … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-cue-the-haggard-voiceover"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-Qk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}