Word: fernwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writer, centers the action on two related Connecticut families, the rich Tates and working-class Campbells, whose flaky members collectively include philandering and impotent husbands, bored and batty housewives, nymphomaniac children, a senile grandfather-and so on. Most of these types have counterparts in Mary Hartman's Fernwood, Ohio, but Soap's characters are flimsy replicas of the originals...
...only its fifth week, Fernwood has yet managed to offend almost everybody. A rawhide sampler...
...Tonight show. The host is professionally affable, the guests are the usuals: a loathsome child star and a piano player, a pompous research scientist, a frizzy-haired health-food nut. Then comes the perception that something is terribly awry-the piano player is in an iron lung; Fernwood 2 Night, the talk show to end all talk shows, is on and running muck. Something like a televised cross between radio's Bob and Ray and print's Mad Magazine, it is Norman Lear's newest and, so far, funniest invention...
...Fernwood, Ohio, the home town of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the studio of WZAZ-TV is almost painfully tacky. Guests sit on a tattered pea-green sofa, plumped with lavender pillows held together by safety pins. In front of them are gumdrops, a plate of carrot slices and celery sticks stuffed with cream cheese...
...After being stopped for speeding down Main Street, Morton Rose was brought on the show to further the spirit of ecumenism. The producers figured no one in tiny, inbred Fernwood had ever seen a Jew and that seeing one would erase unfortunate stereotypes. "What tribe are you from?" asked Hubbard. "I'm originally from Toledo," answered Rose, eager to help. At that point Garth turned the program over to "Talk-to-a-Jew" and let the viewing audience into the act. "I'd like to know why Mr. Rose isn't wearing a beanie," said one woman...