I want to talk about my dads Television Snobbery and his taste which I find hilarious. My Dad is really hard to impress when it comes to sitcoms. I want to start with how much my dad hates friends and tries to compare it to Seinfeld. A friend is a fun show it may not be brilliant or comedic genius. It’s comforting and has its moments where it’s funny. It’s not a hard show to like. It’s a show you do not need to take serious. You just sit back relax and have fun watching friends. It does not need your full attention because it’s broad. Friends may have borrowed storylines from other shows. But it’s not the same type of show as Seinfeld sure it’s a group of 30 something friends in New York with flaws. However a friend is more about the fun and the laughs. Seinfeld was more about its creativity and edge. A friend is more comforting and easy to watch. Seinfeld and friends are completely different shows. Seinfeld also avoided the heartfelt moments. Friends did not. Seinfeld is also about horrible people.
My dad’s new found snobbery is toward NBC's current Thursday night line up. In Which I have pointed out many times that NBC Thursdays are the best shows on TV right now. Well except for community. Which I think is the poor mans arrested development but we will get to that later. (Side note thank god outsourced got cancelled.)
My Dads haltered for NBC Thursday night line up started with the US office. He liked it at first when he watches episodes from the first season. I would sit there in the room while he was laughing loudly during the show. But than after not watching the second season and episodes mixed together. He started to hate the show mostly because he did not find Michael Scott believable. My dad thinks that nobody that stupid could keep a job for that long. Michael Scott is not stupid or a bad boss. He just a guy who desperately wants to be liked where he tries way too hard to the point where he makes people feel uncomfortable. He also thinks he is a comedic genius and he is not and he tries way too hard to prove that he is funny. My Dad also hates that Michael has a good heart. He thinks it’s more believable if he were just a jerk like David Brent.
My dad watched the UK office after the US office like me. I agree the UK version is better. But I still love the US version as well. I think both Versions of the office are believable. I think people can have a boss like David Brent for years and be miserable working for him. If I had to work with Either Michael Scott or David Brent...I would pick Michael Scott. I can tolerate him more. David Brent I would come home miserable and want to down a bottle of wine of whatever I have in the house to drink. Although I do think my dad secretly likes the US office because I always catch him laughing really loud during the show.
Another show my Dad is a snob about is 30 rock. His reason for not wanting to watch is because of that phone call that where Alec Baldwin yelled at his daughter. My dad will also not watch 30 rocks because Alec Baldwin got a divorce Kim Basigner. My Dads Direct Quote “Anyone to leave somebody that beautiful is an idiot. Also my dad hated SNL since bill Murray left. It’s also the same thing as the office. I watched weekend update one time with Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey on it. He was laughing at Tina Fey’s jokes, but he will act un-impressed. But I know my dad too well to know that he is not impressed with anyone to come from SNl up from the late 80’s to 2000’s. Do not get me wrong SNl goes through its up and down stages but there is always someone good on that show.
My dad strangely enough loves flight of the conchords. I like them too but the style of show they did was done before in UK. It was a show called the mighty boosh which is also a band. It was flight of the conchords influence for he show. Now the mighty boosh is on adult swim. I like flight of the conchords but they only had one good season. The second season even though it did have some good moment’s it was not as good as the first. I have not watched the mighty boosh so I can not judge there show. But the same style and idea of the show was what flight of the conchords used as there idea of what they wanted their show to be like. Music wise I do not think they steal from the mighty boosh there music is all theres. I do like that show but I disagree with my dad the second season was not well done. It fell flat and got a bit lazy.
My dad’s haltered for Will Ferrell I know I will not argue with him SNL. But Will Ferrell is a different story. How can you watch anchorman and not find Ron Burgundy Genius. He is just a horrible person. And will Ferrell was that character during that movie. How can you love David Brent or Enjoy Ari Gold on Entourage and hate Ron Burgundy. How can you love the humor of south parks so much and hate will Ferrell, It’s the same Humor. Oh yeah how come you love super troopers but you hate will Ferrell same type of humor.
