It is embeded in the culture now and there is nothing you can do.

So I am watching this stupid little sitcom on demand last night. It is called "Superstore" and is set in a Walmart/Costco sort of superstore somewhere in the burbs. It has all of the current stereotypical characters. The bumbling white store manager who is a Christian and is mocked for his slogans and piety. The sex crazed plus sized assistant manager who has the hots for the young white college hipster guy who is slumming by working at the Costco because he can't get a regular job. Of course there are the super wise minority characters. The wheelchair bound black guy who is a fount of wisdom and good sense but not threating because he is one wheels. And the wise Latina in the form of the Ugly Betty girl who is the protagonist of the piece.

The premise is the hispter guy like the wise Latina. He is played by the Jewish dude who cut his ear off in Mad Men. He is constantly put in situations where his college smarts are shown up by the wise minorities who have to school him.

The last episode is all about racism. It seems they are hawking a salsa and the white manager guy wants Ugly Betty to promote it because she is Mexican. She freaks out because she thinks it is a demeaning stereotype. Meanwhile some of the other workers are happy to do it. The other Spanish Chick loves it because it gets her out of the dressing room duty which really sucks. Ugly Betty starts fighting with her to the point that she pulls a bowl of salsa out of her hands and trips her up and she sprains her ankle. So the obsequious Filipino dude goes full retard with the sombrero and fake accent to sell salsa. The Ugly Betty chick starts to berate him and asks him how he would like it if she faked being an Asian and did this:

Of course the customer reports her and the whole store has to watch a sensitivity training video. Which is as stupid as you might imagine. Everyone is pissed that they have to go throw this.

The subplot is what I found interesting. TV shows now have to gild the lily by portraying sweet old white ladies as racists. They did it last week on Chicago Med and then again in this show. The hipster guy was working in the pharmacy and giving out flu shots. He sees this eighty year old frail white woman in the line who calls him over to ask how long was the wait. He decides to escort to the front to have a seat and naturally someone in the line asks why she is going to the front of the line. Of course it is a black dude who asks. The sweet old lady turns to him and says "He's white and we take care of our own." This is one of the causes of the store being forced into sensitivity training. It was termed the worst kind of racism.

My question is why?  Why is it a problem if white help out whites when a whole cottage industry has sprung up for blacks to assist blacks and Hispanics to assist Hispanics and women to assist women. Are white people the only people who have to not help their own? I guess so. This type of political correctness is soaked into everything. De Blasio has passed a law that if you refuse to let a transgendered person use your ladies room you are subject to a $250,000 fine. If you talk about it and say you are against it or are say anything in any way that they find offensive you are subject to the same fines. Political correctness has triumphed. At least in New York City. In television. In print. On blogs. You can't even watch a stupid sitcom without getting hit over the head with this stuff.

Enough is enough.

Call the Midwife....a pretty good show

In our continuing quest to find shows that are not CSI gore fests we started watching "Call the Midwife" on Netflicks. Several people have recommended it and so far it is been pretty good. Cool production values, good acting and excellent stories make it very worthwhile.

There is only one drawback. They seem to feature tunes from the 1950's and 1960's and I was singing along to all of them because I knew the words. The wife looked at me askance. I think she is realizing that I am fucking old. Just sayn'

You never know what is happening....At least I don't

When we watch television we search out cute little shows without a lot of gore and violence. Since we refuse to watch serial killer, CSI type shows our viewing options are limited. Don't get me wrong. I like some gore and violence fests like "Justified", "Sons of Anarchy" and "The Bridge" but your run of your mill torture porn shows like "The Black List" and "Criminal Minds" leave us cold. I mean they are not well done and the plots are really predictable.

We search out some odd little shows on Net Flicks and Amazon Prime which is the future of television. You can catch new shows from all over the world as well as old favorites like "Adam-12" and "Dragnet." So if you want to watch a show without violence and gore right before you go to sleep you have a lot to choose from on these platforms.

Lately we have been watching this odd little show called "Life Unexpected" about a kid who was put up for  adoption by a high school mom but shows up 16 years later and the family is reunited. It is surprising because of some of the themes. In it the girl has an affair with her teacher which seems a little out there for a family type show. This show was broadcast on the CW which has a bunch of other family friendly shows like "Hart of Dixie."

The CW is a joint venture of CBS and Time Warner that united two failed attempts at starting a network in the WB and UPN.  These had a bunch of "family friendly" shows of which the granddaddy and most popular was "Seventh Heaven."

