Posted on 01/25/2012 4:51:09 AM PST by AT7Saluki
Last week seemed typical for CBS' sitcoms on Monday night, television's most popular — and raunchy — night of comedy.
There was a strip club visit on "How I Met Your Mother," lap dance included. The stars of "2 Broke Girls" mistakenly believed an upstairs neighbor ran a brothel. "Two and a Half Men" included jokes about masturbation, oral sex, sex with moms, trading cigarettes for sex and two scenes with loud noises of passion from behind closed doors.
A quick count found 53 sex jokes on the network's four comedies, which includes "Mike & Molly." There were also nine jokes about flatulence or bowel movements, and two scenes where marijuana use was clearly implied — one with a teen-age boy and the other with an older woman.
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Don’t waste my time watching any of these shows..
A golfing buddy recommended 2-1/2 Men so Mrs. Theknow and I tried it....for about 10 minutes...I heard the same dialog in the locker room in Jr. High.
And the laugh track these days....Jeez is it overdone!
Just imagine if TV dramas had a GASP! track.
My lady and I became fans of 2 and a Half Men when local channels and TBS started airing older episodes. Something about Charlie Sheen made the show enjoyable.
Since they “killed him off” after the salary dispute and Sheen’s precipitous fall from grace, the show has become completely unwatchable. I watched last week’s episode and the overt discussions of masturbation and even showing a bong on the table in a smoky room was enough for me to sign off the show altogether.
Chuck Lorre makes great shows, and I’m thinking that he’s giving up on 2&HM to focus on The Big Bang Theory which is astronomically more entertaining (pun intended).
If you ain’t got talent go to the toilet.
I tolerated Charlie Sheen for a max of 5 minutes at a friend’s house...The dumb quotient was overwhelming. There should be a disclaimer that sitcoms that deeply sloped foreheads and the ability to drag your knuckles when you walk are viewer requirements.
Coincidentally, I was reading a book about Eddie Cantor which included a description of what was billed as the "first act of TV censorship." NBC cut the following dialog from one of his shows:
Martin: “Thanks to you, life is bright. You’ve brought me joy beyond measure.”
Cantor: “Don’t thank me. Quite all right. Honestly, it was a pleasure.”
Martin: “Just think, it’s my first one.”
Cantor: “The next one’s on me.”
We have gone down hill from there. Our culture is swirling down the toilet.
It is hard to believe that the same network which airs NCIS, Person of Interest and The Mentalist also chooses to air the filth of “2.5 Eighth Grade Boys Locker Room Talk” and that smarmy queer, Neil Patrick Harris, trying to pass himself as a ladies man.
“How I Met Your Mom” is such an interesting title. Unfortunately, I could only stomach about 5 minutes of the show. Same for “2.5 Men”.
Simple solution, change the channel.
All you have to do is turn it off. I don’t get TV - watch DVDs. I get to choose what I want to watch and when. The only reason for network TV is sports, IMHO.
I was hoping that 2 Broke Girls would be better, but I can’t get past the wooden delivery. You can literally see every joke being set up from a mile away. It even makes the blue humor sound like it coming from a high school level of comedy.
But the Asian diner owner is still very funny.
Can't stand Harris....
Happy to say I haven’t seen these or any other shows since Seinfeld.
And I now regret the time I spent watching that bunch of leftist aholes.
In a comparison between Sheen and Ashton Kutcher, Sheen gets the bump as more entertaining. That was really my only point.
Back in 1999 I put the TV out on the curb (literally) and signed up here.
Raunchy, high schoolish humor is one of 712 reasons I don’t watch TV at all.
IMHO, TV has no redeeming qualities. Which is a shame because at one time it did.
When I see complaints about humor that is best suited to a hyper hormone producing adolescent I start to look at the rest of the culture because the stuff is selling. The media pants after a President that acts like a petulant 13 year old boy. Our schools are run by teachers who are developmentally arrested. We have every reason to believe that America thinks with their hormones more than anything else.
Guess I’ve been lucky. I’ve managed to miss all that “stuff.” I vote with my remote control and my pocket book.
Which is why I’ll never drink Sam Adams Beer or do anything “Disney” ever again!
You may recall that some years back the Sam Adams Brewing company sponsored a radio program which featured a simulated sex act inside a church. I remember the ad guy’s comment about the controversy, it was “pretty neat.” The couple involved were from Northern Virginia and ended up paying a big fine!
Then there was Michael Eisner when he was at Disney. He had nothing but ill to say about Southern Christians. Some very mean, hateful stuff. Disney sponsors “gay nights” and other events I’m not interested in. So now, it’s no cruises, theme parks, radio or TV programs or “Network TV.” I’ve lots of friends with whom I converse regularly, making my opinions known. No I won’t put them out of business but it’s a good start!
The only time watch See BS is Sunday for the football.....
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