You sound like a rational person who genuinely just didn’t like it, which is fine. I was remarking more on the rabid fanatics who really lost their marbles over shit like having women in lead/warrior roles and having same-sex relationships and all that. 

No. No, we didn’t. That’s why we invented VCRs to either rent them from the store or tape them off of the TV and watch them again later.

Yeah. Willow was fun to watch, which is something a lot of shows can’t say, and I wish they’d made more. Unfortunately it was a victim of the screeching “Go woke go broke” twits who attacked every positive review and comment because it committed the crime of having multiple female leads. Pity. I rewatched it in a…

Again, this is just “both sides bad” and it’s reductive and cynical.

One advantage of Fahrenheit is slightly more precision. A while back I spent a couple of weeks in England for work. I could never get the thermostat set how I like it. There is significantly more difference in one degree Celsius than one degree Fahrenheit. Maybe some thermostats in Celsius have half degree…

Listen, if anyone can be trusted to deliver a script about media pandering, it’s South Park, the ancient franchise that’s been pandering nonstop to mediocre edgy white dudebros for a quarter century.

Can we finally add South Park to the list of overly long running adult animated shows that need to die already?

That is fun. I’ve lived in the Detroit area most of my life and have always been accustomed to having CBC available from Windsor. 

We don’t.

There are two paths to becoming a comedy writer for TV. You can be a popular standup comic or you can go to Harvard. If they wanted to find more than 30 they easily could, but they’re not interested in looking.

And given the fact that 70s writers rooms were predominantly white men who made up 40 percent of the US population in 1970, there were probably always at least 70 or so good writers even in 1970, even if you assume his assessment is accurate but limited by the racism and misogyny of the time.

Why are we just taking this guy’s word for it that there are only 30 great sitcom writers? I’d suggest (also without evidence) that there have ALWAYS been way more great TV writers than that - they just had no opportunity when there were only three networks.

This, exactly. “Just hire the best person for the job” presupposes that, by hiring a person of color, they’re not doing that.

He means “white”. If a POC gets hired for a position it’s because of diversity, if a white person gets hired for a position it’s because of merit. That’s the way these douchenozzles all think. 

Ah yes it’s just merit that put a bunch of white dudes in the top late night comedy shows

Because surely there’s no merit in having a unique voice and perspective developed by existing as a minority in this country. Surely diversity of thought and experience isn’t important. Surely racial and ethnic diversity has no merit in terms of attracting a bigger and different audience who find that perspective…

It may be all that, but if you think Republicans won’t try to pass laws that eliminate non-straight people from entertainment in the name of “protecting the children” then you haven’t been paying attention to (deep breath) Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Indiana, South Dakota, Missouri, Utah, Alabama, Idaho...

“Don’t let those regulators stifle innovation!” (submersible crashes)

I could live a long, happy life without ever seeing another rape depicted in a movie or television show. 

So funny how the people that insist trans people are suffering from a mental illness are eager to demonstrate that they have no compassion or empathy for people with mental illness.