Posted on 11/27/2005 1:48:22 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
But when the payoff does come, it's not what we expect. She doesn't just nudge her husband. She smacks him. Hard enough to make his pale cheek red. "Wake up, you lazy piece of crap!" she screams. Except she doesn't say "crap," because this sitcom will air on HBO, and no one on HBO says "crap" when they can get away with so much worse. (This is, however, The Boston Globe Magazine - so you'll have to fill in your own choice words as you read on.)
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Ummm ok?
When I read the title I thought it was a story pleading for no more dumb, ugly Neck Ties for Christmas.
I don't know how funny this show is, but HBO already has a great sitcom in Entourage. And the article although technically correct doesn't mention that Arrested Development is all but canceled. Which is an incredible shame. It took Seinfeld 4 seasons and I would have to assume much regular scheduling than AD ever got to take off.
Comedie est mort.
It's funny that the writers can get this trash past the Time-Life-Warner-Tuner "standards and practices" office.
Oh wait, major corporate America doesn't have such a thing anymore.
Perhaps there should be a backlash against such irresponsible companies.
And the MSM wonders why they are losing market share AND revenue.
Exactly my thought.Alice has a way of of getting her point across to Ralph without drawing blood or using foul expletives.
yes it is and filth and sex has replaced it.
Oh but you see, life imitates art... or is it art imitates life.
Hmmmmmm....
I used to watch shows like Leave It To Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet. Once while discussing TV with a leftist friend of mine she said, "but those shows don't reflect reality. Your home was not like "Leave It To Beaver" was it? I said no it wasn't, but I would have liked it to be. When I married and had children I had a model to follow. I tried to remember what made a happy loving home. Respect, courtesy, unselfishness, the ability to share with each other and of course lots of love. Were we always June and Ward? No, but very close. Very, very close.
Yeah -- there was an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show where Mary brings a kid to the office -- I think it was her landlady Phyllis' kid -- and then Lou calls her in his office and complains that when she brings a kid to the office, he can't curse. Now at no point during the series did Lou actually curse, but his manner of speaking led the viewer to believe that he cursed on a regular basis. You don't get TV writing like that any more....
Bleah! So glad our cable package doesn't have HBO anymore. I understand there are a few good shows on HBO, but my life is going on just fine without it.
"Oh wait, major corporate America doesn't have such a thing anymore.
Perhaps there should be a backlash against such irresponsible companies.
And the MSM wonders why they are losing market share AND revenue."
One reason that networks are losing market share is more channels to divide the pie. Another is difficulty competing with HBO and other channels who are free of government restrictions on speech.
That said, I recently canceled my HBO subscription- without the Sopranos and without a decent heavyweight boxing division there wasn't enough there to pay for.
See, now this is trite. Men as "stupid idiots" with wise, all-knowing wives was a clever role-reversal in 1970 - today it's just a shopworn cliche. So let's turn it around, and have the husband slap his wife hard enough to make her "pale cheek red" and yell "Wake up, you lazy piece of crap!" at her. That would be fresh and innovative, and the network executives would love the originality.
Wouldn't they?
Well, !@%$#% the Boston Globe. I read 6 pages of that article, and then it hit me with the registration page. I don't mind the ones that have a registration page first, but after 6 skimpy pages??
I won't even bother with Bugmenot for that. I don't want to give them any extra hits.
If you are aiming for your laughs by being outrageous each new "leap forward" requires a new or greater outrage.
I'm glad I don't HBO and I am glad that we stopped watching network sitcoms before my oldest son began to talk (not that we watched many before then).
Time-Life-Warner dominated cable for decades because WarnerCABLE was many American's sole option for pay tv (outside of buying a very large satellite dish).
People are tuning out. Same with the newspapers.
Talk radio was/is on the "dead" AM band of radio. AM radio isn't so dead these days, despite internet, FM radio, CDs, cable television, satellite tv/radio, and mammoth sized bookstores nationwide.
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