"Seventh Heaven" was a show about a minister and his large brood of children who got in hi jinks and trouble that  were solved by love and Christian Values. It was notable for the actors who included Jessica Biel who went on to movie stardom. It was anchored by reliable character actor Stephen Collins. Who is in a lot of trouble.

It seems he is going through a divorce and his wife had taped him "confessing" to some sexual abuse of minors from many years ago. Supposedly he exposed himself  to several young girls and another woman has come forward to claim he touched her inappropriately when she was a young teenager and he was around 23. Exactly the situation in  "Life Unexpected." Now this will come to a court proceeding where the facts will come out one way or another. But it seem eerie that the fictional activities of some characters happened in real life. Why would the people who write that show think it was ok to use that as a plot line. I mean I am sure they will be after Collins along with all of the usual suspects. Remember that this tape comes from an estranged wife who is looking for a payday. But it is still a stark reminder of reality.

I just don't know anymore.

Lilyhammer is a pretty funny show.

I am enjoying it on Net Flicks. It is one of these neat little series that Net Flicks is producing like "Orange is the New Black" and "House of Cards." Net Flicks originals that are worth the subscription price alone without any of the other stuff you get access to for the same price.

Downton Abbey Starts Up Tonight

We have a lot of good TV tonight. Downton Abbey starts up tonight on PBS. We had not been fans until last year when we caught up with it on Net Flicks. So now we are going to stay current by taping the show when it airs on PBS.

Of course it conflicts with "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" "The Good Wife" and "The Mentalist." So I have to manage the DVR properly.

I remember when there were only five channels. Live is strange sometimes.

Better than a sleeping pill!

We are always looking for tv shows to put on at the end of the night to help us go to sleep. So we were very happy to stumble on that old sitcom "Wings" with Tim Daley and Crystal Bernard. Man is it boring! It has a monotone that puts you right to sleep. Not a single laugh in any of the episodes we have seen so far.

Highly recommended if you want to catch 40 winks.

Also extra super bonus points if you can name whose that girl in the photo. She went on to star in a much more contemporary sitcom but with a totally different voice and look. In this episode of Wings these guys didn't want to date her. That was the whole premise of her more recent show.

Sons will push the envelope next season.

It looks like "Sons of Anarchy" will start off their season with an episode about a school shooting.
The gun is traced back to them and the shit hits the fan.

FX is just a great channel. One great show after another. "Sons" "Justified" "Louie" and now this new one called "The Bridge."  It beats the living shit out of regular TV.

It will start in September but plot spoilers are already leaking out.

You don't know Jack...about Jack

So last night I was torturing Lisa by making her watch old TV shows when we were lying down before we went to sleep. Now she rejected "The Riflemen" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."  We caught an episode of "Adam 12" which I will do a separate post about later. But then I really made her crazy!

A put on an episode of the ancient "Jack Benny Show" from when television first began! It was the one where they had on Bobby Darin who was a young Heartthrob at the time. He was supposed to play Jack in his new bio-pic. It was entertaining but there was one really funny thing about it. It was really gay! I mean Titus quality gay!

First there was a scene in a nightclub where we are introduced to Bobby Darin. Now in the background against the wall visible right over the head of Jack's manager was a statue. A greek statue. A naked greek statue. Whose balls and johnson looked like they were on top of the guys head! It was a Roman helmet from a Greek statue!

Then Jack meets Bobby. Now Jack doesn't want him to play him but Bobby kisses his ass so much that he turns around and agrees to him playing him in a movie. But he suggest that he come stay with him so he could "understand him." Then next scene they are in his house and Darin goes "So am I going to meet your wife?"  Jack goes "No she is going to be away for a week. It is just the two of us." Various high jinks ensue which involve not eating dinner and dry cleaning. All very gay. But the topper is when a sailor walks in. Yes that is right a sailor. With the whole sailor suit with the little hat and everything. That was when we shut it off.

It was just too gay!

Seriously who knew?

Another show I have to stop watching!

So sometimes it gets to the point where a show becomes so politically correct that I can't watch it anymore. Law and Order did that about five years ago. I couldn't take how every criminal was some white guy who was either a businessman or a clergyman or a Republican. So I stopped watching it and that is really hard because the various series are playing somewhere every minute of the day.

Now it is the turn of "Blue Bloods." This half ass cop show is shot in the city. In fact they seem to shoot every other day on Court St. It is kind of fun to see your favorite stores on a regular prime time show. But last weeks episode just was too much to take.

In the episode a loving Catholic father strangles his daughter because she wanted to date a Muslim and convert. Like there a lot of that happening. Where are the shows about the honor killings of girls by their Muslim parents? Where are the shows about Muslim kids harassing and attacking regular American kids that happens every day on Atlantic Avenue? They had to have a guy murder his daughter because she didn't want to be Catholic anymore? When the fuck did that ever happen? Ever?

