The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 16, 2022

Thus spoke Mrs. Einstein.

The witching hour

Don’t talk to her, Brutus!

So sayeth Mother Gargoyle, the “rocket scientist” – NOT!!!

/SHMIRK/

She has a point – and it’s not on her head.

Turn to the Fire Log Channel!

So many times Brutus has been tempted to slip that silken cord from his sleeve, but never followed through.

I doubt people understand the dumber shows either.

That was a burn if ever I’ve heard one.

I got to give this one to Mother Gargoyle.

Brutus, complaining but still watching. I think the networks understand this problem and use it to fill the time between advertising slots.

Now she’s just being mean.

The vast wasteland

Don’t feel bad at Mamma’s cut. I like to watch who-done-its on ETV and enjoy them all. But, the Endeavor series, I have to admit, can be so complicated that it may take two or three viewings to get it. What I lack in raw intelligence, I make up for in tenacity.

OUCH!!

You old battle axe get out of my chair!

sometimes people just watch stupid shows after brainstorming too much that day. :p

Made Programs intelligent? They’d loose the MAGA people if networks did that. MAGA folks far prefer “dumb as doornobs” programs.

And there sits Mother Gargle – watching soap operas – the fullfillment programs.

“Get out of my chair and go home.”

Poor Brutus he fed her a punch line……punch!

And yet, Mama Gargoyle would be able to recognize a difference HOW? She is locked into the tripe on TV now and I doubt that any change would be recognized. She is what TV producers direct their content and advertising to…..

GOT HEEM!

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” — H. L. Mencken (a paraphrase actually)

Brutus, your retort would be, “so they dumbed it down so you could understand it”.

It took me quite a while to convince my very young grandchild first that my TV was broken, and as she got older, that it just doesn’t work in the day time when I would babysit. I had to hide the remotes when she was younger. At 11 months she knew how to turn on a TV. She loved coming here – I actually spent my time with her. I felt she saw enough TV in her life already.

Television Shows on most channels follow the old maxim of education. Always teach to the lowest level of education.

Have a nice trip, Mom.

i’ll bet brutus reads playboy for the articles…

Newton Minnow’s “vast wasteland” has arrived.

All the discussion here about the quality of television shows can best be summed up in the maxim of sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon: “Ninety percent of everything is crud.”

Can’t tell about today’s shows. I haven’t watched commercial TV since Tony left NCIS. I don’t even recall how long ago that was. I don’t miss the tube at all. I read. Much more satisfying and no commercials taking up 25% of the hour.

Now, I wonder which troll will come back to this?

Must be watching CNN.