Frank DuVal Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Anyone know what car assembly line is shown after the Packard in the intro montage? It is English in signage, so I think Great Britain is the country of manufacture. If anyone watches this show, stopping to read signs on walls ads to the humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_S_in_Penna Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 4 minutes ago, Frank DuVal said: Anyone know what car assembly line is shown after the Packard in the intro montage? Frank, if you provide us a link, and a title to the program, we can offer much better information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank DuVal Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 It is called American Auto. I recorded it on my Tivo from live TV. Looks like you can see it on nbc.com: https://www.nbc.com/american-auto So far I think the pilot episode is the funniest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studemax Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 I have studiously avoided watching said show because the promos make it look ridiculous. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mike6024 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 The guy on the bike looks like the character on Do The Right Thing, the guy called "Buggin’ Out." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Frank DuVal Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Thanks Mike!!!!! Morris Minor it is.👍 Yes, it is ridiculous comedy. Sometimes I just need some of that! The plot is a new CEO with no automotive experience taking over an old company, sound familiar?😲 About the same results..... only none of us thought it was funny what happened to GM. I need a dolt slap emoji here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozstatman Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 The cars on the assembly line aren't Morris Minors. Might be Standard 10s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Fenders not quite the same. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozstatman Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 39 minutes ago, mike6024 said: Fenders not quite the same. Plus a "squarer" body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 '59 Standard 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JamesR Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Something tells me that show has little to do with cars, even in a comedic sense. Watching old "My Mother the Car" reruns might be of more interest to me (and they weren't that good.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 11 hours ago, Frank DuVal said: The plot is a new CEO with no automotive experience taking over an old company, sound familiar? How about a Hollywood movie production crew taking on the job of making a automotive show for TV. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank DuVal Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Automobiles, I Love Lucy, the Honeymooners, etc. are all dreamed up situations to make fun of. This is not an automobile show, but I do watch it to see how close they are. Just like watching most of the made for TV reality car shows that are not supposed to be funny! I think American Auto gets more right than most reality shows I have watched....😆 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30DodgePanel Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Three letters did it for me. Hard pass on the National Broadcasters of Communist theory. No offense Frank, I wanted to watch it, but I can't be associated with such clear anti American bigotry shrouded in "humor". Clearly a continuation of the desensitizing of blind generations collectively. Nothing to see here, move on.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Frank DuVal Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share Posted January 14, 2022 3 hours ago, 30DodgePanel said: I wanted to watch it, but I can't be associated with such clear anti American bigotry shrouded in "humor". I see you have not seen it. Please give examples From the show of what you are talking about. Nothing I’ve seen so far is anti-American. You can put Communist in everything just like Joe did in the 50s. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30DodgePanel Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 9 hours ago, Frank DuVal said: I see you have not seen it. Please give examples From the show of what you are talking about. Nothing I’ve seen so far is anti-American. You can put Communist in everything just like Joe did in the 50s. Maybe it needs to be spelled out? NBC I have seen the show (as I said, I wanted to watch it), not funny nor humorous but that's just my opinion. If you like it, watch it... My point was, the network is the most anti American entity in the media and most folks are either blind to their underlying socialistic and communist viewpoints or they just don't care anymore, but some of us (please don't make me stat it) choose to avoid their constant berade of propoganda and idealogic that is continuously on display. What's sad is you can now see elements of it even on the weather channel, the history channel and even the AHC or American Heros channel. Sure you can see communisim in almost everything, I get that, but the element of "true" history and facts that are being portrayed through a propogandist lens is so prevalent now it's hard to watch any of said programming for more than a few minutes. I love humor...but I'd rather watch someone like Brian Regan or Nate Bargatze on Netflix for a laugh No satire, no political bs, no shrouded lies portrayed as truth. Just good old fashioned humor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39BuickEight Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 (edited) It’s a great show in my opinion. Many of the same writers from The Office, which is one of the most loved sitcoms of all time. I hope it makes it. It’s almost the same show, but with an auto company instead of a paper company. The list of items to delete from the designed $10,000 car on the marker board was hilarious. Edited January 14, 2022 by 39BuickEight (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 On 1/12/2022 at 10:27 PM, Frank DuVal said: The plot is a new CEO with no automotive experience taking over an old company, sound familiar? Packard. As JN found out, marketing cars was not the same as selling kitchen appliances. Craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 My wife has seen a couple of episodes and said it was funny. I havent seen one yet. I try not to get too 'emotional' when watching things on tv now as I tend to agree with 30 dodge to a certain degree. If something is funny then its funny and I dismiss the agenda. One of the reasons most of the stuff I watch ceased production about 1970. My wife doesnt understand why the only thing I watch is old stuff. Calls me an old man. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I’ve been watching so many British based TV shows I want to drink warm beer with my fish and chips! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I think the britcoms take a bit getting used to. I used to enjoy Monty Python, can barely tolerate them now. I think I have seen every episode of 'Are you being served' a dozen times. Have been watching Father Brown as of late. AND Antennae tv just started showing Benny Hill! One of my all time favorites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACK M Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 None of this is political, right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 3 hours ago, TAKerry said: 'Are you being served' And there's Keeping Up Appearances too 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenie Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Another great concept, poorly executed, resulting in a quick death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f.f.jones Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 How about Mr. Bean! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 One of my favorites was the BBC show, The Good Life, that ran in the US during the early 1980's. Felicity Kendal was the cutie who wore her rubber boots and tilled the garden. I may have been biased though. My wife in the front garden bed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JV Puleo Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 For what it's worth, BBC America is their largest money maker. Many of those shows, like The Good Life, are 40 or even 50 years old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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