The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for April 30, 2023

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 1 year ago

    They must fill up the time with useless blah blah for hours and hours to be able to work a few minutes.

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    oldpine52  over 1 year ago

    Kind of like not giving morons a coffee brake because it takes too much time to retrain them.

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    CorkLock  over 1 year ago

    Reality shows are all fake. Don’t waste your time. Make your own reality.

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    Lucy Rudy  over 1 year ago

    I look at American Idol but fast forward through most of it.

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    rekam Premium Member over 1 year ago

    They remind me of the old 15 minute Soap Operas on the radio that my Grandmother used to listen to religiously.

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    Ahuehuete  over 1 year ago

    And that, my liege, is one of many reasons I stopped watching broadcast TV.

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    DenO Premium Member over 1 year ago

    That is why I DVR everything. Ha!

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    ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago

    And then you are reminded that major network TV is totally broken.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 8bb645]  over 1 year ago

    TV shows are just to fill time between commercial breaks.

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    j_m_kuehl  over 1 year ago

    and et we still watch

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    dcdete.  over 1 year ago

    Such fond memories of the sixties shows like Batman or Lost in Space. Who can forget the radio announcer coming on at the beginning saying. “As we left Batman and Robin last week our dynamic duo were about to get their gooses cooked locked up in a blast iron furnace by the Penguin! We join them now to see if Robin can keep his cool and escape to fly another day.” Or “Danger Will Robinson ! Tune in next week, SAME TIME SAME CHANNEL to see if Will survives certain death!” Nobody then complained. We all loved it.

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    mgl179  over 1 year ago

    What bothers me about “reality” TV is that they’re on at all. It says volumes about this country that they’re still on and watched by so many people.

    Fortunately I don’t have to participate in the insanity.

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    docforbin  over 1 year ago

    I avoid what I call “un-reality TV” like the plague. I’d rather watch great classic TV shows on such channels as MeTV, Cozi TV, FETV, Catchy Comedy and Jewish Life TV.

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    nosirrom  over 1 year ago

    And when you add in the commercials you get about 5 minutes of new content.

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    [Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’m with Brutus. I really like “Highway Through Hell” and they do exactly what Brutus is talking about.

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    General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The best thing on TV is the on/off button.

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    ᴮᴼᴿᴱᴰ2ᴰᴱᴬᵀᴴ  over 1 year ago

    ㋛ well Brutus…

    guess it beats sitting around, talking with family

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    Chris  over 1 year ago

    unless they’re the ones in need of the reminder cause they’re really forgetful. :J

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    NoNameOntheBullet Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I have become irked by observing this same phenomenon while watching show running on computer platforms (HBO, Netflix, Hulu, etc.). My contention is that because the producers and writers must think that most audience members are consumers of social media (YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, et al). Thier attention span is much shorter, and viewers must constantly be reminded of what they are watching! This practice also costs producers less money since they don’t have to film as much content to move the story along nor spend too much production value on developing plots. It also reduces the amount of output the writers must contribute. That’s just me of course. IMHO

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    Blaidd Drwg Premium Member over 1 year ago

    So basically, nothing happens, over and over and over again.

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    wolfgang73  over 1 year ago

    There is nothing real about reality shows

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    Randall J. Harris Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Curse of Oak Island

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    mckeonfuneralhomebx  over 1 year ago

    What happened in the sixties can not be duplicated. Clean shows, variety hour shows etc

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    Dapperdan61  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Ok this is what you do. You get a streaming service without ads. You can skip the recap and even the opening credits if you want. The only question is are you willing to pay extra for that privilege ?

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    Brent Rosenthal Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My wife watches some of those shows. I just don’t see the attraction. If the people on those shows truly depict “reality” I’ll choose fantasy.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    She is right…really right!

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    KEA  over 1 year ago

    I’ve seen some documentaries like that. There was about 12 minutes of actual information in a 42min program.

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    n32816  over 1 year ago

    The same tirade can be said for TV news programs spending time telling us what they’re going to tell us. DVR everything, especially during election season to skip ads.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    I don’t watch those reality shows. I find them boring.

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    bigplayray  over 1 year ago

    Brutus my Mann. You just nailed it!

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    Moonkey Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I won’t even try a reality show. I know they aren’t.

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    cuzinron47  over 1 year ago

    I had to fast forward through this comic.

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    petermerck  over 1 year ago

    People who watch those shows must have really bad short term memory.

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    “You know” continues Brutus, “I think it’s time to cut the cable, Wilberforce might be able to get Kanopy through his school library or FreeVee out of Amazon, but that has commercials , though neither charge for the service”…

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    drycurt  over 1 year ago

    The commercials and breaks are so long now. In one show recently I counted 26 commercials in a row. Another time, not counting, but watching the clock, there were just under 9 minutes of commercials between scenes of the show. The annoyance/entertainment ratio is rapidly tilting left.

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    raybarb44  over 1 year ago

    And as long as we watch those waste of time shows with all their commercials, they will not change their winning format. That being said, I can’t see what Brutus gets out of them as he probably had an easier time with less made up drama, marrying his wife as they were High School sweethearts……

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    Birdman47  over 1 year ago

    It’s the same time wasting crap with shows like Border security and Highway Cops etc. etc. etc. Here in the ‘Land Down Under’

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    Birdman47  over 1 year ago

    There is nothing but Summer-time rubbist on free to air TV here. My wife likes to watch ‘House Hunters’ and I have said to her “Would you pay to go to the movies to watch that crap?” to which she replied “No way”. Read a good book instead or research some subject you like.

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    aussie399 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Know what I REALLY hate about stupid dating/screwing/amateur cooking/survival, etc reality shows? Someone made them in the first place and they got approved by idiotic and cheap TV executives.

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    aussie399 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Look at that! Y9u can’t post the words b17ch or danm but you can post screwing! Shows how utterly ridiculous Gocomics’ censorship system is!

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