Comments on: Bad TV is our own fault

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Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:49:56 +0000

[...] Then today I came across this excellent post, bad TV is our own fault. Why aren’t we pickier with our television? That would take effort on our part. When there were nothing good on TV we could actually have to do something constructive with our time. That is a lot harder than sitting around and passing the time away though. [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:51:41 +0000

(the “:P” means sarcasm, for all you humor impared people out there)

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:50:33 +0000

I am so totally stealing the phrase “curmudgeonly dolphin”. I’ll be a hit at parties with phrases like that, just like Aric!

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:31:30 +0000

oh, okey dokey

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:16:11 +0000

Yeah, most of time I vote for the [i]worst[/i] show, unless something awesome like Dr. Who is on. I like to see you suffer, Aric. It’s much funnier.

By: Aric McKeown

Aric McKeown — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:21:07 +0000

That wasn’t mean, that was playful. I am like a curmudgeonly dolphin.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:47:52 +0000

gee Aric, why did you have to be so mean to me? I was just telling you. there was no resentment in that comment.

By: John YC

John YC — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:22:15 +0000

Fawn: In fairness to the voters on this site, they don’t always choose bad shows because they like them. Sometimes they do it to torture Aric, which I am ashamed to say I have done myself… on several occasions.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:10:48 +0000

Go Aric!

Rage, Rage against the dying of the light, (and Veronica Mars).

By: Fawn

Fawn — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:52:03 +0000

Too true. Bad programs are what I see getting the top votes an awful lot of the time on your site. The shows that I pick out for you to watch do have other people voting for them as well but they are usually at the bottom or somewhere in the middle of the list you put up each day. I wonder how many people would vote or even start watching what you are made to watch if all you put up were “quality” shows instead of the mix of quality, inferior and popular programs you have us vote for. In fact having only quality programming put on the voting block might be a good experiment ever so often. Might makefor a nice change too from al the inferior shows that are the “givens” that people would vote for. There IS quality television around, it’s just sort of difficult to find sometimes.

By: lauren

lauren — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:27:44 +0000

Somehow Veronica Mars is hanging on, thank god. It’s one of the shows you want to hate but you can’t. I agree, Alias is a great show and it didn’t appear on your list.

By: Aric McKeown

Aric McKeown — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:43:02 +0000

If you’re upset by that, prepare for a life full of disappointment.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:41:31 +0000

Im upset that Alias wasn’t on your list of Brilliant cancelled shows

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:27:17 +0000

You’re right, bad TV is our fault. This makes me feel concerned when I think about the state of our society which reflects the slop we keep on the tube.

It is even scarier to see what makes it on cable news channels (for example: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/loaded_questions_41620.asp). While I mention F-word Network here, it isn’t the only guilty party of harming the country through news on TV.