Quiz Show Edition of PCPS Light
Speaker 1 0:00
When you crave it, a pop culture bite, tune on into PCPs light. It's short and sweet, but packed with fun Gen X memories for everyone, six little sips to keep you keen. So we're back with season 17. Oh, it's PCPs life.
Michelle Newman 0:23
Welcome everyone to another light and refreshing episode of pop culture Preservation Society, short and sweet and unresearched and unscripted conversations we're bringing you as we work hard to also record season 17, which are researched and scripted a little bit and take up a lot more time than these do. So today we're gonna play a little game. Are you guys ready? I am I think okay, where I don't have to actually answer the questions. So I love these kind of games. So you all know how we love remind magazine, the print version, obviously, but also the website. It's a really fun place to catch up on pop culture, newsy tidbits from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, both fun facts, but also current news that pertains to those decades, like this short read from a couple of days ago titled Helen Hunt reveals her thoughts on that infamous TV movie role talking about desperate lives. I mean, come on, you guys, we've got to do an episode. I know what the title was. I didn't either. Well, I think it says in there. It's like that Angel Dust movie. And before all her well received roles, if you might remember, Helen Hunt played a teenager so affected by the drug PCP or angel dust that she launches herself from a second floor window, bounces off the pavement and starts slashing at her wrist with shards of broken glass. So I think I think you guys coming up in a season or two, we need to dedicate an entire episode to this TV movie and see if we can get Helen Hunt to come on. It's iconic, and
Kristin Nilsen 2:09
it's time for her, yeah, for her to come on and recognize and accept the award for the iconic status moment of flying out of the plate glass window,
Michelle Newman 2:18
and because she was just talking about it in a remind magazine article from like last week. We know she still gets asked about it. She's still very willing to talk about it anyway. I digress. One thing I love to do when I'm killing time is check out the quizzes on reminds website. Honestly, they're a great mix of easy questions so you feel really good about yourself and challenging questions, so you either feel good about yourself, or you can say, if you get them right, or you can say, Oh, come on, who would even know the answer to that? That's so hard, right? So I thought it would be fun to give you Carolyn Kristen and the listeners a couple of the quizzes I recently took on remind magazine. You guys think, Okay,
Kristin Nilsen 3:00
this will be funny, because this will be a perfect example of where people listeners are going. God, I can't believe you're not doing this.
Michelle Newman 3:07
Here's what I want to remind you, Carolyn and Kristen, I want to remind you to first give the listeners time to think of the answer and their hopes. I'm going to give you multiple choice. Oh, my God, so I want you to, I'm not you listen. Just, just take some time to work
Kristin Nilsen 3:25
together too, right? Like Carolyn, we're not competing. I mean, I think
Michelle Newman 3:28
what you want to do, why don't you guys do what you wanted? Why don't you guys talk amongst yourselves and you come up? Yeah, we need to. We need to chat about it, if we can't come up with it. So the first quiz I'm going to give you is, how well do you know the television show The Waltons.
Kristin Nilsen 3:43
Carolyn,
Carolyn Cochrane 3:45
yeah, you would think, I mean, just what I love again, about this podcast is I loved so many things growing up, but I don't have, sometimes the memory of the specifics that you guys have. So, you know, I could name all the Waltons, but if you're going to ask me, like, you know about a specific episode
Michelle Newman 4:02
together, work together. I'm gonna make you feel better. I didn't watch that. I didn't watch the Waltons. You know, I have knowledge of it, but I might have watched a handful, and I only missed two. Oh, good. That should that? Should give you a better we're gonna do okay. Okay, in what state was the Waltons, fictional mountain area, community of Walton's Mountain located a Kentucky, don't forget to give time to the listeners. I see them both, like you guys,
Carolyn Cochrane 4:27
like choices. B,
Michelle Newman 4:28
Tennessee, the listeners mind this is also this podcast episode today is supposed to be enjoyable for all listening, not just you guys. Okay? A, Kentucky, B, Tennessee, C, Virginia, or D, West Virginia.
