XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article ,   
    SP Fan  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:34:51 -0400, Barry Margolin   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >In article ,   
   > > SP Fan  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Then they need to stop advertising this season as having the biggest   
   > >> balls ever, because they just shot up a truckload of 'roids and their   
   > >> balls have now shriveled up into raisins.   
   > >   
   > >Those ads have nothing to do with this episode, they were about the   
   > >episode a few weeks ago where the men gave themselves cancer, and their   
   > >testicles exploded to the size of beachballs.   
   >   
   > While that was the reference, it wasn't the implication.  They've (CC)   
   > touted the show as being edgy and that no one is off limits, but we   
   > know now that isn't true at all.   
      
   I know, I was trying to have fun by making the obvious excuse.   
      
   The ultimate problem is that TV networks are businesses, and you can't   
   count on them to be as edgy as the creative people.  It's easy to tout   
   yourself as pushing boundaries until someone pushes back, and then   
   compromises end up being made.  A TV commercial saying "we have the   
   biggest balls" is not an open-ended guarantee, it's just a marketing   
   tool.   
      
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   Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu   
   Arlington, MA   
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