Just another attack on the Catholic Church by the liberal Hollywood establishment.

I used to be a Tom Selleck fan but he lost me by being in this piece of shit series.

Never again.

If only I could live in North Fork instead of Brooklyn.......

I could just figure out a way that I could just shoot the people who annoy me. Lucas could always figure a way to get the problem to draw on him....and then he would blast him.

Life was a lot simpler then.

This was one of the best episodes ever on TV

I don't know if you guys are watching "Justified" but the episode called "Decoy" that was on last week was one of the best hours I have ever seen on episodic television. It had everything. It was like an Elmore Leonard novel come to life. Which is of course what "Justifiied" really is in real life.

You have to check out the performance of Patton Oswalt as Constable Bob. Man is he great or what.

Plus Kurt Hummel's Dad ranking out Eva and saying blowjob about fifty times. Pretty funny.

If you get a chance you should check it out. I don't know if you can follow everything but it is pretty cool. Highly recommended.

Rhoda has the Big C

It looks like Rhoda Morgenstern has the Big C. I always enjoyed her show and even bought her bio on Kindle which was on sale for 99 cents a few weeks ago!

She had a long and successful life but it is getting cut too short.

Best wishes and lets hope that the Doctors are wrong!

Frank Cannon got stuck behind the wheel of a Lincoln Contiental for your sins!

I am currently reading a history of Quinn Martin who was a producer of shows during the sixties like The Untouchables, Cannon, Barnaby Jones and 12 O"Clock High.

It is amazing what you can find on kindle.

But you have to be careful. Some of the scholarly works are very expensive. There was a study about Medieval Knights in movies and television that went for over thirty bucks! I almost got it by accident.

Catching up on stuff

We  are catching up on TV series we haven't seen since we were so busy. Time Warner Cable gave us free "Showtime" for six months so we are catching up on some of the series that we had not seen.

We weren't going to watch Dexter because we hate all these serial killer shows. I mean they show you stuff you don't want to know about. That's way we don't watch 'Criminal Minds" or "Profiler" or any of that crap.

The Borgias seems like something we might like but the wife doesn't like historical shows and she always makes me stop and explain what is going on. The sort of killed "Game of Thrones" for me so I will be giving the costume drama's a Pas-a-dena.

We did start watching this "Homeland" which got tons of awards. As I am sure you know it is about a Marine who is turned by the Muslim terrorists. And they he is elected to high office. Which seems like a stretch until you realize we have a President of the same ilk.

In any event we are watching it in sequence which is the way to do it. You can see two or three shows in a row and follow exactly what is going on. It is pretty interesting.

And it makes it easy when there is only repeats or Jets games on the TV.

I just can't take Clarie Danes. She is fucking annoying. The way she looks around like a crazy person is just pissing me off. If I wanted to watch a ditzy blond with a superiority complex yell at everyone and tell them that they didn't know anything and that she was the be-all and end-all......well I would go over to some blog or something. 

Sheeesh.

BBC made two great shows this year!

You have to check out this new show on BBC America called "Copper."

It is set in NYC right after the Draft Riots of 1864-65. A Irish detective named Kevin Corcoran is the star. He is a crooked cop as are all the cops of the time. But the squalid condition of the Five Points Area and New York City itself are full documented. It is a lot like the move "Gangs of New York" and is really high quality TV.

You get to see high class miscreants who abuse and murder children, corruption and whores.

You know what? It is just like today's newspaper.

Highly recommended.

Love American Style.....the red, white and blue balls

So the wife and I have started watching this new cable channel.....Me TV. No it is not about me....but it has all of the great programs from the fifties and the sixties. Gunsmoke. Bonanza. Perry Mason. Combat. 12 O'clock High. The Twilight Zone. The Honeymooners. The Untouchables.That Girl. The In Laws. Peter Gunn. The Rebel. Branded. The Rifleman. The Big Valley. Cannon and Barnaby Jones. The original Hawaii Five O. The Brady Bunch. Mission Impossible. The original Star Trek. Just about every old time series that I write about here.

Plus all these great commercials about cheap cell phones, little scooters and yogurt that makes you shit.

So I have been having a great time recording these shows and late at night we catch one or two of them. Some really hold up well. Peter Gunn is great. He is a private eye who gets in a jam every week but punches his way out of it. And every week he is at the jazz club where his really hot girlfriend Lola Allbright sings and trusts her pointy tits at him. It is really super cool.

And then there are artifacts that just don't cut it.

