Someone just had to mention that _stupid_ show. Seriously. By empowering that show, you're just making fun of yourself and all the other programmers on here.
It's funny; I was just sitting here thinking about dropping software dev to become an anthropologist and then I run across this. I have to give the author credit in that anything viewed in the right light is absurd, but I think he misses the point that that "show" invented the tropes he accuses the show of having.
Let that be a warning to anyone who gets excited about this podcast! Wow it stinks. It's like the creators were trying to replicate a Dragonball series of cliffhangers without any substance.
In that way it is good. A tremendous demonstration of how the tiniest bit of information (Many kids benefit from phonics) can be stretched into hours and hours and hours of content through some emotional manipulation.
Almost makes me wonder what we're doing busting our ass writing software. </sarcasm>
I'm a little surprised at this - are they turning the blog into the idea for a show? Those 72 one liners would be burned up in as little as half a season (not that I even know how long that is because I don't watch TV).
That said, a sit com that had cankerous old farts in it is nothing new. "There's Something about Raymond", "Seinfield", ... jeez the list goes on.
Others have pointed out the phenomenon, but I like this concrete illustration of it in action.
Slashdot once interviewed The Filthy Critic, and he talked about a friend who had spent time in the writing rooms of a few sitcoms. The writers working on shows that were really pretty poor thought their work was hilarious. They couldn't get enough of their own jokes. He contrasted it with The Simpsons's writing room: full of frustrated, self-loathing writers who didn't think what they were doing was any good at all.
> Technobabble, check. Geniusus saving the day and universe, check. Moral superiority, check.
It's a shame that these are so often the takeaways from a show that is at its core about a group of people with different skillsets and backgrounds working together with mutual trust and respect to further a common goal.
Tangentially, this is where the works of Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty) fall down; his shows slide into self-referential, in-group pleasing messes.
This boring and poorly written "demo" (which is undoubtedly fake) just proves that the real writers of South Park are what make the show creative and funny.
Also, anyone planning to "run" shows this way, please just don't.
this is like calling CP "just a string of ones and zeroes"
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