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robotwaste
04/17/09

In reply to Most-Watched Super Bowl Ever Is a Disaster for NBC Universal
The only things I've watched on NBC in the last 4 years is "The Office" and "30 Rock". To the networks credit, I'm not watching anything on the other three except Family Guy.

I do watch cable shows though. Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Always Sunny, Rescue Me, Big Love, Flight of the Concords... shows that probably wouldn't work on the main networks. I wish those shows were on NBC so I could drop my cable.
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SybilDisobedience
04/17/09

@robotwaste: Unfortunately, if those shows were on NBC, they'd be completely neutered. I mean, can you imagine It's Always Sunny existing as it does on a network channel? There's no way about 65% of the jokes they make would pass the censors.
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Sproing
04/17/09

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But he keeps on keeping his job, maybe because he dazzles and confuses his General Electric boss Jeffrey Immelt with reflections from his exceedingly bald head.

Bald jokes are the province of follicly gifted lowbrows. Refrain, says this solar-charged sex machine! Refrain!
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HandsomeBwonderful
04/17/09

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I wonder what he's getting paid for this level of incompetence... He's yet another example of failing up. Go away. I know it's really Silverman's show, but seriously, Parks and Recreation? Un. Watch. A. Ble. It is exactly like a bad play your friend produced and acted in, you just keep waiting for it to get good, and then it's over. But then again, they also green lit Knight Rider 2.0, American Gladiators, and the Rosie O'Donnell show. Just go away.
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dado
04/17/09

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I don't know what's more boring to read about, the trained monkeys that amble across our screens, or the less attractive trainers. Amuse me, Zucker. That's all I ask.
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GoldenShowersFillYourEyes
04/17/09

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NBC's ratings are in the shitter, but I think creatively the network is doing great ... all the Thursday night shows are the best comedies on broadcast television.
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BowlingForDollars
04/17/09

@GoldenShowersFillYourEyes: Really? I loathe The Office - it's jumped the shark, and Amy Poehler's show is not that great - although it can grow into its spot.

The reast of the schedule is beyond suck. Howie Do It? Deal or No Deal? 10 PM Jay Leno?

That sound you heard was me turning on my Roku and watching instant Netflix.
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FormerEnglishMajor
04/17/09

@GoldenShowersFillYourEyes: Is this 1995 or something? Because no way is 2009 Thursday nights "Must See TV".
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Mo MoDo
04/17/09

@BowlingForDollars: Amy Poehler's show is just painful. She is the worst Steven Carrell impersonator ever.
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SybilDisobedience
04/17/09

@Mo MoDo: Agreed. I still have hope it'll improve, because after all, the first season of US The Office was pretty dire, too. It grew into its pretensions in the 2nd season and really took off.
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mfnher
04/17/09

@GoldenShowersFillYourEyes: I just watched Southland for the first time. It's made it on to my season pass. We will see if it gets kicked off as quickly as Life on Mars did. Maybe I just don't have the attention span. I'm sorry, what was the topic?
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Kari's Favorite Mark
04/17/09

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Well, his club kid did say that he was programming for margin at NBC, not audience. That's why he's filling the schedule with stuff that's cheap to produce (like Leno).
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saythatscool
04/17/09

@formerly it takes a lot to laugh: This shit would have never happened if Michael Alig had been running things at the peacock.
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blix
04/17/09

@saythatscool: Good Lord, imagine the programming if he did.
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saythatscool
04/17/09

@blix: A lot of it would just be James St. James doing bumps and talking about that time he saw Beyonce without makeup.
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blix
04/17/09

@saythatscool: Project Runway with Amanda Lepore.
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SybilDisobedience
04/17/09

@blix: Michael Musto, running around doing whatever it is he does while sporting that terrible bobblehead.
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blix
04/17/09

@SybilDisobedience: The Financial News with Richie Rich.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
04/17/09

@blix:

It would probably look something like this.
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Debussy Fields
04/16/09

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Can I just take this opportunity to point out that Jeff Zucker tampered with his kids' little league draft to get Tiki Barber's kids on his team? The guy's networks deserve all the unfair criticism they can get.

But just to 'splain something important too, if you get offended when Obama gets unfair criticism, you are a racist.
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britneyspearstears
04/16/09

@Debussy Fields: Srsly?
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noodleman
04/16/09

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@momo: No. Liberals believe Conservatives are fiscal hypocrites. I certainly didn't see decrease in government spending during the Bush43 years, nor did I see a decrease in the size of our government. Both conservative "ideals" have been espoused politically since Reagan.
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momof3wildkids
04/16/09

@noodleman: I agree with the assessment that GWB increased government to a ridiculous level. If you ask me, GWB wasn't much of a conservative.

I miss the Gipper
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Perhaps Not
04/16/09

@momof3wildkids: The peasants his illegally-hired mercenaries massacred in the Honduras don't have that luxury, sadly.
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Private Hangnail
04/16/09

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Let me just say that I so look forward to these sorts of posts, only because of all our new conservative commenters get to explain how the rest of us are such profound idiots.
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momof3wildkids
04/16/09

@Private Hangnail: I don't think you are an idiot. We merely have different opinions on the best way to proceed in this country.

IMHO, it is usually the liberals who believe that conservatives are the idiots, when we happen to disagree about something. I just do not understand why people feel so threatened when we just simply disagree.
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Murph1908
04/16/09

@Private Hangnail:

As opposed to the actual posts and comments that dominate this site, calling the conservatives profound idiots.

Notice I said calling, not explaining. That's one major difference. Your comment is a perfect example. The original comment tried to explain something. You simply try to devalue it by mocking conservatives.
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Private Hangnail
04/16/09

@momof3wildkids: You're disagreeing on a notoriously liberal forum. People aren't threatened, they're annoyed that you're here. Just as people on Fox News or The National Review probably wouldn't be pleased with liberals commenting on their drivel. It's a two way street.
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Private Hangnail
04/16/09

@Murph1908: Well, you are pretty easy to mock, with your jizz-stained copies of Atlas Shrugged and your Milton Friedman Fan Club Decoder Rings.
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momof3wildkids
04/16/09

@Private Hangnail: Wow. Your group think mentality is truly frightening.

I post here because I welcome people challenging and questioning my beliefs. It makes me a more thoughtful person. Any poster, on any forum (be it liberal or conservative) who cannot defend their positions without feeling threatened probably hasn't done their homework on their belief system. Intellectually lazy.
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Private Hangnail
04/16/09

@momof3wildkids: Why so serious? Again, I think you're overlooking the fundamental nature of this site. It's funny. They poke fun. Ultimately, it's your humorlessness that I find most troubling. I don't care that you disagree with me, I care that you're not amusing.

@ChillbearLatrigue: You, however, have potential for humor. You've just got to stop explaining everything so tediously. Better to call us a pack of queers sucking at the tit of the Mother State. At least that resonates.
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