#Dobie Gillis

[citizenscreen]

The CBS television comedy “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” premiered on September 29, 1959 #OnThisDay

#dobie gillis #Dwayne Hickman #bob denver

[justahillbillyfromouterspace]

Chrisman Coupe too

#Dobie Gillis #traditional hotrods

[oldshowbiz]

People often complain that Los Angeles is crime-ridden. Sometimes it’s true, but most of the time it’s greatly exaggerated. Either way, it is not a new complaint. The same characterization was frequently made throughout the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s. 

Bob Denver said that while filming the Adventures of Dobie Gillis in 1959, on the old Fox lot on Western Avenue, the neighborhood was rife with crime.

“It wasn’t in the greatest neighborhood,” he said. “In fact, prostitutes worked the alley only a couple of blocks away.” 

Blowing johns out in the open was not ideal in 1959 and some hookers devised ways to conceal their activity.

Frank Faylen, Bob Denver’s costar, noticed that someone had been breaking into his dressing room overnight. Faylen was determined to catch the culprit. 

“It seemed,” recalled Denver, “[Faylen[ was staked out in his car, watching his dressing room, at two-thirty A.M. when it happened. A car drove up and two people got out and went into his dressing room. Frank leaped out of his car and flung open the door and screamed, ‘I got you! I finally got you!’ What he had gotten was a sergeant from the LAPD with a hooker.”

#lapd #the many loves of dobie gillis #dobie gillis #hollywood babylon #hollywood studios #western ave #bob denver #frank faylen #sitcom babylon

[fuckyesdobiegillis]

HE is the chairman of the tortured poets department

#the many loves of dobie gillis #memes #mod char #taylor swift #the tortured poets department #dobie gillis

[browsethestacks]

Remember When... DC Did TV

#Comics #DC Comics #DC TV #Bob Hope #Jerry Lewis #Ozzie And Harriet #Jackie Gleason #Dean Martin #Honeymooners #Sgt Bilko #Dobie Gillis #Pvt Doberman #Welcome Back Kotter #Vintage #TV #Television #DC #Art #CGC #Humor #Humor Comics #Radio #OTR #Old Time Radio

[dobiegillisthemusical]

Maynard was a better father to her then her own parents

But fr I think Maynard would make a great dad

#the many loves of dobie gillis #dobie gillis #maynard g krebs #i might have a little bit of childhood trauma #wholesome #lana del rey

[travsd]

The Many Shows of Dwayne Hickman

Last year, Dwayne Hickman (1934-2022) made the symbolic gesture of dying on Bob Denver’s birthday. This will mean nothing to all but the elderly. I’m only aware of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-63), the sit-com on which the men starred, because I’ve got older brothers. Hickman was known by most people primarily from Dobie Gillis. I initially knew him from the AIP films he appeared in…

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#actor #AIP #Bob Cummings #Bob Denver #child star #Dobie Gillis #Dwayne Hickman #Many Loves #sit com #Sit Coms #star #Television

[ehj3]

MEDDLING KIDS

“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires” but also “The world of most men is given to them by their culture” ― Richard Wright, The Outsider I was originally gonna try to make this political, you know, have the suit and siren in it, Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty, too, I even thought I could fit tr*mp and some MAGAs in. But that was too much of a stretch. I…

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#anxiety #beatnik #being and nothingness #cartoon #colin wilson #comic relief #commentary #dobie Gillis #fifth wheel #irony #maynard g. krebs #Nietzsche #nostalgia #outsider #parody #pleasure principle #reality principle #richard wright #scooby-doo #shaggy rogers #sitcom

[ami-ven]

Happy Birthday, Dobie Gillis!

#dobie gillis #the many loves of dobie gillis #fictional_birthday #fictional birthday

[froglifer]

Fighting Dobie Gillis shipping wars like those Japanese soldiers who didn't know the war ended

#dobie gillis #shipping #zelia and dobesworth are obviously the the elite ships though all my love to daynard fans #800 hours of dobie Gillis lore right here

[lostsaucers]

gonna get over my weird fear and actually post my art here. stuff will likely be sketches and stuff idk yet

chatsworth i drew a week or so ago. i kinda like it. from memory obviously bc that's how we do it here

#🖍️ #🌹 #dobie gillis #YES im going to main tag my stuff bc i love chaos

[dobietube]

“Does the commercial end tag here make Dwayne Hickman the Pillsbury Dobie boy?”

---John80220, 2013 [x]

#dobie gillis #linked #dated

[oldshowbiz]

The Nipples of Maynard G. Krebs.

#bob denver #the many loves of dobie gillis #dobie gillis #sitcoms

[lunarhobbits]

memes for people who either are huge dobie gillis fans or have made it over 19 hours into the new Quinton Reviews video

#quinton reviews #the many loves of dobie gillis #the beverly hillbillies #scooby doo #velma dinkley #old tv

[fuckyesdobiegillis]

i am now 24 and im TRIGGERED

#The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis #dobie gillis #dwayne hickman #Maynard G. Krebs #Bob Denver #season 2 #take me to your leader #gif #my gifs #memes

[amostexcellentblog]

Shout out to the woman who laid the groundwork for canon Lesbian Velma before Scooby-Doo even existed.

Sheila Kuehl played Zelda Gilroy, the character on whom Velma was modeled, on the late 50s TV show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (the other human members of Mystery Inc are also modeled on characters from the show.) 

Although it seems quaint today, the Zelda character diverged from television’s usual depiction of women at the time. Zelda was an academic overachiever who knew a lot about traditionally masculine subjects like science and cars. In an era when June Cleaver put on high heels and a pearl necklace to mop the kitchen floor, Zelda could be seen wearing her hair in a pony tail and dressing in flannel shirts. All of this was enough for network execs to deem the character and the actress “too butch” to lead her own series and cancel a planned spin-off. For Kuehl, who was struggling with her sexuality even as she played probably the most lesbian-coded woman on TV at the time, (a low bar, but still) this was not the sort of thing she needed to hear.

Kuehl would eventually leave the entertainment industry for politics, becoming the first openly gay person elected to the California state legislator. Her acting career was brief, but it left a lasting pop culture legacy in the form of Velma. Zelda was not supposed to be a recurring character, but Kuehl brought a certain subversive quality to the role that elevated it beyond a one-off character, and helped open the door for other non-conformist female characters on TV.

#scooby doo #velma dinkley #the many loves of dobie gillis #sheila kuehl #trick or treat scooby doo