Also My last thing I want to give my dad a hard time about is not finding apatow funny. He does not like Knocked Up, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The ironly is he has seen episodes of freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and he like Undeclared more. Even though, it’s the same type of humor. He also did not remember that Jason Segel was on freaks and geeks. But he claims he liked Undeclared more than Freaks and Geeks. I know he’d enjoy Freaks and Geeks more.
Although dad I am not saying you have bad taste in shows. You can be a bit of a snob we all get it from because we all can be snobs about shows even I. I will give you some props because you do like Seinfeld, Arrested Development and Edger Wright Films. Like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and, Scott Pilgrim. But next time you judge a show you might want to watch a first season. And also know this that sometimes shows can have a really good season but after its second season its not as good. And some shows like the office and Parks and recreation can get better in there later season. It’s rare that a show is good. It’s also best to put full attention into the shows that you are watching as well. Dad also your being a snob about TV is one of the annoying things I love about you. So I do not mean this to bash you. It am just poking fun about how ridiculous you sound at times
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Movies my mom banned me from watching as a kid.
http://emprisereview.com/2011/lists/the-ban-list/
So I do not talk much about my personal life on my blog. Mostly it has to do with the fact that my life has been uneventful lately. I usually like to talk more about the people in my life and hear what they have to say. This is ironic because i am a chatter box. Who is at times is hard to shut up. A lot of times it’s me being a nerd about comedians or TV shows like. Anyways My Brother Josh who is a really good writer. Wrote a story about a habit that our Mom's. Every mom has movies they ban from their kids. This is understandable because there are movie’s that are not good for a child to watch. Like Mom's who take there kids who are 5 to Harry Potter 7 6 or 5. The later books are dark. Of course your kids are scared. The movie is supposed to be violent. That also means when I go to see part 2 this summer I want to go to an Imax so no crying babies ruin this for me. For the record, I think the right age to read Harry potter is age 6, 7 and 8. The early books 1 and 2 maybe 3. Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 are dark and I would suggest being teenagers to read those books.
. Oh god I am getting off topic. Actually I am not because that was on of the movie and books I was banned from. I was the appropriate age to read Harry Potter as well when it came out too. The ban list my mom had for me was different for me than my brothers. Harry potter was on that list. Because if you press the link to my brothers story. Which I do suggest you read it’s really funny. You will see one of the movie’s on the list was Escape to Witch Mountain. Witch Is the key word in why these were banned. Although the irony was that our Mom read the Narina books to my brother as kids because they were christen themed. Even though those books had witch craft in them. But I guess its OK because the witches and wizards were bad guys. They tried to read them to me but I never got through lion witch and the wardrobe. I still can’t get through them even though everyone tells me they are great. Somehow I just can’t enjoy those books. I am getting off topic again. The best way to describe my mom is she is really into her christen faith and she gets easily offended by the most ridiculous things. Although she is not as bad as the roommates we currently have from her church who told there grandson that The Wizards of Waverly place was evil. Even though it’s the least offensive show about witches I have ever watched. It’s like Sabrina the Teenage Witch or Bewitched but its for kids. This is not about how ridiculous my roommates are this is about my mom. Any ways I am going to make my list before I keep babbling on more.
(Oh one side note I would like to add. Because I have 3 older siblings, that were all boys. I would somehow end up watching teen movies that were not appropriate for me. Sometimes my mom would disapprove. And sometimes she would not even notice. For example Clueless, I remember watching Clueless at a young age. Not understanding most of it but liking it. Oh and my family would watch Seinfeld together. I still watched it when I was way too young. Also watching clueless at a young age was great for me because I was exposed to Paul Rudd at a young age even though I did not care for him much at that time I still appreciated it. Also watching Seinfeld at a young age is the reason of why I think I am such a nerd about comedy. Also having 3 brothers and one who picked on me a lot could also be the reason why I am such a nerd about comedy. )
1) PokEmon
A Japanese anemie that really popular in my school. That all the cool kids and i liked. My mom was OK with it. Until an episode where a creator had physic powers came up. She turned off the TV and told me i was not allowed to watch the show. I would sneak over to a friends house in my neighbor hood to watch it but my told her mom i was not allowed to watch it so i had to go home that day. Also the pokEmon Trading cards. I got really into. My mom would not let me play with them.
