From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: Married With Children...  New life?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 13:44:43 GMT

areid@mary.fordham.edu (Darin Reid) writes:

>dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes...
 >>I have found it absolutely and totally HORRIBLE!
 >>For one thing the kid can't even act at ALL, and everything
 >>they have done with him has been 100% totally UNFUNNY.  

 >Most ( i say most ) kids on TV "act" terrible!  No pun intended :)

Then they can be nothing but BAD.  This one is EXCRUCIATINGLY bad!

 >>HOW could anything related to that kid be "bright"?  Everything about him 
 >>is a "dark" and unwelcome detraction from *real* MWC content that would
 >>normally be FUNNY.

 >Say MWC is a funny, 

DAMN funny!  :->

 >but lets face it, dark show!  

It is not THAT "dark", but I can understand your point.

 >Their humor is based on everything bad and disgusting in the world.

Let's face it, the world *IS* "bad and disgusting" !!  <heh>

Actually, to ME there is NOTHING more disgusting than the endless 
number of "wholesome family" shows that pollute the network schedules.

 >>Hmmm...  Could you be referring to the usual JOKES??
 >>That is what the show is all about!  Witty jabs and the like.

 >Witty Jabs are fun for five years, after six I expect some character 
 >development!  

Compare the last few seasons to the FIRST.  If you can't see a VAST
amount of "character development", then I don't know what to tell you.

 >These guys have become cardboard cutouts of the old Bundies.

The "old Bundys" (first season) where NOT the Bundys!  As with most shows, 
it took a while for them to "find" the true characters.  Once they did, it 
was fantastic!!

 >>Ugh!!   Are you sure you "get" this show?  :->
 >>Almost all of that was totally repulsive and completely WRONG.

 >I get the show, I just think it's grown old.  

Well, then perhaps it is time to move on.  Right now they are RUINING
the program for all the rest of us *real* FANS who love the show!

 >Like I said before, five years of put downs is tiresome.

But SIX years of Married With Children is FANTASTIC.  
Definitely some of the funniest stuff ever on television!

 >Now it is time for them to grow.  

"grow"??   Now is the time for them to be FUNNY, as usual.   This new awful 
kid is NOT funny even in the slightest!  Therefore it CANNOT be at all good.

 >Can you imagine a Network basing a show on a high school and staying 
 >there for seven years!!!  No!  Sooner or later they'd grow, graduate 
 >and become adults.  

Good for them, but we are NOT talking about BH 90210 here.

 >Its time for the Bundys to grow.  

What do you mean "grow"??   Why should it be "time" for them to 
do *anything* other than being the funniest show on television?!
"growth" does not sound particularly FUNNY to me!

 >They can still (of course)dish out the insults,remarks, gestures, and 
 >general stupid activities, but in the end they've gotta do something 
 >different than has bee done before.  If not then cancel the show.

NO, if YOU are "bored" then just stop watching!  DON'T ask for the show to 
be turned into some "normal" disgusting family type crap with a new kid.

 >Watch shows from last season and this and tell me they're as good! 

As good as what?  There were some FANTASTIC shows last season!
I was still laughing all the time, which is EXACTLY how it should be.
Episodes like "KELLY DOES HOLLYWOOD" were absolute PERFECTION!

 >Say it seems like they're parodying themselves.  

Hmmm... "parody" on MWC.  No, say it ain't so!  :->

 >How many "bud is sex deprived", "
He IS.

 >Al is a shoe salesman", 
That's what he IS!

 >"Peg is lazy",
And she isn't?!

 >"Kelly is stupid" jokes can a show make seasons out of?

As many as they want, as long as they are FUNNY!  (and they ALWAYS are!!)

 >I _don't_ think the Bundys should ever be like that, but seven 
 >gives them a chance to "rally round the flag" every once in a while.

Ugh... aka it gives them a chance to be "boring and unfunny", which is 
hardly something that should be on the show even "once in a while" !!
That plus the fact this kid is TERRIBLE and incapable of delivering
a line without making your skin crawl is hardly a reason to celebrate.

-{ Dean Adams }-

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