Crime and Punishment
Ladies and gentlemen, the Vagabond Kangaroo Court is now in session. The right honourable Lord Vaga of Bond presiding.
Be seated.
Session 5 of 5 for docket number 665 then. Charges of overworking and abuse of Mr. Laugh Track, for purposes of making a singularly terrible and unfunny sitcom seem funny. Defendant is the Fox Network, the sitcom Stacked, and 'star' Pamela Anderson.
Fox, Stacked and Ms. Anderson, you have been charged with a very serious offence; the assault, battery, abuse and overwork of a laugh track.
I myself have watched 10 minutes of Stacked, and am prepared to summarily rule against you. I have not seen such a painfully unfunny, mugging filled, stereotype laden ...oeuvre since the last time I watched 5 year olds put on a play for their parents.
You are hearby convicted and sentenced to removal of Stacked from the already polluted airwaves, $500,000 in restitution to the abused Mr. Track, and an additional $10,000 fine payable to the right honourable Lord Vaga of Bond. This fine represents $1000 for each minute of my life that I will never get back. I will use this money to repair the bleeding from my ears, and the pain in my eyes.
Case closed. Bailiff, take them away.
Be seated.
Session 5 of 5 for docket number 665 then. Charges of overworking and abuse of Mr. Laugh Track, for purposes of making a singularly terrible and unfunny sitcom seem funny. Defendant is the Fox Network, the sitcom Stacked, and 'star' Pamela Anderson.
Fox, Stacked and Ms. Anderson, you have been charged with a very serious offence; the assault, battery, abuse and overwork of a laugh track.
I myself have watched 10 minutes of Stacked, and am prepared to summarily rule against you. I have not seen such a painfully unfunny, mugging filled, stereotype laden ...oeuvre since the last time I watched 5 year olds put on a play for their parents.
You are hearby convicted and sentenced to removal of Stacked from the already polluted airwaves, $500,000 in restitution to the abused Mr. Track, and an additional $10,000 fine payable to the right honourable Lord Vaga of Bond. This fine represents $1000 for each minute of my life that I will never get back. I will use this money to repair the bleeding from my ears, and the pain in my eyes.
Case closed. Bailiff, take them away.
posted by Surly Canuck at 12:57 p.m.
4 Comments:
Witness for the prosecution: Arrested Development.
I've always thought that the lack of a laugh-track is one of the things that makes that show great.
Never watched it. Don't plan on it. The way it's been built up for me, I will be nothing but disappointed.
It's a thing. Like never having seen Pretty Woman. It's gone on so long, it's become an identifying characteristic. I can't give that up.
fair enough, you're missing out on a lot.
watch the office or coupling though. bbc both.
and kitchen confidential looks promising, if only because it's based on anthony bourdain who is a right royal bastard.
I've got the Office on DVD... just haven't had the time or inclination to sit down and watch it.
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