2) Harry Potter
I can understand why a lot of christen parents were mad about it. It was a big controversial subject with christens when it came out. My teacher in 3rd grade wanted to read it to my class but, my mom and a mom were mad. Called up my school and tried to get my teacher to stop reading it. She also to me to go to the bathroom every time it was read to the class. My teacher had to stop reading because of the complaints from parents. But she had an assignment for us to use our imaginations and write our own ending to the story. My teacher also encouraged us to read the rest of the book and makeup our own minds about it. Although i will admit at that time was Jesus freak kid, who obedient and listened to my mom. So i did not read it or see the movies. In high school my brother Jordan made me watch the third movie. I ended up enjoying it. I wanted to read the books. And we had to do a lot of convincing to get to let me read the books it did not work. My brother josh just bought me book 1 2 and 3 for Christmas. I read them all and loved them. If christens weren't so uptight and did not judge the book. They would realize that Harry Potter has great moral lessons in it. Moral lessons, Such as: bravery Tolerance, Loyalty, How to be a good friend. It has great moral lessons in it.
3) That's So Raven
Because she was physic and could see the future. Yes that show is unfunny and poorly written and acted. But I was a teen popper at the time who's favorite show was Lizzie McGuire so I did not care about things like that. I though people falling on their face fifty times in a row was the funniest things. Although I still was the weird kid who also liked to watch reruns of Seinfeld. This is a really weird combination. But I was 13 at the time, so watching stupid shows on the Disney channel was forgivable. This show was not offensive she did not have any other powers. She would have visions of the future make a goofy face. Than return to present time where she would tell her friends about the vision she had. The only people who knew about her powers beside her family. If the vision was bad she would come always come up with a plan to prevent it. Or if it was something good she would get high expectations about the vision and it would not work out that way. The worst part of the show is. The vision would always happen and the situation would always go wrong. She also never learned that you can’t meddle and change the future. Your vision is always going to come true. That was the formula to every episode. It was also god could raven be that stupid. Really Writers really show some respect for the characters you write. Also a thing I always tend to hate on Disney Channel Shows. Is that they portray the parents as being stupid. Do not get me wrong I can give my mom a hard time, but its out of love. We also have disagreements. But I still show respect. Because I am only 21 and while I am smart about something. I am also still young and have a lot to learn in life.
If parents want to ban their kids from watching the Disney channel do it because it teaches kids to be little brats. It shows a negative light on parents by making them look stupid. Not because it has someone with magic powers. Oh and speaking of That’s so Raven. Her Parents were the dumbest Television parents that I have ever seen. It made me want to cringe. That’s so Raven is also a terrible title for a show. But I am really ripping this show now. At that time I did like because I was teen popper and I liked mostly everything on the Disney channel especially Lizzie McGuire. My point is, even though it was a terribly written and acted show. It pagan values. It also had cheesy sugar coated life lessons in it.
4)Sabrina the Teenage witch and Bewitch (irony she let me watch morning reruns of i dream of Jeanie before school.)
Like my other posts. before i could not watch Sabrina because it was about a witch. Although unlike things on the Disney Chanel. When Sabrina was up to something stupid. Her aunts would sense it and not be stupid about it and tell her Sabrina no. Like how witches could not eat pancakes because they become addicted to it. Sabrina ate a pancake and became addicted to it. She did not listen to her aunts and something bad happened. Maybe because Sabrina lived with two of her aunts. Shows like Sabrina never had any evil storylines they were always really ridiculous. Like the pancakes one i talked about in this paragraph. It was never offensive.
5) The Black Cauldron
I do not know why she would not let me watch this movie my guess is it had to do with witchcraft. Like the pattern in the list of shows and movies i was not allowed to watch.
6) Anything involving Aliens i was not allowed to watch.
(i got away with a lot more because my brothers were good at being sneaky about movies by then. Also growing up they were teenagers. So they watched a lot of teen movies when i happened to be there. Sometime i would be told to go up stairs. But sometime i would just hang with them and watch the movie. )
7) I still have not seen the Titanic because Kate wins let was naked in the movie.
