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   From: zzz.zzz@qqq.net   
      
   Reaper G wrote:   
      
      
     > So why watch a show you never liked, let alone post in a newsgroups   
   > about it?   
      
   Why not? And I never said I never liked it. There are some episodes that are   
   really funny, there is even an occasional hilarious one, but most of them,   
   especially lately, suffer from lazy writing that relies on bullshit and shock   
   value.   
   Btw, I just saw the fishsticks episode. You know a show has ran its course when   
   you can't wait for the episode to end so you can go do something else.   
   In many of the SP eps in the last few years I had a feeling that the writers   
   are   
   doing some inside joke shtick that involves some celebrity or another and that   
   the "plot" is aimed at getting back at them for some perceived offense, as if   
   the writers were kicked out of the celebrity's limo or something and the   
   episode   
   is meant to mend someone's hurt feelings.   
   The fishstick ep just perpetuates this feeling. I mean, what the fuck is this?   
   Kanye West has a big ego? Who gives a fuck? If at least it was funny, it could   
   have redeemed itself. It wasn't.   
      
   >>because the show's lazy writing relies on either non-sensical   
   >>bullshit (like the Al Gore's character, for example) that apparently works   
   >>wonders for the audience that grew up on MTV style of "comedy" in which   
   >>something is funny simply because it's stupid (Tom Green, Jackass, et al),   
   and   
   >>when the stupid fails to work, the writers resort to the old reliable shock   
   >>value where something is funny simply because it shocks the audience (Oprah's   
   >>vagina, queef episode, etc.)   
   >>   
   >>However, lazy writing is understandable. After all, even the best authors run   
   >>out of ideas and fade out eventually. So SP keep rolling because it still   
   makes   
   >>money, and it will keep doing that until the cash supply dries out. So why   
   hire   
   >>fresh writers or make an effort to come up with funny stuff like Scott   
   Tenorman   
   >>Must Die (or the hilarious bit with the severed chicken head that determines   
   >>the bailouts two eps ago, for that matter), when cheap crap like queefing   
   keeps   
   >>simple minds entertained?   
   >>What is not understandable to me is all this fucking gushing and phony boners   
   >>you guys have after every single goddamn stupid episode of SP. From the shit   
   one   
   >>can read here, it would seem that all of them are a the pinnacle of comic   
   art.   
   >>Well, they're not. Most of them are pure shit.   
   >   
   >   
   > What's all this "fucking gushing and phony boners" you're talking   
   > about? I find many eps to be just decent, some good spots and some not   
   > so good, and I leave it at that.   
      
   So you didn't notice how every single goddamn episode induces rave reviews from   
   some people here, how they're all so "funny" and how those people "laugh really   
   hard" at what can at best be described as yawn-inducing crap.   
      
   Btw, if Family Guy writing involves dolphins fetching ideas at random from a   
   fish tank, like SP would have us believe, then some SP writing, and especially   
   the last ep, is like those same dolphins eating those ideas, shitting them out,   
   then writers sifting through dolphin shit to find the worst parts, then   
   dehydrating those parts, rolling them into joints, smoking them and writing the   
   episodes while high on dried dolphin shit.   
      
   >>>They can, and so can we intelligent types. People like you who confuse   
   >>>arrogance for intelligence are the ones I'm worried about.   
   >>   
   >>Really? Maybe it's time you found me "no longer entertaining" and stop   
   obsessing   
   >>about my posts. You know, "leave" my posts, eh?   
   >>   
   >>Otoh, if my continued posting about the show that I still watch even though I   
   >>think it sucks breaches some obscure etiquette, rule, regulation, law,   
   tradition   
   >>or custom, I'll reconsider it. Until then, you're just another crybaby who   
   >>thinks that everyone has to follow his imaginary Usenet rules.   
   >   
   > You totally missed the point that you're watching a show you don't   
   > like. That has nothing to do with any supposed etiquette. What you   
   > don't seem to understand is that if you go into a forum with a bad   
   > attitude, you're gonna get crapped on.   
      
   Good. I wasn't the one who was complaining about being crapped on - you guys   
   were. From the reaction I got after pissing on the show, you'd think some of   
   you   
   guys are Parker and Stone hiding behind pseudonyms.   
      
      
      
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