Everyone knows that a Sadie Hawkins dance is the yearly high school tradition in which the girls ask guys out – even if they have no idea who Sadie Hawkins is. In fact, most people probably know this even if their particular high school didn't offer any such opportunity to reverse gender norms.
Why, then, is it so celebrated? Well, for one it's long been a staple of pop culture and of teen-centered TV shows in particular. In fact, a lot of people may have only ever experienced a Sadie Hawkins dance through TV. And TV shows are still doing it today,...
Why, then, is it so celebrated? Well, for one it's long been a staple of pop culture and of teen-centered TV shows in particular. In fact, a lot of people may have only ever experienced a Sadie Hawkins dance through TV. And TV shows are still doing it today,...
- 11/11/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- People.com - TV Watch
Written and illustrated by cartoonist Al Capp, the second volume of the complete "Li'l Abner" newspaper comic strip, presenting the daily strips and color Sundays from 1937 and 1938, features the first 'Sadie Hawkins Day', "...in which the womenfolk chase the menfolk, and whosoever gets caught is brought to the altar before 'Marryin' Sam' himself..."
"Li'l Abner", considered the inspiration for the characters in the CBS comedy TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies", featured a clan of hillbillies from the impoverished town of 'Dogpatch', Kentucky.
The strip ran in North American newspapers from 1934 to 1977, distributed by United Feature Syndicate.
Characters included voluptuous 'Daisy Mae Scragg' hopelessly in love with Li'l Abner, before getting 'hitched' and producing their first child, 'Honest Abe' in 1953.
The 'Shmoo' characters introduced to the strip in 1948, were fabulous creatures that bred exponentially, consumed nothing and eagerly provided everything that humankind could wish for.
Besides producing both milk (bottled,...
"Li'l Abner", considered the inspiration for the characters in the CBS comedy TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies", featured a clan of hillbillies from the impoverished town of 'Dogpatch', Kentucky.
The strip ran in North American newspapers from 1934 to 1977, distributed by United Feature Syndicate.
Characters included voluptuous 'Daisy Mae Scragg' hopelessly in love with Li'l Abner, before getting 'hitched' and producing their first child, 'Honest Abe' in 1953.
The 'Shmoo' characters introduced to the strip in 1948, were fabulous creatures that bred exponentially, consumed nothing and eagerly provided everything that humankind could wish for.
Besides producing both milk (bottled,...
- 6/18/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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