YRU-Up, One Man's View

TV and Me
9/19/98


Seansky and Hutch
I consider myself a guy with a pretty liberal sense of humor. I can go from low brow to high in 3.2 seconds and that on a Tuesday. So when I complain about a lack of any kind of good humor on television you know something’s up. I should be the last one to notice. Everyone else should have run to the hills while I watch Hogen’s Heroes. But yet, here I am and it’s a very lonely place indeed.

And you know what I blame. Too many goddamn channels. We as a culture only really produced like 20 good shows over the time period before cable, what made us think we could support the information superhighway? 500 channels, how bought one I want to watch?

All right, I know what you’re saying, you’re saying, "Sean hasn’t said anything new here." In fact, some copyright lawsuits may be in order. But come on, TV sucks. And I’ve seen it all my friend. When I was a kid I didn’t have cable so I grew up watching the weekday afternoon reruns of Goodtimes and Just the Ten of Us. I have a thick skin when it comes to 5th rate television. So I can only assume the reasons others haven’t spoken up is do to their sudden badness induced deaths. It then must come to me to warn you away from what I have seen so that you may live a happy life. A life where such shows as Holding the Baby is only a whispering in the trees. Where Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place sounds like a good place to eat. Hell even shows that were funny once now suck. Take Mad TV. I can only weep for what was once a cutting edge funny program. Now I might as well read the magazine.

And where can I put the blame for this. It is square in the hands of Gen X-ers. What have you done to this earth I ask you? If I have to hear one more glib remark about Scooby-Doo, I’m gonna drive the mystery machine into your ass and plunge it off a cliff. You know, childhood was good, I liked it a lot. But there was a past before Voltron. Read about it. And then make a show someone can like not on pot. If you can’t, stop trying to be a writer and get back to your job at the gas station. It’ll work out since you ware a shirt like that anyway.

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