Hippies… they wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
Posted By Russ Emerson on April 19, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Last night — this morning, really — after work, via the Netflix streaming capability of my Blu-Ray player (woohoo!) I watched a bunch of episodes of that great classic police show, Adam-12.
During the episode “I’m Still A Cop,” wherein Officer Malloy (Martin Milner) balances his duty as a law enforcement officer with his part-time attendance at a local college, the students do what students did in the ’60s: riot. The student radicals seize an administration building and hold the college president in his office. The police rescue him without violence; ultimately, Malloy foils a bomb plot staged by one of the radicals.
Being a 1960s TV show, the hippies depicted therein were rather more clean-cut than one might expect of 1960s college students. They dressed fairly well, and all of them appeared to have bathed in the recent past.
No, I don’t like hippies — even fictional recently-washed hippies. If I see a clean hippie, I expect fire hoses and wire brushes to have been involved in the cleaning.
As I watched, I couldn’t help but wish that episode had gone down the path of Maximum Baton Utilization.
The road not taken….
*sigh*
