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Dear ABC: Rats!(ABC runs slutty, stripper-laden "Bachelorette" ads during "Charlie Brown Christmas")
New York Daily News ^
| December 11, 2003
| David Bianculli
Posted on 12/11/2003 1:04:50 PM PST by Timesink
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:04:51 PM PST
by
Timesink
To: Timesink
Parents should just buy/rent this stuff on video/DVD, then their kids can watch without commercials or cuts. Who needs networks?
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:06:49 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: mewzilla
Who needs networks television?
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:09:16 PM PST
by
leadpencil1
(Kill your television)
To: Timesink
TV's so-called family hour has been made meaningless by the networks for more than a decade now, and is even more quaint a concept in these days when NBC's worm-chewing, bile-spewing "Fear Factor" airs in the opening hour of prime time. Gotta disagree on this one...
What is it about worm-chewing that is inappropriate for kids? My little girls love that show. It's about the ONLY think they are allowed to watch. I don't mind them seeing tough girls, beating the guys, overcoming their fears...
To: Timesink
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:14:16 PM PST
by
Flux Capacitor
('Cause WE.... GOT.... THE BOMBS. Ooooooo-KAY?!)
To: mewzilla
Parents should just buy/rent this stuff on video/DVD, then their kids can watch without commercials or cuts. Who needs networks?Our DVD of A Charlie Brown Christmas arrived just today. It's a good strategy.
To: mewzilla
Parents should just buy/rent this stuff on video/DVD, then their kids can watch without commercials or cuts. I agree. I got Rudolph on DVD this year. Cheap. My 2 year old absolutely loves it. No commercials. It's a joy to watch, even when I have to watch it with him over and over. I'm doing this with all the Christmas classics.
To: trad_anglican
By the way, the ability to get the classics on video/dvd does not excuse the shamelessness and poor taste that ABC showed in it's broadcast.
To: mewzilla
That is exactly what I do. My girls do not watch network, HBO, MTV or any other smut. Well at least not that I know of.
To: trad_anglican
Don't forget Alastair Sim in A Christmas Carol when your crumb-cruncher is old enough (shouldn't be too long)!
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:18:33 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
To: Timesink
I find off-color programing promos offensive during any programming. They give the lie to the "So, just don't watch!" position espoused by so many. You don't know when they are coming, so you can't avoid them (the coarseness and stupidity of such promos that I have seen bother me at least as much the off-color element).
To: mewzilla
Parents should just buy/rent this stuff on video/DVD, then their kids can watch without commercials or cuts. Who needs networks? We've done that for years. As a family, we sit and watch them one each night right until Christmas. We save "The Little Drummer Boy" for last, the one that Greer Garson narrated. It's wonderful.
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:19:57 PM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
("There ought to be one day -- just one -- where there is open season on senators." -- Will Rogers)
To: gathersnomoss
And it's not just the commercials. The cuts they make in old programming to fit it into today's time slots (with more time devoted to commercials) are pretty prodigious. Who needs it?
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:20:50 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: gathersnomoss
Where's Islamic Jihad when you really need them, eh? Would anyone protest if a 6 digit grid on Viacom was passed along?
Just kidding - although I wouldn't shed any teears for them.
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:22:26 PM PST
by
Fenris6
To: Timesink
ABC is owned by Disney, go figure.
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:24:35 PM PST
by
Pietro
To: Timesink
Best Christmas cartoon ever made.
Its scriptural, its funny, the Vince Guiaraldi music is great and its a tradition.
Glad I have it on DVD.
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:25:17 PM PST
by
kidd
To: Timesink
I also heard a rumor that the broadcast was edited this year to remove a religious reference. Anyone else hear this one? Just asking...
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:26:47 PM PST
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: Timesink
Did I miss this while watching "The Simple Life?"
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posted on
12/11/2003 1:28:10 PM PST
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: AnAmericanMother
Don't forget Alastair Sim in A Christmas Carol when your crumb-cruncher is old enough (shouldn't be too long)! My video of that is almost worn out. I watch it every year and I still cry when he apologizes to his nephew and his wife. My wife tells me I'm a sucker for redemption stories - I guess she's right. Little Trad (my 2 yr old) will be seeing that one, too. Though I doubt the b&w film (I refuse to buy the colorized version) will hold his interest for a few years.
Remember the Mr. Magoo version of Christmas Carol? I remember watching it every year when I was young. It was very good. I think that was the one where Tiny Tim talks about "razzleberry dressing." Maybe I'll find that one somewhere for Little Trad.
To: Pietro
"ABC is owned by Disney, go figure."
You just did! Dis is now a ho!
Thanks Mr. Eisner for the unrelenting corruption of a formerly great name!
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