CREEMEDIA
“Sickness is the newest trend on prime time television,” goes the TV Guide commercial, and this time they’re even more on target than the time they predicted handy, rechargeable wristwatch televisions by 1964 at the latest. In a new season where the biggest event is a tossup between Charlie hiring a new Angel with nerf breasts and Meadowlark Lemon slow-breaking into the cast of the biggest airball in TV history, Hello Larry, there’s definitely nothing happening on the ween-screen that you’d want to tattoo on the underside of your penis as a memory aid.
CREEMEDIA
DEPARTMENTS
TV'79s It Only Hurts When You Look
by
Rick Johnson
“Sickness is the newest trend on prime time television,” goes the TV Guide commercial, and this time they’re even more on target than the time they predicted handy, rechargeable wristwatch televisions by 1964 at the latest. In a new season where the biggest event is a tossup between Charlie hiring a new Angel with nerf breasts and Meadowlark Lemon slow-breaking into the cast of the biggest airball in TV history, Hello Larry, there’s definitely nothing happening on the ween-screen that you’d want to tattoo on the underside of your penis as a memory aid. Yes, this sickness is just like love: too many stiffs and not enough punch lines.
“Modern viewers,” one top network laff-fascist explained, “just don’t want reality to intrude on their reality either. ” But watching Jimmy McNichol trying to differentiate between himself and a sneezing piglet is not my idea of escaping reality. Now, shoving that oinky little nose of his into some rollercoaster gears—why, that’s entertainment!