If for no other reason than those shows only make us look like sappy bastards with bad writers, rather than a bunch of mindless troglodytes with a penchant for violence and a nasty habit of being entertained by ignorance. Turn off your televisions and read a book. Books are just as full of ignorance, violence, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It's just that it requires some imagination and the firing up of all that gray matter. I can laugh at monkeys.
Monkeys are funny.