BBM General Discussion 2

[kathy]

Heath was mentioned on Family Guy last night. Peter was in Hollywood working as an agent. He was tired of Tom the news guy hanging around with him and sent Tom to interview Heath Ledger. Tom said he waited and waited for Heath at a cafe but he never came.

I thought this might be an old re-run. But it wasn't. It first aired on 2/12/12.

Kind of distasteful I thought.

Oh, yes. Very distasteful. 
The Family Guy is not a well-respected television show at all.  I will never watch it; I did once and was turned off immediately by its content.  It has offended many viewers at other times before. 
This 2/12/12 episode is not only distasteful; it's disrespectful and downright mean.
 
(Consider the source:  The dumbbell who 'created' it is originally from the state (?) of Rhode Island.  Coming from that corrupt state, no wonder it is so distasteful and rotten). 

kathy     

[Ellen (tellyouwhat)]

Rhode Island is a corrupt state?  Why?

[Marge_Innavera]

The dumbbell who 'created' it is originally from the state (?) of Rhode Island.

Rhode Islanders don't do states ?  The last time I looked, it was one of the original 13.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

What does it mean that I really like FAMILY GUY?

[AustinGirl]

Lyle I really like FAMILY GUY too. It cracks me up. Slap-stick comedy at it's finest. Maybe they were complementing Health. Maybe they meant something like "Why don't you go interview Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck", etc.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Or, maybe they were commenting on the stupidity of Peter and Tom Tucker,
a news guy, on not even knowing what's going on in the world.  (I missed that
episode.)

[AustinGirl]

Here is a link to that episode. In the article Health is mentioned in the second to last paragraph.

http://www.tvshowzonline.com/watch-family-guy-tom-tucker-the-man-and-his-dream-online-s10e13/

[fofol]

What does it mean that I really like FAMILY GUY?

It means that you can laugh, you like to laugh, and you have found an intelligently stoopid show that helps elevate your laugh quotient...and Seth MacFarland is a genius.  The higher your intelligence, the more you get out of the show - so, Lyle, if you're getting a lot out of it...

[fofol]

Or, maybe they were commenting on the stupidity of Peter and Tom Tucker,
a news guy, on not even knowing what's going on in the world.  (I missed that
episode.)

Exactly - not only did he wait for Heath to show up at the restaurant (after his death was such a highlight that when it happened that anybody awake in this country knew of his passing), and became so mad that he dissed him, so totally missing the point that Heath wasn't going to show up for lunch, in this plane, anyway, ever again!

[morrobay]

It means that you can laugh, you like to laugh, and you have found an intelligently stoopid show that helps elevate your laugh quotient...and Seth MacFarland is a genius.  The higher your intelligence, the more you get out of the show - so, Lyle, if you're getting a lot out of it...

now that's some funny shit...

thank you, doctor

[kathy]

Lyle I really like FAMILY GUY too. It cracks me up. Slap-stick comedy at it's finest. Maybe they were complementing Health. Maybe they meant something like "Why don't you go interview Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck", etc.

They knew what they were doing - get a cheap laugh.  (I wouldn't like to hear another person insulted either).  That show is vulgar and coarse and this has been going on since day one). 
Well, maybe 'cos I remember when TV was not cheap and vulgar is why I feel this way.

[kathy]

What does it mean that I really like FAMILY GUY?

I don't know.  What does it mean that I've never liked it and think it's vulgar?  

[kathy]

Rhode Island is a corrupt state?  Why?

Oh, ellen, I couldn't even begin to tell you how crooked and corrupt it is and has been for so many years!  If you 'know' someone and/or have $$$, you'll get off no matter what type of crime was done.  RI never should have been a state at all; it's so small that everyone in authority in each city and town knows how to break the law; e.g. "I know someone..." or "I'll fix it...", that sort of thing.  And the typical little guy who doesn't know anyone gets the shaft. 

Back in colonial days there was talk of it going with MA or CT; this made a lot of sense because the border with CT would have been straight across.  Unfortunately, Roger Williams - who was kicked out of MA -  practically ran to England, landed there before the proponents of the 'merging' idea did, and got a charter from King Charles I.  I wish it had gone with CT.

But it has become so corrupt in everything now - millionaire lawyers in the legislature run the state, not the governor - that it's a joke.  Remember when people used to joke about NJ?  RI has gone beyond that.  Yes, it was one of the original colonies (1636) and even was the first colony to begin revolution against Britain before Lexington and Concord happened, MA.  It's really a shame that it's known today for its nastiness.

p.s.  If McFarland is a genius (!), I'd like to know where that puts real geniuses like Edison and the rest.  Just like the Farrelly brothers, McFarland relies on vulgar, in-the-gutter type 'humor'.  OK - it offends me.  I have the right never to watch it.  Moreover, I don't care to hear Heath's name treated disrespectfully.   

[chapeaugris]

Back in colonial days there was talk of it going with MA or CT; this made a lot of sense because the border with CT would have been straight across.  Unfortunately, Roger Williams - who was kicked out of MA -  practically ran to England, landed there before the proponents of the 'merging' idea did, and got a charter from King Charles I.  I wish it had gone with CT.

The Puritans of Massachusetts kicked him out because he believed in religious freedom.

Roger Williams (c. 1603 – between January and March 1683) was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams started the first Baptist church in America, the First Baptist Church of Providence. He was a student of Native American languages and an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_%28theologian%29


Too bad he wasn't able to get hold of more land.

[janjo]

Rhode Island is a corrupt state?  Why?

Fofol, you're a Rhode Islander, what do you think? I thought it seemed a lovely place, and as you and our tour guide told us, a lot less corrupt than it was.