While watching Wizard of Oz at 6:30pm on a Sunday, my 7 year old asked me “whats herecdial dizfunction?”.
Congress thinks they need to keep volume from increasing on commercials...but this crap is ok???
Spike-TV is programmed to attract an audience that is the intellectual age of a middle-school male. And they attract advertisers that want to cater to that audience. You can either figure out how to deal with that, and watch anyway, or - vote with your remote. Don’t like it, turn it off. And pleas don’t feel the need to come here and b*tch about it.
This is why we no longer have cable or watch TV. You’d be better off with DVDs.
This is a network known for programs such as Striperella. What did you expect? In any case, while Star Wars can be enjoyed by children it’s not a children’s movie as such.
My son was in first grade around 12 years ago when he asked me why they were discussing the President’s penis on the radio.
One of the disturbing trends I have seen in recent years is the airing of “slasher” films during the Christmas Holidays.
Whats up with that?
Their entire reason for living is to destroy the Judeo-Christian ethic.
This is what happens when a bunch of creepy narcissistic Atheists and Leftists hijack the media then combine to do the devil's work.
I’ve noticed those ads ~ sure glad they are no longer recommended by “Hello Kitty”.
Let’s all do what FReepers do naturally. Write, e-mail and contact Spike TV to put a limit on when this ‘junk’ is aired. Your 10PM limit seems Okay by me! However, lets decide whether we want it on TV at all. What say you guys?
So it’s better to restrict the freedoms that businesses have in this country to make money and sell advertising time rather than have you change the channel? It’s Spike TV fer cryin’ out loud, the TV station for males who are still stuck in adolescence. What else did you expect?
What you are saying is that it’s okay to require someone to meet your goals/standards/ideals, etc.?
That’s the problem with so-called conservatives these days. They are no different from the libs. They want to use the power of gov’t to restrict the actions of others just like the libs do. And they say it’s all okay because their cause is so much more righteous.
I know where you’re coming from. Even though I’m aware SpikeTV is an extremely trashy network which I consciously avoid, I probably would have been similarly blindsided, considering it being a “Star Wars” movie and on Christmas morning.
But incidents like this are exactly the reason I stopped watching ALL such channels entirely, and ALL such networks. To hell with it all. So, I restrict my viewings (other than news/weather) to dvd’s exclusively. Perhaps I miss a few good modern shows, but it’s worth it to avoid the nauseating situations like the one you encountered.
Your complaint is semi-valid at best. Think about it, if someone complained that they were watching the Playboy channel on Christmas morning and saw naked women, wouldn’t you first ask why they were watching the Playboy channel on Christmas morning? Yours is exactly the same scenario. Spike isn’t family friendly and it doesn’t pretend to be. It’s playing Star Wars because of its appeal to a cult following of adult nerds, which happens to be Spike’s audience.
Reminds me of when I was trying to watch a movie with my dad one time on one of these cable channels and every damn commercial was for either birth control medication or “male enhancement” pills. This is why I don’t do cable or satellite. Why should I send $50 a month in support of these classless idiots?
Now keep this in mind.
You're paying for it, why?
Most people don't understand why I hate TV. It selected 0bastard0 for us. Is that not enough?
You know, I saw that too, last night — Christmas Eve!! I think it was on AMC, they were doing old movies, but they were interspersed with French Tickler ads, one after another, really disgusting sex ads. It grossed me out, but since we now have THREE hand-helds, I could not figure out how to change the channel and my husband was wrapping presents.
The Vermont Country Store that grandmother of catalogs, is now selling vibrators.
No discretion anymore.
If you have this trash coming into your home via some cable or broadcast means, time to turn it off and find better and different entertainment.
A depraved channel that prays on the lowest-common-denomenator (I agree I like the Original Star Wars), and Spike likes to bill itself a channel for men, but it is really just a channel for grown-up perverts most of the time. (I believe it owned by Viacom, the same that own G4, MTV, CMT, CBS, VHI, Nick and others).
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Mass "culture" is poison to the consciousness, morals and soul. Screaming nosedive into the abyss. Anyone who lets children watch any of this kind of stuff should rather put a millstone around his neck and jump into the ocean.
“Who is more likely to be watching Star Wars on a Saturday morning, Christmas morning? Children? or sex perverts? “
Do you really want the answer? Si fi fans who don’t have sex anyway! So really they should not be advertising condoms but the next Si Fi fair in town!!