We saw an episode of "The In-Laws." Man did that suck. The premise is that these two couples are thrown together because their kids get married. The two stars are the prim and proper Waspy Eve Arden and the ethnic stereotype (vaguely Italian or Jewish) Kaye Ballard. In this episode a bank robber holds them hostage. And the bank robber is played by Larry Storch (Corporal Agarn from F Troop). It sucked monkey dick.

But what was really freaky was "Love American Style." First of all the first segment had Phyllis Diller on it. You know the one who just died like a couple of days ago, That weird-ed me out to begin with. The next segment was even worse.

This really freaky looking actor named Richard B Schull played a locksmith. He is fixing the lock on this apartment and he sees this hot chick going to her apartment. It was a pre-Mash Loretta Swit. You know Hot Lips. He intercepts her and fiddles with her lock. She tells him it is fine and tries to close the door in his face. But it springs open and it is his chance to mack on her. He keeps asking her creepy questions and gets her to put locks on more and more things. Her windows. Her phone. Her refrigerator. The drawer she keeps her panties in. Then he installs this electronic device that locks everything at the same time. She is warming up to her and offers him a glass of wine. When he says yes and she goes into the kitchen.....he locks every lock in the joint. Now if it was TV today he would rape and murder her and the guy from "Darma and Greg" would show up looking all worried and shit. But this was just creepy single rape fun.

You know. Love American Style.

Seventies Style.

We watched the whole show with our mouths open. ( and not just because our implants hurt).

I think if Amanda Marcotte and some the boring heads twats saw this show their vagina's would fall out.

Hey....that's not such a bad idea.

Hey this is a pretty funny show...

I had a chance to watch a little TV a couple of days ago and caught this new show on TBS. Or TNT. One of them. Anyway it is called "Sullivan and Son" and it is kind of funny.

The premise is that there is this guy who has an Irish father who has a bar in Pittsburgh and his Mom is Korean. That is pretty funny to start with. Anyway the kid works in New York and he comes home for the bars 40th Anniversary and his father says he is going to sell it. So the son decides to quit his big job in New York and move home and buy the bar. The ethnic stereotypes are great. You have a bunch of knuckleheads hanging out at the bar who are all brother alcoholics. Brian Doyle-Murray plays a racist white guy who could be my doppleganger. Or maybe Sixty's. Or something.

Anyway I think it is pretty funny and it is On Demand so if you get a chance check it out.

More posts about TV shows you guys won't watch

And no it is not about my show. I hope youse guys make an exception for "Big Brooklyn Style" if only to laugh at how bad I come off in it. When I did my interviews this week I got one line and it was "Whores." Pronounced "Who-er's" but I don't even know if it is going to make it to air.

I would do better if I tried to appear on this new sitcom called "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23. It is a pretty funny show about this naive young girl who becomes roommates with this crazy scam artist bitch whose best friend is the dildo from Dawson Creek who is hilarious in this show. He plays himself and it is a great commentary on this third rate stars and how they live off the fame of some stupid TV show. Girls and guys are always coming up to him and hitting on him and singing that lesbian song. I'm telling you it pretty freakin' funny.

I have only seen two episodes and I might get tired of it but so far it has been pretty entertaining.

Just count it as another show youse guys can  tell me you don't watch.

(Like 2 Broke Girls which is also pretty damn funny with lots of dirty jokes, Stiffler's Mom with her tits hanging out and the best set of ta-ta's on TV on one of the two girls Kat or Pussy Galore or something like that there)

Winters coming!

In the spring.

Season Two of Game of thrones starts Sunday night. It covers book two and three of the series by George RR Martin. There will be several  new characters. Stannis Baratheon. The Red Witch, Melisandre.

And you old favorites. Tyrion. Jamie.Renly. Joffery. Cersi. Jon Snow. Samwell Tarly. All the the characters that made the first season so great.

Check it out from the beginning. It is great TV.

Hot steaming inside poop!!!!!!

Hey I was talking to a TV network type person and they told me they were going into Manhattan to fire someone. It seems a star of a show is so drunk and coked up that they are dropping the show and cutting them loose. But they wouldn't tell me who it was.

Now if I was a conventional wisdom kind of guy I would go with the tattoo guy because you would think that would be who it would be. But I don't think like that.

I bet it is those cupcake bitches. They seem way too wholesome for me. They are like that fuckin' Mitt Romney. I mean he tortures dogs and wears that funny underwear. But he pretends to be so straight. Give me a guy who made a few mistakes in his life and came back from them. Someone who's been there and done that shit and ain't impressed.

 But it was an interesting bit of hot steaming inside TV poop!!!!