It's the typical commercial which "wussifies" the male and shows the woman disrespecting him.
Don't get me wrong, I like commercials that show strong, confident women, but there's no need to wussify men or show women having contempt for them.
In this particular commercial, a guy cries out in pain, as he's getting Cyber-Monday cramp from ordering too many things online. His wife/girlfriend takes over, and sneers at him in contempt for getting cramp.
Is that really necessary?
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Yummi Gummis Search For Santa
Just saw the commercial for this on TV
Why does the gummi bear lead character run arund in his underwear in public?
I know it's a rip-off on Captain Underpants books but I think Captain Underpants is devolution media as well.
If a boy won't read unless he can read about some nerd running around in his underwear, then let him stay illiterate!
Why does the gummi bear lead character run arund in his underwear in public?
I know it's a rip-off on Captain Underpants books but I think Captain Underpants is devolution media as well.
If a boy won't read unless he can read about some nerd running around in his underwear, then let him stay illiterate!
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Thunderbirds: The Imposters
Okay, The Thunderbirds is a superanimation puppetshow from 1960s, but that doesn't change the fact that watching some episodes today is damn irritating.
I'm watching "The Imposters" episode, in which a couple of crooks pretended to be International Rescue. So Lady Penelope is sent to the US to track down the villains. She walks along in her high-heeled shoes, falls into mud, and generally acts like a spoiled brat. The villains are in a mine, and she pulls out a gun and it shoots mud, so she whines about that, so loudly that the crooks here her and get the drop on them. Fortunately a hillbilly and his mother - who are agents of International Rescue, didn't believe that Lady Penelope could do the job - as indeed she couldn't - and followed them. The guy saves the day.
Pisses me off no end!
I'm watching "The Imposters" episode, in which a couple of crooks pretended to be International Rescue. So Lady Penelope is sent to the US to track down the villains. She walks along in her high-heeled shoes, falls into mud, and generally acts like a spoiled brat. The villains are in a mine, and she pulls out a gun and it shoots mud, so she whines about that, so loudly that the crooks here her and get the drop on them. Fortunately a hillbilly and his mother - who are agents of International Rescue, didn't believe that Lady Penelope could do the job - as indeed she couldn't - and followed them. The guy saves the day.
Pisses me off no end!
Monday, November 19, 2012
Doggie Doo Game
Oh please god, tell me it was a spoof commercial. Although if it was a spoof commercial, it was still shown....aha...and I see that the Toon network is CN, the Cartoon Network.
Anyway, a mom and a couple of boys and a girl. You stick a little piece of yellow "something" into the dog's mouth, then pump a little pump. The dog wiggles its tail, there's a pause...and then the yellow poop comes out the dog's rear end. Oh god please tell they haven't really made that game.
Meantime, I see the cartoon I was talking about in my previous post has a name, Johnny Test. Johnny Test is as far away from Johnny Quest as you can get, a punk ass kid who knows it all, likes to play hookie, etc. and has two sisters - the red haired mad scientists who try to boss him around. But of course he ignores them.
Edited
Oh, god. Oh god. It is a game.
http://www.doggiedoogame.com/
Anyway, a mom and a couple of boys and a girl. You stick a little piece of yellow "something" into the dog's mouth, then pump a little pump. The dog wiggles its tail, there's a pause...and then the yellow poop comes out the dog's rear end. Oh god please tell they haven't really made that game.
Meantime, I see the cartoon I was talking about in my previous post has a name, Johnny Test. Johnny Test is as far away from Johnny Quest as you can get, a punk ass kid who knows it all, likes to play hookie, etc. and has two sisters - the red haired mad scientists who try to boss him around. But of course he ignores them.
Edited
Oh, god. Oh god. It is a game.
http://www.doggiedoogame.com/
Today's cartoon animation
So, okay, the Hanna Barbera animation of the 1960s and 70s when I was growing up was nothing to shout home about, but what on earth has happened to the animation of today. It's so awful. Everyone is presented as looking really, really ugly, whether it's the men, women or pets.
I suppose the blame lies at the hands of the producers. They see some godawful piece of junk that is nevertheless popular - I think Beavis and Butthead started the trend - and I see by Wikipedia that this thing started in 1992 and ran until 1997...and the majority of cartoon producers have been following that model ever since.
So I was watching a show just a few minutes ago, and now I can't find it again because I dont' know the name of it. It's on Cartoon Network...c'mon, CN... well, my Guide channel isn't showing CN as an identifier for any channel.
Anyway, it had two female scientists - girls - both red heads, one with "big" hair and the other with very long hair, and a talking dog...
I dunno, maybe animation is cheaper if they draw everything so poorly...
I suppose the blame lies at the hands of the producers. They see some godawful piece of junk that is nevertheless popular - I think Beavis and Butthead started the trend - and I see by Wikipedia that this thing started in 1992 and ran until 1997...and the majority of cartoon producers have been following that model ever since.
