I’m not a huge fan of the way TV has to hot everything up at the expense of facts. In a perfect world, TV would offer up good critical thinking skills and boost the social IQ of the country. But that stuff isn’t half as engaging as some bigfoot hunter tossing a cake out into a meadow and then whacking a branch against a tree trunk to lure in them ‘Squatches.
Yep, it’s our addictions that’ll send us happily into extinction.
But the documentary about our demise will be whiz-bang, I’m tellin’ ya!
However, this is too bleeping true.
Let’s not forget that Here Comes Honey BooBoo was a major reality show at the time and Keep Up With the Kardashians is another… I haven’t followed major tv in years.
Wait for something to backlash here for Kelly, but that will probably land Paste the TV show he wanted… about Ghost Bigfoots.
Wait for them to show up at the store and it’s looking like not much happened in there, open for business, and totally boring. THAT should be it’s own spinoff store.
I can just TASTE Sportsmart getting it somehow….
I think that Sports Mart will get hit with negative publicity which will force them to rehire Lowell, the friendly sasquatch.
I get the broadcast rights to humanity’s extinction!
“keep hubris’ people quiet”
-STARTS LAUGHING SO DAMN HARD AND HOLDING MY STOMACH-
don’t YOU know them by now sincerely? when did they EVER stay quiet? even if you could literally BUY paste for that with the new girl he is BOUND to do even CRAZIER STUFF TO TRY TO IMPRESS HER.
your plan will never happen guys.
and probably WILL backfire.
I thought Kelly knew Hubris and the folks he runs with… Kinda seems like he doesn’t know Jack here. And I can’t imagine the new girl will be okay with this horse fertilizer either.
Lowell and Paste… Well, them I can see being bribed pretty easy. But those two hardly count as “credible” eye witnesses to the opening of a trash can much less anything truly considered newsworthy.
The only folks who’d believe otherwise are the crazy dog lady (sorry I don’t remember the name she ended up with) or her son. Nobody else is really that dumb.
But then I don’t get the whole thing about people watching crappy reality shows anyway. Unless it’s forensic, scientific, fishing, food or something ya know Interesting like that, I have no idea what’s on. The closest I get to junk shows are maybe those ghost hunting shows or maybe Big Bang Theory. And both of those I watch for the laughs, not the “substance”. lol
Even then, I dunno. There’s a show on about tow truck operators. There are Lord knows how many country vet shows. Let’s do a reality show about firemen, and to make it interesting, have it star Gumby & his dad. (Actually I would watch that!)
I remember when All Creatures Great & Small was the vet show. (and even then, the actors were doing things up the cows’ behind)
American Reality TV (because I don’t get any other TV) is all about the spectacle of the stupid. Apparently we like watching people act stupid because we think we would never act like that.
Oh, and Kelly does know what he’s doing but he’s planning on playing both sides. He’s too smart to not manipulate his boss.
Fred Allen had it right:
“Television is a medium because you will never see anything rare or well done.”
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
and next kelly calls hubris to let him know whats up and winds up in talks with paste for a fee to use the out door store footage.
What gives? Kelly seems to done an about-face in panel four, sounding just as opportunistic as his boss. Then again, given Dusty’s icy “So?”, I’m thinking that maybe he is just playing along for now — I hope so, anyway — knowing that antagonizing her would not go down well for him. She’s not someone I would want to mess with, boss or not.
Also in panel four, the footage of Cthula shows her stomping the left side of the animal control guy’s face — something I had noticed when the scene originally ran — yet I couldn’t help noticing that the shoe mark was on the right side of his face when he appeared later. Maybe I could just put that down to the camera having been inadvertently set on mirror mode.