Thursday, September 02, 2010

The Loser Channel

Remember when TLC used to stand for The Learning Channel? And when there were arts and entertainment on A&E? All these channels stink these days.

What's on TLC but shows that feature loudmouths screaming at one another, or people who are famous for having lots and lots of kids? Sorry, doesn't sound like anything I'd ever want to learn.

And what's on the other "educational" channels? Crap about bullshit paranormal activity, UFO hunters, crypto-zoology (in the kooky sense), the alleged 2012 apocalypse, Nostradamus, conspiracy theories, ghost hunters, Bible codes...

So what do we "learn" from these shows? That it's okay to scream and yell like some kind of baboon? That if you have enough kids, someone will give you millions of dollars? That pseudo-science is not only good, but cool? I guess the ideal would be a show about a loudmouthed ghost-hunter who heaps verbal abuse on his hapless assistants and how Nostradamus predicted that he would take his 239 kids to get ice cream in New York City.

I believe I'll pass, thank you very much. You think Nostradamus predicted that?

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