Elmo is a punk and Henson is spinning in his grave.
Oh, I added Fraggle Rock up there. Its yet another transition.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Mar 02, 2005 9:16:01 am PST #3400 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Sean K - Mar 02, 2005 9:23:04 am PST #3401 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm thinking Waltons, Little House, Happy Days, Cosby--
I liked Happy Days, but the rest of those tended to put me to sleep.
Scrappy - Mar 02, 2005 9:23:52 am PST #3402 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Cosby, especially the early seasons, was Fun-nee.
Sean K - Mar 02, 2005 9:25:37 am PST #3403 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, I liked early-seasons Cosby too. But Waltons and Little House are the two biggest examples of boring TV I remember from my childhood.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 02, 2005 9:26:00 am PST #3404 of 10002
What is even happening?
Jesse - Mar 02, 2005 9:26:11 am PST #3405 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I still crack up thinking about the one where they set up a fake "real world" for Theo. Little Rudy!!
Sean K - Mar 02, 2005 9:27:03 am PST #3406 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
In other news, make your own PEEPS!
That's pretty cool.
beth b - Mar 02, 2005 9:27:11 am PST #3407 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I think I had something to say - that had nothing to do with TV. But I think the concept of restricting things to being broadcast durring certain hours only - ignores two thing that are happening -TIVO and onDemand channels.
and I would love to be able to buy my channels in some sort of ala carte fashion. there would be NO espn or golf channels. or shoping channels for that matter. I assume that even with an a la carte type menu - there would be some sort of package - to lure people into other channels
can someone explain why my cable co called me 3x to get me to try a free trial of showtime - when every single time I said I was debateing about what I could do to Lower my cable bill.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 02, 2005 9:27:21 am PST #3408 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Let's think more along the lines of Sesame St. to Muppet Show.
Joss doing a Muppet Show type show would rock.
They can call it "Smile Time".
DavidS - Mar 02, 2005 9:28:26 am PST #3409 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I want something with no violence, no profanity, and no overt sexual situations. I think some good stories can be told without any of those. But I want it to be smart and interesting, and actual good story, as opposed to barely tolerable.
Yeah, I'm pretty much down to no overt sexual situations with Emmett. After letting him sit through FoTR at age 5, it was hard to say he couldn't handle grotesque monsters and horrible violence. He *did* get very creeped out watching a snip of Evil Dead 2 (and he still alludes to it), so I don't let him watch horror movies.
I'd be wary of letting him see realistic violence. For example, I would never let him watch the beginning of Kill Bill 1, or the scenes where The Bride is getting out of the hospital. But I had no problem letting him watch the blood bath against the Crazy 88s, because it was so obviously unreal and cartoonish.
As for profanity, I just make it clear that even if he's allowed to hear certain words, that doesn't mean it's appropriate to use them. That seems fair to me. Mind, it's not like he's watching stuff with f-bombs going off all over the place. (He mostly watches Nickolodeon, and some fantasy movies. And his current Marx Bros. fascination.) But I don't care if he listens to "Housequake" and likes it when Prince yells "Bullshit!"