On 30 May 2007 08:48:40 -0700, msfabulousaloha
<jbrooks001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Wait, what banned episode? I've never heard of that before. Do tell!
Bored, She Hung Herself was banned after some person tried the
yoga-like hanging technique depicted in the episode and it didn't work
out very well.
Since that time, most of the dubs of this show have been those which
were seemingly projected on a wall (likely from a 16mm print that I
know some major fan owns) and filmed with a camcorder!
Here is my "boring anal-ysis" of the episode:
One of the lead characters, Don Miles (Don Quine) engages in various
hippie pursuits like yoga, natural foods, chanting "Hare Krishna" and
-- particularly objectionable -- hanging himself by the neck from the
ceiling, this supposedly being yoga-related. (Apparently some viewer
actually tried this at home and died, according to Mrs. Leonard
Freeman.) When his girlfriend Wanda (Pamela Murphy) is also found
hanging and dead, McGarrett is on the case. The coroner says "It's
possible she was assaulted," and adds, "The victim was already dead
when she was hung." Her father, psychiatrist Warren Parker (William
Smithers), seems very chummy in an incestuous manner to Wanda at the
beginning of the show and is later seen driving a Jaguar XKE. Herman
("Duke") Wedemeyer appears as Lt. Grayson, at the hanging scene,
commenting "Let the good times roll!" The next door neighbor kid (Joel
Berliner) is precocious, full of hip sayings like "Wanda was getting
bagged all the time" and "outta sight". He describes Don as "a health
freak ... he doesn't believe in dropping anything unless it's
organic." The kid's father (Eugene McDunnah) is worried his son would
turn into a "dope fiend" by associating with Don. Don's writer friend
Boswell says he suffers from "elephantiasis of the imagination." When
Parker gets heavy with McGarrett, McGarrett blames his problems on the
"generation gap". Parker's response is to threaten to get McGarrett
fired! The father of the kid next door is revealed as the real killer
.... he says that Wanda "was making a big play for me ... she kept
leading me on, then she turned me down."
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