Why doesen't anyone on TV actually WORK.

The only one that appeared to have a job of any sort on the Dukes of Hazzard was Daisy Duke who was a cocktail waitress. Luke and Bo Duke just drove around and evaded the law. I suppose it's good work if you can get it.

Ward Cleaver sat behind a desk that only had a telephone on it and would occasionaly talk to Fred Rutherford who was Lumpy's dad. Other than that he just sat there with his hands folded. He must have done well there because he had a nice home and was married and raising two kids and didn't seem to want for money.

Of course back in those days Piccolo's old man was busting his ass bending wrenches and peddling an occsional junk car to someone that needed cheap wheels. We did OK back then but the fact is the Old Man worked for a living.

Then on westerns you have the gunfighters.

What does Black Bart do?

Oh, Black Bart? He's a gunfighter.

Lucas McCain was another one. He was supposedly a rancher of some sort but the only one I ever saw do anything resembling work was his son, Mark. I think I saw Mark feed some chickens once.

Caine of Kung Fu fame used to simply roam from town to town and beat the dogsnot out of six or eight cowboys at a time and never do a day's work. How did me manage to eat? He once said, he didn't eat game and take-outs were about 100 years away and he didn't appear to have any money to begin with.

While I'm at it, in westerns why did men boil water when a woman was having a baby? I asked my father that once and he told me to get him out of the way and keep him from being a pain in the ass while the women could take care of things. That actually makes sense.

One time I was riding in a Lyft and was yakking with the driver. AFTER he bragged about being here legally, he mentioned his father was a Mexican farmer.

I can be deadpan dry.

I asked him if his father worked in a pair of white pants that came to about 3 inches above the ankle, a pullover white shirt that went mid thigh, a piece of rope around his waist and a big sombrero.

He sounded disappointed when he admitted his father worked in blue jeans and sneakers. He was really sharp. He told me about watching The Magnificant Seven with his dad and asked him how come he didn't dress that way. He gave me a real belly laugh and told me his mother like to sew and made him such an outfit and he wore it to some farmer's convention in Mexico as some sort of protest.

I asked him how that worked out and he told me his father came home with blistered feet from running around barefoot for the weekend. He said parking lots got hot as hell and were a far cry from cool dirt in the fields where he wore sneakers.

Still, his father actually worked for a living and wasn't some kind of Hollywood character. He was a real human being that had gotten off of his dead ass and onto his dying feet and went to work. Actually both him and his father worked for a living. Lyft was his second job. He had a wife and a couple of kids and wanted them to get ahead. He's got my respect.

Needless to say he or his dad were not Hollywood actors.

Then again a handful of people in the movies DO have jobs. Bullet and Harry Callahan were police officers but every time they shot someone they didn't seem to answer for it. 

Hollywood soldiers have jobs. They are GIs. That's a particularly dirty job and is absolutely worth mentioning.

Then you have made up jobs. Look at Baywatch. 

Many beaches do have lifeguards but it really doesn't pay a whole lot in real life. It's not even organized very well. The lifeguards I have seen, for example, have a platform they sit in and overlook things.

There's no major infrastructure. Some youngster sits in a tower wearing a pith helmet and looks around. He has no chain of command and supervisors as there really is no lifeguard department in New England towns.

Yet on Baywatch the job probably pays a good six figures because they all live in spendy apartments, have extensive wardrobes and drive expensive cars. 

Of course the theme of the show has a lot to do with the way things seem to work in the script. After watching a few episodes ot 'Ripcord', a skydiving themed show, I came to the conclusion that there were not too many problems in life that couldn't be solved by having someone jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

Or to find out whodoneit Mike Nelson would have to strap on scuba tanks and head down the the bottom of the ocean. 

Speaking of Mike Nelso of Sea Hunt, there was an episode where he waas carrying around a hand grenade and used it. What was he doing with a grenade and where dod he get it in the first place? If I recall he used it to take out another diver.

Of course a grenade will take out a diver. Navy ships have used them for decades to keep divers away. Still, that wasn't a Naval vessel he jumped on to keep from getting stunned by the blast. It had noting to do with the military at all. He was just a diver for hire and therefore had no business with a live grenade. Simple posession of one is a felony without the ATF paperwork for a destructive device.

Wasn't it Flipper that kept a camel caravan from dying of thirst in the Sahara desert? I keep thinking Flipper saved a camel caravan but it doesn't make sense. But in my defense, neither do most TV shows.

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