Kristin Nilsen 4:45
See now this is I'm going to let Carolyn answer, because I have had, I've had difficulty with this, to be truthful, because I would get things like Charlotte and Charlottesville mixed up as a child. So okay,
Michelle Newman 4:58
so listeners, let me know. The wrong path. Listeners, Lock in your answers now. And Carolyn, what's the answer?
Carolyn Cochrane 5:04
Yes, this is gonna be my final answer, because I am sure that this is C Virginia,
Kristin Nilsen 5:10
correct, and I always thought it was West Virginia. I don't know why, yeah, no, but it had something to do with Charlotte and Charlottesville, even though Charlottesville is even Charlotte, Charlotte's in North Carolina, and that wasn't one of the it's not one of the choices. I'm just confused as a child.
Michelle Newman 5:27
Okay, the next one you guys are gonna know too, but our listeners might not, and it's fun for them to play, so let's give them time which Walton's character was based on series creator Earl J, Earl Hamner Jr, who also narrated the show's openings and closings as an older version of the character. A, Jason Walton. B, John, John boy Walton Jr. C, Ben Walton or D, James, Robert, Jim, Bob Walton.
Kristin Nilsen 5:53
I think this is a perfect opportunity, Carolyn, for you to tell the story about dropping the Earl Hamner reference, reference in our writing group, I
Carolyn Cochrane 6:01
would be happy to it was a moment for us. Yes, it was. I mean, this podcast wouldn't exist if, probably if it wasn't for that moment, would you like to provide the correct answer, though, to our question? Now, I think the listeners have
Kristin Nilsen 6:14
had enough time. The real answer is, John boy, correct. John boy, yes.
Carolyn Cochrane 6:19
So very quickly, yes, Earl Hamner Jr is the creator of The Waltons. And I lived in Virginia for a while and worked where Audrey Hamner worked, and Audrey Hamner and I would carpool around the Blue Ridge Mountains for our job. And it dawned on me one day, as she was sharing that she was Earl hamner's Sister, and so she was the Aaron character of the Waltons. I was sharing this story in writing group, and I said something to the effect of, I was with Audrey Hamner. That's Earl hamner's sister. You know what that means. And it was kind of fell on dead ears, except for deaf ears.
Unknown Speaker 6:57
Deaf ears probably do. I probably
Carolyn Cochrane 7:01
bored everybody to death with my story. But yes, Kristen's eyes just lit up, and she knew who Earl Hammer was, and she tells the story that, you know, that's when our relationship just, yeah, began.
Kristin Nilsen 7:15
Probably, I always say, you had me at Earl Hamner, two
Michelle Newman 7:20
people in the room. I feel like that needs to be a t shirt.
Kristin Nilsen 7:27
And then on the back, Carolyn will say, I saved the Waltons.
Michelle Newman 7:30
Yes. Okay, all right, two for two, yes, you are John. Boy was the oldest of the seven Walton children who was the youngest, a, Elizabeth, B, Mary Ellen, C, Aaron, D, Jim Bob,
Kristin Nilsen 7:47
okay, so this will be interesting. Where did you, Carolyn, did either? Well, not Mary Shelley, if you didn't watch it, Carolyn, did you have a special affinity for Shall I give the answer, or shall you give the answer?
Michelle Newman 7:58
Listeners, are you already let me. Let me just check with our listeners, you guys and over there and Tennessee and Oregon, yes. Okay, we're good. We're good.
Kristin Nilsen 8:11
Okay, you can give, you can give the answer, Carolyn, no, you can Okay. The answer the youngest Walton was Elizabeth. Walton. And so my question to you, Carolyn, is, did you feel a special affinity for Elizabeth. Was she your Walton? Aaron?
Carolyn Cochrane 8:24
Was my Walton? Believer? Was your Walton? Okay? And when I was your age, yeah, probably, I mean, she to me, was no offense to the other girl, female Waltons, but she was the cutest to me, and just kind of seemed the most if I had to live in the Depression era and live a life. It was going to be Aaron's life. She was
Kristin Nilsen 8:45
your depression era character. It's like Sex in the City.
Carolyn Cochrane 8:53
What does this say about you? You're
Kristin Nilsen 8:54
such a Mary Ellen,
Michelle Newman 8:56
I I certainly watched enough of them to you know, I just didn't watch it like you guys did. But I could answer your question, yes, I definitely was all about Elizabeth.
