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March 19, 2007
Dumber than I was this morning
I think I've found the worst show on TV. I'm flipping through channels, and I see that the Bond movie "Die Another Day" is on. I think, great, I love a good Bond movie. Next thing I know, instead of reveling in Pierce Brosnan's smarminess, I'm presented with Howard Stern's girlfriend and some guy from the Sopranos playing blackjack with a couple of girls from "The Hills Have Eyes II."
That's right, it's "Casino Cinema" night on Spike TV, which consists of 30-45 second snippets of the foursome playing blackjack, with the Soprano guy asking lewd questions like "so do you get naked in this movie?" or "Would you be a Bond girl, even though you'd have to show some skin?"
I thought watching poker on TV was dumb, but not as dumb as watching blackjack. And it is even worse when nobody has any idea what is going on in the blackjack game. I don't know about you, but I don't want to watch girls play blackjack. I want to see Bond kick ass.
This brings me to another complaint, about Spike TV generally. Spike TV is supposed to be a TV channel just for men, but if this channel represents the male gender, I am ashamed. Apparently, as men, all I am supposed to be interested in is wrestling, Star Trek, video games, wild police chases, and maybe girls jumping on trampolines. This is not to say I don't like those things, but I like other stuff. How come Spike TV doesn't have, say, Meet The Press? Okay, I'm not really that serious, but you know what I mean. I think the above list would be a good representation of the hobbies of a 16-year-old boy, not an actual adult.
But I also suppose that the women's TV channels don't adequately represent women, either. I'm not a woman, so I don't know for sure, but there has to be more to womanhood than home makeovers, The Golden Girls, and a woman's crusade to get back her kidnapped baby. Or maybe that is all there is to it. Clearly I know nothing about women anyway, so what's one more thing not to know?
entry no. 783
Posted by oz115 at March 19, 2007 09:27 PM