{"id":17963,"date":"2026-05-21T22:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17963"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:37:37","slug":"i-saw-it-in-the-window-and-just-couldnt-resist-the-curtain-dress-that-made-tv-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17963","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Saw It in the Window and Just Couldn\u2019t Resist.\u201d \u2014 The Curtain Dress That Made TV History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long before memes and viral videos dominated pop culture, The Carol Burnett Show delivered one of the most unforgettable comedic moments in American television. In 1976, the show aired its now-legendary parody of Gone with the Wind, titled \u201cWent with the Wind!\u201d \u2014 a sketch that would go on to become a comedy classic. In the spoof, Carol Burnett portrayed \u201cStarlet O\u2019Hara,\u201d a determined Southern belle willing to try anything to save her beloved home. Her solution? Tear down the velvet curtains and turn them into a dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Went with the Wind\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8wVvGQ0P4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before memes and viral videos dominated pop culture, The Carol Burnett Show delivered one of the most unforgettable comedic moments in American television. In 1976, the show aired its now-legendary parody of Gone with the Wind, titled \u201cWent with the Wind!\u201d \u2014 a sketch that would go on to become a comedy classic. In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17965,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17963\/revisions\/17965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}