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Complaints About TV Entertainment

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Update by Josh "Livestock" Boruff

Complaints About TV Entertainment, submitted by Reverend Witten. If you want to see another professional TV viewer at work, be sure to give this site a whirl. It shines the spotlight on some of the worst goofs in TV history, such as this starting revelation about "The Andy Griffith Show":

On the syndicated rerun aired 10 July 2003, with his bare hands and little effort, Sheriff Andy Taylor pulled down an axe that was hanging suspended in a haunted house. A wire strong enough to hold an axe was unlikely to give way so easily.

Don't look now, but it looks like "CSI" is a pretty poorly made production!

In a scene in "Greed" (18 April 2004) dated 1985, A stockholder utters the phrase, "back in the day". The expression would not become common parlance in the middle class until years later.

Here's a shocker from "The District" that will make you hate TV forever.

On 27 October 2001, Commissioner Mannion pronounced the word 'effective' as "ee-fective" -- thus violating two rules of English: the rule requiring single vowels before double consonants to be short, and the rule requiring a short vowels in an antepenult in words imported from Latin.

Look out, Letterman, the gig is up!

Preparing on 3 August 2004 for Bill Clinton's appearance, David Letterman said, "We're in a presidential mood." What emotional state is that?

Television is not for amateurs. If you want to be entertained go to a fucking circus and leave the shows to us professionals.

- Josh "Livestock" Boruff