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Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter present Learn Your Lesson...About Being Different - Shockucational Acceptance, the eleventh in a series of programs highlighting the most ridiculous, insane and camptastic shockucational films and TV specials of the collection. This time, we're celebrating our differences with mime bullies, wheelchair musical numbers, homophobic jocks and even Michael Jackson singing about self-acceptance.
Michael Keaton stars in A Different Approach (1978), an all-star musical comedy benefitting disabled workers' rights (with cameos by Two Golden Girls!). In the Captain Kangaroo cartoon The Most Important Person: I'm the Only Me! (1972), a shaggy alien thinks all human children look alike, but can a rainbow of kids teach him how wrong he is (in song)? Schoolhouse bullying always goes better with rhyming mimes, as we find in People: Different But Alike (1970). Homophobic nerd bullying turns to acceptan ce and appreciation after a good talking to from coach in Who's Different? (1984). Learn that there's nothing "wrong" with your neighbor, it's just that He's Mentally Retarded (1975). Michael Jackson and Roberta Flack act as children accepting their physical shortcomings in the musical number "When I Grow Up" from Free To Be...You and Me (1978). Kristy McNichol has a different kind of family in her foster home with her wheelchair bound foster brother in an excerpt of the ABC Afterschool Special The Pinballs (1977). Leigh McCloskey (Dallas) tries to impress a blind girl by donning blind goggles in another extra special Afterschool Special Blind Sunday (1976). With more special surprises, it's time you learned your lesson!
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating
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