Daleks Vs Dallas 1PM

[11B4V]

Fuck Daleks.  Sleestaks FTW.  Hiss hiss, baby.

No shit, young folks. 

[11B4V]

Almost exactly 50 years since these two events happened, so which do you think has had the greater Cultural influence; I'm not asking about the political or social impact, just the cumulative cultural effect.

Couldn't ever get into Dr. Who. I rate it with that other crappy show, Babylon 5.

[mongers]

Almost exactly 50 years since these two events happened, so which do you think has had the greater Cultural influence; I'm not asking about the political or social impact, just the cumulative cultural effect.

Couldn't ever get into Dr. Who. I rate it with that other crappy show, Babylon 5.

[Capetan Mihali]

I'm sorry, I have to join the other Americans in not getting Dr. Who.  Though I do admit I've never made a good-faith attempt to get into it, or really watched more than a single episode at a time.  That said, I do have American friends who are bananas for it, and get frequent mystifying Dr. Who crap in my Facebook.

BUT: I love "Doctorin' the Tardis," the KLF/Timelords' amazing/amazingly successful Gary Glitter rip-off.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5YA0Uq2wXM  Having two separate drummers performing along to a drum-machine is a stroke of genius.

On the other hand, I don't remember where I was when JFK was killed. 

[Ed Anger]

I was still on my home planet

[Sheilbh]

BUT: I love "Doctorin' the Tardis," the KLF/Timelords' amazing/amazingly successful Gary Glitter rip-off.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5YA0Uq2wXM  Having two separate drummers performing along to a drum-machine is a stroke of genius.

Since the Jimmy Saville (Edit: and Gary Glitter) stories it's impossible for a Brit to watch things like that without a horrid sense of foreboding

[CountDeMoney]

I'm sorry, I have to join the other Americans in not getting Dr. Who.  Though I do admit I've never made a good-faith attempt to get into it, or really watched more than a single episode at a time.

It always struck me as one of those shows you either had to be watching since the beginning, or at least make an attempt to follow it for several episodes. 

It was built like a soap opera.  And sorry, Brits, but for a show they broadcast here once a week at 1am, with no readily definable beginning or ending, or even fucking plot lines, that just wasn't going to cut it.  Just confusing and boring as shit.  And the production value sucked balls;  it was all crappy analog sound stage video or that shitty British outdoor filming.  Only thing missing was the laugh track from "Last of the Summer Wine".  Snooze.

[Capetan Mihali]

BUT: I love "Doctorin' the Tardis," the KLF/Timelords' amazing/amazingly successful Gary Glitter rip-off.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5YA0Uq2wXM  Having two separate drummers performing along to a drum-machine is a stroke of genius.

Since the Jimmy Saville (Edit: and Gary Glitter) stories it's impossible for a Brit to watch things like that without a horrid sense of foreboding

Well, the worst thing the KLF ever did was burn £1,000,000 on Jura, not rape children, of course.

EDIT:  And I like how frank they've been admitting to being idiots with the whole stunt and really regretting it. 

[Scipio]

My momma cried
When President Kennedy died.
They said he was a Communist,
But we knew better.

[dps]

Hard to say, really.  The Kennedy assassination had tremendous political impact, absolutely, but I'm not sure it really had all that much cultural impact.  Doctor Who had and continues to have a huge impact on British culture, but zero cultural impact in America--even now that it's somewhat popular in America, it's just a show that happens to be somewhat popular but doesn't have any real impact.

[PJL]

Well it's definitely all about Dr Who rather than JFK in Britain. Even the conspiracy theories are about Dr Who, the silliest one being that the BBC have 90 'lost' episodes ready to be restored and released over the next few years.

[Brazen]

I think given photos of both, more Brits would be able to identify a Dalek over JFK.

[Josquius]

JFK, tho after most of the Boomers die it will be Dr. Who.

After the millennials die it will be Kennedy again.

The millenials are the one generation least influenced by doctor who since they're the generation who were at their peak Who-suseptability during the Wholess years of the 90s and 00s.

[Eddie Teach]

The millenials are the one generation least influenced by doctor who since they're the generation who were at their peak Who-suseptability during the Wholess years of the 90s and 00s.

Infancy?

[Zanza]

Dr. Who is extremely obscure in Germany, whereas Kennedy and his assassination are very well known facts. Most bigger Germany cities will have a road or place named for Kennedy.