Favorite Television Vacuum Cleaner Moments......

[i70sn80sguy]

Eight is Enough

Remember when some ladies group had picketed VanPatten for something written in his column anyway toward the end of the episode the ladies had changed their tune and were now helping the family and when Tom(Dick) came home from the paper there in thier odd shaped, avacodo carpeted foyer was one of the ladies using a Electrolux Golden Jubilee, if I am not mistaken (that would have been period for mid 70s)complete with power head. And she was moving really slow and the machine was not making as much noise as it really would have. Perhaps to imply that the turbulent situation that had been prior, was now under control.
Ah, fond memories. I'm sure this scene helped lure me into watching the show in the future.

 

[westie2]

The movie you are thinking about with the robot vacuum is a Doris Day movie called the Glass Bottom Boat.

 

[i70sn80sguy]

Wow

When was it made?

 

[i70sn80sguy]

Was it a comedy? Looking back Its funny to think my reaction. I wonder if it can be rented or bought.

 

[programcomputer]

Good Ones Everyone...........

I diddn't think that Roseannes 1-18's were poppy, that color sticks out in even a daft person's mind; wait...am I daft, am I stupid....memories can come and go. I could have swore on a stack that they were either beige or harvest gold in color.

I do remember the premise of the episode I'm thinking of, Rosie was givin Jackie some shit about what she was doing w/ her life, and Jackie wasn't having it, but meanwhile alot of onstage buisness was being conducted with the 1-18.

Jackie and Roseanne, using the laundry room as a conversating point, shows Jackie loading her clothes then puttin in what seemed to be WAAAAY too much Fresh Start Detergent, at least it looked like the old school Fresh Start bottle with the wording blocked out, and had a blueish powder in it....so it must have been that..

As Jackie was crankin the dial and pushing a few buttons, Roseanne says something that torques off Jackie, and she leaves, after tellin Rosey off; with her clothes in the machine. I also could swear on a- that the Frigidaire's were in the laundry early on in the series. And later did they have the late 70's looking Maytag's.

BACK TO VACUUMS- I barely remember Eight as Enough, and that's sad because I'm about the same age as their youngest boy that (Rich?) kid. My interest could have cared less abou that show, although my folks watched it, so I never would have seen the sequence described.

And on the Regina pic, I did download it from someone else who had it on their website. Just as we download the "video's to watch" later. I actually whilst writing that post left writing , and went to search for it. He is a cool Canadian guy, I have talked to him by e-mail, and Im sure that he wouldn't be offended that it was used. It was only used to show the machine as an example of what we were talking about.

I diddn't say that ALL of my pictures were MINE....

Anyway, keep going guys, theres some great memo's here that let us know that we paid attention whilst watching Television and Movies.... An that if for a breif second we get to see something we love, it does stick in our memory for future use.

Chad

PS Check out the MAJOR difference between the older Singer on the left and the newer one on the right. Coincidentally, the one on the right served Singer in the same basic mechanism, looks were changed tho until Singer left the buisness in the early 80's. It still made that design for Kenmore, and then later again for Singer.....

 

[westie2]

Glass Bottom Boat

Here is the link to a short discription of the movie. It had Rod Taylor also and it was his kitchen that the vacuum was in. It was ultra modern (for 1966) and had a microwave in shich she tried to cook a chicken and it but to a crisp and popped out and then the vacuum came out and tried to such her clothes off. Good movie and Have seen it on Turner Clsssic Moives on and off.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0060463/

 

[tolivac]

Lucy

Got the DVD set of "I Love Lucy" episodes-second season.They have the episode I remembered from years ago.It started that Lucy ordered a Handy-Dandy Kitchen Helper from the TV informercial-than the machine didn't work so Ricky had her call the Handy-Dandy co. to take it back.She does-the Handy-Dandy salesman sells her the Handy-Dandy Vacuum.Love thge sales method-the salesman throws dirt on her floor and bets $10 that the machine will pick it up in under 2 min.He wins-takes back the money. Ricky won't let her keep the vacuum-so she tries to sell it DTD on her own.She throws dirt on a "prospects" floor-tries the $10 bet-but the customers power was disconnected!Lucy lost her 10 bucks.The other episode shows Lucy getting a new washer and selling her old one to Ethyl.The machine blows up on Ethyl-and the fight begins....They end up accidently pushing the machine off the apartment house balcony.-after the washer tech offers $50 for it!!

 

[spiralactivator]

Roseanne

Roseanne had a gold Maytag set during the early years. The turquoise agitator was seen after Dan "finished beheading the washing machine" in the 1st season Halloween ep. There was an ep where the Conners tried to sell their machines after supposedly buying new (used) ones, and after that they had gold 1-18s. Apparently the dial was missing from the 1-18 washer, because I remember Jackie using pliers to set the cycle.

 

[kenmore1978]

Rhett Butler show

I can't think of the name of the show off-hand, but it starred Rhett Butler, and in one episode, she got a new laundry set and set them in concrete in her floor so the store couldn't take them back. Anybody remember that? The theme sone was "Lady Godiva" as sung by Aretha Franklin