Free to Be You and Me

[lester1/2jr]

   Anyone watch this one?  It's from the late 70's.  We had the album at my house and we watched it in school to.  "It all right to cry"- Rosey Grier.  That s**t was real, yo.  I think there was one about atalanta the running princess?  Marlo Thomas represent

[AndyC]

Oh yes! In the early 80s, we must have watched this in school at least three years in a row.

Alan Alda narrating a story about a boy who plays with dolls, Marlo Thomas and Mel Brooks voicing creepy baby puppets. Probably the best one, for sheer irony alone, had to be a young Micheal Jackson singing about how he's not going to change when he grows up.

I've tried to describe FTBYAM to my wife, but I can't do it justice. I'm just going to have to order the video one of these days.

[lester1/2jr]

alan alda. hahahah.  this thing would not fly in these FOX news times!!! maybe it's for the best.  William wants a doll. and some day he is gonna be a father too!!

[Tilebreaker]

That movie was a staple of after school/summer camp movie days. We use to watch it yearly.   I can remember is the scene with the puppet babies.

[raj]

Ghaaaa!  Watched it in the 70s and thought it was a piece of smarmy PC crap even then.

[Flangepart]

My spider sence protects me from crap levels beyond my tolerance limets.
Its tingled a LOT on that one!

[lester1/2jr]

I wonder if it's gonna be rereleased on DVD.

[ED]

This was a staple of a 70's childhood.  It was a nice naieve effort to bring us all the feel-goodishness.  I think its a mistake to drag PC-ness into it.  This beats the militantness of political correctness by years.  In the 70's they wanted us all the be happy and get along, this is different from enforced getting along.
-Ed

[lester1/2jr]

good point.  I still wouldn't want to watch it now and I'm glad it wasn't apart of that whole gen-x retro thing of a few years ago.

[ED]

On that we can agree.  I always liked the babies though, to be honest.
-Ed