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TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

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I know a few of you guys gave up on Mr Robot last season, but it's been fantastic so far. Last two episodes have been Breaking Bad Season 5 quality.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
I know a few of you guys gave up on Mr Robot last season, but it's been fantastic so far. Last two episodes have been Breaking Bad Season 5 quality.
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Last seasons second half was great. I am letting this season build up in the que so I can binge it.
 
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Slate is just too much sometimes:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...about_the_problem_with_apu_and_trying_to.html

From the comments section:
Yeah, when you get your panties in a twist about how Mayor Quimby stereotypes corrupt politicians who sound like the Kennedys, and how Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel stereotypes rural white Southerners, and how the Flanderses stereotype white Christians, and how Mrs. Crabapple stereotypes divorced middle-aged white women, and how Mr. Burns stereotypes rich white men, and how Fat Tony D'Amico stereotypes Italian-American Mafiosi, and how Milhouse stereotypes nerds, and Nelson and Jimbo stereotype bullies, etc., etc., etc., call me back.

Gosh, it's almost as if ALL the Simpsons characters are stereotypes.
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Lighten up Francis. Everyone on that show is a stereotype, because that's how satirizing society works; further, Apu is one of the more fleshed-out side characters and gets to display the same depth of virtues and vices as the other prominent characters. In other words, the show very much humanizes him.


The Simpsons happened to come of age around the time when the Indian population in America was still fairly low and most of them were newly immigrated and working hard to make it in the kinds of jobs new immigrants have done in America since the beginning-- there's nothing wrong with that. If the show started today, Apu would probably be a doctor or a computer programmer making bank on an H1B visa. I'm sure the interviewee wouldn't make as much noise about that stereotype.
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So... the Lawrence Welk show is creeptastic.

Even in the context of when it aired.


This isn't a new revelation for me as I've watched segments of it before - every once in a while I tune in for a bit just for the fun of the willies.

:D
 
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RaceBoarder said:
You got to admit that many characters on that show stand no chance of getting green lit if they're pitched today. If anything it shows how much we've changed in 30 years...
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I get it. But that's kind of the point. Like the one commenter said, "Everyone on that show is a stereotype." So what? :p

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That documentary is getting a serious push. Articles for it are showing up on a variety of websites.
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Yeah, it's bizarre.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I get it. But that's kind of the point. Like the one commenter said, "Everyone on that show is a stereotype." So what? :p



Yeah, it's bizarre.
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My bet is that the production company is paying for the articles directly, basically an advertisement disguised as an article, only less heavy handed than the ones about Store X's new offerings and all the benefits you stand to gain by using it.
 
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St. Clown said:
My bet is that the production company is paying for the articles directly, basically an advertisement disguised as an article, only less heavy handed than the ones about Store X's new offerings and all the benefits you stand to gain by using it.
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I suspect you're right. Though, Slate fires out a few of these :rolleyes: articles a month (maybe every week). I just don't pay attention to them. This caught my eye because of The Simpsons tie-in.
 
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In fact, I think it's hilarious that the guy who made the documentary suggests that the writers make him own the Kwik-E-Mart.


errrrrrr.... he does. Pretty clearly.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
In fact, I think it's hilarious that the guy who made the documentary suggests that the writers make him own the Kwik-E-Mart.


errrrrrr.... he does. Pretty clearly.
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Apu was fired from the Kwik-E Mart in one episode. The store is corporate owned.
 
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Apu was fired from the Kwik-E Mart in one episode. The store is corporate owned.
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In another episode they had him and his brother owning it 50:50. I think this was also mentioned in one of the Slate comments.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
In another episode they had him and his brother owning it 50:50. I think this was also mentioned in one of the Slate comments.
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Oh yeah, that's right. It's not like the show has ever tried for to keep details of the city straight from week to week.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
That seems to happen a lot when the writing staffs change.

Peggy's history on King of the Hill got changed a couple times.
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Sure, but the Simpsons have taken shots at themselves over the years for inconsistencies in jobs and location of items. The contents of the Simpsons' basement are a testament to that, as are one-liners about how the scenery seems to change just for the sake of a joke. Sometimes the power plant is miles away from Homer's house, other times he can see the parking lot outside his backyard. The staff plays with those sorts of details without heed of past episodes - because it's all part of the joke.
 
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My parents would send my sister and I to St. Peter for 1-2 weeks a summer for about 4 years to visit my dad's parents. I loved the trip for several reasons, but having to watch Lawrence Welk every (Sunday?) was just unbearable. :D
 
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Finished up the first two seasons of Wanted on Netflix, pretty solid. It's an Australian show about two women on the run from dirty cops, pretty sure it's completely unrealistic but that really doesn't matter as the characters draw you in. Only 6 eps per season so easily bingeable.
 
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jerphisch said:
Finished up the first two seasons of Wanted on Netflix, pretty solid. It's an Australian show about two women on the run from dirty cops, pretty sure it's completely unrealistic but that really doesn't matter as the characters draw you in. Only 6 eps per season so easily bingeable.
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Sounds like an updated version of Renegade...and we dont need that cause the original was AMAZING!!

"He was a cop, and good at his job, but he committed the ultimate sin—and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops that tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands...an outlaw hunting outlaws...a bounty hunter...a RENEGADE."
 
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Handyman said:
Sounds like an updated version of Renegade...and we dont need that cause the original was AMAZING!!

"He was a cop, and good at his job, but he committed the ultimate sin—and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops that tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands...an outlaw hunting outlaws...a bounty hunter...a RENEGADE."
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Gosh I guess I vaguely remember that show, but not enough to draw a comparison. Based on reading about it, yeah they sound similar but I can't get past the Lorenzo Lamas thing. Wanted is very well done. The main character also wrote it with her husband, and her description of it is an asexual love story. Which I just can't picture for Renegade.
 
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