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Sex, '70s style
Swingers, short skirts, blowup dolls and big hearts: "Love American Style" taught a generation of kids about sex. So how does it look now that we're all grown up?
By Amy Reiter [2008-03-11]
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  • "I let the air out of her"

    said Arte Johnson as the horrified neighbor asked what he'd done to his "date" - a now deflated blow up doll he'd been lately dancing with (thanks to rubber bands around his shoes).

    As I recall the doll flew around the room when he let the air out of her with a knife, trying to get rid of the "evidence".

    Hysterical.

    I saw the movie "Lovers and Other Strangers" a couple months ago and correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Love American Style have a similar tone and perhaps was spawned by that film?

    I loved the show, personally. It was titillating enough for a pre-adolescent and silly enough for adults. Good clean fun.

    One last thing: Isn't it "I will defend your right to cry"?

    (I also see it online as "I will defend your right to try".)

    -- mattielisbon
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    Tuesday, March 11, 2008 04:40 PM

  • Still trying to forget

    The episode where Mickey Rooney and Eve Arden play a couple who try to regain their sexual vigor by attempting to role play. The sight of Eve Arden in a low cut french maid outfit stroking Mickey Rooney's bare chest still sends shivers up and down my spine.

    -- mynamehere
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    Tuesday, March 11, 2008 07:49 PM

  • Or wait

    I'm sorry that was a recent nightmare, not an episode of this frequently witty show.

    -- mynamehere
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    Tuesday, March 11, 2008 09:47 PM

  • OMG! Was it Barbi Benton in that episode??

    To mattbill, who responded on my mention of the glove-episode...When I read your post, I suddenly remembered it was--I think--Barbi Benton who played the girl with the gloves. I was quite young, but I remember knowing she was Hef's girlfriend/former girlfriend...

    Thank you for fleshing-out the episode better for me!

    -- lisaallender
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    Wednesday, March 12, 2008 03:53 AM

  • Arte Johnson

    Was veeeery tnteraasting. What happened to sharp irreverence in American comedy?

    -- manos99
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    Thursday, March 13, 2008 07:56 AM

  • What happened

    It was usurped by detached irony.

    -- mynamehere
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    Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:21 AM

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