10/25/06 - The ReBlog - A Because we can special

I decided it may be fun to go back and visit some old blogs and add more commentary or clarify things that don't make sense to anyone but myself. This one goes back to the myspace blog posted on 10/25/06 entitled "With the really crappy theme music...". The Current mood at that time was "Hating Alan Thick and Kirk Carmeron right now"

Remember all those really bad 1980's sitcoms with the really bad theme songs. You know the kind of songs that make you want to stop watching a show that will neither be offensive or really entertaining. A show that will neither challenge your perseptions nor your concept of what is funny. The really worse parts of this are of course the opening credits where they decide to tell and show you who everyone is in case it's too hard to simply read the end credits and match names with the characters they play (remember this was the 80's where you were actually forced to see the end credits rather than a split screen telling you what was up next or next week or tommorrow). Most of the time we can get through these with only a sense of stupidity or embaresment that you are watching a show devoid of comedy and talent. There are a few where for some reason the director said "do something random and then look directly at the camera, break the third wall and smile like an idoit" and then the underpaid camera man films it and you are forced to watch it. That's it just had to get that out there.

Now first to give you a taste of what I am talking about. This example includes some of the other bits such as look at what I'm doing. They only look at the camera about two or three times in this one and since it was from a latter season one could think that maybe they learned their lesson.

A mistake was the breaking the third wall. This term is breaking the fourth wall but I wrote third wall cause I was on a rant at the time. This term is when someone in a film, cartoon, play or other theatrical work stops what they are doing to address or talk to the audience. The looking at the camera like a fucking moron and smiling is a smaller version of this. Also I included growing pains as my example but if you look at any theme in the eighties for sitcoms long enough you will find more of these.

The comments include an exchange between steve and myself about being stuck in a freezer and kevin spacey opening a pet store across the street. These are four separate references to the clerks animated series. Look it up as it was funny for the six episodes there were. They are way better than any of the shit kevin smith has been putting out lately.