Thank goodness someone else who loves this show as much as me. I just can't believe it's on FOX. It makes fun of everything FOX stands for. "Look, this is how easy it is for someone to play a titan of industry. Businessmen are stupid. :)"
I'm sorry, but that's when we're watchign Desperate Housewives. But when the boss and company started cracking up in the board room, that was comedy gold.
This was all the guilty pleasure of reality tv with layer upon layer of added goodness- it's almost like an old Twilight Zone the way the greedy, insincere people are mocked so obviously without them knowing it.
I forced my boy to sit through that last night. "But I hate reality tv!" he said. "I know," I said, "but look! They're taking the piss. [This is a british phrase that has worked its way into my vocabulary and I really did say it here, because it so fits.] They just stuck them in the back of trucks and randomly drove them around town for a couple hours!" I'm not sure if he saw the light.
I don't have a working TV (that is, for anything but movies on DVD/VHS), but I was watching another FOX series last night with a friend, and can someone explain to me why and how the Fox network reconciles its news and these comedies? The other show was Arrested Development which also seems mildly subversive. No?
can someone explain to me why and how the Fox network reconciles its news and these comedies?
In short: the profits from ad revenues on the Simpsons were what gave the Murdoch empire the necessary padding to handle the start-up costs and initial losses entailed in setting up the Fox news channel. It's a matter of political economy.
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Date: 2004-11-08 05:36 am (UTC)Absolutley friggin' hilarious!
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Date: 2004-11-08 10:49 pm (UTC)I do totally want to see this show.
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Date: 2004-11-09 06:29 am (UTC)In short: the profits from ad revenues on the Simpsons were what gave the Murdoch empire the necessary padding to handle the start-up costs and initial losses entailed in setting up the Fox news channel. It's a matter of political economy.
But I still love Arrested Development.