The Idiot Tube
As with most things in life, success in television is really just a matter of following the formula. Canned laughs, sexy actors playing inappropriate roles, and stereotypes that appeal to the lowest common denominator. All of these things make television American’s greatest art form! Even when we hate it, we love it; we love to hate it. It’s comforting and it’s part of who we are. Let’s take a look at a few elements that make TV so predictable (and so phenomenal).
What I Do Not Want My Child to See
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What a Studio Audience Laughs at during a TV Sitcom
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What matters in desperate housewives
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I have no problems with thirty-year-olds playing teenagers; after all, wasn’t Alan Ruck 29 when he played Cameron? As for sitcom dialogue, I’d laugh more at funny dialogue, if more of it was funny
And why would men need a point of view in a program entitled and starring Desperate Housewives? Unless there are male wives in there that I don’t know about.
I first realized old people played teenagers when I started watching SMallville.
It was weird. No wonder they always look like teens on steroids and I could never figure out why the boys at my high school looked like that and why I still felt like an ugly duckling. In comparison we were all still just babies!
WTF @ Desperate Housewives graph though? That doesn’t… even make any sense. :/
It’s a problem when the 33 year old posing as a teenager tries to hide his age, and has kissing scenes with an actual teenager on the show.
Hmm…not sure i like the format of putting several graphs in one post. I cant vote for the one i like without seeming to vote for the ones i may think are not so good. I like the Venn diagram in this one, but the other 2…not so much.
well…. does this mean they don’t want their kid watching Back to the Future?
I haven’t actually watched that because a friend of mine takes… well, fanboyishness to a new and strange dimension, from having his sent e-mails be from “Marty McFly,” to ranting about the movie and everything else, but it’s somehow different from the usual obsessed fanboy. He’s got a few learning disabilities, so I guess that explains it. But anyway, his reaction to the films kind of scared me off of them. Are they actually any good?
They are pretty good, if you can get past the fridge-logic of the time machine itself. However, since it is such a cultural icon, you’ve likely heard most of the jokes before.
Try out the first one on youtube, and if you like it, see the sequels.
For the first graph, I wouldn’t want any child of mine watching Hannah Montana regardless.
The second graph… well… just was Red Dwarf (the proper English version) and that graph will be false.
The third graph is completely accurate. The reason men aren’t listened to is because all the men with sense are saying “Dear God, when will this inane crap end?” and that’s not even getting started on the show (I’m talking about the freaking Sims-esque rip-off they made a while back).
I dunno, Red Dwarf circa. series VII, and that graph becomes true!
True. I’ve only got Seasons III and VIII on DVD right now and it’s been years since I watched the others.
For Desperate Housewives, you left out a big wedge for “What the women are wearing.”
1-i bet he is blonde
2-The “audience” is a laughing box
3-beacuse the bitch wont shut up for a second
Hannah Montana is a great show! The people who The 30 year old kisses aren’t teeangers, they’re people in their 20s PLAYING teenagers! and um, the girls kisses her bf when she’s like 13! that’s not what i’d call ‘young’!
power rangers goes on the right in the first one