Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 29, 2017
Transcript:
what's new in sitcom technology now your favorite wacky-family sitcom offers exciting dvd-style extra features! cast commentaries - fascinating insights from the stars themselves! oop: i'm really good in this scene! no - watch what i'm doing! extended director's cut - chock full of deleted jokes, plot contriv-ances, crowd scenes, helicopter shots & other digressions that really pump up the laffs! man: stampede! learned annotations - analysis of the genre by bernard ubby, ph.d., author of "rob petrie's ottoman: furniture groupings in the american sitcom." ubby: consider the centrality of the sofa to the comic mise en scene. prognostications - psychics reveal the stars futures in the "where will they be then?" feature! psychic: the annoying child star will rise to dominate world culture in hideously unforeseen ways...
Not our Alice, Psychic Lady!
Who, pray tell, has time for all these extras? Who has time for wacky-family sitcoms, for that matter?