So I was watching a show just a few minutes ago, and now I can't find it again because I dont' know the name of it. It's on Cartoon Network...c'mon, CN... well, my Guide channel isn't showing CN as an identifier for any channel.
Anyway, it had two female scientists - girls - both red heads, one with "big" hair and the other with very long hair, and a talking dog...
I dunno, maybe animation is cheaper if they draw everything so poorly...
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Bones: The Feet on the Beach
This is the episode that made me lose all respect for Cam, who had been one of my favorite characters.
They're showing it right now on Ch 68...it's a rerun from a couple of years ago.
Cam, a former police officer and a scientist, who knows the value of truth and morals, wants her adopted daughter to be able to get into a good school.... so she sends in forged entry papers!
This is so out of character for Cam that it was pathetic. I don't know how her adopted daughter was still supposed to have respect for her after this, as Cam shows that she's perfectly willing to lie and cheat to get her daughter into a good school. (Whether she's smart enough to be able to handle her coursework once she's in the school is apparently not a concern - presumably Cam will do all her homework for her, too?).
This is so reminiscent of the "affirmative action" controvery, where kids are supposed to get into the top schools based not on their abilities but on their minority status. And since their abilities aren't taken into account, they are set up to fail. Except they're not allowed to fail because that would invalidate the program, so they're allowed to skate through, then enter the real word and not be able to do the job they've been "trained" for.
I wonder how many people who watched this ep of Bones learned from this role model that it's perfectly all right to lie and cheat if it's all about helping out your family? A bad lesson.
They're showing it right now on Ch 68...it's a rerun from a couple of years ago.
Cam, a former police officer and a scientist, who knows the value of truth and morals, wants her adopted daughter to be able to get into a good school.... so she sends in forged entry papers!
This is so out of character for Cam that it was pathetic. I don't know how her adopted daughter was still supposed to have respect for her after this, as Cam shows that she's perfectly willing to lie and cheat to get her daughter into a good school. (Whether she's smart enough to be able to handle her coursework once she's in the school is apparently not a concern - presumably Cam will do all her homework for her, too?).
This is so reminiscent of the "affirmative action" controvery, where kids are supposed to get into the top schools based not on their abilities but on their minority status. And since their abilities aren't taken into account, they are set up to fail. Except they're not allowed to fail because that would invalidate the program, so they're allowed to skate through, then enter the real word and not be able to do the job they've been "trained" for.
I wonder how many people who watched this ep of Bones learned from this role model that it's perfectly all right to lie and cheat if it's all about helping out your family? A bad lesson.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Haven't been watching much first run TV...
But w hen I watch football tomorrow I'm sure I'll see something worth commenting on!
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Go Daddy's Latest Commercial
Every time I see one of these pieces of garbage I regret having my domain names on GoDaddy...but I've got so many of them and it would be difficult to change..
But they do sicken me.
Watching NFL on Fox, 1:35 pm mountain time, station has just switched to Atlanta vs New Orleans.
And I've just seen a GoDaddy commercial that was extremely disgusting.
On one hand we've got a middle aged, fat guy wearing a muscle shirt (with no muscles to show off, of course - (this isn't a commercial for women, it's a commercial for guys) juxtaposed with a beautiful woman eating a piece of pizza...as if she's eating something else, with an expression on her face like she's having an orgasm.
Final shot is of some waitress bending over, with her butt angled toward the camera, and she looks back at the camera with a lascivious "yes, I'm on this planet to serve you, mr. man, don't respect me, just screw me" look. Then it cuts to the fat old guy pummelling a piece of pizza dough.
Surely there are ways of making a commercial "sexy" without making it prurient - which is what this is. Which is what all of GoDaddy's commercials are.
Prurience means - treating a woman like a sex object only. Not in the sense of two human beings who respect each other and love each other having sex, but a guy who sees an attractive woman and a woman who will have sex with him because that's the only reason why she exists. Blech, blech, bleck!
But they do sicken me.
Watching NFL on Fox, 1:35 pm mountain time, station has just switched to Atlanta vs New Orleans.
And I've just seen a GoDaddy commercial that was extremely disgusting.
On one hand we've got a middle aged, fat guy wearing a muscle shirt (with no muscles to show off, of course - (this isn't a commercial for women, it's a commercial for guys) juxtaposed with a beautiful woman eating a piece of pizza...as if she's eating something else, with an expression on her face like she's having an orgasm.
Final shot is of some waitress bending over, with her butt angled toward the camera, and she looks back at the camera with a lascivious "yes, I'm on this planet to serve you, mr. man, don't respect me, just screw me" look. Then it cuts to the fat old guy pummelling a piece of pizza dough.
Surely there are ways of making a commercial "sexy" without making it prurient - which is what this is. Which is what all of GoDaddy's commercials are.
