How Social Justice Killed the Golden Age of Television

[dfwgator]

Tom and Jerry was the greatest cartoon, ever.

[catfish1957]

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Just call me Yosemite...

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[Cyber Liberty]

Tom and Jerry was the greatest cartoon, ever.

Yup!

 

[dfwgator]

Just call me Yosemite...

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Here's one Bugs Bunny cartoon they won't show on TV anymore

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[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Tom and Jerry was the greatest cartoon, ever.

Tom and Jerry didn't have Carl Stalling.

[TomSea]

I'd really study law and order to call it so biased; maybe one is just sensitive to some matters. They've had radical Islamists in it, honor killings,  minorities involved in crime including a pretty good cartel episode, I can get the different law and orders mixed up.  I know they had an episode where you suspected a pro-lifer bombed a clinic but it just turned out the culprit was after a certain doctor.

I've heard people say how they don't like how L & O has killed off characters like Claire Kincaid. Maybe that's a good critique.

It's not perfect but it was tolerable enough.

[DCPatriot]

Tom and Jerry was the greatest cartoon, ever.

Not only on Saturday morning TV, but they also played one just prior to the headline feature at the movie theater.

...just after the black and white somber or triumphant military war news headlines

[goatprairie]

I'm not ashamed to admit that I enjoy watching STARZEncore Westerns.

Cheyenne, Wagon Train...

Sometimes I laugh when Cheyenne is alone with a beautiful woman with his shirt off, and he's still calling her ma'm.

Today, she'd jump on him in a New York Minute.  Clint Walker??  R U kidding me?

Back then, he excuse himself and stop and pet the dog on the way out.   

A friend of mine always has the western channel on when the wife and myself go to to visit. His wife likes westerns too.
(mine doesn't  )
Whenever I drop in invariably either "Maverick" "Cheyenne" "Tales Of Wells Fargo" or "Death Valley Days" are playing on his tv.
I like those westerns because as a kid we didn't get them on our one or two channels. Now most of them are brand new to me.

[dfwgator]

Not only on Saturday morning TV, but they also played one just prior to the headline feature at the movie theater.

...just after the black and white somber or triumphant military war news headlines

Just close your eyes during any Tom and Jerry cartoon, and listen to how masterful they incorporated the backing music into the cartoon.

[TomSea]

Jesse Martin as Detective Green on L and O was excellent and usually paired with Lenny Brisco who yes, really made that show.

[Gefn]

Jesse Martin as Detective Green on L and O was excellent and usually paired with Lenny Brisco who yes, really made that show.

Yes agreed. I also liked Chris Noth when he was with Briscoe.

[GtHawk]

I define the beginning of the Golden Age as January 10, 1999,

Well  that's there's your problem right there, when you redefine what most people would call the golden age of television to be what you think it should be, because Sopranos?

[GtHawk]

Tom and Jerry was the greatest cartoon, ever.

Tom and Jerry were OK, but they were no Beanie and Cecil.

[dfwgator]

Tom and Jerry were OK, but they were no Beanie and Cecil.

Well it certainly was better than "Worker and Parasite"....

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[Gefn]

Well it certainly was better than "Worker and Parasite"....

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Ah, golden era of Simpsons! Hurray for Krusty!

[jmyrlefuller]

I define the beginning of the Golden Age as January 10, 1999,

Well  that's there's your problem right there, when you redefine what most people would call the golden age of television to be what you think it should be, because Sopranos?

It's a generally accepted date in the TV industry; most use that show as the first one to define the era.

[goatprairie]

It's a generally accepted date in the TV industry; most use that show as the first one to define the era.

There again, who is doing the defining? What age group do they represent? Most likely most are too young to have watched shows from well before they were born.
Some of the shows like "The Sopranos" and "Breaking Bad" were indeed outstanding. BB is my all-time favorite show. The Las Vegas CSI shows with William Peterson are excellent.
But overall, tv in the last twenty years has been overwhelmingly crap.
The crap to good program ratio has always been heavily weighted on the crap, but not as bad  as it has been in the last twenty years.
When I can't find one decent series on network tv that isn't dull/too p.c., things are pretty bad.

[DCPatriot]

There again, who is doing the defining? What age group do they represent? Most likely most are too young to have watched shows from well before they were born.
Some of the shows like "The Sopranos" and "Breaking Bad" were indeed outstanding. BB is my all-time favorite show. The Las Vegas CSI shows with William Peterson are excellent.
But overall, tv in the last twenty years has been overwhelmingly crap.
The crap to good program ratio has always been heavily weighted on the crap, but not as bad  as it has been in the last twenty years.
When I can't find one decent series on network tv that isn't dull/too p.c., things are pretty bad.

Today's smart phone has changed civilization in terms of how people get entertainment.

If you don't know what I mean....take away your family's cell phones...replace with flip phones.  Or no phones.

You start to see people staying home and watching more television.

And there's no excuse for being stuck with the crap offered today.  There are cable channels devoted to 'old' retired TV series. 24/7.