Posted on 09/07/2004 5:44:38 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Yeah, the cars were nice...
My brother and I weren't allowed to watch Batman and the Three Stooges when we were kids because we always tried to poke an eye out and BLAM each other after watching but we didn't throw pies.
A great philosopher and studyer of the human condition once said: Monkey see, monkey do.
Well, no. But it seems that people need A Study before they think up excuses for denying the obvious. They've got the study now....
I was shocked when my 16 year old niece told me that she and her 12 year old sister watched "Nip/Tuck" on FX regularly, along with the adults in her family. The mother and father wonder why she was already sexually active. Duh...
DUH!
I could have told you this 25 years ago!
Dang! I'm 44 years old and still too young to watch that drivel. That's just downright irresponsible.
True, but one HUGE difference between Seinfeld and Friends is that Seinfeld was actually FUNNY.
The times I was pretty much forced to watch Friends, I found very little of it, if any at all, to be the least bit humorous. The whole ridiculous premise of a group of six loafing, jobless Generation Xers was accentuated by the world's most annoying theme song. One note and it's stuck in your head for hours. Even discussing it is making me try in vain to purge it from my thoughts!
I've never been able to figure out the draw of that show. Schwimmer's whining, LeBlanc's inane, stupid wisecracks and the other guy's general stupidity completely cancelled out the fact that the women are fairly attractive and thereby, somewhat entertaining.
Also, Seinfeld was just so completely unreal in its context, whereas Friends actually made an attempt at presenting a sense of reality in the sexual exploits.
The sad thing is that Friends ends up on just about everyone's list of "Greatest SITCOMs of All Time". How, I'll never know....
Mighty decent of them to point this out to us (voice drips with sarcasm)
Two words: "Dippy broads."
My 1st thought on the issue: I agree w/ much of what's said here; it reinforces our decision to make the house of Bruck a TV-free zone, at least while the kids are in it.
2nd thought on the issue: don't confuse causality with coincidence. Kids who grow up in households where inappropriate TV is not condoned are more likely to be exposed to higher standards of morality in general. IOW, one cause unerlies two effects.
Who says television isn't educational?
These kids have gained two whole grades on the non-watchers.
So9
Naked is only bad if the wrong people walk in unexpectedly.
So9
'twont happen. The trial lawyers are on the same side as the perverts.
LOL!
Actually, children learn by example. If the parents didn't sit in front of the tv watching this stuff, the kids wouldn't either.
Because parents have to work, and kids are left alone way too much. Now that 'friends' has gone into syndication, we can see it all day long too.
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