# How is the writers' strike affecting your entertainment consumption? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-your-entertainment-consumption/429730 "2007-12-12T12:04:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-your-entertainment-consumption/429730/61 "2007-12-14T20:49:19Z")
😕😕😕 **DKW** – what are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-your-entertainment-consumption/429730/62 "2007-12-14T21:09:22Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] 😕😕😕 **DKW** – what are you talking about? [/QUOTE] Someone asked him when he thought South Park “jumped the shark”. He responded without a the prompting post quoted, so it is a bit jarring and looks almost like he posted to the wrong thread. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-your-entertainment-consumption/429730/63 "2007-12-14T23:15:55Z")
[QUOTE=DKW] Not about to side with the studios in any way, shape, or form, but I do agree that whoever writes THAT kind of dreck doesn’t deserve a penny. [/QUOTE] Honestly, do you have any real grasp of how completely incoherent this argument is? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-your-entertainment-consumption/429730/64 "2007-12-15T02:14:46Z")
[QUOTE=DKW] Anytime a show reaches the point where a colossal jerk can completely get away with it with, I say JTS \ As it was for Samurai Jack [/QUOTE] ?? When did Samurai Jack have someone get away with being a colossal jerk? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-your-entertainment-consumption/429730/65 "2007-12-16T07:38:53Z")
I have a question about the writer’s strike. I was flipping around the channels just now and came across E!'s The Soup. It was a new episode, as it referenced shows that had been on in the previous week. How are they able to have new episodes that were obviously written within the past 7 days? Is the writer’s strike like the recent Broadway strike where some writers don’t belong to the same union or have different contracts and therefore are not striking? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-your-entertainment-consumption/429730/66 "2007-12-16T12:17:56Z")
[QUOTE=DKW] Cochrane - Well, take your pick, but for me, it’ll always be the Halloween episode with the alternate-universe Eric Cartman. Y’know, where the other boys zap the wrong one, and the real cartman taunts, and taunts, and taunts, and the other boys just stand there and take it _despite the fact that there’s nothing preventing them from zapping him_. [/QUOTE] That long ago, huh? (1998) The show was barely hitting its stride, then. I can’t pick a JTS point. It’s been as good in recent years as it was in its first couple of seasons. And “Spooky Fish,” the one you cite, was in Season 2. The Imaginationland trilogy was almost good enough to be a movie in its own standing. I’m glad South Park isn’t affected by the strike. I’m looking forward to Season 12 and the three seasons beyond that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-your-entertainment-consumption/429730.md?page=3)