Classic Dating Tips

Okay, this is a tape of three featurettes by the United States Navy: How To Succeed With Brunettes, Blondes Prefer Gentlemen and Dating Dos And Don'ts. I think I'll take a look at them one at a time.
How To Succeed With Brunettes: Here's a situation. Here's how you could handle it: be a total dick. It's good for a laugh. Here's another way to handle it: be a gentleman. Then she'll like you.
Blondes Prefer Gentlemen: Here are two Navy guys. They each went on a date with a blonde girl. One of them was a dick. The other one was a gentleman. The blonde girl liked the gentlemanyly guy better. You should be like him.
Dating Dos And Don'ts: This one doesn't seem to be made by the Navy; this one's about a teenager who's going to a teen carnival. He has to figure out how to choose a date (pick the girl who's fun), how to ask a girl out (be polite) and how to say goodnight to the girl at the end of the date (be polite).
My favorite part is the narrator of the first two little movies. He's fantastically snarky and sarcastic toward the bad dates. He's that voice who narrated everything in the fifties and sixties, and he sounds like he's having a good time narrating these. I think he knew how ridiculous they were.
Overall, though, they're kinda boring and repetitive. The moral of the story is: don't be a dick. And also, it's the 1950s so we can refer to women by their hair color rather than as people.


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-Sally