From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 05:26:54 GMT, Wiseguy  wrote:   
      
   >The 'Brightness' control still doesn't help    
   >wrote in news:bin2b95mqdgh4knfobjcjb1e15e5rep4rr@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:51:10 GMT, Wiseguy  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>The 'Brightness' control still doesn't help    
   >>>wrote in news:akpta91almoqeqc5iifsv2qpiepdhrrahd@4ax.com:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ...that ceasing production a couple decades ago wouldn't have fixed.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Each episode gets more vapid, disjointed, and utterly full of   
   >itself.   
   >>>> Most likely a reflection of its genetically humorless liberal   
   >>>> producers.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Producer Sam Simon has now dedicated himself to financing high seas   
   >>>> piracy.  He would do well to study the fates of the Somali pirates   
   >>>> that hijacked the 'Maersk Alabama'...   
   >>>   
   >>>If you really didn't like it you wouldn't watch it (Masochistic   
   >>>tendencies?)   
   >>   
   >> Nothing better to do on a Sunday evening.   
   >>   
   >   
   >So you watch something you don't like?  Stupid.   
      
   It's on with the other Sunday cartoons.  The remote control is under   
   the cat.   
      
   >>>If you really didn't watch it you wouldn't know its contents (Psychic   
   >>>tendencies?)   
   >>   
   >> I watch it, in vain hopes of a return to humor.   
   >>   
   >   
   >You have said it's beyond that point.  So you're too stupid to follow   
   >your own opinion?  Stupid.   
      
   I'm an eternal optimist.  Sue me.   
      
   >>>If you didn't know its contents you wouldn't post your drivel in   
   >>>newsgroups as if anyone cared what you think.   
   >>   
   >> I do watch it, and post my observations.  Several people cared enough   
   >> to respond.  If you have a problem with that, go the coward's route   
   >> and threaten to plonk me.   
   >   
   >I wouldn't waste my time.  Besides it's stupid idiots like you who   
   >provide the most entertainment.   
      
   Then I have succeeded.  You're welcome.  Look for the bill...   
      
   >>>The important thing is not a comparison to past episodes but a   
   >>>comparison to other so-called comedies (live action or animated).  The   
   >>>Simpsons still comes out near the top.   
   >>   
   >> Even if that were somehow true, it would merely be a harsh   
   >> condemnation of the competition.   
   >>   
   >>>If you disagree, fine. Don't watch it.   
   >>>But all these gripes about the quality compared to earlier episodes is   
   >>>pointless and tiresome. Very few long-running series can maintain the   
   >>>quality that the Simpsons has.   
   >>   
   >> Including the Simpsons, obviously.   
   >>   
   >>>Deal with it.   
   >>   
   >> I have.  Why are you having so much trouble doing the same?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >You're the one who's complaining.   
   >I'm the one telling you how childish you are.   
   >   
   >Understand now?  No, didn't think so.   
      
   Because I critics a show on Usenet?   
      
   By the that logic, you must be an infatuated Simpsons fanboi - or   
   worse yet, a Simpsons producer...   
      
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