"Mr. Mike" <mjq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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."
Wow! You are an expert. I can't believe someone would try to hang
themself over a tv show episode. That's an interesting title "Bored, she
hung herself"
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