8) If you have read my brothers story we were not allowed to ET, the Goonies, The Dark Crystal, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Well one of my friends who lived down the street from me would watch that movie all the time. I was also not aware that my brothers weren't allowed to watch it. because i was probably a baby when it was out. But i would watch it all the time at my friends house. Also everything on Joshes list i have not seen except for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
There are more things that i was not allowed to watch. But its more interesting the things that i could watch growing up. Being the youngest out of a bunch of boys its crazy the things you can get aways with watching.
So I do not talk much about my personal life on my blog. Mostly it has to do with the fact that my life has been uneventful lately. I usually like to talk more about the people in my life and hear what they have to say. This is ironic because i am a chatter box. Who is at times is hard to shut up. A lot of times it’s me being a nerd about comedians or TV shows like. Anyways My Brother Josh who is a really good writer. Wrote a story about a habit that our Mom's. Every mom has movies they ban from their kids. This is understandable because there are movie’s that are not good for a child to watch. Like Mom's who take there kids who are 5 to Harry Potter 7 6 or 5. The later books are dark. Of course your kids are scared. The movie is supposed to be violent. That also means when I go to see part 2 this summer I want to go to an Imax so no crying babies ruin this for me. For the record, I think the right age to read Harry potter is age 6, 7 and 8. The early books 1 and 2 maybe 3. Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 are dark and I would suggest being teenagers to read those books.
. Oh god I am getting off topic. Actually I am not because that was on of the movie and books I was banned from. I was the appropriate age to read Harry Potter as well when it came out too. The ban list my mom had for me was different for me than my brothers. Harry potter was on that list. Because if you press the link to my brothers story. Which I do suggest you read it’s really funny. You will see one of the movie’s on the list was Escape to Witch Mountain. Witch Is the key word in why these were banned. Although the irony was that our Mom read the Narina books to my brother as kids because they were christen themed. Even though those books had witch craft in them. But I guess its OK because the witches and wizards were bad guys. They tried to read them to me but I never got through lion witch and the wardrobe. I still can’t get through them even though everyone tells me they are great. Somehow I just can’t enjoy those books. I am getting off topic again. The best way to describe my mom is she is really into her christen faith and she gets easily offended by the most ridiculous things. Although she is not as bad as the roommates we currently have from her church who told there grandson that The Wizards of Waverly place was evil. Even though it’s the least offensive show about witches I have ever watched. It’s like Sabrina the Teenage Witch or Bewitched but its for kids. This is not about how ridiculous my roommates are this is about my mom. Any ways I am going to make my list before I keep babbling on more.
(Oh one side note I would like to add. Because I have 3 older siblings, that were all boys. I would somehow end up watching teen movies that were not appropriate for me. Sometimes my mom would disapprove. And sometimes she would not even notice. For example Clueless, I remember watching Clueless at a young age. Not understanding most of it but liking it. Oh and my family would watch Seinfeld together. I still watched it when I was way too young. Also watching clueless at a young age was great for me because I was exposed to Paul Rudd at a young age even though I did not care for him much at that time I still appreciated it. Also watching Seinfeld at a young age is the reason of why I think I am such a nerd about comedy. Also having 3 brothers and one who picked on me a lot could also be the reason why I am such a nerd about comedy. )
1) PokEmon
A Japanese anemie that really popular in my school. That all the cool kids and i liked. My mom was OK with it. Until an episode where a creator had physic powers came up. She turned off the TV and told me i was not allowed to watch the show. I would sneak over to a friends house in my neighbor hood to watch it but my told her mom i was not allowed to watch it so i had to go home that day. Also the pokEmon Trading cards. I got really into. My mom would not let me play with them.
