Hogan\u2019s Heroes<\/em>.\u00a0 I ate it up, and that led to my Dad concluding that I wanted all things WWII.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t hurt that my family had several who had served in that war.\u00a0 From there, my Dad bought me, in third grade, a World War II coffee table book. After that, I fell in love with history and never looked back.<\/p>\nChild of the 70s and 80s that I was, Mr. Dawson\u2019s second incarnation as TV game show host helped me rediscover that bizarre charm that worked so well in that decade that taste forgot.\u00a0 At the same time that The Dukes of Hazzard<\/em> and Donnie and Marie<\/em> held prime time slots, and Mork and Mindy<\/em> and Dallas<\/em> would make their debuts, Family Feud<\/em> was a routine stop.\u00a0 I remember sitting in the little family room made from an old bedroom, TV tray before me, watching Dawson laugh at the absurd answers given under pressure of the clock, such as naming a watermelon as a fruit found in a fruit bowel. <\/p>\nMy favorite moment?\u00a0 I can still remember the category: commands you give to a dog.\u00a0 One of the contestants stumbled, then said, \u201cOut!\u201d\u00a0 Dawson laughed, along with the audience.\u00a0 As he turned around in his usual slick way to point to the board, he chuckled and repeated the line from Macbeth: \u201cOut! Out! damned spot!\u201d\u00a0 Laughing as he did it.\u00a0 A game show host with a British accent dropping an impromptu Shakespearean reference off the cuff in response to a middle class American\u2019s stumble \u2013 that was class.\u00a0 Thanks for the laughs Mr. Dawson, and may the perpetual light shine upon you.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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