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The Sevenshot Kid · 09-13-2009, 03:14 PM

Damn, Mirai Gen, you're right! Those people at TLC are truly magnificent bastards.

CelesJessa · 09-13-2009, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Julford Hajime

I'm currently watching an episode from a series called "The Little Couple", which is about two people with dwarfism who are married. They're trying to figure out if they can realistically have a child right now. GRIPPING STUFF INDEED.

I actually like shows kind of like this(not that I make a point to watch them all the time, but in theory), if only because it's nice to see "different" people in the media, now if we could just see them outside of shows that are like "woah people with handicaps are straaange and difffeeerrent", that would be cool.

Magus · 09-13-2009, 06:04 PM

I remember when The Learning Channel had, you know, educational documentaries on it. For learning. But like, a channel devoted to it. Yeah.

I think I've learned enough about midgets, octuplets, and people with freakish deformities to last many lifetimes now.

EDIT: Yes, to see these people explored as actual characters and/or people in fictional and non-fictional tv shows instead of as circus sideshows might be refreshing. I don't think this is a step in that direction at all, however, purely the opposite.

Wigmund · 09-13-2009, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Magus

I remember when The Learning Channel had, you know, educational documentaries on it. For learning. But like, a channel devoted to it. Yeah.

I remember when MTV and VH1 actually showed music videos.

The Sevenshot Kid · 09-14-2009, 12:34 AM

Okay. I'm sure we're all old enough to have realized that MTV never played music, and that they spread that rumor to drag my generation into 16 and Pregnant: The First Offical Endorsement of Teen Pregnancy!

Magus · 09-14-2009, 12:47 AM

I was going to say that MTV is pretty far from official but I think I'm fooling myself with that statement.

The Sevenshot Kid · 09-14-2009, 01:09 AM

And we have them to thank for the Douchetastic Hills. I would probably watch it if they added the highly apropriate soap opera music

Magus · 09-14-2009, 01:45 AM

Y'know I might actually watch a show called the Douchetastic Hills. MTV should look into this burgeoning market of ironically titling your programming.

TheSparrow · 09-14-2009, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by synkr0nized

It's already been promoted and given extra stars.

In any case, I feel... bad? for people what who "watch" shows second-hand, as you allude to with the osmosis idea. I guess I practice in-one-ear-and-out-the-other too often.

Well, he said "exposure through osmosis" not watching....but anyhow, I have never seen that show, I have no idea what channel its on even, Ive never even seen an ad for that show, but unfortunately I do know about it.

And in fact I find it hard to imagine that there are people who don't since those idiots are on magazine covers next to your checkout line at the store, there are articles about them in fucking newspapers and on internet sites under 'news' like MSN and Yahoo. I first heard about them getting divorced on the 11 o'clock news for god's sake.

synkr0nized · 09-14-2009, 02:46 AM

Man, those radical air-quotes and the use of the term second-hand didn't clue you in, did they?

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Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	I remember when The Learning Channel had, you know, educational documentaries on it. For learning. But like, a channel devoted to it. Yeah. I think I've learned enough about midgets, octuplets, and people with freakish deformities to last many lifetimes now. EDIT: Yes, to see these people explored as actual characters and/or people in fictional and non-fictional tv shows instead of as circus sideshows might be refreshing. I don't think this is a step in that direction at all, however, purely the opposite. __________________ The Valiant Review Last edited by Magus; 09-13-2009 at 06:13 PM.

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Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	I was going to say that MTV is pretty far from official but I think I'm fooling myself with that statement. __________________ The Valiant Review

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Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	Y'know I might actually watch a show called the Douchetastic Hills. MTV should look into this burgeoning market of ironically titling your programming. __________________ The Valiant Review

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