Exactly.
Yeah, I charged in here with a decorating motif to complain about, only to find everyone conversing with sophistication about genres and archetypes.
But really, that whole flip flop thing is annoying.
This may just be the blunt force cranial trauma talking, but I’m pretty sure you and RikWriter are saying the same thing.
I’m thinking that myself, unless there’s some sort of irony being used here that I am too dumb to understand. 
Reality shows.
The word “badonkadonk.”
Baby talk from TV characters, and fake accents/speech impediments in comic strips.
Example of the former: Teletubbies, Elmo’s speech patterns. All pre-Elmo Sesame Street characters talked like normal human beings (aside from Cookie Monster, but his wasn’t a baby-ish affectation) and children enjoyed Sesame Street just fine.
Example of the latter: the cat from Mutts, and Mimi from Rose is Rose. Reading their dialogue is a freakin’ chore. And especially in the case of Mutts, where the cat isn’t really verbalizing, why the heck not write its dialogue straight?
I would like to see evidence for this.
I want the phrase “Beyond Imagination” stricken from all advertising. Not is it over-used, it’s also patently not true because it was clearly imagined, often by just one person.
To lorene:
I hear ya. Most of the decorating “motif” crap is done to death. Flip flops, lighthouses, roosters, apples, strawberries, daisies/sunflowers, and if you REALLY wanna hear me bitch, seashells in the bathroom. ARRRGHHH!
Me? I have an OUTHOUSE motif in my bathrooms! I’m trying to rein it in, too, so it’s not excessive.
~VOW
The thing I don’t get about Elmo is that very small children don’t talk that way anyway.
I didn’t say it was foolproof, but would get rid of 80-90% of crap, and maybe only kill 10% of good stuff.
The exact procedure would be this: the creators of the proposed reboot would show the script at very least, and first episode and any other materials they have prepared. The fans would be a selection of die-hard and casual fans, representing a range of ages. Thus Thundercats 2011 would probably get approved, and probably New Trek.
And no matter what happens to the reboot, the original gets re-released at the same time.
Skinny jeans, and the sackless Y-chromosome primates who wear them.
Clothes that shame women with curves into thinking they need look like the type of people who wear skinny jeans to be attractive and sexy. You’re a size 0? Eat a frickin cheeseburger!
Skinny jeans always make me think ‘chicken legs… everyone has chicken legs’, especially on those skinny tall men that the pants were apparently designed for.