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ROLLING STONE Overhauls TV: Episode Three, Leave It to Beaver

2/28/07, 5:51 pm EST

Why the hell are we still putting up with bland network programming censored by standards that haven’t been upgraded in 50 years? The Sopranos, Entourage, Nip/Tuck, The L Word…the best shows on TV all have the freedom to do basically whatever the hell they want. Just imagine how much more entertaining Full House would have been if Bob Saget had been allowed to use his stand-up material instead of the sappy scripts they shoveled on an unforgiving laugh track. We’ve all got cable and DVRs to record shows whenever they happen to air, so please, producers, take your best products off the big networks to media more forgiving of the occasional F-bomb or full frontal nudity. Consider just a few of the unregulated possibilities…

  • CSI: Juarez: Forget the glitz and glamour of Sin City — this show follows the real cops south of the border as they investigate murdered tourists, get paid ten times their salary to look the other way for drug kingpins and occasionally report to work to find a colleague’s severed head on a pole. With no rules and characters that mysteriously “disappear” in the middle of an episode, it’ll make you thank your lucky stars you have that cushy rent-a-cop gig at the food court.
  • The World Series of Strip Poker: You just know they’d go bare-assed before they’d lose the shades. The producers would need to even out the gender discrepancy a little bit, of course…And for the love of God, Moneymaker, stop bluffing!
  • Competitive Eating with the Stars: It’s a game show that’s one part celebrity worship, two parts aggravated gluttony. Can you choke down more hot dogs in 60 seconds than Kirstie Alley? We doubt it! Make sure to save some room to go Manwich-a-Manwich with Stephen Colbert (remember, it’s the skinny ones that can really pack it away). Make it to the finals and go head-to-head with the Great Regurgitator, played by Calista Flockhart.

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Lip | 2/28/2007, 6:08 pm EST

The only good show on television now is Forensic Files

Graham | 2/28/2007, 7:51 pm EST

It’s a shame that Ari Motherfuckin’ Gold can’t be broadcast into every household in the nation. Why is it that US censorship standards are so strict? Shit, I’m in New Zealand right now and they say “fuck” on primetime TV every night. The also drop the C-bomb from time to time, and last time I checked the country hasn’t imploded from moral decay.

jazzmyn | 2/28/2007, 7:58 pm EST

this sort of TV is changing the world as we know it…
not like the world was’nt filled with midless self-indulging fat blobs BEFORE reality tv.

meglovesrs | 2/28/2007, 8:34 pm EST

TV is nothing but reality TV. That’s why the few shows like Criminal Minds, America’s Next Top Model, and Grey’s Anatomy are the sole escapes from the prison of staged crapfests.

ula | 2/28/2007, 9:12 pm EST

i DONT have cable

shemp | 3/1/2007, 3:16 am EST

yes. let’s turn television into a total whore house.

sheep | 3/1/2007, 6:52 am EST

honesty, those shows id stay away from. id rather stare at a blank wall than watch 5 hours of tv. the only shows i do watch are pysch, monk, and criminal minds.

MarkArrow | 3/1/2007, 9:20 am EST

When you move out of your Mom’s basement you will start to understand that there is a large population in America that doesn’t have your incredible insight or intelligence. In order to keep these people, (and eventually you), shopping at Wal Mart and using the right deodorant, the networks need/have to serve up vacuous, mindless and soporific programming.
If everybody had your insight, who would you feel superior too? How would you obtain you self worth without being able to laugh at those who haven’t been gifted with such a large brain?
God forded that society should begin to grasp the inherent moral obligation to those under 21. Why not just show 24 hours of nothing but breasts on CBS? That way I could see both Katie and Couric! All day and all night Hooters on NBC? Prime time coochie and murder on ABC?
Didn’t cable actually prove how few people are actually gifted enough to create watchable TV?
HBO, Showtime and many other channels have just as much mindless baloney as anyone else. Pointing to the few successes they do have just drives the following point home: No matter what your mommy told you, not all your drawings, writings, play-doh creations or farts are a work of genius. Creativity is limited, very limited. Success isn’t. For pete’s sake, look how many really dumb rich people there are!
Here is today’s punch line: You’re fired! HA HA HA HA!

Oddjob | 3/1/2007, 9:23 am EST

Gray’s Anatomy is idiotic and totally sucks, and I seem to be the only one who realizes it. The same thing happened when Will & Grace was so popular- I felt like I was taking crazy pills.

By the way, this whole “how to make TV better” premise seems like a throwaway from MAD Magazine, but not as funny

Jacob | 3/1/2007, 12:30 pm EST

Yeah, what we need is more shows like Deadwood. Who needs a plot? Let’s just say the F word as much as humanly possible for an hour. People will eat it up(apparently, they do. this show is hugely popular. I found it repulsive).

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Beavis and Butthead | 9/15/2007, 6:02 am EST

heh-heh-heh, BEAVER.

yeah,yeah. heh-heh-heh-heh, BEAVER.

Leslie Griffith | 11/12/2008, 9:08 pm EST

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