**SPOILERS** As usual, when someone who sees no use for a certain part of society, and then decides to use them as a point in a story, the presenter has some problems. Such as jargon, dialogue, catch phrases; the everyday slang and flow of specialized communication, dig? I didn't remember this one, but I did remember one thing that was central to almost every episode, and that was the psychology that was discussed after each show, in our household, anyway.
In this one Judy plays the babe who for some obscure reason, loves Mitch. Kenny is the working class square who sets up Mitch for a long jail sentence, by shoplifting a valuable bracelet and then watching while Mitch tries to have it valued (by the very shop it was stolen from). Well, they DID get their merchandise back, and unless it was Mitch's first bust, he'll get a minimum sentence, probably 2-4 years. While he's in jail, he'll wonder who and why lovely Judy's life was ended by being knifed in her own apartment (read in "dump"). See, the problem I have is twofold 1) would anyone notice Kenny leaving Judy's after he killed her? 2) if they didn't, how would he be caught? As to 2; Well, he WAS a square in a beat pad, wasn't he? Still he was pretty smart, and most of the beatniks had a problem with the law themselves. Mostly on account of the "heathen-devil weed". Would they tell? Most people who were called "beatniks" were really those who liked the offhand style, and different approach to life (as in: freestyle values, rejection of "Victorian" principles concerning sex, etc..). Most of them held jobs, believe it or not, and were usually just a little outside the normal "lifestyle" of the squares.
We had a "Beat Coffeehouse" in our town called "The Jolly Coachman". My friend and I got in one night and drank espresso, listened to poetry, and were bored out of our skulls. Except for a couple of girls wearing leotard tops with no bras, short skirts and no stockings with ballet shoes. If they hadn't had the windows open we would have died from asphyxiation from all the cigarette smoke. Heady stuff for 2 fourteen year-olds. It was interesting, at least. Of course we learned some of the lingo, and all the slang we could pick up, but we were really interested in rock and roll, and surfer girls. Ah, youth.
Hitch almost always has the perps takin a fall for their misdeeds, even though he almost never tells how or why they're busted. I contend that a LOT of crimes are gotten away with, and of course, when I expressed this point of view, my parents just KNEW I was gonna be a criminal. Nonetheless, this was his version of the "Happy Ending".
In this one Judy plays the babe who for some obscure reason, loves Mitch. Kenny is the working class square who sets up Mitch for a long jail sentence, by shoplifting a valuable bracelet and then watching while Mitch tries to have it valued (by the very shop it was stolen from). Well, they DID get their merchandise back, and unless it was Mitch's first bust, he'll get a minimum sentence, probably 2-4 years. While he's in jail, he'll wonder who and why lovely Judy's life was ended by being knifed in her own apartment (read in "dump"). See, the problem I have is twofold 1) would anyone notice Kenny leaving Judy's after he killed her? 2) if they didn't, how would he be caught? As to 2; Well, he WAS a square in a beat pad, wasn't he? Still he was pretty smart, and most of the beatniks had a problem with the law themselves. Mostly on account of the "heathen-devil weed". Would they tell? Most people who were called "beatniks" were really those who liked the offhand style, and different approach to life (as in: freestyle values, rejection of "Victorian" principles concerning sex, etc..). Most of them held jobs, believe it or not, and were usually just a little outside the normal "lifestyle" of the squares.
We had a "Beat Coffeehouse" in our town called "The Jolly Coachman". My friend and I got in one night and drank espresso, listened to poetry, and were bored out of our skulls. Except for a couple of girls wearing leotard tops with no bras, short skirts and no stockings with ballet shoes. If they hadn't had the windows open we would have died from asphyxiation from all the cigarette smoke. Heady stuff for 2 fourteen year-olds. It was interesting, at least. Of course we learned some of the lingo, and all the slang we could pick up, but we were really interested in rock and roll, and surfer girls. Ah, youth.
Hitch almost always has the perps takin a fall for their misdeeds, even though he almost never tells how or why they're busted. I contend that a LOT of crimes are gotten away with, and of course, when I expressed this point of view, my parents just KNEW I was gonna be a criminal. Nonetheless, this was his version of the "Happy Ending".