Kristin Nilsen 9:08
Yep, she was the cutie. I always felt like I was the little one and she was the little one. And yeah, it just made sense.
Michelle Newman 9:17
And isn't that CAMI Cotler, yes, yes. If you guys have been listening to these the past few weeks, you know we're going to always have an episode that relates to whatever we're talking about, and we do it was from last Halloween or two Halloweens ago. I believe we had, I don't even know how many years ago was that now, but we have CAMI collar on to talk about when her Raggedy Ann doll crawled across the floor Yeah, because haunted and possessed, and there's a poltergeist, and it's
Carolyn Cochrane 9:45
because she's going through the changes. Remember, she's
Michelle Newman 9:49
puberty on
Kristin Nilsen 9:50
Walton's Mountain, was serious business, and there was, I feel like I waited my whole life. I think I waited 56 years to say. The words, remember that time Elizabeth Walton had a poltergeist, and there are only a few people who would be able to go, oh my god, I totally remember that. And the Raggedy and doll was crawling across the floor. I feel like I've been waiting so long
Michelle Newman 10:13
for that. That's a really fun conversation. You're listening if you liked the Waltons, and especially if you remember poltergeist on Walton mountain, or, like, we like to call it puberty on Walton mountain. Waltons mountain, go back and listen to that episode. Okay? What was the name of the TV movie that introduced the Walton family and was so successful that it led to the Walton series? A, a wedding on Waltons mountain. B, the homecoming. A, Christmas story. C, Mother's Day on Waltons mountain D a day for thanks on Waltons mountain listeners Lock in your answers now,
Carolyn Cochrane 10:51
okay, can we share? Yeah, the answer would be the homecoming A Christmas Story
Michelle Newman 10:56
That is correct.
Kristin Nilsen 10:58
Good job. And that is the little nugget that we have about that, which you've heard in several episodes, is that Karen Grassley, who played ma Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie, prepared for her audition for ma Ingalls by watching the homecoming, but she was channeling Olivia Walton, and even though depression and pioneer days are not the same, but whatever, yeah, old fashioned is old fashioned
Michelle Newman 11:19
Kristen. Do we have an episode for that?
Kristin Nilsen 11:24
Karen Grassley was our first celebrity interview, our very first one, and we just about pooped our pants. And you
Michelle Newman 11:30
guys, she so cute. It's as delightful as you would hope. My ingles.
Carolyn Cochrane 11:36
Her doorbell rang,
Michelle Newman 11:39
yeah, she's like,
Kristin Nilsen 11:41
Oh, I'll be right back. My doorbell ring and we can hear her talking.
Michelle Newman 11:46
I love it, okay, which US president stated that he wanted to make American families a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like The Sims, like The Simpsons. Was that? A, Ronald Reagan, B, George W Bush, C, Jimmy Carter or D, George H, W Bush,
Unknown Speaker 12:07
George H,
Michelle Newman 12:10
I'm gonna go with you, Kristen. Let's wait for our listeners. I knew this was gonna be an issue. I haven't written in my notes with
Carolyn Cochrane 12:19
your hand raised. Do you know this? Are you going like, chronologically? Okay, I thought you were going by like, when with the symptoms?
Kristin Nilsen 12:26
No, I remember. And all of us who watched the Simpsons
Michelle Newman 12:29
were like, fuck off. Yes, the answer is correct. It was George HW Bush, yeah, good job. That's one that I got wrong.
Kristin Nilsen 12:38
It was irritating at the time, because if you were ever a Simpsons watcher, you're not meant to take it literally. It's sort of like Archie Bunker. It's meant to expose the difficulties in society. You're not supposed to want to be Bart Simpson, right, right, right. Learn from Bart Simpson. And so really, the Waltons and The Simpsons are doing the same thing. But George H didn't get that, I guess. I guess. I don't think he was watching a lot of TV. I don't know why he dared to say such a thing. He probably watched walked in on Jenna and Barbara watching The Simpsons, and, you know,
Carolyn Cochrane 13:11
someone gave him a sound bite, and he thought it
Kristin Nilsen 13:15
crap. They said crap in that show. Yeah.
