Well, Fuck
I was just reading an article over at Huffpo about how the FCC has decided that now it’s O.K. to say fuck and shit and probably any other goddamned combination of words and phrases that can refer to any activity or part of the body which is generally not mentioned on TV.
Why the fuck not? I’ve been reading comments and most of them are hooray for free speech and the memory of George Carlin, because that’s the kind of sites I visit, and a few saying “Think about the children.”
Actually, I had thought it was already a done deal, because Sookie Stackhouse on True Blood, America’s little sweetheart Ana Paquin, says fuck all the fucking time, it’s like part of her character. I remember her saying fuck all of you all as she stormed off from her grandmother’s funeral, and shut the fuck up when Sam told her he was a shape shifter, actually turned into a dog right in front of her. That would certainly elicit some phrase containing the word “fuck” from me, too. Anyway, I love Sookie Stackhouse.
So, I guess I’m more for it than against it but I’m sure that TV writers, like film writers, will take it way beyond the point where it is shocking, or comical, or titillating, or really anything at all except an attempt to gloss over crappy writing by smearing it in excrement. I’m not sure if this example really applies but I remember back when Lyndon Johnson was president and the Smothers Brothers pissed him off with their “Big Muddy” song which included the line “President Johnson is a big damn fool.”
Well, they were off TV pretty quick, despite being the best thing on. They came back, though, with a Canadian TV program. It was totally unrestrained by political censorship, it was free to make comments on all sorts of topics. And it sucked. They got way too political and it just wasn’t funny at all.
In any event, we’ve always got The Discovery Channel.
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