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Parodies of scary movies. We get it Wayans brothers, you don't like cliched scary movies, but your parodies are even more cliched and just not funny.

80's movie trailers are still just as awesome as 80's movies and today sucks I SWEAR DUDE.

I don't think that post was irrelevant at all. It illustrates a great point. Even when people and turned and smiled at cameras or horrible graphics displayed a show's title, sometimes we didn't like it even back then. We have a huge ability to forgive things we don't like when we're being entertained.

So, that's my two cents to add: sometimes the things weren't liked, they were just done. Sometimes to identify a genre (like the classic protagonist turning around, facing the camera and smiling), sometimes just to fill space and at other times, just as the OP said, a piece of the evolution of television.

Things started with story-telling, then theater, then movies and then television, and several different sorts of iterations on each. And sometimes we carry the dirt from previous mediums to the new.

What I love about today is the Netflix effect on the television. I really believe that it's the future. You get your entertain when you want it, how you want it. You don't need to suffer through commercials (not great on their own, horrible if you have kids) and it doesn't cost much at all. And now Netflix is making shows that don't fit the standard "Fit everything into 30 minutes -- stretch or shrink, we don't care -- it needs to be 30 minutes!" crap. Yay Netflix!

Is it your excuse for releasing Santa that late ?
Then coming december I'm sure Santa will say to me "If Telika released me earlier I could have bring presents to everybody ...but ... ya know ... can't guarantee, with the eggnog and all"
And don't you dare say to us next January (when Christmas '14 will have proved to be a wreck) : "If you made Easter earlier in the year I would have swapped for a wabbit immediately."

But ok, we get it, things get older, Santa too (I suppose) ...but as iippo said : Circles. You will want to get back Santa next year, however old and drunk. Just be nice with the ribbit once you are through with it.

Comedy Shows that have that one depressing/boring drama episode. You are a comedy show, make me laugh you a-holes.

Shows that have a retrospective/highlights of past shows. It's throwing a middle finger to your most loyal fans. They didn't feel like making a new episode, so here's a bunch of highlights from all the previous episodes...enjoy.

Having one episode of a show with singing and dancing. If I wanted to be "cultured" I'd go to the opera or watch a play.

Can you imagine a day 40-50 years from now when everyone is listening to the best robot bands in the universe, and some old 75 yr old man is yelling at the kids with their hoverboards and neural implants going, 'damn kids. Back in my day we had REAL music. We had Bieber, Gaga, and Cyrus. Whatever happened to real humans playing real music? If only Justin Bieber was still alive. He'd sing your robots to sleep with his creamy voice. Bah!'

Yeah, probably not. Hopefully not.

LOL

Robot band in 40-50 years. It's already happened meet Compressorhead

Apologies to Z-Machines for not including them.

Haha, the Compressorhead drummer and its midget are awesome.

Also, combine that with Vocaloid for singing synthesis.

No, that's Michael Buffer who does sporting event announcing.

Compressorhead's ACDC cover TNT, unfortunately no Robot Angus duckwalking across the stage in a schoolboy outfit.

I don't think it goes in circles. I do however think that we have a tendency to elevate the most atrocious aspects of our cultural history. 30 years from now young people will think everyone was happily watching the Kardashians and TMZ, that these shows are the pinnacle of 2010's TV which is used as evidence for our collective stupidity.

It is easy to trash the 70's and 80's today when our selective history focuses on the bland mass produced garbage without acknowledging what real music and cinema lovers of that time were actually listening to or watching.

Your grandchildren are going to say YOU personally was a Belieber because that is one of the few things they are going to know about 2nd decade.

And that's exactly how spin doctors and research nerds get to their prestigious positions. If they create an animal pen for you to roll around in, and you're ok with it, then they can write thesis papers talking about easy you are to control. People are being lead around by the short hairs because they were fooled into believing that independence, creative thought, freedom, and auto determinism were too hard to grasp or maintain. This is how societies are controlled. It's always been that way. It's up the individual to decide if that level of hypocrisy and social stagnation is ok with them. That might just be the last true freedom we have as human beings... the right NOT to be turned into a cultural feed bag for Wall St. and Main St. If Bieber, TMZ, and Honey Boo-Boo annoy you, don't watch or listen to them. Turn off the crap on tv and don't click those links on the web. Let the rotten flowers wilt on the vine.

Or don't. Your choice.

I hope I'm not misunderstanding you, but I meant to say that our collective memories of history tends to be focused on the negatives. You can't mention Pearl Harbor without most people thinking "Those bastards knew about the attack all along!", even though the perception of the event was very different at the time. We love to remember the absolute garbage and over the top camp of 80's entertainment and chances are that if you only learn five facts about the 80's and they are all bad, anyone might come to the conclusion that the 80's itself was garbage.

Unless, as you rightly pointed out, we refuse to fall into those patterns of thought. I hope that when people in the 2030's research the entertainment of my generation they will find articles on Firefly. TV was almost saved forever!