Posted on 07/18/2009 10:31:03 AM PDT by Zakeet
Looking for some wholesome entertainment to share with the kids this fall?
Well, don't turn on ABC at 9:30 PM (8:30 CST), for in that prime time slot will be a new sit-com called "Cougar Town."
Yep, you guessed it: another show about mature divorced women seeking men half their age for -- ahem -- dates.
One glimpse at the following sexually charged preview, along with ABC's own description of the show, should give readers all they need to know. For major league barf CLICK HERE.
Can a woman of a certain age be a mom, a successful career woman and still be on the prowl? Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox) is about to give it a try.In a small Florida town, the center of high society is the Cougars high school football team... which is wildly appropriate since this town is the natural habitat for over-tanned, under-dressed divorcées prowling for younger men. Jules desperately doesn't want to be one of them, but with an ugly divorce behind her and 40 staring right back at her, she's longing for a little more action in her life. The available men her own age, like her silver fox of a neighbor, Grayson Ellis, only seem interested in dating barely legal hotties. Egged on by her very married and very irreverent best friend Ellie and her determined assistant Laurie, Jules reluctantly dips her toe back into the dating pool. To her surprise, she hits it off with a nice young guy named Matt -- emphasis on the young -- and discovers this gal still has the goods.
Co-executive produced by Courteney Cox and Bill Lawrence (Scrubs), Cougar Town is the single-camera comedy that dares to tell the truth about dating after divorce. Juggling a teenage son with her thriving career and budding love life isn't easy, but before you know it, Jules will have you cheering, "Go Cougars!"
Yeah, with a son that just turned 21, that's exactly what I'll be cheering.
After all, a 40-something divorcée with several children and limited moral fiber is exactly what I want for my son.
Don't you?
Defining Deviancy Down -- Again
So don’t watch it.
The networks have completely ruined the Soaps with this stuff...now primetime. And they are clueless as to why people tune them out.
I know that the liberals will say that this type of show is good family entertainment.
I wish the liberals would be intellectually honest enough to admit that a show like this couldn’t have been on TV ten or 20 years ago.
I wish they would admit that their constant pushing the envelope got us to this point where portraying this behavior is considered ok.
Yes, of course, what’s going to happen is going to happen, just don’t let it happen to you.
Nothing new in sitcoms.
ABC’s Three’s Company 30 years ago had an older divorcee Lana chasing the male lead Jack Tripper.
Ditto
You can count on Hollywood doing their depraved thing.
Courtney Cox is disturbed.
This is absurd. Besides Sarah Palin I can’t think of any old chicks I’d wanna get down with.
There’s always the V-Chip.
After all, a 40-something divorcée with several children and limited moral fiber is exactly what I want for my son.
Well, let’s see, among your other choices, a 17 year old drug addled goth, a thirty year old gay man, or a twenty something air head who will leave him and break his heart.
A couger just might be the best thing to happen to him.
Brilliant solution. Simple to implement, inexpensive, requires no government involvement and yet allows people who might enjoy such programming to still be able to watch it.
Burlesque, ala 2009 ... Nothing new here, folks ... Life goes on..
‘old chick’?
Come on!!!!?????
Are you old enough to post here?/kidding:)
Imagine this new show...
A guy turns 55 and finds himself recently divorced. What to do? Why hit on women who are 20 to 30 years of age of course. We’ll call the show, Lions on the Prowl.
Think women will find that show cute?
ABC has one butt ugly way of portraying older women. ABC evidently isn’t too knowledgeable regarding women who are 55. Generally they’re looking for a soul mate, not a kid who is still wet behind the ears, yet able to boink like a rock start.
Hey Carol, I’d like you to meet my new significant other. He doesn’t remember John Kennedy, the race to the moon, the Eagles, Queen, the Beatles, the Beegees, and the Iran Hostage crisis. He thinks Magic Johnson is ancient, and Michael Jackson is only a distant memory for him, something almost forgotten due to youth.
We have such long deep talks about life. Of course they’re all about last night in the sack or perhaps refer to our vacation six weeks ago. Other than that, we have nothing in common to talk about.
Boy can that kid boink though. Lucky for him my grand daughter is helping him with his math assignments.
Very impressive ABC. The problem is, I don’t think you were trying to convey the image you have.
It can star Fred Thompson.
Between this and the “A new kind of family” ABC family channel I’d have to place this network at the lowest rung of the quality television ladder.
You almost sound like Peggy Noonan dogging Sarah Palin....
So there *is* life after newspapers, then. /sarc>
Cheers!
Yeah, and how did Jack respond to Lana? It was portrayed as Lana being somewhat of a nutjob, and Jack finding her... how do I say this, repulsive perhaps.
That wasn’t what’s going to be portrayed here.
He never got a vote from me did he.
OR he could find a good Christian girl and have a meaningful relationship.
I hate to say this, but I checked out the 3 minute preview the article linked to, and laughed my arse off. Speaking of “Perversion Alerts,” have you checked out any of the “Not guilty” or “I’d hit that” threads? We could be a little more family friendly around here.
And I don’t laugh my arse off at the Not guilty and I’d hit that threads.
I myself like cougars.
Disappointed to see Bill Lawrence (Scrubs) involved. Scrubs was one of my favorite shows and had one the absolute best final episodes/scenes ever....right up there with last episode/scene of “Dead Like Me”.