Michelle Newman 13:19
Okay, what composer also known for his film scoring wrote The Waltons, memorable instrumental title theme was that. A, John Williams, B, Jerry Goldsmith. C, James Horner or D, John Barry. Can you read the question again? What composer also known for his film scoring, wrote The Waltons memorable instrumental title theme that you all were just singing. A, John Williams, B, Jerry Goldsmith, C, James Horner or D, John Barry Carolyn, we have to discuss. Okay, let's and
Kristin Nilsen 13:57
this other one you got wrong,
Michelle Newman 13:59
Michelle, how did you How would you know that another part of the
Kristin Nilsen 14:03
game, this is just another level of the game, guessing.
Michelle Newman 14:05
Guess which ones Michelle got
Kristin Nilsen 14:06
wrong. Okay, I'm because this is what I'm thinking. Okay, because they were saying well known movie composer. I think it has to be a name that we know. And there are only two names on there that I know correct, and that would be John Williams and James
Carolyn Cochrane 14:20
Corner, right? Who the hell is Jerry Goldsmith? I don't know.
Kristin Nilsen 14:23
Sorry, Jerry, but we don't know. You know, write Star Wars, and then we'll know so and I'm, and I'm leaning John Williams, because that would be a real aha moment. That would be like, No way. I feel like, otherwise, why would they include it on the test? Correct?
Carolyn Cochrane 14:40
And this is, you know, jaws would have been the year after, because we learned that he wrote the theme song to Jaws, which, I don't know if I even knew that, but I'm, I'm going to lean into John Williams, but if you want to say James Horner,
Kristin Nilsen 14:57
what did James Horner do? I don't. I just know he's making of styles right now. I do like the Titanic or something. Oh yes, yes, he did, okay. And that leans more Walton's esque. James Horner is Titanic. That is more and and John Williams is a little more staccato and enthemic. Okay, we're really getting
Michelle Newman 15:19
in the final answer, time is up.
Kristin Nilsen 15:23
Shall we? Shall we go with James John Williams and see what happens? Isn't he wants
Carolyn Cochrane 15:27
to be a millionaire and we're gonna lose like $80,000 for the charity of children with, I don't know, no shoes.
Kristin Nilsen 15:36
Okay? We're gonna go with,
Michelle Newman 15:38
we're gonna go with John Williams. Okay. Final answer, hey, finally, I will tell you who the hell Jerry Goldsmith is. He is the man who wrote the theme to the Walters. Nothing. Guess who I what do you guys think I guessed? You guessed John Williams. I did guess John for the exact same reasons. You guys did. I did the whole thing. And you guys this is so pathetic, because I sit here at my computer sometimes I'm like, Oh, I'm going to see if there's a new remind magazine quiz. And I agonize too. I'm like, could it be I don't know. Like, as if I'm going to win a million dollars, lose a million dollars. Okay, I'm going to give you just a couple more, because we're going to move on.
Carolyn Cochrane 16:21
We want to know what kind of how do we know, Jerry, what else did you do? Well, he
Michelle Newman 16:25
wrote the theme from The Waltons. No one doesn't say that here. I thought you just said he looked up. Well, someone else can
Kristin Nilsen 16:32
do I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it because that's important. That gives us a little context. So Jerry Goldsmith, is that what I'm looking at? Yes, Jerry,
Carolyn Cochrane 16:41
a dentist or something
Kristin Nilsen 16:43
composer.
Carolyn Cochrane 16:45
You would think that we would have unearthed this or something in a past episode. If he's a well known filmmaker, and we were talking or film score or person, so it's going to be movies we probably don't know, like, I don't know.
