Of course, it’s a bit absurd on my part to write about which TV shows I hate because if I hate them, why watch them, right? But as I have pointed out, I have a limited number of channels in English and really don’t enjoy Czech TV much at all, except for the talent shows and sometimes even those are best for their comic value. There is no long O in love.
So, I am left with the History channel, but a bunch of people living on a Victorian farm is just a reality show with bad costumes where nobody ever hooks up, and I’m not that interested in some grade B British celebrity tracing their ancestry. Or the Discovery channel, which has Megastructures and Mythbusters, but most of the time they’re showing “Gangs in Prisons” which is just totally perverted. What’s next, televised hangings? Animal planet is cool if they’re showing crocs and lions, or monkeys, but most of the time it’s just dogs and cats. Boring.
So, anyway, the point of this blog, which I sure am taking a long time to get around to, is that sometimes there seems to be a theme running through the programming, and I’m sure some executive is saying “this week, I want every show to mention x.” At various holidays, it’s obvious. Also, when there is some particularly bizarre crime in the news, all the cop shows will show their version of it. But just last night, both “Rescue Me” and “Californication” had the comment “gee, I just had a super smooth bowel movement, barely even needed to wipe,” and I can’t imagine the scene where the studio executive said “Hey, writers, we need some main characters talking about bowel movements this week.”
At least on Rescue Me it made sense. A bunch of curmudgeonly guys working together as firemen, one of them might say something like that. But in Californication, David Duchovny is supposed to be irresistible to women (loved the X files, but just really can’t see David
Is This Even Slightly Believable?
Duchovny getting unlimited nookie. If there are any women out there who disagree with me, I’d love to hear from them, but he doesn’t look or act anything like Sean Connery.) Talking about his bowel movements didn’t really make it any more believable. Nonetheless, the woman he was with was ready to rip off her clothes and do it on the kitchen floor.
If any man said something like that in real life, the girl would be gone and neither she, nor any of her friends, would ever speak to him again.
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