TV Taste Test

"No one went broke underestimating public taste" – PTBarnum

Interesting comment coming from a guy who made millions running carnival sideshows featuring hirsute women and two headed snakes (no, not the politician version.) Regardless, no one will ever go broke underestimating the boorishness and arrogance of American TV performances.

Recently, one of the fools who pounds drivel over the American airwaves almost every weekday night, delivered what he called a “joke.” If there was ever an example of the abuse of freedom of speech, it was his “joke.” In societies with a minimum level of fundamental values, this statement would produce a termination notice and, at the high end, perhaps a more grisly outcome. Not in America. He is America’s cutie pie. Heaven help us.

Any one watching TV even occasionally has seen a recent example of the trash produced by either NY advertising agencies or their counterparts in CA. We have seen false advertising on TV for way too long. Be it buffoons pushing crappy, salty, fatty foods or beer without flavor or poorly constructed vehicles that now set on storage lots in every major town and city to over priced, over hyped medications that will help you sleep, pee more/pee less and engage in sport intercourse (no forget that, those drugs are either for middle age men who are so insecure that they need chemicals to build their confidence or oldsters who think they are Dorian Gray.) When some of us were youngsters our parents did not have to deal with the repeated warning, “Notify your doctor if you have an erection lasting more than four hours.” What? Is this necessary? How about this warning instead, “There is no fool like an old fool.”

There is a series of ads now running for some company, perhaps a bank, using young girls and placing them in situations wherein the adult male misleads them and the ad emphasizes their disappointment at being unfairly treated. Somehow the fools who run this company think they can use this uncomfortable example as a lesson of how they won’t treat you. What? TheFundamentals knows one company that will never get a cent of our business.

Fundamentals are simple. If you need to use a child to make a joke or hype a product or just draw more attention to yourself, you are a low life and a degenerate. Americans used to shame such people back into their hiding places.