Staring into the Void

Yesterday something historical happened. We had cable installed. My lovely wife broke down because Mr. McGruder's creation, The Boondocks, was coming to Cartoon Network and we just had to see it. The official reasoning is that, as an Advert student, I need to keep current with the popular culture, and a great deal of my classes ask for critiques of commercials being produced.

I could just do what I've been doing, and going to Advertising Age(http://www.adage.com/) and a few other sites and just watching htem there, but the school's logon is used by every advertising student past and present, so that logging in is difficult most times.


Of course, the contractor that came by from the cable company didn't connect us properly, so we didn't get to watch The Boondocks, but we had cable.

And that was more than enough.

We watched approximately 3- 4 hours of the stuff. All animation, all comedy. Started off with King of the Hill, then The Simpsons, then The Family Guy, finally a show from the creators of Family Guy, American Dad.

Not watching too many episodes of Family Guy, I was in awe of the pacing, and pure viciousness of some of the jokes. IT started off with the baby, Stewie taking out Osama Bin Laden in a cave in Afghanistan. Which we know would never happen, Osama's in Vegas. Cheeky bastards.

American Dad required no foreknowledge of the characters, but had a great premise. The main character worked for the CIA, and his wacky family, complete with talking goldfish and Grey Alien who sounds like Paul Lynde. I had to write down a couple of his comments.

- My "Tanqueraydar" tells me there's gin nearby.
The alien said this when they were transferred to Saudi Arabia, and he found out there was no alcohol in the country.

Great stuff.

I'm not sure who said it, it might have been Ernie Kovacs, but "TV is a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well-done."

I know the rest of the week won't be this entertaining.