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slensam

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  1. "I loved the series but the music one was a bit of a disappointment. "

    The time that The Seventies spent on disco seemed excessive considering the frivolity of most of its songs (Disco Duck, anyone?) With the exception of Donna Summer and The Bee Gees, most disco songs were forgettable.

    The five minutes spent on punk rock, on the other hand, was insufficient. For those who may dismiss punk as just spiky hair and safety pin-secured clothes, the music left a great legacy. The Sex Pistols influenced Nirvana and The Ramones influenced Metallica and Pearl Jam.

    I haven't watched this yet, but five minutes on punk rock? C'mon! Why?!

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  2. If I never have to hear the words penis or vagina in relation to any of the designs on this show again, it will be too soon. It's about as adorable as Blake.

    Also, it just occurred to me that I don't even have any idea what designer's or department store's wall we are using thoughtfully this season to style the models. Anyone?

    Yeah, hasn't the statute of limitations run out yet on that being funny. They're like Beavis and Butthead when it comes to penis and vagina.

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  3. I don't know what to think about Hillary and her server and her emails.

    But the republicans are loving every minute; equating it to General Petraeus' emailing classified information to his girlfriend, grand jury subpoenas being issued and FBI investigations.

    They make up ridiculous accusations to feed red meat to their crazy base that is too infatuated with an over blown nut case, a neurosurgeon that is whacko and a former CEO of a computer company that she almost sent into bankruptcy and the whole bunch that would shut down the government over Planned Parenthood.

    The email thing is bullshit. A Whitewater for the 21st Century. Whatever media guys.

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  4. I can't imagine that I'd watch yet another show about Jodi whatshername - a story that's been so overdone by the media that you can't even stick a fork in it, because all that's left is ashes.  

    I'll never understand why they elevated this story so much, except for the obvious angles. It wasn't much of a mystery. They beat this dead horse until it turned to glue. Hard to believe anyone is still interested.

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  5. I need a slight vent about this network. Turned it on to watch Last Word and all I got was a lot of Chuck Todd, Chris Mathews, Andrea Mitchell,etc. covering the Republican debate on Fox. I don't need to see these people. I hate these people. Does this network know its core audience? If this is how they're going to do it then I have no idea who I'm going to watch for next year's election. It should be Maddow, Hayes, and Lawrence covering this stuff, not these jokers. I guess they want to be NBC-lite. I'm not watching.

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  6. I love "Buddy Holly" too.  The song isn't just great on its own; it also takes me back to the best year of my life.

     

    We have to accept the depressingly inevitable phenomenon of advertisers' resurrecting a generation's pop culture artifacts in order to sell shit as that generation passes through each of life's stages.

     

    Here are the kinds of PreviouslyTV posts we'll be seeing in the future:

     

    I can't mute the TV fast enough when that "You're gonna hear me roar" COPD medicine commercial comes on!

     

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    They keep playing that "I'm bringing booty baaaaack" commercial for those adult incontinence ultra-thin briefs.  I think they used that song for baby diaper commercials back in the 2010's... how cradle-to-grave creepy is that?

     

    Back in the here and now, do you think any of the makers of those vaginal dryness/pain medicines approached Madonna to license "Like a Virgin?"

    God, I hope not. "Buddy Holly" is a good song but it's not the best song on that album. One of the pleasures of getting older is engaging in a twenty-year old debate that never ends. Or maybe that's just senility...

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  7. I think it's intended to be a visual metaphor for something rotten lurking just beneath the surface of an otherwise "normal, well-adjusted home/family/etc."   But seriously, ID-iots, stop clobbering us over the head.    Maybe I'm watching the channel too much.   Or maybe it's just this show.   I started to get angry last night when the family takes the lid off a serving dish and its crawling with glistening worms and they act like it looks delicious.   I could see if they were a Klingon family maybe ...

    So they're trying to be artistically creative like a David Lynch or Luis Bunuel? Well, they should stop 'cause they suck at it.

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  8. Once they get a story in their teeth, they don't let go of it.  I'm surprised it isn't the missing airplane story again, considering they've found pieces.

    Speak of the devil; I think they're back on the plane beat again.

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  9. My new show to dislike is Blood Relatives.   I've already complained about Brenda Strong's insufferable narrations.   Now the show has gone over the top with the gross-out stuff.   Tonight's episode was about the Manilewis family of Cape Cod.   At different points in the show, there were close-ups of bugs, serving dishes full of writhing earthworms, snakes and a bowl of fish guts.   It finally made me so angry I switched off the show before it ended.   I don't need that kind of abuse.

    I've never understood what all the bugs or reptiles is about. Is it supposed to be biblical or something?

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  10. All of the models in the Always discreet disposable undergarments ad are bigger and full figured ladies. What, skinny chicks don't have pee problems? I mean, it's nice to see us larger than average chicks represented, but it's not like we roam in exclusive herds.

    Yeah, these kinds of commercials do seem like some kind of weird segregation-type thing. Like high school or prison. I wonder why they're doing this with this product?

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  11. Pizza with pie filing crust?  Okay, I am suddenly no longer hungry.  

    Yeah, these commercials are not fun for me. Lately I have had some stomach issues where even eating soup causes some difficulties. When these suckers come on it's like I need a bottle of Maalox in one hand and a barf bag in the other.

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  12. Hi - I'm new here, but love ID channel. Mostly, that is. I'm not a fan of the soft-core porn direction the channel has been going in. I just watched The Perfect Murder episode called Kosher Killer or something, and there was a weird, made up, speculative sex scene where, at the end, the guy lifted himself up and you could see his pubic hair. Seriously? What next, filming actual sex. Turns out sex didn't even have anything to do with the poor girl's murder. 

    I also hate all the speculative stuff. With that they can go anywhere. And they do......

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  13. Exactly, applescrisp.  By the time I'd sat through two "dungeon" episodes and saw the preview for the one you mentioned, I couldn't take any more.

    I can't really watch these types of shows. It's like some kinds of horror movies that I can't watch anymore like the the torture-type genre. Really wish they wouldn't ape this form for their programs.

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  14. This is just the latest in a line of recent commercials I hate - why do advertisers think that showing close ups of someone stuffing food in their face will get me to buy their product?

    Yeah, I finally saw the Panera commercial that has been noted on this board recently. The girl eating the lettuce out of the bowl is like a rabid rabbit. I've never seen somebody go to town on a bowl of lettuce. Pretty funny.

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  15. The hair made me think of Reese Witherspoon, and then the voice made me think of Jenny McCarthy, both of whom I'd like to see punched in the face for different reasons, but it isn't either of them. is she famous, or is she just a random annoying person?

    I'm so out of it that with the sound muted I thought it was Vanna White.

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  16. There are two commercials that kind of annoy me at this moment. The latest Viagra ad convinces me without a doubt that they're still aiming for men and not women. There's a shot during the latter part of the commercial where the camera focuses on the woman's legs for like ten seconds. I don't know why they do this but I'm a guy so they could be advertising for beans and I wouldn't know it at that point. The second commercial is for, I think, one of those Sleepnumber beds. It's not for the whole ad that pisses me off but one specific part of it. There's a scene where a pregnant woman does one of the most idiotic dances that I've ever seen on top of one of these beds, Then they come back to her at the end and she's rolling on the bed like a moron. What the hell!? I literally get chest pains when I see this woman. I doubt that she's even pregnant. It's weird to hate a "pregnant" woman in an ad. Thanks Sleepnumber or Tempurpedic or whoever you are!

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