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Don't Believe the Hype

Best movie ever!

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

I just saw Sally Field on CBS Sunday Morning, when she was asked about The Flying Nun, she said she was embarrassed by it. I wish she wasn't . It was a great show about someone that wanted to do good things for others, Sister Betrille was a kind person willing to take a risk to help someone and the bonus was she got to fly. I looked at nuns a lot differently after watching The Flying Nun however very few were as sweet & gentle. Watching it as a kid, the show was perfectly magical. Sometimes I wonder how much better the shows would be without the laugh track?

Clearly aimed at an unbelievably naive, non-thinking audience - TV's "The Flying Nun" has got to be the absolute nadir of terrible 1960's Sit-Coms, bar none. (This show actually makes Gilligan's Island look great by comparison) So, before you sit yourself down to watch this ridiculous, religious-based junk, just go and try to lift a 90 lb. object off the ground (that's the weight of Sister Bertrille). And as you are doing so, just imagine how strong of a wind it would require to lift Bertrille off the ground and keep her flying for an unspecific length of time.The truth is - It would literally require gale-force winds to lift a 90 lb. object off the ground. And if winds were as strong as this, Sister Bertrille's headgear (aka. a cornette) would, literally, need to be nailed to her head to keep her flying around, this way and that, without losing the blasted thing.Containing some of the phoniest-looking flying sequences imaginable - The Flying Nun (a truly pathetic, one-note joke) turned the Catholic religion into an idiotic, 3-ring circus. I cannot believe that this rubbish and all of its unfathomable stupidity actually lasted for 3 seasons (1967-1970).Anyway - I think that actress Sally Field (who was 20 at the time) should be absolutely ashamed of herself for appearing in this garbage TV show.

I remember watching this series during it's original run and liking it, but I was by no means a fanatic about it. Seeing the series today, it seems better than I remember. Going beyond the wild premise of a nun flying, which is no more fantastic than a horse talking or a witch or genie performing magical feats. The acting is very good by the entire cast and surprise! The writing and the stories are charming. One of my favorite episodes is"The Dig-In", which has a more or less serious story sans laugh track. Also, this episode is a two-character study, with Sr. Bertrille and an escaped convict. Really different. Don't listen to the many put-downs that this show has endured over the years. Give Sr. Bertrille and the other nuns a try.

Me and my friend Chimmy watched this show in reruns because we weren't around when it was first on television, don't ya know! Chimmy's mom didn't approve of a nun flying around doing stuff. She equated that as being just like Samatha flying on her broom, meaning it was the devil working his evil ways on TV and witches were the devil's sidekicks. Come to think of it, there were a lot of people flying around in the 60's weren't they? Anyway, me and Chimmy tried to make funny hats out of construction paper just like Miss Field wore on that Flying Nun show. Chimmy, rest his soul, tried to fly off his roof but his flying habit malfunctioned somehow and he died. I never watched that show again.