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- Subject: Re: Short shameful relief
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:46:33 GMT
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- grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Blood Clot Boy) writes:
- |I have become the mister HEINOUS of television viewing.
-
- Don't get me wrong -- I always appreciate scholarly papers about the
- genre -- but I think you got quite a ways to go before you can start
- claiming my digs, boyeee.
-
- I mean, let's consider you, versus, say, cj's ex-roommate. You've
- probably WATCHED Kojak and Charlie's Angels. He's MEMORIZED them. ALL
- of them.
-
- Now, my personal knowledge does not extend as deeply. But that's why
- he's my subject expert, and I'm the sociopathologist. Because he could
- never understand the relationship between "hair shows" and "cop
- shows", and how Telly Savalas, trendsetter and advertising spokesman
- from beyond the grave, was making an oblique "anti-cop" genre joke by
- shaving his head and passing out Dum Dum lollypops. Sort of a
- violently pacifist Beretta on the Dobie Gillis tip.
-
- But please do continue your studies. You might, for instance, compare
- and contrast "FIFTEEN" with "90210" and try to understand the audience
- mix of each of them. I mean, if 90210 is such a hot show, how come
- Sassy magazine readers universally despise it?
-
- I can point out the difference between my roommates, however: Jerry
- watches 90210 and lusts after Brandon Walsh. Scott watches FIFTEEN and
- lusts after the nerdy guys with the thick glasses and the bad
- haircuts.
-
- This I think, explains them precisely.
-
- mr HEINOUS
-
- wants to be a professional psychic reader, and say, "I'm getting
- reruns -- did you ever see the episode of I Love Lucy where the
- pressure cooker exploded and they were scraping chicken fricassee off
- the ceiling for a week? -- well, that's a great metaphor for your life
- right now."
-