Kristin Nilsen 16:59
Well, he's got lots of awards, Star Trek, Rambo, Logan's Run Planet of the Apes, Tora, Tora, Tora Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Omen we know all of these movies, alien Poltergeist, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic
Michelle Newman 17:17
Instinct. Amazing. Amazing composer, right, yeah. Jerry way, Jerry, you guys were correct about James Horner composing the theme from Titanic. Sad fact that I just pulled up is that he died when he was only 61 but besides Titanic, he wrote the score for the highest grossing film of all time, Avatar. He also was nominated for Oscars for his scores, for aliens, an American tale, Field of Dreams. Apollo 13, Braveheart, A Beautiful Mind, House of sand and fog, and his other notice. Notable scores include Star Trek two, Willow The Land Before Time glory, the rocketeer Legends of the Fall. Jumanji Casper goes on and on. I mean, Karate Kid, these, wow, that was a that wasn't the, well, that was a 2010
Carolyn Cochrane 18:05
Did you say so? I'm sorry, do you say the American tail with our tail? Yeah. Oh, and my favorite mouse, yeah. But you know, with Linda Ronstadt, James, no, not people, the guy from
Kristin Nilsen 18:18
New Orleans, the guy from New Orleans with the big Yeah, I was gonna deport like a big mole on his face, but I didn't want to go there. Cut off jean jacket.
Kristin Nilsen 18:40
My arms won't fit in this jean jacket. I gotta cut the sleeves off. Jackets do
Carolyn Cochrane 18:44
have kind of Slim arms, I would say, too. Okay, come on.
Michelle Newman 18:50
Feel like they're kind of tight across. It's James Ingram and Linda Ross.
Carolyn Cochrane 18:59
Mellow mix that song, you know what?
Kristin Nilsen 19:02
Because he does, I don't know. Yeah, that's another Linda.
Michelle Newman 19:12
I need all the listeners to calm the app down right now, because they've been yelling at you guys for like, the past eight minutes. Sorry, we're moving on to a totally different we're moving on to a totally different quiz now, okay, and we are going to move on to TV moms. How much do you know about these very famous TV moms? Here we go. Question number one, what real life event was incorporated into the second season of I Love Lucy. Was it a? Lucy and Desi is honeymoon, B, Desis hospitalization, C, Lucy and Desi is daughter's first word, or D, Lucy's pregnancy.
Kristin Nilsen 19:55
Very historic, the
Michelle Newman 19:56
very historic we talk about this we have. Related up. Do we have an episode for this? Yes, we do. What was the episode? I know I'm trying to think. And we talk about, I Love Lucy and Leave It to Beaver. Oh, it's reruns. Thank you. Thanks. Yes, it's reruns. It's all the reruns we watched after school. So guys just go to the Googles to put pop culture preservations to say reruns, and that episode will come up. And what's the answer Kristen?
Kristin Nilsen 20:23
The answer is, when Lucy had a baby, that's correct, and she wore maternity clothes on, and it was very it was very controversial, because you like to pretend that ladies didn't have penises going in there.
Carolyn Cochrane 20:38
So crazy for my little mind is one. You know, my parents taught, sat down and taught me the birds and the bees, or told me about them with that iconic purple book how babies are made. So I knew from a very young age how that kind of worked. And they do the penis and vagina thing all in that book and so and they also, if you remember, they had separate beds, they had children beds because they so my mind would go, Oh, one of them had to go, small, that's exactly, but it was like they had to be on top of each other, kind of almost the whole time. I know you don't know that when you're like seven or six or five or whatever, and yeah, so as your parents slept in a big bed where they so did the couple in how babies are made? Yes, so how is this gonna work? That's right.
Michelle Newman 21:31
Really. What did Alice cramden, played by Audrey meadows, study to be on the honeymooners. A, a teacher, B, a sales clerk, C, a bank teller, or D, a secretary.
Kristin Nilsen 21:45
I feel like, okay, discussion time. I feel like it would be secretarial school. Like, that's what you would study
Carolyn Cochrane 21:52
to be, right? You would go to, like, the Katherine Gibbs School of whatever.
Kristin Nilsen 21:56
Yeah, you would agree study to be what was the other thing you said,
Michelle Newman 22:00
sales clerk, teacher, sales clerk, bank teller.
Kristin Nilsen 22:03
Secretary, sure. Only, only single ladies would be teachers. Yeah, yeah,
Michelle Newman 22:08
right. Okay, so your answer is D? Secretary, yes, that is correct. Good job. Yay. Thank you. Okay, I'm gonna skip down to a couple of other ones. Let's see. Oh, this is a good one. Where did Anne Romano, played by Bonnie Franklin, move her family to on one day at a time, a, Indianapolis, B, Columbus, C, Minneapolis, or D, St Louis. I'm so
Kristin Nilsen 22:34
glad you said move to, because I leapt ahead and thought you were moving from. Oh, no,
Michelle Newman 22:40
where did you Where are they moving? And if you remember in the opening that we love, you can see the the highway sign, the directions. This is, this is like the one, okay, Carolyn, what's the answer? Ball? It would be a Indianapolis, correct, yes.
