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April 23, 2005
Come on Get Happy
In the extreme OMG category, I saw an ad in Entertainment Weekly announcing the DVD release of the Complete First Season of The Patridge Family. !
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The season includes all 25 episodes (were there really that many?) and a bonus CD of 4 of their biggest "hits". (I'm guessing that will include "I Think I Love You" - a song someone was singing the words to a couple of weeks ago in the hallway at school without knowing that it came from that show, or at least claimed not to know that... which might have had something to do with my advanced age....).
True confessions: I was addicted to The Patridge Family. 8:30 pm every Friday night, immediately following The Brady Bunch. The threat of being denied TPF was sufficient to get me to do all kinds of things - including cleaning my room when I didn't want to at amazing speeds. I knew every song by heart, and had at least two on 45's (you do remember 45's, don't you). I still remember entire plot structures for several episodes, and in many cases can tell you the song that went with the plot. I owned both the first and second albums and played them often. Like many other young girls of that era, I had a serious crush on David Cassidy. And, the really BIG confession: I was a charter member of The Partridge Family Fan Club.
There. I'm out.
Now, don't take this to mean I'm rushing out to buy this new DVD collection. Far from it. I am in fact stunned that it has made it to DVD status. But then we were just talking the other day about how it seems the new thing is to find every old TV series ever and DVD it. (For evidence, see the "Customers who bought this also bought" portion of the Amazon page.) (Oh, and read the reviews, too. Just because it shows I'm not the only one...)
travelin' along here's the song that we're singin' - c'mon get happy
Posted by cageyer at April 23, 2005 11:03 AM
Comments
I *loved* the Partridge Family--they were the anti-Bradies who worried about money and argued and were obnoxious. Okay, so really I adored Danny, because we shared the same smart mouth and tendency to speak before thinking. Or instead of thinking.
Posted by: susansinclair at April 24, 2005 12:10 PM