Television

Sitcoms - the 'com' is supposed to stand for 'comedy'. Attention Writers and Producers and Network People: Just because you run a laugh track after every line does not make every damn line funny. Mostly they're not.

Why does it take 11 producers, 7 executive producers, 6 "produced by's" 2 Super-Producers, and 16 production assistants, 5 writers, and a partridge in a pear tree to make one lousy sitcom? Go watch some reruns of McHale's Navy. One writer, one producer, one director. One episode is funnier that a whole season of whatever crap is on the tube right now.

Back in my day, a half-hour sitcom had 27 minutes of show and 3 minutes of commercials. Now there's 13 minutes of show and 17 minutes of commercial. Guess what, Network People? I've got a clicker and don't watch your damn commercials anyway. And usually, I don't come back to whatever show it was, because it was crappy anyway.

Good thing I don't watch your damn commercials. I'd need ear plugs. Why do they need to be 50% louder than the show they're in. I guess so I'd know to change the channel just by the change in volume.

More TV News - Why do you spend more time promising to show news that you do actual news. Instead of saying "Coming up...What local restaurant had an outbreak of e-coli?", just damn tell us. As soon as I hear "coming up" I switch off the news and hit the internet to find out what happened, without having to wait thru 10 minutes of commercials and 20 minutes of happy talk from perky damn newspeoples. Then I write an email to the alleged news department suggesting they actually try to cover the news for a change of pace.