Why does everyone overreact to bad swings in entertainment?

[minor muppetz]

All I'm saying is we're actually getting a little better as an audience. Sure, Survivor's still on the air, I'm sure it's ratings aren't what they used to be, but they're well enough to keep the thing running like a roach after the Apocalypse... but so isn't America's Funniest home Videos and that was 80's or 90's. meanwhile NO ONE remembers America's Funniest People. The show where people actually intended to look foolish on camera, and they're in on the joke. of course, that could also be that I liked Uncle Joey a million times more than Bob Sagat on that show.

I remember America's Funniest People (I first saw that the night I first saw America's Funniest Home Videos), and I liked that one a lot better. I like Dave Coulier better than Bob Saget, I liked the Jackalope... I can't remember many speciffic moments from that show, but the same can be said for America's Funniest Home Videos (though I recall one of them featuring a guest appearance by John Stamos and whichever one wasn't the host as their Full House characters). I am very surprised that America's Funniest Home Videos is still on the air after all these years of no Bob Saget.

I thought more people liked "People" better than "Home Videos", at least as far as people who actually liked either show went (seems many people hate those shows and Full House, despite their many years on TV). I think Dinosaurs made a reference to "People" being better... In "The Family Challenge", the Sinclairs are watching "Pangeas Funniest Home Injuries" (an obvious reference to AFHV), and after Charlene says that the next show is "America's Second Funniest Home Injuries" (AFP followed AFHV), Earl says he likes that one better. Though even if it's not a reference to any general public opinion on which was better, it's still funny that Earl would prefer a show with only the second funniest things.

Bieber sucks, but so didn't most disco.

Hey I like most disco!

 

[mr3urious]

I really think ABC should end AFV while they still have the chance. I mean, the Internet has already made it obsolete, ad Drtooth already mentioned.

Now what ABC should bring back to Sunday nights is this!

 

[Drtooth]

Okay... SOMEONE'S going to complain about this, so I'll deal with it here...

Angry Birds "animated Series"

Now before anyone says anything...

Can't be any worse than that, first of all... secondly, it proves that ANY video game can be made into a cartoon series. Even ones that miss the point entirely of the video game.

While I'm not saying it's exactly terrible (though I had to force myself through it every Sunday when it was on, because it's a show you watch because its on and it kills time), I've played the game before, and at NO POINT in any of them do they turn into Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.

Also, the video game cartoon has been hit or miss. Let's face it. You wind up with either pure gold like Sonic SatAM or Earthworm Jim, good and enjoyable stuff like Super Mario Bros 3, or just incredibly pointless and ill advised garbage like... well...

A freaking R rated video game turned into a cartoon, dumbed down so 7 year olds can watch it.

So NO complaining about the Angry Birds or I'll feed you Cornflakes

 

[beaker]

Why does everyone have to overreact to bad swings in entertainment like they were signs of the Apocalypse

Is this a thread about you? You're the #1 purveyor of over the top wall-o-text reactionary posts...and thats why youve been my fave poster for 10 years going !

 

[Yorick]

I like the Q*Bert cartoon and it's 50's meets the 80's feel!
I like the Pac Man cartoon too - I know it has some very silly moments, but that's all part of the charm!

 

[jvcarroll]

And as for the "pink slime", it's really just lean scraps and connective tissue removed by machines that human butchers may have missed, and treated with a tiny puff of ammonium hydroxide (ammonia is naturally occurring, BTW, even found in our own bodies) to kill bacteria. This also means fewer cows to slaughter since there's more meat to use.

Pink slime is rather creepy, but it's really like the corn syrup of the meat industry. Natural ingredients creepily distilled with chemicals to become a form nature never intended. The public reaction to it has been mostly immature. I'm sure few people would like to see how pure meat is really processed. Do they know how sausage is made? But I've been a veggie for a long time anyway. Not for any particular reason except that meat makes me lethargic and robs me of my energy. Tofu goes through a process too and looks rather unappetizing in its raw state.

 

[Drtooth]

I like the Q*Bert cartoon and it's 50's meets the 80's feel!
I like the Pac Man cartoon too - I know it has some very silly moments, but that's all part of the charm!

Pac-Man's actually quite a lot of fun as a cartoon series. They didn't have to monkey around with much to keep it both consistent to the games and make it appealing enough to make a cartoon series out of. I was actually considering buying the MOD Pac-Man cartoons.

Q*bert has a weird fit to it. It's not terrible by any means, but the 1950's twist is random, yet it was very much in style to be retro 50's that decade... the spread of 50's style diners and the Back to the Future movie are proof. Seems it would have worked just as well if it was an alien planet full of weird things, which is much more Q*bert style than that.

Of course, the only Saturday Supercade cartoon I've seen that I actually hated was Donkey Kong Jr. They turned Scrappy-Doo into a monkey, and inserted him into unsold pilots for other cartoons. There's one about a superhero kid that was much more interesting than the DKJ angle of the story. That should have been a cartoon.

That said, I love the Donkey Kong cartoon they had.

Is this a thread about you? You're the #1 purveyor of over the top wall-o-text reactionary posts...and thats why youve been my fave poster for 10 years going !

Hey, once I heard Michael Bay turning the TMNT into aliens, I think that was my fill point. Nothing seemed as atrocious as that ever since.

Pink slime is rather creepy, but it's really like the corn syrup of the meat industry. Natural ingredients creepily distilled with chemicals to become a form nature never intended. The public reaction to it has been mostly immature. I'm sure few people would like to see how pure meat is really processed. Do they know how sausage is made?

The fact that people are actually starting to care about where their food comes from is a sign that things are rising steadily. This is important, and it will only get more contemptuous until we get rid of harmful food additives from our food products. You all well know I despise those groups that complain there's a cartoon character on the label of something. Half the reason is, the wrapper's probably the least chemically treated and most nutritious part of the product. It's what goes in rather than on that should be of concern.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

The fact that people are actually starting to care about where their food comes from is a sign that things are rising steadily. This is important, and it will only get more contemptuous until we get rid of harmful food additives from our food products. You all well know I despise those groups that complain there's a cartoon character on the label of something. Half the reason is, the wrapper's probably the least chemically treated and most nutritious part of the product. It's what goes in rather than on that should be of concern.

Is it bad that I really didn't care when I found out about this pink slime thing? I mean, I grew up on Philly street venders. I'm sure I've eaten a heck of a lot worse (and breathed a lot worse) Thats probably whats wrong with me XD

 

[Drtooth]

Is it bad that I really didn't care when I found out about this pink slime thing? I mean, I grew up on Philly street venders. I'm sure I've eaten a heck of a lot worse (and breathed a lot worse) Thats probably whats wrong with me XD

We all have, but think about it this way.

We're paying for full ground beef, right? Not some sort of sawdust filler to bulk it up.

The fact that fast food corporations... fast food corporations... are getting rid of it, even before the major announcement was a shock... considering the stuff they let in their products. It's not exactly super harmful or that dangerous, but no one wants to pay for cheap filler. Especially since the price of everything goes up yet never seems to go down when gas does.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Meh...I really don't like McDonald's hamburgers anyway. I don't really like hamburgers period. Now I probably won't be so cool when I find out whats in their chicken-like substance sandwiches.