I was reading that Patty Hearst was called Tania after the SLA captured her. In The Checks Mr Wilhelm was brainwashed by the carpet cleaning cult and Mr Wilhelm said his name was Tania. Am I reading too much into this? Paul
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In article , "paul d valenti" wrote:
Nope, you got it right. That is just another parody where the richness of the writing was grounded in real life experience and events.
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TheNewsGuy(Mike) wrote:
Anybody care to enlighten an ignorant soul as to what this is about ?
NV.
Niranjan Vasan wrote:
In the episode The Checks - Mr. Wilhelm is "brainwashed" and taken over by a carpet cleaning cult. At the end he stikes the same pose that Patty Hearts did with a rifle when she was abducted and "brainwashed" by the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army). It's a 70's Thing! ============================================================================================
From: http://www.rickross.com/reference/general16.html ======================= Today, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst Shaw is a married mother living in Connecticut, still trying to clear her name. But on Feb. 4, 1974, she was a 19-year-old college student abducted in a barrage of gunfire.
A band of radicals calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army announced that they had made her a prisoner of war to avenge ``the crimes her mother and father have committed against the American people and the people of the world.''
The SLA was born in neighboring Berkeley, a hotbed of opposition to the Vietnam War. Its symbol was a seven-headed snake, and its rallying cry was ``Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.''
The group demanded that Randolph and Catherine Hearst distribute $2 million worth of food to the needy before they would discuss freedom for their daughter. The demand later climbed to $6 million.
Meanwhile, Hearst Shaw was held for weeks in a closet. The SLA, led by the grandly named Field Marshall Cinque, indoctrinated her with radical rhetoric.
Cinque, who took his name from a famous rebel slave, was actually an escaped convict -- Donald DeFreeze, a father of six who was obsessed with weapons and was a lifelong loser in battles with the law.
Hearst Shaw metamorphosed into Tania, a member of the very group that took her prisoner. She named herself for a Bolivian woman who had died with Che Guevara.
Two months after the kidnapping, she was photographed carrying a carbine during a SLA holdup of a San Francisco bank -- the robbery for which she eventually was tried, convicted and sent to prison. ======================================
The News Guy(Mike) wrote:
Thanks for that article ! I knew the Seinfeld episode, but didn't know the significance behind Mr. Wilhem's "My name is Tania".
Would have helped if I had been born before the 70s :-)
NV.
When Wilhelm says "My name is Tania," he slaps the carpet cleaner hose into his hand and holds it in exactly the same way Patty Hearst held a machine gun in the famous photograph of her back when she was a "member" of the SLA.
Sorry i havn't seen this one, what are you on about TheNewsGuy (Mike) wrote in message news:8ep68e$pj0$[email]...
Paul asked: "...... Mr Wilhelm said his name was Tania. Am I reading too much into this?'
You're reading it exactly right.