2) Harry Potter
I can understand why a lot of christen parents were mad about it. It was a big controversial subject with christens when it came out. My teacher in 3rd grade wanted to read it to my class but, my mom and a mom were mad. Called up my school and tried to get my teacher to stop reading it. She also to me to go to the bathroom every time it was read to the class. My teacher had to stop reading because of the complaints from parents. But she had an assignment for us to use our imaginations and write our own ending to the story. My teacher also encouraged us to read the rest of the book and makeup our own minds about it. Although i will admit at that time was Jesus freak kid, who obedient and listened to my mom. So i did not read it or see the movies. In high school my brother Jordan made me watch the third movie. I ended up enjoying it. I wanted to read the books. And we had to do a lot of convincing to get to let me read the books it did not work. My brother josh just bought me book 1 2 and 3 for Christmas. I read them all and loved them. If christens weren't so uptight and did not judge the book. They would realize that Harry Potter has great moral lessons in it. Moral lessons, Such as: bravery Tolerance, Loyalty, How to be a good friend. It has great moral lessons in it.
3) That's So Raven
Because she was physic and could see the future. Yes that show is unfunny and poorly written and acted. But I was a teen popper at the time who's favorite show was Lizzie McGuire so I did not care about things like that. I though people falling on their face fifty times in a row was the funniest things. Although I still was the weird kid who also liked to watch reruns of Seinfeld. This is a really weird combination. But I was 13 at the time, so watching stupid shows on the Disney channel was forgivable. This show was not offensive she did not have any other powers. She would have visions of the future make a goofy face. Than return to present time where she would tell her friends about the vision she had. The only people who knew about her powers beside her family. If the vision was bad she would come always come up with a plan to prevent it. Or if it was something good she would get high expectations about the vision and it would not work out that way. The worst part of the show is. The vision would always happen and the situation would always go wrong. She also never learned that you can’t meddle and change the future. Your vision is always going to come true. That was the formula to every episode. It was also god could raven be that stupid. Really Writers really show some respect for the characters you write. Also a thing I always tend to hate on Disney Channel Shows. Is that they portray the parents as being stupid. Do not get me wrong I can give my mom a hard time, but its out of love. We also have disagreements. But I still show respect. Because I am only 21 and while I am smart about something. I am also still young and have a lot to learn in life.
If parents want to ban their kids from watching the Disney channel do it because it teaches kids to be little brats. It shows a negative light on parents by making them look stupid. Not because it has someone with magic powers. Oh and speaking of That’s so Raven. Her Parents were the dumbest Television parents that I have ever seen. It made me want to cringe. That’s so Raven is also a terrible title for a show. But I am really ripping this show now. At that time I did like because I was teen popper and I liked mostly everything on the Disney channel especially Lizzie McGuire. My point is, even though it was a terribly written and acted show. It pagan values. It also had cheesy sugar coated life lessons in it.
4)Sabrina the Teenage witch and Bewitch (irony she let me watch morning reruns of i dream of Jeanie before school.)
Like my other posts. before i could not watch Sabrina because it was about a witch. Although unlike things on the Disney Chanel. When Sabrina was up to something stupid. Her aunts would sense it and not be stupid about it and tell her Sabrina no. Like how witches could not eat pancakes because they become addicted to it. Sabrina ate a pancake and became addicted to it. She did not listen to her aunts and something bad happened. Maybe because Sabrina lived with two of her aunts. Shows like Sabrina never had any evil storylines they were always really ridiculous. Like the pancakes one i talked about in this paragraph. It was never offensive.
5) The Black Cauldron
I do not know why she would not let me watch this movie my guess is it had to do with witchcraft. Like the pattern in the list of shows and movies i was not allowed to watch.
6) Anything involving Aliens i was not allowed to watch.
(i got away with a lot more because my brothers were good at being sneaky about movies by then. Also growing up they were teenagers. So they watched a lot of teen movies when i happened to be there. Sometime i would be told to go up stairs. But sometime i would just hang with them and watch the movie. )
7) I still have not seen the Titanic because Kate wins let was naked in the movie.
8) If you have read my brothers story we were not allowed to ET, the Goonies, The Dark Crystal, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Well one of my friends who lived down the street from me would watch that movie all the time. I was also not aware that my brothers weren't allowed to watch it. because i was probably a baby when it was out. But i would watch it all the time at my friends house. Also everything on Joshes list i have not seen except for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
There are more things that i was not allowed to watch. But its more interesting the things that i could watch growing up. Being the youngest out of a bunch of boys its crazy the things you can get aways with watching.
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