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I think it's awesome that you're taking a lineup already filled with one-rape-joke-per-epiosde-whether-its-needed-or-not* Family Guy reruns and adding a show about and starring Mike Tyson. That's just all kinds of special, especially since I'd already given up on Robot Chicken (a genuinely inventive show until Seth Green decided to go down the same path more often than not a couple of years back). Maybe you could up the ante and add Urotsukidōji‎ to your anime lineup. That would make you oh-so-extra-special.

Of course, in all seriousness, I'll be back for Venture Brothers, but decisions like this do nothing to instill any confidence or inclination to bother with any of the 85 other new shows you've announced.

*Spoiler: it's never actually needed.**

**If you're about to comment with an exception, see the last spoiler***.

***And yes, that includes George Carlin's famous routine. Being brilliant is not the same as being perfect, folks.

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Date: 2013-05-10 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tru2myart.livejournal.com
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about Robot Chicken. My husband and I both loved that show the first season and then it just went down and down.... I stopped watching it pretty quickly (after the Snuggle bear bit), he kept trying but it even made him sick.

And Family Guy has become a huge disappointment for both of us. I can handle raunchy humor but they took away what was clever about it.

ETA: I don't think I ever shared with you that Eduardo is my very favorite Foster's Home character. I just wanted to throw that out there. :D
Edited Date: 2013-05-10 04:28 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2013-05-10 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radiumhead.livejournal.com
George Carlin's routine is unquestionably perfect.

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Date: 2013-05-10 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radiumhead.livejournal.com
Chris Rock makes the same point. "Ill joke about throwing an old lady down the stairs." I agree with both of em.

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Date: 2013-05-10 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spacehawk.livejournal.com
Jon Stewart did a recent brilliant piece of political comedy which nonetheless ended in a (totally unneeded, of course) rape joke. So what I was originally going to pass on to others as "this is brilliant, watch this" political comedy about an issue entirely unrelated to rape in any way suddenly became "I'm going to pretend I never saw this because this is not only not funny anymore, it's totally not OK."

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Date: 2013-05-11 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com
I have heard it suggested that Ever Mainard's routine is the only funny rape joke there is, because it's about the experience of rape culture, not about rape itself:

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