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Nothing new, normal or funny about NBC’s “The New Normal”
Catholic Vote ^ | September 24, 2012 | Stephen Kokx

Posted on 09/25/2012 2:53:51 PM PDT by NYer

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I caught the lions share of an episode; what a dud. The show is about as much fun as a lecture on paint drying. The grandmother is a flat, soulless, comedy-free copy of the family matriarch from Arrested Development. The other characters are so stereotypical they scarcely need individual names. The tone ranges from preachy to sanctimonious, punctuated with what I'll charitably call 'the occasional laugh.'

Maybe not laugh, exactly. It's more like that vague pre-laugh feeling you get sometimes when you realize someone's telling a joke and you inadvertently shift the muscles in your face and chest in laugh-preparation. Then you realize it was a false alarm and go back to sitting there bored.

Other than that, it was pretty lame.

21 posted on 09/25/2012 3:24:41 PM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: NYer
is there a list of advertisers yet???
22 posted on 09/25/2012 3:25:35 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: DarthVader

To be followed by another and another and another...


23 posted on 09/25/2012 3:28:06 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: NYer
Breathtaking to see the decline of our culture in the past 30-40 years or so.
Can anyone imagine the reaction to this show in say 1967?
24 posted on 09/25/2012 3:28:52 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
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To: NYer

I decided some time ago that the expression, “the new normal,” signifies nothing more than the old SINFUL.

“It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.” ....GK Chesterton


25 posted on 09/25/2012 3:29:30 PM PDT by SumProVita
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To: NYer

That garbage is still on the air? I haven’t seen one second of it, but from what I hear the ratings for it are in the toilet


26 posted on 09/25/2012 3:33:44 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: fortheDeclaration

To be canceled one after the other and the other.


27 posted on 09/25/2012 3:33:58 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: DarthVader

GLEE is a hateful gay show too

wish it’d get canceled


28 posted on 09/25/2012 3:36:40 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: DarthVader

Until they get the right mix.


29 posted on 09/25/2012 3:44:05 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: NYer

Playing the liberals’ view of an intolerant conservative is what had Ellen “Barkin at the moon” sending all those “tweeds” (twitter screeds) about how much she hates conservatives before the show first aired to make sure no one thought she was really conservative.


30 posted on 09/25/2012 3:44:15 PM PDT by informavoracious (Abortions are unproductive wrongs, not reproductive rights.)
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To: fortheDeclaration

They mix won’t matter when people tell the sponsors of the networks that they will boycott their products if they continue to sponsor this filth. The power of the $$ is supreme here.


31 posted on 09/25/2012 3:50:08 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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“It will be canceled within 1 month.”

You’re probably right, Darth Vader, but don’t be surprised if they prop this show up a long time because of a desire to normalize and propagandize the lifestyle.


32 posted on 09/25/2012 3:53:28 PM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: NYer

No where near as funny as Modern Family, which like it or not... most of us have a gay couple in family.


33 posted on 09/25/2012 3:54:57 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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NBC tried to ahem stuff this down viewer’s throats during the Olympics. It seemed every commercial break they ran an ad for this creepy show. I can only hope it sinks to bottom of the Sea of Crud that constitutes network primetime tv.


34 posted on 09/25/2012 3:56:52 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: MDLION

That’s why we hit the sponsors hard.


35 posted on 09/25/2012 3:57:11 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: montag813

“The ratings were unfortunately high. #18 and #20 on Nielsen”

Let’s see the ratings when the give it a try or two people have left and all the other new shows kick in.


36 posted on 09/25/2012 3:57:44 PM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: NYer

No TV in my house. My kids are happy with the videos we allow them. I myself am a confirmed TV snob. I have not seen anything (other than the first few episodes of Scrubs) in the last 35 years. Have continued to get quite an amount of reading done. News via web. What else does one need?


37 posted on 09/25/2012 4:09:59 PM PDT by massatoosits
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To: massatoosits

OK, truth be told, one or two episodes of Seinfeld, the occasional football game, golf tournament, Triple Crown races,the odd World Series, and about five episodes of The Voice last year.


38 posted on 09/25/2012 4:13:53 PM PDT by massatoosits
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“No TV in my house.”

I threw my TV away during the OJ trial. How many Freepers have likewise thrown it out or stopped watching?


39 posted on 09/25/2012 4:30:05 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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I choose to fight not against the breakdown of the family nor sexual norms but the language. It should be the new normalcy or the new normality. “Normal” is an adjective.


40 posted on 09/25/2012 4:35:34 PM PDT by Tublecane
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