SHIT THE PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL SAYS
May. 25th, 2010 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: The Parents Television Council is outraged that CBS is developing a sitcom based on the Twitter sensation Shit My Dad Says.
Their objection is, of course, the title, even though nobody says the word “shit” in the show and the title will appear as @#$! My Dad Says.
Not good enough, says the PTC:
Well of course. Because censored swearing is every bit as bad as uncensored swearing, and children might be watching and then they’ll see words like @#$! and then go around saying @#$! at school and then you’ll be arrested for child abuse and terrorism, even though no one knows what @#$! means, since it’s not even a word...
... And that’s why American television has to treat its adult audience like first-graders.
Anyway, judging from excerpts from the pilot script, the PTC won’t have to worry about the show being on for long. Though I could be wrong. I never thought Friends was funny either, and it lasted for something like 20 years.
But I thought making a sitcom out of SMDS was a bad idea to start with. SMDS is great for the Twitter format because it’s a series of short funny non-sequiturs. That won’t work as a TV script because once you add story lines, it wrecks the whole premise.
Also, having William Shatner as Dad is fun in theory, but then, like SMDS, Shatner works better in the short-form non-sequitur format. I’d rather see him on Conan reading SMDS tweets as poetry. That would be some funny shit.
In closing, I’ll let SMDS have the last word.
Well said, Justin's Dad.
Fuck the PTC,
This is dF
Their objection is, of course, the title, even though nobody says the word “shit” in the show and the title will appear as @#$! My Dad Says.
Not good enough, says the PTC:
Tim Winter, president of the Los Angeles-based organization, said he was aware that CBS was developing a series based on the Twitter sensation, but "we couldn't imagine that a network would actually name a program either with an expletive or with the expletive ostensibly bleeped out.” [...]
The group says it will challenge the broadcast license of any CBS affiliate that airs the series or promotions for it before 10 p.m. CBS has scheduled the comedy for Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.
The group says it will challenge the broadcast license of any CBS affiliate that airs the series or promotions for it before 10 p.m. CBS has scheduled the comedy for Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.
Well of course. Because censored swearing is every bit as bad as uncensored swearing, and children might be watching and then they’ll see words like @#$! and then go around saying @#$! at school and then you’ll be arrested for child abuse and terrorism, even though no one knows what @#$! means, since it’s not even a word...
... And that’s why American television has to treat its adult audience like first-graders.
Anyway, judging from excerpts from the pilot script, the PTC won’t have to worry about the show being on for long. Though I could be wrong. I never thought Friends was funny either, and it lasted for something like 20 years.
But I thought making a sitcom out of SMDS was a bad idea to start with. SMDS is great for the Twitter format because it’s a series of short funny non-sequiturs. That won’t work as a TV script because once you add story lines, it wrecks the whole premise.
Also, having William Shatner as Dad is fun in theory, but then, like SMDS, Shatner works better in the short-form non-sequitur format. I’d rather see him on Conan reading SMDS tweets as poetry. That would be some funny shit.
In closing, I’ll let SMDS have the last word.
Well said, Justin's Dad.
Fuck the PTC,
This is dF