Kristin Nilsen 22:56
I'm gonna say right now, whoever's editing this episode, you can't put a clip in, because this is PCPs, light.
Michelle Newman 23:02
Okay. Good times, Florida. Evans, played by Esther roll, first appeared on what earlier sitcom a, all in the family, B, mod c, Rhoda or D, the Jeffersons.
Carolyn Cochrane 23:18
We have an app. We have an episode about that.
Michelle Newman 23:23
You guys, it is. It is a fun game. Like listeners, we've said this before. We were all in Amherst, and we met this couple out by the fire pit, having a drink and telling them all about the podcast. And they started saying, Have you guys done one on Purple Rain? And we're like, oh my God, come on, give us a hard one. Yes, we're from Minneapolis, what? And then they kept saying things and would go, yes, we have an episode. We kind of became like stump the PCPs is, there is something I can think of that you have not done an episode on. And yes, there's a million things. We have a whole long topic list, but yeah, a lot of the times we have an episode for it. So game is called, we have an episode on that. I mean, look how many related episodes we've come up with just through this organic, unscripted, unresearched, right light and
Kristin Nilsen 24:07
conversation story. Because we have an episode on that, we know that there's a cool story between her previous give us appearance on that, on that show, and then who she becomes on Good Times. So what's the answer? Chris? The answer is Maude. She was maude's Housekeeper, but she lived. You know, Maude doesn't live in Cabrini Green in Chicago, so she lives in Tuckahoe, New York, that's nowhere near Chicago. And Esther roll, at the time, was married to James, who was a firefighter. We know that James Evans was not a firefighter, and they didn't move so they just, like, conveniently changed her story utterly and completely. Yeah, and if I recall correctly, Well, number one, Maude was never mentioned on Good Times ever, and I don't even think she was a housekeeper.
Carolyn Cochrane 24:52
No, I don't know why. They just couldn't have changed her name and have her be a whole show. Different character.
Kristin Nilsen 24:57
Yes, different character. I know.
Michelle Newman 25:01
Yeah, okay, what kind of serious trouble did Marion? Played by Marion Ross, once find herself in on Happy Days. A, she was in jail after crashing a car. B, she was hospitalized after having a stroke. C, she lost all her family's money to a con artist or D she lied to Fonzie about who his mother was.
Kristin Nilsen 25:26
I mean, two of those are too serious for 70s sitcoms. They would never go they would never have a stroke on a 70s sitcom.
Michelle Newman 25:33
And, well, they made James die, and they didn't even, yeah,
Kristin Nilsen 25:37
good point. He just like Florida. He died. Husband just died in a car accident because we don't like him anymore. So, yeah, you can't have James Evans anymore. And I also don't think she would lose all their money. That's serious, right? So either she lied about his mother, but I don't know how she wouldn't. I don't recall an
Carolyn Cochrane 25:53
episode, parent, parental episode. I don't remember about his mom. Yeah, if it was like his dad was coming into town. I don't know, but I know there is something okay, but I guess we go with a, yeah, I feel
Kristin Nilsen 26:08
like I can see, I can see a jail. She looked like a jail. Yeah, that's sounding wiffy to me. I guess sort of see it, and it was like in the grocery store parking lot
Michelle Newman 26:20
or something like that. Okay, that is correct. It is okay. That is correct. I actually answered D. She lied to Fonzie about who his mother was, because in my memory, I was having a thing where Fonzie was really upset at Mrs. C for a long time. And I thought, Oh, I bet that's what it was. And I couldn't remember. Okay, I'm gonna give you one more, because it looks like our time is up, guys, so this is our last question. Did you set a timer? Yeah, it did. Oh, you did. Oh, I was looking at this time. Oh, I didn't know you said it. We have 13 minutes left. Perfect. Okay, good. We can Yeah, let me just do one more, and then I do have another quiz. But I think this will be good. Yeah, this is okay. What did Carolyn Ingalls, Karen Grassley, our friend, our BFF,
Carolyn Cochrane 27:01
Carolyn Ingles, okay, people, why
Kristin Nilsen 27:05
Carolyn? Carolyn,
Carolyn Cochrane 27:06
Carolyn, and
Michelle Newman 27:08
we asked her about that and and when she gave the wrong answer. But what's funny is, before we ask her about it, we all say it both, both ways. If you listen to it back, what did
Kristin Nilsen 27:16
Carolyn? I want to expand on that a little. Just wait. Let's wrap this up, because we were all intensely curious about this, especially Carolyn, because her name's not Carolyn. And in the in all of the printed material, it's C, A, R, o, l, I, N, E, that name is called Carolyn, correct. And in the show, everyone says, Then Carolyn, except pa Carolyn says, Carolyn. And so when we ask Karen Grassley, is it Carolyn or Carolyn? She says it's Carolyn. And we're like, No, it's not. Did you not even know what your character was? Sorry.
