The Grizzwells by Bill Schorr for January 17, 2025

Hallmark scripts are like Harlequin romance stories.

A comedian once asked, did the 3 Stooges ever reject a script? Something that was too stupid, even for them?!!!

A recycle bin is too good for a Hallmark script. I would rather stick hot needles in my feet that watch a Hallmark movie. The only saving grace of that network are Cheers and Fraiser reruns.

Metal… Where do we put our beer cans….?

The contents of number four should go to a compost heap.

And I still occasionally watch them, but I prefer the Mystery versions.

So true … ya seen one, ya seen ’em all …

Hallmark movies, when you can’t follow the script for a TP commercial.

That can should be a dumpster or two of them. IA place for the channels that just use up energy and oxygen with worthless programming. They seem to have little or no purpose beyond med ads that lie, cars that are not worth even a test drive, and either government or commercial health insurance ads.

There are scripts that Hallmark rejects? Who knew!?

As I read it, the joke is not that Hallmark are garbage but that they’re formulaic, endlessly reusing the same handful of plots and tropes. (Y’know, like the ingredients at Taco Bell.) Hence, recycled/recyclable.

That looks like the back of the cookhouse at family camp

There are only about 2, maybe 3 templates for Hallmark scripts. Just plug in new names and locations and a set of plot complications and there you go. A few years ago I watched part of one(IDK if it was a Hallmark movie or an imitator) because one of the actors was an Oscar winner. (I don’t remember if the movie was made before or after her Oscar win). She played an American singer (She did a great American accent) snowed in in a country either before or after she gave a concert in a third country. I watched enough to get that much and quickly changed channels as I could feel my brain turning to sour yogurt.

good one

But there’s only one script.