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I started watching Futurama in the re-runs on Cartoon Network. Back in the 1990s I had enjoyed The Simpson's and defended it to the local branch of the National Rifle Association who seemingly could only quote a Rush Limbaugh review of the show. If I remember correctly, I compared The Simpson's to The Three Stooges (this was a discussion where my point was being made against censorship) and how those old guys had watched the Three Stooges yet all had both of their eyes still (poking aggressively at each others eyes was a common Three Stooges activity).
I still think that after a certain age, censorship is a way to keep the population of idiots and morons alive and flourishing and reproducing. That if you think that watching a cartoon is harmful because the older children or the adults viewing it can not determine right & wrong, possible & impossible and harmful & safe themselves -- what are you really doing?
Between 1997 and 2004 there was very little television in my life. By choice there was no television in my life. The times that I watched television were those times in which I was sharing some of my time with others. I did not see any animations then.
In 2004 I started to watch Futurama and Family Guy reruns on cartoon network. They were good. Entertaining, funny and often very sharp little social essays. There were more episodes of Family Guy than there were of Futurama. I enjoyed Futurama overall, more than I enjoyed Family Guy because I am a single (unmarried) adult and the story allowed many more an essay from the point of view of unmarried people who are also without children. Unlike the Simpson's, it appealed to my math/science/nerd background very very much.
Now it is the end of the year 2008. All there has been for the last 4 years is the stupid television, which I did not want. So many years of being a single person in the wrong location for all of the wrong reasons and now without friends but instead with moldy and wrong memories of people who I had enjoyed and thought I was making a friendship with in a life I was unprepared for in which I sent a being with lesser abilities into the world in an attempt to work with it (yes, I think it is Pokemon, which if I had thought I would be playing a real life version of this game I probably would not have spent all that time trying to communicate, studying subjects for college, learning to speak to the National Rifle Association, being respectful to my parents and those who came before me, teachers, neighbors, etc).
...oh, and I re-watched the pilot for this series now that it has moved to a different cable channel.
Stephen interviewed Dan Rather while Seinfeld commercials sold themselves on the station breaks.
In the middle of my day today, I suddenly remembered Jon Stewart interviewing Kurt Vonnegut.
If he had been wearing clothing in the seventies, he might have been a heart-throb of mine.
Could you tell these two apart if they were in front of you?
For as much as I would have rather have heard GeorgeL be interviewed, I was as happy to hear Stephen and the guy from Orleans sing o/~ Dance With Me o/~.
Second place in the green screen contest and they got to recreate that feeling from another completely timeless movie....
Sometimes, some combinations are just too disturbing to watch. This episode of Colbert Nation presented what was almost one of those combinations.
Not as good as last weeks episode -- there was a weird thing about urinals in noise for couple of weeks.
This week Jon Stewart doodled a turkey.
When I first started watching South Park, I was impressed by the perfect analogy and irony that the authors and animators could make.
This episode, which had the kids speaking as their game pieces was analogy and irony like the old days.
There is a commercial (being shown quite often now) which haunted me when I was not watching. Then, with the sound off (and this is a commercial without closed captions) it still haunts. The young Asian woman looks sincerely back at you and informs you that she will be treating your problems as if they were her own.
See, I know this girl. I was that age and I was very sincere then. The problems I had when I was that age, I still have now because I either did not see them as problems or I totally ignored them or put them off until a later date or a combination of all three of these options.
I have watched the commercials they run on these cable shows with a greater interest since I saw Good Night and Good Luck, starting with the Daily Show.
Now, count the number of times they ran the advertisement for Ricky Bobby....
From the looks of it, everyone was on vacation this week at Comedy Central, except these people.
There was also some really nice video editing.