Michelle Newman 27:50
Okay. No, no, that's fine. Okay, okay. What did Carolyn Ingalls Karen Grassley do before marrying Charles Michael Landon on Little House on the Prairie? A, she worked on a farm. B, worked as a laundress. C, helped deliver babies, or D, taught school.
Speaker 2 28:06
She must have taught school. I think she taught school. Yeah, those others sound made, I hope the
Carolyn Cochrane 28:10
listeners, of course, it wasn't a laundress,
Kristin Nilsen 28:15
and I don't recall any farm stories either. I think we do have some interaction with her parents. Are there references to her parents,
Carolyn Cochrane 28:23
I mean, and I guess if you Well, this is pop culture that probably the TV thing. But yeah, there's references to her parents, and I think they come visit, but she was a school teacher. Yeah, correct.
Michelle Newman 28:36
She was a school teacher. So if you guys like playing these types of little, you know, games to test your Gen X pop culture knowledge of television, it goes all the way up to the 90s too. There was, there was actually questions in that TV mom moms, one about Fresh Prince of Bel Air and some other 90s sitcoms go to remind magazine.com we talk about the print magazine all the time. We love it. I love to after I've used it to use it in, like my little journals and stuff, because it's so fun. But you guys, remind magazine loves the pop culture Preservation Society as much as we love them, and they have a special deal for you. If you go to remind magazine.com/pcps, you can get an entire year for $12 that's $1 an issue. I mean, that's amazing an issue, and it's like 83% off the cover price, because you can buy it at places like if you go to Barnes and Noble or places that sell, like every magazine, but you're gonna get it for $1 and I'm telling you, it's worth the $12 it they have the most, the fun, most fun themes, like, you know, where are they now? But they'll have one that's all about the disco era, or one that's all about 80s movies or summer blockbusters, or television, you know, sitcoms or something like that. So we get a lot imagine,
Kristin Nilsen 29:57
like, inviting people over, and then you give them these. Quizzes, right? When you have to, when you invite the boss over, like Mr. Tate, when Darren and Samantha have to Tate over for dinner. And I was that that must be so uncomfortable, that's when you're gonna get your remind magazine out and give them a quiz, yeah.
Michelle Newman 30:12
And look what I mean, I had like, two other quizzes ready to go, but look at the fun conversations. It prompts Yes. So it's great around the dinner table to ask people, because then people because then people are going to start sharing their own memories and their own connections to these shows, or you're going to get into a really big argument, and your guests are going to leave because they are like she was a laundress. Carolyn.
Carolyn Cochrane 30:38
Carolyn, yeah,
Michelle Newman 30:41
oh my goodness. Thank you everybody for enjoying this light and refreshing, lemony, little lemony twist, little lemony conversation today, and we'll see you next week. Thank you
Kristin Nilsen 30:54
so much for listening. Everybody. In the meantime, let's raise our glasses for a toast courtesy of the cast of Three's Company, two good times,
Carolyn Cochrane 31:02
two Happy Days to Little House on the Prairie where Carolyn
Michelle Newman 31:08
lives. Cheers, everyone, bye, bye. Cheers,