Prurience means - treating a woman like a sex object only. Not in the sense of two human beings who respect each other and love each other having sex, but a guy who sees an attractive woman and a woman who will have sex with him because that's the only reason why she exists. Blech, blech, bleck!
Professional football
It is getting harder and harder to watch pro football...the players spend so much time at the end of plays drawing attention to themselves with childish antics that it really gets on my nerves.
I'm watching the Broncos vs Carolina Panthers.
1st quarter. Just saw a Bronco - think it was Von Miller. He sacked the quarterback, then did a ballet movement where he hopped on one foot with his other foot up in the air. Looked so stupid. And eventual result of the drive? Panthers scored a touchdown. Why celebrate a single play, with a drive from your opponent that is still going? You moron. Save your celebrating for the end of the game when you know whether your team has won or lost.
In the same drive, some humongous running back for the Panthers had a good run. Instead of getting back with his teammates immediately - intent as he was on getting his team a touch down, eh?, he stood on the sidelines and posed, deliberately brushing grass off his uniform. Once he'd milked it for a couple of minutes, then he deigned to join his teammates.
Childish behavior that just annoys me.
I'm watching the Broncos vs Carolina Panthers.
1st quarter. Just saw a Bronco - think it was Von Miller. He sacked the quarterback, then did a ballet movement where he hopped on one foot with his other foot up in the air. Looked so stupid. And eventual result of the drive? Panthers scored a touchdown. Why celebrate a single play, with a drive from your opponent that is still going? You moron. Save your celebrating for the end of the game when you know whether your team has won or lost.
In the same drive, some humongous running back for the Panthers had a good run. Instead of getting back with his teammates immediately - intent as he was on getting his team a touch down, eh?, he stood on the sidelines and posed, deliberately brushing grass off his uniform. Once he'd milked it for a couple of minutes, then he deigned to join his teammates.
Childish behavior that just annoys me.
Friday, November 9, 2012
I Am Weasel - cartoon
This is one of the more disgusting of the modern trend in cartoons, presumably meant for teenagers rather than little children.
It's got that awful animation and drawing that is used these days - everyone is drawn horribly with big nostrils and so on.
The lead character is a weasel, and his "nemesis" is I.S. Baboon, complete with red patches on his bottom like actual baboons. In the episode I just watched, a descendant for somebody from Yurp needs to be found - which turns out to be IR Weasel. He sniffs his butt, he eats messily, he burps, etc.
I cannot say how disgusting this is...who watches this? Teenage boys presumably...ones with a 6-year old mentality.
This piece of crap apparently was and is very popular, running from 1999 to 2006! 7 years of this garbage that people actually watched? Talk about the coarsening and dumbing down of America.
Blech.
It's got that awful animation and drawing that is used these days - everyone is drawn horribly with big nostrils and so on.
The lead character is a weasel, and his "nemesis" is I.S. Baboon, complete with red patches on his bottom like actual baboons. In the episode I just watched, a descendant for somebody from Yurp needs to be found - which turns out to be IR Weasel. He sniffs his butt, he eats messily, he burps, etc.
I cannot say how disgusting this is...who watches this? Teenage boys presumably...ones with a 6-year old mentality.
This piece of crap apparently was and is very popular, running from 1999 to 2006! 7 years of this garbage that people actually watched? Talk about the coarsening and dumbing down of America.
Blech.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Moonshiners and the Discovery Channel
How far has the Discovery Channel fallen.
What does Moonshining and educational TV have to do with each other????
Talk about dumbing down America.
First off of course is the fact that they'd make a reality series about crooks - even if Moonshiners aren't the worst criminals in the world, the problem about it, which I heard in a commercial on the radio, is that they're laughing about breaking the law. They're sneering at the law. And from moonshining to marijuana is just a hop skip and a jump.
And I'm sorry, anyone who gets their kicks getting stoned out of their mind - whether they do it by drugs or alcohol, is just stupid.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Radio Shack Commercial
Some young punk - 14 or 15 - is lounging on a couch playing with his i-Phone. A female voice, presumably his mother, says, "Tell your uncle Harry what you got for Christmas."
The punk, not bothering to lift his eyes from the phone, says, "Cool stuff."
The mother says something else..I can't remember exactly, but the punk says something rude and dismissive in return...then the rest of the commercial reveals it to be a Radio Shack commercial.
I find these types of commercials so annoying. Don't let your son - or your daughter - talk to you like that. He just got Christmas presents? Take them away until he realizes that those were presents from a mom and dad, not stuff he ordered because he's king of the world!
The punk, not bothering to lift his eyes from the phone, says, "Cool stuff."
The mother says something else..I can't remember exactly, but the punk says something rude and dismissive in return...then the rest of the commercial reveals it to be a Radio Shack commercial.
I find these types of commercials so annoying. Don't let your son - or your daughter - talk to you like that. He just got Christmas presents? Take them away until he realizes that those were presents from a mom and dad, not stuff he ordered because he's king of the world!
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