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Topic: TV
Posted By: crimhead
Subject: TV
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 11:38
| I never understood the draw to this show. A big popularity contest which in the end someone wins and then has a mediocre singing/music career.(for the most part,there are exceptions) There are far more talented and deserving people that play music weekly in local clubs that deserve the attention more than these people do. |
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Posted By: Relayer09
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 12:13
 The Happy Days reference is too funny This was the year they jumped the shark with not only the Love Guru plug but also the whole boxing intro they did the other night. Cheesy TV getting even cheesier.------------- If you lose your temper, you've lost the arguement. -Proverb |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 12:24
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first year
non fiction entertainment sucks ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 14:35
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This show is an insult to intelligence. The people who watch this show for reasons other than laugh fodder are an insult to humanity. No offense to anyone here who watches it. Wait.... Yes. Stop watching now or you're brain my never be able to form sentences again. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 14:40
Case in point? |
stonebeard wrote:Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 14:47
| I watch it for the babes....sort of, |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 14:50
That was a sentence, I believe. An incoherent one, perhaps. And you're wrong because I just formed two perfectly sentencely sentences.  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 15:27
| like Harmonium. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 15:28
Well, Idol is over for this year.  |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 15:41
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My wife loves that crap and I just try and steer clear. She was watching the Tuesday finale and comes running into the bedroom telling me she will have to rewind so that I can see the great showdown between the two. I told her she most certainly did not need to rewind but she made me watch it. My ten year anniversary is coming up and I know I am dead meat since I have no idea what to get her so I had to at least go through this I suppose. Torture
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 18:08
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American Idol is great... that is if you like cut-and-paste vocalists covering bad songs. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 23 2008 at 03:48
Um.. What's the difference between the different seasons? 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: May 23 2008 at 03:50
They have different names i.e season 1, season 2, and so on. ------------- 
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: May 23 2008 at 13:21
Simply put what singers they wheel out and spoon feed us. |
Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: May 24 2008 at 06:47
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I am so tempted to post one word (bad), but not sure if this would be tolerated OK, what do I think of it? What I watched was music I don't like sung with normal voices. The talents are omitted to the good-looking ones, and who knows honestly without looking it up who won the first season and how his first album is named? They come from nowhere, shine a bit, and return to obscurity. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 24 2008 at 09:17
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Who is the woman on the panel for American Idol? Is it Paula Abdul? I'm still waiting for her to turn to someone and say 'Look, you're sh!t, getta outa here and stop wasting my time' She just cant be nasty. You could go on there and fart the theme tune from CHiP's, and she'd still cut you some slack.
It's an awful show, but it's popularity, just like that of the UK original 'Pop Idol' speaks volumes about what people want to watch at prime time. Put it this way, they dont want to see a bearded jester in a cod piece playing old folk tunes on a Hammond organ, or some guy with a mullet playing a twin neck guitar. They want to see good looking boys and girls trying to impersonate Justin Timberlake, or Beyonce. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: May 24 2008 at 19:33
| I blame Rupert Murdoch and his minions for this travesty. People at one time said that TV was the vast wasteland. Rupert has made it so. |
Posted By: Relayer09
Date Posted: May 24 2008 at 20:32
Reality TV would go away if people would just stop watching it. Like that's going to happen. I blame Jerry Springer and Phil Collins. ------------- If you lose your temper, you've lost the arguement. -Proverb |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: May 24 2008 at 21:09
At least you can laugh and feel good about yourself watching Springer. |
Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: May 25 2008 at 18:12
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Oh my God, are you just awakening to the major threat that this TV show is to Earth's civilization ? Have you not read about the enormous death toll resulting from the immense viewership of this show that has been buried by the media ? You are surely aware that even the U.N. has proclaimed this the greatest evil that humanity has faced during its' entire existence. I mean, how long before the revolution begins and the TV studios are stormed with no mercy spared for the audience, judges, and contestants ? Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooopppppppppppssssssss ! I just remembered. This is mass media mainstream entertainment. One that many enjoy. Not that I care for it. But I've somehow managed to NOT watch the damn show by either changing the channel if I'm watching TV; reading if my wife is watching it, or at times just going down to the basement and playing guitar. Mind you, for some, actually using their freedom of choice, or worse, allowing others their own freedom to choose, seems to elicit inane remarks that try to position one as somehow superior because one is above & beyond even tolerating such trifling entertainment. Did I mention that that is what Idol is ? Entertainment ! Did I really need to ? ------------- "Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case. |
Posted By: Bellringer
Date Posted: May 25 2008 at 20:40
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You people actually own televisions? ------------- Psalm 69:6 |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 26 2008 at 08:48
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I hate this whole pop idol thing as inane talentless fodder. Oh, and wtf is "jump the shark"? ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 13:20
Jump the shark refers to an episode of Happy Days where "The Fonz" jumps a shark while waterskiing. It basically is when a show runs out of gas/ideas or just becomes bad. There is a website www.jumptheshark.com that lists TV shows and fans can vote on when a TV show became bad. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 13:47
Several, actually. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 14:25
I agree.
This post was basically the point when this thread de-jumped the shark.. or jumped it the other way, if you will.
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: May 29 2008 at 03:37
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This is why we have lost great abundance of new creative bands outthere. Or if they are outthere you have to search indie sites etc or even PA. Beacuse we are " Amused To Death" via the precious TV Box and force fed idolism.
The problem is that it is admirable to see someone stand up in front of 35 million viewers and try hold it together but sadly by and large the music never gets above karoake ( sp?) status. So even if the music is pure crap you have to admire their nerve. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |