plooptionary

OK – it was never going to be a weekly series … I was too busy writing about monsters, getting angry at the television and entertaining myself writing ploop TV. 

On the subject of TV there was a programme on this morning and, I am not joking, an adopted man had to guess who his birth mother was 1,2 or3 – he’d not seen her for 38 years and, in tears, he was having to watch face recognition shots and review their physical details.  At the end of the show (after one hours of pissing with this poor blokes head and the presenter telling him “we’re here for you”) is the big reveal.  You know what the mother said to the 38 year old man she gave up for adoption at birth?  “You’ve grown” – I gave myself a rage induced migraine when I heard that!

Anyway – quotes.  Today, with my usual lack of rigour or underlying interest I’m going to relay some rather fine and cynical quotes on television.

“A medium that has brought murder back into the home, where it belongs”

Alfred Hitchcock

“Democracy at its ugliest”

Paddy Chayevsky

“Something one should appear on, not look at”

Noel Coward

“An invention that permits you to be entertaining in your living-room by people you wouldn’t have in your home”

David Frost

“The longest amateur night in history”

Robert Carson

“Nature’s way of telling us we should have gone out and done something enjoyable”

Gene Perret

“Where old movies go when they die”

Bob Hope

“A medium – because it is neither rare nor well done”

Ernie Kovacs

“A form of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time and yet remain lonesome”

T.S. Eliot

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