Where Have All The Good TV Shows Gone?
I think I'm suffering from an existential crisis. I lay the blame squarely on Paris Hilton. My reality is light years apart from her reality that gets rammed down my throat through that shining example of "quality entertainment" entitled The Simple Life. Should I be concerned??? Do I even exist??? Will my brain turn into pink goo if I watch too much??? No, these questions are of no concern to me and require no answer. A few questions that should be answered are who the f*** cares about some friggin skanky blonde American heiress and her little skanky friend??? Who the hell thinks that's reality??? Who the hell thinks that this stuff is any good??? I'll take dumbarse TV executives and the mindless masses for $500 thanks Alex.
Crapola on TV isn't limited to reality shows like Survivor, Australian Idol and The Hothouse either, amigos. Cartoons have gone down the proverbial crapper too. Back when I was a lad, the only anime we had on TV was Astroboy and it was damn good TV. These days we've got a friggin anime about hamsters!!!! Freakin teeny weeny little rodents!!!! There's another anime that has people duking it out with cards!!! Freakin cards!!! Whatever these Japanese guys are smoking when they come up with these ideas must be potent s***. To make matters worse, there aren't any funny cartoons on anymore. Less than a decade ago I was watching some of the most funniest cartoons ever created. Eek the Cat, The Tick and more recently Invader Zim: these were some of the piss funny cartoons ever written that are now sadly no more. Probably because they couldnt compete with friggin crap anime. Then there's Danger Mouse. One of the best cartoons of all time, right up there with Family Guy and Futurama. In a perfect world, Danger Mouse would have its own channel and played 24 hours a day. No cartoon could possibly beat the awesome theme song it had either. Except Transformers of course. Not that bullshit Armada thing either kiddies. I'm talking about old school Transformers, probably before most of you whippersnappers were born.
Thankfully all is not lost to crapola on TV, there's a few diamonds in the rough. TV shows like Angel, Scrubs and to a lesser extent Merrick and Rosso Unplanned are all totally kickass shows. They don't get enough credit when they damn well should. An earlier time slot and better advertising and the sheep would flock to them. If you don't want to stay up late, set up your video or DVD recorders and tape them, they are just that too damn good to miss. Now you don't need to watch these shows, you can ignore my diatribe and go watch your mind numbing reality TV, or your pathetic anime but remember this: 10 years from now when you're flipping my burgers, filling my car with petrol and serving me at supermarket checkouts, I'll be out making zillions and making damn sure my kids get a good education so they can tell the difference between shithouse television shows that keep the mindless sheep in this society entertained and the intelligent comedies and dramas that keeps the rest of us relatively sane.
KegZ, over and out.