Fox Network Rant (Collect the whole series!)

[Mehitabel]

OK, bastards. I know that you hadda move Tuesday's shows. I know you hadda move 24. I know you hadda put it SOMEwhere. I wish you hadn't bumped my beloved ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT for it, but hey, I can wait a week.

But noooo, you hadda complicate things a little bit.

There's supposed to be 22 episodes in a season. AD has made them. It's a sitcom but very episodic with intricate stories. Twenty episodes have been shown so there's two to go.

You're going to show the climax of the season on April 25th. Still.

To do that, you're just gonna skip the 21st episode. You're not going to reschedule it, or move it, or slip it in between double encores of THE SWAN or something. You're just not going to bother to show it until maybe perhaps sometime this summer.

FUCK YOU!! Every minute of AD is comedy gold and you're going to drop the penultimate episode just like that?? You're showing a SIMPSONS rerun tonight instead of moving AD a half-hour earlier--What! The! Fuck!!

I remember so many of my fave shows you did this too--jerk it around the schedule, cancel episodes, cut into it for football, then say it ain't getting ratings and yank it.

Don't you DARE!

[erislover]

If anything is absolutely clear, it is that no one in charge of scheduling FOX actually watches television.

[SPOOFE]

Wow. Such a sense of entitlement. I'm envious.

[Darkhold]

Fox Network Rant (Collect the whole series!)I'll trade two Firefly rants for any of the others. (I have about 20 of those)

[HumptysHamhole]

I'll trade two Firefly rants for any of the others. (I have about 20 of those)

How about for one Wonderfalls rant and one shitty, amoral reality TV rant.

[Weirddave]

What am I offered in trade for a Family Guy scheduling rant, and a couple of Futurama rants? I got oodles of those.

[dnooman]

I'll start respecting AD once they see that David Cross is worthy of a bit more attention. I've seen at least 3 episodes where he didn't even appear. I wouldn't mind so much if HBO would bring back Mr. Show, but that'll never happen.

The neilsen system has to go. Fuck those bastids.

[Slacker]

I think we can all agree there's a special place in hell for whomever conceived the latest ad for "The Swan."

THIS WEEK! A woman so ugly even our team of 800 surgeons cannot make her presentable enough to dance for nickels at the county fair! It's a scapel not a magic wand!

And agreed 100% regarding Arrested Development. I frickin love that show. Anyong!

[Silver Serpentine]

I, too, hate Fox.

Scrwed around with Family Guy.

Screwed around with Furturama.

Keep moving around Wonderfalls (one of the FEW new Fox shows I actually like).

Keep making absolutely horrible shows (The Swan, Average Joe, was the Simple Life on Fox?, about a dozen other reality crap shows). THEN will replay an episode every 3 days for a week, until the new one comes on. Which screws over their GOOD shows.


At least my local Fox has good TV from 11pm-2am Mon-Fri. That part never changes.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I see your Family Guy and Futurama and raise you a Brimstone, The Visitor, and The Lone Gunmen.

[Mauvaise]

I feel your pain, man! (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249037) :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Doomtrain]

I see your Family Guy and Futurama and raise you a Brimstone, The Visitor, and The Lone Gunmen.

I see that and raise Space: Above and Beyond and The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr..

[pepperlandgirl]

I see that and raise Space: Above and Beyond and The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr..


Man, I still miss Brisco. *sniff*

[RobuSensei]

I've got a couple of extra Fox News rants laying around...but I suppose they would be on a different rate of exchange. :cool:

[Mehitabel]

Thanks. Yeah, Fox News is a whole different kettle of dodgy fish, but at least there's alternatives to watching it. There's no other way to see AD except on the one channel.

WONDERFALLS is my latest rant, but as soon as they put it in that timeslot and ran the most confusing ads of the 21st century trying to promote it, I (and Tim Minear) knew it was doomed, so I was expecting the axe to fall. But AD has gotten raves, stars are clamoring to do it, it's backed by Ron Howard, etc. etc. and Fox itself has said nice things about it. That's why I was particularly mad at the boneheaded move.

At least I got to see the Sopranos in real time. There were enough screwed-up family dynamics in that one hour to keep AD going for ten more seasons.

And hey, I don't feel entitled. It's just that it's my world and I let other people live in it and some of them are not sufficiently grateful. Jerks.

[Elza B]

Fuckin' A. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

I love 24, but I LOVE Arrested Development. It's fucking HYSTERICAL. Fucking hysterical. That's my favorite goddamn show of the past ten years (okay, besides Freaks and Geeks - but that's NBC's secret shame).

I shouldn't have read this OP out loud to mr. avabeth because now I have to listen to him bitch about it all week.

And dnoonman, I could be wrong, but I thought David Cross had scheduling conflicts which is why he's not in every episode.

"An-yang!" (I'm not Korean - I don't know how to spell it).

Ava

[Otto]

I'll see all your rants and raise you both and animated Tick and a live-action Tick, and I'll toss in a John Doe for good measure.

[Darkhold]

Oh I used to have the whole collection of animated Tick rants. But I lost them when I moved into my apartment.

[A Monkey With a Gun]

Wow. Such a sense of entitlement. I'm envious.Your head has swollen so big, Spoof, that I'm suprised I can still see the chip on your shoulder. How grievous does the offense have to be for a rant to cease being indicative of a "sense of entitlement"? Please enlighten us with your unparralled perspective on this issue as we are in dire need of an arbiter to tell us when we are allowed to complain about life's little anoyances and when it would be wiser to suffer in stoic silence.

[Doomtrain]

I'll see all your rants and raise you both and animated Tick and a live-action Tick, and I'll toss in a John Doe for good measure.

Damn! That'll teach me to play Rant Poker with a guy who watches poker on TV...

[Mojo]

Anyone know how to get ahold of that one armed guy? I think we need to teach those Fox execs a lesson.
If any of you are interested in my revenge scheme then meet me down at the big yellow joint.

[BraheSilver]

If we can come up with a plan on how cancelling TV shows leads directly to a man losing a limb in full view of the boardroom, I'm in.

There's money (wink) in the banana stand. (wink wink)

[Airblairxxx]

I'll see everyone's rant, and then raise y'all one Andy Richter Controls the Universe.

But at least I hear that Arrested Development is likely to come back next year, despite the ratings. And the show is on Fox's summer rerun schedule.

And whomever complained about David Cross not being in every episode, I think there aren't many episodes which include every cast member; it seems that each episode is missing one character. The perils of ensemble comedy, I suppose.

[Mehitabel]

Well, we'll know in a few weeks. Arrrgh.

Looking forward to the last show this weekend--and I happen to be seeing Assassins at the Roundabout the same afternoon, so I'll know what to do if something happens to AD </glares>

Kidding, kidding, lawyers!