So as I am sitting in the back I hear the man behind the curtain talking with California and all the big wigs who actually make the decisions. I hear that they are bring our show to a "Focus Group." You know what that is? It is a bunch of people who watch the show and give their opinions. Which means I will be out of the show.
I mean what I do is a very acquired taste. And they are not going to pick people on this focus group who have anything like my sensibility. Which is fine. The show is really about Lisa and the store. I am happy if she is the star and the store is successful. I don't need to be the star. And I know the fighting I am doing every day with them means my part will be sliced and diced down to nothing.
You see focus groups are what is wrong with television. They play to the lowest common denominator. They are going to research this and homogenize it and dumb it down. It is what they do. So the originality and spark that got us this show in the first place will be pushed out of it. And I am helpless to do anything about it. The more I fight it the more they roll their eyes and act condescending. There is not much I can do.
Lisa hid my shovel.
I just hope they get my people for the focus group.
You know like youse guys.
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Let's all sneak into that focus group, we can tie them up and gag them and shove them into a closet.
Then we take their places.
You are probably right about that. Too bad. Petticoat Junction needed Uncle Joe. The Paper Chase need that old cranky law professor with the stick in his ass. The Rockford Files even needed Rocky (although he was not cranky). Sanford and Son absolutely needed Fred Sanford.
Althouse needs Ol Mose.
You've gotta do reverse jujitsu or judo and convince them that you don't want what you want so they'll do what you don't want. Unless they start respecting you. In which case you hit 'em with the shovel. Yeah.
It is good your blog is private, although it would not surprise me if Meadey is sending his spies in to make sure we don't talk about him. Meade, we do talk about you, but nothing we would not say openly to you so stop being paranoid.
Tell them that they cut you out of the show I won't watch it. And I'll snark at it from my arm chair like I do to "Project Runway"
That should fix things.
They can't cut me out completely but they will really water down my participation. Which is ok if it makes the show a success. It is turning out to be a different show than I thought it would be.
I am not interested in those guys and what they do so even if they are spying there really isn't anything to do with them anymore other than a passing swipe here and there.
They are slowly withering as the page views are going down and the number of comments are dropping.
It's just old news and not worth our notice to be honest.
I know I will be in the interviews and a few comedy segments here and there. That will be more than enough for me.
It is all about Lee Lee and the clothes after all.
You have to stay humble.
Be sure to pick out your photo from the last Trooper York commenter get together.
I think it was damn decent of you not to have airbrushed your ex-blogfriends out of the photo.
Nice to see that he wore a tie for once.
I realized somewhere in my late 30s that I'm a much better #2 guy than the front man. I truly enjoy making someone else look good and prop them up. It's a calling. In "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, I thought Sam was the true hero. He carried the midget ape up the volcano and safeguarded the ring when he needed to do it. The #2 guy is the heart of most operations.
I have a beard, but I leave the cross dressing to others, so I guess I am not in the picture. Is there a guy in the back with a piece of pine stickin' out of his head?
I love that movie.
What was the saying they always used?
They turned her into a little bird lady though.
Yeah, second in command is the place to be.
ONE OF US!
ONE OF US!
Hey, and, Troop? You're totally LCD, dude. It's not the Lowest Common Denominator they go for: It's the COMMONEST common denominator.
Which in Network math is somewhere close to zero.
People don't want Norm MacDonald or Dabney Coleman they want Adam Sandler.
You need to be dumber and more likable.
And if you think you're playing dumb, you need to be even more dumb.
Have you made any jokes about Kids or Dogs yet? If not, you should.
Actually Blake it not the "the COMMONEST common denominator" they're after what they THINK is the "the COMMONEST common denominator".
You take some common half-educated TV producer and ask her/him what he/she thinks common people like and you get... well, you get all the programs that are on TV.
The lowest common denominators that I have are the one dollar bills.
Trooper, you are SO funny with your choice of pics!
LOL
But yeah, the focus groups are mostly dumbasses. Look at the focus groups they get for the Frank Luntz stuff. I want to shake them!
Not very Christian of me.
Even a Christian needs to shake the heck out of people from time-to-time.
Shake your moneymaker's tables.
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