When I was in my 20's, I met a woman who was 41, divorced a year, and who had a son a little younger than I was. We hit it off at a meeting of some kind, and went out a few times after that. She could cook, had a great outlook on life, and was a lot of fun. After we went out a few times, she went to a high school reunion, met a guy from her class, and married him. When I saw her years later, she told me that getting and keeping the attention of a younger guy was a great confidence builder for her, and that our time together made her feel like a woman again. So it worked out.
Would I want my own kid going out with someone 15 years his senior? Not when he's 15! But I've seen successful relationships where the woman is older than the guy (40/26, for example), and it can work. But putting it up on tv and making the women out to be whores does women a severe injustice, and reduces the relationships to romps in the sack with a stud.
That being said, were I ever to be placed "on the market" again, I wouldn't spend my time with women in their 20's. Probably not even 30's. I'd take a divorcee in her 40's with something to prove...
How dare you state the overlooked obvious!
can’t they put say kings on the air with a second season, that show is great.
It has been suggested that cougars and prostitutes actually serve a biological function much like sterile screwworm flies. That is, they provide an outlet for males who shouldn’t reproduce, and “clear the field” for young men and women who should reproduce.
Young women who want to have children are caught on the horns of a dilemma. Biologically, they want a male who is the best sperm donor, but they also want a male who will be a good provider, to help them raise their children. And when there are a lot of males around, these are usually not the same man.
So when cougars and prostitutes enter the picture, they help remove the inferior males from the gene pool. And in many cases, they likewise are not the best potential mothers around.
Modo is too old to be a cougar.
She’s got grannie fannie
Cougar seems to me to be the buzzword for older slut. If you’re talking a lady who’s in her 40’s who happens to hit it off with someone younger that’s different.
I think applying the term to every woman one thinks is ‘old’ is just not right.
Everytime ABC has a decent and interesting show, they cancel it, and replace it with a piece of crap like this.
The Unusuals; Life On Mars; Cupid; just to name three recent casualties of their programming department.
Makes me wonder when The Goode Family is going to get the axe.
As for CBS, no more The Unit, either.
I guess I don’t understand the big deal? I’ve seen older women with younger men all of my life? One of my uncles married a woman 15 years older than he, my GrandMother’s second husband was 12 years younger than her, etc. Why is it no one said much when it was 70yo men marrying 20 yo women? I just don’t get why it’s such a big deal?
Right now, I'm seeing someone so I'm not looking, but I have a large age range that I consider. 25-45. I'm picky on a lot of things, but not age. That's not set in stone, but is a general range. Someone who still has their looks (and many in their 40's still do), but also has an understanding of the real world.
Miami Vice quickly became one of my favorite shows too....
Your son's 21. You should ask him what HE wants.
Because Television in general would frown on promoting such a relationship when they were popular back in the 60s and 70s. Yes, those old man/young woman relationships did (and still do) occur, but you would never, ever see the networks promoting them. Part of the reason is political. Remember that all the major networks have now leftist pre-screening departments. Plots for programming are regularly scrutinized by gays, minorities, feminists, etc. before they can ever hope to air. Decades ago, the televsion networks had something known as 'decency standards' where content was generally screened for possible violations of moral etiquette and obscenity -- not for perceived violations of minority pride as they are today by so-called "progressives" (fascists). Knowing this, ask yourself why this kind of a 'reality' show actually made it to air in the first place? Who does it attempt to hurt? It doesn't hurt minorites. Doesn't hurt women -- they're the ones calling the shots in these relationships --which pleases the feminist screeners, no doubt. Doesn't hurt gays -- they're not even part of this, plus the gay screeners are happy to see the network throw in their support for the further erosion of the "overrepresented" heterosexual relationship and of course, marriage. So who gets hurt in such a relationship? Why, the older, married, probably white, heterosexual male, that's who.
Oh, I thought it might be about “The Villages,” where the divorcees (and widows) are in their 70s and the “younger men” in their 60’s. Shocking!
LOL! I can, but I'm a great-grandpa!
Seriously, I think this is what happens to the fantasy life of hollywood writers when the gardener no longer speaks the same language...
Are they broadcasting this in Hi-Def? (Yo! Check out da wrinkles on that one!)
I guess those of us who did mature are not seeking to chase after someone younger than the kids in order to recover some 'lost youth', even vicariously.
Pity they never grew up.
Just one more reason to turn the danged tube off.
“A couger just might be the best thing to happen to him.”
Like the cougar “Danielle” on NJ Housewives? She was in her mid 40s, would have a young guy come over regularly for servicing with her two young children home.
She also was arrested for working with her drug dealing boyfriend to extort money from a “client” via his family. She actually made phone calls on behalf of her drug dealing boyfriend to the guy’s family in upstate New York.
Both she and her drug dealing boyfriend were arrested. She turned on him, providing state’s evidence sending him to jail. She got probation.
She was married and divorced twice, and looking to score another payday, I mean guy while awaiting a “settlement” rumored to be in seven figures from husband #2.
You mean someone like that for jr?
P.S. You’d be better off sending your son to a hooker.
The relationships you mention the folks were all married. Marriage is not the operative word in the whole “cougar” thing!
Sarah's married.
I’ve got a better idea. I’m making a show about guys in their seventies who are hitting on underage girls that they’re related to. I’ll call it Woody and Morgan. The only trick will be finding the lead actors.
I’m 32 and my boyfriend is 25. We’re happy together and I’m proud to be a cougar.
Why don’t they just call it “The MILF Show” and be honest about it?
Exactly!
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