Let's get kilts on a TV show

**auld argonian** · 19th June 06, 07:19 AM

...what can you expect from Belushi? You know, I saw that guy do "The Pirates of Penzance" here many years ago? He played the Pirate King opposite Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits as Freddie....and Belushi sang well...who'd a thunk it?

Hey...even Paul McGillion who plays Dr. Carson Beckett on Stargate Atlantis doesn't show up in a kilt...and his character (if not Mr. McGillion himself...just checked the website:born in Paisley!) is a Scot...has a Saltire shoulder patch on his Stargate uniform.

I do get your point, though...not a science fiction character or a comic character...someone in a regular role who wears the kilt as a matter of course.

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**Hamish** · 19th June 06, 08:07 AM

=auld argonian.......................................... ...I do get your point, though...not a science fiction character or a comic character...someone in a regular role who wears the kilt as a matter of course.

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A sort of street-wise Duncan, perhaps?

**Pour1Malt** · 19th June 06, 09:04 AM

how aboot these remakes....????

Kilts of Hazard...

The Beverly Hielanders....

Glasga... (like Dallas... but with kilts an withoot the muckle big hairdoos)

Starsky & Willy...

CSI, Shetland...

**arrogcow** · 19th June 06, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Pour1Malt

how aboot these remakes....????

Kilts of Hazard...

Last name Duke, and I've been kilted in Hazzard (ok KY not GA), does this mean I get my own show?

Adam

**MacSimoin** · 19th June 06, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Eric T

Lets find a way to use two of the most powerful things in the universe: American TV and Kilts, to promote kilt wearing...

Let's not.

Do we really need any country's national dress glamorized on American TV? No, I think not. There's already enough Hollyweird types who don kilts every St. Pat's (i.e. Tony Danza) so why on earth try to saturate the airwaves with a kilted guy on a sitcom? Let's face it, if it happened, that's where (a situation comedy) you'd likely see it on television (at least here in the States).

Sorry guys, I just gotta add my two cents and say bad idea; I think we should just leave well enough alone. Do we really need to see 'soccer moms' sporting kilts and/or the cast of some soon-to-be cancelled FOX program wearing kilts as they sit and around every week and bemoan the fact that their even wealthier neighbors have more kilts than they do? I don't. Let's face it: Kilt wearing commands enough attention on its own...why turn it into syndicated fodder for the masses?

Personally, I enjoy the fact that kilts aren't a mainstream or fashionably 'common' garment; I seriously doubt they ever will be and that's fine by me.

Afterthought: Not to totally rain on this parade, but I'm of the mind that if you really want to push for this, don't parade this here in the States. Push for it with BBC, ITV, Five or Channel 4 instead. Network televison executives here in the USA would only reduce a kilt to a gag (at best).

**Richland** · 19th June 06, 05:15 PM

Do we really want kilts to become mainstream fashon????? They will only become fads....

**Pour1Malt** · 20th June 06, 09:03 AM

the Simpsons hae had Willie in a kilt several times...

an Homer was in a kilt in the last yin ai saw.... sae wuz Willie's cousin "Gravedigger Billy" an Willies ma & pa...

Groondskeeper Willie... the mon hae gae us these greet quotes...

"Then grease me up, woman!"

"There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman!".

an when his kilt wuz lifted oop...

"Ach! 'Tis no more than what God gave me, you puritan pukes!"