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I don't quite understand where you're coming from... are you talking about movies that we don't necessarily care for (yet don't entirely hate)?

Closed-captioning drives me nuts too... I don't know if it's still an issue today like it has been, but SST is notorious for really poor captioning... I guess they figure most kids can't really read captioning too well, because the captioning for SST was VERY simplistic and condensed compared to...

A lot of it has to do with how different sitcoms are today as opposed to 30, 40, and even 50 years ago; sitcoms of yesteryears were a lot "bigger" and more "outlandish", they had a lot going for them as far as humor goes, there was a lot more character antics, physical comedy, and in the cases...

Since it's been mentioned in another thread: whenever it's discovered a character has an embarrassing middle name, or in many similar cases, where a male character turns out to have a girl's middle name (both Frank Burns from M*A*S*H and Double D from Ed, Edd n Eddy middle name is Marion).

*Rides in on a white horse, defense at the ready* Okay, the laugh track was developed as a means to recreate the atmosphere of watching a comedy with a group of people, as opposed to being by yourself: in the days before television, people would see comedies at the movies, or at theaters...

"Can't Touch This". TV shows, movies, and even TV commercials.

It's kind of funny to think that Hogan's Heroes was really the first ethnically diverse sitcom on television: in addition to Hogan himself, his team consisted of a Frenchman, an Englishman, a black man, and a Native American.

I'd be happy if Zamzar could bypass the blockage, but I really don't see how using MediaConverter through a proxy is going to help, all proxy sites do is mask your IP address to make you "anonymous" while browsing the web... and what does that have to do with the blockage?

Could be... after all, a lot movies credit Steven Spielberg as an executive producer, even though he isn't even involved with the movies.

I mean from what I understand, you can get the job done with just these three: an executive producer (to finance the production and manage the budget), a producer (to actually put the show together), and an associate producer (to do things like hiring cast and crew and such). I have no idea...

Do TV shows today really need like a hundred executive producers, umpteen regular producers, countless associate producers, and all these "line producers", "coordinating producers", "supervising producers", and all these producers in general?

In case anyone is interested, it appears that MediaConverter is claiming that they've bypassed Google's block on YouTube, but in order for the bypass to work properly, you have to use their site via a proxy site.

Another mini-rant on certain DVDs: Sometimes when you select one particular episode, or whatever to watch, then when it finishes, the other episodes on the DVD after it still automatically play, rather than returning you to the menu. This seems to usually be a problem on more cheaply made DVDs.

I think Recess and Arthur are the two biggest offenders of that one. In the former, Mikey rips his pants, so his pals try desperately to come up with some form of a "patch" to hide his now-revealing underwear, all the while, bloodhound Miss Finster is on their trail; in the latter, Binky rips...

World records are another one... and there's usually two ways it happens: 1. One character will spend the episode trying to beat any world record that they feel they can break, only to fail in doing so each time... up until the point it turns out they broke the world record for number of times...

Yeah, and half the time, those notes from a secret admirer turn out to be part of a cruel and twisted prank.

TV Land's been doing another tribute marathon this weekend, and as it turns out, they're going to be doing tribute marathons every weekend for the whole month. I think that's very fitting for such a legend like Andy Griffith... I'm still sad over his loss. :cry:

There was a rather interesting twist on that plot device once on Alvin and The Chipmunks, when they try to explain to Dave just how his piano fell down the stairs: there was no truthful answer, each of them exaggerated their story to make themselves out to be the victim of the other's boredom...

That reminds me how the use of "We Built This City" has pretty much become a gimmick: dancing to a very un-dancable song... even SNL poked fun at that.

Ballroom Blitz. The only time I can think it was used of any kind of effectiveness was Bordello of Blood, where the good guys attack a brothel of vampire hookers in, of all places, a ballroom, by shooting at them with Supa Soakas filled with Holy Water. Other than that, it seems to be used...