Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 13, 2014
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new tv shows that already got cancelled hughie, dewey & lulu hughie: yo! lulu: yoo hoo! dewey's a white guy without a clue! his pals hughie, the funky black man, & lulu, the otrageous gay man, exist only to dispense funky & outrageous wisecracks that help dewey get a life! creamed in the ratings, even by "poodle hijinx" on animal planet. the spittles dad's a cretin, mom's a harridan, sis is a dingbat & junior eats dirt with a shovel! unfortunately, the studio audience stormed the set & wiped the whole sordid busi-ness off the face of the earth. flapjack please wait to be seated they're an edgy new breed - young, hip, impatient with the rules & always way out of line! intense drama, set in a pancake restaurant, failed to de-liver the coveted 18-35 demographic. the abyss it's a new concept in reality television - a show that, when you stare at it, stares back at you! but it was on against "jag" and nobody watched it.
Sisyphos about 10 years ago
I’m sure I’ve seen The Spittles under another name. And under still another name. In several equally dismal and doomed incarnations, in fact. TV smart guys never learn, do they? They’re scared xxxxless of real creativity. Of course most “pro” writers for TV wouldn’t know Creativity if it walked up and kicked them in the oompa-loompas.
OldestandWisest about 10 years ago
Yeah, these days white hetereosexual men are the only ethnic/gender group you’re allowed to make fun of, make fun of any of the others and you are either a racist, a sexist or a homophobe—or all three!
Malcolm Hall about 10 years ago
If Flapjack had a reality cooking show element — one of the actors gets voted off the show every week by a panel of chefs and and replaced by an extra chosen randomly from the studio audience" — it might have made it.
mackenzie0158 about 10 years ago
What Sisyphos and OldestandWisest said ^
richardcthompson Premium Member about 10 years ago
I consider Flapjack to be the funnies panel I ever wrote. So there.